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  • Rendezvous with the Past

    A Boy Scout Canoe Trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area solves the mystery of a young boy's ancestry connecting him with generations and cultures from his past.

    by John Thurston ...
    A nine-day canoe trip turns into a profound, life-altering event as Louis discovers the untold stories of Voyageurs and Native Americans in his family's history.This thrilling adventure tells of Louis's family and his Scouting friends. They discover themselves through trial by terrain and weather, accomplish goals through teamwork, and learn the basic skills of Scouting as they have never applied ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carnie King

    The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

    by John Thurston ...
    The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world’s largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Willing to try anything to promote his show, he established himself as a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Carnie King

    The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

    by John Thurston ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 54 min

    Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world's largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world's fair. It became the foundation for his son and grandson to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    American Pain

    How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

    by John Temple ...
    Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Bloomland

    by John Englehardt ...
    Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    Winner of the Dzanc Books Prize for FictionBloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate's semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. When he stops shooting, twelve people are dead.In this richly textured debut, John Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters: a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Essays on Otherness

    by Jean Laplanche ...
    Translated by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • History of Engineering

    by John Hawkshaw, R. Henry Thurston ...
    The progress of engineering works has already in our time been prodigious.As to the future, we know we cannot create a force; we can, and no doubt shall, greatly improve the application of those with which we are acquainted. What we called inventions can do no more than this, yet how much every day is being done by new machines and instruments! The telescope extended our vision to distant worlds ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Mansion Beach

    A Novel

    by Meg Mitchell Moore ...
    Narrated by Jaime Lamchick, John Pirhalla, Petrea Burchard, Charlie Thurston, Mike Ortego, Stacy Gonzalez ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    “If you love Elin Hilderbrand and The Great Gatsby, Moore’s confection of a novel, set on Block Island, is a satisfying treat.”—The New York TimesFrom national bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling, escapist novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets, and a not-so-subtle love triangle, perfect for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024

    by Hugh Howey, John Joseph Adams ...
    Narrated by Charlie Thurston, Frankie Corzo, David Lee Huynh, Cindy Kay, Korey Jackson, Remmie Milner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 40 min

    A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams.“These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    False Claims

    One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption

    by Lisa Pratta ...
    Narrated by Dina Pearlman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    In Big Pharma, lives are secondary to profit margins. But Lisa Pratta stood her ground—risking everything to expose the lies of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical business mired in deception, greed, and the systemic abuse of both patients and employeesAs a rising star in pharmaceutical sales, Lisa Pratta wanted to believe that she was helping improve the lives of people who suffered from illness. But ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Mean Moms

    A Novel

    by Emma Rosenblum ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    “[January] LaVoy vivaciously narrates [Emma] Rosenblum’s fast-paced story, conveying the women’s snarkiness and suspicion to perfection.” — Library JournalMeet Frost, Morgan, and Belle—a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Academy, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

    by John Joseph Adams, R. F. Kuang ...
    Narrated by Will Tulin, Chanté McCormick, Em Grosland, Isabella Star LaBlanc, Yelena Shmulenson, Jeena Yi, André Santana, Jacob Patalive, Mirai, Katharine Chin ...
    Series series Best American

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    “Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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