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  • Insomniac City

    New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me

    Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year ListA moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks."A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hell on Wheels

    An Illustrated History of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

    by Bill Hayes ...
    A gripping history of outlaw motorcycle club culture from its beginnings to the present day.In a world where most of us roll over when confronted by the power of authority, the antihero figure of the outlaw biker stands beyond the crowd, a beacon of social freedom. By choosing to live outside of society’s conventions, the one-percenter has the inner strength to act on his own convictions. Though ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Greatest One-Percenter Myths, Mysteries, and Rumors Revealed

    by Bill Hayes ...
    Get the straight facts on the legends and events that surround outlaw motorcycle clubs. Not everything is as it seems when the media is involved.Pretty much everything the world has ever heard about one-percenter motorcycle clubs has been pure, unadulterated lies. Take the so-called Hollister riot of 1947 that started it all. LIFE magazine convinced America that what Hunter Thompson called "The ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The One Percenter Encyclopedia

    The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite

    by Bill Hayes ...
    Ever wonder how the Hells Angels got their name, or about that little demonic critter on the Pagan's patch? What about the local one-percenter motorcycle club that hangs out at the corner bar? What goes on there? This book answers these questions and more.The One-Percenter Encyclopedia: The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite features concise entries that include ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • How We Live Now

    Scenes from the Pandemic

    by Bill Hayes ...
    Winner of the New York City Book AwardFrom the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic.When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020 and New York went into total lockdown, writer and photographer Bill Hayes hit the largely deserted streets of Manhattan to try to document—through words and photographs—how ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Quarts

    A Personal and Natural History of Blood

    by Bill B. Hayes ...
    “We’re born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries.”–fromFive QuartsIn the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club

    Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club

    Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this "raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubs" (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred "Boozefighters," got a little juiced up and took their racing to the street. Word of the fracas spread, and soon ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Anatomist

    A True Story of Gray's Anatomy

    by Bill B. Hayes ...
    The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal volume came to be. A blend of history, science, culture, and Hayes’s own personal experiences, The ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sleep Demons

    An Insomniac's Memoir

    by Bill Hayes ...
    "A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor" from the author of Sweat: A History of Exercise (Anne Lamott).We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don't, sometimes even possessing our bodies ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sweat

    A History of Exercise

    A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)-a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise.Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spi... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Unmasking the Killer of the Missing Beaumont Children

    On Australia day, 26 January 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont were abducted from Colley Reserve, Glenelg, South Australia and never seen again, leading to one of Australia's most extensive police investigations and manhunts. Five decades later, no trace of the children has ever been found.Over the years, several individuals have been put forward and investigated as suspects, resulting in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Framed in Monte Carlo

    How I Was Wrongfully Convicted for a Billionaire's Fiery Death

    As seen in the Netflix documentaryMurder in Monaco, and featured on***60 Minutes, Dateline, Inside Edition,***and 48 Hours, this is the shocking true story of banker Edmond Safra's death and the man accused of the crime.When billionaire banker Edmond Safra died in the ashes of Monaco’s La Belle Époque building on December 3, 1999, the event made international head... ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD