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In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, non-democratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them. In exposing the inner workings of a "fear...
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With arguments both stirring and sensible, she reminds us that if Hillary should succeed America and the World would be changed forever and for the better.
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Central Europe's ancient civilizations have long been dominated by empires: The Roman Empire, the Habsburg Empire (based in Austria) and more recently, the Soviet Communist. But the decline of comm...
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"I'm afraid they're going to get me," said Frank Wood, publisher of the Green Bay News-Chronicle, in a phone call to colleague Richard McCord. Wood could not hold out much longer against a devouring giant, the Gannett Company. McCord, as a publisher of the Santa Fe Reporter, had successfully...
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In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq.
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"Charles Hillinger's America is not the crisis-ridden, argumentative, highly politicized country that we read about on the front pages. It's much more neighborly. . . it's much truer to our real lives, too. If some historian of the future wants to know what we Americans were like in the second...
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Sheriff David Reichert --- "My twenty-year quest to capture the Green River killer."
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A quizzical look at the life and legend of celebrated poet Dylan Thomas, through the critical eyes of the infamous Chelsea Hotel...
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Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face-to-face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth.
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The "southern cone" of South America has a vibrant yet checkered history. Argentina in 1920 was a productive and wealthy nation, yet by the 1980s was reduced to virtual third world status. Chile ha...
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Since Marco Polo, the fabled markets of China have drawn the west like a magnet. This ancient culture has been colonized by foreign powers, buffeted by war and revolution - yet China remains one of...
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Susan Richards went to rescue one horse and ended up bringing home an extraordinary replacement, Lay Me Down, a broken down race horse that would teach her how to embrace the joys of life.
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Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris struggling to recover from wartime devastation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt...
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Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences.
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A fascinating and illuminating audio portrait of the life and career of one of Britain's greatest leaders, recounted by those who knew him and in his own words from the BBC archive.
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Laurie Lee's autobiographical tale of his childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley has become a modern classic. This BBC Radio 4 production was recorded on location in Gloucestershire.
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Stewart O'Nan has fashioned both an incomparably gripping narrative and a profound, measured glimpse into the extremes of human behavior under duress.
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Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience-the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau's concept is based on the belief that no law should comma...
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Actress Clare Corbett discusses her work as a reader for audiobooks.
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When Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, accepted a job at the local iron mine in 1975, she hadn't considered that she would be entering a male-dominated society that would fiercely resist the...
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From the bestselling' author of When Pride Still Mattered... a sports biography destined to become a modern classic...
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Harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.
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Colombia in the 1980s became known for its role in the illegal drug trade, and for political instability and violence caused by this problem. But much of this is a recent development in Colombia's ...
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Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism.
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Common Sense examines how Americans defended the right to resist unjust laws, and how this right of resistance was transformed into a right of revolution. It examines Thomas Paine's views on the di...
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Communist Manifesto examines the theory and goals expounded by Marx. Marx argues that history flows inevitably toward a social revolution, which will result in a society without economic classes. T...
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After ending his life's story in 1757, Franklin was America's advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was America's wartime ambassador to France. Edited from F...
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The widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once-sought-after sex siren.
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In 1783, America emerged from a long and bitter war for Independence. The 13 colonies were now 13 sovereign states, bound together by the Articles of Confederation. After years of war, men like Tho...
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On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
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Crime Beat presents stories as fascinating as they are chilling, from the serial killer of young models who cuts a swath across the country, masquerades as two people until his hoax finally breaks...
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Re-live the rise of the Batman era, from the very beginnings to the modern age and in so doing understand how this creation has taken on a life of its own.
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Finally, Dave reveals his money secrets!!
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Actor David Rintoul discusses his work as a reader for audiobooks.
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KGB honey traps in Russia; inside stories on Number 10 and the Foreign Office; and of course life behind the scenes with Blair and George W. Bush ...
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The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation.
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After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped gro...
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One unforgettable year in Charles Osgood's childhood in Baltimore during WWII.
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Sharansky warns that cultural, ethnic, and religious identity is being threatened by valueless cosmopolitanism and the misguided notion that identity is inimical to democratic freedoms.
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The great man we meet here displays his mother's steely resolve and vindictive temper, his father's keen mastery of language, and his own unique gift of deciding.
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Dickie Bird is not only the world's most famous cricket umpire, he is also one of the most entertaining public speakers of our time...
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A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three decades.
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Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Mafia and her courageous escape. A view of mob life largely unexplored by film and lite...
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In this follow-up to her bestseller Useful Idiots, Mona Charen shows why the liberals are wrong on today's hottest domestic issues.
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Reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster finds himself adopting various stray dogs, from a beagle abandoned in a dog run to a pit bull at a truck stop. The dogs offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes in New York City after 9/11, in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and during his...
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If you have ever questioned whether there is an afterlife, this audiobook will help you see that there is a living energy beyond death.
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In Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Dostoevsky's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place...
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Simon Jones, who starred in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy takes a look back at the events and happenings of the life of Douglas Adams....
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Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's most publicized crimes
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In this authoritative, fresh, and compelling account of the extraordinary life and enduring work of Dylan Thomas�author of Under Milk Wood, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Adventures in the Skin Trad...
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Known for his honesty, his humour and his no-nonsense talking, Eamonn Holmes has become a housewives' favourite and one of the nation's most-loved television and radio presenters...
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Listeners will experience Amelia Earhart not just as a pilot but also as an educator, social worker, lecturer, businesswoman, and tireless promoter of women's rights, a remarkably energetic and enterprising woman who succeeded in life beyond her wildest dreams while keeping sight of her beginnings.
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Paul Israel's ambitious biography brightens the unexamined corners of a singularly influential and triumphant career in science. Thomas Edison, history's most prolific inventor who received an astounding 1,093 U.S. patents, comes to life. Armed with unprecedented access to Edison's workshop...
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This volume brings out the great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation with the American colonies, his involvement in cutting back the domestic power of George III, and his resi...
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"There are sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that the reviewer is deeply tempted to quote."� New York Times Book Review
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How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.
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How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagniation sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.
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An intimate and moving story about a dedicated elementary teacher and the lesson of 'a lifetime of learning' from a dying student.
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet...
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Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeth's life to the person she really is�and how she evolved from a child star to a woman in her own right.
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That voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls�Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture. "His appearance on Ed Sullivan ripped the 1950s in half," writes the author. Keogh examines...
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The adventurous young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference. She became a near legend in the country, but marriage to a warlord had disastrous consequences.
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In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong.
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In this outstanding examination of the country's most troubling problem, a conservative Republican shows how and why America is losing the war on drugs. Author Dirk Eldredge demonstates how the drug war has led only to new crises. He makes the case for an alternative strategy: tightly controlled...
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court, written in 1870, recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as transla...
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A collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks and often in the worst possible conditions.
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This rich culture of East Africa�known in the Bible as Abyssinia�claims descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Under a Marxist regime, however, this ancient people has suffered from fami...
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Fun and frolics with the award-winning broadcaster!
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In a career spanning more than 35 years, John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs Editor, has reported from more than 100 different countries and 30 war zones.
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In Every Mother is a Daughter, Perri and Sheila tell their mother-daughter story, looking honestly at their own lives and at each other, with different perspectives, unique voices, and powerful ins...
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Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller.
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The first known navigators were the Phoenicians, who 3000 years ago sailed the Mediterranean and beyond from their base near modern Lebanon. Justinian's mission to China in the 6th century A.D., th...
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
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Facets of Ayn Rand is based on forty-eight hours of interviews with Mary Ann and Charles Sures, longtime personal friends of Ayn Rand. Their recollections make vividly real the Ayn Rand they knew s...
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A true story of family tragedy and reconciliation.
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An unvarnished account of the personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.
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The first audiobook to explore the religious ideals that drive the policies and politics of Bush as president and that have privately shaped Bush as a man.
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Since men and women in battle not only face the prospect of their own deaths but also must fashion a moral rationale for killing, the battlefield is often a place of religious transformations.
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Henry Butterfield Ryan's dramatic account of the last days of Che Guevara is sure to appeal to scholars and students of United States foreign policy, Latin American history, military history, and t...
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Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
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Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world.
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Here are the life stories of nine famous people who have left their mark upon the world.
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Preeminent Kennedy biographer Laurence Leamer looks at the amazing and colorful life of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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A delight, superb. An engaging, tender and uplifting story of a family and its struggle to eke a living from the land...
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Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod.
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The U.S. Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. It was to become law only if it was ratified by 9 of the 13 states. New York was a key state, but it conta...
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Lillian M�ller shares her secrets for health and beauty.
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The poignant memoir of the only daughter of NFL coach George Allen.
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Finders Keepers is not only a gripping true-life thriller, it is the remarkable tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary dilemma, and the fascinating reactions -
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Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking and human rights activist, shocked the world when she committed suicide in 2004 at age thirty-six. Long-time friend Paula Kamen fills in the gaps.
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Firehouse is journalism-as-history at its best. The story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in apocalyptic day, it is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time.
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Nearly five decades of theatrical anecdotes as David Barry {Frankie Abbott in 'Please, Sir!) recalls working with the likes of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh...
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The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many. This ...
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When artist Tim Lefens walked into the care center for people with cerebral palsy, he had a life-changing experience. Because of his passion and determination, he and his student-artists emerged to...
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Football's greatest players and managers tell the hidden stories of their lives in this fascinating collection. Featuring Alex Ferguson, Gazza, Geoff Hurst, Nobby Stiles and many more...
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Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation.
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First it is the tale of four men who, in 1743, were marooned in the Arctic for six years with supplies for only one day, and secondly, it is a contemporary author's search to retrace their steps an...
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