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  • Dark Days of Georgian Britain

    Rethinking the Regency

    by James Hobson ...
    A historian reveals the grittier side of Regency England, far from the country houses and costume balls of high society.Often upheld as a period of elegance with many achievements in the fine arts and architecture, the Regency era also encompassed a time of great social, political, and economic upheaval. In this insightful social history, the emphasis is on the lives of those not born into ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grass Beyond the Mountains

    Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent

    by Richmond P. Hobson ...
    The first in a trilogy, Grass Beyond the Mountains is a story of discovery and endurance on North America's western frontier by three good old-fashioned cowboys.With laconic cowboy humor and the ease of a born writer, Richmond Hobson describes the life-and-death escapades, the funny and tragic incidents peopled with extraordinary frontier characters, in a true adventure that surpasses the most ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    by Laura Z. Hobson ...
    When a reporter pretends to be Jewish, he experiences anti-Semitism firsthand in the New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment in history, his editor at Smith's Weekly Magazine assigns Phil a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. In order to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charles I's Executioners

    Civil War, Regicide & the Republic

    by James Hobson ...
    This biographical history of the English Civil War profiles the lives and ultimate fates of the nearly 60 men who sentenced their king to death.On January 30th, 1649, King Charles I was executed on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House of Whitehall. The parliamentarian High Court of Justice declared him guilty of treason, disregarding the Divine Right of Kings. Fifty-nine commissioners signed ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil Is a Southpaw

    A Novel

    by Brandon Hobson ...
    Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The RemovedMilton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • First Papers

    by Laura Z. Hobson ...
    Two Russian socialists emigrate to the United States and begin the long process of becoming American in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.Stefan and Alexandra Ivarin emigrated to America at the end of the nineteenth century. Russian Jewish socialists, the Ivarins are now established in a Long Island home designed, somewhat haphazardly, by Stefan. Despite their attempts at ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trespassers

    by Laura Z. Hobson ...
    In Laura Z. Hobson’s debut novel, a well-to-do Austrian family, exiled in Switzerland in the early years of World War II, struggles to survive on the charity of an American socialiteAs World War II rips through Europe, the Vederles have found themselves in an impossible situation. In temporary exile in Switzerland, the Vederles are caught in a bureaucratic limbo, unable to return home and unable ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Removed

    A Novel

    by Brandon Hobson ...
    “A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * TIME * Harper's Bazaar * Buzzfeed * ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Where the Dead Sit Talking

    by Brandon Hobson ...
    2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALISTSet in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Haunted Legends

    by Laird Barron, Richard Bowes, Gary A. Braunbeck, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Dedman, Jeffrey Ford, Lily Hoang, M. K. Hobson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Laben, Joe R. Lansdale, Kit Reed, Steven Pirie, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherine Turgeon, Catherynne M. Valente, Kaaron Warren, Erzebet YellowBoy, John Mantooth ...
    A Bram Stoker Award–winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world.Wherever you're from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives' tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Priceless Facts about Money

    by Mellody Hobson ...
    Illustrated by Caitlin Stevens ...
    Series series Mellody on Money
    An instant New York Times bestseller!Debut author Mellody Hobson, barrier-breaking pioneer in the world of finance, demystifies money for kids with a look at some wild and weird facts about what makes the world go round.What is the meaning of all those symbols on US bills (and why are they so hard to counterfeit)? What’s with people calling money “bacon” or “cheddar” or “smackeroonies”? With savvy ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Linux: Powerful Server Administration

    by Uday R. Sawant, Oliver Pelz, Jonathan Hobson, William Leemans ...
    Get hands-on recipes to make the most of Ubuntu Server, CentOS 7 Linux Server and RHEL 7 ServerAbout This BookGet Linux servers up and running in seconds,In-depth guide to explore new features and solutions in server administrationMaintain performance and security of your server solution by deploying expert configuration adviceWho This Book Is ForThis Learning Path is intended for system ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus