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  • Cast Out

    by MALCOLM WOOD ...
    IN NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND in 1810, John Marsden is joblessand desperate to find ways to feed his family. For stealing two sheep heis imprisoned and transported to Van Diemen’s Land.Although missing his family badly, Marsden works steadily,knowing that freedom and opportunity beckon. There will be noredemption for his former shipmates who have become bushrangers. Orfor the indigenous population, ... Read more

    $3.93 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind

    Since the coming forth of the Book of Mormon in 1830, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added millions of people to its global membership. Crucial to its initial growth were converts from Great Britain who emigrated to join with other Latter-day Saints in the United States. Many, however, also stayed in the United Kingdom in order to establish a presence of the Church there.In ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Purpose of the Past

    Reflections on the Uses of History

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    History is to society what memory is to the individual—without it, we don’t know who we are and we can’t make wise decisions about our future. But while the nature of memory is constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past forty years.In The Purpose of the Past, historian Gordon S. Wood examines this sea change in his field through consideration of some of its most important ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Architecture and Legacy of British Railway Buildings

    1825 to present day

    Railway buildings have always had a fascinating character all of their own, despite many no longer being in operational railway service. This book tells the story of how these buildings evolved alongside the development of the railway in Great Britain and examines how architects over the years have responded to the operational, social and cultural influences that define their work. Written for ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • When a Man's a Man (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Frontier trials of redemption and growth in rugged wilderness, exploring faith, honor, and the American spirit

    When a Man's a Man charts a tenderfoot's apprenticeship on a Southwestern cattle ranch, treating the range as a forge for moral character. Wright mixes brisk episodes—roundups, bronc-breaking, and bunkhouse debate—with plainspoken, sermon-tinged prose. In dialogue with Owen Wister's The Virginian yet more explicitly didactic, the novel refocuses Progressive-Era concerns about class and masculinity ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • What the Tide Leaves Behind

    A Novel of County Donegal

    Thomas McKay feels lost. He has shuffled through life since losing his father in one of the last explosive acts of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Now he finds himself tending to his late mother's cottage in the remote, wind scoured Donegal coast and trying to connect with her enigmatic border collie. As he adjusts to life in the small village of Dunnybegs, he experiences the rhythm of the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Son of His Father (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Early 20th-century frontier drama of rugged landscapes, romance, and redemption, exploring moral dilemmas through a theological lens

    A Son of His Father is a study of moral inheritance: a young man strives to prove worthy of a legacy as work, romance, and public reputation collide. Wright situates the story on the western ranges and in boom‑time towns, blending frontier enterprise with domestic stakes. The style is plainspoken and hortatory, favoring ethical confrontations over spectacle, yet paced with adventure. Within early ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Statistics

    Series Book 7 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    Statisticians and philosophers of science have many common interests but restricted communication with each other. This volume aims to remedy these shortcomings. It provides state-of-the-art research in the area of philosophy of statistics by encouraging numerous experts to communicate with one another without feeling "restricted by their disciplines or thinking "piecemeal in their treatment of ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Collected Stories

    Unabridged

    26 hours 5 min

    A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fictionNobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America’s greatest writers. For more than sixty years he stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Here, collected in one volume and chosen by the author himself, are favorites such as “What ... Read more

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  • Ice Fishing in Donegal

    An aging Irish poet chasing ghost words, a foul-mouthed octopus seeking freedom, a homeless man with an unlucky ferret, and a young beauty pageant entrant chasing fame and fortune, are but a few of the disparate cast of characters to be found in this collection. What unites them all is their humanity (yes, even the octopus). These are stories of lost souls seeking a home, of survivors scraping out ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Humboldt’s Gift

    by Saul Bellow ...
    Narrated by Christopher Hurt ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 6 min

    For years, they were the best of friends: Humboldt, a grand, erratic figure, and Charlie, a young man of frenzied and noble longings. But by the 1970s, Humboldt has died a failure, and Charlie's success-ridden life has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life by leaving him something in his will.Now Charlie is middle-aged and his days are ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Cloud Atlas

    Unabridged

    19 hours 51 min

    By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD