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  • Breakthrough

    Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

    An "inspirational" account of how a young girl plight's "launched a boon for diabetics the world over . . . A remarkable story . . . worthy reading" ( Booklist).It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans HugheAs, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Shackleton: Leadership Lessons from Antarctica

    The more I read about Shackleton, the more I realized how truly heroic leadership is almost impossible to find in todays businesses. Despite all the research and programs devoted to motivating employees, most workers admit they feel disenfranchised in their daily work life. In reading the Shackleton story, it became clear to me that Shackletons leadership lessons could benefit these very same ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Breakthrough

    Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. It is essentially a death sentence. The only accepted form of treatment—starvation—whittles her down to forty-five pounds skin and bones. Miles away, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best manage to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Fourth Wing

    Narrated by Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton ...
    Series series Empyrean

    Unabridged

    22 hours 2 min

    Now with three bonus chapters read by Teddy Hamilton. Re-download the title now to listen to the extended version!A #1 New York Times bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best... ... Read more

    Was $30.99 USD Now $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Go to Sea

    by Greg LeBreton ...
    Have you ever watched a sailboat slip from its dock and cruise out to sea? Have you wanted to go along? "Go to Sea" gives you all the reasons to climb aboard a sailing adventure with your family. With plenty of links to cruising resources, web pages, and equipment information, Go to Sea is a must have for every new sailor wanting to cruise. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kelloggs

    The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek

    by Howard Markel ...
    ***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" —Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian (“Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be”—Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction (“Absorbing, vivid”—Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)—the story of America’s empire builders: ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Shackleton's Way

    Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

    Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest ShackletonSir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Because of his courageous actions, he remains to this day a model for great leadership and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

    A Life in Medicine

    by Michael Bliss ...
    William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Peter Isler's Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets

    by Peter Isler ...
    From one of the world's most respected sailors-the knowledge and secrets every sailor needsPeter Isler, two-time America's Cup winner, has sailed in and won hundreds of races over the last forty years. In that time, he has acquired a vast array of knowledge about sailing techniques and tactics, not to mention a boatload or two of entertaining stories along the way. In this book, he brings them all ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let the Children March

    Illustrated by Frank Morrison ...
    This powerful picture book introduces young readers to a key event in the struggle for Civil Rights. Winner, Coretta Scott King Honor Award.In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Saving Sailing

    Saving Sailing is an appealing blueprint for the revival of family sailing – and other quality uses of free time for rewarding lifelong pastimes.Participation in sailing is declining in America, down more than 40% since 1997 and 70% since 1979. In this provocative book, researcher and avid sailor Nicholas Hayes explains why. The book shows how pressures on free time have increased, and how, in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Oils Research Bibliography

    This bibliography was developed during a literature search for materials for a doctoral study of essential oils, and accompanying carrier oils. It contains over 400 resources from international academic and popular media publications, and spans more than 220 years of research. This list of resources covers information from dozens of disciplines and multiple popular folk practices on uses of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus