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  • The True History of Tea

    A lively and beautifully illustrated history of tea, one of the world’s favorite beverages, and its uses through the ages.World-renowned scholar of Chinese history Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to spill the tea on this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present and from East to West.This accessible and entertaining history of tea makes use of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mostly Murder

    First published in 1959, this is the autobiography of one of the greatest authorities ever on forensic medicine, who was a contemporary and, from time to time, a courtroom opponent of Sir Bernard Spilsbury.The author describes his early days in New Zealand, his days in Edinburgh and his First World War experiences in Egypt. In 1928 he returned to Edinburgh as Professor of Forensic Medicine and, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Perry Mason Mysteries Volume One

    The Case of the Lazy Lover, The Case of the Lonely Heiress, and The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

    Series series The Perry Mason Mysteries
    From the Edgar Award winner, a collection of mysteries from the long-running, bestselling mystery series that inspired the HBO hit starring Matthew Rhys.The Case of the Lazy LoverPerry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allred. When he speaks with Lola's husband, he discovers the woman has run off with her daughter's boyfriend—who happens to be an important witness ... Read more

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  • The Erl King's Daughter

    by Joan Aiken ...
    Illustrated by Paul Warren ...
    Kimballs Green Junior School's newest student is more than a little strange—in fact, she might be the feared daughter of the Erl King!Kevin loves sharing the stories his grandmother used to tell him about trolls and witches with his school friends. His favorite tale is about a scary spook named the Erl King who rides on a black horse at night. But when a new student, Nora Scull, arrives at ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crows Can't Count

    Crows Can't Count by Erle Stanley Gardner (as A. A. Fair), a Cool and Lam mystery, complete and unabridged."Lam couldn't be better and Bertha Cool gracefully supplies backstage obbligato of screams and objurgations. Plot excellent; track fast. Verdict: A-1"—The Saturday ReviewMurder comes in many sizes. If you are a detective your job is to wrap it up, in a neat bundle. Sometimes you do. But, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True History of Tea

    A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages.World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Case of the Lonely Heiress

    Series Book 2 - The Perry Mason Mysteries
    From the "kingpin among mystery writers," a fight over a rich man's will turns deadly in this mystery in the series that inspired the hit HBO show ( The New York Times ).From Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner, a mystery in his bestselling, long-running series and the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany.Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Wall Too High

    One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison

    by Xu Hongci ...
    Translated by Erling Hoh ...
    "The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China." —Xiaolu Guo, author of Nine ContinentsXu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his days studying to be a professor and going to the movies with his girlfriend. He was also an idealistic and loyal member of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spill the Jackpot

    Series Book 4 - The Bertha Cool and Donald Lam Mysteries
    The diminutive detective and his bulldog of a boss head to Las Vegas to find a runaway bride in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.Donald Lam and Bertha Cool make for a couple of unlikely detectives. Donald is a charming ex-lawyer in his thirties who may lack brawn but makes up for it in brains. Bertha, meanwhile, is a fifty-something-year-old widow who won't take lip from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Court of Last Resort

    The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted

    Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silence

    In the Age of Noise

    by Erling Kagge ...
    Translated by Becky L. Crook ...
    What is silence?Where can it be found?Why is it now more important than ever?In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Turn on the Heat

    Meet the brash and irresistible Bertha Cool and Donald Lam—the iconic detective duo who stars in this classic crime novel from the creator of Perry Mason.Hired by a mysterious “Mr. Smith” to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter. Meanwhile, Bertha ... Read more

    $7.99 USD