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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

    $16.99 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

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  • Strangers at the Red Door

    A Novel

    by Dennis Bock ...
    A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOK OF THE YEAR"The Giller-shortlisted novelist uses the fantastic to tell a thrilling tale of censorship and the artist’s need to tell their story." —The Globe and MailA foreign ghostwriter visiting Hong Kong partners up with the disembodied spirit of the most dangerous novelist in China to find a local bookseller who’s been disappeared by the authorities after ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Fall for a Cowboy

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 2 - The Accidental Billionaire Cowboys
    A billionaire cowboy with something to prove. A feisty neighbor who wants nothing to do with him. And one bachelor auction that changes everything.For years, TC Tomlinson has lived in his older brother’s shadow. Now, with his family’s sudden lottery win, he’s finally ready to chase his own dream of raising alternative livestock on his Texas ranch. But when he catches a gorgeous stranger cradling ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Something Deadly on Desert Drive

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 2 - The Accidental Detective
    Starting over at fifty might be hard, but it shouldn’t be deadly…Still recovering from an injury that might have permanently derailed her career as an international war correspondent, Kate Tessler is living in her childhood bedroom and pondering her second act when another case lands in her lap. Kate’s father and his coffee group are worried. Their friend Larry married a younger woman who now ... Read more

    Was $5.99 CAD Now $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Avoid Murder and Other Jobs

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 1 - Tales of a Reluctant Psychic
    When a young geologist takes a job as rock and mineral curator at a quirky New Mexico western history museum, she expects a quiet life surrounded by stones, but not murder.Petra Cloch has a secret: she’s psychic. She can touch an object and sense the lingering emotions of those who held it; fear, rage, grief. Introverted and cautious, she’s avoided friendships, preferring rocks that rarely “talk” ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Was $5.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

  • Work Rules!

    Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

    by Laszlo Bock ...
    **A groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work, and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed, from the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations."A true masterpiece." —Forbes.com**"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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