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Custodians of Wonder

Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

by Eliot Stein ...

Named one of the best travel books of the year by National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Afar"Eliot Stein’s quietly powerful new book celebrates the kind of singular, site-specific expertise that’s endangered by globalization and technology...smart, genial and occasionally astonishing...it’s a country mile from the news cycle, a winning collection of thoroughly un-current events." -SF ChronicleA ... Read more

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Named one of the best travel books of the year by National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Afar"Eliot Stein’s quietly powerful new book celebrates the kind of singular, site-specific expertise that’s endangered by globalization and technology...smart, genial and occasionally astonishing...it’s a country mile from the news cycle, a winning collection of thoroughly un-current events." -SF ChronicleA
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OCTOBER’S GAME

by Eliot Stein ...

In October’s Game, the fate of baseball itself hangs in the balance as rising star John McCoy and battle-scarred veteran Bo Rodgers face the ultimate test in Game 7 of the World Series. What begins as a thrilling showdown between talent and experience quickly spirals into a gripping journey of ambition, identity, and redemption. As egos clash, careers teeter, and secrets unravel, the game on the ... Read more

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In October’s Game, the fate of baseball itself hangs in the balance as rising star John McCoy and battle-scarred veteran Bo Rodgers face the ultimate test in Game 7 of the World Series. What begins as a thrilling showdown between talent and experience quickly spirals into a gripping journey of ambition, identity, and redemption. As egos clash, careers teeter, and secrets unravel, the game on the
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Sardinia: Alghero & the North Footprint Focus Guide: Includes Costa Smerelda

by Eliot Stein ...

Series series Footprint Focus
Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sardinia: Alghero and the North will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:• Essentials section with tips on getting there and around• Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat• Highlights map of the region ... Read more

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Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sardinia: Alghero and the North will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:• Essentials section with tips on getting there and around• Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat• Highlights map of the region
... Read more
Sardinia: Cagliari & the South Footprint Focus Guide: Includes Oristano & the Costa Verde

by Eliot Stein ...

Series series Footprint Focus
Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sardinia: Cagliari and the South will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:• Essentials section with tips on getting there and around• Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat• Highlights map of the region ... Read more

$3.75 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sardinia: Cagliari and the South will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features:• Essentials section with tips on getting there and around• Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat• Highlights map of the region
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Custodians of Wonder

Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

by Eliot Stein ...

Narrated by Danny Hughes ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in ... Read more

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Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in
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Great American Poets

New Hampshire, Tender Buttons, Select Poems, and Selected Poems

by Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson ...

These four timeless poetry collections showcase the pioneering work of some of America's most beloved and influential poets.New Hampshire by Robert Frost: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection features some of Frost's most enduring works, all inspired by the cold and wild New Hampshire winter. Along with the title poem, this volume includes "Fire and Ice," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Stopping ... Read more

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These four timeless poetry collections showcase the pioneering work of some of America's most beloved and influential poets.New Hampshire by Robert Frost: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection features some of Frost's most enduring works, all inspired by the cold and wild New Hampshire winter. Along with the title poem, this volume includes "Fire and Ice," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Stopping
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Night Magic

Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

by Leigh Ann Henion ...

Narrated by Leigh Ann Henion ...

Unabridged

8 hours 51 min

From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light.In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step ... Read more

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From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light.In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step
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The Book-Makers

A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

by Adam Smyth ...

Narrated by Adam Smyth ...

Unabridged

12 hours 12 min

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —**Financial TimesAn Economist Book of the YearBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade bo... ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —**Financial TimesAn Economist Book of the YearBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade bo...
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The Missing Thread

A Women's History of the Ancient World

by Daisy Dunn ...

Narrated by Daisy Dunn, Jenny Funnell ...

Unabridged

17 hours 12 min

A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of historyAround four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and ... Read more

$27.50 USD

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A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of historyAround four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and
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Atlas Obscura: Wild Life

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders

by Cara Giaimo, Joshua Foer, Atlas Obscura ...

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field guide–it's an adventure. * National Bestseller * Named a Best New Book by BookRiot, New York Post and more * Named a Best White Elephant Gift ... Read more

$18.99 USD

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other—a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field guide–it's an adventure. * National Bestseller * Named a Best New Book by BookRiot, New York Post and more * Named a Best White Elephant Gift
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Original Sins

The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of AmericanRacism

by Eve L. Ewing ...

Narrated by Eve L. Ewing, Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander, ... Read more

$24.00 USD

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**Why don’t our schools work? Eve L. Ewing tackles this question from a new angle: What if they’re actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America’s classrooms were designed to do the opposite: to maintain the nation’s inequalities. It’s a task at which they excel.“This book will transform the way you see this country.”—Michelle Alexander,
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Night Magic

Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark

by Leigh Ann Henion ...

From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light.In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light.In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step
... Read more

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