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  • Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    The Dinosaur Tamer

    And Other Stories for Children with Diabetes

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    Danny Littleton feels like he is turning into a dinosaur every time he goes to the doctor's office. After all, dinosaurs don't have to be afraid of anything, including having diabetes. The doctor understands how Danny feels. He and Danny talk, and later, in school, Danny realizes that if he pretends he is a dinosaur, he can get up in front of the class and explain his diabetes."The Dinosaur Tamer" ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Blood Father

    A Novel

    by Peter Craig ...
    Narrated by Kathe Mazur ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    From the highly praised author of Hot Plastic, a gripping, suspenseful novel about a young woman being chased by her violent past, and the flawed father forced to come to the rescue.It's been three years since Lydia Carson ran away from her privileged home in West Los Angeles. Just 17 years old, she's gotten involved with an older man who supplements his income with shady, mysterious activities. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Narrated by Dale Hull ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Lou Boldt/Daphne Matthews

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    A wave of babynappings has terrified parents from San Diego to Portland. And when the Pied Piper—named for the penny flute he leaves in the cribs of his victims—claims his first Seattle infant, the investigation draws in homicide detective Lou Boldt. Assigned temporarily to Intelligence so he can spend more time with his kids while his wife is hospitalized for chemotherapy, Boldt's role is to keep ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD

  • The Pope and Mussolini

    The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEFrom National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini’s spies inside the highest ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Prisoner of the Vatican

    The Popes, the Kings, and Garibaldi's Rebels in the Struggle to Rule Modern Italy

    A Pulitzer Prize winner's "fascinating" account of the political battles that led to the end of the Papal States ( Entertainment Weekly).From a National Book Award–nominated author, this absorbing history chronicles the birth of modern Italy and the clandestine politics behind the Vatican's last stand in the battle between the church and the newly created Italian state.When Italy's armies seized ... Read more

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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    All six volumes are contained in this eBook. There is a linked table of contents, and the footnotes are also linked.Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written.The History of the Decline and ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Religion of Technology

    The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

    Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian expectation of recovering humankind's lost divinity. Covering a period of a thousand years, Noble traces the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Anatomy of the New Testament

    This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testaments structure and meaning. Anatomy of the New Testament is systematic, critical, and reliable in its scope and content.This Seventh Edition has been revised throughout to take account of current trends in scholarship and to discuss important interpretative issues, such as the Gospel of Thomas. Each ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Habitual Offenders

    A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    "An enthralling amalgam of sex, violence, and scholarship. At the center of the story are the abduction and murder of two reformed prostitute nuns" (Frederick Hammond, Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome).In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A British Boy in Fascist Italy

    Born in England to an Italian Fascist father, Peter Ghiringhelli's turbulent childhood saw him deported to Italy when Mussolini fatefully entered the Second World War. There Peter witnessed the totalitarian regime at first hand and recalls his experiences of cold and hunger, his own role in Fascist rallies as a member of the black-shirted Balilla and the fall of Mussolini, providing a captivating ... Read more

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  • Visits to the Dead in the Catacombs of Rome, Illustrated

    by G W Greene ...
    Professor Greene, for many years consul of the United States at Rome during the early 19th century brings us a short history of the Catacombs of Rome. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD