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Thieves of Bay Street
How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A newsmaking exposé about why Canada's financial industry is a haven for fraud.
Beneath the veneer of stability that saw Canada's banking sector through the financial crash of 2008, investigative reporter Bruce Livesey has uncovered a rampant failure of epidemic proportions. Though no large financial...
World War 3.0
Microsoft, the US Government, and the Battle for the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are...
by Don Hertzfeldt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out.
Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated...
Thunder & Lightning
Weather Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in...
Superman
The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has written the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators,...
by Michael Chabon
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.
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On Black Sisters Street
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
On Black Sisters Street tells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their African homeland for the riches of Europe—and who are thrown together by bad luck and big dreams into a sisterhood that will change their lives.
Each night, Sisi, Ama, Efe, and Joyce stand in...
Every Day Is for the Thief
Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle |NPR | The Root | The Telegraph | The Globe and Mail
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST, PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD • TEJU COLE WAS NAMED...
by Colson Whitehead
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos.
Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterráneo...
Echoes of a Distant Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
*“You done lived a tough life, boy, and I know I’m part responsible for that. I ain’t askin’ you to excuse me or forgive me. Just know I did the best I knew to do. I was just tryin’ to make you tough enough to deal with the world. To stand tall among men, I knew you had to be strong and...
The Early Stories
1953-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in...
by Truman Capote
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literature
Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing...
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Here is a classic collection from one of America’s greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of “Turn About,” which derives from the time of the First World War, all these tales unfold in a small town in Mississippi,...
The Girls
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Financial...