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    Everything You Learned at School…and Promptly Forgot

    Homework for Grown-ups is a brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults. It is the ultimate refresher course on mathematics (remember Pythagoras' theorem? You will!), English grammar and literature (do you know your Margarets?), and chemistry and the sciences (including the big bang theory). It spans geography (can you name the planets in order?), history (what ... Read more

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  • Why the Dutch are Different

    A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands

    by Ben Coates ...
    Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is also so ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Dead of Winter

    by Darcy Coates ...
    USA TODAY BESTSELLER * JULY 2023 LIBRARYREADS SELECTIONEight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run."A fast-paced thriller aimed at readers who enjoy a hunt." ―Kirkus ReviewsWhen Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, ... Read more

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  • The Rhine

    Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

    by Ben Coates ...
    From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent.SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDThe Rhine is one of the world's ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

    How Risk-Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

    by John Coates ...
    A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals the biology of financial boom and bust, showing how risk-taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria or stressed-out depression.The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have a lot to do with male hormones. In a series of startling experiments, Canadian scientist Dr. John Coates identified ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Erased

    They built a time machine to fix the past, but never imagined it would break their future.Marcy and Connor's first journey through time was a triumph: they saved a life and righted a terrible wrong. Soon, they turned their sights to rewriting entire chapters of human history.What began as a crusade to eliminate evil becomes a spiral of unintended consequences, as each return to the present reveals ... Read more

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  • How Bad Things Can Get

    by Darcy Coates ...
    It was supposed to be the party of the century: miles of idyllic white sand beaches, lush jungle foliage...and a dark legend nobody dreamed might be all too true.When an online influencer and several hundred of his most loyal fans land on Prosperity Island, the plan is simple: five days of elaborate games, drinking, and suntanned fun.A week in paradise should have been a welcome respite. The only ... Read more

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  • Between the World and Me

    Series series One World Essentials
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Hare in the Elephant's Trunk

    by Jan Coates ...
    In the little village of Duk Padiet in southern Sudan, a boy named Jacob Deng thrives on the love of his mother, the companionship of his sisters, the excitement of learning how to look after his uncle's herds of cattle. The year is 1987, and suddenly in the night soldiers from the north invade the village, looting, burning, and killing. The war has arrived, and the life of Jacob will never be the ... Read more

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  • Gallows Hill

    by Darcy Coates ...
    It’s time to come home…The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more.The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets.It's been more than a decade since Margot Hull last ... Read more

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  • The Twisted Dead

    by Darcy Coates ...
    Series Book 3 - Gravekeeper
    Keira must decide if she should use her ability to contact ghosts to help the man who once tried to kill her.Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped in history that is ... Read more

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  • The Anvil

    Deadly radiation from a passing comet is about to destroy life on Earth.In desperation, the U.S. Government constructs a series of underground shelters to protect as many people as possible. They are expected to be underground for 20 years before returning back to the surface.But can they survive their time within the confines of the underground shelter... and what will they find when they finally ... Read more

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