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  • Detroit's Historic Hotels and Restaurants

    by Patricia Ibbotson ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    Detroit's population grew rapidly after the beginning of the 20th century due to the growth of the automobile and other industries, and the city became a tourist and convention center. Detroit was in its heyday in the 1920s when it was the fourth-largest city in the United States. Some of Detroit's larger hotels were architectural masterpieces, nationally known, and were the center of ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eloise

    Poorhouse, Farm, Asylum and Hospital 1839-1984

    by Patricia Ibbotson ...
    Series series Images of America
    Eloise, which started out as a poorhouse, later became known as Wayne County General Hospital. Today, all that remains are five buildings and a smokestack. From only 35 residents on 280 acres in 1839, the complex grew dramatically after the Civil War until the total land involved was 902 acres and the total number of patients was about 10,000. Only one of them, the Kay Beard Building, is currently ... Read more

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  • Detroit's Hospitals, Healers, and Helpers

    by Patricia Ibbotson ...
    Series series Images of America
    The modern hospital evolved from both military garrisons and poorhouses. It wasn't until the mid-19th century that facilities with a wider purpose were founded in Detroit to combat diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, and mental illness. Religious institutions and benevolent societies established homes and treatment centers for the ill and abandoned, while public institutions were created for the ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Star of Kazan

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Patricia Connolly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    In early 20th-century Vienna, Annika is raised by Ellie and Sigrid, a cook and housemaid for a household of three professors. Abandoned when she was a baby, Annika dreams of the day her mother will come back to claim her. Then one day, it happens. A glamorous woman arrives and sweeps Annika away to a crumbling castle in Germany. But there is much more to this new woman than meets the eye - and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Company of Swans

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Patricia Connolly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Dragonfly Pool

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Patricia Connolly ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson is an exciting story of friendship and determination during the Second World War, from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea and The Star of Kazan. Illustrated with a gorgeous updated cover by Katie Hickey.Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Magic Flutes

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Kate Lock ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 44 min

    Music is her passion… but love is her destinySpring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess – who’s given up her duties to follow her heart and work backstage at the Viennese opera. She keeps her true idenity a well-guarded secret, but when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa’s two lives collide – and in escaping her inheritance, she finds ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Song for Summer

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Penelope Rawlins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    Set against the backdrop of gathering war, A Song for Summer is an unforgettable love story from master storyteller Eva Ibbotson.When Ellen Carr abandons grey, dreary London to become housekeeper at an experimental school in Austria, she soon knows she's found her calling. Swept into an idyllic world of mountains, music, eccentric teachers and wayward children, Ellen brings order and joy to all ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Journey to the River Sea

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Penelope Rawlins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in this highly colourful, joyous and award-winning ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Company of Swans

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 45 min

    A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of ballet from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson.Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good.Performing in the grand opera houses is everything ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    The Secret of Platform 13

    by Eva Ibbotson ...
    Narrated by Sian Thomas ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 54 min

    Under Platform thirteen at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island. . .It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before.But the prince has become a horrible rich boy called ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Chicago's Grand Hotels

    The Palmer House Hilton, The Drake, and The Hilton Chicago

    by Robert V. Allegrini ...
    Architecturally imposing, historically rich, and socially important, Chicago's magnificent grand hotels have fascinated generations of Chicagoans and have pleased generations of guests. The Palmer House Hilton, The Drake, and The Hilton Chicago have come to represent a collective formal living room for Chicago, where the city's most important visitors are accommodated, entertained, and made aware ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus