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  • King Larry

    The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius

    From Howard Hughes to Mark Zuckerberg, the public has always been fascinated by genius entrepreneurs who succumb to their eccentricities. Now, James Scurlock engages, educates, and entertains readers with the captivating story of DHL cofounder and billionaire Larry Hillblom.King Larry begins with an early biography of Larry Lee Hillblom, a mercurial young man who grew up on a peach farm outside of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Maxed Out

    Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders

    Foreclosures are hitting record highs; Americans are declaring bankruptcy at rates ten times that during the great Depression; more college students drop out because of debts than due to poor grades; reports of debtor suicides proliferate in the media. In other words, it's a great time to be in the banking business.Maxed Out takes us on a road trip that is sometimes hysterical and often horrifying ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Maxed Out

    Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders

    Narrated by James D. Scurlock ...

    Abridged

    4 hours 59 min

    In this shocking and illuminating road trip through an America ravaged by debt, award-winning film director James Scurlock examines our multitrillion-dollar addiction to easy credit in all of its absurdities and contradictions.Maxed Out ventures beyond the mind-numbing statistics to expose a financial industry spinning wildly out of control. From the gilded master-planned communities of Northern ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Martin Chuzzlewit

    Narrated by John Wells ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 24 min

    Penguin Classics presents the audiobook adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit, a tale of inheritiance and destiny and the story Dickens considered his best. Read by John Wells.The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Little Dorrit

    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 48 min

    One of Charles Dickens's most personally resonant novels, Little Dorrit speaks across the centuries to the modern audience. Its depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses seems uncannily topical, as does Dickens's compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit, the "child of the Marshalsea," as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect, irresponsibility, and ruin. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Our Mutual Friend

    Narrated by Mil Nicholson ...

    Unabridged

    35 hours 52 min

    'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by such disparate ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    The Pickwick Papers

    Narrated by Frank Bryce ...
    Series series The Novels of Charles Dickens

    Unabridged

    29 hours 30 min

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel. Because of his success with of Sketches by Boz published in 1836 Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic cockney sporting plates by illustrator Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became Britain's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Dombey and Son

    Narrated by Mil Nicholson ...
    Series series The Novels of Charles Dickens

    Unabridged

    39 hours 41 min

    Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow him in his footsteps; he initially rejects his daughter's love before eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death.The story features many Dickensian themes, such as arranged marriages, child cruelty, betrayal, deceit, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    Narrated by Josh Smith ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the ... Read more

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  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

    The novel begins with Martin's dissatisfaction with his selfish and manipulative grandfather, Old Martin Chuzzlewit, who disinherits him. Martin travels to America, where he encounters various eccentric and often unscrupulous individuals. The narrative explores themes such as greed, hypocrisy, and the stark differences between American and British society.Dickens uses "The Life and Adventures of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Dorrit ( With Preface) (A to Z Classics)

    **With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)**Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel, and some believe his most sophisticated. A young man discovers that he must marry a mercenary young woman before he can claim his inheritance. He is on his way to do his father's bidding when a body discovered in the Thames is identified as his, and his inheritance passes instead to Boffins, a working class man. The effects are felt ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus