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  • Spying on America

    by Bill Gaston ...
    On a June morning in 2022, Bill Gaston drives off the Victoria–Port Angeles ferry in a rented Dodge Charger with his two sons. Born in the USA but “Canadian through and through,” Gaston is on a road trip to Tabor, Iowa, the town founded by his great, great, great-grandparents as the westernmost hub of the Underground Railroad.The Gastons’ eleven-day trip to Tabor and back takes them up and down ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Order of Good Cheer

    by Bill Gaston ...
    Indian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia). As winter looms, two threats emerge: boredom amongst the men and the deadly sickness scurvy. Champlain hits upon the idea of a moveable feast -- an order of "good cheer" -- where nobles and men can enjoy good local food, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Body

    by Bill Gaston ...
    The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be killing him. Bobby returns to his hometown and scams his way into university in a misguided attempt to redeem his messy past and lay emotional claim to a son he ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Juliet Was a Surprise

    by Bill Gaston ...
    Bill Gaston’s characteristic keen insight and wit dazzle in this new collection. Here, we see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a bank executive whose excellent sex life might in fact be killing her, an amorous tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his “patients” than to other people, a vacationing schizophrenic wary of his housemates, a pizza-delivery boy convinced he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage

    Stories

    by Bill Gaston ...
    "In this new collection Gaston's range is so wide, his technique so masterful, his tenderness, humour and intelligence so finely measured that he stops my heart."--Barbara GowdyA Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage is populated by the lonely and alienated, holders of secrets, members (or would-be members) of shadowy organizations, screw-ups, joyriders and runaways.Architects of their own destruction, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World

    by Bill Gaston ...
    Weaving together five heartbreaking stories, Bill Gaston transforms the cruelty of life into something not only beautiful but heartwarming. A recently divorced, early retiree accidentally burns down his house on the day he pays off the mortgage, only to discover that for the first time in his life he’s forgotten to pay a bill: his insurance premium. An old friend of his, a middle-aged musician, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Just Let Me Look at You

    On Fatherhood

    by Bill Gaston ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional PrizeFrom Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won't say to each other**Sons clash with fathers, sons find ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gargoyles

    by Bill Gaston ...
    Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, Mount Appetite (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston's marvellous, riotous, Rabelaisian world, Gargoyles are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Just Let Me Look at You

    On Fatherhood

    by Bill Gaston ...
    Narrated by Bill Gaston ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    **Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional PrizeFrom Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won't say to each other**Sons clash with fathers, sons find ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Phantom of the Opera

    Narrated by Bill Homewood ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    Step aboard for perhaps the nearest thing to a ride on a ghost train: a thrilling trip into the murky world that lies deep beneath the vast opera house in Paris, famously haunted by a mysterious phantom. Despite a series of terrifying and deadly accidents backstage, the gorgeous voice of divine young diva Christine Daaé is soaring with each performance to ever greater heights of beauty but why? ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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    The Puritans

    A Transatlantic History

    by David D. Hall ...
    Narrated by Jason Culp ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 24 min

    A panoramic new history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Long Live Latin

    The Pleasures of a Useless Language

    Narrated by Todd Portnowitz ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    **"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to appreciate on many levels, most of all, to hear the sound of Latin again, so familiar and so essential to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD