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  • Shohei Ohtani

    The Amazing Story of Baseball's Two-Way Japanese Superstar

    by Jay Paris ...
    Rarely does anyone use the term “two-way” in regard to a baseball player. Yet the Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, at the young age of twenty-three, has become the epitome of the term, drawing comparisons to Babe Ruth by baseball pundits everywhere.After being drafted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League with the number-one pick in 2012, the eighteen-year-old Ohtani ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Game of My Life San Diego Chargers

    Memorable Stories of Chargers Football

    by Jay Paris ...
    Series series Game of My Life
    Since their founding in 1959, the San Diego Chargers have tackled their way into the hearts of devoted SoCal football fans. In Game of My Life San Diego Chargers, fans can immerse themselves in all the greatest moments in Chargers history. Die-hard Chargers fan and award-winning sports writer Jay Paris expertly chronicles all of the greatest Charger moments, including the team’s thirteen playoff ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Game of My Life Rams

    Memorable Stories of Rams Football

    by Jay Paris ...
    Series series Game of My Life
    In 1946, the Cleveland Rams, having just won the NFL championship, moved to sunny Los Angeles. The LA Rams experienced immediate success, making four NFL Championship Game appearances in six years—one of which they won. From Los Angeles, the team moved to St. Louis in 1995, only to return to Los Angeles again in 2016.Regardless of the city or the stadium that they’ve called home, the Rams have ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Imagined Human Beings

    A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature

    by Bernard Jay Paris ...
    Series series Literature and Psychoanalysis
    One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A More Perfect Heaven

    How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Narrated by Suzanne Toren, George Guidall, John McDonough, Alma Cuervo, Michael Sullivan, Andy Paris, Peter Jay Fernandez ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 24 min

    With the enthralling style that made Longitude and Galileo's Daughter international best-sellers, Dava Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protege, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists-and triggering a groundswell of opposition. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Galileo's Daughter

    A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Glass Universe

    How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 43 min

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomyA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR'sScience Friday**Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Litera... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Marco Polo

    The Journey That Changed the World

    by John Man ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    In 1271, a young Italian merchant named Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the Middle East and Central Asia to China. His extraordinary reports of his experiences introduced medieval Europe to an exotic new world of emperors and concubines, amazing cities, huge armies, unusual spices and cuisine, and imperial riches. Marco Polo also revealed the wonders of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Art of Dramatic Writing

    Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

    by Lajos Egri ...
    Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.Examining a play from the inside out, Egri ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Seduction and Betrayal

    Women and Literature

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates)The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Art of Fiction

    by Henry James ...
    Classic essay from the collection "Partial Portraits". According to Wikipedia: "Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. But the book also offered treatments of Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev. Perhaps the most important ... Read more

    $1.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Experiment in Criticism

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading," like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook