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Naomi J. Williams · Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

[Read by Christopher Lane]The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Perouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown...
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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Lawrence O'Donnell · Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it todayThe 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O'Donnell's...
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The Mystery of the Missing Lion: A Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers

Alexander McCall Smith · Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

A detective in the wild.   Precious Ramotswe gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day in camp, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion Teddy is an actor-lion who came with a film crew. When Teddy escapes, Precious and her resourceful...
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The collected stories of Lydia Davis. Vol. 14

Lydia Davis; Recorded Books LLC. · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

A treasure of American letters, Lydia Davis pens fiction that defies classification. By turns funny, poignant, absurd, and everything in between, the short stories found in her collected works are marvels of the form.
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The Burning Room

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audio CD

Bosch and rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Beginning with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveal...
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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

Chris Bohjalian · Findaway World LLC
Format: Audio CD

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents...
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Under Magnolia

Francis Mayes · Books On Tape
Format: Audio CD

From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies--a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel--to her escape to a new life in California, Frances Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships...
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The Spy: A novel

Paulo Coelho · Random House Audio Publishing Group
Format: Audiobook

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First...
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Visionary Women

Andrea Barnet · Ecco
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover

Four influential women we thought we knew well - Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters - and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women - linked not by friendship...
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America's founding fathers

Allen C Guelzo · Teaching Company ; Prince Frederick
Format: Audiobook

Meet the men who shaped the dramatic story of the U.S. Constitution.
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Paper : paging through history

Mark Kurlansky · Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Kurlansky offers a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.
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Classic Radio's Greatest Shows, Vol. 2

William Bendix · Black Eye Entertainment and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

Here are twelve of the greatest radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, along with the stars who made them great. You'll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll as Amos and Andy, Jim and Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee and Molly, William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life...
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Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter's Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy

Elizabeth Rynecki · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

The everyday lives of the Polish-Jewish community depicted in Moshe Rynecki's paintings simply blended into the background of Elizabeth Rynecki's life when she was growing up. But the art transformed from familiar to extraordinary in her eyes after her grandfather, Moshe's son George,...
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Go Ask Ali: Half-baked Advice and Free Lemonade; Library Edition

Alexandra Wentworth · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics, and fellow comedians alike. Entertainment Weekly included Happily Ali After on its Must List and hailed it as hilarious...Her glass isn't half full-it's 'empty and cracked,...
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Crimson Lake: A Novel

Candice Fox · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

"Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place - this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!" -- Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series.Crimson Lake by Sydney-based,...
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