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  • Train Dreams

    A Novella

    by Denis Johnson ...
    Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones–coming to Netflix on November 21!A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist**'s 2011 Books of the Year**One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes</stron... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Devil's Own Luck

    Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic, 1944–45

    by Denis Edwards ...
    "A superb and well written book, highly recommended as a true account of one man's war from Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic during WWII." —The ArmourerAlthough strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944–45. He brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death, day after day, night after night, with never a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tree of Smoke

    A Novel

    by Denis Johnson ...
    Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • We Were Invincible

    Testimony of an Ex-Commando

    by Denis Morisset, Claude Coulombe ...
    Translated by Jennifer Makarewicz ...
    Nobody really knows who these men are- men in black dropped off by a helicopter on the outskirts of a small Afghan village; wading through swamps in Croatia, intent on killing a war criminal; who ensure the protection of a Canadian General in Rwanda; who subdue hostage takers in Peru; and who prove, on-site, the Serbian disarmament lies told by President Milosevic. DENIS MORISSET was part of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Malta Spitfire Pilot

    Ten Weeks of Terror, April–June 1942

    by Denis Barnham ...
    An RAF fighter pilot's "intensely vivid" account of the siege of Malta in World War II ( The Times Literary Supplement).In the summer of 1942, Malta was vulnerable to air attack from the Germans and Italians, and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns. Denis Barnham, a young and inexperienced flight lieutenant, spent ten hectic weeks on this indomitable island; he left a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Benevolence

    Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions

    by Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean, Verna St. Denis ...
    When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous people. White ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Name of the World

    A Novel

    by Denis Johnson ...
    The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has permitted that grief to enlarge him.Michael Reed is living a posthumous life. In spite of outward ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Understanding Living Systems

    by Raymond Noble, Denis Noble ...
    Series series Understanding Life
    Life is definitively purposive and creative. Organisms use genes in controlling their destiny. This book presents a paradigm shift in understanding living systems. The genome is not a code, blueprint or set of instructions. It is a tool orchestrated by the system. This book shows that gene-centrism misrepresents what genes are and how they are used by living systems. It demonstrates how organisms ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Silenced Majority

    Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

    by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan ...
    The New York Times–bestselling collection of essays on the power of ordinary people to effect lasting change—from the host and cofounder of Democracy Now!Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, "Breaking the Sound Barrier," for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman's New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Dancing, No Dancing

    Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

    by Denis Dragovic ...
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we can better respond to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

    Stories

    by Denis Johnson ...
    Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times; Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air; Chicago Tribune; ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ancient City - Imperium Press

    A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome

    by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges ...
    Series series Traditionalist Histories
    In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization—the Indo-European domestic cult—showing this archaic religion to be the engine behind the rise and fall of the classical world.In his foreword, Dennis Bouvard views The Ancient City through the lens of generative anthropology, pointing the way to a post-liberal understanding of our own social order, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus