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  • The House of Hope

    An unputdownable, heartwrenching historical novel

    by Joanne Clague ...
    Series Book 1 - The House of Help for Friendless Girls
    In the dead of night, a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girls…Winter 1887. Matron Hetty Barlow suspects Hope is lying when she claims to be suffering from amnesia. The girl is taken in, but it isn’t long before her pregnancy is discovered, which could put the future of the house – a new experiment in dealing with destitute women – in jeopardy. Hetty’s ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skunk Works

    A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

    by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos ...
    This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Imminent

    Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

    by Luis Elizondo ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.Luis “Lue” ... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • "The Saddest Ship Afloat"

    The Tragedy of the MS St. Louis

    by Allison Lawlor ...
    Series series Stories of Our Past
    A true story of hundreds of Jewish refugees and the sea journey they hoped would save them.On May 13, 1939, the eve of the Second World War, the MS St. Louis left port in Hamburg, Germany, headed for Havana, Cuba. Among the ship’s passengers were more than six hundred Jews attempting to escape Nazi rule. But most of the visas the passengers had purchased turned out to be fake, and after several ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homegrown

    Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. He cited the Declaration of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • The Future of Geography

    How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World

    by Tim Marshall ...
    Series series Politics of Place
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth.Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD $2.99 CAD

  • The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

    A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written and first read during the prolonged, tragic world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, Niebuhr’s book took up the timely question of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patriot

    A Memoir

    by Alexei Navalny ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.**"Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny’s trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal account from a husband and father facing the reality that he will never be with his family again."—The New York Times ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Spy Alone

    For fans of Damascus Station and Slow Horses

    by Charles Beaumont ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford Spy Ring
    'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator'Exceptional' David McCloskey, author of The Seventh Floor'A highly accomplished novel from a new writer of great promise' Financial Times'Everything a John le Carré fan could ever wish fo... ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bind, Torture, Kill

    The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door

    by Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly, Hurst Laviana ...
    Four award-winning reporters for the Wichita Eagle deliver an in-depth account of serial killer Dennis Rader’s three-decades-long reign of murder.For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named “BTK”—for “bind them, torture them, kill them”—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Path

    The Arctic Murders – A gripping and atmospheric murder mystery

    by Åsa Larsson ...
    Translated by Marlaine Delargy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Arctic Murders
    "Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund" iNews"Asa Larsson is as deft at writing heart-stopping scenes as she is at getting inside the heads of characters" Washington PostTWO WOMEN FOLLOW A KILLER'S TRAIL INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESSThe frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Torneträsk in northern Sweden. She has been brutally ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Freedom

    Memoirs 1954 – 2021

    by Angela Merkel ...
    The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerFor sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states—East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the East, rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union to become the first woman to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Conspiracy to End America

    Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy

    by Stuart Stevens ...
    “This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicolle WallaceFormer chief Republican strategist, Lincoln Project adviser, and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie, Stuart Stevens offers an ominous warning that the GOP is dragging our country toward autocracy—and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be our last free and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Sir John A. Macdonald

    & The Apocalyptic Year 1885

    by Patrice Dutil ...
    Sir John A. Macdonald had been in politics for four decades and prime minister of Canada for three terms, but he’d never seen anything like the apocalyptic year of 1885.The issues cascaded relentlessly: threats to the sovereignty of Canada from London and Washington; armed resistance in the North-West; the spectre of starvation among Indigenous peoples; financial crises that endangered the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • In Hoffa's Shadow

    A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

    by Jack Goldsmith ...
    "The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn’t kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” —Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Panama Papers

    Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

    by Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer ...
    From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history.In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • The Big Fix

    How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

    by Denise Hearn, Vass Bednar ...
    Series Book 2 - The McGill Max Bell Lectures
    More and more of the Canadian economy is dominated by a handful of huge companies that control what we buy, how we work, and which other businesses can or can’t thrive.Beyond the obvious examples of airlines, telcos, grocery chains, and banks, The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians shows how corporate concentration is growing across many industries, leading to higher prices ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    **A New York Times BestsellerThe CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.**Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • JFK

    Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

    by Fredrik Logevall ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.“An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States* ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Siege

    A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    **One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024A brilliant, seat-of-your-pants hostage-taking and daring SAS rescue mission of the Iran Embassy in London in 1980, this is Ben Macintyre at the very height of his story-telling powers.**On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Prince’s Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There, they took 26 hostages, including ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Palestine-Israeli Conflict

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Dawoud El-Alami ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The essential guide that allows both sides to be heardRabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the Israeli perspective, while Dr Dawoud El-Alami presents the Palestinian perspectiveUpdated to cover the most recent events, including the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the May 2021 fighting in Gaza, this bestselling introduction explores the history, motivations and people ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD $0.99 CAD

  • Broken Bargain

    Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street

    by Kathleen Day ...
    “A sweeping account of financial calamities . . . shows how often we’ve been wracked by crises, and how quickly we forget why, setting up the next one.” —Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s AnalyticsIn the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suppressing Dissent

    Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel

    Edited by H. A. Hellyer, Zaha Hassan ...
    Civic space worldwide is shrinking – nowhere is this plainer than in Palestine–IsraelSuppressing Dissent brings together leading experts of shrinking civic space and transnational repression concerning Palestine–Israel to show how failing to address the phenomenon has impacts in the United States, the Middle East and beyond. ... Read more

    $7.24 CAD

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  • End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

    by Peter Turchin ...
    **“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsFrom the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD