Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in Canada

Showing 1 - 12 of 15 results for “robert hough”
Skip side bar filters

  • Anarchists in Love

    A Novel

    by Robert Hough ...
    In this compelling novel, acclaimed author Robert Hough recreates the political violence and revolutionary idealism that flowed through New York City during the Gilded Age of the 1890s. At its centre are real-life revolutionists Emma Goldman and Alexander “Sasha” Berkman, whose passionate love affair fuels their commitment to creating a better world.Following their chance meeting at a New York ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

    A Novel

    by Robert Hough ...
    Meet the Tiger Queen—in this "extravagantly entertaining" novel based on the wild life of the famous animal trainer and circus celebrity ( The Boston Globe).In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dr. Brinkley's Tower

    by Robert Hough ...
    Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: FictionBonus e-book content includes two out-takes from the novel -- how Antonio Garcia got his beautiful horse and how Miguel Orozco became mayor -- and two essays by Robert Hough: the true history of Dr. Brinkley and Robert Hough's decades-long infatuation with Mexico.Equal parts Mark Twain and ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan

    by Robert Hough ...
    The Sisters Brothers meets Master and Commander in Robert Hough’s rollicking and raucous new historical novel.The year is 1664, and Benny Wand, a young thief and board game hustler, is arrested in London for illegal gaming. Deported to the city of Port Royal, Jamaica, known as “the wickedest city on earth,” Wand is forced by his depleted circumstances to join a raid on the Spanish city of ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Marriage of Rose Camilleri

    by Robert Hough ...
    An illuminating portrait of an unconventional marriage by bestselling and critically acclaimed author Robert Hough.When Rose Camilleri and Scotty Larkin meet, neither expects to spend a lifetime together, navigating a sometimes turbulent marriage and scraping through the process of raising a family. When he first enters the bakery where she works, she is a new arrival from the tiny island nation ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

    by Robert Hough ...
    In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Stowaway

    by Robert Hough ...
    The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based on real-life events. The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways. He presents them to his officers, fully expecting that they’ll be put to work or else dropped off at the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Culprits

    by Robert Hough ...
    Hank Wallins is a broken man working the night shift in a meaningless job. Tormented by the tinnitus constantly ringing in his ears, he sleepwalks through life, too scarred by a tragic love affair to try again. When a madman pushes him into the path of an oncoming subway train, this scrape with death re-awakens Hank to the world. Craving a reengagement with passion, he reaches out to a young ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Day the Rebels Came to Town

    by Robert Hough ...
    Series series Good Reads
    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. The year is 1920, and all of Mexico is at war with itself. Gangs of rebels roam the country, stealing money, food, and horses. Carlos is twenty-eight years old. He works in his father's cafe. One day, a gang rides into Carlo's village. When the gang leaves, they ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • 100 Westerns

    A Classic Anthology of Frontier Adventures, Cattle Drives, Range Wars, Outlaws, and Wilderness Survival

    by Zane Grey, Max Brand, Jack London, R. M. Ballantyne, Frank H. Spearman, Randall Parrish, Jackson Gregory, James Oliver Curwood, Dane Coolidge, Edward S. Ellis, James Fenimore Cooper, Ann S. Stephens, Bertha Muzzy Sinclair-Cowan, B. M. Bower, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, Willa Cather, Andy Adams, Charles Alden Seltzer, Emerson Hough, Charles Siringo, Robert W. Chambers, Marah Ellis Ryan, Frederic Homer Balch, Forrestine C. Hooker, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King ...
    100 Westerns surveys the American West as both a geographical frontier and a durable imaginative terrain. Ranging from adventure tale, frontier romance, outlaw narrative, mining and ranching chronicle, detective-inflected yarn, and historical fiction to psychologically nuanced regional writing, the volume reveals the Western's remarkable formal elasticity. Its selections move among cattle trails, ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Changing Attitudes to Punishment

    Edited by Julian Roberts, Mike Hough ...
    Throughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of chapters from leading authorities in the field, is concerned to address this problem, and draws upon ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Probation Round the World

    Edited by Koichi Hamai, Robert Harris, Mike Hough, Renaud Ville, Ugljesa Zvekic ...
    Whilst they retain a recognisable common core, probation systems round the world are enormously varied, and many are in a state of rapid change. Probation Round the World is a study of probation in ten countries, ranging from the well-resourced and heavily professionalised services of Britain and the old Commonwealth to the reliance on lay-supervisors in Japan and the community-based system which ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD