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  • Fire Season

    Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

    " Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it."—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar"[Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading."—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Wrong Places

    A Life Lost and Found

    The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Mountain Knows the Mountain

    A Fire Watch Diary

    A poignant and ruminative work of creative nonfiction by the bestselling, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author of Fire Season. The Mountain Knows the Mountain tells the story of the writer's return to the Gila Wilderness for fire season after missing a year for multiple surgeries. Reminiscent in spirit and lyricism to great works from Peter Matthiesen, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    A Song for the River

    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season―a story of calamity and resilience in the world’s first wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter and forever changed the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region

    Series series Regions and Cities
    The development of the information technology (IT) industry in the Asia Pacific region faces two challenges. Firstly, can its established physical, technical, regional and governance infrastructures be adapted to meet the challenges embedded in the set of products and processes created by the IT industry? Secondly, as this adaptation evolves, which cities and regions will be best suited to connect ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Leo

    A Very Modern Taoiseach

    Leo Varadkar's rise to the office of Taoiseach is a remarkable tale from any perspective, taking in personal struggle and political intrigue. The son of an Indian immigrant, this outspoken young politician came out as gay amid the full glare of Ireland's media, before orchestrating a secret two-year campaign to become leader of the country. Along the way, he put his political career on the line to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True Ministers of Christ Accredited by the Holy Spirit: A Sermon

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Guiding Light of Spiritual Ministers in Christianity

    In "The True Ministers of Christ Accredited by the Holy Spirit: A Sermon," Philip Gell presents a compelling exploration of divine calling within the ecclesiastical framework of early 19th-century Christianity. The text is characterized by Gell's eloquent prose and passionate rhetoric, aimed at asserting the legitimacy of those truly chosen to disseminate the teachings of Christ. Engaging deeply ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steiner's Tour

    Philip O'Connor's second book was rejected by numerous publishers despite his earlier success with Memoirs of a Public Baby--published by Faber & Faber in the UK. Dorothy Parker said of O'Connor, "always being outside society [he] saw into it with blinding clearness." Despite not being a success along the lines of Lolita or The Ginger Man, Steiner's Tour is a quality Olympia selection, and one we ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    PeterPan And Wendy - The Beginning

    The story of Peter Pan begins

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and then straight on till morning. You know the story... and if you don't, please start listening immediately! But this is the earliest form of the book. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants

    by Richard Mabey ...
    "[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways….You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again."—Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder"In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due."—Carl Zimmer, author of EvolutionRichard Mabey, Great Britain's Britain's "greatest living nature writer" ( London Times), ... Read more

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  • The Wilderness Warrior

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

    From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement.In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life ... Read more

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  • The Hidden World of the Fox

    by Adele Brand ...
    A mammal ecologist's "ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature . . . by turns lyrical, salty, funny and scholarly" ( The New York Times Book Review).The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is the nature's most populous carnivore, its dancing orange tail a common sight in backyards. Yet who is this wild neighbor, truly? How ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus