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  • In a Lonely Place

    by Dorothy B. Hughes, Megan Abbott ...
    A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Expendable Man

    by Dorothy B Hughes ...
    The Expendable Man is the second thriller published by Persephone Books (our first was the very successful The Blank Wall). But it is far more than a crime novel. Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political issues of the 1940s – the legacy of the Depression, and the struggles against fascism and rascism – so The Expendable Man, published in 1963 during John F. Kennedy's ... Read more

    $14.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Pink Bits

    An Awkward Girl RomCom

    by JB Heller ...
    Narrated by Sofia Lette, Ben Hughes ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Awkward Girls

    Unabridged

    3 hours 18 min

    Did you know the medical term for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft?My name is Reagan, and spouting random facts like this one at inopportune moments is my affliction. I’m chronically awkward, socially inept and completely lack a filter. Believe it or not, men do not find these attractive traits.When my sexy-as-sin neighbour barges into my apartment at the arse crack of dawn, everything changes. ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gaslights to Gigawatts

    A Human History of BC Hydro and Its Predecessors, Updated

    by Hugh Wilson, BC Hydro Power Pioneers ...
    Series series BC Hydro
    Newly revised and redesigned, this is the human history of the company that powered the development of the electric system in British Columbia—and in turn played an integral role in shaping the province.“A utility is a thing with a heartbeat—a steady beat of progress brought about not by water and wire, turbines and transformers, but by all the people who put our resources and equipment to the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bamboo Blonde

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    On their second honeymoon, a woman's husband is arrested for murderGriselda Satterlee is beginning to regret her second marriage to Con. Their honeymoon was supposed to be joyous, romantic, and full of glamor—all of the things their first marriage wasn't—but instead they are spending it on Long Beach, a Navy town whose fleets have all shipped out to sea. The tedium of Long Beach cannot compare to ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Bamboo Blonde

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    When Con Satterlee picked up the half-intoxicated blonde in the Bamboo Bar, Griselda was annoyed. When he walked out with the blonde, leaving Griselda flat, she was furious. She was frightened, too, returning alone to the isolated, ramshackle beach cottage. And this was to have been their second honeymoon!Con came back rattling a handful of shells which he said he had taken from the blonde’s ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Johnnie

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    Lost in New York, a GI stumbles upon a nest of peculiar GermansPrivate First Class Johnnie Brown has only two days to spend in New York before he ships out to fight the Nazis. While his fellow soldiers amuse themselves at the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and the night clubs of Times Square, Johnnie has a humbler wish: to ride the subway. But no sooner has he paid his nickel than ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Fallen Sparrow

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    An escapee from a Spanish prison hunts for his best friend's killer in New YorkFor more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. He escapes Spain with the help of Louie Lepetino, a childhood friend who came with him to fight on behalf of the Republican cause. Back in the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    Blue Beaver (Llama Drama)

    An Awkward Girl Rom Com

    by JB Heller ...
    Narrated by Sofia Lette, Ben Hughes ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Awkward Girls

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    Did you know flannel can be deceivingly sexy?I'm Charlotte, a fashion blogging, endo warrior (if you know, you know. If you don't, buckle up). If devoting my life to fashion has taught me anything, it's that flannel was never a good choice. But it turns out, I was wrong. Very wrong.The first time I met Elijah he told me I was insane and I called him a lunatic. Then he came to my rescue, like a ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Delicate Ape

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    To prevent another war, a diplomat hides from enemies of peaceTwelve years after the Second World War ended, America's war efforts have been replaced by those of the Peace Department, whose chief responsibility is to oversee the police force that governs Germany. On the eve of the biennial Peace Conclave in New York, rumors are swirling that the force may be withdrawn, and the Germans allowed free ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    Silver Bush (Fertile Myrtle)

    An Awkward Girl RomCom

    by JB Heller ...
    Narrated by Sofia Lette, Ben Hughes ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Awkward Girls

    Unabridged

    2 hours 33 min

    Did you know that a whopping 60% of couples get back together after years apart?My name is Tilly, and when I was seventeen my best friend became my lover... Perfect right? Yeah, right up until the day he became my stepbrother. I lost the love of my life because my mum and his dad did the nasty, made a baby, then got hitched. It drove us apart, me into the arms of another, and him as far away as he ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ride the Pink Horse

    by Dorothy B. Hughes ...
    During the annual Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town in this "extraordinary" crime novel ( The New Yorker).It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what's his. It's the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD