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  • Crossing

    by Catherine Norton ...
    First published in 2014, Crossing is an award-winning novel for readers aged 10-13 about propaganda, division and what it means to think for yourself.11-year-old Cara has grown up in the shadow of the Wall, in a closed world of food shortages and high security. Like a good citizen, she keeps her eyes open for Suspicious Acts-fighting or protesting in the street, reading or writing anything that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Navigation skills have many uses, but can they help Hester find her place in the universe?Fans of The Fortune Maker will be sure to love Catherine Norton's enchanting new middle-grade historical fiction book.It's 1866 and Hester Hitchins' father is missing at sea.Determined to find him, eleven-year-old Hester wins a place at Addington's Nautical Navigation Academy, where she will learn to navigate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Fortune Maker

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Which is more dangerous - a future you can't see - or one that you can?London, 1913Twelve-year-old Maud Mulligan knows there's no future for her in London, in the rat-infested slum where she grew up. But in the tunnel under the river are fortune tellers, Seers, who will tell your fortune for a few pennies. And then there is Mr Mandalay, Seer to the king and anyone else rich enough to afford him ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars

    by Catherine Norton ...
    Narrated by Emily Wheaton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    Navigation skills have many uses, but can they help Hester find her place in the universe?Fans of The Fortune Maker will be sure to love Catherine Norton's enchanting new middle-grade historical fiction book.It's 1866 and Hester Hitchins' father is missing at sea.Determined to find him, eleven-year-old Hester wins a place at Addington's Nautical Navigation Academy, where she will learn to navigate ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What If...Book of Alternative History

    Revisit Major Milestones That Shaped World History and Discover the Outcome If They Had Happened Differently

    by Jeff Greenfield, Catherine Curzon, Elizabeth Norton, Nicola Tallis ...
    Series series Visual History
    The course of history has taken many turns. What would the world be like if events had happened differently? What if JFK had never visited Dallas on November 22, 1963? What if Germany had won the First World War? How would life be different in America if the Southern states had beaten the North? What would a world without The Beatles sound like? Find out the potential answers to all these ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unfamiliar Fishes

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    Sarah Vowell thinks of Hawaii as the most American state. She argues that it’s “breathtaking in its beauty, sometimes hideously developed, overwhelmingly religious, impoverished (except for pockets of staggering wealth), crass and spiritual all at once.” In Unfamiliar Fishes, she will explore the exceptional history of Hawaii with her personal reporting and trademark smart-aleckiness to find out ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Wordy Shipmates

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Sarah Vowell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Assassination Vacation

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King, Dave Eggers ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 20 min

    New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Partly Cloudy Patriot

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Lear, They Might Be Giants ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

    by Sarah Vowell ...
    Narrated by Sarah Vowell, Alexis Denisof, John Slattery, Patton Oswalt, Fred Armisen, John Hodgman, Stephanie March, Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 100 Mistakes that Changed History

    Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World

    by Bill Fawcett ...
    Collected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history is filled with bad moves and not-so-bright ideas that snowballed into disasters and unintended consequences.This engrossing book looks at one hundred such tipping points. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. The ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World

    by Charles L. Mee Jr. ...
    Throughout time, leaders at the pinnacle of power - popes and kings, presidents and prime ministers, czars and generals - have subscribed to the belief that they can change the course of history, not by the force of arms, but through charm, skillful negotiation, honesty, deceit, and all the other arts of peaceful human exchange. Award-winning author Charles L. Mee Jr. reproduces seven singular ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus