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  • Flying by the Seat of Your Pants

    Surprising Origins of Everyday Expressions

    by Harry Oliver ...
    Let's "cut to the chase" and "make no bones about it"-this book will have you "pleased as punch."Sowing your wild oats, throwing in the towel, painting the town red...Harry Oliver reveals the fascinating stories behind these and other strange turns of phrase steeped in the weird and wonderful history and traditions of everyday life. From quirky terms to street and city names and more, this book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Black Cats & Four-Leaf Clovers

    The Origins of Old Wives' Tales and Superstitions in Our Everyday Lives

    by Harry Oliver ...
    Cross your fingers, knock on wood, and clutch your rabbit's foot a little tighter.In this charming and endlessly diverting book, Harry Oliver delves into the stories behind the traditions and superstitions that permeate our everyday lives, unearthing the fascinating histories of these weird and wonderful notions. So before you search for any more four-leaf clovers, worry about the next Friday the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Ticket That Exploded

    The Restored Text

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Narrated by Ramiz Monsef ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Nova Trilogy

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’ grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bubble Gum and Hula Hoops

    The Origins of Objects in Our Everyday Lives

    by Harry Oliver ...
    The fascinating and funny origins of everyday objects-bliss for history hounds, language lovers and trivia buffs.Who hasn't wondered:· Whether Thomas Crapper really invented the toilet· What accident led to the invention of the microwave· Why it took nearly twenty years for someone to finally decide to slice bread· How laziness resulted in the invention of the dishwasher· Which discovery made the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Shadow Intelligence

    by Oliver Harris ...
    Series Book 1 - An Elliot Kane Thriller
    **AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020“An absorbing, superbly written novel likely to stand as one of the best spy novels of the year.”**—Kirkus, starred reviewElliot Kane reflects the dark side of MI6. He is the instrument of an agency that puts two years and more than £100K into training recruits to steal cars, hack bank accounts, strip weapons, and employ everything from blackmail to improvised explosives ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hollow Man

    A Novel

    by Oliver Harris ...
    Series Book 1 - Detective Nick Belsey Series
    “A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero—what a recipe for a great read.”—Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids SingingDescribing London police detective Nick Belsey, hero of The Hollow Man, an enthrallingly original thriller from British crime novelist Oliver Harris—the Daily Mail declared, “He’s got to be London ... Read more

    Was $9.49 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Customs, Folklore, Ritual, and Colonial Ethnology in Early 20th-Century Burma

    by Harry Ignatius Marshall, Olive Briarford ...
    The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology is a substantial early twentieth-century ethnographic account of one of Burma's major upland and lowland minority communities. Marshall surveys Karen origins, clan and village life, marriage, law, music, myth, animist belief, Christian conversion, and linguistic diversity with the classificatory ambition typical of colonial ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Soft Machine

    The Restored Text

    by William S. Burroughs ...
    Narrated by Ramiz Monsef ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Nova Trilogy

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    In The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs begins an adventure that will take us into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.A total ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Shelter

    A Novel

    by Oliver Harris ...
    Series Book 2 - Detective Nick Belsey Series
    In this gritty, white-knuckle crime thriller, Detective Nick Belsey—introduced in the acclaimed The Hollow Man as a shrewd, street-smart cynic who is one of London’s sharpest, but most unprincipled, investigators—is plunged into a perplexing mystery of secrets, danger, and suspense beneath the city’s streets.Trouble once again finds Nick Belsey when he takes a date to an abandoned bomb shelter ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Ascension

    by Oliver Harris ...
    Series Book 2 - An Elliot Kane Thriller
    British spy Elliot Kane is forced out of semi-retirement to investigate a colleague’s suspicious death on Ascension Island, a remote and rocky outpost of the British military in the middle of the Atlantic.Despite foiling a plot to incite a new world war, Elliot Kane has been on probation with MI6 since his rogue misadventures in Kazakhstan. Granted a job teaching literature to college students, he ... Read more

    Was $10.49 USD Now $8.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bees Knees and Barmy Armies - Origins of the Words and Phrases we Use Every Day

    by Harry Oliver ...
    Every day we pepper our speech with hundreds of phrases, place names and expressions, but rarely do we think about their origins. If we did, we'd be in for a treat, because the stories behind our sayings are often fascinating, amusing and intriguing. Following on from the bestselling March Hares and Monkeys' Uncles, once again Harry Oliver has delved deep into the history behind hundreds of terms ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Black Cats & April Fools - Origins of Old Wives Tales and Superstitions in Our Daily Lives

    by Harry Oliver ...
    We have all touched wood to ward off misfortune, or seen a bride throw a bouquet over her head at a wedding, but how often do we stop to think about where such customs come from, or why we still use them? The truth is that behind many of our daily rituals and beliefs lies a fascinating history of weird and wonderful notions, some rational, others fanciful, that provide a rich and entertaining ... Read more

    $5.39 USD