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  • The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

    Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of The Railway Children

    by Eleanor Fitzsimons ...
    A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year: The "informative and entertaining" first major biography of the trailblazing, controversial children's author ( The Washington Post).Born in 1858, Edith Nesbit is today considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children's adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the ... Read more

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    The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

    Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of The Railway Children

    by Eleanor Fitzsimons ...
    Narrated by Marlain Angelides ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year: The "informative and entertaining" first major biography of the trailblazing, controversial children's author (The Washington Post).Born in 1858, Edith Nesbit is today considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children's adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer <strong... ... Read more

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    Forbidden Journeys

    Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

    by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...
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    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns ... Read more

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    Nothing is Too Big to Fail

    How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today

    by Kerry Killinger, Linda Killinger ...
    Narrated by Gary Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 50 min

    In 2008, the American economy collapsed, taking with it millions of Americans' jobs, homes, and life savings. The impending financial crisis was devastating, and many are still feeling its effects today.Though the crisis was debilitating, the US government has yet to implement policies that would prevent a repeat of the Great Recession. The middle class continues to shrink, escalations in racial ... Read more

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    Alice

    Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute

    by Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the ... Read more

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    Blue Angel

    A Novel

    by Francine Prose ...
    Narrated by Zach Villa ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    **The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today**It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since ... Read more

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    Cool

    How Air Conditioning Changed Everything

    by Salvatore Basile ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    "[A] history of air conditioning, chronicling the numerous gimmicks, failed attempts, con jobs, and eventual successes . . . a surprisingly interesting journey." —San Francisco Book ReviewThe air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world's greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits; saved ... Read more

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    From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

    An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

    by Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty ...
    Narrated by Holly Adams ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 15 min

    Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book "[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and ... Read more

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    Everybody Behaves Badly

    The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

    by Lesley M. M. Blume ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Davis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    **“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair*“*An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume combines the best aspects of critic, biographer and storyteller . . . and puts the results together with the skill of an ... Read more

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    Whose Story Is This?

    Old Conflicts, New Chapters

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the internationally bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me.Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men (and particularly, white men) are trying to hang onto the old ... Read more

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    Dwelling Place

    A Plantation Epic

    by Erskine Clarke ...
    Narrated by Langston Darby ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 25 min

    Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804–1863), whose family owned more than a hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can ... Read more

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  • Charles Dickens

    A Life

    by Claire Tomalin ...
    Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography of Britain’s greatest novelist by bestselling author Claire Tomalin, author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self and Jane Austen: A Life‘Powerful and remarkable. It is a celebration of a great genius. No question: you put Tomalin’s book down knowing that you have met a living author’ Miriam Margolyes, The Times‘By far the most humane and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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