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  • Our Dry Cellar

    Lessons in Military Logistics from the Afghanistan War

    by John Conrad ...
    Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardship and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Yet military logisticians in the Canadian Armed Forces have suffered in the cellar — the underappreciated bottom of the institution — for decades. These soldiers were called upon mightily in the summer ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Among the Walking Wounded

    Soldiers, Survival, and PTSD

    by John Conrad ...
    A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Innocents of the Earth

    by John Conrad ...
    The beliefs and faith of a young priest and professor at American University, Father William Evers, are threatened upon learning the truth of his own sister's abortion and the news of her devastating suicide.In an effort to help the young cleric cope with his grief and meet the test of his faith, his mentor recommends him for an assignment as the Vatican's representative to investigate the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • What the Thunder Said

    Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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    Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Narrated by John Murphy ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    Nostromo

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 17 min

    Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation’s violent revolution and one hero’s moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his faithful longshoreman, Nostromo, a local hero of sorts ... Read more

    $39.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns

    An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping

    by Lieutenant-Colonel John Conrad ...
    In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Ultimate Western Collection

    by B. M. Bower, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, Unknown Parties, Emerson Hough, Zane Grey, Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, James Oliver Curwood, John Galsworthy, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, O. Henry, Robert E. Howard, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, Willa Cather ...
    «The Ultimate Western Collection», by B. M. Bower, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marcel Proust, Unknown Parties, Emerson Hough. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: Andy Adams ; Cattle Brands ; The Double Trail ; Rangering ; The Ransom Of Don Ramon Mora. ... Read more

    $0.68 CAD

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol - 3

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Her Majesty's Servants, How Fear Came, Red Dog, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Lew Wallace, Virginia Woolf ...
    «50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol - 3», by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: 1. What's Bred in the Bone - Grant Allen ; 2. The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius ; 3. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius ; The First Book ; ... Read more

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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Honoré de Balzac, Henri Barbusse, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Samuel Butler, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, Kate Chopin, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, E.M.Forster, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Maiden No More, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Suffering During Sleep, ARRESTING THE VICTIMS, Aldous Huxley, Henry James ...
    This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Her Majesty's Servants, How Fear Came, Red Dog, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Lew Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, R. Austin Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Priest And His Disciples Shaw Translation (Unabridged)

    by HYAKUZŌ KURATA ...
    Narrated by John Conrad ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    At the age of twenty-six , the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" . This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran and quickly became immensely popular. Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism , encounters the poor family of Hino ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD