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  • Cape Cod & the Islands Family Fun Guide

    Creating Unforgettable Memories

    by Jim Bowen ...
    Load up the minivan, strap the bikes to the roof, and breathe in the salty air as you cross the bridge to the sparkling shores of Cape Cod. Cape Cod & the Islands Family Fun Guide is your key to exploring all fifteen Cape towns, with more than 250 carefully curated family-friendly adventures, day trips, and insider tips. Filled with old-fashioned, screen-free ways to explore and enjoy each other’s ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Welshrats

    by Jim Bowen ...
    Welshrats by Jim Bowen is thought-provoking, funny and sometimes shocking, it highlights life in the ‘care world’, the complex challenges that face social workers in the battle to keep it real, the business jargon that mars policy making and the pre-austerity ‘jobs for life’ attitude of his colleagues.Henry Antrim is a social worker hooked on dope and one night stands. His loathing of red tape and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Welshrats

    by Jim Bowen ...
    Welshrats by Jim Bowen is thought-provoking, funny and sometimes shocking, it highlights life in the ‘care world’, the complex challenges that face social workers in the battle to keep it real, the business jargon that mars policy making and the pre-austerity ‘jobs for life’ attitude of his colleagues.Henry Antrim is a social worker hooked on dope and one night stands. His loathing of red tape and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Just Another Mzungu Passing Through

    by Jim Bowen ...
    Set in Kenya during 1996, this engaging novel tells the story of Griff, who takes a job teaching at a small, struggling school in Nairobi. But how does a naive and privileged mzungu fit in? Throughout his tale, he will endure El Nino floods, bulldozed slums, street justice, and widespread corruption, all while trying to figure out his place. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Solus

    A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pré

    by Peter Bowen ...
    Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...
    Series Audiobook 15 - The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    Gabriel Du Pré is back in action, coming to the aid of a whistleblower on the run, in this all-new novel in a “wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series” (Booklist).When a hunted military whistleblower and his family need someplace to hide and someone to trust, Toussaint, Montana, is the place, and Gabriel Du Pré the man. The Métis Indian former cattle inspector and sometimes deputy is happy to ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Big Book of Christmas. Classic Stories and Poems (100 works)

    The Gift of the Magi, The Red Room, A Letter from Santa Claus, The Fir Tree, Song of the Holly and others

    by Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Leo Tolstoy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nikolai Gogol, William Dean Howells, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Harrison, John Milton, Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlof, Clement Moore, Henry van Dyke, Beatrix Potter, Anton Chekhov, O.Henry, Hesba Stretton, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Eugene Field, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Washington Irving, George MacDonald, James Joyce, Saki, William Shakespeare, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates, Mark Bowen, Trevor O'Hare, Jim Girard, Chris Dabbs, Joe Phoenix, Abigail Reno ...

    Unabridged

    43 hours 16 min

    "The Big Book of Christmas: Classic Stories and Poems" is a grand compilation that assembles a treasure trove of holiday tales and poems from a remarkable array of authors. This extensive collection includes 100 classic works, each thoughtfully illustrated, to immerse readers in the magic and wonder of the Christmas season. This anthology spans a rich tapestry of Christmas literature, including ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Night Train

    New and Selected Stories

    by Thom Jones ...
    Narrated by Amy Bloom, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Maxwell Hamilton, Jodi Carlisle, Will Collyer, Jim Meskimen, Adenrele Ojo, Cameron Bowen, Christine Lakin0 ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 9 min

    A posthumous and definitive collection of new and selected stories by "virtuoso of the short story" (Esquire) and National Book Award finalist Thom Jones.This scorching collection from award-winning author Thom Jones features his best new short fiction alongside a selection of outstanding stories from three previous books. Jones's stories are full of high-octane, prose-drunk entertainment. His ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Christmas Stories by O.Henry

    Christmas by Injunction, Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking, A Chaparral Christmas Gift, An Unfinished Christmas Story, The Gift of the Magi

    by O.Henry, O.Henry ...
    Narrated by Jim Girard, Mark Bowen ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    "Christmas Stories by O. Henry: Illustrated" is a delightful collection that showcases the heartwarming and often humorous tales of the iconic American writer, O. Henry. This anthology features a selection of enchanting stories, including "Christmas by Injunction," "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking," "A Chaparral Christmas Gift," "An Unfinished Christmas Story," and "The Gift of the Magi." O. ... Read more

    Was $8.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol. 7 (Humour, Satire and Tall Tales)

    The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain, When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and others

    by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki, Johann Peter Hebel, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Voltaire ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Jim Gerard ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.Contents:The Cop and the Anthem by O. HenryThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryWhat Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark TwainThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainThe Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Richard Turner ...
    Series Book 3 - The Vandervelde Documents
    "The Warden" is the third book of “ The Vandervelde Documents" a series of interlocking stories covering the next 100 years and spanning three generations. Vandervelde himself is ageless, a charismatic "Sapient" who can cut through political hypocrisy but finds love difficult.Vandervelde, now feeling his age, writes the story of the conflicts in "Britannica" which follow 2084: a series of war ... Read more

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  • The Last Resort

    A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa

    by Douglas Rogers ...
    Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook