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  • Gentleman Jigger

    A Novel of the Harlem Renaissance

    by Richard Bruce Nugent, Robert J. Corber ...
    Gentleman Jigger stands as a landmark novel, celebrated for its candid exploration of Black sexuality set against the dynamic backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance. The story follows Stuartt, a defiantly queer artist, who navigates the complexities of racial and sexual identity in a period of profound cultural upheaval. Originating from a distinguished light-skinned Black family in Washington D.C., ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Complicity and the Politics of Representation

    Edited by Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth ...
    This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and exigent concerns such as white supremacy, war and displacement, child abuse and mentalism, this ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Networks

    Optimization and Control

    by Robert Shorten, Sonja Stüdli, Fabian Wirth, Emanuele Crisostomi ...
    Series series Automation and Control Engineering
    This book explores the behavior of networks of electric and hybrid vehicles. The topics that are covered include: energy management issues for aggregates of plug-in vehicles; the design of sharing systems to support electro-mobility; context awareness in the operation of electric and hybrid vehicles, and the role that this plays in a Smart City context; and tools to test and design massively large ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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  • The Human Stain

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    by Philip Roth ...
    Series Book 3 - American Trilogy
    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY“A master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment." —The Wall Street Journal“By turns unnerving, hilarious, and sad. . . . It is a book that shows how the public zeitgeist can shape, even destroy, an individual's life." —The New York Times**“The best novel he has written.” —**The Times Literary Supplement<... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Nine Nasty Words

    English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

    by John McWhorter ...
    A New York Times bestsellerOne of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love them so much.Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of ... Read more

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  • The Odd Woman and the City

    A Memoir

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    "Funny and elegiac and truth-dealing. . . . Ms. Gornick gets into the fat of feeling. She is as good a writer about friendship as we have." — New York TimesA memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Negroland

    A Memoir

    by Margo Jefferson ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural criticJefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”Margo Jefferson was born in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Rosy Crucifixion

    Sexus, Plexus, Nexus

    by Henry Miller ...
    Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, ... Read more

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  • Jackie & Me

    by Louis Bayard ...
    This "absolutely irresistible" historical romance imagines the courtship between Jacqueline Bouvier and the future American president she loved (People).In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is “not to be a housewife,” but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays

    Jazz Age Novels, Stories, Poems & Essays

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Eighth Day

    A Novel

    by Thornton Wilder ...
    “[Wilder's] finest and most beautiful novel. . . . Spanning two continents and several generations, it begins as a murder mystery and goes on to tell a story, at once dramatic and philosophical, about the range of human courage, aspirations, steadfastness, weakness, defeat and victory.” — New York PostThis beautiful edition of Thornton Wilder’s renowned National Book Award–winning novel features a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Professor of Desire

    A Novel

    by Philip Roth ...
    “Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time.” —Village Voice“A thoughtful … elegant novel…. A fine display of literary skills.” —New York Times Book ReviewPhilip Roth's profound and often hilarious novel—the central book in Roth’s Kepesh trilogy—about where we seek pleasure and why we flee it.As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among s... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD