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  • Left to Chance

    Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods

    by Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter ...
    Series series The Katrina
    This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding.Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invasion of the Sea

    by Jules Verne, Arthur B. Evans ...
    Translated by Edward Baxter ...
    First English edition of a classic Verne novel.Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Bandits & Rebels

    by Jules Verne ...
    Narrated by Tad Davis ...
    Series series The Palik Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 29 min

    Bandits & Rebels is an anthology of some of Jules Verne’s earliest work, including the first appearance of a submarine in his fiction. As well as his interest in science, it illustrates his geographical and historical range, with San Carlos, a story about smugglers in Spain; a story about the siege of Rome in 1848; and Martin Paz, about an indigenous uprising in Peru in the 1830s. The audiobook ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Marriage of a Marquis

    by Jules Verne ...
    Narrated by Tad Davis ...
    Series series The Palik Series

    Unabridged

    3 hours 52 min

    The Marriage of a Marquis is the inaugural volume of the Palik series from the North American Jules Verne Society and BearManor Media. It includes two of Jules Verne’s early humorous stories in their first English translation: “The Marriage of Mr. Anselme des Tilleuls” (translated by Edward Baxter) and “Jédédias Jamet, or The Tale of an Inheritance” (translated by Kieran O’Driscoll). The ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD

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  • Shadows on the Grass

    by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from ... Read more

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  • Beneath Another Sky

    A Global Journey into History

    by Norman Davies ...
    **'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesWhere have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us.**'Human history is a tale not just of constant ... Read more

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  • Pelletier

    The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York

    by Stephanie Anderson ...
    This book tells the story of a French cabin boy, Narcisse Pelletier, and his life with the Uutaalnganu people of north-east Cape York from 1858 to 1875. Even though it is all but forgotten in Australia, and in France is known only in its broad outlines, Pelletier's story rivals that of the famous William Buckley, both as a tale of human survival and as an enthralling and accessible ethnographic ... Read more

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  • The Coral Thief

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    A powerful and gripping historical thriller for fans of The Essex Serpernt and The Miniaturist.'Original and evocative ... a mesmerising thriller' Daily Telegraph'Full of twists and turns' Scotsman'An enthralling exploration of revolutionary science in post-revolutionary France' Guardian'A book of penetrating humanity and a vivid evocation of Paris' Finan... ... Read more

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  • A Novice on the Nile - Big Game Hunting in the Sudan

    by Frank Weber ...
    Originally published in the early 1900s. this extremely scarce hunting book is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition; we have now republished it using the original text and photographs. This is an enthralling true account of Frank Weber's first hunting trip along the White Nile in the Upper Sudan. Accompanied by a lifelong friend and experienced hunter he sets forth from England via ... Read more

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  • In The Year 2889 (Mobi Classics)

    by Jules Verne,Michel Verne ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • "Exterminate All the Brutes"

    One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

    by Sven Lindqvist ...
    Translated by Joan Tate ...
    Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned“A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a ... Read more

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