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  • Audiobook

    Three Gothic Novels

    Frankenstein, Carmilla, Dracula

    by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates, Paul Gibson, Martina Mercer ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 35 min

    Three Gothic Novels is a compelling collection that brings together three quintessential works of Gothic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Each novel delves into the macabre and the supernatural, exploring themes of fear, horror, and the unknown, while also probing deeper questions about humanity, morality, and the boundaries of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Empire Is the Tailor

    Ten Famous Garments and the Conquests That Cut Them

    by Nathan Mercer, Peter Hollins ...
    You got dressed this morning without knowing you were putting on an empire.The jeans gone soft at the knee. The watch on your wrist. The waterproof coat by the door, the ring on your finger, the heels at the back of the closet. Every one of them began as a weapon, a conquest, or a crime — and then quietly moved into your wardrobe.The Empire Is the Tailor tells the true story of ten everyday ... Read more

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  • The Empire Is the Bartender

    Ten Famous Drinks and the Conquests That Poured Them

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Every bottle behind the bar is a relic of a conquest. Not one of them will tell you so.Around 1898, on the hot southeast coast of Cuba, an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox ran an iron works at a place called Daiquirí. He had cheap Cuban rum, limes that grew like weeds, sugar, and, on a good day, ice. He mixed them and named the drink after the town. In June 1898, about sixteen thousand ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dirty Deeds Done Cheap

    by Peter Mercer ...
    Pete Mercer takes us on an unforgettable journey through the dangerous backstreets of 21st-century Iraq, and reveals that the realities of the ongoing War on Terror are not all that they seem.Northern Iraq, 2004 - a lawless region so dangerous the regular coalition armies were reluctant to put their soliders in harm's way. Enter the 'civilian contractors': private armies in all but name. Working ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Empire Is the Decorator

    Ten Everyday Objects and the Empires Hidden in Your Home

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    This morning, before you were fully awake, you held a conquest in your hand. It was just the cup.The white porcelain of your mug was a secret Europe couldn't crack for a thousand years. The shine on your spoon came out of a silver mountain fed with human lives. The red of your table was a felled rainforest, the shell of your buttons was hauled up by divers who never came up right. None of it ... Read more

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  • The Empire Is the Chef

    How Conquest, Trade, and War Cooked the World's Favorite Foods

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Your favorite meal is a war memorial. You just can't taste it.The chili that defines Thai cooking, the tomato at the heart of Italian food, the potato that feeds half of Europe, the coffee that runs the modern world—none of them were "local" until an empire made them so. Behind every beloved national dish is a story of conquest, plunder, slave ships, and spice routes soaked in ambition and blood ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1

    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other

    by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rudyard Kipling, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anton Chekhov, David Herbert Lawrence, James Joyce, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Bunin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, O. Henry, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herbert George Wells, William Wymark Jacobs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Alexander Pushkin, Gilbert Keith Chesterton ...
    Narrated by Paul Gibson, David Miles, Michael Goodrick, Frank Bailey, Sharon Plummer, Jeremy Albret, John Lingua, Mark Bowen, Richard Williams, Joe Phoenix, Mike Hogan, Peter Coates, Martina Mercer-Hall, Jim Girard, Joanne Thompson, David McCord, Judy Kriz, Jason Dettrey ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 8 min

    Contents:Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy HollowEdgar Allan Poe. The Gold BugHerman Melville. Bartleby, the ScrivenerBret Harte. The Luck of Roaring CampLeo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan IlyichFyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-TaviCharlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow WallpaperAnton Chekhov. The Lady with the DogD.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Of... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Athens vs. Sparta

    The War That Broke Classical Greece (The Great Wars of History)

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    What happens when the greatest civilization in the ancient world turns against itself?Athens was wealthy, innovative, and fiercely democratic. Sparta was disciplined, militaristic, and built upon an uncompromising way of life. Together, they had helped save Greece from the Persian Empire.Then they went to war.What began as a rivalry between two powerful city-states grew into a devastating conflict ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michelangelo vs. Leonardo

    The True Story of How the Renaissance's Greatest Grudge Match Happened Under One Roof

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Two titans. One room. A duel history tried to erase.Florence, 1504. The city commissions the two greatest artists alive to paint the facing walls of its grandest hall — at the same time, in full view of each other. Leonardo da Vinci: fifty-two, famous, untouchable. Michelangelo Buonarroti: twenty-nine, and hungry to dethrone him. They already despise each other. Now the Republic has handed them ... Read more

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  • The Cradle of Civilization

    How the World's First Cities Rose and Vanished

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Around six thousand years ago, communities between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers began building some of the world’s earliest cities. In Mesopotamia, systems of writing, law, government, trade, religion, and warfare developed in forms that would influence later civilizations.This book traces the rise and decline of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. It explores the growth of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spartacus War

    Rome and the Slave Revolt, 73-71 BCE

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    The Roman Republic had crushed every enemy it ever faced. It had never faced an enemy like this.In the gladiator schools of Capua, men were bought to bleed and die for the pleasure of the crowd. In 73 BC, seventy of them seized kitchen knives, broke for the gates, and vanished onto the slopes of Vesuvius. Led by a Thracian slave named Spartacus, they would become the deadliest uprising the ancient ... Read more

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  • Weather of Empire

    How Shifting Climate Built Empires, Toppled Dynasties, and Redrew the Map of History

    by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer ...
    Empires don't only fall to armies. They fall to the sky.For ten thousand years, the weather has been the quietest and deadliest force in human history. A few degrees of warming built Rome. A few degrees of cooling starved dynasties, emptied cities, and toppled the mightiest empires on earth — and the people living through it almost never knew why.Weather of Empire, Book Two of The Forces That ... Read more

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