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  • The New Negro

    Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

    by Alain Locke ...
    A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more.The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Moses

    A Novel

    by Alain Mabanckou ...
    Translated by Helen Stevenson ...
    The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ... ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day Jesus Died

    Discovering the Year, Date, Day, and Time of Jesus’ Crucifixion

    by Woodrow Michael Kroll ...
    Series series Crucifixion: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Death of Jesus of Nazareth
    If we could transport ourselves back to the first century AD, would we know the year, date, day, and hour of the crucifixion of Jesus? Yes, we would. We may even have been an eyewitness. But can we know these time markers today? Yes, we can. In The Day Jesus Died, using biblical, historical, archaeological, and literary information of that century, readers will trace the time of Jesus' death to ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something Shady at Sunshine Haven

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 1 - The Accidental Detective
    She’s pursued the most dangerous news stories around the world. But can she survive going home?Injured in a bombing, war correspondent Kate Tessler returns to her hometown in Arizona to recover. For the first time in her life, she's starting to feel her age of nearly fifty despite living like a teenager again: staying in her childhood bedroom with only a cat for company, trying to understand why ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The School of Life Dictionary

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    The School of Life's dictionary of emotional intelligence brings us the vocabulary we need in order to understand ourselves, others, and the world around us.A dictionary is a guide to a language. This one is a guide to the language of emotions and a tool to help us express our truest selves.Through an alphabetical selection of over 200 words and phrases (FOMO, existential angst, unrequited love, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order without Design

    How Markets Shape Cities

    by Alain Bertaud ...
    An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Someone Rotten Riding the Rails

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 6 - The Accidental Detective
    Kate Tessler and her crew of misfits set out to blow the whistle on two feuding crime families . . .Former war correspondent Kate Tessler has solved multiple murders since returning to her Arizona hometown, to the grudging appreciation of the local police. Now Detective Padilla and the FBI approach Kate with a proposal. Two Russian crime families have rented a private historic train to the Grand ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Course of Love

    by Alain De Botton ...
    In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. With philosophical insight and psychological ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Someone Missing from Malapais Mountain

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 4 - The Accidental Detective
    It’s hard to walk away from the truth when you need a cane…Former international war correspondent Kate Tessler had to trade her illustrious journalism career for her childhood bedroom after a brush with death almost took her leg. But when the editor of a local newspaper asks for her help, Kate is drawn back into her old world. A journalist covering a sprawling story of political corruption may ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Someone Murderous at The Midnight Motel

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 5 - The Accidental Detective
    She didn’t anticipate a career change at fifty…Forced to leave her celebrated career as an international war correspondent after an injury, Kate Tessler now dabbles in detective work in her Arizona hometown. She and her sister, Jen, need to take any job offered if they want to become true PIs. When Jen’s college friend asks them to investigate suspicious activity at a motel he inherited, it sounds ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Consolations of Philosophy

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. But uncover he does, and the result is an unexpected book of both solace and humor. Dividing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Someone Cruel in Coyote Creek

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 3 - The Accidental Detective
    Turning fifty in her childhood bedroom wasn’t on her bucket list…Kate Tessler is convinced her sister is trying to kill her. In fact, she might prefer death to Jen’s “50 for 50 Challenge,” where Kate will try fifty new things throughout the year she turns fifty. Still adjusting to her new underemployed life back in her childhood home in Phoenix, the last thing Kate wants is to prepare for paddle ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook