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- Author:Leo TolstoySummary:
- Author:Tolstoy, Leo NikoleyevichSummary:
An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time
- Author:Galeano, EduardoSummary:
- Author:Brautigan, RichardSummary:
In its first time in audio, Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture, an exploration both of land and mind.
- Author:George, NegusSummary:
One of Australia's most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues which affect us. George takes on climate change, poverty, war, politics and more.
- Author:Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
From the accession of the thrillingly unappealing James VI & I to his hapless heir, Charles I, to the ruthless Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ackroyd tells the story of the turbulent seventeenth century, in which England suffered through...
- Author:Andre BrinkSummary:
- Author:Heinberg, RichardSummary:
Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique...
- Author:COLLIER, CatrinSummary:
Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once...
- Author:Hirst, J. B.Summary:
Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by author and historian John Hirst. Together they form a multi-faceted portrait of Australia as a nation, with it's own political culture, its own character and style, and...
- Author:Easterbrook, GreggSummary:
Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling,...
- Author:Lucht, BernieSummary:
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer...
- Author:Diamond, Jared M.Summary:
- Author:Martel, MarcelSummary:
To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent breed - and in 1827 they are a thorn in the side of the vicious mill owner in the valley below.
- Author:GARDNER, FrankSummary:
BLOOD and SAND is the story of a man who was left for dead but - and against all odds - survived. And not only did Frank Gardner survive but, drawing on his journalistic calling, he has given us an extraordinary, terrifying account of...
- Author:MATTHEWS, CaroleSummary:
Single mum and superwoman Sally Freeman wants abetter life for herself and her son Charlie. But it's not going to be easy when their home is on a run-down Liverpool council estate. Just as Sally's mission to improve their...
- Author:Traig, JenniferSummary:
Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be socially acceptable to abandon your children? Moving from ancient Rome to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America...
- Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:
a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in...
- Author:HOSSEINI, KhaledSummary:
This is the story of an unusual and lifelong friendship between two Afghan women, spanning from the idyllic mid 1950s to post-September 11 Kabul. Bound by tragedy and fate, by political circumstance and custom, the two women live...