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    A Novel

    **A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book . . . Sharp, explosive, hilarious.” —The New ... Read more

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  • My Sister, the Serial Killer

    A Novel

    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN THRILLER OF THE 21ST CENTURY • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE •“A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIREKorede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly ... Read more

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  • A Flight of Saints

    What kind of a friend are you?Are you a good friend? A jealous friend? Or perhaps you have a jealous friend, or a friend you wouldn’t trust with a secret. Friendship, the complex, messy kind, is the beating heart of A Flight of Saints, the debut novel by Elizabeth Braithwaite.In it, young Sister Lucia recounts the story of how she and four other novices escape the abuse and enforced silence of the ... Read more

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  • Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989

    The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89

    The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle, the Soviets hastily retreated. It's a great ... Read more

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  • Night We Stole the Mounties' Car

    Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship ... Read more

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  • Murder In The Mangroves

    Deadline In San Andrés, #1

    Series Book 1 - Deadline In San Andrés
    She came to San Andrés to write about paradise. She found a body instead.When Eleanor Hartley — fifty, newly separated, and finally reclaiming the journalism career she gave up decades ago — arrives on the small Caribbean island of San Andrés to write for its struggling local paper, she expects sunshine, sea air, and a fresh start. What she gets is her editor, bludgeoned to death at his own desk, ... Read more

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  • Why Shoot the Teacher

    Set in the Saskatchewan prairies during the Depression, Why Shoot the Teacher is the Canadian classic that tells the story of a young man’s first collision with reality: an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school. This autobiographical novel is riotous, grim, candid, and infinitely entertaining. While it is perhaps Braithwaite’s best-loved book, it is also a vivid evocation of ... Read more

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  • Spaceships Over Glasgow

    Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

    Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past three decades.Modestly delinquent at school, Stuart developed an early appetite for 'alternative' music in what might arguably be described as ... Read more

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  • Honorary White

    Acclaimed author E. R. Braithwaite ( To Sir, With Love) chronicles the brutality, oppression, and courage he witnessed as a black man granted "Honorary White" status during a six-week visit to apartheid South AfricaAs a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Airgunner's Companion

    A Field Guide to Hunting with Air Rifles

    Being an effective hunter with a modern precision air rifle requires; - being suitably well informed about the intended quarry species, - have a wealth of knowledge concerning different hunting methods, - a detailed understanding of how their air rifle performs, and know how to maximise its attributes to optimise efficacy in the field, and - a level of proficiency in shooting an air rifle. The ... Read more

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  • Russia

    Myths and Realities

    An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. That has become an excuse for intellectual laziness. Russia is not all that different from anywhere else. But you have to disentangle the facts from the myths created both by the Russians ... Read more

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  • Never Sleep Three in a Bed

    A book as rollicking and exuberant as the boyhood pleasures and perils it recalls, Never Sleep Three in a Bed combines humour and realism in a nostalgic but unsentimental journey into Max Braithwaite's—and Canada's past. From the pinnacle of his remarkable writing career, the popular author and humorist casts a perceptive eye over the world he shared with his family and friends in western Canada ... Read more

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