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  • In the Land of Long Fingernails

    A Gravedigger's Memoir

    by Charles Wilkins ...
    Charles Wilkins, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy summer of 1969. The bizarre-but-true events of that time-a midsummer gravediggers' strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal bone-shifting-play out among a Barnum-esque parade of mavericks and misfits in this macabre ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Ship of Fools

    Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic

    by Charles Wilkins ...
    The dramatic and hilarious story of sores and survival on a human-powered journey across the ocean.It was to be an expedition like no other—a run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There would be no support vessel, no stored water, no sails, no motor. The boat's crew of sixteen included several veterans of U.S. college rowing, a number of triathletes, a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High on the Big Stone Heart

    And Further Adventures in the Boreal Heartland

    by Charles Wilkins ...
    High on the Big Stone Heart is a collection of vibrant and entertaining essays on the people and places of Canada’s Boreal North as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most celebrated writers of non-fiction. Accompany Charles Wilkins as he ranges across the wilds of northern Quebec; ventures deep into the subarctic Yukon in search of caribou; and tracks the north coast of Lake Superior, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakfast at the Hoito

    And Other Adventures in the Boreal Heartland

    by Charles Wilkins ...
    Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior’s north shore … on wilds and wildlife, people and places.Spend a day in the kitchen of the famed Hoito Restaurant in Thunder Bay. Discover the secret life of ravens; the passions of the blueberry picker; the thrills and fears of the novice ice climber. Tour Silver Islet, an eccentric ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Final Buzzer Sounds

    NHL Greats Share Their Stories of Hardship and Triumph

    by Colleen Howe, Gordie Howe, Charles Wilkins ...
    Sharing the sometimes bittersweet, sometimes unexpected, always insightful accounts of the lives of some of the NHL's most famous players after retirement and the turns their lives have taken—often just as wild and crazy as their time on the ice—this collection of poignant stories details the hockey's greatest players after the last goal has been tended and the final buzzer sounds. Through in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Merry Furry Christmas: Heartwarming Animal Tales Collection

    Classic Christmas Animal Tales of Kindness, Wonder, and Enchanted Companions

    by Beatrix Potter, L. Frank Baum, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell, Margery Williams, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hugh Lofting, Amy Ella Blanchard, Samuel McChord Crothers, John Punnett Peters, Eugene Field, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Archibald Beresford Sullivan, Walter Crane ...
    A Merry Furry Christmas gathers animal-centered tales into a festive literary panorama where winter generosity, companionship, wonder, and moral imagination meet. Spanning fairy tale, nursery fantasy, sentimental realism, animal autobiography, comic fable, and supernatural whimsy, the collection moves between domestic hearths and enchanted landscapes. Its varied selections illuminate how animals ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ion Mobility Spectrometry - Mass Spectrometry

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Charles L. Wilkins, Sarah Trimpin ...
    The analytical power of ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) instruments is poised to advance this technology from research to analytical laboratories. Exploring these developments at this critical juncture, Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry: Theory and Applications covers the tools, techniques, and applications involved when molecular size and shape information is ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Spiritual vampirism

    by Charles Wilkins Webber ...
    Glorious discovery! Hah! the spiritual vampire might feed on his strength-might grow strong on this cannibalism of the soul! and what of him if she dragged him down into idiocy? Served him right! Did Etherial care that his spiritual death must be her life? She laughed and screamed with the joy of unutterable ferocity! Eureka! Eureka! They shall all be my slaves! They taunt me with being born ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 8 Must-Read Books on Freemasonry

    Essential Texts on Ritual, Symbolism, Secrecy, and the Contested Legacy of the Craft

    by William Morgan, Albert Gallatin Mackey, George Thornburgh, Albert Pike, Charles Lewis Mitchell, Harriet Annie Wilkins ...
    8 Must-Read Books on Freemasonry gathers a capacious body of Masonic writing in which history, ritual interpretation, moral philosophy, institutional critique, and reflective instruction intersect. Its selections illuminate Freemasonry not merely as a fraternal order but as a contested cultural language of symbols, secrecy, ethical self-fashioning, and civic association. Ranging from investigative ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Living in the Ottoman Realm

    Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

    by Nabil Al-Tikriti, Zeynep Aydogan, Michelle U. Campos, Linda T. Darling, Eric R. Dursteler, David Gutman, Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Jane Hathaway, Hasan Karatas, Vangelis Kechriotis, Julia Landweber, Murat Cem Menguc, F. Ozden Mercan, Theoharis Stavrides, Darin N. Stephanov, Nicolas Trepanier, Charles L. Wilkins, M. Alper Yalçınkaya, Fariba Zarinebaf, Leslie Peirce, Amy Singer ...
    Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Spiritual vampirism

    by Webber Charles Wilkins ...
    Glorious discovery! Hah! the spiritual vampire might feed on his strength—might grow strong on this cannibalism of the soul! and what of him if she dragged him down into idiocy? Served him right! Did Etherial care that his spiritual death must be her life? She laughed and screamed with the joy of unutterable ferocity! Eureka! Eureka! They shall all be my slaves! They taunt me with being born ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spiritual Vampirism, The History of Etherial Softdown, and Her Friends of the "New Light"

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Charles Wilkins Webber ...
    Series series
    Excerpt: ""The author, being a resident of New York during the period of the leading incidents narrated as occurring in that city, had formed the acquaintance of the principal personage. Himself a Southerner, he had, from the natural affinities of origin, inevitably been attracted toward Carter. The intercourse between them, at first reserved, had imperceptibly warmed into a degree of intimacy, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD