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The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years' War

by D. Peter MacLeod, Canadian War Museum ...

The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian history. The book looks at the social and economic impact of the war on both men and women in Canadian Iroquois communities.The Canadian Iroquois provides an enhanced appreciation both of the role of ... Read more

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The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long neglected topic. The consequences of this struggle still shape Canadian history. The book looks at the social and economic impact of the war on both men and women in Canadian Iroquois communities.The Canadian Iroquois provides an enhanced appreciation both of the role of
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Northern Armageddon

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

by D. Peter MacLeod ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

A vivid re-telling of Canada's most important battle, based on decades of research and many dramatic eyewitness accounts. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years' War in North ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

A vivid re-telling of Canada's most important battle, based on decades of research and many dramatic eyewitness accounts. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years' War in North
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A World on Fire

Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

by Amanda Foreman ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

32 hours 45 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER10 BEST BOOKS • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • 2011**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Chicago Tribune • The Economist • Nancy Pearl, NPR • Bloomberg.com • Library Journal • Publishers WeeklyAcclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duc... ... Read more

$40.99 CAD

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER10 BEST BOOKS • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • 2011**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Chicago Tribune • The Economist • Nancy Pearl, NPR • Bloomberg.com • Library Journal • Publishers WeeklyAcclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duc...
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Washington

A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Ron Chernow ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Abridged

14 hours 19 min

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats
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Field Gray

by Philip Kerr ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Bernie Gunther
Unabridged

14 hours 52 min

This Edgar Award–nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin’s Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him ... Read more

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This Edgar Award–nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin’s Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him
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Catastrophe

Europe Goes to War 1914

by Max Hastings ...

Narrated by Max Hastings, Nigel Carrington ...

Unabridged

28 hours 58 min

The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral ... Read more

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The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral
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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath ...

Narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

'A literary rite of passage.' The Times'Plath changed our world.' GuardianEsther is supposed to be having the time of her life. Her internship at a fashion magazine is a whirl of cocktail parties and dinner dates in the shimmering city. But why doesn't she feel anything? Back home in the suburbs, she is trapped inside a suffocating bell jar . She can't write her novel; her boyfriend is a hypocrite ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

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'A literary rite of passage.' The Times'Plath changed our world.' GuardianEsther is supposed to be having the time of her life. Her internship at a fashion magazine is a whirl of cocktail parties and dinner dates in the shimmering city. But why doesn't she feel anything? Back home in the suburbs, she is trapped inside a suffocating bell jar . She can't write her novel; her boyfriend is a hypocrite
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The Orenda

by Joseph Boyden ...

Narrated by Ali Ahn, Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Rowat ...

Unabridged

17 hours 36 min

WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD–FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARIn the wilds of seventeenth-century North America, the lives of a Jesuit missionary, a young Iroquois girl, and a great warrior and elder statesman of the Huron Nation become entwined.The Huron have battled the Iroquois for generations, but now both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from another land. Uneasy alliances are made and unmade, ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE LIBRIS AWARD–FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARIn the wilds of seventeenth-century North America, the lives of a Jesuit missionary, a young Iroquois girl, and a great warrior and elder statesman of the Huron Nation become entwined.The Huron have battled the Iroquois for generations, but now both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from another land. Uneasy alliances are made and unmade,
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Little Women

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

by Louisa May Alcott ...

Narrated by Bryony Hannah, Full Cast, John Bowler, Julianna Jennings, Natasha J Barnes, Samantha Dakin, Tara Ward ...

Abridged

2 hours 18 min

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the evergreen classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.With their father away fighting in the American Civil War, the four March girls are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. But the sisters’ close bond and determination to make the best of things enables them to find happiness despite their poverty.As the years go by we follow their fortunes as they ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the evergreen classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.With their father away fighting in the American Civil War, the four March girls are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. But the sisters’ close bond and determination to make the best of things enables them to find happiness despite their poverty.As the years go by we follow their fortunes as they
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Prussian Blue

by Philip Kerr ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Series Audiobook 12 - Bernie Gunther
Unabridged

17 hours 52 min

When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany’s defeat in World War 2...The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie’s old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice—and he’s not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany’s defeat in World War 2...The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie’s old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice—and he’s not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and
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The Help

by Kathryn Stockett ...

Narrated by Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell, Octavia Spencer, Bahni Turpin ...

Unabridged

18 hours 6 min

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. ... Read more

$35.50 CAD

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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college.
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The Hobbit

The Classic BBC Radio Production

by J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Narrated by Anthony Jackson, Heron Carvic, Paul Daneman, Francis de Wolff, John Justin, John Pullen, Full cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 42 min

Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards - these are the ingredients of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful fantasy, the prelude to The Lord of The Rings, now the subject of a major feature film series. The hero of the tale is Bilbo Baggins, a home-loving unambitious hobbit who is suddenly thrust into what turns out to be the biggest adventure of his life. Guided by Gandalf the wizard, Bilbo ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards - these are the ingredients of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful fantasy, the prelude to The Lord of The Rings, now the subject of a major feature film series. The hero of the tale is Bilbo Baggins, a home-loving unambitious hobbit who is suddenly thrust into what turns out to be the biggest adventure of his life. Guided by Gandalf the wizard, Bilbo
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