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Reinventing the Wristwatch

From Dick Tracy to the Smartwatch

by Carlene E. Stephens ...

Series series Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
**The little-known history of the wristwatch—and how it was a proving ground for consumer products in the shift from a mechanical to a microelectronic world.A beautifully illustrated volume from a former curator at the Smithsonian, perfect for young and old fans of wristwatches.**Today, new watches are mostly electronic. They give everyone access to the split-second accuracy once available to only ... Read more

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**The little-known history of the wristwatch—and how it was a proving ground for consumer products in the shift from a mechanical to a microelectronic world.A beautifully illustrated volume from a former curator at the Smithsonian, perfect for young and old fans of wristwatches.**Today, new watches are mostly electronic. They give everyone access to the split-second accuracy once available to only
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Time and Navigation

The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There

by Andrew K. Johnston, Carlene E. Stephens, Paul E. Ceruzzi, Roger D. Connor ...

If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and place is explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name.Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and place is explored in Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name.Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the
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Frances and Bernard

by Carlene Bauer ...

Narrated by Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 40 min

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith ... Read more

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Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith
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Contract, The

A Novel

by Sheila Grinell ...

Narrated by Amy J. Johnson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min

A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined.Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years—in business and in love—when one of the only women in government in the Middle East invites their firm to design a children’s museum in Riyadh. Jo sees a chance to solidify her name in the design world, and ... Read more

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A hard-driving designer seeks acclaim by developing a Middle Eastern museum only to discover the project’s real value is not what she imagined.Joanna and Ev have been partners for ten years—in business and in love—when one of the only women in government in the Middle East invites their firm to design a children’s museum in Riyadh. Jo sees a chance to solidify her name in the design world, and
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Another Life

A Novel

by Robert Haller ...

Narrated by Eileen Stevens, Andrew Eiden, Suzie Althens, Michael Crouch ...

Unabridged

12 hours 56 min

Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church’s vacation Bible school, discontent with another summer ... Read more

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Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church’s vacation Bible school, discontent with another summer
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Perfume River

A Novel

by Robert Olen Butler ...

Narrated by Robert Olen Butler ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under ... Read more

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Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under
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Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

A Novel

by Brock Clarke ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

7 hours 47 min

With the comic unpredictability of a Wes Anderson movie and the inventive sharpness of a John Irving novel, author Brock Clarke introduces listeners to an ordinary man who is about to embark on an absurdly extraordinary adventure.After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin Bledsoe's heretofore uninspired life is upended. A stranger ... Read more

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With the comic unpredictability of a Wes Anderson movie and the inventive sharpness of a John Irving novel, author Brock Clarke introduces listeners to an ordinary man who is about to embark on an absurdly extraordinary adventure.After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin Bledsoe's heretofore uninspired life is upended. A stranger
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Daddy Was a Number Runner

A Novel

by Louise Meriwether ...

Narrated by Karen Murray ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed ... Read more

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This modern classic is "a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood" in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved "daddy" of the title indeed
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This Is the Water

A Novel

by Yannick Murphy ...

Narrated by Karen White ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry
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Brighton Rock

by Graham Greene ...

Narrated by Richard Brown ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen ... Read more

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Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene’s best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind.Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen
... Read more
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Certain Women

A Novel

by Madeleine L'Engle ...

Narrated by Teri Clark Linden ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

An award-winning author explores the meaning of family in a novel that draws parallels between the lives of a modern man and an ancient biblical king.As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that always eluded him: King David. Comparing his own life to that of the biblical ruler, David recalls his own numerous wives and children, forcing his ... Read more

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An award-winning author explores the meaning of family in a novel that draws parallels between the lives of a modern man and an ancient biblical king.As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that always eluded him: King David. Comparing his own life to that of the biblical ruler, David recalls his own numerous wives and children, forcing his
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Lovely, Dark, Deep

Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

Narrated by Jason Culp, Maggi-Meg Reed ...

Unabridged

16 hours 11 min

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates’s ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates’s
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