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  • The Moronic Inferno

    And Other Visits to America

    by Martin Amis ...
    Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields, presents a collection of essays on the “moronic inferno,” aka the United States of America.A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-century America through the eyes of one of Britain’s most canny and caustic cultural critics.In The Moronic Inferno, Martin Amis turns his razor-sharp intellect across the Atlantic, ensnaring the United States in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • On the Christian Life

    A New Translation

    by John Calvin ...
    Translated by Raymond A. Blacketer ...
    New Translation of John Calvin's Classic Work Explores What It Means to Live the Christian LifeFor centuries, Christians have read John Calvin's On the Christian Life to answer a fundamental question: What does it mean to live faithfully as a Christian? This fresh translation of what is often referred to as Calvin's "Golden Booklet" features an all-new introduction, robust citations, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

    Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Writings from The New Yorker

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Anthony Lane on Con Air—“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.”Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County—“I got my copy at the airport, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Thames-side Kent Through Time

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Series series Through Time
    Commencing at the Nore, Thames-side Kent follows the course of a ship inward bound, presenting a nostalgic study of the southern bank of the River Thames as far as the county of Kent extends, the mouth of the River Darenth, also known as Dartford Creek. Countless vessels of all sizes have travelled along these thirty-one miles of water over the centuries, some to one of the many wharves that lined ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Lightships

    Their Design, Development and Diversity

    Lightships guided ships of all nations past offshore reefs and sandbanks that posed extreme hazards to navigation where lighthouses could not be built. This book describes their design, construction and evolution over more than two centuries of service. Originally constructed from teak, they progressed through iron hulls to steel. Their lights burnt whale oil, colza oil, then paraffin before ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Front Line Harbour

    A History of the Port of Dover

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Made famous by its position, the port of Dover has proved of great importance to the nation in war and peace over many centuries. A Roman stronghold, it became a major Cinque Port after the Norman Conquest. Following the murder of Thomas Beckett at Canterbury in 1170, it became a place of transit for many pilgrims, encouraging Henry II to improve the remarkable castle we know today. Henry VIII and ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Isle of Thanet Through Time

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Series series Through Time
    Dependent originally on fishing and farming, Margate and Ramsgate benefited as limbs of the Cinque Ports during the Middle Ages, shipping grain to London and elsewhere. Growth was, however, slow until an interest in sea-bathing arose in the eighteenth century, when, to Margate's great benefit, Benjamin Beale invented the first bathing machine with a modesty hood. After that, hoys, paddle steamers ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Kent Coast Gravesend to Margate Through Time

    by Anthony Lane ...
    Series series Through Time
    Besides having a fascinating geology, the North Kent Coast bears the marks of most periods of our history. The Romans built their fort at Reculver, and the abbey that later occupied that site had direct links with Canterbury Cathedral. The Dutch raided Queenborough and Sheerness in 1667; there was the famous Mutiny at the Nore in 1797; and prisoners were kept in wooden hulks at Sheerness from ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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    On the Christian Life

    A New Translation

    Narrated by Johnathan Welsh ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 14 min

    New Translation of John Calvin's Classic Work Explores What It Means to Live the Christian LifeFor centuries, Christians have read John Calvin's On the Christian Life to answer a fundamental question: What does it mean to live faithfully as a Christian? This fresh translation of what is often referred to as Calvin's "Golden Booklet" introduces a new generation of readers to a classic work of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cat Sense

    How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

    by John Bradshaw ...
    Based on cutting edge science, this bestselling book on the inner lives of cats is "for any who may wonder what their feline companions are really thinking" (The New York Times).In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel lingering myths and explain the true nature of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Strange Library

    Translated by Ted Goossen ...
    From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD