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My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life$32.99 add to cart

Witold Rybczynski is a 21st century renaissance man whose wide-ranging interests find expression through a focus on landscape and design. He writes frequently about the interplay of society and culture in the shaping of the human-constructed environment. His books include Home: A Short History of an Idea, City Life and The Last Harvest. A regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, he is a Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Part memoir, part family history, his new book My Two Polish Grandfathers delivers a collection of linked autobiographical essays that testifies to the ability of people to survive in the face of overwhelming odds. A thriving, cultured family in prewar Warsaw, Rybczynski's parents and grandparents lost everything when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. How they remade themselves in a foreign country and built a new life is a tribute to a European generation that has helped to define our postwar culture.

Farmer, best known for his Riverworld series, was a three time Hugo Award winner, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's of America Grandmaster, and recipient of the World Fantasy Awards' Lifetime achievement award. He passed away peacefully in his sleep, February 25th 2009.

 

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Good to a Fault$25.95 add to cart

Hot on the heals of its Giller shortlist appearance, Marina Endicott's novel Good to a Fault has been shortlisted for a 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best Book - Canada and The Caribbean. Winnipeg's own Joan Thomas has also garnered a spot on the shortlist of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Award for Best First Book - Canada and The Caribbean for her novel Reading By Lightning.

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In a recent interview with USA Weekend, Stephen King praised J.K. Rowling as a "terrific writer" but went on to add that Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling Twilight series, "can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."

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