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  • Narrative

    Telling the Story

    by Amy Jones ...
    What is the best way to tell a story? In first-person peripheral, or third-person focalised? Unfolding in the present, or as events in the past? Where is the camera? What is the lens? Where is the action? In this concise little book, educator Amy Jones describes the different ways that novelists and scriptwriters tell their stories. Packed with examples and insights, this is an essential reference ... Read more

    $9.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plot

    The Art of Story

    by Amy Jones ...
    Why do some books grab you from the very first line?What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories?Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat pocket book, English lecturer Amy Jones describes the clever narrative scaffolds used for thousands of years by novelists and scriptwriters. With helpful examples, diagrams and cartoons, this is an ... Read more

    $9.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Every Little Piece of Me

    by Amy Jones ...
    From the bestselling author of We're All in This Together comes a novel about family, friendship, fame, and the cost of living in the public eye— because when everyone suddenly knows your name, it's easy to forget who you really are."The first time they met, Mags saved Ava's life. The second time they met, Ava saved Mags's."Ava Hart is the most reluctant cast member of a reality TV show based on ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Pebble & Dove

    A Novel

    by Amy Jones ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2024 Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by AudibleIn the tradition of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human.**This is the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Self-Compassion Affirmations

    Developing a mindful life, an invisible inner beauty and learning to love and embrace yourself; create perfect awareness of your emotions and understand the science of being comfortable with oneself

    by Kristin Morin ...
    Narrated by Amy Jones ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Are you too hard on yourself? Do you have a hard time dealing with failures and mistakes of the past? Do you often self-criticize in an attempt to motivate yourself to achieve your goals?Everyone should feel comfortable and at ease with themselves as well as be able to acknowledge their emotions.This can all be resolved through Self-Compassion. Self-Compassion is all about treating yourself with ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Invention: The Sewing Machine

    by Lucy Williams ...
    Narrated by Amy Jones, Jason Hill ...

    Unabridged

    26 min

    This book is about the invention of the sewing machine. Since the sewing machine has been considered by some as one of the most important inventions of 19th-century America, of equal importance to this story of the invention is the history of the sewing machine's development into a practical, popular commodity. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Gratitude Affirmations

    Choosing to grow emotionally rich and to flip the formula with gratitude affirmations that work; daily meditation to be happy, to get your life in motion and to thank your way to success

    by Kristin Morin ...
    Narrated by Amy Jones ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 2 min

    If you have hard time attractingthe right people in business, relationships and money, then keep reading.Do you find yourself complaining throughout the day and are you constantly seeing life in a negative way? Do you have a hard time seeing hidden opportunities in any given situation? Would you like to attract more money and achieve a life of success? Everybody should be able to live a positive, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Boys Like

    and Other Stories

    by Amy Jones ...
    What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Jones’s characters grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by the chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • We're All in This Together

    by Amy Jones ...
    **Winner of Northern Lit AwardFinalist for the Leacock Medal for HumourQuill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016"Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016"A Penguin Book Club PickA woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into meltdown—life is about to get a lot more complicated for the Parker family.**Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Journey Prize Stories 32

    The Best of Canada's New Writers

    For more than three decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada's most celebrated annual fiction anthology and a who's-who of up-and-coming writers. With settings ranging from a wildlife rescue centre to a Living Body exhibit, the thirteen stories in this collection represent the year's best short fiction by some of our most exciting emerging literary talents.On Sunday afternoons, a coven ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Abandoned Child

    Bestselling UK author Toni Maguire shares the real story of Amy's abuse and rejection, and how she found the strength to save herself and her daughterGone in the blink of an eye. Amy's happy life changed forever when her mother suddenly passed. Abandoned by her family as they struggled to cope, she found herself facing hardships and exploitation alone, which eventually led to severe drug addiction ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Pebble & Dove

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    11 hours 21 min

    **Shortlisted for the 2024 Hamilton Literary Award for Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by AudibleIn the tradition of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human.**This is the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD