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  • Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers

    Describing the Most Desirable Plants for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, Including Foliage as Well as Flowering Plants

    by John Wood ...
    “Hardy Perennials And Old-Fashioned Garden Flowers” is a vintage guide to gardening, focusing on planting and maintaining long-lasting and temperature-resistant plants and shrubs. It deals with a large range of different varieties, providing descriptions, instruction, and other notable information for each treated. Clearly written and full of invaluable tips, this volume will be of utility to ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardJournal of the American Revolution Book of the YearWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History<... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Ultimate Weapon

    The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "people" could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol. With hundreds ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Gambling Addiction Explained.

    How to STOP Gambling and Regain Control of your Life.

    by John Woods ...
    Narrated by Fabian Bevan ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    Gambling addiction ruins the lives of millions of people worldwide. If you want to Stop Gambling this Audiobook can help you.After 30 years of gambling addiction, John Woods placed his last bet on January 5th, 2017. Here, he tells the brutally honest story of a lifetime of gambling, and the pain and misery it caused, not just to John, but to those closest to him.Most importantly, he shares all he ... Read more

    $12.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invaders from the Infinite

    The alien spaceship was unthinkably huge, enormously powerful, apparently irresistible. It came from the void and settled on Earth, striking awe into the hearts of all who saw it. Its burden, however, was not conquest -- but a call for help! First contact was a job for the brilliant team of scientists, Arcot, Wade, and Morey,explorers of the Islands of Space. And what they learned was an offer of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

    An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children

    by John Wood ...
    John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that promotes education across the developing world. By the end of 2007, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • From Shiftless to Shifty: My Forty-six Years as a Public Defender

    by John Wood ...
    This is the story of how Attorney Wood practiced law in the criminal courts for forty-six years, starting off with little training or background from his traditional law school education (and, as he says, "with little aptitude for it!"). The story is told with humor and compassion for the clients he represented. During the course of his career, Mr. Wood learned how to successfully navigate the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Creating Room to Read

    A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

    by John Wood ...
    The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of booksWhat’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How I Clawed My Way to the Middle

    by John Wood ...
    ‘Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!’ I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke – had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got.John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of high school, an employment officer told him, ‘You have the mind of an artist and the body of a ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Design for Micro-Utopias

    Making the Unthinkable Possible

    by John Wood ...
    Series series Design for Social Responsibility
    Everyone is already painfully aware of our predicament - ecological extinctions, dwindling fossil fuel reserves and economic chaos. The solutions are less obvious, despite the many opportunities that surround us. We have never had more access to resources, knowledge and technology but this is not the problem. What we lack most is creative thinking, fuelled by collective optimism. In a pragmatic ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Ordinary Lives Extraordinary Mission

    Five Steps to Winning the War Within

    by John Wood ...
    These are difficult times for the Catholic Church and the United States of America. There is only one solution to the problems we face... saints! Becoming a saint is a choice, and we must begin choosing the saint within each of us. The biggest crisis of our time is not economic, health care, or vocations, but is an identity crisis. We have forgotten our mission to become saints and forgotten our ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muerte Collection

    The Complete Series

    by John W. Wood ...
    Series series Muerte Series
    All three books in John W. Wood's Muerte series, now available in one volume!Muerte - Death, It's What I Do: Ricardo 'Rico' Garcia, also known by his Marine handle, ‘Muerte', is known as a Speed Killer. Assigned to infiltrate the Mexican Cartel, Rico is given free rein to do whatever needs to be done to destroy the drug trade. But when someone from his past gets stirred into the mix, things get ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus