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  • Crossing

    by Catherine Norton ...
    First published in 2014, Crossing is an award-winning novel for readers aged 10-13 about propaganda, division and what it means to think for yourself.11-year-old Cara has grown up in the shadow of the Wall, in a closed world of food shortages and high security. Like a good citizen, she keeps her eyes open for Suspicious Acts-fighting or protesting in the street, reading or writing anything that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Navigation skills have many uses, but can they help Hester find her place in the universe?Fans of The Fortune Maker will be sure to love Catherine Norton's enchanting new middle-grade historical fiction book.It's 1866 and Hester Hitchins' father is missing at sea.Determined to find him, eleven-year-old Hester wins a place at Addington's Nautical Navigation Academy, where she will learn to navigate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fortune Maker

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Which is more dangerous - a future you can't see - or one that you can?London, 1913Twelve-year-old Maud Mulligan knows there's no future for her in London, in the rat-infested slum where she grew up. But in the tunnel under the river are fortune tellers, Seers, who will tell your fortune for a few pennies. And then there is Mr Mandalay, Seer to the king and anyone else rich enough to afford him ... Read more

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    Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Narrated by Emily Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    Navigation skills have many uses, but can they help Hester find her place in the universe?Fans of The Fortune Maker will be sure to love Catherine Norton's enchanting new middle-grade historical fiction book.It's 1866 and Hester Hitchins' father is missing at sea.Determined to find him, eleven-year-old Hester wins a place at Addington's Nautical Navigation Academy, where she will learn to navigate ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What If...Book of Alternative History

    Revisit Major Milestones That Shaped World History and Discover the Outcome If They Had Happened Differently

    by Jeff Greenfield, Catherine Curzon, Elizabeth Norton, Nicola Tallis ...
    Series series Visual History
    The course of history has taken many turns. What would the world be like if events had happened differently? What if JFK had never visited Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Germany had won the First World War? How would life be different in America if the Southern states had beaten the North? What would a world without The Beatles sound like? Find out the potential answers to all these ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unfamiliar Fishes

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Sarah Vowell thinks of Hawaii as the most American state. She argues that it’s “breathtaking in its beauty, sometimes hideously developed, overwhelmingly religious, impoverished (except for pockets of staggering wealth), crass and spiritual all at once.” In Unfamiliar Fishes, she will explore the exceptional history of Hawaii with her personal reporting and trademark smart-aleckiness to find out ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wordy Shipmates

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Sarah Vowell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Assassination Vacation

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King, Dave Eggers ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 20 min

    New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Partly Cloudy Patriot

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Lear, They Might Be Giants ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Sarah Vowell, Alexis Denisof, John Slattery, Patton Oswalt, Fred Armisen, John Hodgman, Stephanie March, Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • War: How Conflict Shaped Us

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber PrizeThoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan.War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pursuit of Power

    Europe, 1815-1914

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaini... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook