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  • The Secrets of our DNA

    How Genetics Has Changed the World

    by Turi King ...
    From an award-winning expert on DNA, discover the myth-busting book that opens a dazzling window into the world of modern genetics.The 1984 discovery of DNA fingerprinting marked the start of a whole new era in the study of our DNA. Genetics has become a key to unlocking criminal and immigration cases, essential to our food safety, to the protection of threatened wildlife and to resolving ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Surnames, DNA, and Family History

    by George Redmonds, Turi King, David Hey ...
    This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago. In ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    The Secrets of our DNA

    How Genetics Has Changed the World

    by Turi King ...
    Narrated by Turi King ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 50 min

    From an award-winning expert on DNA, discover the myth-busting book that opens a dazzling window into the world of modern genetics.The 1984 discovery of DNA fingerprinting marked the start of a whole new era in the study of our DNA. Genetics has become a key to unlocking criminal and immigration cases, essential to our food safety, to the protection of threatened wildlife and to resolving ... Read more

    $38.00 CAD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Response

    A Story of Fire and Flood in Britain’s New World of Extremes

    by David Shukman ...
    Narrated by David Shukman ...

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    9 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Wildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they can drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals.This sounds like fiction but it isn’t. The climate is turning far more hostile than many realise, and tragedies are now happening on our doorstep. Even in Britain, one of the richest nations in the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Mega Builds

    The Sunday Times Bestseller - Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World

    by Fred Mills ...
    Narrated by Fred Mills ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Fred gives ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Trafalgar

    by Paul O'Keeffe ...
    Narrated by Paul O'Keefe ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historianAt or about 1.15 in the afternoon of 21 October 1805, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was struck by a 22-gramme, 15-millimetre French musket round fired down from the mizzen top of the Redoutable, a distance of some 70 feet to HMS ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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    Those Who Are About to Die

    A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator

    by Harry Sidebottom ...
    Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    **ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien world of the Roman Amphitheatre both accessible and comprehensible." —Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History**What did a gladiator feel when he stepped out onto the sand of the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    Bloody Dangerous

    Fifty missions over Germany: The last first-hand account from WW2

    by Colin Bell ...
    Narrated by Colin Bell, James Warrior ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    A thrilling memoir from one of the last living WW2 pilots, published to mark his 105th birthday'Colin Bell DFC is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' JAMES HOLLAND'A terrific read, combining laugh-out-loud reminiscences with jaw-dropping accounts of aerial warfare' JOHN NICHOL'Stirring' The Times'Brimming with quiet courage and patriotism' Daily Mail<stro... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    A Plot to Die For

    Murder is blooming in Abbeyford

    by Ardal O'Hanlon ...
    Narrated by Ardal O'Hanlon ...
    Series series A Blooming Murder Mystery

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    READ BY ARDAL O'HANLON.‘This is delicate storytelling with wit and charm: quite wonderful’ DAILY MAILThe first in a warm, witty and wonderfully twisty new mystery series from much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian Ardal O’Hanlon - perfect for fans of Graham Norton, Richard Osman and Death in Paradise**.**When celebrity gardener Finn O’Leary returns to his hometown of Abbeyford, Ireland... ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    Self-Help from the Middle Ages

    What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living

    by Peter Jones ...
    Narrated by Peter Jones ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    **In this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today"One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read."–Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England**Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at a university in Siberia when his third icy winter there plunged him into a dark place. Luckily, he knew ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

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  • Plague of Corruption

    Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science

    by Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively ...
    Series series Children’s Health Defense
    #1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller—Over 200,000 Copies Sold!“Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic duo fighting corruption in science.” —Ben Garrison, America’s #1 political satiristDr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys’ club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD