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Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

by Alex Mullen, Anna Willi ...

Series series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The patchwork of local languages which existed across the western provinces in the Iron Age was radically reconfigured by the rise of Latin. Latinization, Local Languages and ... Read more

$125.99 USD

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The patchwork of local languages which existed across the western provinces in the Iron Age was radically reconfigured by the rise of Latin. Latinization, Local Languages and
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Curiosities

A Novel

by Anne Fleming ...

Narrated by Anne Fleming, Anna Tierney, Richard Sheridan Willis, Zak Annette, Amanda Parfitt, Scott Turner Schofield ...

Unabridged

10 hours 11 min

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024“Pure delight.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald“Dazzling . . . A riot of cerebral invention.” —Toronto Star**This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur ... Read more

$26.00 USD

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024“Pure delight.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald“Dazzling . . . A riot of cerebral invention.” —Toronto Star**This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur
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A Strange Disappearance (Unabridged)

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by Anna Katharine GREEN ...

Narrated by Helen Willis, Angela Clapper, Steven Record, Lawrence Ford ...

Unabridged

5 hours 35 min

Embark on a gripping journey into the enigmatic world of "A Strange Disappearance (Unabridged)" by Anna Katharine Green, a masterful tale of mystery and suspense. Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century New York, this audiobook unravels the perplexing disappearance of a young woman named Amy Arden. As the plot thickens, renowned detective Ebenezer Gryce must navigate a labyrinth of secrets, ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Embark on a gripping journey into the enigmatic world of "A Strange Disappearance (Unabridged)" by Anna Katharine Green, a masterful tale of mystery and suspense. Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century New York, this audiobook unravels the perplexing disappearance of a young woman named Amy Arden. As the plot thickens, renowned detective Ebenezer Gryce must navigate a labyrinth of secrets,
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Unaccompanied Young Migrants

Identity, Care and Justice

by Sandra M Gifford, Hilde Liden, Luis Enrique González-Araiza, Louise Drammeh, Sheona York, Kim Robinson, Lucy Williams, Richard Warren ...

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen?Through international studies and ... Read more

$38.69 USD

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen?Through international studies and
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Moved by Mary

The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World

by Willy Jansen ...

The Virgin Mary continues to attract devotees to her images and shrines. In Moved by Mary, anthropologists, geographers and historians explore how people and groups around the world identify and join with Mary in their struggle against social injustice, and how others mobilize Mary to impose ideas and rules and legitimize acts of violence and suppression. Far from an outdated practice of little ... Read more

$65.99 USD

The Virgin Mary continues to attract devotees to her images and shrines. In Moved by Mary, anthropologists, geographers and historians explore how people and groups around the world identify and join with Mary in their struggle against social injustice, and how others mobilize Mary to impose ideas and rules and legitimize acts of violence and suppression. Far from an outdated practice of little
... Read more
Words From the Cafe

An Anthology

by Willie J. Pugh ...

This is an exciting and unusual collection of stories and poems written by people in recovery. Every Friday at Seattle's Recovery Café, in downtown Seattle, people struggling with addiction, mental illness, trauma, and homelessness came together in Anna Bálint's Safe Place Writing Circle to write and share writing. There they discovered their own unique voices and ways of shaping language to write ... Read more

$4.99 USD

This is an exciting and unusual collection of stories and poems written by people in recovery. Every Friday at Seattle's Recovery Café, in downtown Seattle, people struggling with addiction, mental illness, trauma, and homelessness came together in Anna Bálint's Safe Place Writing Circle to write and share writing. There they discovered their own unique voices and ways of shaping language to write
... Read more
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All the Dead Lie Down

by Mary Willis Walker ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

When crime reporter Molly Cates’s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly’s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation–and a rush of old wounds–with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly’s search for the ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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When crime reporter Molly Cates’s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly’s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation–and a rush of old wounds–with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly’s search for the
... Read more

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Under the Beetle's Cellar

by Mary Willis Walker ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

11 hours 35 min

The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding. That novel established Walker as an author with "the kind of clout that sets publishers' mouths watering" (The Philadelphia
... Read more

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The Red Scream

by Mary Willis Walker ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates has just published her first book, describing the blood-curdling exploits of serial killer Louie Bronk. Now on death row, Louie's sentence is about to be carried out. Molly will be there as a witness, and she wants to write about it--the final coda to Louie's story. But suddenly, she's being strongly discouraged by her boss at the Lone Star Monthly and by ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates has just published her first book, describing the blood-curdling exploits of serial killer Louie Bronk. Now on death row, Louie's sentence is about to be carried out. Molly will be there as a witness, and she wants to write about it--the final coda to Louie's story. But suddenly, she's being strongly discouraged by her boss at the Lone Star Monthly and by
... Read more

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A Fine Red Rain

by Stuart M. Kaminsky ...

Narrated by John McLain ...

Series series Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries
Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning "Ed McBain of Mother Russia" (Kirkus Reviews).Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow—until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk climbs the statue of ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Tension runs high as a Moscow cop investigates murder under the big top—from the Edgar Award–winning "Ed McBain of Mother Russia" (Kirkus Reviews).Porfiry Rostnikov was one of the top detectives in Moscow—until he crossed the KGB. On the orders of the secret service, this bulldog cop is busted down to the minor crimes unit, where his talents are utterly wasted. When a drunk climbs the statue of
... Read more

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Black Knight in Red Square

by Stuart M. Kaminsky ...

Series series Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries
Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" (The Washington Post Book World).The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one American, one Japanese, and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" (The Washington Post Book World).The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one American, one Japanese, and
... Read more

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The Dog Who Bit a Policeman

by Stuart M. Kaminsky ...

Series series Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

Moscow's gone to the dogs in the "imaginative" Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop (The New York Times Book Review).With packs of stray wild canines roaming Moscow, it was inevitable that enterprising criminals would find a way to get rich. As dogfighting became big business, the Mafia got involved, and venues upgraded from alleys and garages to private arenas with ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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Moscow's gone to the dogs in the "imaginative" Edgar Award–winning crime series about a conscientious Russian cop (The New York Times Book Review).With packs of stray wild canines roaming Moscow, it was inevitable that enterprising criminals would find a way to get rich. As dogfighting became big business, the Mafia got involved, and venues upgraded from alleys and garages to private arenas with
... Read more

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