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  • Out With It

    How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice

    by Katherine Preston ...
    A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection.Imagine waking up one day to find your words trapped inside your head, leaving you unable to say what you feel, think, want, or need. At the age of seven that happened to Katherine Preston. From that moment, she began battling her stutter ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • George Frederick Bristow

    by Katherine K. Preston ...
    Series series American Composers
    As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners. Katherine K. Preston explores the life and works of a figure admired in his own time and credited today with producing the first American grand opera and composing important works that ranged from oratorios to symphonies to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Opera for the People

    English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

    by Katherine K. Preston ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Prelude (UNABRIDGED)

    by Katherine MANSFIELD ...
    Narrated by Preston Deandre ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 42 min

    One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accomplished stories, inspired by her childhood in New Zealand. (Introduction by iremonger) ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Thriller

    Stories to Keep You Up All Night

    by James Patterson, Ted Bell, Steve Berry, Grant Blackwood, Lee Child, Lincoln Child, David Dun, Heather Graham, James Grippando, Denise Hamilton, Raelynn Hillhouse, Gregg Hurwitz, Alex Kava, J.A. Konrath, John Lescroart, Robert Liparulo, David Liss, Eric Van Lustbader, Dennis Lynds, Gayle Lynds, Chris Mooney, David Morrell, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, Douglas Preston, Christopher Reich, Christopher Rice, James Rollins, M. J. Rose, James Siegel, Brad Thor, M. Diane Vogt, F. Paul Wilson ...
    Narrated by Joyce Bean, Jim Bond, Susie Breck, Mel Foster, Dick Hill, Laural Merlington, Michael Page, Bill Weideman ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 5 min

    Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Orchestra

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