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  • Blood

    The Stuff of Life

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but ... Read more

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  • The Deserter's Tale

    The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

    by Joshua Key ...
    " Apocalypse Now insanity . . . if this is what one soldier saw in seven months, imagine the sum total of the inhumanity being perpetuated in Iraq" ( Toronto Star).The first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign, The Deserter's Tale is "destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Negroes

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Lawrence Hill's award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks.The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis ( Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. ( Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr. ( A Raisin in the Sun, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beatrice and Croc Harry

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    “A book to treasure and share across generations.” —David Chariandy, author of BrotherBeatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forestHow did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues composed in delicate purple handwriting?So begins the adventure of a brave girl ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Someone Knows My Name

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written...populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." —Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    The Knights Templar transports readers to the heart of the Crusades, where faith and warfare collide. At the center of this gripping historical narrative is Baldwin de Montclare, a devoted Knight Templar, who must navigate the brutal realities of battle while wrestling with the deeper moral and spiritual conflicts of his sacred oath. As Baldwin faces the trials of loyalty, betrayal, and the weight ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Illegal

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    "A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down."— Dallas Morning NewsKeita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State—an imagined country much like our own. A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita must hide ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sign Writing

    Step-by-Step Blueprint on How to Master The Art of Sign Writing as a Complete Beginner

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Unlock the Power of Sign Writing and Create Art That Leaves a Lasting Impression!Are you considering venturing into sign writing as a hobby or to build a career out of it but you feel you don’t know enough to get started and succeed at it?And are you looking for a blueprint that will introduce you to the world of sign writing and hold you by the hand until you feel confident creating breathtaking ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Natural Law

    How the Classical Worldview Supports our Modern Moral and Political Views

    by John Lawrence Hill ...
    The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Prophet of Modern Constitutional Liberalism

    John Stuart Mill and the Supreme Court

    by John Lawrence Hill ...
    John Stuart Mill is the father of modern liberalism. His most remembered work, On Liberty, which was published in 1859, changed the course of the liberal tradition. What is less well-known is that his ideas have profoundly influenced the American constitutional rights tradition of the latter half of the twentieth century. Mill's 'harm principle' inspired the constitutional right to privacy ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Luminous Ink

    Writers on Writing in Canada

    by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
    Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Read more

    $8.69 USD