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  • Audiobook

    Dressing Up for the Carnival

    A Collection of Stories

    by Carol Shields ...
    Narrated by Jean Smart ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 20 min

    Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identity—as in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these stories and their quiet epiphanies reflect all the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Existentialism Is a Humanism

    Translated by Carol Macomber ...
    A new translation of two seminal works of existentialismIt was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Night Before Christmas in Africa

    Series series The Night Before Christmas
    The picture book The Night Before Christmas in Africa celebrates the holiday and African culture with the classic poem.There is never snow at Christmas on the African plain. It is always hot and the riverbed is nothing but dust. Families sleep on floor mats waiting for Father Christmas, dreaming of relief from the heat. They have come to cherish the simple gifts he always brings. In this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Little Women

    Strong International Women in Extraordinary Situations

    Series Book 2 - Pandora's Boxed Set
    Song at Dawn, by Jean Gill1150 in Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church.Estela wants to be Queen Aliénor's troubadour and ex-crusader Dragonetz los Pros is commanded to teach her. In a world where love and marriage are as divided as Christian, Muslim and Jew, personal and political passions create deadly enemies.Smash all the Windows, by Jane Davis<stron.. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

    Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What makes stars shine? Where does Earth's water come from? Why is the night sky dark? Was there ever life on Mars? How do telescopes work? This engaging guide book answers all these questions and hundreds more, making it a practical reference for anyone who has ever wondered what is out in the cosmos, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Serenade

    A Memoir of Music and Love from Vienna and Prague to Los Angeles

    "Serenade" is an achingly beautiful memoir which follows the true lives of Franz Jung and Franziska Perger, as told by their daughter, Carol Jean Delmar. The year is 1927. The place is Vienna, Austria. Franziska captivates Franz with her adolescent beauty. They have separate ambitions, but they dream about them together. And just when these dreams are finally being realized, Adolf Hitler changes ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Echo of Love

    When you really want something, does it sometimes seem that it will never happen? Do life, and people, and situations that you cant control get in the way? Theodora (Dora) wants nothing more than to do her charity work in the slums of Alexandria, Egypt. Didymus wants only to do his duty to the Roman army and stay out trouble. A loud and violent disturbance in the slums forces their paths to cross. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Elemental Magic

    From wizards to weathermen, everyone has always known the powers of the four elements—natural forces that can direct the fates, change destiny, and unite lovers in the most unexpected ways. Now, those magical elements come together in perfect balance, in these stories from four charmed authors…In Air find romance...in a breathless retelling of the Cinderella fable from award-winning Sharon Shinn, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 33, 2013

    Healthy Longevity

    Developed countries and certain regions of economically emerging nations have displaying a rapidly growing population of the oldest-oldónonagenarians, centenarians, and supercentenarians. As this trend continues, we must redirect some of our research on aging to the experience of advanced old age and discovering individual and community factors that improve the quality of life during this life ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Breast Cancer: Origins, Detection, and Treatment

    Proceedings of the International Breast Cancer Research Conference London, United Kingdom — March 24–28, 1985

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The control of breast cancer, a leading cause of cancer death in women, will depend ultimately on our understanding of the disease--its origin, and progression which in turn will permit the effective management of its treatment, its detection, and perhaps even its prevention. It is for a better understanding of this spectrum of biological processes crossing back and forth across scientific and ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • RNA Tumor Viruses, Oncogenes, Human Cancer and AIDS: On the Frontiers of Understanding

    Proceedings of the International Conference on RNA Tumor Viruses in Human Cancer, Denver, Colorado, June 10–14, 1984

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    We stand today on the threshold of a new understanding of cancer. Primarily through the powerful tools of molecular biology, unified hypotheses explaining the origins of the disease are emerging and rapidly being validated. This volume, which presents the latest findings from laboratories throughout the world on the role of RNA tumor viruses in cancer, is a celebration of these achievements and a ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: A Time for Giving: Ten Tales of Christmas

    Featuring stories from nine outstanding Canadian authors, this anthology is the perfect Christmas gift for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A Time for Giving includes ten tales of Christmas, following the most recent Dear Canada diarists "the Christmas after" their diary ends. Johanna Leary is reunited with her brother after they were separated at Grosse-Île; Mary Kobayashi spends a second ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD