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“john d sargent”

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  • Stumbling in the Half-Light

    John Sargent - The Stories

    by John D. Sargent ...
    Stumbling in the Half-Light follows a self-professed “chubby little half-breed” from the Six Nations reservation as he embarks on a lifetime of spiritual adventures within the Baha’i community. Through fifty-two short, autobiographical stories, John Sargent retells a life of humour, humility, loss, and faith. John’s endearing openness leads him through a life of adventure—from a childhood on the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Two Wheels Good

    The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

    by Jody Rosen ...
    A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world“Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New YorkerThe bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Stephen Fry in America

    Fifty States and the Man Who Set Out to See Them All

    by Stephen Fry ...
    In Stephen Fry in America, the beloved British comic turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real U.S. as he travels across the continent.Stephen Fry has always loved America. In fact, he came very close to being born here. His fascination for the country and its people sees him embarking on an epic journey across America, visiting each of its fifty states to discover how such a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boyer Lectures 2011

    by Geraldine Brooks ...
    A compelling Boyer Lecture from Australian literary sensation Geraldine Brooks.For theBoyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of the Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award winning books ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Voices from the Rust Belt

    by Anne Trubek ...
    “Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—BooklistThe essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

    Edited by 826 National, Sarah Vowell ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." — USA TodaySarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Man in His Time...

    A Memoir

    by Michael Audain ...
    The unlikely and riveting story of how a left-wing activist became one of BC’s most accomplished business leaders and philanthropists, championing projects in the visual arts and innovation in Canadian wildlife protection and sustainability.Freedom rider. Student radical. Academic. Social activist. Residential developer. Museum builder. Grizzly bear protector. Michael Audain has been all of these ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swallowed by Als Tsunami

    by Anverali Najak ...
    Currently, there are three-thousand-plus and thousands more in the rest of the world suffering the deadly disease ALS, who will die as there is no cure for this neurological disorder. This book narrates the life story of one ordinary person who had extraordinary vision to lift members of his community, whose vision unfortunately will remain unfulfilled because he is dying due to ALS. This will ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The National Road

    Dispatches From a Changing America

    by Tom Zoellner ...
    This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).“How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land––in every direction––could be fastened together into a whole?”What does it mean when a nation accustomed to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Land Is Our Land

    How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back

    by Ken Ilgunas ...
    Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s public lands are threatened by extremist ... Read more

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  • Sew Your Own

    Man finds happiness and meaning of life - making clothes

    by John-Paul Flintoff ...
    What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life?John-Paul Flintoff's improbable and very funny book charts a journey through call centres and allotments, rat-catching and Savile Row tailors, to some kind of enlightenment. It is also a book about a man who learns how to crochet - and how you might ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

    A Book About Noise

    by Garret Keizer ...
    Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise ... Read more

    $11.99 USD