Skip to main content

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...
  • A Covert Affair

    by Susan Mann ...
    Series Book 2 - Librarian/Spy Escapade
    Shelve under: Travel, Romance, Art Theft, Hostages.Librarian and CIA agent-in-training Quinn Ellington and her handsome spy boyfriend James “Bond” Anderson find themselves in the middle of an international incident when the Indian ambassador is kidnapped from a Library of Congress event. The key to saving the ambassador is tangled up with a long-lost sacred library, a desecrated temple, and some ... Read more

    $4.74 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Uncommon Honeymoon

    by Susan Mann ...
    Series Book 3 - Librarian/Spy Escapade
    Shelve under: Spies, Russian, Librarian Spies, Conspiracies.Librarian and rookie CIA covert operative Quinn Ellington revises her honeymoon plans when she and her brand-new spy husband uncover a drug trafficking ring stretching from the Caribbean to St. Petersburg. Turquoise waters, white sand, and intra-agency relations provide a lush backdrop for raiding enemy strongholds, tailing movie stars, ... Read more

    $4.74 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Librarian and the Spy

    by Susan Mann ...
    Series Book 1 - Librarian/Spy Escapade
    A mystery loving librarian gets her very own romantic adventure with a British spy in this humorous romantic suspense.Shelve under: Libraries, Spies, Falling in Love, London.Adventure-hungry Quinn Ellington solves mundane mysteries for library patrons while indulging her taste for intrigue with her favorite spy novels. But her latest research project entangles her in a mission to decode the ... Read more

    $4.74 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Lifeboat 12

    by Susan Hood ...
    Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella by Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy's harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he's one ... Read more

    $19.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarter Tones

    by Susan Mann ...
    The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music.When Ana returns to the ramshackle cottage of her youth in the seaside village of Noordhoek, near Cape Town, she does so with the intention of sorting out her father's affairs. It soon becomes clear that more is at stake. After a decade in London, where she has failed to find work as a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • One Tongue Singing

    by Susan Mann ...
    Camille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and her small daughter, Zara, during the closing years of the apartheid regime. The family settles amongst a wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the System. Interwoven with Camille's story is that of Jake Coleman, a painter with an international ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History

    by Susan L. Mann ...
    Series Book 9 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Don Juan

    by Lord Byron ...
    Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 28 min

    The fairy-tale masterpiece of modernist literature, in a landmark new translation.Thomas Mann’s supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally resonant fairy-tale. Its guileless hero, a “simple young fellow” named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound Swiss ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    The fairy-tale masterpiece of modernist literature, in a landmark new translation.Thomas Mann’s supreme achievement, The Magic Mountain is a novel of astonishing philosophical complexity and formal brilliance. Sometimes forgotten is that it is also, at its heart, an emotionally resonant fairy-tale. Its guileless hero, a “simple young fellow” named Hans Castorp, travels to a snowbound Swiss ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

    PRE-ORDER

  • The Marble Faun

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the 'Marble Faun', Miriam, Hilda, ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD