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  • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe

    A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love

    by Mary Calvi ...
    A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary.Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never before published— If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dear George, Dear Mary

    A Novel of George Washington's First Love

    by Mary Calvi ...
    This "affecting" novel "skillfully depicts the ill-fated love story of a promising 24-year-old colonel named George Washington and Mary Eliza Philipse" ( Publishers Weekly).Before Martha, there was Mary. . . .A never-before-told love story of George Washington and heiress Mary Philipse based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award–winning journalist ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Dear George, Dear Mary

    A Novel of George Washington's First Love

    by Mary Calvi ...
    Narrated by Marisa Calin, Raphael Corkhill ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    An audiobook about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi.“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George WashingtonDid unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    If a Poem Could Live and Breathe

    A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love

    by Mary Calvi ...
    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear MaryStudded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many of them never before published―If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Erin Lindsey ...
    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Rose Gallagher Mystery

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    10 hours 57 min

    **"Narrator Barrie Kreinik artfully portrays colorful people — locals and immigrants — who call New York City home in the nineteenth century." — AudioFile MagazineIn Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's debut historical mystery, a daring housemaid searches Gilded Age Manhattan for her missing employer and finds a hidden world of magic, ghosts, romance, and Pinkerton detectives.**Rose ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    The Rebel Nun

    by Marj Charlier ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

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    Marj Charlier’s The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church.At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Mosaic of Wings

    by Kimberly Duffy ...
    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 52 min

    It's 1885, and all Nora Shipley wants, now that she's graduating from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program, is to follow in her late father's footsteps by getting her master's degree and taking over the scientific journal he started. The only way to uphold her father's legacy is to win a scholarship, so she joins a research expedition in Kodaikanal, India, to prove herself ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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    Death on the Sapphire

    A Lady Frances Ffolkes Mystery

    by R. J. Koreto ...
    Narrated by Justine Eyre ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Lady Frances Ffolkes Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance.When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady discovers that he was working on a manuscript about South Africa’s bloody Boer War, which reportedly revealed a scandalous mistake ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Murder Knocks Twice

    A Mystery

    by Susanna Calkins ...
    Narrated by Sarah Naughton ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Speakeasy Mystery

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    The first mystery in Susanna Calkins’ captivating new series takes readers into the dark, dangerous, and glittering underworld of a 1920's Chicago speakeasy.Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father―and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago’s most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She’s enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she ... Read more

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    How To Make A Life

    A Novel

    by Florence Reiss Kraut ...
    Narrated by Justine Reiss ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    “An engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope.” -Kirkus ReviewsHow to Make a Life: A Novel is a spellbinding family saga with strong shades of history; it is engrossing and fast-paced.” — Romuald Dzemo, Readers' FavoriteWhen Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905, they believe their emigration will ensure that their ... Read more

    $20.54 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Lincoln's Melancholy

    How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

    by Joshua Wolf Shenk ...
    Narrated by Derek Shetterly ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his astonishing success.Lincoln found the solace and tactics he needed to deal with the nation’s worst crisis in the “coping strategies” he had developed over a lifetime of persevering through depressive episodes and personal ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Beyond the Ghetto Gates

    A Novel

    by Michelle Cameron ...
    When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide. Mirelle, a young Jewish maiden, must choose between her duty—an arranged marriage to a wealthy Jewish merchant—and her love for a dashing French Catholic soldier. Meanwhile, Francesca, ... Read more

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