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  • The Mersey Sound

    Restored 50th Anniversary Edition

    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • What Maisie Knew

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. In ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    History of Toulouse

    by Henri Ramet ...
    Narrated by Adrian Vale ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 45 min

    Plunge headlong into the heart of Toulouse: this audiobook vividly restores, with captivating precision, the epic of a major Midi city—from its Celtic origins to the Roman era, from Visigothic splendor to the dramas of the Albigensian Crusade, and on to municipal affirmation and medieval intellectual growth. Discover a crossroads city shaped by its Garonne River, ramparts, markets, religious ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington Square

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She will do as I have bidden her.' Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but her father, a clever physician, is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    General history of Algeria

    by Henri Garrot ...
    Narrated by Adrian Vale ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 56 min

    A vertiginous plunge into the heart of Maghreb history, Henri Garrot's General History of Algeria traces, with rare clarity and epic scope, the long chain of civilizations that shaped Algeria and Berbery: from Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Romans to Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Berber dynasties, and on to the great medieval upheavals. It traverses ancient ports, caravan routes, titanic sieges, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magicians' Tricks

    Series series Dover Magic Books
    Master magicians of their time, Hatton and Plate recorded in this book — which they wrote in 1910 — solutions to problems that seemed unsolvable. Indispensible to today's amateur and professional magicians, the how-to manual explains 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items. 194 black-and-white illustrations. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Violence

    Humans in Dark Times

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Instant Insights: Improving crop disease management

    Series Book 38 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This specially curated collection features four reviews of current and key research on improving crop disease management.The first chapter reviews strategies for limiting foliar disease development in wheat and barley crops, such as crop rotations, intercropping, gene deployment and conservation tillage. It explores the effectiveness of each strategy against particular foliar diseases, as well as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece

    Edited by Adrian Kelly, Henry Spelman ...
    Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Gutted

    Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Life

    In the course of a few short months, Lawrence LaRose got married, bought a decrepit house in Sag Harbor with his wife, and lost his job. This is the story of how, while negotiating a cash-strapped, divorce-teetering first year of marriage, this unemployed writer and Manhattanite ended up bluffing his way onto a Hamptons construction crew in order to learn the skills for what became an enormous ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is determined to seize them. What can he make of the younger woman? What are his motives? What are the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hill 112

    a novel of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy

    Narrated by Henry Nott ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    Bloomsbury presents Hill 112 by Adrian Goldsworthy, read by Henry Nott.A gripping story of friendship and division in the midst of warfare, set against one of the most dramatic, dangerous, and crucial campaigns of World War II: the Battle of Normandy.They went to war as boys. Will they make it home as men?D-Day. June 6th, 1944. The trajectory of the Second World War – and with it the course of ... Read more

    $23.00 USD