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  • Nurse Nellie's Belly Laughs

    Best Cartoons by Kaz

    by Larry Katzman ...
    A collection of 200 cartoons by Kaz. Laughter is the best medicine and Kaz cartoons are one of the world's most effective remedies. Over three million copies of his Nellie Nifty, RN book collections and greeting cards in five languages have helped people get well sooner. Larry's Nellie cartoons have appeared in newspapers and magazines in 21 countries and were awarded the Palma d'Oro, a coveted ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six Months in Mexico

    by Nellie Bly ...
    One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient to work along at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers, so I conceived the idea of going away as a correspondent. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Following Nellie Bly

    Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World

    Retrace Nellie Bly's attempt to beat Jules Verne's fictional record in Around the World in 80 Days while pioneering journalism and challenging oppression."Reading Rosemary Brown's carefully crafted, charming book, readers can now be armchair companions of two amazing women." — New York Journal of BooksIntrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a "man's world"—alone and... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daddy Was a Number Runner

    A Novel

    This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin ( Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House

    by Nellie Bly ...
    A courageous female journalist's classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century AmericaIn 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America's first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself "Nellie Brown," she was able to convince policemen, a judge ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Charioteer

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Series Book 323 - Virago Modern Classics
    'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence, and a terrific natural sympathy with the intricacies of honour and desire' SARAH WATERS'An explosive and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Secret of the Ankhs

    A Maggie Edwards Adventure

    Narrated by Liz Gentle ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Maggie Edwards Adventures

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    An ancient artifact has been stolen from a museum...Maggie Edwards is hot on its trail.After finding Cleopatra’s Tomb, Maggie’s life couldn’t be better. Her investigation prowess has landed her a new job and the contents of the tomb are on display in a local museum.But then a ceramic ankh is taken during the museum’s VIP gala.Upon consulting with her Uncle Ollie, Maggie learns that, though the ... Read more

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  • Ten Days in a Mad-House

    Ten Days in a Madhouse is Nellie Bly’s (Elizabeth Jane Cochrane Seaman) account of her ten days in a madhouse in New York in 1887. Bly, in an act of stunt journalism that wold make her famous, pretended to be mildly insane so she would be sent to an asylum to see first hand what one was like. To begin the process she goes to a rooming house and one night she stays up all night staring at the wall. ... Read more

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    Ghostly Gossip

    A Haunted House Cozy Mystery

    Narrated by Megyn von Gal ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Whispers of Witchcraft Cozy Mysteries

    Unabridged

    3 hours 47 min

    Uprooted from her life, Carly Ravenspell is forced to move to Thornwood Estate with an enigmatic grandmother she never knew. When the grieving teen arrives, she finds an unexpected solace in the woman and the stories she shares.As Carly delves deeper into the tale surrounding Maple Mansion, a house where spirits roam free, she begins to forge a bond, not only with her grandmother, but with history ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disinherited Generations

    Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and their Descendants

    Two Cree women tell the story of how they took on the Canadian government and helped change the lives of thousands.This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities.Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, who helped to organize the Indian Rights for ... Read more

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  • 10 Days in a Madhouse

    by Nellie Bly ...
    ON the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Did I think I had the courage to go through such an ordeal as the mission would demand? Could I assume the characteristics of insanity ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The King Must Die

    A Virago Modern Classic

    by Mary Renault ...
    Series Book 325 - Virago Modern Classics
    THE MYTH OF THESEUS BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics' MADELINE MILLER, author of CIRCE and SONG OF ACHILLESThe true parentage of Theseus, grandson of the King of Troizon ... Read more

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