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  • Before the First Fleet to Australia

    by John Gardiner ...
    Most know the story of Australia's First Fleet. But who were those convicts, sailors, marines and administrators who travelled to Botany Bay in 1787? And who orchestrated this ambitious expedition? In his meticulously researched new book, John Gardiner pulls back the curtain on the world from which the First Fleet emerged. Delving into English newspapers, official reports, and government documents ... Read more

    $6.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Lefthanded, Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories

    My Lefthanded, Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories contains a memoir describing author John Gardiner's growing up and coming of age years in the small Ontario town of Hanover during the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's - a time of significant social change in North American society - especially among young people. The book is written as a series of mostly humorous vignettes ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memories for Sale

    Tales from a Small Town

    As a young man, John Gardiner scrawled his thoughts on his bedroom windowsill. Now in Memories for Sale, Gardiner shares short stories, poems, and a novella that he hopes will provide inspiration for others to look inward and reflect on the world around them.Gardiner, a former newspaper editor, believes that we are all intelligent enough to solve our own problems. With that theory in mind, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Battle of Broken Hill

    Lost Stories

    by John Gardiner ...
    These are lost stories. Forgotten Australian history. Brought back to life by two years of investigation and research. Some call it the first act of terrorism on Australian soil. A day when the horrors of World War I came to Australian shores. It was New Year's Day. 1915. The Great War, World War I, was just months old. In the outback mining town of Broken Hill, a small band of Afghan camel ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music in the Castle of Heaven

    A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Entablature

    by John Gardiner ...
    Entablatures eponymous novelist undertakes an exploration of the conceptual implications held by the word palimpsest, using the gift of self-consciousness to place his origin within a presence he identifies as the inner thinker, the latter derivative from Rne Descartess famous dictum: Cogito ergo sum [I think, therefore I am]. Palimpsest postulates a practice whereby ancient manuscripts were ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Stone Fox

    Illustrated by Greg Hargreaves ...
    John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years.Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls ill, he is no longer able to work the farm, which is in danger of foreclosure. Little Willy is determined to win ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Hunting the Essex

    A Journal of the Voyage of HMS Phoebe, 1813–1814

    In February 1813 the British frigate Phoebe set out on a secret mission that would involve sailing halfway around the world to attack American settlements in the Pacific Northwest. The United States, frustrated at the treatment of its shipping by the combatants in the Napoleonic Wars, had finally opened hostilities against the British in the previous June. From the American perspective the War of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dieselpunk ePulp Showcase 2

    Series series Dieselpunk ePulp Showcase
    This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows!Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches ... Read more

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  • V6A

    Writing from Vancouvers Downtown Eastside

    An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Short Poetry Collection 172 (Unabridged)

    Unabridged

    1 hour 15 min

    Immerse yourself in a captivating anthology of poetic masterpieces in "Short Poetry Collection 172 (Unabridged)." This timeless collection features an array of renowned poets, including William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe. From poignant sonnets to evocative free verse, each poem paints vivid imagery and explores profound themes of love, loss, nature, and the human condition. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • North of Ordinary

    The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardner’s virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a shifting world. In these pages, we meet a nervous young apprentice to a weathered tree climber; a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD