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  • The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

    A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the "compulsively readable" writer ( The Guardian).One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American ... Read more

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  • Nureyev

    The Life

    Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from a poor, Tatar-peasant background to the most sophisticated circles of London, Paris, and New York. His ... Read more

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  • The Girl Who Loved Camellias

    The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis

    From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, George Cukor’s film Camille, and Frederick Ashton’s ballet Marguerite and Armand. Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, Greta Garbo, ... Read more

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  • The Present Problem

    Ellie has come home to spent the festive holiday with her family and, while she's always pleased to see her family, she hasn't told them the whole truth.After quitting dramatically from her job and spending her last few pennies on fuel to get home, she's completely penniless and it's nearly Christmas. Her foray into the big city proved to be a total waste of time and she knows she's better off ... Read more

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  • One Night Only

    Ali is an ordinary girl working in an ordinary job, but she has always had one special dream – to dance at the Annual Latham Ball.Brandon needs an excuse not to marry Caitlyn, the woman his parents think he should marry. He has a week to find a woman to pretend to be the one he loves.A hazelnut latte brings the two of them together and Brandon has seven days to convince Ali to pose as his fiancée. ... Read more

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  • The Best Snowman in the World

    The Snowman Anthology

    Series series The Snowman Anthology
    Jeannie arrives back in her hometown with her two sons to start a new life, but she finds nothing is easy at Christmas. Her youngest son, Joel has difficulty understanding the world as we see it, and Brody, fourteen, just wants to go home.Escaping her callous and unfaithful husband, she meets the neighbor, Ben, a single parent and finds their circumstances have many things in common.One kiss ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England

    Narrated by Roger Clark ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    ZimZimber

    Unabridged

    8 min

    In ZimZimber, you are taken on a whimsical and heartwarming journey into the world of childhood fears — like the monsters under your bed. Through vivid rhyme-filled storytelling and imaginative characters, this story brilliantly transforms those fears into a delightful, humorous, self-empowering adventure. It’s a perfect bedtime story for all! ... Read more

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  • The Lady of the Camellias

    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation"One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    The English Kingdom of France, 1417–1450

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    Legends of the Samurai

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    Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Yojimbo as well as works such as James Clavell's epic Shogun.In Legends of the Samurai, Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors.Through his masterful ... Read more

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    Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name

    The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound

    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

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    This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times—the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed ... Read more

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