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  • Becoming Michelangelo

    Apprenticing to the Master and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings

    by Alan Pascuzzi ...
    Michelangelo’s developing genius is revealed as never before by the man who became Michelangelo’s last apprentice—an American artist and art historian whose family helped carve Mount Rushmore.Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of “divine” genius—a myth that Michelangelo himself promoted by way of cementing his legacy. But the young Michelangelo studied his ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Vanderbilt

    The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe ...
    “Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written.” — Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of NonfictionWhen eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his... ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • From the Ashes

    My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

    by Jesse Thistle ...
    *#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction*Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards*Winner, High Plains Book Awards*Finalist, CBC Canada Reads*A Globe and Mail Book of the Year*An Indigo Book of the Year*A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, ... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Art of Living

    The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

    by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell ...
    A modern translation of the philosophical classic—A necessary companion for a living a more present, intentional, and virtuous life—one full of gratitude for who we are and who we have yet to become“Epictetus sounds like the Buddha, and Sharon Lebell’s voice makes him sound like the delightful man next door.” — Sylvia Boorstein, author of It's Easier Than You ThinkEpictetus is brought back to life ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • The Art Spy

    The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

    by Michelle Young ...
    A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    by Robert M. Edsel ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... Read more

    Was $24.99 CAD Now $18.99 CAD

  • First They Killed My Father

    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco ChronicleFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Priceless

    How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

    by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman ...
    The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.Rising from humble roots as the son of an antique ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Ugly Renaissance

    Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty

    by Alexander Lee ...
    A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and moreRenowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

  • The Rescue Artist

    A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

    by Edward Dolnick ...
    In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Beauty Mark

    The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour

    by Dita Von Teese ...
    From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to Internet video, fashion icon and “burlesque superheroine” (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye and pats of powder in a month than a drag queen could dream of in a lifetime. Whether she’s dazzling audiences swirling in a towering martini glass in Swarovski ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

    The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

    by Sogyal Rinpoche ...
    “A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”—San Francisco ChronicleA newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Gentleman's Offer

    The season's most scandalous Regency romance from Emma Orchard for 2025!

    by Emma Orchard ...
    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'If you're girding your loins for Bridgerton, you may want to indulge in this Regency romp' - THE TIMESSummer, 1817: Will this be the wedding... or the scandal of the season? Sir Dominic De Lacy – one of the season’s most eligible gentlemen – has recently proposed marriage… to a woman he scarcely knows. But his father’s choice for him, Miss Maria Nightingale, seems amiable, and at 29, ... Read more

    Was $4.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    by Imani Perry ...
    A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Fortune's Children

    The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

    by Arthur T Vanderbilt II ...
    Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Scratched

    A Memoir of Perfectionism

    by Elizabeth Tallent ...
    “Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”****—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn this bold and brilliant memoir, the acclaimed author of the novel Museum Pieces and the collection ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hollywood Black

    The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers

    by Donald Bogle, Turner Classic Movies ...
    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    The book that inspired the MGM+ docuseries, Hollywood Black is a sweeping overview of the Black experience in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.Filled with photographs and stories of stars and filmmakers on set and off, Hollywood Black tells an enthralling, underappreciated history as it's never ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $3.99 CAD

  • Michelangelo

    by Eugene Müntz ...
    The name Michelangelo instantly conjures up the Sistine Chapel, the David, the Pieta and countless other great works. In his History of Italian Painting, the French writer Stendhal remarked that, “between Greek antiquity and Michelangelo nothing exists, except more or less skilled forgeries”. In Promenade in Rome, Chateaubriant expresses his admiration for the refined lines of the Pieta. A number ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry

    The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embroidery Hidden in Plain Sight

    by Arthur Colin Wright ...
    For the first time, a scholar reveals the meaning of the marginal images on the Bayeux Tapestry, unlocking a completely new meaning of the work.The story of the Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most widely-known in the panoply of English history, and over the last 200 years there have been hundreds of books on the Tapestry seeking to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Giallo. Storia di un colore

    Storia di un colore

    by Michel Pastoureau ...
    Translated by Guido Calza ...
    Oro, sole, luce, limone, zolfo, ricchezza, tradimento, inganno, follia. Dalle origini ai giorni nostri, una storia del colore giallo raccontata dallo storico Michel Pastoureau. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

    by Marc Petitjean ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Papillon

    by Henri Charriere ...
    “A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueenHenri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Charlton Heston

    Hollywood's Last Icon

    by Marc Eliot ...
    This is the definitive biography of one of the most iconic, complex and enduring legends of Hollywood’s golden age, whose major presence in American film, radio, television, stage and theater lasted beyond the second half of the 20th Century, and whose classic films are known throughout the world.Written by New York Times bestselling, prize-winning author Marc Eliot - Cary Grant, Walt Disney, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An Inquiry Into Values

    by Robert M Pirsig ...
    Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Quill Edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD