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  • China Road

    A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

    by Rob Gifford ...
    Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    China Road

    A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

    by Rob Gifford ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    National Public Radio’s Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world’s most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford’s twenty years of observing firsthand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China’s border with Kazakhstan. As ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Quick History of the Universe

    From the Big Bang to Just Now

    by Clive Gifford ...
    Illustrated by Rob Flowers ...
    Series series Quick Histories
    Strap in for a rip-roaring ride through the history of the universe, starting with the Big Bang, and bringing us right up to present day. What was the universe like when it was a few seconds old? How had it changed by its millionth birthday? And when did time even start, for that matter?! The story of the last 13.8 billion years in one handy volume, you can read about the start of stars, the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Quick History of Money

    From Cash Cows to Crypto-Currencies

    by Clive Gifford ...
    Illustrated by Rob Flowers ...
    Series series Quick Histories
    Why is a $5 note worth $5? Where do coins come from? What do banks actually do? All this and so much more is answered in A Quick History of Money, a crash course from cash cows to cryptocurrency.Money might sound all grown-up and serious, but the history of buying, selling, saving, and stealing is full of crazy stories and unbelievable facts. A Quick History of Money is here to show you the silly ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Sad Stories of the Death of Kings

    by Barry Gifford ...
    Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charlatans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls with only months ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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    Thinking Machines

    The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next

    by Luke Dormehl ...
    Narrated by Gus Brown ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways, the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Georgian Star

    How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos

    by Michael D. Lemonick ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...
    Series series The Great Discoveries Series

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Responsible for the greatest advances in astronomy since Copernicus, William and Caroline Herschel forever transformed our view of the heavens.Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded groundbreaking work, including ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Frangipani Hotel

    Fiction

    by Violet Kupersmith ...
    Narrated by Elyse Dinh, VyVy Nguyen, David Lee Huynh, Carolina Do, Trieu Tran, Quyen Ngo ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    An extraordinarily compelling debut—ghost stories that grapple with the legacy of the Vietnam WarA beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is asked to drive a dying young man home to his village. A plump ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Shahnameh

    The Persian Book of Kings

    by Abolqasem Ferdowsi ...
    Narrated by Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Dick Davis ...

    Unabridged

    47 hours 43 min

    The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionDick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • 14th Deadly Sin

    by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro ...
    Series Book 14 - A Women's Murder Club Thriller
    With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her colleagues must risk their lives to save the city and themselves in this Women's Murder Club novel from the world's #1 bestselling author.With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. Things seem to be going well for a change ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Everything Kids' Money Book

    Earn it, save it, and watch it grow!

    by Brette Sember ...
    Series series Everything® Kids Series
    Help your kids understand the value of money and become financially responsible adults with The Everything Kids’ Money Book.From saving for a new bike to investing their allowance online, kids get the “cents” they need with this book. Kids will also learn:-How coins and bills are made-What money can buy—from school supplies to fun and games-How credit cards work-Ways to watch money grow—from ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • 14 Fun Facts About Stars: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #131

    by Jeannie Meekins ...
    Series Book 131 - 15-Minute Books
    We see stars in the night sky as pretty, twinkling objects, but what exactly are they?A lot of the information we find out about stars, helps us understand other objects; pulsars, quasars, galaxies – even the origin of our universe. Here are some fun facts about stars.Do stars twinkle?What are stars made of?Do we know more about the inside of stars or the inside of Earth?Do stars have a life cycle ... Read more

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