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  • Lost in the Game

    A Book about Basketball

    by Thomas Beller ...
    For players, coaches, writers, and fans, basketball is a science and an art, a religious sacrament, a source of entertainment, and a way of interacting with the world. In Lost in the Game Thomas Beller entwines these threads with his lifetime's experience as a player and journalist, roaming NBA locker rooms and city parks as a basketball flaneur in search of the meaning of the modern game. He ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Degas at the Gas Station

    Essays

    by Thomas Beller ...
    In his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one’s life. Weaving together a charming set of autobiographical stories, Beller interrogates the randomness and contingencies that separate sadness from joy, death from life. His father escaped the Nazis, only to die in ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Equality is a lie

    by Thomas Beller ...
    Since the Enlightenment, human equality and freedom have been sacralized objectives that have become emblematic of developed countries: "men are born free and equal in law". However, even if we have seen a clear decline in inequality in the strict sense of the term over the last few decades, some inequalities are disappearing and others are emerging, as if inequality were still chronic. Is this an ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • How to Be a Man

    Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood

    by Thomas Beller ...
    From strip clubs to the Academy Awards to the basketball court—a ride through the landscape of guyhood.Acclaimed fiction writer Thomas Beller digs deep into his own history in this humorous and insightful collection about the state of masculinity. With sharp and engaging eloquence he discourses on T-shirts; being your mother's date at the Academy Awards; life at a bagel factory; the irrational ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Sleep-Over Artist

    Fiction

    by Thomas Beller ...
    "In the same way Salinger carved out the niche of male adolescence ....Beller approaches that mutable boy-to-man territory."—San Francisco ChronicleWriting with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory ("Brilliantly captures the great expectations and recurring ambivalence of youth."—The New York Times), Thomas Beller continues to plumb the adventures of his hero ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • With Love and Squalor

    13 Writers Responds to the Work of J.D. Salinger

    by Kip Kotzen, Thomas Beller ...
    Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his body of work that has left such a lasting mark on American fiction? And who better to answer that question than the current generation of writers?Here are ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    J. D. Salinger

    The Escape Artist

    by Thomas Beller ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...
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    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that has sold more than sixty-five million copies and achieved mythic status since its publication in 1951. Subsequent books introduced a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, hyperarticulate Glass family, whose stage is the Upper East Side. Yet we ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • Women In Love

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Rainbow

    by D. H. Lawrence ...
    The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. Lawrence's 1920 novel Women in Love is a sequel to The Rainbow. ... Read more

    $4.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sons and Lovers (Annotated)

    by D.H. Lawrence ...
    This is the Annotated Version of the Original eBook. We had annotated this eBook by adding a Summary of about 82,000 words (approx.) which consists of 50% to 55% (approx.) of the original eBook at the end of the eBook in Red Fonts. This is a long Novel. The Brief Description of the eBook is written as follows:-Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence, originally ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Girl

    by D.H. Lawrence ...
    David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 March 2, 1930) was an English author who based much of his work off of his family life. Some of Lawrences books were banned in England due to the sexual content they contained. Despite the controversial nature of his works, few can deny Lawrence was a very talented writer. Some of Lawrences best known works are Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mysterious Island

    Illustrated Edition

    by Jules Verne ...
    The Mysterious Island tells the exciting story of five Americans stranded on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederate States of America. Five northern prisoners of war decide to escape Richmond in a rather unusual way—by hijacking a balloon. After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus