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  • Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field is presented and evaluated in the context of previous work. Emphasis is placed on the integration of analytical methods with observational techniques and experimental simulations. The opening section focuses on ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Metals, Energy and Sustainability

    The Story of Doctor Copper and King Coal

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal. The colourful chronology of our efforts to extract metals from minerals and energy from fossil fuels is presented from earliest times until the present day. The difficult concept of human sustainability is examined in the context of continually decreasing real prices of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Fish and the Magic Light

    A Mystical Journey

    Illustrated by Suzanne Gold ...
    Author’s NoteUsing allegory and a few simple words, a pathway to the understanding of one’s own reality isdrawn with pictures and verse.If read to a child, where the flame is still bright, the flame will be sustained.For the young adult, the flame will be rekindled.As for the adult, perhaps the flame may be relit so that the REAL QUESTIONS—WHO AM I?WHY AM I HERE?—will hopefully find a place in ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Daddy's Girls

    by Suzanne Gold ...
    Daddys Girls is a rich yet simple family tale of love, madness and spirit told in the three first-person points of view of its three women. Overlapping vignettes create a vivid patchwork of lifes defining moments to reveal dark forces lurking beneath the familys typical middle-class veneer as they struggle to love one another. The story is fiction with a dash of magical realism, but the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The Rival Queens

    Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 1 min

    The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine are two of the most recognizable figures of the Middle Ages, and almost certainly the best-known couple. The lives of their sons have been examined in detail many times, but their daughters are barely known despite the influence they exerted on the world around them. Joanna, the youngest daughter, led an extraordinary life full of travel, adventure, danger, and ... Read more

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    Catland

    Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

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    The Rebel Empresses

    Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

    Narrated by Tamsin Kennard ...

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    From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.When they married Emperors Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, respectively, Elisabeth ... Read more

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    Ladies in Waiting

    a history of court life from the Tudors to the present day

    by Anne Somerset ...
    Narrated by Sophie Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 24 min

    'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and infamous ladies who served royalty, casting a fresh, intimate angle on four hundred years... ... Read more

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    Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread

    The cosy and uplifting historical mystery and perfect book club read

    by Lynn Knight ...
    Narrated by Polly Edsell ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 43 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.INTRODUCING ROSE BURNHAM: DESIGNER, DRESSMAKER . . . DETECTIVE?**South-east London, 1925.Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors.So ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Catherine de' Medici

    The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

    Narrated by Rachel Bavidge ...

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    During an age of heightened religious conflict, Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the center of sixteenth-century European and French politics. Daughter of Lorenzo II, the Medici ruler of Florence—and then wedded to a French prince by papal decree at the age of fourteen—Catherine first became queen consort of France and then mother to three French kings (Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III) ... Read more

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  • Out of My Mind

    Series series The Out of My Mind Series
    This special movie tie-in edition showcases a new cover with an image from the original movie now available on Disney+!A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a “gutsy, candid, and compelling” (School Library Journal, starred review) story that will forever cha... ... Read more

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