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  • Audiobook

    Inventions - A Short Story Collection

    Stories about technology and progress, whatever the cost

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins

    A Very Private Life

    'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.'John Carey, Sunday TimesIn his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Case Files of the NYPD

    More than 175 Years of Solved and Unsolved Crimes

    "Characters galore, both good guys and gangsters, leap from the pages " (The New York Times) in this irresistible, authentic look at 175 years of true crime cases from the NYPD archives, packed with photos, artifacts and expert revelations.From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Complete Stories

    New York Times Notable Book of the YearP ublishers Weekly Best Book of 1997With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the book as they might a displaced person in one ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Johnny Paradise

    Little Johnny had been painted at birthhis portrait hung to dry on the wall of a perfect stranger. It would be thirteen years later that Johnny, by virtue of his poor choices and deceitful ways, would be united with the man who would be a stranger no more. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lapham's Raiders

    Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942–1945

    A US soldier recounts his extensive guerilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in this thoroughly researched WWII memoir.On December 8th, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Iliad

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert FaglesA Penguin ClassicDating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Method in Theology

    Volume 14

    Series Book 14 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan’s most important work. It is Lonergan’s answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution, the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his refusal to be defeatist on this point. While agreeing that theology must continually change to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Accents of Persuasion

    Charlotte Brontë's Novels

    First published in 1966, Robert Bernard Martin's The Accents of Persuasion is a consummate critical study of Charlotte Brontë's four novels: The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette.'The bare facts are so literally improbable as to tease one into considering the lives of the Brontes themselves as some wild metaphorical statement of the Romantic conception of the world...Even the best of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Enter Rumour

    Four Early Victorian Scandals

    The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line.Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Odyssey

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    **The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English” (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin Classic**“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Miguel de Molinos

    The Spiritual Guide

    Edited by Robert P. Baird ...
    An unabridged translation into modern English from the critical edition, of one of the classic texts of the Quietist movement, Spiritual Guide of Miguel de Molinos (c. 1628-1696), who was one of the most important figures in the religious controversy known as Quietism. ... Read more

    $20.82 CAD