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  • Springfield

    Series series Images of Modern America
    The 1960s and 1970s were a time of significant change in the history of Springfield, Illinois, as the city redefined itself through major developments in education, technology, and commerce. This pictorial history allows readers to remember the familiar places of those decades, such as the downtown area, and acquaint themselves with the history of the new institutions that started in this time ... Read more

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  • Royal Highness

    Enriched edition.

    Translated by A. Cecil Curtis ...
    In "Royal Highness," Thomas Mann crafts a nuanced exploration of the interplay between personal ambition and societal expectations set against the backdrop of a fictional European principality. Mann's prose demonstrates his trademark psychological depth and incisive wit, painting a vivid portrait of aristocratic life while dissecting the intricacies of identity and fidelity. The novella is steeped ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Springfield

    A Reflection in Photography

    Series series Images of America
    Springfield: A Reflection in Photography is a photo album of Springfield scenes from the late 19th through the mid 20th centuries-a nostalgic look back at everyday life in the capital city. Local people are seen at work, at play and socializing. Iron workers, construction crews and munitions makers show us the gritty, tiring work of a community and emphasize the man and animal power once common in ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Royal Highness

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Narrated by Margaret Espaillat ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 52 min

    Royal Highness (German: Königliche Hoheit) is a 1909 novel by Thomas Mann. It is Mann's second novel and was written between the summer of 1906 and February 1909.Royal Highness is characterized by its fairytale-like qualities. The novel describes a young unworldly and dreamy prince who forces himself into a marriage of convenience that ultimately becomes happy, and was modeled after Mann's own ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Royal Highness

    Exploring Power, Duty, and Identity in Royal Courts

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by A. Cecil Curtis ...
    In "Royal Highness," Thomas Mann presents an exquisite exploration of aristocracy and the nuances of human relationships amidst the backdrop of a fictional European principality. Written in 1909, the novella showcases Mann's distinctive literary style'Äîcharacterized by dense prose, rich psychological insight, and intricate character development. Through the lens of the protagonist's coming-of-age ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Royal Highness

    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    For his Royal Highness Klaus Heinrich, prince of a small German duchy, life means servitude to traditional ducal functions—until he meets the independent-spirited and liberal-minded American Miss Spoelmann. During the course of his unorthodox and quixotically tender wooing, Heinrich is forced to reach into unknown depths of his personality and discover the real meaning of the word "duty."Peopled ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD

  • 2346: a SciFi Adventure

    Captain Jack the grumpiest Captain this space-fleet has ever seen.When the cargo bay stops responding after an impact on the main hull, a security team is sent to investigate. What they find may or may not be full of some deadly secrets.This is a short story perfect for an evening read before bed.If you like work by Andy Weir, Brandon Sanderson or Jim Butcher you will love this story. ... Read more

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  • Climbing the Volcano

    A Journey in Haiku

    by Curtis Manley ...
    Illustrated by Jennifer K. Mann ...
    Through haiku, a young boy narrates his family’s invigorating hike to the peak of Oregon’s South Sister volcano.For centuries, haiku has offered meditation on the grace and majesty of nature. In Climbing the Volcano, old meets new as a young protagonist uses the poetic form to voice his wonder. Trekking uphill, the family encounters tiny toads, colorful butterflies, soaring birds of prey, and so ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Up Against the Wall

    Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

    Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Anatomy Lesson

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of the medical dissection that is to be recorded by the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    Bloomsbury presents Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King, read by Mark MeadowsIn 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began what would become one of history’s most influential works of art—The Last Supper. After a decade at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point: at forty-three, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Canada

    by Richard Ford ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    ""First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel.This is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a bank and fracture his life into a before and an after, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD