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  • How to Close a Camp

    Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention

    by John Washington ...
    An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention systemMasked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Authorization

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 1 - The Authorization
    When a decades-old secret surfaces and drags an ordinary man into the crosshairs of powerful forces, he must untangle a web of lies and betrayal before the truth is buried forever. The Authorization launches John Washington III's explosive new thriller series - a high-stakes conspiracy story packed with relentless pacing, razor-sharp twists, and a fight for survival that reaches the highest levels ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Authorization

    The Authorization, #1

    by John Washington III ...
    Series Book 1 - The Authorization
    CIA officer John Washington III sits in a windowless room and watches twelve men sign off on a plan to attack America and blame Cuba. He's the only one who says no — and it costs him everything. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Up from Slavery - Audiobook

    by Booker T. Washington, Classic Audiobooks ...
    Narrated by John Whitman ...
    Series series Classic Audiobooks

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery is both an autobiography and a testament to resilience, chronicling his journey from bondage to national prominence as an educator and leader. Born into slavery in 1856, Washington describes the hardships of his early life, his determination to gain an education, and his eventual founding of the Tuskegee Institute. His narrative reflects not only personal ... Read more

    $10.53 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dispossessed

    A Story of Asylum and the US-Mexican Border and Beyond

    by John Washington ...
    The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protectionsArnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning—that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said.The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Magnetic Tape Miracle: The Sound of Paper

    Fritz Pfleumer, Iron Oxide, and the 1920s German Invention That Birthed Modern Data Storage

    by John Washington ...
    In the 1920s, the cutting-edge technology for recording audio involved massive, heavy steel wires that were incredibly difficult to edit and prone to violently snapping and injuring engineers. An Austrian-German engineer named Fritz Pfleumer changed the world not by improving the steel wire, but by asking a radical question: could you record a symphony on a piece of paper? Pfleumer had previously ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Casualties of War

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 4 - The Authorization
    John Washington III spends forty-eight hours in the Norfolk city jail after carrying a disarmed military demolition case out of a USO hall. The arrest is paperwork-perfect, but the janitor he described has no record of existing, the mayor now says he was evacuated before John arrived, and the laboratory report calls the device a hoax of inert components with no timer and no explosive material. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Rise of Deathwatch (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Journey Through Gothic Horror: Explore 19th Century Dark Romance and Haunting Victorian Mysteries

    by Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe0, John William Polidori1, Washington Irving2, Charles Robert Maturin3, James Hogg4, Victor Hugo5, Frederick Marryat6, Nikolai Gogol7, Charlotte Brontë8, Emily Brontë9, James Malcolm Rymer0, Thomas Peckett Prest1, Nathaniel Hawthorne2, George Eliot3, Wilkie Collins4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Charles Dickens6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Oscar Wilde9, Guy de Maupassant0, Anna Katharine Green1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, Arthur Machen3, George MacDonald4, John Meade Falkner5, H. G. Wells6, Richard Marsh7, Henry James8, Bram Stoker9, W. W. Jacobs0, Robert Hugh Benson1, Gaston Leroux2, Théophile Gautier3, William Hope Hodgson4, Grant Allen5, Bennett Alderwyn1 ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley7, Isabel F. Hapgood8, C. J. Hogarth9 ...
    The Rise of Deathwatch traces the evolution of Gothic and uncanny literature from its eighteenth-century origins to fin-de-siècle and early modern transformations. Its range extends from castle romance, terror fiction, and philosophical nightmare to detective mystery, imperial adventure, psychological realism, and proto-science fiction. Haunted inheritances, forbidden knowledge, doubles, revenants ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sentinel Wakes

    by John Washington ...
    Series Book 3 - The Authorization
    A telephone call at 3:00 a.m. tells John Washington III that an explosion at a naval munitions depot outside Norfolk has killed three servicemen, and that sabotage has not been ruled out. Marcus Webb cannot tell him it was not them. From Ruth Adler, John obtains the names the official story leaves as numbers: Ensign Michael Torres, 22; Petty Officer Second Class James Dunn, 24, married with a ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • They Knew Lincoln

    by John E. Washington ...
    Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)

    Civil War Memories Series

    by William Pittenger, A.E. Richards, Basil W. Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, Thomas H. Hines, Frank E. Moran, W.H. Shelton, John Taylor Wood, Anonymous ...
    Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB

    How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet

    by John Washington ...
    Welcome to "THE BEGINNING OF THE WEB: How Magicians Stayed Up Late to Create the Internet"! This book tells the fascinating story of the early days of the internet, when a small group of visionaries, engineers, and magicians came together to create a revolutionary new technology.In this book, you'll learn about the people who made the internet possible, their struggles and triumphs, and how they ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus