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  • Greenstreet and Back

    A Hilarious Adventure in South East Asia

    by Francis Abel ...
    Greenstreet and Back is an amazing, humorous autobiography that follows a journey from, a near death experience, to an incredible passage of self acceptance and realisation. The true story of painful rehabilitation dips into the black humour of facing your own mortality and the acceptance that the life once known was now a thing of the past. The book is a chronicle of courage and fortitude that ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815

    by Francis Abell ...
    The book begins by outlining the broader context of warfare during the 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the influx of prisoners from France, Spain, and other nations Britain fought against. Abell details the various places of confinement, including hulks (decommissioned ships used as prisons), specialized camps, and civilian facilities. He provides vivid descriptions of the conditions ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A Record of their Lives, their Romance and their Sufferings

    by Francis Abell ...
    As an Englishman I much regret to say in reply to the first question, that, after a very rigorous examination of authorities and weighing of evidence, and making allowance for the not unnatural exaggeration and embellishment by men smarting under deprivation of liberty, I find that foreigners have not unduly emphasized the brutality with which we treated a large proportion of our prisoners of war, ... Read more

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  • Prisoners of war in Britain 1756 to 1815; a record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings

    (Illustrated Edition)

    by Francis, Abell ...
    PrefaceTwo influences have urged me to make a study of the subject of the prisoners of war in Britain.First: the hope that I might be able to vindicate our country against the charge so insistently brought against her that she treated the prisoners of war in her custody with exceptional inhumanity.Second: a desire to rescue from oblivion a not unimportant and a most interesting chapter of our ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe

    Policy Networks, Institutions and Internationalization

    by Éric Montpetit, Frédéric Varone, Gabriele Abels, Francis Garon, Francesca Scala, Nathalie Schiffino, Arco Timmermans ...
    Biotechnology is one of the most important new issues to emerge in the knowledge economy. The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe provides analysts with a perspective on policy-making in scientifically advanced countries that integrate the insights of several approaches and that display a particular sensitivity to the complexity of policy-making conjectures. This perspective ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Emily

    by Eden Francis Compton, Rachael Flanery ...
    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    Her words cut deep.Teddy’s a world-famous playwright in the mold of David Mamet, but for the past year he’s been stuck. An assignment to write a play about Emily Dickinson should have been simple—but instead it has turned into pure obsession. Then, one night, she comes to life in his office, like magic, seducing him, torturing him, begging him to uncover the shocking secret about her life that she ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861, all three volumes in a single file

    by Queen Victoria ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and 7 months, longer than that of any other British monarch before or since, and her reign is the ... Read more

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  • Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present

    by James MacPherson Sir Le Moine ...
    This volume, purporting to be a sequel to QUEBEC PAST AND PRESENT, published in 1876, is intended to complete the history of the city. New and interesting details will be found in these pages, about the locality, where Samuel de Champlain located his settlement in 1608, together with a rapid glance at incidents, sights, objects, edifices, city gates and other improvements, both ancient and modern, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection From Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 (Complete)

    by Queen of Great Britain Victoria ...
    Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of making a selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think it well to describe briefly the nature of the documents which we have been privileged to examine, as well as to indicate the principles which have guided us throughout. It has been a task of no ordinary difficulty. Her Majesty Queen Victoria dealt with her papers, from the first, in ... Read more

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  • Collection of Famous Author "Arthur Conan Doyle"

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Collection of Famous Author "Arthur Conan Doyle"About The Author:--On May 22, 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle was born to an affluent, strict Irish-Catholic family in Edinburgh, Scotland.At the age of 9, Doyle bid a tearful goodbye to his parents and was shipped off to England, where he would attend Hodder Place, Stonyhurst—a Jesuit preparatory school—from 1868 to 1870.While a medical student, Doyle took ... Read more

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  • The Age of Scandal

    by T. H. White ...
    This amusing foray into eighteenth century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public with a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between the so-called Age of Reason and the Romantic Revival - that which the author calls the Age of Scandal - aristocratic and privileged ... Read more

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  • The Multi-Generational Story of Les Jumelles

    Based on The Best of Men

    by Lucinde Hutchinson, Christopher Greer ...
    Based around the orginal novella, written in 1822 by my ancestor, Lucinde Symonds, this is the true story of Les Jumelles and their adventures while growing up during the Haitian Revolution and the Siege of St Domingo.  This story contains everything from adventure, romance, historical insight, and more.  The story of the twins has intrigued many people including multiple generations of our family ... Read more

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