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Searching for Spenser

A Mother's Journey Through Grief

by Margaret Karmar ...

Narrated by Margaret Kramar, Maureen Carroll ...

Unabridged

10 hours

Parenting can be a struggle; especially parenting a disabled child. In this flawlessly written memoir, Kramar describes championing her son, diagnosed with Sotos syndrome, through his short life. She examines the experience of loving and losing a child and reminds us that there is a way forward through the grief. Kramar’s memoir offers guidance, wisdom and inspiration. An amazing story of ... Read more

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Parenting can be a struggle; especially parenting a disabled child. In this flawlessly written memoir, Kramar describes championing her son, diagnosed with Sotos syndrome, through his short life. She examines the experience of loving and losing a child and reminds us that there is a way forward through the grief. Kramar’s memoir offers guidance, wisdom and inspiration. An amazing story of
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Parting Glass, A

a novel

by Tess Banion ...

Narrated by Maureen Carroll ...

Unabridged

9 hours 9 min

Elizabeth O’Sullivan is an eleven-year-old girl with uneven bangs, and rich imagination. She fights monsters, real and imagined in a small Kansas town in the 1950’s. A tale of resilience and hope.A Parting Glass is an exciting and suspenseful journey, filled with heartwarming moments. This is a story of transformation and coming of age in the spirit of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the The ... Read more

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Elizabeth O’Sullivan is an eleven-year-old girl with uneven bangs, and rich imagination. She fights monsters, real and imagined in a small Kansas town in the 1950’s. A tale of resilience and hope.A Parting Glass is an exciting and suspenseful journey, filled with heartwarming moments. This is a story of transformation and coming of age in the spirit of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the The
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Bone Field, The

by Leonard Krishtalka ...

Narrated by Leonard Krishtalka, Maureen Carroll ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Harry Przewalski Mystery Novel
Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back ... Read more

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New Hard-Boiled Detective Series Uncovers Bones, Murder & History.Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people’s lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back
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They've Left Us Behind

A Social History

by Maureen Francesconi-Carroll ...

Stanley Lawrence Carroll and Doreen McGlinn were ordinary West Australians who lived through the Great Depression and World War II and went on to raise a close and loving family.Their ancestors came to Australia between 1830 and 1871 as free settlers, convicts, military men, and others, all wanting to make a new life in a new country. The stories outline the hardships this family had to endure and ... Read more

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Stanley Lawrence Carroll and Doreen McGlinn were ordinary West Australians who lived through the Great Depression and World War II and went on to raise a close and loving family.Their ancestors came to Australia between 1830 and 1871 as free settlers, convicts, military men, and others, all wanting to make a new life in a new country. The stories outline the hardships this family had to endure and
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Dressing the Dead in Classical Antiquity

by Maureen Carroll, John Peter Wild ...

Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing and textiles in the context of death and burial in Classical Antiquity, from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD. The geographical scope ... Read more

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Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing and textiles in the context of death and burial in Classical Antiquity, from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD. The geographical scope
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Living Through the Dead

Burial and Commemoration in the Classical World

Edited by Maureen Carroll, Jane Rempel ...

Series Book 5 - Studies in Funerary Archaeology
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and ... Read more

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This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and
... Read more
Female Corporate Culture and the New South

Women in Business Between the World Wars

by Maureen Carroll Gilligan ...

Series series
Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and ... Read more

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Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and
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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World

'A Fragment of Time'

by Maureen Carroll ...

Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a ... Read more

$112.99 CAD

Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a
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W is for Welcome

A Celebration of America's Diversity

by Brad Herzog ...

Illustrated by Doug Bowles, Maureen K. Brookfield, Pam Carroll, David C. Gardner, Barbara Leonard Gibson, Renée Graef, Susan Guy, Ross B. Young, Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen, Helle Urban, Michael Glenn Monroe, Laura Knorr, Victor Juhasz ...

Following the alphabet this book uses poetry and expository text to celebrate America's diverse population and showcase the remarkable achievements and contributions that have come from the many people who have chosen to make our country their home. Topics include well-known landmarks and institutions (the Statue of Liberty and the White House, our national parks system) and famous citizens whose ... Read more

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Following the alphabet this book uses poetry and expository text to celebrate America's diverse population and showcase the remarkable achievements and contributions that have come from the many people who have chosen to make our country their home. Topics include well-known landmarks and institutions (the Statue of Liberty and the White House, our national parks system) and famous citizens whose
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Bletchley Park's Secret Source

Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II

by Peter Hore ...

A captivating history of the highly secret group of women who helped win the Second World War.The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place?This is the extraordinary untold ... Read more

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A captivating history of the highly secret group of women who helped win the Second World War.The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place?This is the extraordinary untold
... Read more

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The Fate of Rome

Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

by Kyle Harper ...

Series series The Princeton History of the Ancient World
How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

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How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient worldHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change
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The Courageous Life of Weary Dunlop

Surgeon, prisoner-of-war, life-saving leader and legend of the Thai-Burma Railway

by Peter FitzSimons ...

The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimonsIn September 1939, young Australian surgeon Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was working in London when the dogs of war were unleashed. Signing up, he ... Read more

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The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimonsIn September 1939, young Australian surgeon Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was working in London when the dogs of war were unleashed. Signing up, he
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