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“brian payton”

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  • The Wind Is Not A River

    A Novel

    by Brian Payton ...
    A gripping love story set in WW2 Japanese-occupied AlaskaFollowing the loss of his brother to the war in Europe, Canadian writer John Easley feels duty-bound to report the story that seems to have fallen into his lap: the 1943 Japanese occupation of the U.S. Aleutian Islands and the Allied attempts to drive them back into the sea. But when his plane is shot down over the island of Attu, he is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ice Passage

    A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness

    by Brian Payton ...
    A thrilling account of suffering and survival, The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny.It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator’ s officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Shadow of the Bear

    Travels in Vanishing Wilderness

    by Brian Payton ...
    We've been meeting bears in the wilderness, and in our dreams, since the dawn of human history. Celebrated in art and myth since we began drawing on the walls of caves, they cast a long shadow over our collective subconscious. Wherever bears endure, they are an indicator of the health of their ecosystem. Their decline-some to the edge of extinction-foretells a bigger story: that of our planet's ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Hail Mary Corner

    by Brian Payton ...
    Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood.High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. it may be the fall of 1982, but ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    The Wind Is Not A River

    by Brian Payton ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    The Wind Is Not a River is Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife—separated by the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil—fight to reunite in Alaska's starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands.Following the death of his younger brother in Europe, journalist John Easley is determined to find meaning in his loss. Leaving behind his ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    A Heartbreaking, Page-Turning Irish Family Drama

    by Orna Ross ...
    A literary family drama with patricide at its heart.When Mercy Mulcahy was 40 years old, she was accused of killing her elderly and tyrannical father. Now, at the end of her life, she has completed a book about what really happened on that fateful night of Christmas Eve, 1989.The tragic and beautiful Mercy has devoted her life to protecting Star from her grandfather. His behavior so blighted her ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mapmaker's Children

    A Novel

    by Sarah McCoy ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two women from different generations face challenges that test their bravery and resilience in this “lovingly constructed [and] passionately told” (The Washington Post) novel from the author of The Baker’s Daughter.“Poignant and deeply absorbing. McCoy weaves this moving tale of two women finding their way with style and thoughtfulness.”—Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Sisterhood

    by Anne Fortier ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation--and her life--on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed.Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dragon's Teeth

    by Upton Sinclair ...
    Series Book 3 - The Lanny Budd Novels
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of an American in Germany fighting against the rise of Nazism, from the New York Times– bestselling author of World's End.In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, Lanny Budd's financial acumen and his marriage into great wealth enable him to continue the lifestyle he has always enjoyed. But the devastation the collapse has wrought on ordinary citizens has only ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Memory Painter

    A Novel

    by Gwendolyn Womack ...
    Two lovers who have travelled across time.A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research.A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.At once a sweeping love story and a time-travelling adventure, Gwendolyn Womack’s luminous debut novel, The Memory Painter, is perfect for readers of The Time Traveler’s Wife, Life After Life and Winter’s TaleBryan Pie... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Fine Imitation

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    by Amber Brock ...
    Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin.Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on ... Read more

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  • The Black Velvet Coat

    A Novel

    by Jill G. Hall ...
    Twenty-eight-year-old struggling San Francisco artist Anne McFarland is determined to get a one-woman show, even though no one, including herself, believes she can do it. But when she buys a coat at a thrift shop with a key in its pocket, strange, even magical, occurrences begin to unfold, and she is inspired to create her best work ever. Fifty years earlier, it’s 1963, and the coat’s original ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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