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Frederick Douglass

Prophet of Freedom

by David W. Blight ...

Narrated by Prentice Onayemi ...

Unabridged

36 hours 57 min

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man ... Read more

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* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History *“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man
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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 3

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky, At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, No Longer Human or Confessions of a Faulty Man by Osamu Dazai

by Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, H.P. Lovecraft, Mary W. Shelley, Osamu Dazai, Jack London, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David J Miles, Peter Coates, Paul Gibson, Simon Jackson, Sharon Plummer, Michael Goodrick, Emma Gibson, Richard Williams ...

Unabridged

41 hours 55 min

This book contains the following works:Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the PendulumWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamFrances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret GardenFyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRobert Louis Stevenson: Treasure IslandH. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of MadnessJack London: The Call of the WildMary W. She... ... Read more

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This book contains the following works:Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the PendulumWilliam Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's DreamFrances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret GardenFyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous ManRobert Louis Stevenson: Treasure IslandH. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of MadnessJack London: The Call of the WildMary W. She...
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The Free World

Art and Thought in the Cold War

by Louis Menand ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

34 hours 55 min

"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile MagazineIn his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize**–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.**The Cold War was not ... Read more

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"Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare...this audiobook is a monumental work." -- AudioFile MagazineIn his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize**–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.**The Cold War was not
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The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin ...

Narrated by Michael David Axtell ...

Unabridged

46 hours 11 min

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important
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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas ...

Narrated by David Clarke ...

Unabridged

53 hours 59 min

Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his ... Read more

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Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle ...

Narrated by David Clarke ...

Unabridged

67 hours 54 min

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) ... Read more

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning)
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Pure Voice Audio Bible - New International Reader's Version, NIrV: Complete Bible

Single-voice recording of the Holy Bible

by Zondervan ...

Narrated by David Heath ...

Unabridged

80 hours 28 min

More than a Bible you listen to, the Pure Voice Audio Bible - New International Reader's Version: Complete Bible is an experience that helps you enter into God's Word ... so God's Word can enter into you. Featuring a single voice, this unabridged, digitally produced NIrV audio brings Scripture to life one vivid recording at a time.New: Now includes an interactive table of contents with books and ... Read more

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More than a Bible you listen to, the Pure Voice Audio Bible - New International Reader's Version: Complete Bible is an experience that helps you enter into God's Word ... so God's Word can enter into you. Featuring a single voice, this unabridged, digitally produced NIrV audio brings Scripture to life one vivid recording at a time.New: Now includes an interactive table of contents with books and
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Invisible Bridge, The

The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

by Rick Perlstein ...

Narrated by David de Vries ...

Unabridged

39 hours

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president
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Lincoln

by David Herbert Donald ...

Narrated by Dick Estell ...

Unabridged

30 hours 21 min

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of We Are Lincoln Men comes a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.“A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance” (The Chicago Tribune), Lincoln brilliantly depicts Abraham Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of We Are Lincoln Men comes a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.“A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance” (The Chicago Tribune), Lincoln brilliantly depicts Abraham Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and
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Reformations

The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

by Carlos M. N. Eire ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

39 hours 42 min

This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Read more

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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in
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The Kremlin Letters

Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

Unabridged

33 hours 25 min

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical ... Read more

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A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical
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The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams

The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek

by Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman ...

Narrated by Aaron Landon, Alex Hyde-White, David Stifel, Eric Martin, James Cronin, Jason Olazabal, John Rocha, Julie McKay, Martin Hillier, Nate Aldrich, Steve Marvel, Susan Hanfield ...

Unabridged

34 hours 27 min

This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the ultimate guide to a television classic.The Fifty-Year Mission: Volume Two is an incisive, no-holds ... Read more

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This is the true story behind the making of a television legend. There have been many books written about Star Trek, but never with the unprecedented access, insight and candor of authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. Having covered the franchise for over three decades, they’ve assembled the ultimate guide to a television classic.The Fifty-Year Mission: Volume Two is an incisive, no-holds
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