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Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
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Michael Gambon and Penelope Wilton star as Guy Burgess and Coral Browne in this BBC Radio Full-cast drama based on a real-life chance encounter
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The first single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades.
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Written in his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation.
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Providing a fresh view of America via generations of two adventurous families, as well as information about conducting genealogical research, Mrs. Cheney entertains and enlightens.
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From the "Call to Conscience" collection, "The Birth of a New Nation" ignited the modern civil rights movement. Introduction written and read by Rev Leon H Sullivan.
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Featuring Never-Before-Collected, Original Recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard.
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Based on the life experiences of his great-great-great-uncle and his extensive research, Scott Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier in The Captured and offers one of the few ...
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A quizzical look at the life and legend of celebrated poet Dylan Thomas, through the critical eyes of the infamous Chelsea Hotel...
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A fascinating and illuminating audio portrait of the life and career of one of Britain's greatest leaders, recounted by those who knew him and in his own words from the BBC archive.
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On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
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After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped gro...
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In Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Dostoevsky's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place...
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How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.
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How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagniation sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality.
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet...
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Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith
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Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
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Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage and determination changed the world.
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Here are the life stories of nine famous people who have left their mark upon the world.
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Cokie Roberts brings to life the women who raised our nation.
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Anthony Storr investigates the status of Freud's legacy today.
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In García Márquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of García Márquez 's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand ...
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Go one-on-one with great minds of medicine in an audio program that enlightens, informs, and ultimately, empowers you.
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Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, Antinia Fraser unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
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Why do some people age in failing health and sadness while others grow old with vitality and joy? Bringing the traditions of vibrantly healthy cultures together with the latest breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals the secrets for living a fulfilling life and aging with wisdom,...
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From the bestselling author of Hitler's Pope comes a gripping, in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences-then and now.
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Throughout history, great generals have deceived, outflanked, and triumphed over superior armies commanded by conventional thinkers. Bevin Alexander tells how Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Ston...
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In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks.
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727) achieved momentous breakthroughs in three areas: mathematics (the calculus), a theory of colors, and gravitational attraction. His first insights in each of these areas occ...
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot.
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot.
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"He'd rope the devil and tie him down—if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of "Buffalo Jones," one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive t...
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The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus’s final, and perhaps greatest journey.
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In 1909 Elinore Pruitt took a job with a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. This was the beginning of the eloquent letters narrated in this remarkable audiobook.
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Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author
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Beyond the Civil War’s bloody battles was an equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. At the head of the fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the “father of modern American intelligence”
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Suetonius wrote Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled their extraordinary careers, presenting perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
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From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology.
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Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection, and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance. In 1623, William H...
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Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English…
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Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.
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The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
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The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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The million-copy best seller...now a major motion picture, two sisters compete for the greatest prize: the love of a king.
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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An epic work of fiction, the dramatic, intertwining tale of two families struggling to make a place for themselves in an America deeply divided after the Civil War.
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp.
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The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages...
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This collection of personal letters between Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine paints an intimate and occasionally poignant portrait of one of the most successful and long-lasting partnerships.
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An amazing insight into the life of one of histories greatest villains...
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The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
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CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...‘Built Hampton Court, didn`t he?’...
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Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister...
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Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style...
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Titanic is a unique record of one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. Not only does Colonel Gracie describe his own experience on that fateful night but the stories of as many other survivors as he could track down. He also attended a court hearing to obtain the official record....
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Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's most influential historians—confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs.
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity.
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The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history.
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
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The true story of Sue, the greatest Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
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"Sweets, I'm okay. I'm okay. Don't worry... It's not my building. " Kristen didn't know what he was saying. He told her to turn on the television...
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In 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-two comrades were captured by Barbary corsairs. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on Christendom.
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