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  • Hubris

    The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

    An "eminently provocative and readable" history examining six critical battles of the early twentieth century ( The Wall Street Journal).Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Mental Toughness Training For Young Athletes - Parent's Guide

    by Troy Horne ...
    Narrated by Troy Horne ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    Finally! There is A Mental Toughness Book For Young Athletes!Troy Horne here. Your mental toughness guide! I know exactly how you feel. You probably have a young athlete who struggles with in-game stress and maybe even sports performance anxiety. This is the only book that I know of with input from an actual young athlete. I am here to help you parents understand how to help your kiddo navigate ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Savage War of Peace

    Algeria 1954-1962

    The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Counter-Revolution of 1776

    Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

    by Gerald Horne ...
    How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birdwatchingwatching

    One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds

    by Alex Horne ...
    Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his father's favourite hobby. So he challenged his dad to a Big Year: from 1 January to 31 December they would each try to spot as many birds as possible; the one who spied the most species would be the ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Ottoman Empire

    by Charles Horne ...
    Constantinople, the Turkish capital, the mysterious, ancient, ever-flourishing city, sacred alike to Christian and Mahometan, stands in its wondrous beauty upon European shores; yet Turkey is an Asiatic State. Her story belongs to Asia, the world of dreamy fancy and lurid legend, not of sober fact and accurately dated history. Hence one can speak of Turkey only after the fashion of her own clime, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freddie and Stella Got Hot

    by Maggie Horne ...
    Jenny Han meets Mean Girls in Freddie and Stella Got Hot, Maggie Horne's YA rom com about getting revenge and falling in love.By the time the Beaumont-Gardiner Award is announced, everyone's going to hate Levi Preston. And they're going to love us.Freddie and Stella are on a mission: take down their former best friend turned queen bee Levi Preston by depriving her of the one thing she wants more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Don't Let It Break Your Heart

    by Maggie Horne ...
    Perfect for fans of The Half of It, Maggie Horne's debut YA contemporary novel is an ode to lifelong friendships and discovering queer community.You only get one soulmate, and I'm not throwing mine away.Alana and Gray have been the perfect couple ever since they got together before high school – and neither of them thinks that should have to change just because Alana came out as a lesbian.Sure, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Breach of Faith

    Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

    by Jed Horne ...
    Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne has had a front-row seat to the unfolding drama of the city’s collapse into chaos and its continuing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Seven Ages of Paris

    In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring.From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV (who abandoned Paris for Versailles); Napoleon’s rise and fall; Baron Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris (at the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Twins

    by Steve Horne ...
    Do twins mean double trouble?Friday 13 July, 1956. Peter and Mary Horne had not expected twins and with their premature arrival, Peter had difficulty convincing even his own father that he was now the proud dad of identical twins, Christopher Mark Horne and Stephen John Horne, born 5.55 and 6.00 in the morning at National Women's Hospital in Auckland.With laugh-out-loud humour, and a little ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Lose a Battle

    France 1940

    In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German ... Read more

    $21.29 USD