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  • Orphans of Empire

    The Fate of London's Foundlings

    by Helen Berry ...
    Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadside. He could have just passed by. Instead, he devised a plan to create a charity that would care for ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Castrato and His Wife

    by Helen Berry ...
    The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England

    The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury

    by Helen Berry ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader. Berry's study provides the first full length analysis of John Dunton's Athenian ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660–1830

    Series series The History of Retailing and Consumption
    Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with the history of regional identity, Creating and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Orphans of Empire

    The Fate of London's Foundlings

    by Helen Berry ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights—the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadside.Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the thousands of children who were raised ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Friends

    Longtime friends Helen Levine and Oonagh Berry decided they missed the tradition of "real" letters. The obvious solution for them was to initiate a correspondence project. Their goal? To write each other a longhand letter every two weeks for a year, and see what, if anything, they were missing in their usual friendship rituals of lunches, visits and telephone chats. The result is a wealth of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cooking Up a Christmas Storm

    by Amelia Berry ...
    Narrated by Helen McAlpine ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Highland Cookery School

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    Jodie Simpson's life is falling apart.She has lost her girlfriend, Gemma, her job and is about to be kicked out of her flat. When she mistakenly opens a letter addressed to Gemma and finds a job offer to work at the Highland Cookery School, she makes a momentary decision that will change her life forever.Jodie heads to the Scottish Highlands to begin her new job - as Gemma. But it all starts to ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

  • Remaking English Society

    Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England

    A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Recipe For Love

    by Amelia Berry ...
    Narrated by Helen McAlpine ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Highland Cookery School

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    From the moment they meet, Bella and Adam know this is no ordinary holiday romance. This is the real deal!But when they find out Adam’s father has died and he has inherited the penniless Lowbridge Loch Estate, their lives are changed in an instant.Bella suddenly finds herself dealing with crumbling castles, battling baronesses and a tiny community of eccentric characters. Rising to the challenge, ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Stirring Up a Love Story

    by Amelia Berry ...
    Narrated by Helen McAlpine ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    Can he cook his way into her heart?Darcy is still reeling after the death of her beloved husband, the Baron of Lowbridge, eighteen months ago.He is the reason she left New York for the Scottish Highlands and now she feels lost.When feisty chef Nate arrives at Lowbridge, she takes against him immediately. He is cocky and brash and the two of them do not see eye to eye on anything.However, he is ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD

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    Snowy Surprises in the Highlands

    A feel-good, festive romantic read from Lisa Hobman

    by Lisa Hobman ...
    Narrated by Eilidh Beaton ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - The Scottish Highland series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    A BRAND NEW magical, snowy instalment in Lisa Hobman's beautiful, romantic Scottish Highlands series ✨☃️ Perfect for the fans of Alison Sherlock, Jessica Redland and Fay Keenan!Every book in the Scottish Highland series can be read as a standaloneMagic happens when you least expect it…Bella Douglas is living her dream life on the Isle of Skye but misses her friends at Drumblair Castle. She has the ... Read more

    $35.03 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus