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  • Story of the Century

    Wagner and the creation of The Ring

    by Michael Downes ...
    A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEA colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary masterpiece, Ring of the Nibelung.The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by... ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • You See a Zoo, I See…

    by Michael Downs ...
    Illustrated by Maureen O'Brien ...
    At the zoo, animals in action aren't always what they seem!When you're at the zoo, do you see scary crocodiles? Chimpanzees being silly? Look again! A young narrator makes the rounds of a zoo, pointing out that animals have special reasons for doing what they do. The crocodile is protecting her babies, and the chimpanzees are learning by trying new things. Animals protect, play, bathe, and ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Greatest Show

    Stories

    by Michael Downs ...
    Series series YSF Contacts
    Fire sweeps along the wall of a circus tent while inside thousands of people enjoy a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey matinee. Within minutes, flames consume the canvas and vast sections collapse, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.Inspired by the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, the interconnected stories in Michael Downs's The Greatest Show explore the aftermath of a disaster in a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

    A Novel

    by Michael Downs ...
    In 1844, Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, encountered nitrous oxide, or laughing gas—then an entertainment for performers in carnival-like theatrical acts—and began administering the gas as the first true anesthetic. His discovery would change the world, reshaping medicine and humanity’s relationship with pain.But that discovery would also thrust Wells into scandals that threatened his ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings and White as Jasmine

    by Michael Downes ...
    Series series Landmarks in Music Since 1950
    Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly renowned for his electro-acoustic music, an aspect on which most previous writing on his work has focused. The present volume is the first detailed study of music from Harvey's considerable body of work ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Black Cherokee

    A Novel

    by Antonio Michael Downing ...
    Queenie meets Frying Plantain in this courageous coming-of-age story, set in the 1990s, about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a South Carolina Cherokee community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.On the rain-swollen banks of the River Etsi in South Carolina, Ophelia Blue Rivers—six years old in 1992—catches frogs and stretches to reach the swaying sunflowers. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Saga Boy

    My Life of Blackness and Becoming

    by Antonio Michael Downing ...
    **SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Speaker's Book AwardLONGLISTED for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardThe triumph of Saga Boy is the triumph of Blackness everywhere--the irrepressible instinct for survival in a world where Blacks are prey."--Ian Williams, Giller Prize-winning author of ReproductionAn enthralling, deeply personal account of a young immigrant's search for belonging and Black identity amid the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Breakfast with Scot

    A Novel

    by Michael Downing ...
    Sam and Ed live the high life, and see no reason to add to their happy twosome. Then 11–year–old Scot's mother dies, and a wine–soaked promise pushes the couple into parenthood. They dutifully make all the usual arrangements, but Scot is far from usual, sporting makeup and enduring bullying at school. Soon Sam and Ed begin to question their parenting, their commitment to each other, and the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia

    Edited by Bruce M. Smyth, Michael A. Martin, Mandy Downing ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia highlights why it is important to look at the subject of human research ethics and integrity within the Australian context, and what the Australian perspective can offer to all researchers in the social sciences and humanities globally.Australia has one of the world’s most rigorous ethics governance frameworks. This edited ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Black Cherokee

    by Antonio Michael Downing ...
    Narrated by Kamali Minter ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    Queenie meets Frying Plantain in this courageous coming-of-age story, set in the 1990s, about a mixed-race Black girl fighting for recognition in a South Carolina Cherokee community that refuses to accept her ancestry as legitimate.On the rain-swollen banks of the River Etsi in South Carolina, Ophelia Blue Rivers—six years old in 1992—catches frogs and stretches to reach the swaying sunflowers. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Land of Dust and Hope

    A Novel

    by Michael Downing ...
    Welcome to Happy, Texas—a small Panhandle town with a name that doesn’t always ring true.Discontent is brewing in Happy as Brother Bob questions his beliefs as pastor of a church. Jen, his choir director, flounders in her unhappy marriage while caring for her mentally ill sister, Cheyenne, and cowboy James struggles between what is right and finally finding true love.When an elder Hispanic member ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Saga Boy

    My Life of Blackness and Becoming

    by Antonio Michael Downing ...
    Narrated by Antonio Michael Downing ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    **SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Speaker's Book AwardLONGLISTED for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardThe triumph of Saga Boy is the triumph of Blackness everywhere--the irrepressible instinct for survival in a world where Blacks are prey."--Ian Williams, Giller Prize-winning author of ReproductionAn enthralling, deeply personal account of a young immigrant's search for belonging and Black identity amid the ... Read more

    $26.95 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook