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  • The Amber Wizard

    by David Forbes ...
    Series Book 1 - The Osserian Saga
    An heir to the throne and wizard in training has his powers tested when he faces a dangerous enemy in this epic fantasy saga.For a thousand years, there have been no great wizards in the world—and even longer since a wizard-king reigned. Now all must welcome and fear the coming of The Amber WizardAs Gerin Atreyano takes his place as the Crown Prince of Khedesh after his father ascends to the ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Everwhen

    by David Forbes ...
    Fifteen-year-old Dan Kerlin’s life is pretty ordinary: hanging out with his buddy Brian, putting up with the losers his friend Maddie dates, and avoiding the school bully. He’s haunted by nightmares about a demon hunting him in the dark, but he’s had nightmares since his mom died a year ago, so it’s easy to ignore the signs that these might be more than simple dreams.But when Dan and his new ... Read more

    $1.03 CAD

  • Broken Land Dreams

    by David Forbes ...
    Broken Land Dreams, with its fragments of dreams, poems, lyrics, reflections, and social commentary, defies a conventional linear narrative. Part I is the background in which Jacob Traum, a grumpy, Brooklyn, retired high school social worker and meditating lefty boomer, first tells us his wife Maya has left him and warns him he needs to recover from himself. He describes the puzzling and socially ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Mindfulness and Its Discontents

    Education, Self, and Social Transformation

    by David Forbes ...
    Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Commanding Stone

    by David Forbes ...
    Series Book 3 - The Osserian Saga
    Gerin, King of Khedesh, has long since accepted the mantle of Amber Wizard—the first in a millennium—with all the terrible responsibility that accompanies it. He has prevented the dread wizard-king, Asankaru, from attaining the all-powerful Words of Making, but the enemy grows stronger by the day.And now Gerin must be resolute and pursue the secret of the Words at any and all cost. For a new foe ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christmas

    A Candid History

    by Bruce David Forbes ...
    Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Apocalypse: The Illustrated Book of Revelation

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    Series series Cognoscenti Books
    The original King James version of the Book of Revelation profusely illustrated with rare and magnificent images from the 10th and 11th century Beatus commentaries; the 12th century Bamberg Apocalypse and the 15th century Ottheinrich Bible. 14,500 words, 99 full colour imagesThe version of the Book of Revelation given here is that of the authorised King James Version of the Bible, begun in 1604 ... Read more

    $8.65 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Ancient Tea Horse Road

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    The antique Silk Road that connected the Chinese and Mediterranean Worlds for more than a millennium, facilitating the exchange of both goods and cultures, is widely known and celebrated. Less familiar is its more southerly equivalent, the ‘Ancient Tea-Horse Road’ that once linked the lush gardens of southwest China with the frigid wastelands of Tibet and – beyond – the torrid plains of northern ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Words of Making

    by David Forbes ...
    Series Book 2 - The Osserian Saga
    A wizard king battles to keep his growing powers and his kingdom safe in this epic fantasy novel."I saw the dream. I saw your face."The words of a lone shipwrecked survivor chill the blood of Gerin Atreyano, Crown Prince of Khedesh, for they warn of an approaching armada. The savage, unconquered and unconquerable Havalqa are coming, driven by visions of a power beyond comprehension. Whosoever ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ruthless Dead

    by David Forbes ...
    Series series A John Simmons Novel
    John Simmons is pretty happy with his life. He runs a successful company doing work for a secret branch of Homeland Security that deals with unwanted incursions from Celestial beings—demons, spirits, ghosts, and the like. John has powers of his own that he builds into his systems using complex spells and math-based magic.Those abilities are the one positive result of being the son of a fallen ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • 47 Ronin: Utagawa Kuniyoshi Edition

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    The story of the 47 Ronin is perhaps the most popular and best known legend of traditional Japan. Set in the early 18th century, it tells a tale of honour and bloody revenge as the brotherhood of 47 masterless Samurai pursue the ruthless killing of Lord Kira, the official who brought about the downfall and suicide of their master, Lord Asano.This edition of the story is illustrated by the full set ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pages from the Book of Kells

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    The Book of Kells is a magnificently illuminated manuscript Gospel in Vulgate Latin containing the four Gospels of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - together with various prefatory texts and tables. It was created by Celtic monks on the small Island of Iona off the coast of western Scotland in about 800 CE. The text is mainly in Vulgate Latin dating from the 4th century CE, though ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus