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Jim Thorpe, Original All-American AudioBook

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American by Joseph Bruchac

Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools—strict, cold institutions that d...more

GoodReads: 3.89 of 5 stars - 93 ratings

Book Version: 288 pages

ISBN: 803731183 (ISBN13: 9780803731189)

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Dante AudioBook

Dante by R.W.B. Lewis

Only R.W.B. Lewis-the renowned biographer and author of The City of Florence-could write so insightfully about Dante Alighieri, Florence's famous son.In Dante he traces the life and complex development-emotional, artistic, philosophical-of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for...more

GoodReads: 3.3 of 5 stars - 105 ratings

Book Version: 224 pages

ISBN: 670899097 (ISBN13: 9780670899098)

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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington AudioBook

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout

A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the w...more

GoodReads: 4.03 of 5 stars - 59 ratings

Book Version: 496 pages

ISBN: 1592407498 (ISBN13: 9781592407491)

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The Spy Lover AudioBook

The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport

Thrust into the savagery of the U.S. Civil War, a Chinese immigrant fighting for the Union Army, a nurse turned spy, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined. Johnny Tom, a Chinese immigrant, is promised American citizenship if he serves with the Union Army. But first he must survive the carnage of battles and rampant racism among the r...more

GoodReads: 3.95 of 5 stars - 194 ratings

Book Version: 320 pages

ISBN: 1612183417 (ISBN13: 9781612183411)

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Divine Guidance AudioBook

Divine Guidance: How to Have a Dialogue with God and Your Guardian Angels by Doreen Virtue

The same methods I [teach] my workshop audiences are in this book. These methods have successfully enabled thousands of my workshop attendees to receive Divine messages. My workshop audience members come from every conceivable age group, nationality, education and income level, and race. They are from Protestant, Catholic, New Thought, Mormon, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, agn...more

GoodReads: 4.23 of 5 stars - 131 ratings

Book Version: 288 pages

ISBN: 1580630898 (ISBN13: 9781580630894)

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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning AudioBook

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James E. Lovelock

Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia, the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent “hot state” – and much more quickly than most specialists think. Th...more

GoodReads: 3.81 of 5 stars - 278 ratings

Book Version: 288 pages

ISBN: 465015492 (ISBN13: 9780465015498)

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Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood AudioBook

Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood by Teri Garr

In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood’s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri Garr, star of such classic films asYoung Frankenstein, Oh God!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Mom, andTootsie, for which she received an Academy Aw...more

GoodReads: 3.48 of 5 stars - 210 ratings

Book Version: 256 pages

ISBN: 452285712 (ISBN13: 9780452285712)

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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth AudioBook

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James E. Lovelock

In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matte...more

GoodReads: 3.79 of 5 stars - 595 ratings

Book Version: 176 pages

ISBN: 192862189 (ISBN13: 9780192862181)

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On Michael Jackson AudioBook

On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson’s On Michael Jackson is a lucid and elegant cultural analysis of the rise and fall of the King of Pop.An award-winning cultural critic, Jefferson brings an unexpected compassion as well as her sharp intellect and incomparable insight to Jackson’s 2005 trial for child molestation, startling us with her erudite illumination of a media-drenched circus that we...more

GoodReads: 3.69 of 5 stars - 181 ratings

Book Version: 160 pages

ISBN: 307277658 (ISBN13: 9780307277657)

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Life After Death: The Evidence AudioBook

Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza

Unlike many books about the afterlife, Life after Death makes no appeal to religious faith, divine revelation, or sacred texts. Drawing on some of the most powerful theories and trends in physics, evolutionary biology, science, philosophy, and psychology, D Souza shows why the atheist critique of immortality is irrational and draws the striking conclusion that it is reason...more

GoodReads: 3.61 of 5 stars - 288 ratings

Book Version: 256 pages

ISBN: 1596980990 (ISBN13: 9781596980990)

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Taking Woodstock AudioBook

Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber

"Taking Woodstock" is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorp...more

GoodReads: 3.55 of 5 stars - 391 ratings

Book Version: 215 pages

ISBN: 757002935 (ISBN13: 9780757002939)

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The Vatican Diaries AudioBook

The Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities, and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church by John Thavis

The revealing New York Times bestseller examines the reign of Pope Benedict, the papal conclave process, and the history of one of the world’s oldest and most mysterious institutions For more than twenty-five years John Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. His daily exposure to the power, po...more

GoodReads: 3.64 of 5 stars - 657 ratings

Book Version: 320 pages

ISBN: 670026719 (ISBN13: 9780670026715)

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Zoobiquity AudioBook

Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

New York Times BestsellerA Discover Magazine Best Book of 2012An O, The Oprah Magazine “Summer Reading” PickFinalist, 2013 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BooksDo animals overeat? Get breast cancer? Have fainting spells?Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart fa...more

GoodReads: 4.1 of 5 stars - 782 ratings

Book Version: 416 pages

ISBN: 307477436 (ISBN13: 9780307477439)

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What Maisie Knew AudioBook

What Maisie Knew by Henry James

What Maisie Knew represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world.

GoodReads: 3.46 of 5 stars - 2,233 ratings

Book Version: 275 pages

ISBN: 140432485 (ISBN13: 9780140432480)

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California: A History AudioBook

California: A History by Kevin Starr

California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place at once quintessentially American and utterly uniq...more

GoodReads: 3.58 of 5 stars - 329 ratings

Book Version: 400 pages

ISBN: 081297753X (ISBN13: 9780812977530)

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American Bloomsbury AudioBook

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever

The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Transcendentalists, as these thinkers came to be called, challenged the norms of...more

GoodReads: 3.55 of 5 stars - 790 ratings

Book Version: 240 pages

ISBN: 743264614 (ISBN13: 9780743264617)

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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind AudioBook

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind by Brian M. Fagan

Elixir spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As Brian Fagan shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship toour most essential resource. Fagan's sweeping narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply modern cities, to China, where emperors marshaled armie...more

GoodReads: 3.33 of 5 stars - 64 ratings

Book Version: 416 pages

ISBN: 160819003X (ISBN13: 9781608190034)

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Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate AudioBook

Deep Truth: Igniting the Memory of Our Origin, History, Destiny, and Fate by Gregg Braden

The Crisis:Best-selling author and visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest topics that divide us as families, cultures, and nations—seemingly disparate issues such as war, terrorism, abortion, genocide, poverty, economic collapse, climate change, and nuclear threats—are actually related. They all stem from a worldview based upon the false assumptions of...more

GoodReads: 3.9 of 5 stars - 119 ratings

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ISBN: 1401929192 (ISBN13: 9781401929190)

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African and African-American Religions AudioBook

African and African-American Religions by Victor Anderson

Some thirty to forty percent of Africans practice traditional religions, many of which survive in Western monotheistic faiths. These traditional religions, generally tied to ethnic groups in the sub-Saharan region, are dramatic more than philosophical; oral more than literary; and mythical and magical more than conceptual. Prominent dramatic features include masks, special...more

GoodReads: 3.0 of 5 stars - 2 ratings

Book Version: 0 pages

ISBN: 078616493X (ISBN13: 9780786164936)

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domingo, 16 de fevereiro de 2014