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  • Lucky Strike

    by Pat Wilson, Kris Wood ...
    Lucky Strike is a light-hearted laugh-out-loud mystery with a cast of characters who epitomize life Down East. Eric Spratt, a conservative accountant from Toronto, is forced to flee to the remote Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia and there, become Charles Trenchant, reclusive writer. He knows that anonymity and discretion are the only weapons he has to protect himself from the retribution of the Mafia ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carolina Bluegrass

    A High Lonesome History

    by Gail Wilson-Giarratano ...
    In the Carolinas, bluegrass is more than music--it's a way of life. The origins of the genre date back to the earliest frontier settlements, and banjo music appeared at dances in Greenville, South Carolina, as early as 1780. The genre was essential to socialization in the textile mills of both states. Old-time music of the Blue Ridge Mountains heavily influenced the sound. Bill Monroe, considered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    by Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unexpected Destiny

    A Story of Albinism, Adoption, Cross-Cultural Living, and a Search for Identity

    by Pat Estes, Suzanne Kamara ...
    Who is Suzanne?A premature newborn whose mother has just diedA delightful toddler who doesnt know a strangerA worried student who avoids wearing thick glasses to escape negative peer commentsA loving preadolescent who cares very much for her companionsA confused teenager in crisis over identityEver since starting school, Suzanne has felt different from all her acquaintances. She claims to be mad ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Power of the Social Brain

    Teaching, Learning, and Interdependent Thinking

    by Arthur L. Costa, Pat Wilson O'Leary ...
    “As the authors point out, as a society and in our institutions, we spend almost no time learning how to think, learn, and work together. Thinking with others is its own skill and it is high time people thought about how to optimize this skill. This is exactly what this book seeks to do.”  —Matthew D. Lieberman, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Building on Country

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  • The Eyes

    by David Mitchell ...
    Michael Conrad, a successful author and divorcee, believes himself content with his lonely life as a professor of creative writing. But after seeing a young woman with the most remarkable eyes, he begins down a path of deception and lust, one that revives events from his past he has fought hard to forget. ... Read more

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  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors

    Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

    by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee ...
    This is the book that established emotional intelligence” in the business lexicon-and made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities, business ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Allen Fox ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beyond Intelligence

    Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids

    by Dr. Dona Matthews, Dr. Joanne Foster ...
    From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition, as we’ve been led to believe? Are some children just destined to fall behind? Dona Matthews and Joanne ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Time They Met

    A Novel

    by Anita Shreve ...
    From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated ... Read more

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