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Shantaram

A Novel

by Gregory David Roberts ...

Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam!“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, ... Read more

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Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam!“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay,
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Not A Real Enemy

The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom

by Robert Wolf, Janice Harper ...

Narrated by Gregory Dwyer ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Holocaust Survivor True Stories
Unabridged

16 hours 1 min

Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned ... Read more

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Hungary, 1944. Almost half a million Jewish Hungarians are deported to Auschwitz. Among the few surviving Hungarian Jews from this era were young men who, like Ervin Wolf, were forced into the brutal Labor Service where they were cut off from the outside world and forced to endure inhumane brutalities and servitude. Once freed, a new oppression took hold as communist rule under Stalin turned
... Read more
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Entwined

A Steamy Post-Apocalyptic Romance

by Rebecca Quinn ...

Narrated by Avery Caris, JF Harding, Jason Clarke, Teddy Hamilton, Sebastian York, Rose Dioro, Connor Crais, Gregory Salinas, Robert Hatchet ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Brutes of Bristlebrook Trilogy
Unabridged

29 hours 52 min

Outclassed. Outplayed. Outmatched.After our humiliating defeat at Cyanide, Alastair left us shamed and shattered.We lost.But with our resources at a desperate low, new players making dangerous moves, and my brutes on the offense, I know I need to change the game. The last time I tried my hand, I made mistakes that nearly cost us everything—but I’m not the same hesitant little pawn I once was, and ... Read more

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Outclassed. Outplayed. Outmatched.After our humiliating defeat at Cyanide, Alastair left us shamed and shattered.We lost.But with our resources at a desperate low, new players making dangerous moves, and my brutes on the offense, I know I need to change the game. The last time I tried my hand, I made mistakes that nearly cost us everything—but I’m not the same hesitant little pawn I once was, and
... Read more
Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326

by Gregory Roberts ...

Series series Premodern Crime and Punishment
Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. 'Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326' is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory ... Read more

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Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces. Yet in the Italian city-republics, soldiers patrolled the streets daily in search of lawbreakers. 'Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326' is the first book to examine the emergence of urban policing in medieval Italy and its impact on city life. Focusing on Bologna in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Gregory
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Dreams, Doubt, and Dread

The Spiritual in Film

by Gregory Alan Thornbury ...

Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and ... Read more

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Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and
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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by Tim Gregory ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

Clear the decks for one of the greatest swashbuckling stories ever told. Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas—an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all, Treasure Island is a complex study of ... Read more

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Clear the decks for one of the greatest swashbuckling stories ever told. Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas—an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all, Treasure Island is a complex study of
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Tides of the Heart

by Margot Keene ...

Narrated by Angelina Rocca, Tim Paige, Andi Arndt, Brandon Francis, Gregory Salinas, Greg Tremblay, Robert Fass, Victoria Connolly, Christopher Tester ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Maverick Key Series
Unabridged

7 hours 8 min

Some dreams are never forgotten.Dark secrets swirl beneath the waters of Maverick Key in the second suspenseful romance from Margot Keene.Ever since her beloved Nathan disappeared and was presumed dead after a catastrophic dive, Crystal has done whatever it takes to heal and care for her young daughter, Natalie. Nathan had always harbored secrets he claimed were meant to protect her, but with his ... Read more

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Some dreams are never forgotten.Dark secrets swirl beneath the waters of Maverick Key in the second suspenseful romance from Margot Keene.Ever since her beloved Nathan disappeared and was presumed dead after a catastrophic dive, Crystal has done whatever it takes to heal and care for her young daughter, Natalie. Nathan had always harbored secrets he claimed were meant to protect her, but with his
... Read more
The Diana Marburg, Occult Detective MEGAPACK®

4 Classic Tales

by L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, John Gregory Betancourt ...

Series series MEGAPACK®
She reads palms and communes with the dead—but the Oracle of Maddox Street is no mere charlatan. A palmist and spiritualist by profession, she moves through Edwardian London’s fashionable drawing rooms with her barrister brother at her side, unraveling mysteries where the uncanny brushes against cold reason. Where other investigators dismiss the supernatural, she embraces it as both her method and ... Read more

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She reads palms and communes with the dead—but the Oracle of Maddox Street is no mere charlatan. A palmist and spiritualist by profession, she moves through Edwardian London’s fashionable drawing rooms with her barrister brother at her side, unraveling mysteries where the uncanny brushes against cold reason. Where other investigators dismiss the supernatural, she embraces it as both her method and
... Read more
Chin Music

by Gregory Roberts ...

I guess I can blame my name on the 70s, the decade my parents went to college. I think the decade instilled in many people a burning desire to give their children atypical names. Apparently, during college, Dad wanted to name his sons "Led"and "Zepp."That was in the era when my mum chose to grow hairy armpits, and Dad had long greasy hair held down by a red headband and huge earphones. My mother ... Read more

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I guess I can blame my name on the 70s, the decade my parents went to college. I think the decade instilled in many people a burning desire to give their children atypical names. Apparently, during college, Dad wanted to name his sons "Led"and "Zepp."That was in the era when my mum chose to grow hairy armpits, and Dad had long greasy hair held down by a red headband and huge earphones. My mother
... Read more
Toward Spatial Humanities

Historical GIS and Spatial History

by Les Roberts, Thomas Thevenin, Julia Hallam, Andrew Beveridge, Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, Niall A. Cunningham, Robert M. Schwartz, Elijah Meeks ...

The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the ... Read more

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The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the
... Read more
Intergalactic Rejects: A Calendar of Fools Anthology

by Kevin J. Anderson, Samuel R. Delaney, Rebecca Moesta, Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Norman Bossert, Jean Marie Ward, William Joseph Roberts, David Boop, Robert Siverberg, Neil Clarke ...

For readers: a collection of exciting, powerful science fiction and fantasy stories. For writers: a reminder that rejection isn't the end and to never give up on stories you believe in.A man who lost his son finds family again piloting a lab-grown dolphin and helping it navigate loss while, hopefully, preventing more; an Irish goddess must contend with the magic of a saint to save her people; and ... Read more

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For readers: a collection of exciting, powerful science fiction and fantasy stories. For writers: a reminder that rejection isn't the end and to never give up on stories you believe in.A man who lost his son finds family again piloting a lab-grown dolphin and helping it navigate loss while, hopefully, preventing more; an Irish goddess must contend with the magic of a saint to save her people; and
... Read more
A New View of Society and Other Writings

by Gregory Claeys, Robert Owen ...

In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws ... Read more

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In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation ofmankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', a full-scale reorganization of British society, major reforms of working practices and the Poor Laws
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