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  • Project Echelon: Deadly Innocence

    by Michael Perry ...
    Eight-year-old Danny Woods can do things no kid should be able to do—hear thoughts, feel fear like it's his own, and move the world with a shove of his mind. Every time he uses it, it costs him: migraines, panic, and blank spots he can't explain.After a fresh start in Texas with mom Nora, a glossy flyer arrives for the Gifted & Exceptional Youth Program—and a woman who calls herself Archer begins ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forty Acres Deep

    by Michael Perry ...
    When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents

    How firefighters and poets, truckers and nurses, soldiers and singers, and other improbable individuals can show you the way in business and creativity

    by Michael Perry ...
    New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship.Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, "The Most Improbable ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Truck

    A Love Story

    by Michael Perry ...
    A part-time emergency medical technician humorously chronicles life in a small Wisconsin town, featuring tales of romance and auto repair.Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Montaigne in Barn Boots

    An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

    by Michael Perry ...
    The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne."The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Peaceful Persistence

    Essays On...

    by Michael Perry ...
    Brief essays by New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry on memorials and mercy, storms and farewells, family and fowl, barnyard ballets, the Sunday night sads, the wisdom of roadies, cucumbers and kindness, quotidian asparagus, appropo malaprops, pickleball, sushi boats and weird TV, the poetics of garlic, contrails, Mobius mind-grooves, quietude, Christmas tree injuries, cats, waffle ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Montaigne in Barn Boots

    An Amateur Ambles through Philosophy

    by Michael Perry ...
    Narrated by Michael Perry ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 13 min

    The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne“The journey began on a gurney,” writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Visiting Tom

    A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

    by Michael Perry ...
    “Somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. This is where Michael Perry lives.”—St. Paul Pioneer Press“Perry can take comfort in the power of his writing, his ability to pull readers from all corners onto his Wisconsin spread, and make them feel right at home.”—Seattle TimesTuesdays ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • My Nights with Leukemia: Caring for Children with Cancer

    Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals, #2

    by Michael W. Perry ...
    Series Book 2 - Hospital Gowns and Other Embarrassments: A Teen Girl's Guide to Hospitals
    This is a moving and realistic look at what it was like to care for children with cancer, particularly leukemia, on night shift in the Hematology-Oncology unit at one of the nation's top children's hospitals.Here are some quotations from the book. The first describes how I felt when I had only seen those children from a distance."I can easily explain why I didn't want to work Hem-Onc. First, look ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Whispering Throne

    Seer of the Reich, #1

    by Michael Perry ...
    Series Book 1 - Seer of the Reich
    In 1545, in a remote Carpathian monastery, a tormented monk carves a throne from black oak felled beneath a blood moon. Its armrests are clawed hands straining to seize, its seat a lattice of thorns, its back an inverted Last Judgment where demons drag screaming angels into hell. Cursed in its final hour by a dying anti-cardinal, the Whispering Throne grants its sitter visions of tomorrow—exactly ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of the Wolfings: The William Morris Book that Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

    by Michael W. Perry ...
    J. R. R. Tolkien fans who long for more of the joy they get from The Lord of the Rings will find it in the writings of William Morris. He created the literature that Tolkien brought to such perfection. As a young man writing his future wife, Tolkien mentioned the inspiration he was getting from Morris: "Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the short stories [of the Finnish Kalevala] . . . ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lily's Ride: Saving her Father from the Ku Klux Klan

    by Michael W. Perry ...
    Lily's Ride dramatizes the nation's first civil rights movement. Set in North Carolina just after the Civil War, it tells of those who bravely defied white supremacy and fought for racial equality.Comfort Servosse is a Union officer who has moved South to make a difference. John Walters is a poor white who wants his daughters to get a good education and has formed an alliance with recently freed ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus