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The first twenty-five years of Churchill's life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry charges, skirmishes on the North West Frontier, escape from a Boer prison camp and a visit to the Cuban War. In what is acknowledged as his best book, his zest for life bursts right out of the narrative. Yet this is more than just an adventure story. It is an elegiac portrayal of the halcyon period of Ed...
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Infused with Carrie Fisher's trademark incisive wit and following the success of Wishful Drinking, another rollicking ride into her crazy life
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A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives. In this compelling work, Jeffrey Rosen recounts the history of the Court through the personal and philosophical rivalries on the bench that transformed the law and, by extension, our lives. Rosen brings to life the perennial conflict that ha
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Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human.
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""I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad."" Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation's unofficial ...
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"She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she's no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhib
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"New York Times"-bestselling author Dean and the son of conservative icon Barry Goldwater come together to show why Goldwater matters. Unabridged. 2 MP3 CDs.
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This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual. A nobleman, public official, and winegrower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them essays, meaning ?attempts? or ?tries.? He put whatever was in his head into them: his tastes in wine and ...
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A Life Decoded is the triumphant story of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. In this riveting and inspiring account, J. Craig Venter tells of the unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome, a tale that involves as much politics as science. It is one of the key scientific chronicles of our lifetime, as told by the man who beat the odds to make it happe
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This recording, which is carefully read word-for-word by masterful narrator Stephen Johnston, features the entire NAB without background music. - Enjoy hearing the Bible while on the go, at home, in personal devotions or group Bible study. - The New American Bible is the standard translation authorized for use in the Catholic Church in the United States. It is the first edition of the Catholic Scr...
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A fierce and controversial Civil War officer, the unschooled but brilliant Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of his rise from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army.
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These audio biographies chart the lives and work of some of rock's most memorable acts, from their early days to their rise to fame. Each CD includes comments and interview material by the artist and is accompanied by an eight-page illustrated booklet and foldout poster.
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Paul Cartledge, one of the worlds foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander the Great, cutting through the myths to show why he was such a great leader.
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Told with grace and masterly detail, Crawford's unprecedented and engrossing personal look at Thomas Jefferson in his final years is sure to change the way audiences think about this true American icon. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.
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For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock 'n' roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end-one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. H
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Eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and reports of military officers form this riveting narrative of William Clarke Quantrill, a quiet Ohio schoolteacher who became the most notorious guerrilla of the Civil War.
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This new addition to Wesley Clark's Great Generals series features the principal architect of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II and his relevance today
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Here is Stalin the supreme dictator in the making, a darkly turbulent, charismatic young man fancying himself a poet and a priest and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life.
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In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of the Kabul Beauty School.
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"Featuring an interview with Willie Mays"--Container.
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From the New York Times bestselling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illuminating examination of the complex racial issues surrounding presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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A former CIA director offers a riveting glimpse into the complicated relationship between U.S. Presidents and their chiefs of intelligence.In never before told anecdotes, Admiral Turner takes the reader inside the White House, into closed door meetings and tense discussions, showing the workings of the US government with a kind of understanding that comes from being an intimate of many high-level
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Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr. Gary Loveman are building a bigger and better Las Vegas and how their influence is spreading beyond the city's borders.
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Continuing the story of the veterinary practice in Darrowby in the Yorkshire Dales, this book contains the familiar characters of James Herriot and his family, Siegfried Farnon and his brother Tristan as well as Mrs Pumphrey and Tricki Woo.
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In his number-one bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Di...
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In this dazzling debut, a bright, young historian presents the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful woman's overwhelming determination to be a star. Unabridged. 2 MP3 CDs.
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Royal insider Lady Colin Campbell combines true insight with true compassion to bring us the most intimate and revealing portrait of the Princess of Wales that we will ever have.
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The immortalized Band of Brothers suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commanders, and only he was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war's end. This is their story, told in his words for the first time.
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This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career spanned the entire Apollo program, from the tragic fire that killed three of his comrades on Apollo 1, through the moment when he left man's last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17. This is the inside story of how space was conquered, and...
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Laura Claridge has written the first biography of the high society woman who became an advocate for the middle class and immigrant Americans. Today, almost a half century after the writers death, the name Emily Post remains a touchstone of twenty-first century Americans.
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In this constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty.
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Anyone who cares about an addict will find hope in Sheff's forthright, one-of-a-kind account of his struggle to overcome his son's methamphetamine habit.
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Lynda Bellingham is much-loved as a regular on ITV's Loose Woman and for her recent role as the lead in Calendar Girls stage play. And of course she first became the nation's favourite during her 16 years on our screens as the 'Oxo Mum'. But life hasn't always been easy for Lynda and with remarkable honesty.
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In The Jesuit and the Skull, bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts how the discovery of Peking Man by, among others, a young Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit and the Skull b
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What Sun Tzu's Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim's life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale--the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all too familiar for today's black community. By telling the story of one man...
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These audio biographies chart the lives and work of some of rock's most memorable acts, from their early days to their rise to fame. Each CD includes comments and interview material by the artist and is accompanied by an eight-page illustrated booklet and foldout poster.
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Presents a collection of prose that brings together the author's writing over the years. This work is one amongst two recordings that feature selected material from "Untold Stories". This story contains a family memoir recalling the marriage of the author's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret.
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In Socrates in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates' life and ideas and explains their influence on mans struggle to understand his existence in the world.
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Winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize, Foreman's bestselling "The Duchess" is a penetrating, marvelously written account of Lady Georgiana Spencer.
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Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world traveler, spy, this suave creator of the Cold Wars archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.
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This audio CD contains all the Greek words found in the vocabulary sections of Basics of Biblical Greek by William D. Mounce, presented in the order of the lessons.
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Born in 1725 to Italian and Spanish parentage, Giacomo Casanova lived a long and exciting life. As a scholar and an adventurer, he traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia associating with rulers and Kings. For a time he was in the service of the army and he became a great political stirrer. But he vacillated between fortune and misfortune, often resorting to gaming and loafing about. But Casa
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