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  • A Book of Reasons

    by John Vernon ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this "powerful, moving personal history" ( Entertainment Weekly).Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged with settling his brother's affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All for Love

    by John Vernon ...
    Adventuress, miner, home-wrecker, pauper, dreamer—the drama of Colorado legend Baby Doe’s life has inspired several biographies, a 1932 film starring Edward G. Robinson, even an opera, but never before a novel. Few lives have been so dramatic—leaving Oshkosh, WI and heading toward Colorado’s mining territory in 1879, she ditched her husband and snared silver magnate Horace Tabor, who divorced his ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Lindbergh's Son

    by John Vernon ...
    All this began long before I died,” says the brain in a jar that narrates John Vernon’s second novel. The brain once belonged to Charles Cooper, a 55-year-old water engineer in upstate New York, and has been kept alive by a perfusion pump invented by the man who may have been Coop’s fatherCharles Lindbergh. Then again, maybe not. Coop’s suspicion that he is the kidnaped Lindbergh baby who never ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Lucky Billy

    A Novel About Billy the Kid

    by John Vernon, Susan Wyler ...
    A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelistAccording to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattle barons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every senorita in the American Southwest.In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeply into the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peter Doyle

    by John Vernon ...
    On St. Helena island in 1821 a mysterious doctor removes Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis from his corpse while in the next room his loyal lieutenants brag about their dead emperor’s merciless cruelty. Fifty years later the search for this itinerant appendage leads through Victorian London to ante-bellum New York, Amherst, Massachusetts, and finally Colorado Territory, dragging in its path a promiscuous ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Last Canyon

    A Novel

    by John Vernon ...
    “Both gritty and sublime” (Seattle Times), The Last Canyon tells the story of John Wesley Powell’s 1869 voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in United States history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories – that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Hippie Voices to God’s Heart

    Calvary Chapel Encounters God

    by David L. Ream, Holland Davis ...
    Here is a phenomenological inquiry into the fruitful ministry of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's Sunday Morning Worship Service. The purpose was to uncover and explicate the quintessential elements of worship leading from the life experiences of those worship leaders who shared the platform with Pastor Chuck Smith, known as the father of the Jesus Movement. The book examines Calvary Chapel's ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)

    by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Robert W. Chambers, Walter De La Mare, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Oliphant, A. M. Burrage, Vernon Lee, John Metcalfe, Vincent O’Sullivan, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, Marjorie Bowen, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Aleister Crowley, Perceval Landon, William Hope Hodgson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This second volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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  • Innovative Approaches to Chronic Pain

    Understanding the Experience of Pain and Suffering and the Role of Healing

    by Paul Dieppe, Ann Williamson, David Reilly, Raanan Gillon, Havi Carel, Tom Shakespeare, Betsan Corkhill, Jeremy Swayne, Jonathan Koffman, Clare Roques, John D. Loeser, Bryan Vernon ...
    This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the British Pain Society's Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group. Exploring psychological, spiritual and creative approaches, contributors reflect on therapeutic avenues ranging from the deliberate use of the placebo response and the importance of a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives

    by John Richard Vernon ...
    "The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives" by John Richard Vernon is a contemplative exploration of the importance of leisure in our fast-paced world. Vernon invites readers to pause and reflect on the beauty of stillness and the richness of quiet moments. Through a series of thoughtful essays, he encourages individuals to embrace leisure as a vital component of a fulfilling ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: Leisure Thoughts for Busy Lives

    by John Richard Vernon ...
    There is certainly, in the present age, a want of writing that shall rest and brace the mind; of meditative writing of a tendency merely holy and practical, rather shunning than plunging into controversy:—not the cry of the angry or startled bird, but its evening and morning orisons rather. A contemplative strain; one linked with things of earth, and hallowing them—one heard beside “the common ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncanny Magazine Issue 16

    May/June 2017

    by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Ursula Vernon, John Chu, Chinelo Onwualu, Naomi Kritzer, Hiromi Goto, K.M. Szpara, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Kelly McCullough ...
    Series Book 16 - Uncanny Magazine
    The May/June 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ursula Vernon, John Chu, Chinelo Onwualu, Naomi Kritzer, Hiromi Goto, and K.M. Szpara, reprinted fiction by Carlos Hernandez, essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Sarah Gailey, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Pinsker, Mimi Mondal, David J. Schwartz, Kelly McCullough, LaShawn M. Wanak, Yamile Saied Méndez, and DongWon Song, ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus