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    Little Children

    by Tom Perrotta ...
    Narrated by George K. Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 35 min

    This New York Times best-seller has earned universal acclaim, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Booklist . With hits like Election and Joe College to his credit, author Tom Perrotta has established himself as a master of satire. Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground with her three-year-old daughter. When happily ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Erotic and Social Transformation

    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    George Leonard (1923-2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    On a Sea of Glass

    The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic

    Unabridged

    32 hours 22 min

    On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive?The authors bring the tragedy to life, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    They Saw It Happen

    Eyewitness accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    Here are more than sixty eyewitness accounts from history. Many are notable events: the Battle of Thermopylae, the Black Death in 1341, the Great Fire of London, the execution of Louis XVI, the Death of Nelson and the American Civil War and the bombing of Hiroshima. But there are also snapshots of more ordinary life no less memorable for that including working conditions during the Industrial ... Read more

    $17.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Life & Works Franz Schubert

    Series series Life & Works 

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Protecting the Wild

    Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

    Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Conservation, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Best Sci-Fi Books of Tom Godwin

    Enriched edition. For The Cold Equations, Space Prison, The Nothing Equation, The Barbarians, Cry from a Far Planet

    In 'The Best Sci-Fi Books of Tom Godwin', the compilation of short stories explores themes of technology, morality, and the human condition in the face of advanced science fiction concepts. Written in a compelling and thought-provoking style, Godwin's works often challenge readers to consider the consequences of unchecked technological progress and the ethical dilemmas that may arise. The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Histories

    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Money

    by Georg Simmel ...
    Translated by Tom Bottomore ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Letters From Everest

    Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains

    Unabridged

    5 hours 5 min

    ‘An extraordinary treasure trove’ Andrew MarrA unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were seen through a telescope on the upper slopes of Mount Everest. They were never seen alive again. In 1999, Mallory’s body was ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • I Lived to Tell It All

    Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Schoolhouse Rock!: The Updated Official Guide

    A revised and updated edition of the bestselling adult book, Schoolhouse Rock! The Official Guide, timed to the 50th anniversary of the premiere. "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" If you don't recognize those five little words, then you weren't camped out in front of the television set every Saturday morning from 1973 to 1985. Those catchy, jazzy tunes from Schoolhouse Rock! taught ... Read more

    $10.99 USD