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  • Audiobook

    Detective Stories – Mysteries

    Truth and justice by way of clues

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness & Ethics

    Updated second edition: "A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions." — Sociology of Heath and IllnessSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Greatest Fairytales Of All Time

    A Treasury of Enchanted Folklore, Magical Quests, Dreamlike Adventures, and Timeless Moral Fables

    The Greatest Fairytales Of All Time gathers a capacious international canon of wonder tales, literary fantasies, nursery narratives, and modern fairy-story revisions. Its range extends from folklore-inflected quests and enchanted transformations to dream logic, moral allegory, nonsense, and theatrical symbolism. Familiar figures—witches, talking animals, lost children, princesses, and improbable ... Read more

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  • King Lear

    Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

    Series series My Reading
    A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'. As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading King Lear leads Frank to both an encounter with his own old age and a source of consolation ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness, and Ethics Second Edition

    by Arthur Frank ...
    Narrated by Trevor Thompson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank's book has reached a large and diverse following, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Learning to Spell: A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller

    Exploring Pedagogical Strategies for Effective Spelling Instruction

    In the brilliantly curated anthology, *Learning to Spell: A Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Speller*, a rich tapestry of pedagogical insight and educational innovation unfolds, offering a comprehensive guide to the Aldine Speller's techniques and applications. This collection dissects the complex interplay between phonetics, pedagogy, and literacy development, drawing from a wide array of ... Read more

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  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Captives of the Zone

    (diary#1)

    by Arthur Frank ...
    Series Book 1 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
    More than 80 books and over 6 million copies of the Stalker book series have sold in Russia and in Germany.The official S.T.A.L.K.E.R book series has taken on a new image — graphic novels that will immerse you in the world of the Zone where dangerous anomalies lie in wait for the Stalkers at every turn and where hideous mutants and zombies are on a continuous hunt for man.A Swedish tourist named ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • THE GREATEST BRITISH DETECTIVES - Boxed Set: 190+ Murder Mysteries, Thrillers & Crime Stories (Illustrated Edition)

    Classic British Mystery Anthology

    This carefully edited collection contains the greatest tales of the legendary British sleuths and investigators, including Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, Tommy and Tuppence, Dr. Thorndyke and many others: Sherlock Holmes Series: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The ... Read more

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  • Letting Stories Breathe

    A Socio-Narratology

    Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us—they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can imagine being. Stories connect people, but they can also disconnect, creating boundaries between people and justifying violence. In Letting Stories Breathe, Arthur W. Frank grapples with this fundamental ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Reading to Healing

    Teaching Medical Professionalism through Literature

    Edited by Stagno, Michael Blackie ...
    Series series Literature and Medicine
    Selected readings and commentary for the medical humanitiesLearning how to behave and engage professionally can be one of the most challenging parts of embarking on a career in the medical field. But using the “power of stories” can teach, heal, and enlighten; encourage the development of empathy; and help healthcare providers “be with suffering” and appreciate who their patients are, not just ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Endurance

    Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition and the Fight for Survival

    Trapped in the Antarctic ice, crushed by the pressure of the frozen sea, and stranded thousands of miles from safety, the men of the Endurance faced a struggle for survival that became one of the greatest stories in the history of exploration. Frank Arthur Worsley, captain of the Endurance, tells the story from inside Shackleton’s doomed Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. After the ship was ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Social Dance

    A Short History

    by Arthur Franks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1963 and authored by the then Editor of the Dancing Times, this was a pioneer work discussing not only the origins and development of many social dance forms from early times, but also relating these forms to their environment. As well as its role in social history, the book analyses the role of dance as a prime creative power in Renaissance spectacles which depicted and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD