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  • The Promise Basket

    Illustrated by Slavka Kolesar ...
    From award winning author Bill Richardson and highly acclaimed illustrator Slavka Kolesar comes a beautiful story about the love between a mother and daughter where a promise makes the perfect gift.A stone when it’s thrown can damage, can break,but nothing can shatter the promise I make.So begins the poem a mother writes on a scrap of paper. She wraps the paper around a stone and places it in a ... Read more

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  • Last Week

    Illustrated by Emilie Leduc ...
    A child cherishes every second of their grandmother's last week of life in this sensitive portrayal of medical assistance in dying (MAiD).“In this last week, there are seven days.” That's one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Or ten thousand and eighty minutes. Or six hundred four thousand and eight hundred seconds. A child counts every second because this is their grandmother’s last week of life.As ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Sweet-Talk a Shark

    Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator

    Sharks are not evil. But they're single-minded and very, very hungry. On land, they take the form of bosses, businesspeople, colleagues, family, and sociopathic neighbors. In the world of former governor of New Mexico and US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, they have taken the form of the most powerful people in the world. He's engaged in high-stakes, face-to-face negotiations ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leading by Example

    How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution

    Global climate change?We can stop it.Addiction to oil?We can replace it.Technological innovation?We can create it.But we can't wait twenty, thirty, or fifty years.Bill Richardson launched his campaign for the presidency to remind the American people--and their representatives in Washington--that we know how to get things done. We need to end our dependence on oil, and we need to do it yesterday ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exhaustion: Limited Reserves

    Feeling used up or worn out. Reaching the limits of our personal and collective resources. Tapping out. Laying waste to the planet. Burning fuel until there's nothing left but fumes.Each story and poem in this book engages exhaustion anew, revealing human struggles, moments of grace, and a relentless questioning. Far from exhausting the topic, this book opens up a conversation about what it means ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alphabet Thief

    Illustrated by Roxanna Bikadoroff ...
    When night falls, along comes a peculiar thief who steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.The alphabet thief stole all of the B’s, and all of the bowls became owls…It seems that no one can stop her, until the Z’s finally send her to sleep so that all the other letters can scamper back to where they belong.Bill Richardson’s zany rhymes and Roxanna Bikadoroff’s ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Saw Three Ships

    West End Stories

    “By June, Philip’s view of English Bay, what’s left of it, will be utterly gone. It was always going to happen. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to see what’s out there. For years now, it’s been getting harder and harder to know what to do.”Eight linked stories, all set around Christmastime in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood, explore the seasonal tug-of-war between expectation ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • My Bunny Lies Over The Ocean

    Illustrated by Bill Pechet ...
    Award-winning duo Bill Richardson and Bill Pechet are back with another brilliantly funny and charmingly quirky picture book—My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean. When a beloved stuffed toy gets left at the beach and swept out to sea, all hands pitch in to see that poor bedraggled Bunny gets safely home. With its super starfish rescue operation, accommodating whale, kind kangaroo, round-about postal ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Valleys of Death

    A Memoir of the Korean War

    "Richardson never pulls his punches in these vivid descriptions." --Publishers WeeklyCaught in the Chinese counterattack at Unsan-one of the deadliest American battles of the Cold War Era-Colonel Bill Richardson led an Alamo like defense of the few survivors before being taken prisoner. The North Koreans marched them through sub-zero weather without food, shelter, or medical attention to the area ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Perchance to DREAM

    A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA

    Series Book 7 - Early American Places
    The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children had the right to attend public schools without charge or impediment, regardless of their immigration status. The ruling raised a question: what if undocumented students, after graduating from the public ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spatiality and Symbolic Expression

    On the Links between Place and Culture

    Series series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
    In this volume, scholars from a wide range of fields within the humanities explore the links between space and place and their relation to cultural expression. This collection shows that a focus on the spatial can help elucidate important facets of symbolic expression and cultural production, whether it be literature, music, dance, films, or art. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Montreal Standard Time: The Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant

    Montreal Standard Time is drawn from Mavis Gallant’s columns in The Montreal Standard during her six-year tenure at the newspaper, beginning in 1944, when she was 22. Gallant reported on an extraordinary range of subjects: labour issues, mining, existentialism, immigration, comedy, mercy killings, feminism, and suffrage. Her journalism is peopled by a rich cast of characters: writers, painters, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD