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Books narrated by Marilyn Carr

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  • If It's Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday

    Based on a True Story

    by Marilyn Carr ...
    It's 2001 and technology startups are melting down faster than the polar ice caps, including the telecom company where Marilyn Carr had been employed for barely four months. With an eye-watering mortgage on her fixer-upper house in downtown Toronto, unemployment was not an option. Then Lady Luck dropped a lucrative consulting contract in her lap. All-expenses-paid travel across the United States, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Nowhere like This Place

    Tales from a Nuclear Childhood

    by Marilyn Carr ...
    Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called “the plant.” The quirky, isolated residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It’s a test-tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa River. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • How I Invented the Internet

    A Memoir

    by Marilyn Carr ...
    Despite growing up in Deep River, Ontario, the company town for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories that only exists because of science, Marilyn Carr was firmly neither a science, technology, engineering, nor mathematics person. When How I Invented the Internet begins, she has just wrapped up a master’s degree in library science, which at least involved the word “science.” So how did she accidentally ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Nowhere like This Place

    Tales from a Nuclear Childhood

    by Marilyn Carr ...
    Narrated by Marilyn Carr ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 36 min

    Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called “the plant.” The quirky, isolated, residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It’s a test-tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa river. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eric Drummond and his Legacies

    The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in the front rank of the 12 men who have occupied the post of Secretary-General of the League or its successor, the UN. Part 1 ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Immunopathology

    Series Book 107 - Advances in Virus Research
    Immunopathology, Volume 107 in the Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. Viral Immunopathology will cover how the immune system, innate or adaptive, is often at the root of viral pathogenesis. This is true in diverse host systems including ... Read more

    $151.19 CAD

  • The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940–41

    by John Carr ...
    This military history of the WWII Battle of Greece presents a vivid and detailed account with special focus on the Greek forces defending their homeland.On October 28th, 1940, the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas refused to accept an ultimatum from Italy's Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Immediately upon his refusal, Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Escape From the Ghetto

    The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis

    by John Carr ...
    'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett'This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought he knew.' - Lord Tony Hall'Utterly compelling. It is an extraordinary tale, brilliantly written' - Alastair Stewart'Extraordinary. An adventure ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Fighting Emperors of Byzantium

    by John Carr ...
    This lively history chronicles every Byzantine Emperor who personally fought in battle, from Constantine the Great to Constantine XI.The Eastern Roman or 'Byzantine' Empire had to fight for survival throughout its eleven centuries of history. Military ability was therefore a prime requisite for a successful Emperor. In Fighting Emperors of Byzantium, historian John Carr explores the personal and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viking Saint

    Olaf II of Norway

    by John Carr ...
    A biography of the Viking king who sought to Christianize Norway in the Middle Ages—"A seminal and scholarly study that reads with all the inherent narrative storytelling flair of an historical novel" ( Midwest Book Review ).The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway's King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sparta's Kings

    by John Carr ...
    In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was already well-developed by the 8th century BC, when Theopompos of the Eurypontid clan emerges as the first recorded Spartan king. At least fifty-seven men held office as Spartan king between Theopompos and the Agiad Kleomenes III ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Knights Hospitaller

    A Military History of the Knights of St John

    by John Carr ...
    A military history of the medieval Catholic order that arose during the Crusades in the Holy Land.The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervor and discipline made them an elite component of most ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus