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  • America's Mistress

    Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times

    by John L. Williams ...
    Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and admirers, and was almost able to forget she had once been a poor black girl from the Deep South ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Heatwave

    The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point. A BBC Radio 4 Book Of The Week.

    by John L Williams ...
    BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'A teeming chronicle of those scorching months. Superbly researched.' THE TIMES'Scorching, animated and essential reading. Superb.' THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Grippingly captures the three months that shook Britain's cultural landscape' PAULINE BLACK'Scorching, seething and scintillating, Heatwave conjures a slow-burning collage of a cou... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Into the Badlands

    by John L Williams ...
    In the summer of 1989 John Williams embarked on an epic journey through a deeply troubled USA. A right-wing Republican administration seemed bent on rolling back the advances of the civil rights era; the Supreme Court were partially reversing the Roe vs Wade ruling on abortion; criminals from the Central Park rapist to the serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacey were all over the news. Who ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Booksellers of Camden Lock

    by John L. Williams ...
    'Funny and atmospheric, conjures the sultry, seedy charm of Camden in the 1980s' Tessa HadleyA picaresque 1980s bookshop romance, rife with music and mayhem, by the acclaimed biographer and author of Heatwave.In the summer of 1982, the year of the Falklands War, Ellen Moore arrives in Camden Town determined to shake off the past. She starts a job at Leviathan Books, where the boss wanders around ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Miss Shirley Bassey

    by John L. Williams ...
    In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars in the world. She had sold more records than any other British singer of the day, and was poised to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • CLR James

    A Life Beyond the Boundaries

    by John L Williams ...
    Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and was a profound influence on the British Black Power movement.And yet by the late 1970s, CLR ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Old Man Dreaming

    A Theological Essay on Vision

    by John L. Williams ...
    The most fruitful and most profound understandings of vision and visioning processes are not in organizational theories or management techniques. They are instead in the Bible and Christian theology, claims the author of this book. To explain his case, the author analyzes and challenges the views of management experts and consultants regarding vision and visioning processes in secular and church ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • X-Events

    The Collapse of Everything

    by John L. Casti ...
    A necessary and thought-provoking read for the age of coronavirus, exploring eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world — from pandemics to nuclear apocalypse to robot uprisings — and what we can do to prevent and survive them.In the twenty first century, our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing at an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • GLP-1 High-Protein Cookbook for Beginners

    100+ Easy, Muscle-Protecting Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss, Appetite Control & Sustainable Results

    by John Carter ...
    ★★★ 2027 New Edition - Revised & Expanded with 20+ New High-Protein Recipes ★★★Are You Losing Weight - But Feeling Weaker Every Week?You started your GLP-1 medication to feel better. But now food feels like a chore, nothing sounds appetizing, and a quiet worry has taken hold: Am I losing muscle along with the weight?If you're eating less but feeling more tired and uncertain - you're not doing it ... Read more

    $14.02 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual Development of Europe (Vol. 1&2)

    by John William Draper ...
    In 'The Intellectual Development of Europe' Volumes 1 and 2, John William Draper delves into the intricate history of intellectual growth and progress in Europe. Draper's prose is scholarly and detailed, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the cultural and intellectual milestones that shaped Europe over the centuries. Through a meticulous examination of key historical events ... Read more

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

  • A History Of The British Army – Vol. IV – Part One (1789-1801)

    by Hon. Sir John William Fortescue ...
    Series Book 1 - A History of the British Army
    Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Essential Classics for a Rich Literary Journey

    by Homer, Sun Tzu, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Nikolai Gogol0, Emily Brontë1, Mary Shelley2, Alexandre Dumas3, Fyodor Dostoevsky4, Charles Dickens5, Victor Hugo6, Nathaniel Hawthorne7, Gustave Flaubert8, Leo Tolstoy9, Henrik Ibsen0, Herman Melville1, Mark Twain2, Robert Louis Stevenson3, Arthur Conan Doyle4, Raymond Chandler5, H. G. Wells6, Joseph Conrad7, Rudyard Kipling8, Louisa May Alcott9, L. Frank Baum0, L. M. Montgomery1, T. S. Eliot2, Franz Kafka3, James Joyce4, Virginia Woolf5, C. S. Lewis6, Ernest Hemingway7, Walt Whitman8, Jack Kerouac9, John Steinbeck0, William Faulkner1, Kate Chopin2, Zora Neale Hurston3, Margaret Mitchell4, Sylvia Plath5, Thomas Mann6, Albert Camus7, George Orwell8, Elliot Ellinghurst1 ...
    50 Timeless Masterpieces (Volume 1) gathers an extraordinary sweep of world literature, from epic poetry, philosophical dialogue, and military strategy to the novel, drama, detective fiction, modernist experiment, and political allegory. Its range evokes the long evolution of narrative and thought: heroic voyages, moral trials, social satire, psychological inquiry, dystopian warning, and spiritual ... Read more

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