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  • Island

    The Complete Stories

    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: "The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless."—Colm TóibínThe sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years.A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan

    Volume One

    Series Book 1 - Exile Classics series
    Eighty-five stories by one of Canada's greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan's short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section providing the year of publication for each story, a question-and-answer section, and comprehensive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NEVER DIE WONDERING

    ALISTAIR MACLEOD STORY

    This book is an incredible Australian story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life, who has overcome seemly insurmountable obstacles to succeed in living his dreams and accomplishing his ambitions.Alistair Macleod’s memoirs, is a true story of a man who decided to live life to the full. You will been chanted as you follow his adventurous life of travel and living from the city to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembrance

    From the internationally celebrated author of No Great Mischief comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war.In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, stands outside his Cape Breton home, preparing to attend what will likely be his last Remembrance Day ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories

    Series series New Canadian Library
    The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

    The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To Every Thing There Is a Season

    A Cape Breton Christmas Story

    The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Son of a Highlander

    Son of a Highlander is the true story of the author, a third-generation Australian of Scottish Highland descent discovering his ancestral history over eight generations, from father to son. This is a search for authenticity of a verbal story handed down over a two-hundred-year period, along with a 1797 penny and a collection of photos and correspondence that are one hundred years old, which were ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • NEVER DIE WONDERING II

    A Sailing Odyssey

    In the first book Never Die Wondering - Alistair Macleod story, you learned how the author was forced to leave his beloved cattle property in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, due to the worst drought in living memory.What happened next?Undaunted, Alistair continued his adventurous life exploring countries throughout the world with the likes of Papua New Guinea that is regarded by many travellers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Universal Human Rights

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Paul Tillich (1973)

    An Essay on the Role of Ontology in his Philosophical Theology

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, this is the first book on Paul Tillich in which a sustained attempt is made to sort out and evaluate the questions to which Tillich addresses himself in the crucial philosophical parts of his theological system. It is argued that despite the apparent simplicity in his interest in the ‘question of being’, Tillich in fact conceives of the ontological enterprise in a number ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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