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- Chain of
Command
Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers --
and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New
Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the
Abu...
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Charles Hillinger's America: People and Places in All 50
States
“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...
- Chile
and Argentina
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...
- China
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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Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New
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...
- Chronicles
- Volume One
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down.
But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was
looking right at me and nobody else." Bob Dylan's...
- Cider with
Rosie
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.
- Circus Fire,
The
One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in
this powerful re-creation of the great Hartford circus fire, which
took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and
its...
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Civil Disobedience / The Liberator
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...
- Clemente
From the bestselling' author of When Pride Still Mattered... a
sports biography destined to become a modern classic...
- Climb
Harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially
fatal consequences.
- Colombia
and Panama
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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Common Sense/The Declaration of Independence
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 / Social Contract
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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Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, The
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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Confessions of a Video Vixen
The widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the
once-sought-after sex siren.
- Constitutional
Convention, The
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...
- Country
Matters
In this delightful memoir, at once hilarious, canny, and moving,
Michael Korda does for Dutchess County, New York, what Frances
Mayes did for Tuscany. This witty memoir reads like a novel, as
it...
- Course
of Human Events, The
On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human
Events...
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Cult Conversations: Ian Fairbairn
Interview with established actor Ian Fairbairn who appeared in
'Doctor Who' during the 60s/70s
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Dave Barry's Money Secrets - Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on
the Dollar?
Finally, Dave reveals his money secrets!!
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in
Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a
hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his
daily...
- Dickie
Bird: An Evening with
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...
- Different
Drummer, A
A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer
brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three
decades. A former aide and longtime family friend, Michael
Deaver...
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Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to
Independent Woman
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...
- Do-Gooders
Mona Charen has a loyal following from her syndicated newspaper
column (which runs in more than two hundred newspapers) and her
many television and radio appearances. Her first book,
Useful...
- Don't
Kiss Them Goodbye
Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped
find missing people; she can predict future events and sense your
thoughts. These are some of the extraordinary gift that
define...
- Dr
Crippen
Traces the events leading up to and after one of Edwardian London's
most publicized crimes
- Dylan
Thomas: A New Life
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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Eamonn Holmes - This is my Life
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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Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
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...
- Elizabeth
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in
a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
- Elizabeth
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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Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the Legend
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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English Governess at the Siamese Court, The
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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Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks
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.
- Ethiopia
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...
- Explore
Takes you off the map to those few places where true discovery is
still possible. Audio for the armchair traveller.
- Facets of
Ayn Rand
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...
- Faith
of George W. Bush, The
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. His life demonstrates the power of
faith...
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Faith of the American Soldier, The
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 tremendous religious...
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Fall of Che Guevara, The: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and
Diplomats
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...
- Family, The
Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the
Vatican.
- Famous
People in History
Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination,
courage and determination changed the world. From Christopher
Columbus who set off into unknown seas in a small ship in the
15th...
- Famous
People in History 2
Here are the life stories of nine famous people who have left their
mark upon the world. There are men of action such as Alexander the
Great and George Washington, and a woman, Joan of Arc, who...
- Fantastic
Laurence Leamer, author of three Kennedy bestsellers, presents the
definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his rise to fame and
power, and his marriage to Maria Shriver. The life of...
- Federalist
Papers, The
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...
- Fifth
Quarter
Subtitled: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter George
Allen was a top-ranked NFL coach throughout the 1960s and 1970s,
coaching in turn the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles Rams,
and...
- Firehouse
"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other,
they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair
one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying
risks;...
- Flashback
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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