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  • Dangerous Freedom

    by Lawrence Scott ...
    'They tell you one thing but you are not free.' London in 1802 is a dangerous place for black people, unsure of their legal status and threatened by slave catchers. Elizabeth d'Aviniere, the mixed race great-niece of the Lord Chief Justice, who had spent her childhood in his home, now fears for her own children's safety and yearns for her mother, an African-born enslaved woman. Why did she no ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eight Pieces of Empire

    A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

    by Lawrence Scott Sheets ...
    “[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporterNot with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Polterheist [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Esther Diamond 5

    by Laura Resnick ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Bob Payne, Nick DePinto, Jonathan Feuer, Lawrence Redmond, Kenyatta Rogers, Scott McCormick, Eleanor Todd, Terence Aselford, Kimberly Gilbert, Bradley Smith, Eva Wilhelm, Michael John Casey, Audrey Bertaux, Sasha Olinick, Elizabeth Jernigan, Paul Reisman, Andy Clemence, Nora Achrati, Thomas Penny, Maggie Donnelly, Matthew Bassett, Richard Rohan, Evan Casey, Ken Jackson, Sue Jin Song, Tracy Olivera ...
    Series series Esther Diamond

    Unabridged

    5 hours 8 min

    In the days leading up to Christmas, struggling actress Esther Diamond is working as a singing-and-dancing elf at Fenster & Co, a major Manhattan department store. As if dealing with hordes of holiday shoppers isn't bad enough, Esther's ex-almost-boyfriend, Detective Connor Lopez, is on the scene investigating a series of mob-related truck hijackings of Fenster's merchandise. Semi-retired hitman ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Witchbroom

    by Lawrence Scott ...
    Witchbroom is a visionary history of a Caribbean Spanish/French Creole family and an island over four centuries – to 20th-century independence. With an innovative tone and content, its carnival tales of crime and passion are told by the narrator Lavren, who is both male and female. First published in 1992, Witchbroom is a Caribbean classic. The following year it became a BBC Radio 4 Book at ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Land a Top-Paying Airport terminal controllers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Lawrence Scott ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Airport terminal controllers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trinidad Noir

    by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Oonya Kempadoo, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Lawrence Scott ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. As reflected herein, the Caribbean provides no shelter ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater

    by Lawrence Scott ...
    Lawrence Scott is a prize-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer who was born on a sugar estate in Trinidad. He has been short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' prizes three times, twice nominated for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, long-listed for the Whitebread Prize and the Booker Prize and was winner of the Tom-Gallon Short-Story Award. His latest novel is Light ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time

    A Grand Anthology of Detective Puzzles, Gothic Terror, Noir Crime, and Suspense Classics

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, H. P. Lovecraft, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers ...
    The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time maps the evolution of mystery fiction from Gothic unease and sensation plotting to the analytic detective tale, espionage thriller, hard-boiled investigation, and psychological suspense. Its range embraces locked-room puzzles, criminal confessions, uncanny apparitions, conspiracies, and social mysteries, revealing how the genre repeatedly tests the limits ... Read more

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

  • CHINA HAND

    by Lawrence J Scott ...
    Lawrence Joseph Scott was born in 1910 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His family made their way south and ended up in Alabama. In 1924, having finished 8th grade at the age of 14, L.J. lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.Sometime in the 1930s, L.J. was stationed in Peking, China. As a member of the famous China Marines, he performed his duties on horseback. For a period of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • From These Honored Dead

    Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War

    Edited by Clarence R. Geier, Douglas D. Scott, Lawrence E. Babits ...
    Separating myth from fact, From These Honored Dead uses historical archaeology to uncover the truth in the many conflicting memories of the American Civil War that have been passed down through generations.By incorporating the results of archaeological investigations, the essays in this volume shed new light on many aspects of the Civil War. Topics include soldier life in camp and on the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Double V

    The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen

    by Lawrence P. Scott, William M. Womack ...
    On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a superior officer—a charge that could carry the death penalty upon conviction. They were accused of refusing to sign an order that would have placed them in segregated housing and recreational facilities. Their plight was virtually ignored by the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Blood Mirror (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Lightbringer Saga 4

    by Brent Weeks ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Christopher Scheeren, Yasmin Tuazon, Alyssa Wilmoth, Ren Casey, Michael Glenn, Elliot Dash, Colleen Delany, Thomas Keegan, Barbara Pinolini, Bradley Smith, Johann Dettweiler, Audrey Bertaux, Nora Achrati, Michael John Casey, Nick DePinto, Thomas Penny, Dylan Lynch, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Ken Jackson, Andy Clemence, Kimberly Gilbert, Jeff Allin, Terence Aselford, Robbie Gay, Scott McCormick, Chris Davenport, Lawrence Redmond, James Lewis, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Delores King Williams, Dani Stoller, Danny Gavigan ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Lightbringer

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    When does an empire fall?The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four - and those are falling before the White King's armies.Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison Gavin may not be ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus