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  • Speakeasy

    by Alisa Smith ...
    A former undetected outlaw who ran with Bill Bagley’s notorious gang during the Depression, Lena Stillman is now an elite codebreaker in a position to know the nation’s strategic secrets. Good under pressure, good at keeping her mouth shut, Lena never had trouble keeping her double lives compartmentalized—at least not until Bill is sentenced to hang, and her old Clockwork Gang becomes newsworthy. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 100-Mile Diet

    A Year of Local Eating

    by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon ...
    The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Doublespeak

    by Alisa Smith ...
    Lieutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking mission in remote Alaska. World War II has been over for a month, but due to crimes committed a lifetime ago, Lena is still under the control of the powerful Miss Maggie, her spymaster in Washington, DC.Shaken by her role in the disappearance of Corporal Link Hughes, Lena yearns for an opportunity to redeem them both. Then ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lower Criminal Courts

    Edited by Alisa Smith, Sean Maddan ...
    This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of conviction, such as loss of employment and housing, the imposition of significant fines, and loss of liberty—all amounting to the criminalization of poverty that happens in many U.S. misdemeanor courts. A major concern is the lack of due process employed ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Educated

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  • The Best Laid Plans

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    WINNER OF CBC CANADA READSWINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOURHere’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No ... Read more

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  • Bossypants

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  • The Book Of Negroes

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  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

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