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  • Paris in the Dark

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Series Book 4 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
    A novel of murder and espionage during the First World War: "Rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill."― The Tampa Bay TimesAutumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hot Country

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Series Book 1 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
    A US war correspondent is plunged into the Mexican civil war in “a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage” by the Pulitzer Prize winner (CNN.com).Undaunted by enemy territory and sweltering heat, Christopher “Kit” Marlowe Cobb, the fearless American newspaper journalist, has arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1914. The country is rocked by civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz, and the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hemingway Valise

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Series Book 34 - Bibliomysteries
    An American spy in Paris solves a legendary mystery as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "thrilling historical series" continues ( The Wall Street Journal).Former Chicago journalist turned globe-trotting spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb has already lived many lives—from London to Mexico to Berlin—when he returns to France in 1922. Where better to work on his novel than among such literary ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Empire of Night

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Series Book 3 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
    "A cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot . . . Butler's elegant writing elevates the book." — Tampa Bay TimesIn the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler captured the hearts of historical crime fiction fans with the artfulness ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Late City

    A Novel

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author shares an "exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait" of one man's troubled century ( Booklist, starred review).At 115 years old, former newspaperman Sam Cunningham is also the last surviving veteran of World War I. As he prepares to die in a Chicago nursing home, the results of the 2016 presidential election come in—and he ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Wartime Lives

    by Robert Olen Butler, Tom Bissell, Benjamin Percy, Charles Johnson, Maile Meloy, Tim O'Brien ...
    Narrated by Kathleen Chalfant, Oskar Eustis, Dylan Baker, Keith Szarabajka, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ted Marcoux ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon ... Read more

    $38.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Small Hotel

    A Novel

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes this "fascinating . . . intense portrayal of the collapse of a marriage . . . [that] delivers a surprising charge" (Jane Smiley, The Washington Post).An O, The Oprah Magazine "Summer Reading List" pickSet in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mr. Spaceman

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    "A surprisingly sweet and droll first-person account of the vexed attempts of an alien to understand the bafflingly unpredictable human race." — Kirkus ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author "raises fin de siècle literature to new heights and turns inevitability on its head" in a novel of an alien named Desi ( Publishers Weekly).For decades, Desi has kept a quiet vigil above the Earth while ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renew: A Missional Movement for the None, Done, and Undone

    A DIY Manual for Kingdom Expansion

    by Robert Butler ...
    The RENEW idea was born out of this experience, our reluctance to accept the status quo and the understanding that the American institutional church of our fathers is crumbling. While we admit some church expressions are thriving, many are only the result of transfer growth of those who are discontent. While the 'cool' factor may bring them in, we know there's not a fog machine, a strobe light, a ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Perfume River

    A Novel

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    A powerful novel of a family haunted by the aftershocks of the Vietnam War—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain."You share a war in one way. You pass it on in another." Passionate student activism brought Robert Quinlan together with his future wife during the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War.But since then, the long-married Florida university ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana" ( People).A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Star of Istanbul

    by Robert Olen Butler ...
    Series Book 2 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
    An intrepid reporter boards the Lusitania in a "vivid . . . ripping good" spy thriller from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Wall Street Journal).It's 1915, World War I is in full swing, and foreign correspondent Christopher "Kit" Marlowe Cobb is tasked with following a German intellectual and possible secret service agent who's just boarded the British ocean liner Lusitania. But Cobb is ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus