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Author:
Steve Gillon, Ph.D.
Reader:
Stephen Hoye
Format: 8
CDs
(Unabridged)
Assassination and war, strikes and Elvis, gold in California – these and other events changed us profoundly, and afterward nothing was ever the same again. Hear about ten of the most influential and important events in our past, events that shaped our national identity, culture, and consciousness.
Item #: E5R335
ISBN: 9780739333358
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Author:
Shant Kenderian
Reader:
Jason Collins
Format: 7
CDs
(Unabridged)
Visiting Iraq in 1980, Kendarian's American citizenship didn't help him when Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off Iraq's borders to every man of military age. Including Shant. This memoir of war, starvation, imprisonment – even love – provides insight into a country and culture only hinted at in the headlines. "[He] writes matter-of-factly, with the stoicism of someone who has endured the seemingly unendurable."—Entertainment Weekly
Item #: E8B780
ISBN: 9780786157808
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Authors:
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Reader:
Ron McLarty
Format: 5
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(Abridged)
September 11, 2001 touched us all in a spot that still aches. But as terrifying as it was for us, the situation was worse for the 14,000 people in the Twin Towers. This remarkable reporting feat captures the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Audie Award finalist. Be sure and catch Nicolas Cage in World Trade Center. "Harrowing and heroic... Listeners will find it hard to turn away."—AudioFile
Item #: E5H565
ISBN: 9780060815653
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Author:
Stanley Weintraub
Reader:
Patrick Cullen
Format: 5
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(Unabridged)
The Battle of the Bulge has a reputation as one of the grimmest points of WWII. The devastating December, 1944, conflict between Hitler's forces on one side against Eisenhower's and Patton's involved some of the most intense fighting of the war. This audiobook recreates the dramatic, crucial narrative of ferocious battle. "A particularly poignant saga of men in war."—Booklist
Item #: E7B684
ISBN: 9780786166848
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Author:
Gavin Menzies
Reader:
Simon Vance
Format: 11
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(Unabridged)
After 15 years of in-depth research, this historian makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus. He traces the voyage of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships whose mission was to unite the world in Confucian harmony – and ended up circumnavigating the globe a century before Magellan. "Bold feat of historical imagination... exciting."—Library Journal
Item #: E9B511
ISBN: 9781433255113
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Author:
Gavin Menzies
Reader:
Simon Vance
Format: 8
CDs
(Unabridged)
Italy is famous for the Renaissance. But what spurred that intellectual and artistic revolution? The author of 1421 offers compelling evidence that official ambassadors of the Chinese emperor shared valuable information with Pope Eugenius IV – a gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance. "He knows how to spin a yarn and does so in the manner of a good detective story."—Booklist
Item #: E9B464
ISBN: 9781433214646
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Author:
Charles C. Mann
Reader:
Peter Johnson
Format: 9
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Everyone knows that Columbus brought civilization to the New World – right? No! According to the latest scientific findings, most of what we thought we knew about the Americas before 1492 is wrong, from agriculture and daily life, topopulation centers and land management. "Riveting and fast-paced... masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E8Z978
ISBN: 9781565119789
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Author:
Charles C. Mann
Reader:
Robertson Dean
Format: 14
CDs
(Unabridged)
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together – and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange between Eurasia and the Americas.
Item #: B9R376
ISBN: 9780307913760
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Author/Reader:
David McCullough
David McCullough
Format: 10
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(Unabridged)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores the events, people, and extraordinary moments of courage that led to the founding of our country. An eloquent story of that tumultuous year. Audie Award finalist and winner of a 2005 PublishersWeekly Listen Up award. "[He] narrates in a sonorous, grandfatherly voice, keeping his speech vibrant and engaging, as if he were simply telling a story."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E9P423
ISBN: 9780743544238
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Author:
Adam Goodheart
Reader:
Jonathan Davis
Format: 16
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(Unabridged)
2012 Audie Award Finalist, History. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefield, this account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes. Among them, an acrobatic militia colonel, and explorer's wife, and idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, and a young college professor who would one day become President.
