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  • Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times‘A flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Psychiatrist, Screams: An Abbot Peter Mystery

    by Simon Parke ...
    ‘Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening’s end. And while everyone saw the murderer and knew the murderer, no one knew their name.’Henry House, an Elizabethan manor, is now occupied by Mind Gains, a new therapy centre in Stormhaven. But a Halloween party for staff and clients ends in gruesome and bloody murder. Once again, retired monk Abbot Peter ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A (Very) Public School Murder

    by Simon Parke ...
    ‘Excellence by the Sea’ is the strap line in Stormhaven Towers school’s publicity, but when, at the end of the summer term, the hard-drinking, hard-smoking new Headmaster, Jamie King, is found dead at the bottom of the town’s famous white cliffs, this excellence comes under savage scrutiny. Suicide is assumed at first - King wouldn’t be the first tormented soul to hit those unforgiving rocks. But ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Indecent Death of a Madam

    An Abbot Peter Mystery

    by Simon Parke ...
    The Stormhaven Etiquette Society, a secretive affair, unafraid to name and shame those who transgressModel Services, the town’s only brothel, a discreet but busy presence in Church StreetBybuckle Asylum, a desolate shell on the seafront that housed over seven hundred mental patients prior to ‘care in the community’What brings these three together is a cold-blooded execution that both shocks and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Learn Korean via Simple Short Stories

    Language learning with parallel texts

    by Simon Armstrong ...
    Narrated by Ji-Young Park, Emily Potter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 5 min

    Learn Korean through simple, engaging short stories designed to make the language feel natural and approachable. In this course, each story is presented three times to reinforce understanding and retention. First, you’ll hear the story entirely in Korean, allowing you to absorb the rhythm, sounds, and flow of the language. Next, you’ll hear a clear English translation, helping you connect meaning ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Director's Cut: An Abbot Peter Mystery

    by Simon Parke ...
    When the curtains of the Bell Theatre open for the second half of Mother’s Day, a new play commissioned for the venue’s thirtieth anniversary, the lifeless body of theatre director Hermione Bysshe-Urquhart MBE is revealed. Within the startled audience sit retired monk Abbot Peter and his guest for the evening, Detective Inspector Tamsin Shah. Tamsin and Peter undertake a new murder investigation ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal

    From Paper to Gold

    by Simon Park ...
    Series series Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
    Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them, however, from persisting in their craft. Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Enneagram: A Private Session With the Worlds Greatest Psychologist

    by Simon Parke ...
    The Enneagram is a time-honoured way of understanding personality types and human behavior. It is both ancient and modern. Developed over 1500 years by Sufi and Christian mystics, it was revised and extensively expanded in the 20th century by the disciplines and insights of Western psychology.It identifies nine types of personality, nine ways of being, describes how they interrelate and is widely ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Vicar, Crucified: An Abbot Peter Mystery

    by Simon Parke ...
    Abbot Peter has recently swapped his failing leadership of a remote monastery in the Sinai desert for retirement in the bleak and stormy English seaside town of Stormhaven. When the charismatic local vicar is discovered dead – crucified, naked, to a cross on the vestry wall – Abbot Peter is invited to act as a Special Witness investigator.He is assigned to work alongside Detective Inspector Tamsin ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth

    by Simon Parke, Jesus of Nazareth ...
    Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Many admire his spiritual teachings; some go further and claim him as the messiah while a few deny he ever existed at all. But everyone has an opinion about this obscure preacher who lived his brief life in one of the less significant regions of the Roman Empire; and who in being crucified died the traditional death for criminals and trouble-makers. Jesus lived in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Forsaking the Family

    by Simon Parke ...
    We all grow up somewhere. No two families are the same, but everyone experiences them in some way. What everyone doesn't do, however, is consider the effect of these experiences on the person they become. This lack of awareness can have significant consequences in their future relationships in the world.Forsaking the family, full of story and illustration, starts by considering the surprising ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pippa's Progress

    by Simon Parke ...
    Times have changed since John Bunyan wrote his classic Pilgrim’s Progress, telling of Pilgrim’s journey up Hill Difficult and through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City. Yet people in their millions still seek meaning in their lives and speak of journeying towards a goal. Everyone on earth seeks a heaven. This is the story of the journey of Pippa, a 21st-century Pilgrim. Simon Parke’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus