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  • Strange but True Facts About the Civil War

    Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know...-A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy?-The Confederacy briefly had a program developing rockets?-Two million dollars in gold bars that disappeared from a Union Army ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College

    Volume 2

    This sequel to Teaching Composition at the Two-Year College (2016) provides busy two-year college literacy instructors with key up-to-date professional readings focusing on important issues that have emerged since the first book was published.Most of the sixty-three selections were previously published in scholarly journals and books, including Teaching English in the Two-Year College and College ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The New Space Opera

    Unabridged

    23 hours 35 min

    This dazzling anthology includes epic interstellar adventures, tales of space and wonder, from some of the brightest names in science fiction. Authors includeKage BakerStephen BaxterGregory BenfordTony DanielGreg EganPeter F. HamiltonGwyneth JonesJames Patrick KellyNancy KressKen MacleodPaul J. McAuleyIan McDonaldRobert ReedAlastair ReynoldsMary RosenblumRobert SilverbergDan SimmonsWalter Jon ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe

    Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street

    Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions

    Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive sampling of this diversity of applications is presented in section 2, in which EMDS application ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Marble Faun (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    16 hours 1 min

    The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he saw the Faun of Praxiteles in a Roman sculpture gallery. The theme, characteristic of Hawthorne, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Emotional Sobriety: The Mental Psychology to Help You Build (A Comprehensive Guide for Navigating Your Emotional Load With Resilience)

    Narrated by Digital Voice Mike G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 42 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Be honest. Few days go by where you don’t find your sense of balance thrown off by what someone said about you, how a meeting went, what your social media contacts are doing, how your fortune changed during the day, or your fears about coming events.Most of us face this kind of anxiety, sadness, worry—call it what you will—every day of the week. Most ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performing New Orleans

    Rethinking Resilience in Art and Everyday Life

    Performing New Orleans examines the value of arts and culture in managing complex urban challenges, offering new perspectives on how artistic and everyday performances can be pivotal modes of practicing resilience. Through an exploration of understudied forms of performance in New Orleans, Stuart Andrews and Patrick Duggan highlight the centrality of the city’s arts ecosystems as a vital aspect of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Conservation Agriculture for Africa

    Building Resilient Farming Systems in a Changing Climate

    Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation. This book reviews research and development initiatives in Africa aimed at building resilient farming systems. It summarises the status of conservation agriculture today, discusses prospects for future development and provides case studies showing its performance in Africa. ... Read more

    $141.19 USD

  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

    From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

    'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent**'F**ood for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ... ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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    Now and in the Hour of Our Death

    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 34 min

    Patrick Taylor's first novel of the Irish Troubles, Pray for Us Sinners, introduced us to Provisional IRA bombmaker Davy MacCutcheon and the love of his life, Fiona Kavanagh. Davy planned to leave the Provos after one final mission. But the deadly mission backfired, and Davy ended up in prison. Six years later, in Now and in the Hour of Our Death, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in Vancouver, ... Read more

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    Pray for Us Sinners

    A Novel of the Irish Troubles

    Narrated by John Keating ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Stories of the Irish Troubles

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    A British Army bomb-disposal expert goes undercover to try to identify the source of the bombs being used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Pray for Us Sinners, a thrilling novel by New York Times bestseller Patrick TaylorIn Belfast in 1973 the Troubles are raging. Two Ulstermen. Two sides. On one, British Army bomb-disposal officer Marcus Richardson; on the other, Davy MacCutcheon, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD