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Hearts Touched by Fire AudioBook

Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Harold Holzer

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s 125,000 readers in on the conversa...more

GoodReads: 4.36 of 5 stars - 14 ratings

Book Version: 1264 pages

ISBN: 679643648 (ISBN13: 9780679643647)

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Glorious War AudioBook

Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer by Thom Hatch

Glorious War, the thrillingand definitive biography ofGeorge Armstrong Custer’s Civil War years, is nothing short of a heart-pounding cavalry charge through the battlefield heroics that thrust the gallant young officer into the national spotlight in the midst of the country’s darkest hours. From West Point to the daring military actions that propelled him to the rank of ge...more

GoodReads: 4.11 of 5 stars - 19 ratings

Book Version: 384 pages

ISBN: 1250028507 (ISBN13: 9781250028501)

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Wolf of the Deep AudioBook

Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox

The electrifying story of Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama, the Confederate raider that destroyed Union ocean shipping and took more prizes than any other raider in naval history.In July, 1862, Semmes received orders to take command of a secret new British-built steam warship, the Alabama. At its helm, he would become the most hated and feared man in ports up and down th...more

GoodReads: 3.92 of 5 stars - 59 ratings

Book Version: 320 pages

ISBN: 1400044294 (ISBN13: 9781400044290)

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Savage Continent AudioBook

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century’s most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebrati...more

GoodReads: 4.12 of 5 stars - 553 ratings

Book Version: 480 pages

ISBN: 1250000203 (ISBN13: 9781250000200)

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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class AudioBook

Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do about It by Thom Hartmann

Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class, a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who's benefiting? And how can we stop it?

GoodReads: 4.19 of 5 stars - 384 ratings

Book Version: 249 pages

ISBN: 1576754634 (ISBN13: 9781576754634)

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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time AudioBook

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong

Muhammad was born in 570 CE, and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is little known. Karen Armstrong's immaculately researched new biography of Muha...more

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Book Version: 256 pages

ISBN: 60598972 (ISBN13: 9780060598976)

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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI AudioBook

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger

The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of...more

GoodReads: 4.45 of 5 stars - 29 ratings

Book Version: 538 pages

ISBN: 307962954 (ISBN13: 9780307962959)

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Our American West: Volume I AudioBook

Our American West: Volume I by Gary McCarthy

In Our American West, Volume I you are sure to discover humor, tragedy and courage in every one of these delightful stories. Gary McCarthy has been writing about the American West for thirty years and these are some of his favorite topics written—not for the expert or scholar —but for all the armchair admirers of things historically western. Some of these exciting subject...more

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Our American West: Volume II AudioBook

Our American West by Gary McCarthy

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Book Version: 128 pages

ISBN: 1475202563 (ISBN13: 9781475202564)

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Our American West: Volume III AudioBook

Our American West: Volume III by Gary McCarthy

Our American West, Volume 3 is filled with western frontier stories you are sure to find entertaining. The Roadrunner -Our Sagebrush Clowns reflects on the speedy and often comical bird of our southwestern deserts. Wild and wicked Calamity Jane lived up to her reputation as the West’s most infamous outlaw woman. If she’d have gone before “Hanging” Judge Parker, Calamity wo...more

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Our American West: Volume IV AudioBook

Our American West by Gary McCarthy

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ISBN: 1475202563 (ISBN13: 9781475202564)

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Slavery And The Coming Of The Civil War, 1831 1861 AudioBook

Slavery And The Coming Of The Civil War, 1831 1861 by Christopher Collier

History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young readers.Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the id...more

GoodReads: 3.0 of 5 stars - 2 ratings

Book Version: 96 pages

ISBN: 761408177 (ISBN13: 9780761408178)

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Clash of Cultures: Prehistory-1638 AudioBook

Clash of Cultures: Prehistory-1638 by Christopher Collier

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Book Version: 96 pages

ISBN: 761404368 (ISBN13: 9780761404361)

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The Civil War: 1860-1865 AudioBook

The Civil War: 1860-1865 by Christopher Collier

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Book Version: 96 pages

ISBN: 761408185 (ISBN13: 9780761408185)

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Andrew Jackson's America: 1824 - 1850 AudioBook

Andrew Jackson's America: 1824 - 1850 (The Drama of American History Series) by James Lincoln Collier

History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the idea...more

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Why Have Kids? AudioBook

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti

If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing, then why do it? And why are anxious new parents flocking to every Tiger Mother and Bébé-raiser for advice on how to raise kids?In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions thr...more

GoodReads: 3.42 of 5 stars - 1,390 ratings

Book Version: 208 pages

ISBN: 547892616 (ISBN13: 9780547892610)

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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps AudioBook

Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser

'...About 70 miles from the Eastern ridge of the State (Nebraska) is a north-south range of low hills known with a wink as the Bohemian Alps. These 'Alps' which in the late 1870s began to be settled by the Czech and German immigrants....run about 40 miles north and south and 5 or 6 miles East and West.....'- from the Preface.

GoodReads: 4.34 of 5 stars - 250 ratings

Book Version: 158 pages

ISBN: 080327811X (ISBN13: 9780803278110)

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Hanns and Rudolf AudioBook

Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding

The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solution to justice.May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second Word War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew...more

GoodReads: 4.3 of 5 stars - 183 ratings

Book Version: 368 pages

ISBN: 1476711844 (ISBN13: 9781476711843)

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City of the Lost AudioBook

City of the Lost by Will Adams

Will Adams has tried his hand at a multitude of careers over the years. Most recently, he worked for a London-based firm of communications consultants, before giving it up to pursue his lifelong dream of writing fiction. His first novel, The Alexander Cipher, is a modern-day quest to find the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. Published in November 2007 by Harper Collins, it is being translated int...more

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Soldiers and Slaves AudioBook

Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble by Roger Cohen

In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment.This is one of the last untold stories...more

GoodReads: 3.9 of 5 stars - 59 ratings

Book Version: 336 pages

ISBN: 385722311 (ISBN13: 9780385722315)

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A Short History of Nearly Everything AudioBook

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has at...more

GoodReads: 4.17 of 5 stars - 109,764 ratings

Book Version: 544 pages

ISBN: 076790818X (ISBN13: 9780767908184)

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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony AudioBook

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan

In Leningrad: Siege and Symphony, Brian Moynahan sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it. Drawing on extensive primary research in archives as well as personal letters and diaries, he vividly tells the story of the cruelties heaped by the twin monsters of t...more

GoodReads: 3.0 of 5 stars - 2 ratings

Book Version: 496 pages

ISBN: 857383000 (ISBN13: 9780857383006)

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life AudioBook

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy t...more

GoodReads: 3.93 of 5 stars - 33,302 ratings

Book Version: 497 pages

ISBN: 767919386 (ISBN13: 9780767919388)

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Jungle Soldier AudioBook

Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman by Brian Moynahan

In the annals of guerrila warfare, two names stand out: TE Lawrence ('of Arabia') and Freddy Spencer Chapman - the subject of this enjoyable biography. Between the two, Chapman is the lesser known one--an unsung hero known only to the few Malayan WW2 history buff. As a kid, I read Chapman's classic, 'The Jungle is Neutral' (mainly because it was lying on my family bookshelf) and was greatly thrilled to find out that a lot of the action happened around my hometown in Pahang. Reading this biograph...more

GoodReads: 3.75 of 5 stars - 48 ratings

Book Version: 352 pages

ISBN: 1849160767 (ISBN13: 9781849160766)

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The Boys in the Boat AudioBook

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention o...more

GoodReads: 4.38 of 5 stars - 4,082 ratings

Book Version: 416 pages

ISBN: 067002581X (ISBN13: 9780670025817)

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Girls Like Us AudioBook

Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller

A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of o...more

GoodReads: 3.69 of 5 stars - 2,576 ratings

Book Version: 584 pages

ISBN: 743491475 (ISBN13: 9780743491471)

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