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  • Becoming a Mountain

    Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime

    by Stephen Alter ...
    Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul.Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife, Ameeta, now live. Their idyllic existence was brutally interrupted when four ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Dalliance of Leopards

    A Thriller

    by Stephen Alter ...
    A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia.Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord-faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu-has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language

    by Stephen G. Alter ...
    Series Book 123 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Linguistics, or the science of language, emerged as an independent field of study in the nineteenth century, amid the religious and scientific ferment of the Victorian era. William Dwight Whitney, one of that period's most eminent language scholars, argued that his field should be classed among the social sciences, thus laying a theoretical foundation for modern sociolinguistics.William Dwight ... Read more

    $69.29 CAD

  • The Phantom Isles

    by Stephen Alter ...
    When three sixth-graders break into the town library to read aloud from a book of sorcery, little do they know they are about to raise the dead. The spirits they conjure are trapped within the pages of library books, and must now rely on the children and their determined librarian to set them free. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Ghost Letters

    by Stephen Alter ...
    When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. Through the help of an English genie and a phantom postman, the two children begin to communicate with another boy, a young calligrapher's apprentice who lived 125 years ago in an Indian village.Writing back and forth, ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • The Rataban Betrayal

    A Novel

    by Stephen Alter ...
    On India's frontier with Tibet, peace is just a façade and security a myth.The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top-secret facility facing the snow-clad Himalayas, India’s legendary ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel's father, an East German culture attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976.But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. Maier follows Julia's trail to the Laotian capital Vientiane, where he learns different parties, including ... Read more

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  • Uriel Through Eleanor

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    Uriel “Uri” Katz, World War Two veteran, concentration camp liberator, devout atheist, contrarian, cynic and lifelong bachelor, places an ad in a newspaper seeking a “typist” to assist him in writing his memoir and receives only one reply, from a woman, named Eleanor, who negotiates a deal with him that includes room and board.Within days of her arrival, Eleanor begins inserting herself into Uri’s ... Read more

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  • The Seminarian

    by Hart Hanson ...
    From the creator of the TV show Bones, The Seminarian is a twisty murder mystery perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen.Xavier “Priest” Priestly is a snarky former seminarian turned private investigator. Dusty Queen is a hard-as-nails professional stuntwoman and freelance bodyguard. When Dusty’s girlfriend suddenly disappears, a woman in a strange blue wig tries to assassinate Priest ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Shitamachi Scam

    by Michael Pronko ...
    After the suspicious deaths of a seventy-something woman and a student recluse, Detective Hiroshi tracks down a gang of scammers who target retirees, robbing them of their life savings. Hiroshi teams up with Detective Ishii, who's been running a women's crime task force. Together, they find out who has been ripping off the pensions, retirement accounts, and even the deeds to homes. The gang ... Read more

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  •  Impervious

    A Sean McPherson Novel, Book 3

    by Laurie Buchanan ...
    Series Book 3 - A Sean McPherson Novel
    In the village of Fairhaven—nestled between Washington state’s Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers’ retreat Pines & Quill,—friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton. Sean has been working with the FBI and local police to help solve crimes, particularly murders bearing the mark of crime boss Georgio “The Bull” Gambino. Emma, who has just ... Read more

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  • A Private View

    by Michael Innes ...
    Series Book 13 - The Inspector Appleby Mysteries
    From a British Golden Age author "in a class by himself among detective story writers," Sir John Appleby solves an art world crime ( The Times Literary Supplement).When Sir John Appleby is persuaded by Lady Appleby to attend an art exhibit, he believes he is only appeasing his wife, a sculptress herself, and quite the art collector, too. But when Appleby learns the show is a memorial exhibition ... Read more

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