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  • Baking the Illusion

    The Betty Crocker Egg Theory and Why We Desperately Want to Labor for Our Products

    by William Vance ...
    In the mid-20th century, food companies introduced the ultimate convenience: instant cake mix. All the modern housewife had to do was add water and bake. Surprisingly, the product flopped entirely. Focus groups revealed that women felt guilty using it; it was simply too easy to feel like real baking. Baking the Illusion explores the fascinating psychological pivot that saved the industry. General ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 10 - El Cascador

    by William Vance, Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 10 - XIII
    Captured and imprisoned in the Roca Negra fortress, XIII is being tortured by the sinister Colonel Peralta. But, for all his pain and suffering, he’s also in the same building as Maria, the woman who may be his wife. And they have plenty of dedicated, resourceful friends outside… as well as at least one traitor. Still unsure of his past, Jason McLane will have no choice but to become the man known ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 13 - Top Secret

    by William Vance, Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 13 - XIII
    The Mongoose is dead. So is Number I. But, since he was the President of the United States, XIII’s friends are all on the run again. McLane, though, has been arrested, and he’s being judged in secret by the heads of the American intelligence community. Sentenced to life in a secret prison, he has no illusions that he’ll ever reach it. The ruthlessness of the NSA Director proves him right—but he’s ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 12 - The Trial

    by William Vance, Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 12 - XIII
    Called back to the USA by the frantic government, McLane and Jones discover that General Carrington has kidnapped Wally Sheridan, President of the United States! Holed up in a secret base he’s turned into a fortress, Carrington intends to put Sheridan on trial on live TV and expose him as the Number I of the conspiracy. To do that, he’s going to need XIII’s help in bringing in his main witness: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Story of the Renaissance

    by William Henry Hudson ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 1 min

    In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for bringing about the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "transition from the medieval to the modern world."Voyages of discovery, inventions, the revival of classical learning, and the advent of science contribute to the intellectual upheavals of this creative period, which are reflected in its literature and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • XIII - Volume 11 - Three Silver Watches

    by William Vance, Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 11 - XIII
    XIII has freed a country, exposed a traitor, reunited with his wife… and found his father. As he deals—somewhat against his will—with the aftermath of the revolution in Costa Verde, Sean Mullway recounts for him his family’s history: Irish immigrants, remorseless Mafiosi, Mexican gold, and three silver watches. New answers will also bring new questions and a whole new set of potential enemies just ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 6 - The Jason Fly Case

    by Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 6 - XIII
    With the conspiracy that nearly claimed his life dismantled, XIII can finally turn all his attention towards uncovering his own distant past. Armed with everything he could find on Jason Fly—the man he seems to be—he heads to Green Falls, where he grew up. The problem with amnesia is that you never know exactly what you’ll dig up when you go home again. And... is everything really solved ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

    The Anthology of Memoirs, Recorded Interviews and Biographies

    by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, William Walker, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, Octavia Albert ...
    E-artnow present the anthology of the most impactful slave narratives. The collection includes the memoirs, letters and biographies of former slaves, with the thousands of recorded interviews made in the South until 1970s: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Life and Times of Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • XIII - Volume 15 - Operation Montecristo

    by Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 15 - XIII
    Arrested by the Costaverdean authorities because of pressure from the US, XIII and his friends are awaiting their extradition. Instead, they’re freed by Costaverdean troops in disguise. But they can’t afford to stick around, as they’re still on the run from the most powerful nation on Earth. Desperate for money, McLane decides to go after Maximilian’s gold, as Mullway believes he’s found the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 3 - All the Tears of Hell

    by Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 3 - XIII
    Convicted of murder and sent to a high-security prison for the criminally insane, XIII finds himself not only unable to continue searching for his past, but also at the mercy of his enemies. Unbeknownst to him, though, General Carrington and the beautiful (and deadly) Lieutenant Jones are still trying to unravel the mystery of the presidential assassination. All they have to do is find a way to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 9 - For Maria

    by William Vance, Jean Van Hamme ...
    Series Book 9 - XIII
    Jason McLane is on holidays with Jones at some friends’ in Central America, when a peculiar priest offers him startling news: He may very well be a married man! And because nothing is ever simple in XIII’s life, his apparent wife is none other than the leader of the democratic guerrillas in neighbouring Costa Verde, Maria De Los Santos—currently awaiting execution in a maximum security fortress. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • XIII - Volume 1 - The Day of the Black Sun

    by Jean Van Hamme ...
    Illustrated by William Vance ...
    Series Book 1 - XIII
    A man washes ashore near an old couple’s house, barely alive. When he comes to, he has forgotten everything, including his name. The only clues to his identity: a key sewn into his clothes, a bullet wound to the head… and the number XIII tattooed on his shoulder. A meagre start to reconstruct one’s self. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD