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Application-Inspired Linear Algebra

by Heather A. Moon, Thomas J. Asaki, Marie A. Snipes ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This textbook invites students to discover abstract ideas in linear algebra within the context of applications. Diffusion welding and radiography, the two central applications, are introduced early on and used throughout to frame the practical uses of important linear algebra concepts. Students will learn these methods through explorations, which involve making conjectures and answering open-ended ... Read more

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This textbook invites students to discover abstract ideas in linear algebra within the context of applications. Diffusion welding and radiography, the two central applications, are introduced early on and used throughout to frame the practical uses of important linear algebra concepts. Students will learn these methods through explorations, which involve making conjectures and answering open-ended
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The Great Unexpected

by Sharon Creech ...

Narrated by Heather O'Neill, Erin Moon ...

Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an ""enchanting tale to treasure,"" The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination.Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs—of young Naomi ... Read more

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From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an ""enchanting tale to treasure,"" The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination.Humorous and heartfelt, this is a story of pairs—of young Naomi
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Mad Hope

Stories

by Heather Birrell ...

Narrated by Erin Moon, Graham Rowat, Tandy Cronyn, Morgan Hallett ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't-they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania after a student makes a ... Read more

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In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't-they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania after a student makes a
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The Wanderer

by Sharon Creech ...

Narrated by Dana Lubotsky ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The personal journey she takes brings her deeper into a forgotten past than she ever knew possible ... Read more

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The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The personal journey she takes brings her deeper into a forgotten past than she ever knew possible
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Heartbeat

by Sharon Creech ...

Narrated by Mandy Siegfried ...

Unabridged

1 hour 28 min

**“A stunning accomplishment. This story pierces the heart.” *—***Chicago Sun-TimesRUN RUN RUN. That’s what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she’s barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating…thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP.It’s a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything’s shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody. ... Read more

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**“A stunning accomplishment. This story pierces the heart.” *—***Chicago Sun-TimesRUN RUN RUN. That’s what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she’s barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating…thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP.It’s a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything’s shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody.
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Chasing Redbird

by Sharon Creech ...

Narrated by Jenna Lamia ...

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min

**“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“Creech’s best yet.” ***—***Publishers Weekly (starred review)It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change.It was her chance to finally make people no ... Read more

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**“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“Creech’s best yet.” ***—***Publishers Weekly (starred review)It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change.It was her chance to finally make people no
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Main Street

by Sinclair Lewis ...

Narrated by Brian Emerson ...

Unabridged

16 hours 29 min

When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides it's time the town made a few changes.The story of an idealistic young woman's frustrated attempts to change the set ways of her small town, Main Street has ... Read more

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When Carol Milford, a young, liberated woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, marries small-town doctor Will Kennicott, she suddenly finds herself transplanted to Gopher Prairie. Horrified by her new home, an ugly backwater community, she decides it's time the town made a few changes.The story of an idealistic young woman's frustrated attempts to change the set ways of her small town, Main Street has
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Maidenhead

by Tamara Faith Berger ...

Narrated by Felicity Munroe ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) 'Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild, and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' -- Sheila Heti, Globe and Mail On a mangy beach in Key West, sixteen-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian ... Read more

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Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) 'Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild, and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' -- Sheila Heti, Globe and Mail On a mangy beach in Key West, sixteen-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian
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At Last

A Novel

by Edward St. Aubyn ...

Narrated by Alex Jennings ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Patrick Melrose Novels
Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerA New York Times Notable Book of the Year • One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year • Named One of the best books of the Year by The Telegraph and EsquireHere, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the... ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerA New York Times Notable Book of the Year • One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year • Named One of the best books of the Year by The Telegraph and EsquireHere, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the...
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Going Home Again

by Dennis Bock ...

Narrated by Graham Rowat ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

***Shortlisted for 2013 Giller Prize*** After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada' s most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man studying the suddenly confusing shape his life has taken, and why, and what his responsibilities-- as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle-- truly are. Charlie Bellerose leads a seminomadic existence, traveling ... Read more

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***Shortlisted for 2013 Giller Prize*** After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada' s most celebrated young writers now gives us the vibrant, contemporary story of a man studying the suddenly confusing shape his life has taken, and why, and what his responsibilities-- as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle-- truly are. Charlie Bellerose leads a seminomadic existence, traveling
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Great House

by Nicole Krauss ...

Narrated by Alma Cuervo, George Guidall, Celeste Ciulla, Paul Hecht, Robert Ian McKenzie ...

Unabridged

12 hours 35 min

From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept secret about his
... Read more
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The Guts

by Roddy Doyle ...

Narrated by Laurence Kinlan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 30 min

Jimmy Rabbitte is back.The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... and bowel cancer. He isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be.Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle – his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On ... Read more

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Jimmy Rabbitte is back.The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... and bowel cancer. He isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be.Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle – his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On
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