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  • Drop Dead Healthy

    One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    From the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-It-All comes the true and truly hilarious story of one person’s quest to become the healthiest man in the world.Hospitalized with a freak case of tropical pneumonia, goaded by his wife telling him, “I don’t want to be a widow at forty-five,” and ashamed of a middle-aged body best described as “a python that swallowed a goat, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • It's All Relative

    Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Year of Living Constitutionally

    One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

    by A.J. Jacobs ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?“I don’t know how I learned so much while laughing so hard.”—Andy BorowitzA.J. Jacobs learned ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Puzzler

    One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

    by A.J. Jacobs, Greg Pliska ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles: why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world.**“Even though I’ve never attempted the New York Times crossword puzzle or solved the Rubik’s Cube, I couldn’t put down The Puzzler.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Know-It-All

    One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z.33,000 PAGES44 MILLION WORDS10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY1 OBSESSED MANTo fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Year of Living Biblically

    One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    Inspiration for the TV series Living Biblically streaming now!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally as possible?the tenets of the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A.J. Jacobs Omnibus

    The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    An eBook boxed set that features the first three of A.J. Jacobs's riotous—and surprisingly informative—ventures into experiential journalism.The Know-It-All: Puzzle along with A.J. as he endeavors to read—and retain—the entire encyclopedia, and discover what exactly it is he learns along the way.The Year of Living Biblically: Discover what life would be like in the 21st century if you lived ... Read more

    Was $49.99 CAD Now $42.99 CAD

  • Thanks A Thousand

    A Gratitude Journey

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    Series series TED Books
    The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make us all happier, more generous, and more connected.Author A.J. Jacobs discovers that his coffee—and every other item ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Life as an Experiment

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    A collection of A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including “My Outsourced Life,” “The Truth About Nakedness,” and a never-before-published essay.One man. Ten extraordinary quests.Bestselling author and human guinea pig A.J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and entertaining results. He goes undercover as a woman, lives by George Washington’s ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Year of the Cat: The Complete Collection

    The Year of the Cat

    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Andre Norton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Annie Reed, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cordwainer Smith, E. Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Daemon Crowe, Geoffrey A. Landis, Henry Slesar, Kent Patterson, Lisa Silverthorne, Liz Pierce, W. W. Jacobs, Saki, Ed Gorman, Mary A Turzillo, Anthea Sharp, Stefon Mears, Bonnie Elizabeth, Brigid Collins, Pamela Sargent, Kari Kilgore, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders, Jamie Ferguson, C.J. Erick, Emile Zola, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jamie McNabb, N. Margaret Campbell, Joan Aiken ...
    Series series The Year of the Cat
    Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat, felines of all stripes pounce and play and stalk through 100 cat stories in genres ranging from light romance to dark crime and everything in between.Entertaining cats, loving cats, even super ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales

    The Mark of the Beast, The Ghost Pirates, The Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, The Sleepy Hollow…

    by Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Hugh Walpole, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce0, Arthur Machen1, William Hope Hodgson2, Arthur Conan Doyle3, Grant Allen4, Bram Stoker5, Théophile Gautier6, Richard Marsh7, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu8, Thomas Hardy9, Charles Dickens0, Rudyard Kipling1, Guy de Maupassant2, Elizabeth Gaskell3, Mark Twain4, Daniel Defoe5, Jerome K. Jerome6, Fitz-James O'Brien7, Catherine Crowe8, Émile Erckmann9, Alexandre Chatrian0, Pedro De Alarçon1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Harriet Beecher Stowe5, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman6, Louisa M. Alcott7, Edith Nesbit8, Mary Louisa Molesworth9, Francis Marion Crawford0, John Kendrick Bangs1, John Buchan2, Sabine Baring-Gould3, Cleveland Moffett4, Louis Tracy5, Nikolai Gogol6, James Malcolm Rymer7, Thomas Peckett Prest8, Frederick Marryat9, Oscar Wilde0, Robert Louis Stevenson1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, W. W. Jacobs3, H. H. Munro (Saki)4, Wilhelm Hauff5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Robert W. Chambers7, Edward Bulwer-Lytton8, Thomas De Quincey9, William Makepeace Thackeray0, E. T. A. Hoffmann1, Robert E. Howard2, David Lindsay3, Marie Belloc Lowndes4, Edward Bellamy5, Jack London6, Pliny the Younger7, Helena Blavatsky8, Fergus Hume9, Florence Marryat0, Villiers de l'Isle Adam1, William Archer2, William F. Harvey3, Katherine Rickford4, Ralph Adams Cram5, Leopold Kompert6, Brander Matthews7, Vincent O'Sullivan8, Ellis Parker Butler9, A. T. Quiller-Couch0, Fiona Macleod1, Lafcadio Hearn2, William T. Stead4, Gambier Bolton5, Andrew Jackson Davis6, Nizida7, Walter F. Prince8, Chester Bailey Fernando9, Leonard Kip0, Frank R. Stockton1, Bithia Mary Croker2, Catherine L. Pirkis3, Leonid Andreyev4, Anatole France5, Richard Le Gallienne6, Lucy Maud Montgomery7, Stanley G. Weinbaum8, Horace Walpole9, William Thomas Beckford00, Matthew Gregory Lewis01, Ann Radcliffe02, Jane Austen03, John William Polidori04, Charlotte Brontë05, Emily Brontë06, Walter Hubbell07, George W. M. Reynolds08, M. P. Shiel09, Adelbert von Chamisso10 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn3, J. T. Bealby11, Samuel Henley12, Isabel F. Hapgood13, C. J. Hogarth14 ...
    'The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales' showcases a vast panorama of horror and supernatural literature, featuring works by prominent figures ranging from Mary Shelley to H.P. Lovecraft. This collection presents an expansive exploration of gothic terror, psychological unease, and eerie mysteries, encapsulating a rich diversity of literary styles from ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Korean Automotive Industry, Volume 1

    Beginnings to 1996

    by A. J. Jacobs ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles. By 1996, this total had soared to 2,812,714. What explains this remarkable growth? The answer is complex, and involves a combination of a supportive State, timely technology alliances, a skilled but historically low-paid workforce, aggressive pricing, savvy entrepreneurs, and fortuitous circumstances. Despite this amazing ascent, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD