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  • Cevdet Bey and His Sons

    A Novel

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Robert Finn ...
    The rapturous first novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Museum of Innocence and Snow, now available in English in a brilliant new translation.We begin in 1905 in the Nişantaşı neighborhood of Istanbul. At the heart of the story is Cevdet Bey, a self-made man who comes from humble roots. He inherits his family’s timber company and grows it into a significant business. He marries up by ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Official Record

    Oversight, national security and democracy

    Edited by Peter Finn, Robert Ledger ...
    The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. Those seeking greater openness and (democratic) accountability argue 'sunlight is [...] the best of disinfectants’, while others seek stricter information control because, to their mind, sound government arises when advice and policy are formulated secretly. This edited volume explores the intersection of ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Frankenstein

    Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

    by Mary Shelley ...
    The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Silent House

    by Orhan Pamuk ...
    Translated by Robert Finn ...
    In an old mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and the younger grandson, Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. The widow has lived in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Storming Area 51

    Bayonet Books Anthology, #2

    Series Book 2 - Bayonet Books Anthology
    Thirty-five awesome stories - one kick ass meme that started it all.It started as a joke. Storm Area 51 they said. They can't stop all of us they said. But all laughter stopped when the U.S. Air Force mobilized the reserves and pulled out the big guns.However, relentless mockery and derision by the media and the powers that be pushed the weebs and alien enthusiasts too far. What else were they ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emperor Tea Garden

    In Eray’s world of fantasy and fun, there are few boundaries between reality and imagination. There is a roadside tea garden where spirits gather by night to carry on flirtations until they fade into the dawn, and there is a tavern in Bartin where men make their lost illusions of love come alive by thinking of them. The narrator exchanges places with Night for twenty-four hours to find out what it ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Rose of Halfeti

    by Nazli Eray ...
    Translated by Robert Finn ...
    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
    The Black Rose of Halfeti opens with a letter delivered at midnight in Ankara, Turkey. In this letter, an elderly doctor who has begun to experience the first signs of dementia professes his love and desire for a relationship with the narrator, a woman in middle age beginning to contemplate her own mortality. From there, the novel moves between Mardin, Izmir, and Ankara; the past and the present; ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education

    Ensure all students master content by designing and implementing a PCBE system

    In K–12 education’s growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system.This handbook explores approaches, strategies, and ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Call of the Wild

    A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation

    Series series BBC Children's Classics

    Unabridged

    56 min

    A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of this much-loved classic adventure about a dog named Buck.In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs were in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate ... Read more

    $7.38 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Silent House

    Unabridged

    12 hours 45 min

    Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980.In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, ran ... Read more

    $28.00 CAD

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    The New Life

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    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes an engaging intellectual thriller and high romance set in Turkey about a young student whose life and identity is uprooted through the single act of reading a book.The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across ... Read more

    $27.00 CAD

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    The Princess Diarist

    by Carrie Fisher ...
    Narrated by Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 10 min

    **2018 GRAMMY® Winner for Best Spoken Word AlbumThe Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 *New York Times Bestseller ***When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD