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  • Make Sounds Like an Insect

    Illustrated by Olga Baumert ...
    Chirp like a cricket, tap like a treehopper, and whoop like a honeybee in this interactive picture book for budding entomologists—all about the biology and physics behind insect noises.How do insects make the cool sounds they do? And why are their sounds so important? Check out the way insects use their body parts and their environment to make their distinctive noises, whether it’s the male cicada ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • How to Build an Insect

    Illustrated by Anne Lambelet ...
    See what the buzz is about in this fresh, fun look at insect anatomy.Let's build an insect! In the pages of this book, you’ll find a workshop filled with everything you need, including a head, a thorax, an abdomen, and much more. Written by entomologist Roberta Gibson and accompanied by delightfully detailed illustrations by Anne Lambelet, this wonderfully original take on insect anatomy will ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • More Trouble in Tucson

    Looking for trouble? Tucson is a perfect backdrop for sun-drenched stories of murder, abduction, and finding the unexpected.Is that a whiff of grapes? Maybe it's the smell of rain on asphalt. Trouble comes in all kinds of forms - even some you'd never expect.Keep reading to find out what it's all about. Just be careful, the lightning can be frightening.... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion, Loyalty and Sedition

    The Hanoverian Succession of 1714

    The Hanoverian Succession of 1714 has not attracted the scholarly attention that it deserves. This is partly because the idea of the ‘long eighteenth century’, stretching from 1688 to 1832, has tended to treat the period as one without breaks. However, 1714 was in some respects as significant a date as 1688. It was the last time in British history that there was a dynastic change and one in which ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. In this biography, John Schofield reveals ... Read more

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  • Broken

    by Don Winslow ...
    Don Winslow’s acclaimed story collection, featuring “Crime 101,” soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . .Hailed as “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Stephen King), #1 international bestseller Don Winslow returns ... Read more

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  • The Tudors

    by Richard Rex ...
    The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the fi ve Tudor monarchs, ranging from the brilliance and brutality of Henry VIII to the shrewdness and vanity of the virgin queen, Elizabeth I. ... Read more

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  • The Hollow Crown

    A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars ... Read more

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  • Cromwell to Cromwell

    Reformation to Civil War

    The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience the will of the king should prevail. Yet just over 100 years later, ... Read more

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  • The Moth

    From the hit podcast and radio show, a collection of soul-bearing stories from The Moth's archives.A wedding toast hone horribly awry. A rapper's obsession with a Sarah McLachlan song. A death-defying stunt in a bullring. The fight to save Mother Teresa's life. These are the spellbinding tales from The Moth's storytellers.Inspired by friends telling stories on a porch, The Moth was born in small ... Read more

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  • The Penguin History of Britain

    New Worlds, Lost Worlds:The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1630

    by Susan Brigden ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain have resonance with even the least historically minded readers. Above all Brigden sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old ... Read more

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