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    Resurrection Row

    by Anne Perry ...
    Narrated by Davina Porter ...
    Series series Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    Fourth in the series of Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, Anne Perry's Resurrection Row explores the dark undercurrents that run through the lives of the idle rich in Victorian England. After a wonderful night at the theatre, Thomas and Charlotte find themselves confronted with a corpse in the driver's seat of a hansom cab. Even more shocking-it is the body of a peer of the realm who had been ... Read more

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    The Cater Street Hangman

    by Anne Perry ...
    Narrated by Davina Porter ...
    Series series Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Mysteries

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    The Cater Street Hangman is the first of Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries. Set in the Victorian era, it is an elegant and complex mystery full of well-drawn characters and rich period detail. When a maid in the upper class Ellison household is strangled, Inspector Pitt is called in to investigate. He finds a world ruled by strict manners and social customs, where the inhabitants of ... Read more

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    The Keeper of the Bees

    Narrated by Anne Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    Gene Stratton-Porter (A Girl of the Limberlost; Laddie) was a writer whose primary interest was the natural world. In The Keeper of the Bees, her last novel, she brought to vivid life the coastline, flora, and fauna of her adopted California.Jamie MacFarlane has returned a hero from the Great War but with a stubborn chest wound. The government has sent him to their new thermal springs hospital in ... Read more

    $26.95 USD

  • My Chinese Marriage

    Enriched edition. Exploring Love Across Cultures in Early 20th-Century Marriage Tales

    My Chinese Marriage is a compelling anthology that deftly captures the multifaceted experiences encompassed within cross-cultural unions, specifically analyzing Sino-American relationships at the turn of the 20th century. This collection is an amalgamation of narrative styles ranging from personal memoirs to reflective narratives, each piece serving as a window into the intimate and sociopolitical ... Read more

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  • Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations

    Weaving Together Society

    by Anne Porter ...
    In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Outsmarting the Next Pandemic

    What Covid-19 Can Teach Us

    This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and organization in their crisis response – the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan – the book shows how failures in leadership ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings (LOA #186)

    The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning volume of writings from the author of Pale Horse, Pale Rider—now combined with little-known works of prose for the very first timeEudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter “writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.” Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Revolution in the Heart

    Stories Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin

    **15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin.Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.**Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller and one of the most beloved and respected writers the science fiction and fantasy field has known. An SFWA Grand Master, World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Marine Mammal Acoustics in a Noisy Ocean

    This open-access book invites its readers to dive into the depths of marine mammal bioacoustics. The ocean is a noisy place—naturally as well as anthropogenically. Our book explores the fundamentals of ocean acoustics, revealing the intricate sources of underwater noise that challenge marine life. Readers delve into the unique vocalizations of mysticetes, odontocetes, pinnipeds, otters, and ... Read more

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  • The University in Crumbs

    A Register of Things Seen and Heard

    Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series of five first-person reports, Robert Porter, Kerry-Ann Porter and Iain Mackenzie provide the reader with a number of stories that attempt to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    The classic 1939 collection of 3 novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918In Noon Wine? a family struggling to live on a farm in Texas is saved by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious stranger—only to have their world upended again by the arrival, nine years later, of a second ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Haunted Santa Cruz, California

    Series series Haunted America
    From inspiring Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho to being the stalking ground of serial killers, Surf City, USA, has a spooky history with a West Coast twist.Though generally a peaceful coastal city, the dark stains from Santa Cruz's past still linger. A former Spanish Mission, Holy Cross Catholic Church harbors a dark history of a brutal revolt of native Ohlone people that killed the cruel Fr. Andres ... Read more

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