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    Cardington Crescent

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

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    Charlotte Pitt's sister, Emily, has been accused of murdering her wayward but wealthy husband. Now Charlotte and police inspector Thomas Pitt must breach a formidable uppercrust barrier to prove Emily's innocence. Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries are rich and suspenseful journeys into a world filled with impeccable manners and intrigue. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

    Free

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Queer Turn in Feminism

    Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Commonalities
    More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both “American” and “French,” thus ... Read more

    $35.09 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

  • Faith Beyond the Storm

    Young Adult Fiction: Religious – Christian -General, #12

    Series Book 12 - Young Adult Fiction: Religious – Christian -General
    When Hurricane Lucia devastates her New England hometown, sixteen-year-old Sophie Hale faces more than flooding—she must confront fear, rebuild trust, and rediscover her faith. With her father missing, her former friend Caleb at her side, and her church turned into a shelter, Sophie learns that true strength isn't found in calm skies but in trusting God when everything breaks. Faith Beyond the ... Read more

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