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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 20th Century - Horror

    The ten best horror stories written in the 20th century

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Irish Authoress, The - A Short Story Collection

    Influential female authors from the magical land of Ireland

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    The history of Ireland is mired in centuries of oppressive rule, struggles and poverty. Against this its landscape and people are a bright beacon of nature and humanity showing the very best of themselves.Ireland’s long rich history of literature is readily lauded all over the world. In its ranks of its women authors are the gloried and the famed but also many who shone but for a moment and others ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wizard of Oz FAQ

    All That's Left to Know About Life, According to Oz

    Series series FAQ
    The Wizard of Oz FAQ is a fact-filled celebration of the beloved 1939 fantasy masterpiece starring Judy Garland. It's all here – from L. Frank Baum and his Oz novels to the complete background story of the movie's conception, development, and shoot, with special attention given to the little-known parade of uncredited directors, casting difficulties, and on-set accidents and gaffes, as well as ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • U.S. Army Special Operations In World War II [Illustrated Edition]

    Illustrated with 11 maps and 35 IllustrationsFrom the plains of Europe to the jungles of the Pacific, the U.S. Army in World War II employed a variety of commando and guerrilla operations to harass the Axis armies, gather intelligence, and support the more conventional Allied military efforts. During the Allied invasion of northern France on D-day, elite American infantry scaled the sheer cliffs ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defeat Into Victory

    Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

    Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma.The first edition of Defeat Into Victory ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema

    A Revised and Expanded Filmography of Their Terrifying Collaborations, 2d ed.

    From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Overland Campaign, 4 May-15 June 1864 [Illustrated Edition]

    Series series The U.S. Army Campaigns of the Civil War
    Includes 8 maps and numerous other illustrationsOne hundred and fifty years ago this spring, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the campaign that marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. For over a month, he and General Robert E. Lee were locked in a remorseless struggle that took their armies across the woodlands and farm clearings of central Virginia on the road to the Southern ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • UFO FAQ

    All That's Left to Know About Roswell, Aliens, Whirling Discs and Flying Saucers

    Series series FAQ Pop Culture
    Since the famed Kenneth Arnold “flying saucer” sighting of 1947, the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs, and everything from the extinction of dinosaurs to the origins of humankind have been attributed to them – but what exactly are UFOs?Featuring material from a treasure trove of UFO/Project Blue Book ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Dark Romance

    Sexuality in the Horror Film

    The darkly handsome man gazes deeply into her eyes. She finds him irresistible, wants to experience the passion of the moment. He grins--the movie audience can see his lengthened lateral incisors--and bends to her neck. The eroticism is horrible, and compelling.Audiences are drawn to horror cinema much as the surrendering victim. Afraid to watch, but more afraid something will be missed. Since the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Flight Risk

    Series series Brave & Brilliant
    World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There’s one problem: Hank doesn’t want to live that long.Seemingly opposites, Hank and Sarah kindle a deep friendship. Sarah fears the future ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Three Stooges FAQ

    Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses

    Series series FAQ
    This entertaining and informative study of the Three Stooges focuses on the nearly 190 two-reel short comedies the boys made at Columbia Pictures during the years 1934-59. Violent slapstick? Of course, but these comic gems are also peerlessly crafted and enthusiastically played by vaudeville veterans Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and Joe – arguably the most popular and long-lived screen comics ever ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD