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  • A Hero for the Americas

    The Legend of Gonzalo Guerrero

    by Robert Calder ...
    A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jerónimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernán Cortés in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Of Human Bondage

    An obsessive love affair provides the pivot of this powerful evocation of a young man's progress to maturity in the years before the First World War. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Moon and Sixpence

    Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, this “witty, compelling” novel (The Boston Globe) by the internationally acclaimed author of The Razor’s Edge is a dazzling ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius.Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Magician

    Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attractionThe Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Scottish Novels

    Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of Hermiston

    Series series
    Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

    The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. In a collection of ten essays, History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies explores a more contemporary ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Effective Programs for Latino Students

    Latino (or Hispanic) children are one of the fastest-growing groups in U.S. schools today. On average, these students perform worse than Anglo students on measures of academic achievement and other measures of academic success, and their drop-out rate is high. There are schools of excellence among those serving Latino children, but the majority of these children are placed "at risk" by schools and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The One O'Clock Gun Anthology

    Distributed free in Edinburgh's bars and bookshops the One O'Clock Gun began in 2004 as a thought provoking, ballsy and often irreverent paper that initially appeared with a humble few followers.Today, over fifteen years later, The Gun is an Edinburgh institutution.Distributed from handmade wooden boxes, the One O'Clock Gun appears to be an A4 sheet but in fact folds out to a double-sided A2 ... Read more

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  • The Lard Is My Shepherd

    A Collection of Short Fiction

    Have you ever arranged a coup? Ever hang out with werewolves, vampires, and hipster undead? Ever wonder what the neighborhood story of the creepy witch was really about?Leave your assumptions at the door and take an adventure across several worlds and stories designed to make you think twice about the finer details of what you want. Not everything turns out like we want it, but sometimes it turns ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness & More

    A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    Dramatisations of six of Conrad's finest novels, plus bonus materialPolish-born author and mariner Joseph Conrad is widely regarded as one of the greatest English novelists. His 16 years in the merchant navy profoundly shaped his fiction, giving him transformative experiences of adventure and exotic places, and a unique insight into the human psyche. Included here are adaptations of six of his ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

  • Stevenson: Everyman's Poetry

    Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    I Spy Strangers, I Want It Now, All Free Now based on Girl 20 and more

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    Adaptations of Kingley Amis’s great novels and acclaimed short storiesNovelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and ... Read more

    $21.48 USD