Item #: E9N167
ISBN: 9781455831678
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Author:
Richard Overy
Reader:
Simon Prebble
Format: 3
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(Unabridged)
A leading historian re-creates the final hours of peace in Europe before WWII.
Item #: E3M867
ISBN: 9781400118670
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Author:
Tom Segev
Reader:
James Boles
Format: 22
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Israel's leading historian presents a detailed discussion of 1967's Israel-Arab war: what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed the cultures and the politics of the region. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, as well asgovernment memos and military records, he reconstructs an era of new possibilities and tragic missteps. "Persuasive and engaging."—The New York Times
Item #: E9X494
ISBN: 9781400104949
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Author:
William Weir
Reader:
Rick Turner
Format: 4
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(Abridged)
This military historian considers the clashes that have had the most profound impact on world history – those most vital in shaping our civilization. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancientpast to the present day and span the globe many times over.
Item #: E4X105
ISBN: 9781593161057
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Author:
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Readers:
Grover Gardner, Barbara Rosenblat, Ralph Cosham, Kate Fleming, Jay O. Sanders, Scott Brick, Michael Kramer, and others
Format: 16
Cassettes
(Unabridged)
It is changing the way America thinks about terrorism! The final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States includes the events of 9/11, a history of terrorism, and recommendations to improve security. A finalist for the National Book Award 2004, and an American Library Association Notable.
Item #: E9X809
ISBN: 9781584728085
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Multiple Narrators
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Playaway
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It is changing the way America thinks about terrorism! The final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States includes the events of 9/11, a history of terrorism, and recommendations to improve security. A finalist for the National Book Award 2004, and an American Library Association Notable.
Item #: EP1615
ISBN: 9781598951615
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Author:
David James, Ph.D.
Reader:
Robert Guillaume
Format: 3
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The beginning and ending of life are deeply controversial moral topics with enormous stakes. Most people agree that it is wrong to kill humans. But numerous perplexing questions lurk beyond that agreement. This audiobook asks these hard questions and looks squarely at the possible, and possibly disturbing, answers.
Item #: E3B628
ISBN: 9780786166282
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Author:
John Julius Norwich
Reader:
Michael Page
Format: 15
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The Roman Catholic papacy encompasses 2,000 years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. A noted historian recounts the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. "A rollicking account... Entertaining and deeply researched."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E9M422
ISBN: 9781452604220
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Author:
Will Irwin
Reader:
Michael Prichard
Format: 11
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(Unabridged)
Telling the riveting story of history's largest airborne assault, this audiobook focuses on the British and American forces who, in September 1944, dropped three parachute divisions into German-occupied Holland. "Blood-and-guts combat set pieces; a tense espionage thriller; and a harrowing captivity narrative."—Publishers Weekly
Item #: E9M423
ISBN: 9781400114238
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Editor:
Stanley I. Kutler
Readers:
David Ackroyd, David Dukes, and William Windom
Format: 6
Cassettes
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*Hear the conversations Nixon and his heirs fought from ever being released. Definitively answers the question of whether he was involved in raising hush money and suggests a reason for the Watergate burglary. Reconstructed conversations. "No [portrait] is more compelling than the one that emerges from these grotesque and riveting [tapes.]"—The New York Times
Item #: E6X7153
ISBN: 9780787117153
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Author:
Stephen Tanner
Reader:
Raymond Todd
Format: 12
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The first complete military history of Afghanistan, from ancient times to the war waged by the U.S. after September 11. This mountainous land has served as a vital crossroads for over 2,500 years, for armies as well as clashes between civilizations, including the Greeks, the British, the Muslims, and the Chinese. Tanner presents a closer understanding of the history of these blood-soaked cliffs, boulders, and caves.
Item #: E9B476
ISBN: 9780786194766
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