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  • A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From

    by John Moss ...
    An enlightening journey into the languages, meanings, and history behind the names on England's map.The origins of the names of many English towns, hamlets, and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Still Waters

    A Quin and Morgan Mystery

    by John Moss ...
    Series Book 1 - A Quin and Morgan Mystery
    This psychological mystery introduces David Morgan and Miranda Quin, two maverick and culturally sophisticated Toronto police detectives. When a man is found dead in a garden pond in the wealthy heart of Toronto's Rosedale neighbourhood Morgan is lead into speculations about Japanese ornamental koi fish, and Quin into a chilling sequence of revelations that could destroy her. But the real mystery ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Great British Family Names and Their History

    What's in a Name?

    by John Moss ...
    A reference guide to hundreds of surnames that reveal the story of the United Kingdom across generations and centuries.To some extent, we are all products of our family history, the many generations before us. So it is with nations. The history of Great Britain has been largely defined by powerful and influential families, many of whose names came down from Celtic, Danish, Saxon or Norman ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Celtic Tribes

    Origins, Ancestry & The Warrior Class

    by John Moss ...
    Explores the rise, migrations, and eventual decline of the Celtic tribes, detailing their wars, culture, and resistance against Roman expansion.The people we know as the Celts were an Iron Age culture that originated in central Europe, probably around modern-day Hungary, Southern Germany and the Czech Republic, some three thousand years ago. They were groups of distinct tribal peoples who shared a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quin and Morgan Mysteries 4-Book Bundle

    Still Waters / Grave Doubts / Reluctant Dead / Blood Wine

    by John Moss ...
    Series series
    David Morgan and Miranda Quin are two maverick, culturally sophisticated Toronto detectives. When a man is found dead in a koi pond, or two colonial corpses are arranged in a grisly diorama, the pair leap into action — and harm’s way.This four-ebook bundle gathers together the complete Quin and Morgan mystery series by acclaimed author John Moss.Includes*Still WatersGrave DoubtsReluctant DeadBlood ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Grave Doubts

    A Quin and Morgan Mystery

    by John Moss ...
    Series Book 2 - A Quin and Morgan Mystery
    The discovery of two headless corpses dressed in colonial clothing and locked in a grisly embrace draws Detectives Miranda Quin and David Morgan of the Toronto Police Service into a Gothic mixture of sex and death that ultimately threatens their survival.What if the difference between good and evil is only perception?Beginning with morbid curiosity, Miranda and Morgan get caught up in a story of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Blood Wine

    A Quin and Morgan Mystery

    by John Moss ...
    Series Book 4 - A Quin and Morgan Mystery
    Detective Miranda Quin is not only fighting crime, she’s fighting for her life.The summer before 9/11, Toronto homicide detective Miranda Quin wakes up to find her lover dead beside her, yet has no memory of going to bed with him. Horrified by the results of the forensic investigation, the normally feisty Miranda moves through events in a daze while her partner, Detective David Morgan, offers ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Celtic Places & Placenames

    Heritage Sites & the Historical Roots of Six Nations

    by John Moss ...
    'Celtic Places' are typified by some several hundred townships and villages whose names still bear the imprint of their earliest Celtic roots, but the scope of the book is not restricted to human settlements; it is also true of the many mountains and rivers that they named, and to several thousand sites of standing stone monuments, Celtic high crosses, henges, hill figures, funeral barrows and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Margaret Atwood

    The Open Eye

    Edited by John Moss, Tobi Kozakewich ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. Her success, however, has been double-edged: the very popularity that makes her such a prominent figure in the literary world also renders her vulnerable to claims of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Reluctant Dead

    A Quin and Morgan Mystery

    by John Moss ...
    Series Book 3 - A Quin and Morgan Mystery
    Murder casts a long shadow, reaching from fabled Easter Island in the South Pacific to the desolate shores of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Detective Miranda Quin of the Toronto Police Service takes time off to write a mystery in the tropics and gets trapped in a sinister plot with global implications. Her partner in homicide, David Morgan, is left alone to resolve the case of a beautiful ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Lindstrom Alone

    by John Moss ...
    Harry Lindstrom is a Toronto-based investigator. Hired by a woman to prove her son is a killer, he is drawn into the saga of a murderously dysfunctional family. His harrowing odyssey takes him to Stockholm in the dead of winter and eventually to an ancient burial mound on the windswept island of Fårö. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD