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  • Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to eight ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs - My 1950s Childhood

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Stealing Time

    by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs, Norman Birnbach ...
    Tori lives in 2020 and her parents are getting divorced. Bobby lives in 1980 and his family is about to fall apart. But when Tori finds herself stranded in 1980, the two must join forces and prevent a crime that might destroy everyone they care about. Simultaneously home and not home, Tori finds herself in a gritty New York just beginning to claw its way out of bankruptcy. Pollution and crime are ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mass Media in Modern Society

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements. ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • Crystal Palace Speedway

    A History of the Glaziers

    by Norman Jacobs ...
    On 19 May 1928, just three months after the sport had been launched in this country at the pioneering High Beech meeting, Fred Mockford and Cecil Smith introduced speedway racing to Crystal Palace with the first international match between England and Australia, the forerunner of the Test matches. It was an immediate success with the public who flocked in their tens of thousands to witness these ... Read more

    $7.36 CAD

  • Rees Howells, Intercessor

    The True Story of a Man Whose Prayers Changed the Course of History

    by Norman Grubb, Cindy Jacobs ...
    One of eleven brothers and sisters born in a poor mining town in Wales, Rees Howells left school at age twelve to work in the local tin mine. Young, ambitious, and motivated by money, Rees soon traveled to America to seek his fortune. But what he found was the Holy Spirit and a calling. A calling that would transform his life, his family, and, ultimately, a world at war. A calling that would cost ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Submarine Aircraft Carriers

    From World War I to the Age of Drones

    by Jacob Gunnarson, Norman Polmar ...
    Two innovations in weaponry appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century and revolutionized warfare, turning it into a multidimensional contest: the modern diesel-powered submarine and the fixed-wing aircraft. Both saw extensive use during World War I, and the nations of the world soon developed mobile launching pads for planes during and after the war, first using surface ships and then ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Stealing Time

    by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs, Norman Birnbach ...
    2025 Silver Falchion Finalist2024 Claymore Top PickWhat if you could meet your parents...when they were your age?Stealing Time is a sharp, funny, and emotionally rich time-travel crime mystery packed with heart, humor, and high stakes.New York City, 2020Fifteen-year-old Tori's world is falling apart. Her parents are separating. She and her mother are moving to the suburbs. And she's just ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Bibliography of Jewish Education in the United States

    by Norman Drachler ...
    Entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German on all aspects of Jewish education from pre-school through secondary education.This book contains entries from thousands of publications whether in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and German—books, research reports, educational and general periodicals, synagogue histories, conference proceedings, bibliographies, and ... Read more

    $27.53 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Gold Bubble

    Profiting From Gold's Impending Collapse

    by Yoni Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    The warning signs for gold's decline are plenty: gold ETFs have made investing in gold available to the common investor and have tremendously increased the speculation involved; the global reliance on emerging markets such as China has fueled the commodity bubble led by gold; TV shows and newspaper headlines warn of intense media saturation and frenzy; We Buy Gold stores line busy streets and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Hurricane Song

    A Novel of New Orleans

    by Paul Volponi ...
    Narrated by Jacob C. Norman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 21 min

    Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome!Miles has only lived in New Orleans with his dad, a musician, for a few months when Hurricane Katrina hits. Father and son haven't exactly been getting along. Miles is obsessed with football; his dad's passion is jazz. But when the storm strikes, they're forced to work through their differences to survive a torturous few days in the ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

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  • A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile

    Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

    by Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp ...
    'A brilliant memoir of a strong woman' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'A must-read that will break your heart but also make you laugh' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon reader review'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through my daydream. Already there was a queue of hungry customers on the cobbled street of London's East End.In 1950s and 60s ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD