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  • Offshore

    The Dark Side of the Global Economy

    by William Brittain-Catlin ...
    A revealing-and chilling-exposé on the hidden side of global wealth and powerA revealing-and chilling-exposé on the hidden side of global wealth and power Offshore is an unprecedented exploration of perhaps the most mysterious aspect of global society today-and one of the most provocative books about money and business to appear in the decade since the age of globalization began.The world of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe

    Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street

    by Josh Pachter, Otto Penzler, Rebecca Stout Bradbury, Robert Goldsborough, Marvin Kaye, Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Lopresti, Dave Zeltserman, Thomas Narcejac, Marion Mainwaring, Jon L. Breen, O. X. Rusett, Frank Littler, Patrick Butler, Mack Reynolds, Michael Bracken, William Brittain, Joseph Goodrich ...
    Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art of Farming: 20 Classic Books on Farm Practices

    Classic Wisdom on Soil, Crops, Livestock, and Rural Life Across Cultures and Centuries

    by C. L. Goodrich, T. D. Curtis, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Waheenee, Alva Agee, Brittain B. Robinson, William Budington Duryee, William Bevan, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Joseph Harris, Charles Morton Aikman, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett, Daniel Harvey Hill, Edward J. Wickson, Marcus Terentius Varro, Marcus Porcius Cato, Deborah Takiff Smith, Horace Greeley, Edmund Morris, C. C. James, Miss Coulton, James H. Stephenson, James H. Maggard ...
    The Art of Farming gathers twenty classic texts into a capacious history of agricultural thought, moving from ancient husbandry to modern experiments in soils, crops, livestock, orchards, and rural economy. Its pages range across practical manuals, scientific instruction, memoir-like observation, and reformist argument, revealing farming as both technical craft and social art. The inclusion of ... Read more

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  • Defining Womanhood: 14 Classic Books on Women's Roles and Society

    Classic Essays on Suffrage, Marriage, Education, Work, and Women's Autonomy

    by Magdeleine Marx, Marietta Holley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Virginia Tatnall Peacock, Elizabeth Cooper, Charles Sainte-Foi, Max O'Rell, Suzanne La Follette, Alfred Brittain, William Hard, William J. Robinson, Selina A. Bower, Benjamin Griffith Brawley, Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme ...
    Defining Womanhood gathers fourteen classic texts that interrogate women's roles across domestic life, education, sexuality, labor, marriage, citizenship, and social reform. Moving among polemic, social commentary, satire, historical reflection, advice writing, and literary essay, the volume reveals that "womanhood" has never been a fixed category. Its most arresting selections expose the tensions ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Wish Giver

    by Bill Brittain ...
    Narrated by William Dufris ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 57 min

    A Newbery Honor Book that the New York Times called ""an eerie delight,"" The Wish Giver is an engaging literary folk story about those who get what they wish for—whether they want it or not.The people of Coven Tree are no strangers to magic. In fact, the town's very name comes from a gnarled old tree where covens of witches used to gather. Even now, imps and fiends continue to appear, frightening ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The White Mountain

    by Robert Goldsborough ...
    Series Book 18 - The Nero Wolfe Mysteries
    An epicurean mystery featuring the iconic sleuth and his sidekick from the author who "brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life" ( Chicago magazine).A dark cloud has fallen over Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. For days, house chef Fritz Brenner has worn a worried expression, caused by the news from back home in Switzerland that his beloved cousin is missing. When a hired ... Read more

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  • How to Avoid Murder and Other Jobs

    by Kris Bock ...
    Series Book 1 - Tales of a Reluctant Psychic
    When a young geologist takes a job as rock and mineral curator at a quirky New Mexico western history museum, she expects a quiet life surrounded by stones, but not murder.Petra Cloch has a secret: she’s psychic. She can touch an object and sense the lingering emotions of those who held it; fear, rage, grief. Introverted and cautious, she’s avoided friendships, preferring rocks that rarely “talk” ... Read more

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  • Everyone a Stranger

    by Kevin O'Brien ...
    A young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder in this taut, unexpected, masterfully plotted historical thriller set in WWII-era Seattle, where the enemy may be closer than anyone thinks. A crafty, addictive read for fans of The Americans, Anna Pitoniak, Graham Moore, and Elizabeth Wein.**“A page-turning masterclass in storytelling— historically captivating, ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • Muse of Fire

    by Howard Linskey ...
    Series Book 2 - William Shakespeare Mysteries
    The more he gains, the more he has to lose...William Shakespeare is now both a man at court and a man of the theatre. Accepted into Elizabeth I's world, he is trusted to write plays for her. But his position is insecure, based entirely on the queen's whims.When one of the her ladies-in-waiting is found dead, almost everyone suspects it was murder. But who stood to gain by her death? Were the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Two Truths and a Murder

    by Colleen Cambridge ...
    Series Book 5 - A Phyllida Bright Mystery
    Agatha Christie’s trusted housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, has become an amateur sleuth in her own right, using her little grey cells to solve crimes. When a party game leads to murder, she decides to crash the investigation in this latest sparkling mystery from Colleen Cambridge.While her famous employer is happily back home at Mallowan Hall, wrestling with her Belgian detective’s dilemma on board ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

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  • Stalking the Unicorn

    by Mike Resnick ...
    Series series Fables of Tonight
    A beleaguered PI searches for a missing unicorn in a city full of strange creatures in this classic humorous fantasy by a five-time Hugo Award winner.It's New Year's Eve, and private investigator John Justin Mallory is drowning his sorrows in whiskey. His wife ran off with his partner, his business is in bad shape, and the mob is out to get him. He begins to wonder if he's had enough to drink when ... Read more

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  • The Deadly Christmas Wreath

    by Ann Parker ...
    Series Book 8 - Abigail Summers Cozy Mysteries
    Abigail Summers, dressmaker in life, brilliant sleuth in death, is at Mayor Crimble’s Christmas disco when local politician, Edward Beaumont is murdered under the mistletoe.With the help of psychic medium, Hayley, and her police constable husband, they realise a mysterious wreath has all the clues they need.Another case emerges after an anonymous letter is sent to the police warning of a centuries ... Read more

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