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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

Brian Kilmeade · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Another history pageturner from the authors of the #1 bestsellers George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy...
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The Unconsoled

Kazuo Ishiguro · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated...
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The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters

Smiley Poswolsky · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Have you ever known that you needed to make a change, but felt unable to do anything about it? Have you ever felt like you aren't where you are supposed to be, and wondered how the people around you managed to find their purpose in life? After realizing that his well-paying, prestigious...
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Paris in the Present Tense

Mark Helprin · Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook

The New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories.Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour -- a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne,...
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Only killers and thieves : a novel

Paul Howarth · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

A gripping and utterly transporting debut, bringing to vivid life a colonial Australia that bears a striking resemblance to the American Wild West in its formative years.
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

Sheryl Sandberg · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl...
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Space Opera

Catherynne M. Valente · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity,...
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Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the worldIn April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future...
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The Black Book

James Patterson · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook

Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister is also on the force, Billy plays it by the book. Alongside Detective Kate Fenton, Billy's tempestuous, adrenaline-junkie partner, there's nothing...
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Fairy Mom and me

Sophie Kinsella · Random House/Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Ella Brook cannot wait to grow up and be a fairy just like her mom, even though her fairy mom's spells often backfire and Ella usually has to come to the rescue with a well-timed suggestion or manual clean-up.
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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · MacMillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

A fate worse than death . . .Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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The American Spirit

David G McCullough · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States - winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others - that reminds us of fundamental American principles.Over the course of his distinguished...
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Small Great Things: A Novel

Jodi Picoult · Books on Tape ; New York
Format: Audiobook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. "[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking...
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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

Ed Boland · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

THE BATTLE FOR ROOM 314
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Winter Storms

Elin Hilderbrand · Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Winter Street Trilogy. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated...
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