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  • The Ram in the Thicket

    A Novel of Medieval Norwich

    by David Townsend ...
    Faith and Fear, Repression and Resilience in Medieval NorwichPolarized political groups vie for power. Religious leaders push for harshly intolerant rules. Lies and "cancellation" hound those who don't fit in. A small minority suffering from inherited trauma are especially targeted. A charismatic outsider spreads conspiracy theories. A wise woman with influence but no power fights to do damage ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • My Road to Mandalay

    by David Townsend ...
    Don Townsend signed up on his 20th Birthday in 1940. He spent 1941 supporting the 8th Army in Egypt and then took a commission in the Indian Army, becoming a specialist in Tank Transport. He led convoys across India and delivered tanks, troops and even Christmas drinks to the front lines in the Battle for Burma. His story is told from letters written to his family and from early 1944 to his new ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do They Play Cricket in Ireland?

    A 25-Year Journey to a Test Match at Lord's

    by David Townsend ...
    Do They Play Cricket in Ireland? is the inside story of a rollercoaster ride that took the Boys in Green from rank amateurs to playing Test matches, and dismissing England for 85. Every stage of the journey is charted by a writer who was at the heart of the action: instrumental in Ed Joyce joining Middlesex and the tactician who helped Ireland win their first global tournament. Read about stunning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric

    Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy

    by David Townsend ...
    Series series Cultures of Latin
    This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Alexandreis

    A Twelfth-Century Epic

    by Walter Chatillon ...
    Translated by David Townsend ...
    Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon

    A Twelfth-Century Epic

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon

    A Twelfth-Century Epic

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Pogey, Poutine and Warm, Furry Beavers

    (Plus Twenty Other Reasons to Enjoy Being Canadian)

    by David Townsend ...
    A frenetic celebration of all things Canucky the sort of result you might get if you pumped Dave Barry full of maple syrup and Moosehead, then left him tied up in a sack for a week with Ron James and the Littlest Hobo. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Thunder Mountain Gang

    Book Two - Thunder Mountain Gang Series

    by David Townsend, Pam Townsend ...
    This is the second book in the Thunder Mountain Gang saga. The first book was The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain. Like the first book, the blistering action, cliff-hanging suspense, ghost stories, humor and unexplained mysteries continue. This story begins with the Thunder Mountain Gang’s third summer visit to their grandparents secluded, sometimes mysterious mountain top farm in West ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Topsy Turvy: A Gay Erotic Fantasia

    by David Townsend ...
    Two middle-aged men trying to make it work in a small college town. A sexy young flirt in a wheelchair. A snowdrift. Some rope. Sometimes life brings the unexpected, and you get luckier than you ever dreamt possible. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Mysterious Red Fog on Thunder Mountain

    by David Townsend, Pam Townsend ...
    Blistering action, cliff-hanging suspense, unexplained mysteries. The story begins with four children’s first summer visit to their Grandparents secluded, sometimes mysterious, farm on Thunder Mountain. After a terrible storm one night, an ancient log is moved exposing an opening in the ground with an eerie red fog escaping … exactly where their zip-line ends as it crosses a mist shrouded creek. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Black Ivory (Unabridged)

    by R. M. BALLANTYNE ...
    Narrated by David Townsend ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his, alone on the east coast of Africa, where Arab and Portuguese slave traders were still carrying out their evil trade, despite the great efforts of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD