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  • Audiobook

    A Very Merry Mistake

    A Very Merry Standalone

    by Lyra Parish ...
    Narrated by Thomas Oakley, Samantha Cook ...
    Series series Very Merry

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    A sexy cinnamon-roll lumberjack offers me a ride into town, a stay at his cozy cabin, and eventually his bed. All things I can't refuse.After several flirty glances and heated mistletoe kisses, we create rules: no strings attached and no falling in love. Agreeing to the impossible might be my biggest mistake yet.I visited the small town for one reason only: to prove a point to my father.Now I've ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Very Merry Nanny

    A Very Merry Standalone

    by Lyra Parish ...
    Narrated by Gabriel Spires, Willa Jaymes ...
    Series series Very Merry

    Unabridged

    14 hours 16 min

    He's a grumpy, single-dad lumberjack, and this Christmas, I want to be the ginger in his bread…Hudson Jolly is, ironically, the biggest Scrooge in Merryville, but I'm not intimidated.He warns me to stay away from him. However, I'm convinced he's playing reindeer games.When I learn he's searching for a nanny, I offer to help.Out of desperation, he hires me.That's his first mistake.The attraction is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decadence

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Weir ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated, emulated, parodied, and otherwise manipulated for aesthetic gain. What begins as the moral ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Knowledge

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • African Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across the continent, particularly south of the Sahara. Questions of underdevelopment, outside exploitation, and misrule are characteristic of many - if not most-states in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Korea

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regimes, at once both bizarre and menacing. This Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Governance

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Very Scandinavian Christmas

    The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time

    Series series Very Christmas
    A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard.This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Even Farther Very, Very Far North

    by Dan Bar-el ...
    Illustrated by Kelly Pousette ...
    Series series The Very, Very Far North
    Duane the polar bear has more delightful adventures with his arctic animal friends in this illustrated middle grade companion novel to The Very, Very Far North, which “wonderfully follow[s] in the tradition of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories” (Booklist, starred review), and Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North.If you head north, thoroughly north, to the northernmost part of north, where ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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