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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - Men 1920s

    The top ten Short Stories of the 1920's written by male authors

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bespoke

    Savile Row Ripped and Smoothed

    This is the true-life story of a boy who quit school to become an apprentice on Savile Row, home to London's most venerable tailors, and wound up owning his own shop on the world-famous 'Golden Mile', where he hand-cuts exquisite suits for a clientele including royalty, politicians, literati, business tycoons, and media stars.On a bright, bitterly cold and snowy morning in January 1982, 17-year ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Retribution

    Graham Sweetapple is down on his luck and full of righteous grievance. Chased from the land that should be his inheritance, he balances the ledger by stealing horses from more fortunate neighbours. It’s nothing personal.Until a local mining magnate hires him to steal Retribution, a fabled racehorse who captivates Sweetapple with her spirit and her perfection. Will he really be able to deliver the ... Read more

    $7.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition

    Testimonies from the 19th-century

    This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narratives from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades, as well as testimonies from enslaved people who never left the African continent, it expands the chronological and geographical scope of known ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Consequences King David

    A Legend A Myth or Just A Man?

    The tale of David and Bathsheba has, when studied, aroused curiosity, controversy and, in some quarters, condemnation.It is a story told many times before, but not quite like this.Within the pages of this book, Anderson takes the reader on an epic journey into the passions, personas, politics, and court intrigues of the era. Intertwining the lead characters in the saga of David and Bathsheba.As ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Mumkin Bukra: Memoirs of a Sri Lankan Housemaid

    Raised by her widowed mother in a Tamil village in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, "Sandy," born Pooranam Elayathamby, grew up in poverty with her five sisters. Married at sixteen, she had three children before twenty and was widowed by age thirty. In the middle of a frightening twenty-year civil war that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and left her family destitute, Sandy had ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Russia

    Modern Architectures in History

    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    From one of the largest empires in world history to the dominant republic of the Soviet Union and ultimately to the Russian Federation as we know it today, this book offers a comprehensive account of Russia’s architectural production from the late nineteenth century to the present, explaining how architecture was both shaped by, and a material manifestation of, Russia’s rapid cultural, economic ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896

    In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cracking Hitler's Atlantic Wall

    The 1st Assault Brigade Royal Engineers on D-Day

    A military historian analyzes the ingenious WWII tanks known as Hobart's Funnies, detailing their development and their role in the D-Day campaign.When the British and Canadians landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944, they were accompanied by specialized armored vehicles designed to remove German obstacles and mines. Developed by the Royal Engineers, these tanks known as Hobart's Funnies featured a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Provenance in Architecture

    A Dictionary

    The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Wildflowers of the Mountain West

    This illustrated guide makes flower identification easy for outdoor enthusiasts across New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon.This book is perfect for anyone who has little botanical knowledge but would like to know more about the wildflowers they encounter in nature. Organized by flower color for easy reference, plant records include the common and scientific names, a ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Starting From Scratch: A Biographical Story written by Richard Andersone BCA

    Narrated by Hugh Weller-Poley ...

    Unabridged

    54 min

    A detailed description of the memoirs of Richard Andersone BCA. This book explores how he went from being an underprivileged young child to becoming a successful social entrepreneur helping over 10’000 active students in over 109 countries.Andersone details how he became a Breakfast Show presenter, a non executive director, was unanimously voted to be a co-chair for a government board and was ... Read more

    $12.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus