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  • Sir Frederick Handley Page

    The Life of a Groundbreaking Aircraft Designer as Revealed in His Own Words

    by Frank Vann ...
    Sir Frederick Handley Page’s aviation career began after his dismissal from Johnson & Phillips Ltd. for unauthorized aircraft experiments. Undeterred, he founded his own company, building his first aircraft in a shed on marshland. From these humble beginnings, Handley Page became one of the 20th century's most significant aircraft manufacturers, designing models pivotal in both world wars.His ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Before Memory

    by David Vann ...
    **A discontented great-grandmother unleashes chaos across post-apocalyptic California in this “furiously funny” (Colum McCann) and moving adventureThis scorching take on power in America is Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery meets Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster: imagine a Mad Max caravan led by a bloodthirsty Betty White!**America in the near future is the same, but worse. There’s no national or state ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Equity and Trusts in Australia

    by M. W. Bryan, V. J. Vann, S. Barkehall Thomas ...
    Equity and Trusts in Australia offers an accessible introduction to the principles of Australian equity and trusts law for students, linking key doctrines to their wider relationship with the law. The text covers foundational topics of equity and trusts law, including the nature of equity, fiduciary relationships and trust structures. This edition has been revised to include recent landmark ... Read more

    $106.39 CAD

  • Legend of a Suicide

    Stories

    by David Vann ...
    “The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”—New York Times Book ReviewIn Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Goat Mountain

    A Novel

    by David Vann ...
    In David Vann’s searing novel Goat Mountain, an 11-year-old boy at his family’s annual deer hunt is eager to make his first kill. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle. With this simple gesture, tragedy erupts, shattering lives irrevocably.In prose devastating and beautiful in its precision, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sukkwan Island

    A Novella from Legend of a Suicide

    by David Vann ...
    In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Aquarium

    by David Vann ...
    From the award-winning author of Legend of a Suicide: "A kind of modern fairy tale . . . Vann's novels are striking, uncompromising portraits of American life" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).David Vann's dazzling debut Legend of a Suicide was reviewed in over a 150 major global publications, won eleven prizes worldwide, was on forty "best books of the year" lists, and established its author as ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An American Immigrant

    A Novel

    by Johanna Rojas  Vann ...
    **CHRISTY AWARD WINNER • A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she’d go—Colombia—in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories.“A beautiful homage to a mother’s bravery and to the grace and grit that is our inheritance.”—Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What Future Are You Willing To Wake Up To?: How to Create Your Life With Awareness, Choice, and Daily Practice

    A 100 Day Journey

    by Becky Vannes ...
    What future are you willing to wake up to?What Future Are You Willing To Wake Up To? is a transformational guided workbook created to help you reconnect with your choices, your awareness, and the life you are truly willing to create.This workbook is not about fixing yourself. It is about waking up to what is possible when you begin choosing from clarity, trust, and personal power instead of fear, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Leicester Gap

    The Last Semaphore Signalling on the Midland Main Line

    by Michael A. Vanns ...
    An analysis of the history and legacy of Victorian operating practices and how their replacement ended an era in British railway history.Until 1987, there was still a busy stretch of British main line railway where traditional Victorian operating practices were used to control the movements of both express passenger and a variety of freight trains.At the heart of the former Midland Railway main ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Halibut on the Moon

    A Novel

    by David Vann ...
    "[An] affecting novel of a man grappling with deep depression…A moving portrait of a family dealing with loss before it happens."— Kirkus ReviewsMiddle-aged and deeply depressed, Jim arrives in California from Alaska and surrenders himself to the care of his brother Gary, who intends to watch over him. Swinging unpredictably from manic highs to extreme lows, Jim wanders ghost-like through the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burden of Southern History

    by C. Vann Woodward ...
    C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD