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  • Slacks and Calluses

    Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

    by Constance Bowman ...
    In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Charms for the Easy Life

    by Kaye Gibbons ...
    Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Devil and Daniel Webster

    by Stephen Vincent Benet ...
    IT’S A STORY THEY TELL IN THE BORDER COUNTRY, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Dan’l Webster’s dead-or, at least, they buried him. But every time there’s a thunder storm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l Webster-Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin ... Read more

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  • Monster Shoes

    by Emma Laybourn ...
    Jack's mum insists he has new school shoes and the only ones they can find are horrid, black lace-ups. They are so stiff, noisy and uncomfortable that Jack suspects they must be monster shoes, especially when they seem to kick his classmates for no reason and make the football go in completely the wrong direction at playtime. Jack desperately works on a plan to get rid of them, until he discovers, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Go-Getter

    by Peter B. Kyne ...
    "The Go-Getter" by Peter B. Kyne is a moving parable of determination and entrepreneurial spirit that has inspired many readers since it was originally published in 1921. This short little book is the story of Bill Peck, a veteran of WWI, who convinces Cappy Ricks, the founder of a logging and lumber company, to give him a job opportunity. "The Go-Getter" is the story of perseverance in the face ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Black Saturday

    Whittlesea Tanker 3

    by Michael Billing ...
    An unauthorised eye witness account from a first responder Fire-fighter to Australia's worst natural disaster the Black Saturday Bush-fires.Thie book details the crews actions of Whittlesea Tanker 3 during Black Saturday and the weeks after.  ... Read more

    $3.57 USD

  • The Steam-Driven Boy

    by John Sladek ...
    John Sladek's first short story collection. Sladek wrote some of the best science fiction stories of the 20th-century and his parodies of famous s/f authors are uproariously "right-on". His talent went under-appreciated except by a few devoted followers, even though his satirical writing was on a par with the early Kurt Vonnegut. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Man From The South

    by Roald Dahl ...
    THE MAN FROM THE SOUTHIt was getting on toward six o'clock so I thought I'd buy myself a beer and go out and sit in a deck chair by the swimming pool and have a little evening sun.I went to the bar and got the beer and carried it outside and wandered down the garden toward the pool.It was a fine garden with lawns and beds of azaleas and tall coconut palms, and the wind was blowing s... ... Read more

    $4.80 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tale of Pigling Bland

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    Series series Beatrix Potter Originals
    This original, authorised version has been lovingly recreated electronically for the first time, with reproductions of Potter's unmistakeable artwork optimised for use on colour devices such as the iPad.The Tale of Pigling Bland was published the year the Beatrix Potter was married and settled down to farming life for good. She had already been keeping pigs and she sketched them for this story, ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thief of Time

    by Capt. SP Meek ...
    The teller turned to the stacked pile of bills. They were gone! And no one had been near! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Ghost of Mahogany Lane

    by LThornhill Crane ...
    When I moved to a tiny little house in a sleepy South Georgia town I never thought I would be sharing it with someone or some thing from the other side. It was just your ordinary, run of the mill three bedroom house in a quiet neighborhood. Houses like mine had mold and cockroaches not ghosts. I was a skeptic and didn't believe in ghosts. But when my dog started seeing things that weren't there ... Read more

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  • The Devil and Daniel Webster

    by Stephen Vincent Benét ...
    Based on real events from the life of a prominent American lawyer, Daniel Webster, this short story explores themes of patriotism, slavery, and Hell as the fictionalised Webster attempts to save a man’s soul from the Devil.First published in 1936, The Devil and Daniel Webster was written by Stephen Vincent Benét. An allegorical exploration of what it means to be American, the short story plays on ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus