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  • LIFE BY CHANCE

    by JOHN GRAVES ...
    I have consumed nations. I have destroyed peoples.I am Ozymandias.The previous 20 years had been - The horror. The horror! Jake still remembers the screams. The retched coughing. The blood and feces and vomit covering the beds, the floors, the streets. Everywhere, blood and liquifying humanity.Tracker had done her work brilliantly, of course. She who had never failed in a military mission. She who ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Goodbye to a River

    A Narrative

    by John Graves ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hard Scrabble

    Observations on a Patch of Land

    by John Graves ...
    The two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Goodbye to a River ruminates over what an "unmagnificent" Texas homestead has meant to him."A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It's a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Notebook." —Edward Hoagland, The ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Dogs and Guns

    by John Graves ...
    "Blue and Some Other Dogs" is a brilliant memoir about Graves' Basque-Australian sheep dog. "Guns of a Lifetime" tells the stories related to the guns this octogenarian Texan has owned, beginning with a "rusted and cylinderless" revolver. "So here are the stories," Graves writes. "They are not all nice’ tales in contemporary terms. Political correctness, as presently defined, may be perpetrated ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Myself and Strangers

    A Memoir of Apprenticeship

    by John Graves ...
    In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recounts his wanderings from Texas to Mexico, New York, and Spain, where, like Hemingway, he hoped to find the material with which to write books that mattered. With characteristic honesty, Graves admits ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Broken Wing

    Birds, Blades and Broken Promises

    by John Graves ...
    Today's wind turbinesKill millions of birds worldwide: raptors are threatened with extinctionRequire significant amounts of CO2 to manufactureDeliver electricity intermittently, at bestRequire enormous back up coal and gas fired power plants creating yet more CO2Can be unhealthy or harmful to local residentsAre deadly - to core component manufacturers and maintenance person... ... Read more

    $7.89 CAD

  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Sex Pistols

    Edited by Mike Dines, Gabriela Gelain, Paul Graves-Brown, John Schofield ...
    Series series Routledge Music Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of the Sex Pistols offers a dramatic new perspective on the cultural significance and legacies of an iconic punk band. In the early–mid 1970s, punk and the Pistols were instrumental in creating a cultural transition from the staid ‘black-and-white’-authorized era of post-war austerity to what was to become a more radical and creative future in which everybody had agency and ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

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  • From a Limestone Ledge

    Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas

    by John Graves ...
    “Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker“Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe“Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of ... Read more

    $24.39 CAD

  • The Pine Barrens

    by John McPhee ...
    Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the End of the Year 1777, to the Conclusion of the Late American War

    by John Graves Simcoe ...
    John Graves Simcoe (1752 - 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and wasinstrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, and freehold landtenure, and also in the abolition of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Richard II

    by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...
    Narrated by a full cast, John Wood, Rupert Graves, Julian Glover ...
    Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    Shakespeare’s finest verse play is also his first portrait of the psychology of power.The sensitive and poetic Richard II is undoubtedly the rightful king of England, but he is unscrupulous and weak. When his cousin Henry Bolingbroke returns from banishment and mounts a challenge to his authority, Richard’s right to the throne proves of little help to him. Richard is forced to abdicate, but as his ... Read more

    $20.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks