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  • Audiobook

    Inspector French’s Greatest Case

    Narrated by John Rayburn ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    A late-night murder of a diamond merchant’s veteran employee in London’s Hatton Gardens has Scotland Yard calling on Inspector French to investigate. When French gets there he finds not only the victim but missing diamonds and money from an open safe. There are meager clues as the Inspector follows a trail to mainland Europe and back. There are many false clues and several suspects with much of ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tyranny of E-mail

    The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox

    by John Freeman ...
    The award-winning president of the National Book Critics Circle examines the astonishing growth of email—and how it is changing our lives, not always for the better.John Freeman is one of America’s pre-eminent literary critics; now in this, his first book, he presents an elegant and erudite investigation into a technology that has revolutionized the way we work, communicate, and even think.There’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • California Rewritten

    A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature

    by John Freeman ...
    Dive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future."In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of The Man Who Could Move CloudsPercival Everett, Rebecca Solnit, Tommy Orange, Michael Connelly, Julie Otsuka: As John ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Freeman's: California

    Edited by John Freeman ...
    Series series Freeman's
    "A necessary piece in a literary California collection" with new work from Tommy Orange, Rabih Alamdeddine, Mai Der Vang, Jennifer Egan, and others ( Los Angeles Times).From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alamdeddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Granta 113

    The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

    by John Freeman ...
    Series series
    From Borges to Garc�a M�rquez, Vargas Llosa, Mar�as or Bola�o , the Spanish language has given us some of the 20th century's most beloved writers. But as the reach of Spanish culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and the US tilts towards a majority Hispanic population, the time is right to ask who and what is next in Spanish-language fiction?In this, the first translated issue of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Sacramento Noir

    Edited by John Freeman ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    The Akashic Noir Series' exploration of California continues with this spellbinding collection of stories curated by Sacramento native John Freeman.Featuring brand-new stories by: Naomi J. Williams, William T. Vollmann, Maureen O'Leary, Reyna Grande, Jamil Jan Kochai, Maceo Montoya, Nora Rodriguez Camagna, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, Luis Avalos, José Vadi, Janet Rodriguez, Jen Soong, and John Freeman ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Granta 114

    Aliens

    by John Freeman ...
    Series series
    First there was the traveller; then the word was emigrants. In America, they turned into immigrants. And today -- in many parts of the world -- they are (we are) aliens. From somewhere else. At odds with and yet fully inside of another culture. At home nowhere.This new issue of Granta features tales from the constantly shifting terrain of alien culture. Mark Gevisser writes of two closeted gay ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Digital SLR Handbook

    by John Freeman ...
    This is the definitive practical guide to getting the most out of your digital SLR camera, written by top working photographer, John Freeman. Full of inspiring photography and professional tips, it is ideal for all keen amateur photographers and those aspiring to move over from using a traditional film SLR camera.The digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera is now the must-have camera for all ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • The Iron Lady

    Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister

    The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics.Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth-century history is undeniable. From her humble, small-town upbringing to her rise to power as the United Kingdom's first female prime minister, to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    California Rewritten

    A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature

    by John Freeman ...
    Narrated by Lyle Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 26 min

    Dive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future.Percival Everett, Rebecca Solnit, Tommy Orange, Michael Connelly, Julie Otsuka: As John Freeman writes in California Rewritten, "Literature of so many kinds and so many genres from so many different types of people—at the highest level ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Granta 125

    After the War

    by John Freeman ...
    Series series
    How long is the shadow of a battle, an explosion, a revolution? What stories arise in the wake of devastation? This issue explores the complicated aftermath and legacy of conflict. Lindsey Hilsum returns to Rwanda two decades after witnessing the beginning of genocide. Patrick French writes of a great-uncle whose heroism in World War I left behind a 'saturating cult of remembrance'. From air-raid ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Freeman's: Conclusions

    by John Freeman ...
    Series Book 12 - Freeman's
    Featuring new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Rachel Khong, Louise Erdrich, and more, the tenth and final installment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman’s, which explores all the ways of coming to an endOver the course of ten years, Freeman’s has introduced the English-speaking world to countless writers of international import and acclaim, from Olga Tokarczuk to Valeria ... Read more

    $12.29 USD