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  • Knock Off The Hat

    A Clifford Waterman Gay Philly Mystery

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    It’s steaming August 1947, in post-war Philadelphia.Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for “an indecent act with a native” in Cairo, can’t go back to his job as a police detective, and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He’s soon hired to help a young man caught in a gay bar raid who can’t afford the $500 bribe a corrupt judge demands to make a ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Crooked Adam

    by D.E. Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Richard Attlee ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war - for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an ... Read more

    $54.77 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bature! West African Haikai

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese imagist sequences. It records a journey undertaken by the author and his family in a Volkswagen, c 1980, from northeastern Nigeria down to Lagos in the southwest and up the west coast of West Africa through Benin and Togo. With characteristic wit it exposes the neocolonial ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Knock Off the Hat

    A Clifford Waterman Gay Philly Mystery

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    Lambda Literary Award-winning author delves into the sudden and extraordinary wave of gay-bashing in 1940s Philadelphia.It's steaming August in post-war Philadelphia. Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for "an indecent act with a native" in Cairo, can't go back to his job as a police detective and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He's soon hired to ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Pirate Super Pack # 2

    by Richard Glasspoole, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Esquemeling, Howard Pyle, G. A. Henty, Harry Collingwood, W. B. Lord, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, R. M. Ballantyne ...
    Series Book 9 - Positronic Super Pack Series
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the great Pirate novels and a number of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure in 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'A Brush with the Chinese' by G. A. Henty, and 'The Madman and the Pirate' by R.M. Ballantyne. Authors include Howard Pyle, W. B. Lord, Harry Collingwood, Richard Glasspoole, and many others. This is the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Calvin: The Statesman

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    As the title suggests, Stevenson takes a rare view of Calvin as statesman, analyzing not only his theological influence, but his impact on government, legislation and organization of the Church. The prologue declares, The most permanent contributions of Calvins genius lay less in the line of theology than of statesmanship. Calvin cherished the belief that the Reformation could be accomplished only ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

  • Beatson's Mutiny

    The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Windfall Apples

    Tanka and Kyoka

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyoka mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • The Psychology of Hunger and Starvation

    by Richard J. Stevenson ...
    Hunger and starvation have significantly shaped the human condition. The imprints of past famines continue to cast lasting shadows on our evolutionary relationship with food, highlighting starvation as a powerful cognitive force. This book explores the nature of human hunger primarily from a psychological perspective, covering its basis in the brain, its critical dependence on learning and memory, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Dead Men Tell No Tales - 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventure Classics

    Epic Pirate Sagas & Treasures of the Golden Age Sea

    by Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson0, Sir Walter Scott1, Richard Le Gallienne2, Edgar Allan Poe3, Jack London4, Jules Verne5, Charles Boardman Hawes6, J. M. Barrie7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Frederick Marryat9, R. M. Ballantyne0, Charles Dickens1, L. Frank Baum2, J. Allan Dunn3, Robert E. Howard4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Alexandre Dumas6, William Hope Hodgson7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, Harold MacGrath9, Harry Collingwood0, W. H. G. Kingston1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3 ...
    This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Gold-Bug (Edgar A. Poe) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Hearts of Three (Jack London) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Egoist

    by George Meredith ...
    In The Egoist, his comic masterpiece, George Meredith takes the traditional marriage plot of English domestic fiction and turns it on its head. The novel describes the repeated and disastrous courtships of Sir Willoughby Patterne, the egoist of the title. Three women become engaged to Sir Willoughby, but, despite his aristocratic arrogance and the manipulative power of his wealth, each is finally ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures

    Blackbeard, Captain Blood, Facing the Flag, Treasure Island, The Gold-Bug, Captain Singleton…

    by Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson0, Sir Walter Scott1, Richard Le Gallienne2, Edgar Allan Poe3, Jack London4, Jules Verne5, Charles Boardman Hawes6, J. M. Barrie7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Frederick Marryat9, R. M. Ballantyne0, Charles Dickens1, L. Frank Baum2, J. Allan Dunn3, Robert E. Howard4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Alexandre Dumas6, William Hope Hodgson7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, Harold MacGrath9, Harry Collingwood0, W. H. G. Kingston1, G. A. Henty2, Joseph Lewis French3 ...
    The 'The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures' serves as a treasure chest of maritime narratives, uniting a spectrum of voices that sail across various oceans of literary styles and epochs. This anthology not only recounts high-seas adventures but also plumbs the depths of human ambition, camaraderie, and betrayal. From swashbuckling pirates to stoic ... Read more

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