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  • The Elephant Keeper

    A Novel

    "Enchanting . . . a strange tour of late eighteenth-century England, a natural history of elephants and the story of a most unusual friendship." — The Washington PostA poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter

    "[This] beautifully restrained novel, a meditation on aging, marriage and loss, fictionalizes a well-known period in Thomas Hardy's life" ( The New York Times).A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and this is a fictionalized ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • How Many Kids with ADHD Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

    52 Tips, Tools & Tidbits (1 each week for a year) to help you help your ADHD kid!

    ​ This book is for every parent who wants to help his or her ADHD kid. Written by an ADHD specialist teacher with 20 years experience, the book offers a weekly dose of information, tips, and tools for a year. There are 52 easy to understand, simple to implement insights, strategies and suggestions.  Using a blend of humor and candor to tackle this sometimes overwhelming topic, the author covers ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Railways in the Peak District

    A History

    The Peak District has always been a formidable barrier to transport links across it, particularly railways. The first crude horse-drawn tramways fed canals on its eastern and western flanks, but in 1830 – only five years after the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened – a standard gauge line climbed over the top of the Peak District and down the other side on fearsome inclines to connect canals at ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • One Hand Washes The Other

    When Thandi Dladla undertakes to coach a young soccar team in a rural school in South Africa she little realises how it will change her life. When levelling the terrain to make a field she discovers two skeletons wich reveal how ninety percent of people become right-handed.The leads Thandi on a journey of discovery which helps her not only to coach her team to success but also to find the murderer ... Read more

    $4.51 CAD

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    Winter

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    From the author of The Elephant Keeper, nominated for the Costa Award for Best Novel, comes a poignant imagining of Thomas Hardy’s relationship with his last museA celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Last Flight of Poxl West

    A Novel

    by Daniel Torday ...
    Narrated by Aaron Abano ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    Poxl West fled the Nazis' onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz's rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber.Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero. Poxl ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Double Life of Eve Sinclair

    A Novel

    The Alice Network meets The Nightingale in this romantic and suspenseful novel about a female spy who must push herself to her very limits to save herself and everything she holds dear—from nationally bestselling author and master of historical fiction C.C. Humphreys.It’s 1939, and Stockholm is a sea of spies. Yet Eve Sinclair couldn’t care less. Nineteen years old, beautiful, born in Montreal ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    **As spiritualism reaches its fevered pitch at the dawn of the 20th century, a Scottish girl crosses the veil to unlock a powerful connection within an infamous asylum in this thrillingly atmospheric, exquisitely evocative exploration of feminine rage and agency for readers of Sarah Penner, Alice Hoffman, and Hester Fox.Now available in paperback!**Leaving behind a quiet life of simple comforts, ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD

  • Sisters of Fortune

    A Riveting Historical Novel of the Titanic Based on True History

    Readers of The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abé will be captivated as the USA Today bestselling author expertly weaves real historical figures and events into this vivid, surprising, emotionally powerful novel about longing for independence and love—and the moments that irrevocably change even the best laid plans. Based on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tasting Sunlight: The uplifting, exquisite BREAKOUT BESTSELLER

    by Ewald Arenz ...
    Translated by Rachel Ward ...
    An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal … the sublime, achingly beautiful debut that everyone is talking about…`Such a timely tale … hopeful and poignant and lyrically told. A truly compassionate and heartening book´ Culturefly`Poetic in places and, as the title suggests, highly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • We Must Not Think of Ourselves

    A Novel

    From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD