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  • Morel’s Invention

    by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Tom McCarthy ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    **“Morel’s Invention may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel.” —Octavio PazA new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares’s metaphysical masterpiece, a marvelously plotted story of a fugitive writer who discovers an uncanny phenomenon taking place on his island hideout.**Jorge Luis Borges declared Morel's Invention a masterpiece, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • C

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    An epochal saga from the acclaimed author of Remainder, C takes place in the early years of the twentieth century and ranges from western England to Europe to North Africa.Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Remainder

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place.How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and what happens afterward–makes for one of the most riveting, complex, and unusual novels in recent memory.Remainder is ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Complete Hogan

    A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of Golf's Greatest Swing

    by Jim McLean, Tom McCarthy ...
    Top golfing instructor Jim McLean uses rare film footage of Ben Hogan to break down the greatest swing of all timeGolf legend Ben Hogan had the perfect golf swing, but how exactly it worked has long been a mystery?until now. Using footage from three never-before analyzed films of Hogan at his very best, Jim McLean analyzes the crucial motions of Hogan's entire golf swing and shows you how to ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pirates and Shipwrecks

    True Stories

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Mystery and Mayhem
    When Daniel Collins and the crew of the Betsey set sail for Cuba in 1824, they have no idea of the horrors that lie ahead. This is just one of the stories in a collection of five true tales about pirates and shipwrecks that introduces readers to the perils of the high seas.Pirates and Shipwrecks: True Stories is the first book in the Mystery & Mayhem series for 9–12 year olds, which features true ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transmission and the Individual Remix

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Listen...A set of signals has been pulsing, repeating, modulating in the airspace of literature...This essay is an invitation to listen to those signals, as they travel through and shape the work of Aeschylus and Ovid, Rilke, Conrad, Burroughs, Joyce and others. To retune our idea of what a writer does, of what the very act of writing 'is'. To rethink literature itself along the lines of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Satin Island

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Daring Heists

    Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Mystery and Mayhem
    If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn’t a mistake—museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the museum to these frames. In the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum was tricked into ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rhyl Poster

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    A political and legal thriller about money and power—featuring mind-altering substances, shadowy power players, and EU politics—by the author of Remainder and Satin Island.Benjamin Stanton embodies both the promise and the peril of the twenty-first century. A brilliant legal theorist working behind the scenes at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, his interpretations, drafts, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Survival

    True Stories

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Series series Mystery and Mayhem
    Tales of survival are as old as humanity! In Survival: True Stories, readers discover accounts of survival that required innovation, a thirst for adventure, and even a bit of brutality. Whether it's Shackleton on the frozen landscape of Antarctica or William Bligh and his loyal followers adrift in the Pacific after mutiny on the Bounty, survival is a fascinating topic for readers ages 9 to 12 ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Astounding Sea Stories

    Fifteen Ripping Good Tales

    Edited by Tom McCarthy ...
    Stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire.Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, or search for the Northwest Passage with Franklin’s doomed crew, or watch their mates being beheaded by angry pirates like Daniel Collins. But it’s quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Here are stoic and hardy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Recognitions

    by William Gaddis, William H. Gass ...
    A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century.The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD