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  • The Law of Dreams

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Peter Behrens's bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience. The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond -- to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Peter Behrens Novels Ebook Bundle

    The Law of Dreams, The O’Briens, and Carry Me

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Series Book 1 - A Peter Behrens Collection
    An exclusive ebook bundle of Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Peter Behrens’ acclaimed novels.Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carry Me

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Set during the decades between the First and Second World Wars, Carry Me is a devastating historical saga about war, love, and escape, from the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author of The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens.Carry Me begins in 1909 on the Isle of Wight, England, and follows Billy Lange, the son of the skipper of a racing yacht belonging to a wealthy German-Jewish baron. Over ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The O'Briens

    by Peter Behrens ...
    The O'Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his brothers and sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travelling Light

    by Peter Behrens ...
    From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other.Moving from the magisterial streets of Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York City to ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Carry Me

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 8 min

    The award-winning author of The O'Briens and The Law of Dreams now gives us a devastating novel of love and family set in the violent years between 1914 and 1938 as Europe staggers between two world wars. Our narrator is Billy: born to a German father and Irish mother on the Isle of Wight summer estate of the German-Jewish Baron von Weinbrenner. This is the story of Billy and the baron's ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The O'Briens

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime

    Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The main goal of the book is to provide a systematic and didactic approach to the physics and technology of free-electron lasers. Numerous figures are used for illustrating the underlying ideas and concepts and links to other fields of physics are provided. After an introduction to undulator radiation and the low-gain FEL, the one-dimensional theory of the high-gain FEL is developed in a ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Couple Checkup

    Find Your Relationship Strengths

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    A book and online profile that identifies a couple's strengths to help them build a more vital relationship.Based on an unprecedented national survey of 50,000 marriages, The Couple Checkup presents the principles for creating a successful couple relationship. The free online profile includes fifteen to twenty categories that are customized based on the relationship stage-whether dating, engaged, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    A Biography of a Novelist, Writer, and Student of the Human Condition

    Narrated by John Behrens ...
    Series series Christian Encounters Series

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar. Then the drums rolled, signaling that instead he was to be exiled to the living death of Siberia.Siberia was so cold the mercury froze in the thermometer. In ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    The Last Days of Dogtown

    A Novel

    by Anita Diamant ...
    Narrated by Kate Nelligan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    “An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review).Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann in the early 1800s, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Purchase

    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family' s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus