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  • Tiny Gardens Everywhere

    The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

    by Kate Brown ...
    From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community.Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once the most productive agriculture ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Manual for Survival

    An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster

    by Kate Brown ...
    **Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionFinalist for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage"A magisterial blend of historical research, investigative journalism, and poetic reportage…[A]n awe-inspiring journey." —Economist**After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • The Perfume Garden

    A Novel

    by Kate Lord Brown ...
    An international bestseller: A brokenhearted young woman seeking a fresh start uncovers family secrets relating to events during the Spanish Civil War.High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Biography of No Place

    From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland

    by Kate Brown ...
    This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The House of Dreams

    A Novel

    by Kate Lord Brown ...
    A reporter uncovers the true-life story of the man who rescued thousands of Europe's finest creative minds from certain death in World War II.In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptons is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back decades to 1940, as an ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    by Kate Brown ...
    While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Relationship is the Project

    A guide to working with communities

    Edited by Cara Kirkwood, Kate Larsen, Jax Brown, Jade Lillie ...
    A practical guide to building stronger, more equitable communities through collaboration.The Relationship is the Project offers concrete strategies for anyone working with communities, from project managers to artists. This updated edition features insights from over 40 thought leaders on topics like cultural safety, intersectionality, and climate justice.This resource helps you:Navigate ethical ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plutopia

    Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

    by Kate Brown ...
    While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union. In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dispatches from Dystopia

    Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten

    by Kate Brown ...
    "Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America's largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Wish You Were Here

    by Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown ...
    Narrated by Kate Forbes ...
    Series series Mrs. Murphy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    16 hours 4 min

    Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Summer at the Castle

    by Kate Lord Brown ...
    'A wonderful setting full of food and intrigue, this is a novel to curl up with' Katie Fforde'Smart, sexy, irresistibly romantic and utterly beguiling. Delicious!' Veronica Henry**'**Beautiful and evocative settings. A Summer at the Castle is a much-needed escape' Anstey Harris'Baking, romance and thrills - what more could anyone ask for?' My WeeklyScandal,... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Ohio Poets

    A celebration of American poetry

    by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hart Crane, Alice Cary, Ambrose Bierce, Joshua McCarter Simpson, James Edwin Campbell, Kate Brownlee Sherwood ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow, Warren Keyes ...

    Unabridged

    58 min

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus