Corbett: 293 books

Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the nature of language. Familiar features are Number (singular, plural, dual, …), Person (1st, 2nd, 3rd) and...

Are you in love with Harry? If so you’ll love this. Get the inside track on everything Harry. Facts, quotes from ‘H’ himself, schoolfriends and celebrity pals. From bakery boy to the Beautiful Boy in the world’s hottest band, find out just what makes him tick. Get to know just that little...

Evil is a ubiquitous, persistent problem that causes enormous human suffering. Although human beings have struggled with evil since the dawn of our species, we seem to be no nearer to ending it. In this book, Lionel Corbett describes the complexity of the problem of evil, as well as many of our current...

New Mexico, 1910. Presumed murdered alongside his attorney Father fourteen years earlier, life is about finding his true identity for Henry Jennings Fountain. But when Henry discovers the whereabouts of his adopted brother, estranged years before after a teenage rite of passage went...

Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection. Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder Valley, many of these poems respond...

The Toy Maker's Secret by Laura Strickland Meghan Martin fears it's going to be a lean Christmas. Since her husband, Dustin, abandoned her and their six-year-old daughter, Angie, she's been forced to give up their cozy house in the suburbs and move to a small apartment in the city. Though she...

With plague spreading and vampires rising, what would you do to survive? For Sam, surviving her trip through Europe takes a lot of luck. Some good, most of it bad. When she hears a virulent plague is wiping out everything back home, she gets drunk. But that gets her stuck on a quarantine ship...

When jeweller Harley Riddell is framed for the theft of valuable diamonds, he is sentenced to five years penal servitude. Soon, however, his fiancee is leading a frantic investigation to discover the true culprits and bring them to justice. Aided by her loyal father, her plucky aunt, her future brother-in-law...

2018 Reading the West Book Awards Nonfiction Winner Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items–toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee...

Naomi’s just your average girl: she goes to work, flirts with the cute guy at yoga, doesn’t want her mom’s help finding a man, and doesn’t want the world to know she’s a werewolf. Just one problem, her little brother’s been kidnapped and the kidnappers are going to torture him into shapeshifting...

"Poignant, well-paced and compassionate, Game Plan is an achingly real look at how two families cope when life doesn't go as planned." — Tish Cohen, bestselling author of The Truth About Delilah Blue and Inside Out Girl. Just because the play goes wrong, doesn't mean you quit the game. Ella...

“WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED.” —California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860 The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a story of the...

BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and...

Large, mature companies often struggle when it comes to the uncertain process of breakthrough innovation. But innovation is an imperative in today's cutthroat business environment. To fulfill its potential, there has to be a better way—and there is. Beyond the Champion argues that innovation...