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Familiars

by Jim C. Hines, Brian Hugenbruch, Lawrence Harding, Jean Marie Ward, Jordan Bricco, Alexander G.R. Gideon, Gini Koch, Russell Hugh McConnell, Bebe Bayliss, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Kari Sperring, Alicia Cay, Shanna Germain, Jacey Bedford, A. Katherine Black, Jason Palmatier ...

Who Needs a Friend,When You Have a Familiar?Animals have been our companions since the dawn of time, but in science fiction and fantasy, often that bond is taken one magical—or technological—step further. In FAMILIARS we asked authors to put their own unique spin on this idea, resulting in this collection of fifteen stories that explore the range of familiar bonds—from cats to caterpillars, squids ... Read more

$9.61 CAD

Who Needs a Friend,When You Have a Familiar?Animals have been our companions since the dawn of time, but in science fiction and fantasy, often that bond is taken one magical—or technological—step further. In FAMILIARS we asked authors to put their own unique spin on this idea, resulting in this collection of fifteen stories that explore the range of familiar bonds—from cats to caterpillars, squids
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Mvs Jcl in Plain English

by Donna Kelly, Jim Harding ...

JCL is the stuff of nightmares for many programmers and operators. This book explains JCL in such a way as to have it make sense.This book will help you learn how to to tell the IBM MVS mainframe computer how and when to execute your programs. To do this you use a language called JCL, for Job Control Language. You use JCL to tell the mainframe how much memory and other resources your programs will ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

JCL is the stuff of nightmares for many programmers and operators. This book explains JCL in such a way as to have it make sense.This book will help you learn how to to tell the IBM MVS mainframe computer how and when to execute your programs. To do this you use a language called JCL, for Job Control Language. You use JCL to tell the mainframe how much memory and other resources your programs will
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Divine Magnet, The

Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Herman Melville, Paul Harding, Mark Niemeyer ...

Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

Unabridged

1 hour 13 min

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's ... Read more

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If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's
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Inside Alcatraz

The bestselling true story of life inside America's most notorious prison

by Jim Quillen ...

Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later ... Read more

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Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from San Quentin, he was arrested on the run and sentenced to forty-five years in prison, and later
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Warren G. Harding's 1921 Inaugural Address

by Warren G. Harding ...

Narrated by Jim Ellis ...

Unabridged

21 min

On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding became the 29th President of the United States and delivered his inaugural address. Harding would die two and a half years later, his mantle taken over by Calvin Coolidge. Step back to this moment as Harding calls for a U.S. that is more active, that seeks peaceful and profitable connections with the world, and builds on its history without falling back into ... Read more

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On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding became the 29th President of the United States and delivered his inaugural address. Harding would die two and a half years later, his mantle taken over by Calvin Coolidge. Step back to this moment as Harding calls for a U.S. that is more active, that seeks peaceful and profitable connections with the world, and builds on its history without falling back into
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Republic Must Awaken, The

by Warren G. Harding ...

Narrated by Jim Ellis ...

Unabridged

3 min

During his time as Ohio Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Harding stood against the League of Nations Covenant proposed by President Wilson. It was this speech that turned the tide of public opinion against Wilson's efforts, leaving the U.S. - for better or worse - to stand on its own. Harding believed that the League would force the U.S. into unnecessary wars and moved ... Read more

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During his time as Ohio Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Harding stood against the League of Nations Covenant proposed by President Wilson. It was this speech that turned the tide of public opinion against Wilson's efforts, leaving the U.S. - for better or worse - to stand on its own. Harding believed that the League would force the U.S. into unnecessary wars and moved
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Death Sentence

The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and Punishment

by Jerry Bledsoe ...

Narrated by Kevin Stillwell ...

Unabridged

14 hours 42 min

A shocking true story of a double life undone by murder. --When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn't the first ... Read more

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A shocking true story of a double life undone by murder. --When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn't the first
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American Prison

A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

by Shane Bauer ...

Narrated by Shane Bauer, James Fouhey ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

**An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.orgNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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**An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.orgNew York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A
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Marching Powder

by Rusty Young ...

Narrated by Rusty Young, Adrian Mulraney ...

Unabridged

14 hours 3 min

'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards and attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom . . . The result is a truly gripping piece of testimony'Sunday TelegraphA darkly comic, sometimes shocking account of life in San Pedro, the world's most bizarre prison, through the eyes of one bemused Englishman.When Thomas McFadden was arrested trying ... Read more

$25.81 CAD

'All the staples of the prison memoir are here: sadistic guards and attempted break-out, the terrors of solitary confinement, the joys of freedom . . . The result is a truly gripping piece of testimony'Sunday TelegraphA darkly comic, sometimes shocking account of life in San Pedro, the world's most bizarre prison, through the eyes of one bemused Englishman.When Thomas McFadden was arrested trying
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Beyond Evil - Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley

by Nathan Yates ...

Narrated by Colin Mace ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best True Crime Audio BookOn a summer evening in 2002, ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman took a break from playing video games and left the house to go to buy some sweets, but they never came home.For weeks after they were declared missing, an image of these smiling young girls dressed in their matching Manchester United kit, taken just a ... Read more

$75.99 CAD

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Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best True Crime Audio BookOn a summer evening in 2002, ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman took a break from playing video games and left the house to go to buy some sweets, but they never came home.For weeks after they were declared missing, an image of these smiling young girls dressed in their matching Manchester United kit, taken just a
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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer ...

Narrated by Maxwell Hamilton ...

Unabridged

42 hours 37 min

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States.The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do so, he fought a system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

The International Bestseller

by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 8 - Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.He hatched a plan ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.He hatched a plan
... Read more

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