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  • The Dreamer's Dictionary

    From A to Z … 3,000 Magical Mirrors to Reveal the Meaning of Your Dreams

    by Tom Corbett, Lady Stearn Robinson ...
    With over 1 million copies sold, this "admirable" dictionary is the result of years of research, packaged in an easy-to-use guide telling you how to distinguish the four types of dreams, identify dream symbols, and understand meanings (New York Times).Dreams--they belong to our most intimate experiences. In dreams, our memories, the events of the day, and our fears and expectations for the future ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Clueless Rebel

    by Tom Corbett ...
    A Clueless Rebel - This is an hysterical reworking of the author's memoir about growing up in the decades after World War II (Originally titled Ouch, Now I Remember). Infused with great wit and honesty, the story is one that delves deep into how culture both constrains us and yet provides the foundations for growth and development if, that is, one can break through the shackles that bind us. It ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions of a Clueless Rebel

    by Tom Corbett ...
    Confessions of a Clueless Rebel is a witty, yet insightful, tour de force about breaking away from one's childhood environment. Corbett brings us back to the post–World War II period when he came of age in a rough and tumble ethnic, working-class neighborhood. From a kid who showed no promise whatsoever, he underwent an array of transformative experiences from Catholic seminary training to the ... Read more

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  • A Wayward Academic: Reflections from the policy trenches

    by Tom Corbett ...
    In 2014, I wrote Browsing through My Candy Store, a memoir of my career attempting to master the art of public policy. That book, though enjoying modest sales at best, was well received by my colleagues in the academy, by those members of the public who stumbled upon this classic, and by so-called book scouts who ferret out literary gems. That pleased me greatly. My intent was to develop a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • oblique journeys

    by tom corbett ...
    Oblique JourneysThis novel takes us deep into the scars left by a war that tore the United States apart in the 1960s and early 1970s, a conflict that left an indelible mark on the youth who came of age in that turbulent era. While a work of fiction, the narrative touches upon the real emotions and struggles that many young people endured as they fought to make sense out of competing claims upon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Refractive Reflections

    by tom corbett ...
    Refractive Reflections can be read as a self-contained work. It also can be considered the fifth volume in the saga that covers the story of three families ... the Masoud, the Crawford, and the Connelly clans. Five books in all, Oblique Journeys, Palpable Passions, Ordinary Obsessions, Felicitous Fates, and now Refractive Reflections constitute an interrelated set of works that explore the complex ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Boat Captain’S Conundrum

    A Whimsical Tour Through a Policy Wonk’S Mind

    by Tom Corbett ...
    In The Boat Captains Conundrum, author Tom Corbett completes an intellectual journey that reflects on his four-plus decades as a scholar and doer of social policy. That journey starts with Ouch, Now I Remember in which he recounts his early days growing up in a closed, working class, ethnic community from which he underwent several transformative experiences that broadened his worldview. In ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Tenuous Tendrils

    by Tom Corbett ...
    Jeremiah Joshua Connelly is about to retire from his academic position at the University of British Columbia. He anticipates a small ordinary affair of conventional speeches, farewell dinners, and the usual parting gifts and well-wishes. Instead, his past visits him in unexpected ways. He not only confronts people from the mists of a distant era he thought long lost but also accepts some truths ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Felicitous Fates

    by Tom Corbett ...
    Felicitous Fates is the third volume of a trilogy about Masoud and the Crawford families. The patriarch of the Masoud family, Pamir, was a physician who trained in England before return- ing to Afghanistan to aid his homeland and raise his children. Pamir's wife, Madeena, was a mathematician who taught at uni- versity level in the pre-Taliban era. We tend to forget that this beleaguered country ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ordinary Obsessions

    by Tom Corbett ...
    Ordinary Obsessions: This sequel to the authors well received Palpable Passions is a compelling, multi-layered narrative that weaves together various threads of history, culture, politics, and personal relationships in a moving story of conflict and hope. Relational twists within and between two families, one American and one Afghani, along with societal challenges are played out against a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choices

    by Tom Corbett ...
    Rereleased in February, this compelling story improves upon the work originally released as Casual Choices (4.4 out of 5 stars). It examines how the youth of the turbulent 1960s made personal choices about war and peace that would determine the arc of their subsequent lives. Joshua Connelly left of Canada and spent a lifetime seeking a resolution for his choice. A moving tale of relationships and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ouch, Now I Remember

    Reflecting on an Earlier Time

    by Tom Corbett ...
    The author picks up where he left off in a witty memoir of his academic and policy careers in Browsing through My Candy Store. In this equally hilarious book, Tom Corbett brings us back to the postWorld War II period, where he came of age in a rough and tumble ethnic, working-class neighborhood. From a kid who showed no promise whatsoever, he underwent a series of transformative experiences from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD