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  • Audiobook

    Frankenstein

    Narrated by James Wood ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen Mary Shelley’s novel of “The Modern Prometheus” chillingly dramatised the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time. Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind. ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Ebon Knight, The

    by James Wood ...
    Narrated by Lori Strand ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Ebon Knight Chronicles

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    How far would you go to rescue your sworn enemy?Two adversaries on opposite sides of the Eternal Conflict meet by chance and become allied against a new and sinister third power that has entered the fray. The withdrawn Knight of the Light is supposed to be good, and he really kind of is. The Princess of the Dark is supposed to be evil, and she really kind of isn’t. Can they meet in the middle ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

    The present "Book of Quotations" was undertaken in the belief that, notwithstanding the many excellent compilations of the kind already in existence, there was room for another that should glean its materials from a wider area, and that should have more respect to the requirements, both speculative and practical, of the times we live in. The wide-spread materials at command had never yet been ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Fiction Works

    by James Wood ...
    In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • MY LITTLE BOOK OF POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS

    by JAMES WOODS ...
    What if you could transform your life simply by changing your words?Would you like to cultivate unshakeable confidence, fulfilling relationships and lasting financial success?My Little Book of Positive Affirmations is your practical guide to reprogramming your mind and attracting happiness, success and serenity. This book is packed with powerful affirmations designed to strengthen every aspect of ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serious Noticing

    Selected Essays, 1997–2019

    by James Wood ...
    From The New Yorker's book critic, "one of the most intelligent and passionate literary critics working today. . . . a masterful 'greatest hits' collection" (Angela M. Giles, Los Angeles Review of Books ).Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking wo... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Militia Myths

    Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921

    by James Wood ...
    Series series Studies in Canadian Military History
    The citizen soldier is a central figure in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity an unchanging feature of the Canadian identity?This compelling history traces the evolution of the Canadian amateur military tradition in the turbulent years from 1896 to 1921. Before the Great War, Canada’s military culture was in ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Book of Common Prayer

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    An exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorating the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writersAs essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth century by Thomas ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • You Can't Get There From Here

    How to get to a better life.

    Where are you today? Think in terms of physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. If you cannot honestly say you are happy with all of these areas of your life, then this is indeed the book for you. The goal of this book is to see you succeed in every aspect of your life. At no point in this book will the author tell you it will be easy; however, the good news is that succeeding in ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Broken Estate

    Essays on Literature and Belief

    by James Wood ...
    This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of religious and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War

    Was Defeat Inevitable?

    by James B Wood ...
    A historical exploration of how Japan could have implemented military tactics that would have altered how World War II ended.In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yelling 2 Yoga

    by James Woods ...
    K-12 schools are being asked to do more than educate. District leaders and school teams must also respond to student stress, behavioral challenges, staff burnout, attendance concerns, and the growing need for social-emotional support.Yelling 2 Yoga provides a practical, seven-step framework for helping schools move from stress and reactivity toward regulation, connection, and campus wellness. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD