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  • Countdown City

    The Last Policeman Book II

    by Ben Winters ...
    Series Book 2 - The Last Policeman Trilogy
    The Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews.Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Jeffrey and Sloth

    Illustrated by Ben Hodson ...
    Jeffrey can't think of a thing to write, so he doodles instead, only to have his doodle begin to order him about. Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale. Jeffrey and Sloth is bound to have children rushing for their colored pencils and their pens to see who and what they can create. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Policeman: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Ben Winters ...
    Series series The Last Policeman Trilogy
    What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • A Sleep Through Time

    by Ben Winter ...
    Jessica has never felt like she belonged in the twenty-first century. She decides to utilize CryoNex so she can sleep into the future. When she awakes, things aren't what they seem, and Jessica must navigate new feelings, a new world, and new people and try to figure out what happened to her and why. Will she survive this new world? ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bedbugs

    A Novel of Infestation

    by Ben Winters ...
    FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.Big mistake. Susan soon ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

    Series series Quirk Classics
    From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem.Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Ultimate Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

    Four hundred scenarios from all of the bestselling books in the series—with dozens of new entries—from being kicked by a zebra to breakup texts.With over 10 million copies sold worldwide, the Worst-Case Scenario series has been preparing readers for dangers of all kinds for more than a decade. This handsome compendium is truly the ultimate guide for handling life's inevitable Worst-Case Scenarios, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Korngold in America

    Music, Myth, and Hollywood

    by Ben Winters ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), a Viennese-raised Austro-Hungarian composer who left Europe for Hollywood in the mid-1930s to write for Warner Bros. It reassesses Korngold's place in twentieth-century music historiography and dismantles many of the myths that have obscured a proper ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • What to Expect when having Expectations

    Using the anger of unmet expectations to find peace

    by Ben Winter ...
    This book is about understanding where your expectations come from, what drives them, why you aren't always aware of them, how to come to peace after being upset by an expectation going unmet, and increasing communication with yourself and others. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What to Expect when having Expectations

    by Ben Winter ...
    This book is about understanding where your expectations come from, what drives them, why you aren't always aware of them, how to come to peace after being upset by an expectation going unmet, and increasing communication with yourself and others. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold's The Adventures of Robin Hood

    A Film Score Guide

    by Ben Winters ...
    Series series Film Score Guides
    Among the many fine examples of film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) stands out the most. Winner of the Academy Award™ for best dramatic score in 1938, it is seen by many as the archetypal accompaniment to a Warner Brothers swashbuckler, and it established Korngold as one of the leading exponents of film score composition at a ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film

    Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction

    by Ben Winters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    This book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articulates music's importance to the ontology of film. The book asserts that narrative film of a variety of ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD