Join us for a delicious luncheon and the launch of
MODERN SHANGHAI VINTAGE HOUSES,
a photography book featuring renovated
pre-1949 era homes in Shanghai.
Author Andrea Mingfai Chu, a native of Shanghai,
interviewed dozens of residents of newly
renovated vintage homes in the former French Concession
and International Settlement neighbourhoods,
and will share fascinating stories from these interviews,
and her insights into the homes featured in her book creation.
Architect Ben Wood, who designed Xintiandi,
will discuss what was involved in revamping
this urban redevelopment landmark.
Xintiandi's Clubhouse is one of the vintage houses
featured in the book.

Book signing will follow.

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or reservations@m-restaurantgroup.com

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Shanghai, 200002, China
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Gabriel Olearnik blends ancient themes with a modern sensibility to produce an unusual work filled with danger, passion and delight. Sparks of humour fly upward to illuminate the dark corners of the languishing soul. Desire strives to overcome death, distance and sheer impossibility in finely tuned, elegant verse that takes us from ancient Sparta to space travel, from the tragedy of the Warsaw Uprising to the joys of fatherhood. A rich, surprising book in the tradition of T. S. Eliot and Zbigniew Herbert, Amor de Lonh  warms and intoxicates the reader like a glass of fine Burgundy wine.

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New Revelations and In-Depth Look at Leader of Secretive Polygamist Sect

WHEN MEN BECOME GODS

Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear,
and the Women Who Fought Back

by Stephen Singular

“Singular … demonstrates an impressive ability to get inside his subjects’ heads. …A harrowing, well-written account of a frightening cult.”

--Kirkus Reviews

The April 3rd, 2008 raid by Texas authorities on the ranch owned by the FLDS, the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, sparked heated interest in the sect’s origins and its leader, who was convicted in 2007 of rape as an accomplice in Utah and is now awaiting trial in Arizona. 419 children have been removed from the ranch and placed in protective custody.

With new revelations into the nearly impenetrable world of the FLDS, a place of 19th century attire, inbreeding, and eerie seclusion, bestselling author and veteran crime journalist Stephen Singular provides a rare glimpse into a tradition that’s nearly a century old, but only now gaining wide exposure.

Singular’s new book, WHEN MEN BECOME GODS, reveals the details behind:
Forced marriages for 14-year old girls
Young “lost boys” kicked out of their homes and communities
The rise to power of self-styled Mormon prophet Warren Jeffs
The courageous women who finally helped bring him to justice
The efforts of investigator Gary Engels who tracked Jeffs for 2 years before his arrest
How the Arizona, Utah and Nevada police worked with the FBI and Jeffs’ former victims to secure his arrest in 2007
What the Mormon Church has (or hasn’t) done to help the victims of the FLDS

Singular traces the arc of Jeffs’ rise to power in the FLDS, and the movement that brought him to justice. He was convicted of rape as an accomplice in 2007 for his alleged role in coercing a fourteen-year-old girl to marry her nineteen-year-old first cousin. Perhaps most crucial of all in the case against Jeffs was a group of former polygamous wives seeking to liberate young women from the arranged marriages they’d once endured. Recounting the stories of women like Laura Chapman, who fled the FLDS community, and Elaine Tyler, who runs The HOPE Organization, a nonprofit group of volunteers who help people leaving polygamy, Singular shows how the people who were victimized by Warren Jeffs eventually brought him to justice.

With page-turning excitement, Edgar Award nominee Singular casts a light on a dark corner of religious extremism, and the concerted effort that led to its leader’s downfall.

STEPHEN SINGULAR is a New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award finalist. His book Talked to Death was made into the Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio. Singular has appeared on Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Court TV, and Anderson Cooper 360. He is the author or coauthor of nineteen books.
Official Website
http://www.stephensingular.com

Since the beginning of time man has feared one thing more
than anything else... death.
Joseph Surgeon was a professional killer, a merciless
hit-man, interested only in the money, and he possessed a
special gift: he could see the face of the other world, the
dead world, and the face of Death itself.
His talents brought him infamy and wealth and then Death
came to call. Having contracted the AIDS virus from a
prostitute, Joseph Surgeon faced his own demise when Death
made a very strange demand... indeed the "entity" made of
that overwhelmed assassin its own delegate; giving him
supernatural powers and leaving the man an assignment of
death, for an indefinite time.
So it begins... the unusual adventure of Surgeon, the new
Death.

Passer tout simplement d'un étant à un autre, penser donc leur changement en tant que succession entre ce qui est déjà passéet ce qui n'est pas encore passé, dépasser, ensuite, leurs propres positions - déterminées- par une sorte de transposition qui surpasse - grâce à la réduction phénoménologique - tout étant afin d'accéder au transcendantal, voilà, pour l'essentiel, l'itinéraire théorique prévu dans le projet de la phénoménologie transcendantale.

Pourtant, certains disciples de Husserl ont assezvite compris que, loin d'être un possible concret simple et homogène, le transcendantal est « divisé » par sa propre différence et que, comme Hegel l'avait déjà vu, le phénomène n'est pas l'analogue d'un invariant desens, mais plutôt l'effet renversé d'une différence survenu à l'intérieur même du transcendantal. Par rapport à cette division originaire - ou de l'origine - l'identité phénoménale s'avère être plutôt celle d'un « différent du différent ». Aussi, le « trans » qui anime - par modulation - le transcendantal devrait être re-connu au niveau des phénomènes. Car l'être nous est « donné »- par le retour de ce qui est caché - plutôt dans l'intervalle de ce passage inter-facticiel, à savoir comme non-lieu et comme non-temps d'une spatialisation et d'une temporalisation qui dépasse tout sens constitué.

