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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

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    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

  • Audiobook

    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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    The Painted Girls

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    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan, Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

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    Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction from their single boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work available for a girl, bookish fourteen-year-old Marie and her younger ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    419

    by Will Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Pete Bradbury ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is " 419," winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Late Nights on Air

    by Elizabeth Hay ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    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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    The Fever Tree

    by Jennifer McVeigh ...
    Narrated by Jayne Paterson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 50 min

    Having drawn comparisons to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa, The Fever Tree is a page-turner of the very first order.Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father’s sudden death, has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. 1880 South Africa is a country torn apart by greed. In this remote and inhospitable land ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Alone in the Classroom

    by Elizabeth Hay ...
    Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    Having earned a Scotiabank Giller Prize for her poignant novel Late Nights on Air, best-selling author Elizabeth Hay further enhances her literary legacy with another complex, captivating drama, Alone in the Classroom. Set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley, this finely honed tale begins in 1929 with a small-town school teacher helping an underprivileged child learn to read-all under the ... Read more

    $19.99 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

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