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  • Audiobook

    Short Stories of the Great War - Volume III

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets.Yet the short story is perhaps their equal in other ways. Within these succinct little time capsules of words are captured ideas, attitudes, feelings and life that are expressed in a few pages just as movingly, imaginatively and tellingly as in any other form.Some of these stories ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sportswriter

    Bascombe Trilogy (1)

    by Richard Ford ...
    Series Book 1 - Bascombe Trilogy
    In this “powerful” blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life.As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people—men, mostly—who live entirely within themselves. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • Between Them

    Remembering My Parents

    by Richard Ford ...
    From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of memory and parental loveHow is it that we come to consider our parents as people with rich and intense lives that include but also exclude us? Richard Fords parents-Edna, a feisty, pretty Catholic-school girl with a difficult past; and Parker, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken traveling salesman-were ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Be Mine

    A Frank Bascombe Novel

    by Richard Ford ...
    Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colourful roles—sportswriter, father, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Let Me Be Frank With You

    by Richard Ford ...
    A quartet of masterful novellas that returns Richard Ford to the territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the life of Frank Bascombe, hero of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Independence Day.Richard Ford introduced the world to his protean literary everyman, Frank Bascombe, aspiring novelist turned sportswriter turned real estate agent, in his 1986 masterpiece The Sportswriter. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dress Codes

    How the Laws of Fashion Made History

    A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressing like princes ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Rock Springs

    by Richard Ford ...
    Ten "beautifully imagined and crafted stories" of the American West by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day (Joyce Carol Oates).In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford explores the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West and the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kirk & Bistner's Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment

    Provide expert care for cats and dogs! Kirk and Bistner's Handbook of Veterinary Procedures and Emergency Treatment, 9th Edition covers not only the management of emergency conditions, but also strategies for dealing with hundreds of routine diagnostic and treatment challenges in small animals. Its user-friendly format provides instant access to vital information -- making it an ideal resource in ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Ultimate Good Luck

    by Richard Ford ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter comes a novel of menace and eroticism set in Oaxaca, Mexico. • "His prose has a taut, cinematic quality that bathes his story with the same hot, mercilessly white light that scorches Mexico." —The New York Times Book ReviewIn this novel, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Vintage Ford

    by Richard Ford ...
    An ideal introduction to the "Babe Ruth of novelists" (The Washington Post Book World) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day and The Sportswriter. • “One of the country’s best writers…. No one looks harder at contemporary American life, sees more, or expresses it with such hushed, deliberate care.” —San Francisco ChronicleRichard Ford is the first writer to receive both the ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Independence Day

    by Richard Ford ...
    Series Book 2 - Bascombe Trilogy
    Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved along with their children to Connecticut. But Frank is happy enough in his work and pursuing various civic and entrepreneurial sidelines. He has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend: a search for ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Wildlife

    by Richard Ford ...
    Great Falls, Montana, is where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies. ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD