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Avoiding Scams and Financial Fraud for Seniors

by Peter Bishop ...

Financial scams are becoming more sophisticated every year — and older adults are often the primary targets.But being targeted does not mean being vulnerable.Avoiding Scams and Financial Fraud for Seniors is a clear, practical guide designed to help adults over 60 recognize warning signs, protect personal information, and respond calmly if something feels suspicious.This book does not use fear ... Read more

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Financial scams are becoming more sophisticated every year — and older adults are often the primary targets.But being targeted does not mean being vulnerable.Avoiding Scams and Financial Fraud for Seniors is a clear, practical guide designed to help adults over 60 recognize warning signs, protect personal information, and respond calmly if something feels suspicious.This book does not use fear
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Voyage to the Land of Blue Mists

by Peter Bishop ...

Nobody ever suspected that a secret lay hidden in the picture that Zivilia had inherited from her mother. That it had been painted in the land of Blue Mists, a strange hermit kingdom that lay on the other side of the world, had been long forgotten. Besides, Zivilia knew nothing of the country's blood-splattered history, or the disruption caused by the League of Ausburg and their traders in the ... Read more

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Nobody ever suspected that a secret lay hidden in the picture that Zivilia had inherited from her mother. That it had been painted in the land of Blue Mists, a strange hermit kingdom that lay on the other side of the world, had been long forgotten. Besides, Zivilia knew nothing of the country's blood-splattered history, or the disruption caused by the League of Ausburg and their traders in the
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The Subtle Awakening: Book One of Ghosting the Stars

by Peter Bishop ...

The invention of the Groff changed everything. It propelled people out-of-body and into the shallows of subtle-space, to skim, or ghost, intimately alongside the physical world. As the twenty-first century staggered towards its conclusion everyone was travelling out-of-body, for work or pleasure, legal and illegal. But with new freedoms and opportunities came new forms of power, crime, ... Read more

$1.99 USD

The invention of the Groff changed everything. It propelled people out-of-body and into the shallows of subtle-space, to skim, or ghost, intimately alongside the physical world. As the twenty-first century staggered towards its conclusion everyone was travelling out-of-body, for work or pleasure, legal and illegal. But with new freedoms and opportunities came new forms of power, crime,
... Read more
Bridge

by Peter Bishop ...

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Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. In Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture.From ancient Roman arches to the rail bridge of Lhasa to the suspension bridge over Niagara Falls, we traverse in ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Whether a humble string of planks swaying across a trickling stream or the soaring towers of the Golden Gate Bridge, bridges are one of man’s great engineering feats. In Bridge, Peter Bishop provides a comprehensive historical account of their role in the advancement of human culture.From ancient Roman arches to the rail bridge of Lhasa to the suspension bridge over Niagara Falls, we traverse in
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Remembering George Cardinal Pell

Recollections of a Great Man of the Church

by Tracey Rowland, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, George Weigel, Joanna Bogle, Andrew Bolt, Bishop Peter J. Elliott, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Sr. Mary Grace, S.V., Rev. Canon Alexander Sherbrooke, Reverend Jerome Santamaria ...

Cardinal George Pell was a significant figure in Australian public life and in the life of the Catholic Church from the time of his appointment to the episcopacy in the 1980s until his death in 2023. His imprisonment for some 404 days for a crime he did not commit was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history. His scape-goat treatment has been compared to that of ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Cardinal George Pell was a significant figure in Australian public life and in the life of the Catholic Church from the time of his appointment to the episcopacy in the 1980s until his death in 2023. His imprisonment for some 404 days for a crime he did not commit was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history. His scape-goat treatment has been compared to that of
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Paris 1944

Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History

by Patrick Bishop ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

14 hours 34 min

A moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century.The Sunday Times (London) bestsellerThe fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest days of World War II. And the liberation of the city on August 25th, 1944, felt like the brightest.The liberation was also the biggest party of the ... Read more

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A moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century.The Sunday Times (London) bestsellerThe fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was one of the darkest days of World War II. And the liberation of the city on August 25th, 1944, felt like the brightest.The liberation was also the biggest party of the
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Combat Monsters

Untold Tales of World War II

by Henry Herz, Henry Herz, Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell0, Tori Eldridge1, Harry Turtledove2, Catherine Stine3, Scott Sigler4, Gaby Triana5, Ann Dávila Cardinal6, Jonathan Maberry7, Andrea Tang8, Kevin Andrew Murphy9, Jeremy Robinson0, Tanya Huff1, David Mack2, various authors3 ...

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the ... Read more

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Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the
... Read more

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Planning, Politics and City-Making

A Case Study of King's Cross

by Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams ...

Whilst there is extensive literature analysing the design and function of new buildings and places, the actual process through which development proposals are actually fashioned – through complex negotiation and deal making, involving many different stakeholders with different agendas – is largely undocumented. Conventional planning theory tends to assume a logical, rational and linear decision ... Read more

$59.99 USD

Whilst there is extensive literature analysing the design and function of new buildings and places, the actual process through which development proposals are actually fashioned – through complex negotiation and deal making, involving many different stakeholders with different agendas – is largely undocumented. Conventional planning theory tends to assume a logical, rational and linear decision
... Read more
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Little Women

Full Cast Dramatic Reading

by Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw, Karen Savage, Kara Shallenberg, Bruce Pirie, Amy Gramour, Phil Chenevert, David Lawrence, Tom Crawford, Denny Sayers, Henry Frigon, Nadine Eckert-Boulet, John Croudy, Peter Bishop, John Fricker, E. Lee ...

Unabridged

17 hours 21 min

In this dramatic reading of Little Women, we follow the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – as they embark on the journey from childhood to womanhood. The sisters live with their mother while their father fights in the American Civil War. The family, headed by their beloved mother Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this dramatic reading of Little Women, we follow the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – as they embark on the journey from childhood to womanhood. The sisters live with their mother while their father fights in the American Civil War. The family, headed by their beloved mother Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr.
... Read more
Audiobook

Paris '44

The Shame and the Glory

by Patrick Bishop ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

14 hours 35 min

**Named a Best Book of 2024 by Winnipeg Free PressCelebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great hinge moments of WW2.**The fall of Paris to the Nazis in June 1940 seemed like the darkest day of the Second World War; and the liberation of the city in August 1944 felt like the ... Read more

$34.99 USD

**Named a Best Book of 2024 by Winnipeg Free PressCelebrating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Paris, a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great hinge moments of WW2.**The fall of Paris to the Nazis in June 1940 seemed like the darkest day of the Second World War; and the liberation of the city in August 1944 felt like the
... Read more
Ceremonies Explained for Servers

A Manual for Altar Servers, Acolytes, Sacristans, and Masters of Ceremonies

by Bishop Peter J. Elliott ...

Ceremonies Explained for Servers may well be called the "mother of all servers' manuals". This is the most detailed guide available for servers and those who train and supervise them at the altar.In accessible language, Ceremonies covers the roles of servers in a wide range of Catholic liturgical celebrations. These are described in full, such as: the Mass in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Ceremonies Explained for Servers may well be called the "mother of all servers' manuals". This is the most detailed guide available for servers and those who train and supervise them at the altar.In accessible language, Ceremonies covers the roles of servers in a wide range of Catholic liturgical celebrations. These are described in full, such as: the Mass in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary
... Read more
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Operation Jubilee

Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice

by Patrick Bishop ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

14 hours 54 min

In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.On the moonless night of August 18th 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

In the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942.On the moonless night of August 18th 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of the Channel. They are to seize the German-held port of Dieppe and hold it for at least twenty-four hours, showing the Soviets the Allies were serious about
... Read more

Also available as: eBook