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Ice Diaries

An Antarctic Memoir

by Jean McNeil ...

Narrated by Bridget Wareham ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the ... Read more

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A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the
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Alchemists’ Council

by Cynthea Masson ...

Narrated by Bridget Wareham ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Alchemists’ Council
Unabridged

13 hours 11 min

As a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy’s complexities, but the more she learns, the more she ... Read more

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As a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its very existence. Jaden navigates alchemy’s complexities, but the more she learns, the more she
... Read more

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Alchemists' Council (Booktrack Edition)

by Cynthea Masson ...

Narrated by Bridget Wareham ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Alchemists' Council
Unabridged

13 hours 13 min

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!As a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!As a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, threatening its
... Read more
Audiobook

Ice Diaries (Booktrack Edition)

An Antarctic Memoir

by Jean McNeil ...

Narrated by Bridget Wareham ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is
... Read more
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The Dhow House

by Jean McNeil ...

Narrated by Kate Hewlett ...

Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous ... Read more

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous
... Read more

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The Alchemists’ Council

by Cynthea Masson ...

Series Book 1 - The Alchemists’ Council
The first in a phenomenal new fantasy trilogy, where the power of words can change the fate of all dimensionsAs a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

The first in a phenomenal new fantasy trilogy, where the power of words can change the fate of all dimensionsAs a new Initiate with the Alchemists’ Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch. Bees are disappearing from the pages of the ancient manuscripts in Council dimension and from the outside world,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Dhow House

by Jean McNeil ...

A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous
... Read more

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Day for Night

A Novel

by Jean McNeil ...

From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as “stunningly written,” and a Guardian Best Book of 2018Set in the throes of Brexit-era London, Day for Night is an unflinching exploration of desire, gender, and history, in which a married filmmaking duo seeks to tell the tragic story of 1940s German Jewish intellectual ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the author of Ice Diaries, winner of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival Grand Prize, praised by the New York Times as “stunningly written,” and a Guardian Best Book of 2018Set in the throes of Brexit-era London, Day for Night is an unflinching exploration of desire, gender, and history, in which a married filmmaking duo seeks to tell the tragic story of 1940s German Jewish intellectual
... Read more
Ice Diaries

An Antarctic Memoir

by Jean McNeil ...

What do we stand to lose in a world without ice?A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

What do we stand to lose in a world without ice?A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of
... Read more

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Latitudes

Encounters with a Changing Planet

by Jean McNeil ...

2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist (Environmental Literature)"McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff." Publishers Weekly"Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change." Foreword Reviews"Full of... ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist (Environmental Literature)"McNeil's deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It's captivating stuff." Publishers Weekly"Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait of the natural world and a plaintive reflection on the destruction of climate change." Foreword Reviews"Full of...
... Read more
The Flaw in the Stone

The Alchemists’ Council, Book 2

by Cynthea Masson ...

Series Book 2 - The Alchemists’ Council
Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists’ CouncilThe anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson’s series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring secreted libraries with Dragonsblood pulsing through her young veins, accidentally discovers a 5th-Council manuscript with a long-forgotten alchemical formula whose ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists’ CouncilThe anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson’s series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring secreted libraries with Dragonsblood pulsing through her young veins, accidentally discovers a 5th-Council manuscript with a long-forgotten alchemical formula whose
... Read more
The Amber Garden

The Alchemists’ Council, Book 3

by Cynthea Masson ...

Series Book 3 - The Alchemists’ Council
The stunning and beautifully crafted conclusion to The Alchemists’ Council seriesIn Book Three of The Alchemists’ Council trilogy, eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and Council dimension itself begins to disintegrate. Amidst this fallout, the Amber ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The stunning and beautifully crafted conclusion to The Alchemists’ Council seriesIn Book Three of The Alchemists’ Council trilogy, eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and Council dimension itself begins to disintegrate. Amidst this fallout, the Amber
... Read more