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  • What Makes a Child Lucky

    A Novel

    by Gioia Timpanelli ...
    A luminous story of danger and survival.In a timeless moment in rural Sicily, a boy experiences the brutal killing of his best friend and is kidnapped by the murderers. No child should have to know evil so intimately, and yet once he does, what will save him?His salvation lies in the cycles of the seasons, the sturdy earth and its gifts of lentils and wild asparagus in a time of starvation, the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music

    A Subversive History

    by Ted Gioia ...
    **A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times**Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Vertigo

    A Memoir

    by Louise DeSalvo ...
    A scholar's memoir of growing up and the powerful forces that shaped her as a woman and a writer; "her story will inspire all women" ( Library Journal).In this honest and outspoken reflection on her childhood, Louise DeSalvo explores the many ways literature saved her, both emotionally and practically. Born to Italian immigrants during World War II, DeSalvo takes readers back to the emotional ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris Without End

    The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

    by Gioia Diliberto ...
    "A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel." — VogueHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • World of Difference

    A moral Perspective on Social Inequality

    Edited by Naomi Ellemers ...
    Public debates tend to see social inequality as resulting from individual decisions people make, for instance with respect to their education or lifestyle. Solutions are often sought in supporting individuals to make better choices. This neglects the importance of social groups and communities in determining individual outcomes. A moral perspective on social inequality questions the fairness of ... Read more

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    Conversational Italian for Travelers Just the Important Phrases

    With Restaurant Vocabulary and Idiomatic Expressions

    by Kathryn Occhipinti ...
    Narrated by Kathryn Occhipinti, Maria Vanessa Colapinto, Massimo Gioia ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Conversational Italian for Travelers

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    The Conversational Italian for Travelers series of books was created for the beginning Italian student who wants to learn, “all the Italian you need to enjoy your trip to Italy!” Truly different from other phrase books — this audiobook is friendly, humorous, and also provides a method to understand and remember important Italian phrases. There are many tips for the reader on how to create their ... Read more

    $8.25 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diane von Furstenberg

    A Life Unwrapped

    by Gioia Diliberto ...
    A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Listen to Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    An Economist Best Book of the YearAn acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz.**“Mr. Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees.” ―**EconomistIn How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premie... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings

    by Gerard Manley Hopkins ...
    Series series The Gospel in Great Writers
    How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world’s greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time.Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language. He ranks seventh among the most frequently reprinted English-language poets, surpassed only by Shakespeare, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Jazz

    by Ted Gioia ...
    An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible history of the genre of all time. Acclaimed by jazz critics and fans alike, this magnificent work is now available in an up-to-date third edition that ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    by Ted Gioia ...
    “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Firebrands

    The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition

    by Gioia Diliberto ...
    Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments.In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook