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  • Knock Off The Hat

    A Clifford Waterman Gay Philly Mystery

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    It’s steaming August 1947, in post-war Philadelphia.Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for “an indecent act with a native” in Cairo, can’t go back to his job as a police detective, and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He’s soon hired to help a young man caught in a gay bar raid who can’t afford the $500 bribe a corrupt judge demands to make a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bature! West African Haikai

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    The book is an utaniki, a poetic travel journal comprised of haiku, senryu, tanka, kyoka, zappai and various Japanese imagist sequences. It records a journey undertaken by the author and his family in a Volkswagen, c 1980, from northeastern Nigeria down to Lagos in the southwest and up the west coast of West Africa through Benin and Togo. With characteristic wit it exposes the neocolonial ... Read more

    $8.73 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Richard May ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 42 min

    Prepare for a chilling descent into the duality of human nature with this immersive audiobook adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic masterpiece, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Journey to the gaslit streets of Victorian London, where the respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll grapples with a monstrous secret: his terrifying alter ego, the depraved Mr. Edward Hyde. Through a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Poem A Day: Autumn - A Season in Verse, A

    Poems to make your day

    by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jalaluddin Rumi, Percy Bysshe Shelley ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    A time for harvest. The rich bounty of grain and fruit given by Nature ensures she has prepared everyone for the coming rigors. One last splash of rich, mature colour as everything ripens; colours of glory and then the slow release of her yearly mantle.Here, each and every day is celebrated with distinct and separate verse; Some poems commemorate the day it was written, others the birth or death ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Knock Off the Hat

    A Clifford Waterman Gay Philly Mystery

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Justin Price ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    Lambda Literary Award-winning author delves into the sudden and extraordinary wave of gay-bashing in 1940s Philadelphia.It's steaming August in post-war Philadelphia. Clifford Waterman, dishonorably discharged from the Army for "an indecent act with a native" in Cairo, can't go back to his job as a police detective and is struggling to make a go of it as a private investigator. He's soon hired to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Crooked Adam

    by D.E. Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Richard Attlee ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war - for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an ... Read more

    $39.86 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Calvin: The Statesman

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    As the title suggests, Stevenson takes a rare view of Calvin as statesman, analyzing not only his theological influence, but his impact on government, legislation and organization of the Church. The prologue declares, The most permanent contributions of Calvins genius lay less in the line of theology than of statesmanship. Calvin cherished the belief that the Reformation could be accomplished only ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Psychology of Hunger and Starvation

    by Richard J. Stevenson ...
    Hunger and starvation have significantly shaped the human condition. The imprints of past famines continue to cast lasting shadows on our evolutionary relationship with food, highlighting starvation as a powerful cognitive force. This book explores the nature of human hunger primarily from a psychological perspective, covering its basis in the brain, its critical dependence on learning and memory, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Beatson's Mutiny

    The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Windfall Apples

    Tanka and Kyoka

    by Richard Stevenson ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyoka mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys

    by Samuel Pepys ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Egoist

    by George Meredith ...
    In The Egoist, his comic masterpiece, George Meredith takes the traditional marriage plot of English domestic fiction and turns it on its head. The novel describes the repeated and disastrous courtships of Sir Willoughby Patterne, the egoist of the title. Three women become engaged to Sir Willoughby, but, despite his aristocratic arrogance and the manipulative power of his wealth, each is finally ... Read more

    $27.99 USD