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The Ultimate 70s Collection

Iconic Musicians and Albums, Movies that Defined a Generation, Legendary Toys and Videogames

by John Romero, Mark Bussler, Philip Oliver, Jim Bagley, Gary Bracey, Trip Hawkins ...

How do you remember the seventies? Whether it's as the "Me Decade," the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you'll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture that defined the decade! Cinemas were showing groundbreaking movies, from Star Wars and Suspiria to Smokey and the Bandit, and TV programming was in its golden age with children's classics like Jamie and ... Read more

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How do you remember the seventies? Whether it's as the "Me Decade," the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you'll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture that defined the decade! Cinemas were showing groundbreaking movies, from Star Wars and Suspiria to Smokey and the Bandit, and TV programming was in its golden age with children's classics like Jamie and
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3 Stories with Alien Invasions

by Philip K Dick, Owen Oliver, Washington Irving ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Winston Churchill & The Queen

An Unlikely Friendship

by Oliver Williams ...

Narrated by Philip Battley ...

Unabridged

3 hours 17 min

A light-hearted look at royal life during the beginning of Queen Elizabeth the Second’s reign and the final days of Churchill’s prime ministership. How did two people from two different generations come to be such good friends?This readable and relatable Churchill-Queen Elizabeth II book talks to the reader instead of lecturing them. The moment you become immersed in the first pages, you are ... Read more

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A light-hearted look at royal life during the beginning of Queen Elizabeth the Second’s reign and the final days of Churchill’s prime ministership. How did two people from two different generations come to be such good friends?This readable and relatable Churchill-Queen Elizabeth II book talks to the reader instead of lecturing them. The moment you become immersed in the first pages, you are
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The Story of an African Farm

Annotated

by Olive Schreiner, Philip Dossick, Foreword ...

When The Story of an African Farm first appeared in 1883 under the curious pseudonym Ralph Iron, readers could not have anticipated what they were encountering. Nothing in the late Victorian novel had prepared them for Olive Schreiner’s fierce originality—nor for the strange, sun-struck world she conjured on a remote farm in the South African Karoo. The book arrived from the margins of empire yet ... Read more

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When The Story of an African Farm first appeared in 1883 under the curious pseudonym Ralph Iron, readers could not have anticipated what they were encountering. Nothing in the late Victorian novel had prepared them for Olive Schreiner’s fierce originality—nor for the strange, sun-struck world she conjured on a remote farm in the South African Karoo. The book arrived from the margins of empire yet
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Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett, Oliver Le Sueur ...

Unabridged

19 hours 8 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for
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The Middle of the Road (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Post–World War I Political Novel of Divided Britain, Irish Conflict, and the Moral Aftermath of War

by Philip Gibbs, Olive Briarford ...

The Middle of the Road is a searching postwar novel about a society unable to return to its old certainties after the catastrophe of 1914–18. Moving through drawing rooms, political conversations, domestic conflicts, and the unsettled public life of Europe, Philip Gibbs examines the temptations of both reaction and revolution. Its style is lucid, observant, and strongly journalistic, yet shaped by ... Read more

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The Middle of the Road is a searching postwar novel about a society unable to return to its old certainties after the catastrophe of 1914–18. Moving through drawing rooms, political conversations, domestic conflicts, and the unsettled public life of Europe, Philip Gibbs examines the temptations of both reaction and revolution. Its style is lucid, observant, and strongly journalistic, yet shaped by
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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The North East Poets

A celebration of American poetry

by Stephen Vincent Benét, Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Van Dyke, Philip Freneau, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Angelina Weld Grimke, Joyce Kilmer, Amy Lowell, H P Lovecraft, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Patricia Rodriguez, John-Michael MacDonald ...

Unabridged

4 hours 26 min

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

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Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

A Novel

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Rupert Degas ...

Unabridged

26 hours 11 min

**A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author.**In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his ... Read more

$42.50 CAD

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**A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author.**In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his
... Read more

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.“Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which ... Read more

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness.“Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which
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A Wild Sheep Chase

A Novel

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Rupert Degas ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the ... Read more

$27.00 CAD

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A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the
... Read more

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South of the Border, West of the Sun

A Novel

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by Eric Loren ...

Unabridged

6 hours 33 min

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence ... Read more

$23.00 CAD

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South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence
... Read more

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The Sirens of Titan

A Novel

by Kurt Vonnegut ...

Narrated by Jay Snyder ...

Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

**“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—**EsquireNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s*The Great American ReadThe Sirens of Titan* is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to ... Read more

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**“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—**EsquireNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s*The Great American ReadThe Sirens of Titan* is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to
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