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The Cancel Culture Curse

From Rage to Redemption in a World Gone Mad

by Evan Nierman, Mark Sachs ...

In a groundbreaking first, cancel culture and its core elements are clearly defined, and a convincing case is made against this fundamentally un-American practice.Cancel culture is an insidious force in society today. In the seconds it takes to make one regrettable social media post—or wind up on the wrong side of a false accusation or misunderstanding—reputations, relationships, and careers are ... Read more

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In a groundbreaking first, cancel culture and its core elements are clearly defined, and a convincing case is made against this fundamentally un-American practice.Cancel culture is an insidious force in society today. In the seconds it takes to make one regrettable social media post—or wind up on the wrong side of a false accusation or misunderstanding—reputations, relationships, and careers are
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Gender and Rural Globalization

International Perspectives on Gender and Rural Development

by Sally Shortall, Monika Agarwal, Margaret Alston, Berit Brandth, Angela Calvo, Megan Canning, Anne Cassidy, Francesca Alice Centrone, Majda Cernic Istenic0, Chrysanthi Charatsari1, Jessica Duncan2, Elisabeth Garner3, Donatella Greco4, Wendy Harcourt5, Marit S. Haugen6, Susie Jacobs7, Lori Ann McVay8, Ilona Matysiak9, Peter Mollinga0, Janet Momsen1, Angela Mosso2, Caoimhe Ni Dhonaill3, Nargiza Nizamedinkhodjayeva4, Mark Riley5, Carolyn Sachs6, Heather Sangster7, Susanne Stenbacka8, Margreet van der Burg9, Chiara Zanetti0 ...

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalising world that fundamentally impacts on the structure of agricultural life in rural areas and urban-rural relations. It analyses the development of rural gender relations in specific places around the world and looks into the effects of the increasing connectivity and mobility of people across places. The themes covered are: ... Read more

$166.99 CAD

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalising world that fundamentally impacts on the structure of agricultural life in rural areas and urban-rural relations. It analyses the development of rural gender relations in specific places around the world and looks into the effects of the increasing connectivity and mobility of people across places. The themes covered are:
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Classic Christmas Stories

A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, L. M. Montgomery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope ...

Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume. ... Read more

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Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume.
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Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

by Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Josh Stanton, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick0, Robin Sachs1, Robertson Dean2, John Lee3, Stefan Rudnicki4, Ned Schmidtke5, Armin Shimerman6, Steven Ovitsky7, Andrew Barnes8, Ken Danziger9, Gregory Itzen0, Kitty Swink1, Granville van Dusen2, the Amadis Ensemble3, Suzanne Schmidtke4, Stewart Sloke5, George Bernard Shaw6 ...

Narrated by a distinguished cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 16 min

“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.”—George Bernard ShawWith ... Read more

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“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.”—George Bernard ShawWith
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The Information Officer

A Novel

by Mark Mills ...

Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

Unabridged

10 hours 2 min

Malta, April 1942. Max Chadwick is the military officer charged with managing information and maintaining morale on the tiny Mediterranean island, a strategic lynchpin in the war. Bombs rain from the sky at all hours of the day and night, as the Maltese and their British protectors fiercely cling to the rocky outcropping that is all that stands between the Axis and total dominance of the ... Read more

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Malta, April 1942. Max Chadwick is the military officer charged with managing information and maintaining morale on the tiny Mediterranean island, a strategic lynchpin in the war. Bombs rain from the sky at all hours of the day and night, as the Maltese and their British protectors fiercely cling to the rocky outcropping that is all that stands between the Axis and total dominance of the
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The Polish Officer

A Novel

by Alan Furst ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Series series Night Soldiers
Unabridged

11 hours 45 min

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances, ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.Captain Alexander de Milja understands that his life, as he knows it, is over. But even in this bleakest of circumstances,
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The Prodigal Spy

A Novel

by Joseph Kanon ...

Narrated by Boyd Gaines ...

Abridged

6 hours 10 min

What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.Washington, 1950. The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out. And for Walter Kotlar, a high-level State Department official, the ... Read more

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What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.Washington, 1950. The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out. And for Walter Kotlar, a high-level State Department official, the
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The World at Night

A Novel

by Alan Furst ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Series series Night Soldiers
Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret ... Read more

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Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret
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Alibi

A Novel

by Joseph Kanon ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Abridged

6 hours 12 min

From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.Winner of the Hammett PrizeIt is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.Winner of the Hammett PrizeIt is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish
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Dark Star

A Novel

by Alan Furst ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Series series Night Soldiers
Unabridged

17 hours 57 min

Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Through Szara’s character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.Some of the events Szara sees are harsh and unforgettable. While working in Austria, ... Read more

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Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Through Szara’s character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.Some of the events Szara sees are harsh and unforgettable. While working in Austria,
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Zoo Station

by David Downing ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Series series John Russell WWII Spy
Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

As the Nazi hold tightens over Germany in 1939, British journalist John Russell is living in Berlin, where he has spent fifteen years working as a freelancer.Despite his hatred for fascism and the signs of coming war, Russell is determined to stay in Berlin to be near his son, Paul, and his long-time girlfriend, the Germanfilm actress Effi Koenen. For paying work, which has become hard to find, ... Read more

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As the Nazi hold tightens over Germany in 1939, British journalist John Russell is living in Berlin, where he has spent fifteen years working as a freelancer.Despite his hatred for fascism and the signs of coming war, Russell is determined to stay in Berlin to be near his son, Paul, and his long-time girlfriend, the Germanfilm actress Effi Koenen. For paying work, which has become hard to find,
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The Prisoner of Guantanamo

by Dan Fesperman ...

Narrated by Dan Fesperman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 53 min

Dan Fesperman’s award-winning novels have transported readers to the heart of some of the world’s most volatile places: Yugoslavia during the Balkan Wars in Lie in the Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows (“A new standard for war-based thrillers”—Los Angeles Times), and Afghanistan during the last days of the Taliban in The Warlord’s Son (“A first-rate geopolitical yarn”—Entertainment Weekly). ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

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Dan Fesperman’s award-winning novels have transported readers to the heart of some of the world’s most volatile places: Yugoslavia during the Balkan Wars in Lie in the Dark and The Small Boat of Great Sorrows (“A new standard for war-based thrillers”—Los Angeles Times), and Afghanistan during the last days of the Taliban in The Warlord’s Son (“A first-rate geopolitical yarn”—Entertainment Weekly).
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