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  • Start by Believing

    Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

    by John Barr, Dan Murphy ...
    The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light.For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to doctor for America's Olympians while treating countless others at his office on Michigan State ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The City of Auckland: New Zealand, 1840-1920

    by John Barr ...
    In compiling this history, I desire to narrate in as brief and clear a manner as possible the doings of the ancient Tamaki tribes, as recounted in the folk-lore of their descendants. I have, as far as possible, confined the history to the tribes of the Auckland Isthmus itself—referring to the history and peoples of other parts only so far as is necessary to the clearness of the general narrative. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Them a Universe

    by John Barr ...
    Between Them a Universe is a poetry collection about the two kinds of relationships we can have as human beings. The theme of the poems in the chapbook's first part. An Opened Palm, is the universe of relationships we can have with each other. The theme in the second part, Conditions for Grace, is the universe of our relationships with the nonhuman world. The chapbook contains 14 poems, including ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Greatest Christmas Murder Mysteries & Thrillers

    The Blue Carbuncle, The Silver Hatchet, A Christmas Tragedy, The Abbot's Ghost, Told After Supper…

    by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford ...
    This unique collection includes some of the finest Christmas mysteries to keep you company for the entire holiday season! From puzzling detective cases to hair raising ghost tales, this collection has it all: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Flying Stars (G. K. Chesterton) Percival Bland's Proxy (R. Austin Freeman) A Christmas Capture (Fred M. White) McAllister's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, William Le Queux, Louis Tracy, Jackson Gregory, Carolyn Wells, Louis Joseph Vance, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Cleveland Moffett, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Thomas W. Hanshew, Allan Pinkerton, James Hay, Edgar Wallace, Frank Froest, Melville Davisson Post, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Richard Marsh, E. M. Delafield, Arthur J. Rees, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, Frank L. Packard, Arthur B. Reeve, H. C. McNeile, Fred M. White, Anton Chekhov, Émile Gaboriau, Victor L. Whitechurch, Annie Haynes, Ethel Lina White, John R. Coryell, Rober Barr, Isabel Ostander, Anna Maynard Barbour, S. S. Van Dine ...
    The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written is an exceptional anthology that intricately weaves together the master's strokes of suspense, intrigue, and revelation. The collection explores the far-reaching realms of the human psyche through the lens of murder mysteries, each story a thrilling enigma waiting to be unraveled. With narratives ranging from the macabre and gothic to the cerebral and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer Of The Dragons

    by John Barr ...
    Jesse Cullen, an American army intelligence officer, still haunted by memories of a covert operation gone wrong, has long ago stopped wondering about the morality of his profession. Now in Seoul investigating the rise of anti-Americanism and a clandestine biological attack against US forces, he meets and falls in love with Hope Park, a North Korean spy posing as a college professor. Jesse's ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boxer of Quirinal

    by John Barr ...
    All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr's poems the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that struggle includes the eternal presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today's wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 20th Century Japan in 20 Buildings

    by John Barr ...
    There is a long history in the West of viewing Japan through the twin lenses of orientalism and exoticism. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the re-opening of Japan after a long period of self-imposed isolation there has been a succession of commentators who have sought to present Japan as somehow 'other' and not susceptible to ready understanding. Too often the study of Japanese ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City of Auckland

    New Zealand, 1840-1920 (Illustrations)

    by John Barr ...
    This book is the first attempt which has been made to write a connected history of the City of Auckland. Although in years the city is comparatively young, many of the events which have marked its progress have already been forgotten. With the exception, perhaps, of the principal incidents associated with the foundation of the city, and a most interesting account of the state of Auckland in the ... Read more

    $2.07 CAD

  • Dante in China

    by John Barr ...
    In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Christmas

    by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford ...
    The anthology "Dark Christmas" invites readers to experience the mysterious, the haunting, and the unexpected through a Victorian and Edwardian literary lens. The collection weaves together a rich tapestry of suspenseful tales and enigmatic narratives set against the backdrop of the festive season. Every story explores the darker side of Christmas, alternating between gothic settings and intricate ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder for Christmas Eve

    Musreder Mysteries for Holidays: The Flying Stars, A Christmas Capture, Markheim, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Ghost's Touch…

    by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George MacDonald, Arthur Cheney Train, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, John Kendrick Bangs, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Grant Allen, Wilkie Collins, O. Henry, Saki, Fergus Hume, Edgar Wallace, William Douglas O'Connor, Florence Marryat, Catherine Crowe, James Bowker, R. Austin Freeman, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, M. R. James, Fred M. White, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frank R. Stockton, Louisa M. Alcott, Leonard Kip, Emmuska Orczy, Lucie E. Jackson, Katherine Rickford ...
    Murder for Christmas Eve is a compelling anthology that offers a multifaceted exploration of mystery and suspense intertwined with the timeless charm of Christmas. This collection weaves together tales from a diverse array of literary styles, from the quintessential detective thrillers to gothic and supernatural narratives, all echoing the motifs of intrigue and enigma under the festive veil of a ... Read more

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