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  • Tom Paine

    A Political Life

    by John Keane ...
    "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superseded . . . It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." —Terry Eagleton, The Guardian"More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins John Keane's magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Despotism

    by John Keane ...
    A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Flight Of A Dog's Soul

    by John Keane ...
    When love took flight, a miracle followed.Flight of a Dog's Soul is a true story blending memoir and spiritual inspiration. It was born from the grief of losing a beloved companion—and the extraordinary miracle that followed. When Clouseau, the author's cherished dog, passed away, sorrow filled the home—until, within hours, a mourning dove appeared in a way that felt like more than coincidence. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Field

    by John B. Keane ...
    The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today. An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide, and starred Richard Harris, John Hurt, Brenda ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demagogues and Despots

    Democracies on the Brink

    by John Keane ...
    We live in troubled times, marked by a sinister trend gaining the upper hand everywhere: a new despotism for the twenty-first century. John Keane's latest book rings out boldly with a powerful warning: the keyword for understanding the new threats to democracy is despotism. This peril arises not only from regimes as different as Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but also from popularly ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • China's Galaxy Empire

    Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century

    by John Keane, Baogang He ...
    In China's Galaxy Empire, John Keane and Baogang He target a development of enormous significance: China's return, after two centuries of decline and subjugation, to a position of prominence in world affairs. The daring thesis is that China is a newly rising empire of a kind never before witnessed: a galaxy empire. The first to be born of the digital communications era, this young empire is ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Vaclav Havel

    A Political Tragedy In Six Acts

    by John Keane ...
    This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that of his African counterpart Nelson Mandela, has been shaped and determined by the large political ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Moll

    by John B. Keane ...
    Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.'When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother'. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, 'Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used to the purple'. John ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A High Meadow

    by John B. Keane ...
    A High Meadow is full of comedy, tragedy and melodrama, all centred around the village of Ballybobawn and Eddie Drannaghy, the 'Ram of God' (a former trainee priest who was cynically seduced by the American wife of his cousin, fathered a child and was forced to leave the seminary), and his brothers Murt and Will. John B. Keane weaves an inimitable tapestry of rural life: people good and bad, weak ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Moggy for Michael

    Lost Pet Chronicles, #1

    by John Keane ...
    Series Book 1 - Lost Pet Chronicles
    A Moggy for MichaelOriginally published in Reader's Digest and delivered to 40 million readers worldwide in 13 languages across 40 countries. Also featured in Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul.When ten-year-old Mike Cunningham's cat disappears, he does something most kids wouldn't dare—he calls a pet detective, even though his father says it's a waste of time.Sam wasn't just a cat. He was a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shortest History of Democracy

    by John Keane ...
    'DEMOCRACY HAS A LONG, EVENTFUL PAST. DOES IT HAVE A FUTURE?The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent, where citizens' assemblies held privilege and power to account over 3,000 years before the French Revolution. In this timely and illuminating new global history, John Keane ('one of the world's leading political thinkers' ,The Times) gets ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mist on the Rice-Fields

    A Soldier's Story of the Burma Campaign 1943–1045 and Korean War 1950–51

    by John Shipster, Fergal Keane ...
    This is the story of a young officer in the Indian Army who commanded a company in the Burma Campaign of 1943 to 1945. It covers the part played by the author and his unit in the long campaign to recover Burma, starting with the fierce close-quarter fighting in the jungles and rice-fields in the Arakan in which the Japanese suffered their first major defeat. The story moves on to Kohima which was ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus