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  • Remembering Detroit's Olympia Stadium

    by Robert Wimmer ...
    Series series Images of America
    For over a half century Olympia Stadium was THE entertainment venue in Detroit. Almost every major sports and entertainment event was played there. The major tenant was the Detroit Red Wings. Most of the major touring ice shows also skated at the Olympia; great entertainers such as Elvis, the Beatles, KISS, Isaac Hayes, Alice Cooper, Lawrence Welk, John Denver, the Lone Ranger, and the ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detroit's Olympia Stadium

    by Robert Wimmer ...
    Series series Images of America
    Also known as the Old Red Barn, Olympia Stadium was the largest rink in the United States when it opened in Detroit on October 22,1927. Robert Wimmer has compiled over 200 historic photographs and detailed captions for this new book, that follows the life of a sporting and entertainment landmark in the Motor City until its demolition in 1986. For over half a century, the Olympia Stadium hosted ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Little Lumpen Novelita

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    Series series
    “An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books“[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New RepublicNow I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So begins the story of Bianca, whom a car crash has overnight left an orphan and, only a teenager herself, a caregiver to her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • 2666

    A Novel

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    Series series
    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Savage Detectives

    A Novel

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    Series series
    The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.National BestsellerNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Antwerp

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    “Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review“A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New YorkerOften called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years old, it was so ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Cowboy Graves

    Three Novellas

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    One more voyage to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of Latin American literature.Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as a friend disappears in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Posthumous Stories

    Translated by Chris Andrews, Natasha Wimmer ...
    Series series
    “One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth . . . [Bolaño] follows his restless talent down every available rabbit hole.” —Sam Anderson, New York“When I read Roberto Bolaño, I think: Everything is possible again.” —Nicole Krauss, author of To Be a Man. . . because stories like this don’t have an ending . . .Gathering the short works, in various states of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Night Time Story

    Illustrated by Sonja Wimmer ...
    Winner at the 2013 IPPY AwardsThis tale visits the magic moment, when all of the things we imagine, all of the things we dream, parade before our eyes…Guided Reading Level: L, Lexile Level: 790L ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Third Reich

    A Novel

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town.Late one night, Charly disappears ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Woes of the True Policeman

    Narrated by André Santana ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 31 min

    Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. This program is read by award-winning narrator André Santana.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Little Lumpen Novelita

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    “An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books“[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New RepublicNow I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So begins the story of Bianca, whom a car crash has overnight left an orphan and, only a teenager herself, a caregiver to her ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD