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  • The Headmaster's Wager

    by Vincent Lam ...
    A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man’s loyalty to his country, his family and his heritagePercival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas

    by Vincent Lam ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Once voted the greatest Canadian of all time, Tommy Douglas was a prairie politician who believed in democratic socialism, the crucial role of civil rights, and the great potential of cooperation for the common good. He is best known as the “Father of Medicare.” Born in 1904, Douglas was a championship boxer and a Baptist minister who later exchanged his pulpit for a political platform. A powerful ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Flu Pandemic and You

    A Canadian Guide

    by Vincent Lam, Dr. Colin Lee ...
    An essential survival guide—both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a timely and forthright guide on how to prepare for an influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context in which this health threat exists.With cool heads and professional expertise, Drs. Lam and Lee ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

    Stories

    by Vincent Lam ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Through the eyes of Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri, Vincent Lam finds conflict - and humanity - in the most surprising moments. Together these doctors test the boundaries of intimacy as they cope with exam pressure, weigh moral dilemmas as they dissect cadavers, confront police who assault their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own.Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Flu Pandemic and You

    A Canadian Guide

    by Vincent Lam, Dr. Colin Lee ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    An essential survival guide—both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a timely and forthright guide on how to prepare for an influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context in which this health threat exists.With cool heads and professional expertise, Drs. Lam and Lee ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Headmaster's Wager

    by Vincent Lam ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 48 min

    From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

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    The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay.Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined.Dido and Harry are part of the cast of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Through Black Spruce

    by Joseph Boyden ...
    Narrated by James Jenner, Ali Ahn ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 20 min

    Joseph Boyden's first novel, Three Day Road, was a Today Show Book Club selection. Through Black Spruce is the exceptional follow-up to his acclaimed debut. Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and searching ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The House Girl

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    by Tara Conklin ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 42 min

    The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the colonial legacy—has great affection for Leacock's gentle wit and sharp-eyed insight. The renowned historian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

    A Novel

    by Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles ...
    A picaresque novel of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, from a #1 international bestselling author."A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man's frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden. . . . The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In a tiny shack in the largest ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    In his 2 terms as prime minister, from 1963–1968, Lester B. Pearson oversaw the revamping of Canada through the introduction of Medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, the Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, the Auto Pact, and the new Maple Leaf flag. Pearson came to power after an impressive career as a diplomat, where he played a vital role in the creation of NATO and the United Nations, ... Read more

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