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Lessons from Literature - Short Stories About the Value of Art

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, O Henry, Saki, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

2 hours 56 min

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is an oft-used phrase but perhaps a very useful judge when it comes to valuing Art and the price we are prepared to pay to own such desirables. But whether our price is paid with admiration, love or filthy lucre a price most certainly has to be paid.1 - Short Stories About the Value of Art - An Introduction2 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne3 ... Read more

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder is an oft-used phrase but perhaps a very useful judge when it comes to valuing Art and the price we are prepared to pay to own such desirables. But whether our price is paid with admiration, love or filthy lucre a price most certainly has to be paid.1 - Short Stories About the Value of Art - An Introduction2 - The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne3
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - 1900s

The top ten short stories of the 1900's.

by Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Jack London, Willa Cather, G K Chesterton, M R James, Mark Twain, O Henry, Stephen Crane, W W Jacbos ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

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

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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
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Female Short Story, The - A Chronological History - Volume 9

Alice Dunbar Nelson to Katherine Rickford

by Susan Glaspell, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

7 hours 57 min

A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re ... Read more

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A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re
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Many Things Under a Rock

The Mysteries of Octopuses

by David Scheel ...

**“Mind-blowing and soul-expanding.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusA behavioral ecologist’s riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.**Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel ... Read more

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**“Mind-blowing and soul-expanding.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an OctopusA behavioral ecologist’s riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.**Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel
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Many Things Under a Rock Young Readers Edition

The Mysteries of Octopuses

by David Scheel ...

Illustrated by Laurel "Yoyo" Scheel ...

This compelling middle grade adaptation dives deep into the mysteries and misunderstandings of one of our planet’s most enigmatic animals.Among all the ocean’s creatures, few are more captivating—or more elusive—than the octopus. Marine biologist David Scheel investigates these strange beings to try and answer long-held questions: How can we learn more about an animal whose perfect camouflage and ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

This compelling middle grade adaptation dives deep into the mysteries and misunderstandings of one of our planet’s most enigmatic animals.Among all the ocean’s creatures, few are more captivating—or more elusive—than the octopus. Marine biologist David Scheel investigates these strange beings to try and answer long-held questions: How can we learn more about an animal whose perfect camouflage and
... Read more
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Paradise-1

by David Wellington ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Red Space
Unabridged

21 hours 12 min

An electric blend of sci-if and horror, Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of exploration and survival in deep space from Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington."A superior space thriller that never flags....Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Paradise-1. Earth’s first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an ... Read more

$58.99 CAD

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An electric blend of sci-if and horror, Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of exploration and survival in deep space from Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington."A superior space thriller that never flags....Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Paradise-1. Earth’s first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an
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My Days

Happy and Otherwise

by Marion Ross, David Laurell, Ron Howard2 ...

Narrated by Marion Ross, David Laurell, Anson Williams, Don Most, Gwen Behron, Henry Winkler, Jim Meskimen, Maxine "Max" Andrews, Scott Baio0, Scott Marshall1 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 6 min

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America’s favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . .Before she was affectionately known to millions as “Mrs. C.,” Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960s—including Love, American Style, in which she ... Read more

$20.60 CAD

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For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America’s favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . .Before she was affectionately known to millions as “Mrs. C.,” Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960s—including Love, American Style, in which she
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Civil Society, Peace, and Power

Edited by David Cortright, Laurel Stone, Melanie Greenberg ...

Series series Peace and Security in the 21st Century
Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building more peaceful and sustainable societies . The multiple case studies featured in this volume illustrate the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems ... Read more

$61.99 CAD

Civil society plays an increasingly powerful role in the global landscape, emerging as key actors in preventing and managing conflict, and building more peaceful and sustainable societies . The multiple case studies featured in this volume illustrate the growth of civil society involvement in national, regional, and international peacebuilding policy. The focus is on multi-stakeholder, systems
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Erebus-13

by David Wellington ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

16 hours 46 min

The crew of the Artemis has escaped the nightmare of Paradise-1, but at great cost.Parker is gone. Petrova’s past continues to haunt her. Worst of all, Erebus—a timeless entity of pure darkness—has been released from its prison.Now it’s headed for Earth.Petrova must rally her crew for one final mission. Somehow, they must find a way to unite the disparate factions of the solar system—the United ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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The crew of the Artemis has escaped the nightmare of Paradise-1, but at great cost.Parker is gone. Petrova’s past continues to haunt her. Worst of all, Erebus—a timeless entity of pure darkness—has been released from its prison.Now it’s headed for Earth.Petrova must rally her crew for one final mission. Somehow, they must find a way to unite the disparate factions of the solar system—the United
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Kill Pill

The killer opioid crisis thriller

by David Barbaree ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Sam Stafford ...

Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

After his daughter overdosed and died, William Thomas Knox brutally murdered billionaire Skip Buchanan, patriarch of the family many hold responsible for the American opioid epidemic. Online communities glorified Skip's death - one murder to balance out the loss of one million innocent people - and turned Knox into a hero.One year later, veteran Harper Scott is out of work and just desperate ... Read more

$75.99 CAD

After his daughter overdosed and died, William Thomas Knox brutally murdered billionaire Skip Buchanan, patriarch of the family many hold responsible for the American opioid epidemic. Online communities glorified Skip's death - one murder to balance out the loss of one million innocent people - and turned Knox into a hero.One year later, veteran Harper Scott is out of work and just desperate
... Read more
Mathematical Problems (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. The 1900 Paris Congress Address That Shaped Modern Mathematical Research and Axiomatic Foundations

by David Hilbert, Laurel Emberford ...

Mathematical Problems is David Hilbert's celebrated 1900 address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, a compact yet epoch-making manifesto that set forth twenty-three problems for the coming century. Written with crystalline concision and philosophical confidence, it ranges across number theory, geometry, analysis, logic, and physics, presenting mathematics as a unified ... Read more

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Mathematical Problems is David Hilbert's celebrated 1900 address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, a compact yet epoch-making manifesto that set forth twenty-three problems for the coming century. Written with crystalline concision and philosophical confidence, it ranges across number theory, geometry, analysis, logic, and physics, presenting mathematics as a unified
... Read more
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Santa's Stocking Stuffers

by Andrea Smith, Laurel Landon ...

Narrated by Ally Piper, David Black ...

Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

This holiday installment in the "Naughty Nuggets" novella series is sure to be a favorite. Andrea Smith (writing as Laurel Landon, because hey, it's just that naughty) presents a Christmas Santa who is trying to make everyone's wishes come true!If a Big Mart Santa could grant your Christmas wish, what would it be?Would it be NAUGHTY or NICE?Meet Nick. A seasonal Big Mart Santa who brings very ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This holiday installment in the "Naughty Nuggets" novella series is sure to be a favorite. Andrea Smith (writing as Laurel Landon, because hey, it's just that naughty) presents a Christmas Santa who is trying to make everyone's wishes come true!If a Big Mart Santa could grant your Christmas wish, what would it be?Would it be NAUGHTY or NICE?Meet Nick. A seasonal Big Mart Santa who brings very
... Read more

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