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  • Land of Desire

    Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

    This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos. ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Butterfly People

    An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World

    With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies, this engaging and ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Country of Exiles

    In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity.Leach takes us across a featureless ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Land of Desire

    Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eugene Kennedy

    A Man, the Catholic Church, and the Life of Faith

    For two decades, Eugene Kennedy was one of the church's fiercest critics in the sexual abuse crisis, with frequent articles in National Catholic Reporter. This book--written as an appreciation by one of Kennedy's former students at Loyola University of Chicago--recalls and assesses his huge literary output throughout fifty years of active research and writing. Kennedy's entire career can be seen ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Noel Streatfeild: Ballet Shoes & more

    A BBC Radio 4 Children’s Drama Collection

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    Full-cast dramatisations of three of Noel Streatfeild's classic children's booksRising to fame with her 1936 novel Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild soon became one of the most popular authors of her day. She was one of the first winners of the Carnegie Medal and was awarded an OBE in 1983. She died in 1986, but her stories continue to captivate children today. Included here are three of her very ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Whatever Happened to….? Popeye, Dorothy, The Ugly Sisters and more

    A BBC Radio Comedy of Ultimate Sequels

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Twelve make-believe spoof comedy documentaries charting the lives of celebrated fictional characters‘Gorgeously silly’ The IndependentHave you ever wondered what became of the protagonists from your favourite childhood stories? Well, wonder no more: in these hilarious mockumentaries, the astonishing afterlives of some of the most famous figures in fiction are revealed...The scourge of smugglers ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • City of the Century

    The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

    "A wonderfully readable account of Chicago's early history" and the inspiration behind PBS's American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world's most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People's Tycoon

    Henry Ford and the American Century

    by Steven Watts ...
    How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Americans: The Democratic Experience

    Series Book 3 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Eyes on the Street

    The Life of Jane Jacobs

    The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Children Of The City

    At Work and at Play

    by David Nasaw ...
    The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD