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  • Laughing Wolf

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 1 - A Felix Taylor Adventure
    It is the year 2213. Fifteen-year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who can speak and read Latin. In a world where technology has defeated war, crime, poverty, and famine, and time travel exists as a distinct possibility, Felix's language skills and knowledge seem out of place and irrelevant.But are they?A mysterious plague has broken out. Scientists can't stop its advance, and humanity ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Literary Bundle

    Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy / Robertson Davies / Mazo de la Roche

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s literary heritage. Canadian letters have a prominent place in world literature, and its renown can be traced to authors such as these. Profiled are: pioneer chronicler of the wilderness Susanna Moodie, renowned novelist Robertson Davies, Quebec fiction writer ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Felix Taylor Adventures 2-Book Bundle

    Laughing Wolf / Fortuna

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series series Felix Taylor Adventures 2-Book Bundle
    For the first time, the Felix Taylor Adventures are available as together in this two-book bundle.Short-listed for the Snow Willow Young Reader’s Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award."An entertaining and thoughtful read that will please fans of sci-fi and historical fiction alike."- Caitlin Campbell, CM magazineFortuna - Felix Taylor Adventure #2 (NEW!)Just when... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crescent Star

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Short-listed for the 2012 Coast ReadsAvi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers, adore their older brothers, and belong to the same soccer club. Avi commemorates the Holocaust and celebrates Israeli independence, while Moussa mourns on Nakba Day, marking the expulsion of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25

    Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist Robertson Davies; and the “Father of British Columbia,” James Douglas.IncludesLouis RielJames ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Scholars Bundle

    Lucille Teasdale / Robertson Davies / George Grant / Marshall McLuhan

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential figures. Profiled are: prescient media guru Marshall McLuhan, physician Lucille Teasdale, political philosopher George Grant, and novelist and literary ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fortuna

    A Felix Taylor Adventure

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 2 - A Felix Taylor Adventure
    It's been a year since Felix Taylor travelled back to ancient Rome and saved his world from a lethal plague. Again his knowledge of Latin seems useless now that life in the 23rd century has returned to normal. But is it really?A stranger has discovered the time machine and used it to project back into the past. It becomes clear his purpose is to reverse Felix's success, to bring back the plague ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robertson Davies

    Magician of Words

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 24 - Quest Biography
    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Locksmith

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series series
    Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens, long-listed for the 2009 CLA Book of the Year for Children AwardTwelve-year-old Lewis Castorman is a master locksmith: there is no lock on earth that he is unable to open. He is therefore flattered when world-renowned chemist Ernst K. Grumpel invites him to his office in New York City and offers him a lock-picking assignment. His confidence ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30

    Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas / William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transmigration

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    What do you do when you’re being watched at every turn by creatures plotting to take over the world?Simon Carpenter is a normal 16-year-old living in Vancouver. Or is he normal? Any type of music drives him crazy. When walking by a homeless person, he can see the world through the drunken man’s eyes. And when visiting a pet shop he hears a rabbit speaking to him. To solve these mysteries, he takes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Portrait in Mosaic

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    National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best BookA fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression on those around him. He was so clearly bound for a glorious future that some young friends even carefully preserved ... Read more

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