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  • Yorkshire's Secret Castles

    A Concise Guide & Companion

    by Paul C. Levitt ...
    The Yorkshire countryside's ancient earthwork castles, built in the time of the Norman Conquest, come to life in this beautiful guide—includes pictures!The Norman conquest of the British isle was a landmark event in England's history, drawing a line between its misty Roman and Saxon origins and the grand empire it would eventually become. Largely built after 1071, the era's castles were basic ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weighty Word Book

    by Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger, Elissa S. Guralnick ...
    Illustrated by Janet Stevens ...
    As seen on TikTok: the viral children's book sensation beloved by kids of all ages. Learn and remember the definitions of words like felicity, truculent, and vacillate with the help of funny stories and beautiful illustrations.If a picture is worth a thousand words, one big word, correctly used, is worth numerous little words. The big words in this book—one for each letter of the alphabet—have ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Yorkshire

    A Story of Invasion, Uprising and Conflict

    by Paul C. Levitt ...
    Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings . . . A sweeping history of this part of Northern England, and the many who have inhabited—and invaded—it over the centuries.This is a story about Yorkshire and its people, from the earliest period up to recent times. Foremost it is a story about invasion. Archaeological finds have shown that Yorkshire was occupied at a time when early hunters from continental ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weighty Words, Too

    by Paul M. Levitt, Elissa s. Guralnick, Douglas A. Burger ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Karcz ...
    As seen on TikTok: the sequel to the viral children's book sensation The Weighty Word Book, with even more fun and funny stories to help kids learn new words!Burdensome Katzenjammer Mystify Wondrous ZanyThese are five of the twenty-six words, one for each letter of the alphabet, that appear in Weighty Words, Too. As with the earlier Weighty Word Book, the stories, often fanciful, help young ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Chin Music

    A Novel of the Jazz Age

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    New York City in 1922 saw showpeople like Fanny Brice and Harry Houdini rubbing shoulders with confidence men and bootleggers like Arnold Rothstein, the gambler reputed to have fixed the 1919 World Series. Henrietta Fine, a precocious sixteen-year-old apprentice locksmith, weaves in and out of this world, living by her wits and the double-cross. Her safe cracking skills make her useful to both ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Dreams Bigger Than the Night

    A Novel

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    Set during the Great Depression, when fascism was looking increasingly attractive to many, Paul M. Levitt’s latest novel surrounds attempts to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the counterforces at work: the American Nazi Party, Avery Brundage, a German assassin, and those American athletes—eighteen of whom were the first black athletes hoping to compete—wishing to show the world their superb ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Death at the Dacha

    Stalin's Last Movie, A Novel

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    As Stalin lies dying, this novel records his last thoughts, which he renders as a movie about the people he believes envenomed his life, namely, Lenin and certain women. (A film devotee, Stalin so loved movies that some scholars have even suggested that he governed the Soviet empire by cinematocracy, rule by cinema.) He has suffered a stroke but will linger for three days before dying. As in a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Come with Me to Babylon

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    In 1910 the Cohen family, in search of the Golden Medina, undertakes a dangerous journey from Russia to the United States, where the new world exposes family secrets, cultural conflicts, the corruption of the American Dream, and love's divides.Traveling in steerage to Ellis Island, the family endures the poverty and dirt of New York City and retreats to a farm in southern New Jersey--to find not ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Stalin's Barber

    A Novel

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become Stalin’s personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Provenance

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    Set in Hungamon (aka Bogalusa), Louisiana 1988-89, Provenance takes the reader through progressive historical discoveries to the sources of a Hungarian painting that escaped the grasping fingers of Nazis and Communists, and to the secrets of two families, one Jewish, the owners of the Hungarian painting, and the other gentile, the owners of an American painting, which hides a dark tale. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Denouncer

    A Novel

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    Denunciation became so commonplace under Stalin that people regarded it as their patriotic duty to spy on others and even expose members of their own family. The original Bolsheviks, for reasons of ideological purity, put great store in transparency. But under Stalin, transparency evolved into a state of constant surveillance.In the late 1930s, a young man named Sasha Parsky kills two soldiers who ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bogus U.

    by Paul M. Levitt ...
    When the classical scholar Phineas Ort, Bogus U.’s first choice for president, disappears, the search committee decides to recruit a hit man to keep the fractious faculty in line. Phineas has been abducted by the Robaccia gang, who aim to install their own candidate in the president’s office to cash in on Bogus U.’s well-known corruption.Christy Mahon, a former member of the Robaccia gang, now on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD