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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

Linda Gordon · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

By legitimizing bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands reexamination today. Boasting 4 to 6 million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged our preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through...
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China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Kathy Flower · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

The spectacular Beijing Olympics of 2008 signaled China's arrival as a superpower on the world stage. The global economic crisis that followed in 2008-9 saw it become banker to the West, poised to eclipse the United States. This new edition of Kathy Flower's bestselling Culture...
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Longing

Mary Balogh · Recorded Books, 2015.
Format: Audiobook on CD

The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Sian Jones abandoned her heritage to live in a stalwart coal mining community in South Wales. Empowered by their cause, she's engaged to be married to the leader of a revolutionary movement that is bracing itself against the tyranny of English...
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories

Tom Hanks · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves...
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The Half-Drowned King : A Novel

Linnea Hartsuyker · Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

Centuries ago, in a blood-soaked land ruled by legendary gods and warring men, a prophecy foretold of a high king who would come to reign over all of the north.Ragnvald Eysteinsson, the son and grandson of kings, grew up believing that he would one day take his dead father's place as chief...
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The mother of black Hollywood : a memoir

Jenifer Lewis · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

Jenifer Lewis keeps it real in this provocative and touching memoir by a midwestern girl with a dream whose journey from poverty to Hollywood will move, shock, and inspire listeners. Told in the audacious voice her fans adore, Lewis describes a road to fame made treacherous by dysfunction...
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The long cosmos

Terry Pratchett · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

It's 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, and in the Long Earth the new Next posthuman society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late 60s, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers. An adventure that turns into a disaster. Alone and facing...
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Fates and furies : a novel

Lauren Groff · Penguin Audio
Pages: n/a
Format: Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE"Lauren Groff is a writer...
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Wriggle and Roar

Julia Donaldson · Pan Macmillan
Pages: 32
Format: Audiobook

Whenever I'm tired of being me I swing around like a chimpanzee. Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile, and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verses jump off the page...
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The Kept

James Scott · Blackstone Audio
Pages: 10
Format: Audio CD

[Read by Kate Udall]In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen...
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The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People

Judith Orloff · Sounds True
Format: Audiobook

What Is the Difference Between Having Empathy and Being an Empath? "Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms...
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

A man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.
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Don't Look Back

Gregg Hurwitz · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she’s long dreamed of―a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing...
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The Color of Fear

Marcia Muller · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Audiobook

Private investigator Sharon McCone returns in the newest mystery in Marcia Muller's New York Times bestselling series.
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