En commençant avec l'« expérience » du sublime et en finissant avec celle de l'exception, ce livre essai de lancer des passerelles thématiques entre Kant et Husserl, Hegel et Merleau-Ponty, la phénoménologie et la théologie.

Mark Edwards writes with wit, poignancy and economy. In poems and stories of remarkable grace he delineates the corners of a world – his cast of genial no-hopers and poetic dreamers speak to us in the language of Aberdeen - lilting, ironic, occasionally obscene, often hilarious and always genuine. There is depth of feeling in their reticence and a hard-edged wisdom in their careful tenderness. In rendering the specific with such attention, Edwards achieves a universal truth, and shows us ourselves, often at our most vulnerable.

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Murder Game
by Christine Feehan

Release Date: December 30, 2008
Number of Pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Jove
Language: English
ISBN: 0515145807

Return to the world of the GhostWalkers with “the queen of paranormal romance” (USA Today) as she raises the stakes in the ultimate game of love and death…
Games should be fun, but for two expert teams across the country, they’re murder – because the winning team is the one that gets the most kills. The participants in this violent challenge rumored to be GhostWalkers. And Kadan Montague isn’t happy about it.
Kadan is a GhostWalker and he’s determined to clear the GhostWalker name of the rumors. To do it, he’s going to need the help of psychic Tansy Meadows. But as soon as he sees her, he knows his mission will be more complicated than he imagined – and the “murder game” may not be at all what it seems.

Sardinian Silver
by A. Colin Wright

"Arthur, an Englishman and tourist representative in Sardinia, Italy, seeks romance and entertainment, only to find frustration on this fascinating but morally traditional island":

To Arthur Fraser, a young Englishman, Sardinia in 1960 is perfect. It’s an island filled with Roman ruins, exotic scenery, local customs, and morally traditional values—he loves everything. To assimilate into the strange and belong to a society different from his own has always been his desire.
Arthur arrives in the resort town of Alghero to work as a representative for a tourist company. His ambition is to find a Sard girl for himself. He is quickly thwarted, though, by the orthodox beliefs of the inhabitants. Unmarried couples cannot meet without chaperones, and anyone with “continental” attitudes is immoral. Arthur quickly learns that dating is fraught with real dangers.
When Arthur finally falls in love with Anna, a Sard girl, he discovers that she lives in Rome and is no longer accepted at home. But she then falls in love with one of his best friends, and Arthur becomes irrationally obsessed. He incessantly schemes about winning back her affections, despite her efforts to dissuade him.
In Sardinian Silver, author Wright masterfully evokes a mysterious society, its flamboyant people, and the Island’s beauty. Like Arthur, you’ll never want to leave Sardinia, with its wide sands, low hills, sun, and blue sea – and its superficial pleasantness of life.

Official sites
www.acolinwright.ca
www.sardiniansilver.com

"Like babies, these poems spring from the womb. Arnott draws us into the healing circle of her words, with urgent beauty, in tune with the temper of our times"
- Susan Musgrave
After reading this collection, you will never look at mothers - at the play-ground, at the elementary school, or across the kitchen table - in quite the same way again. Beginning with a poem of pregnancy, written by her twenty-five year old self, Arnott leads us through a span of twenty years of inward - and outward-facing struggles, centred firmly in the ongoing work of becoming a mother. Living on the thresholds between races - the poet is a prairie-born Métis - and between the generations, Arnott articulates the challenges of mothering in heart, body and mind. Her work involves sometimes abstract, sometimes visceral long and short poems, song and chant. Always the poetry springs alive with vibrant imagery. Through visiting and revisiting pregnancy, childbirth lullabies, and multi-generational rage, the poetry moves from desperation of survival through to a tender place of clarity.
The sexual, the spiritual, and the sociological weave together here to shock, cajole, and ultimately to transform our picture of the inner life of the mother.

Joanne Arnott, a Métis/mixed blood, was born in Winnipeg, and has lived a cumulative thirty years in Musqueam traditional territories on the west coast. Mother to six children ranging in age from three to twenty years, Joanne has been a literary performer and publishing poet since the mid-1980s. She worked for many years as an Unlearning Racism facilitator, and continues to incorporate social justice prespectives and peer counselling approaches in her work. Her first book, Wiles of Girlhood (Press Gang, 1991), won the Gerald Lampert Award. She has since published four additional books. These include poetry, a children's illustrated story and a nonfiction collection. Her most recent book is Steepy Mountain: love poetry (Kegedonce Press, 2004). She lives with her husband and children in Richmond, BC.

A significant new work by the renowned literary critique
and historian N.N.Shneidman of University of Toronto.
He is widely acknowledged as one of the leading experts
on Soviet and Russian literature and his publications from
1973 to his most recent work, Russian Literature 1995-
2002: On the Threshold of the New Millenium, published
by the University of Toronto Press in 2004, are widely and
favourably reviewed and very well know. His two other
works, Jerusalem of Lithuiania: The Rise and Fall of
Jewish Vilnus, 1998 and The Three Tragic Heroes of the
Vilnius Ghetto: Witenberg, Sheinbaim, Gens, 2002, both
published by Mosaic Press, won the Canadian Jewish Book
Award.

“This volume examines contemporary literary texts in which Jewish characters appear,
or Jewish issues are discussed, written in the Russian language and published
in Russia proper, in the years between 1991 and 2006, by writers currently residing
in that country. I investigate how Jews view themselves in the new post-Soviet era,
how they are perceived by their Russian neighbours, and how these attitudes have
changed with the demise of the Soviet state.” (from the Introduction)

This is an indispensible volume as it provides us with insight into many of the most
current literary texts from Russia and explores the major new and old currents now
pervading this new Russian literature.