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Don't Know Much About the Civil War : Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...(Paperback))

Don't Know Much About the Civil War : Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...(Paperback))

by Kenneth C. Davis

Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? was the Gettysburg Address written on the back of an envelope? Where did the Underground Railroad run? Did General Sherman really say, "War is Hell"? If you can't answer these questions, you're not alone. Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling... (more)

The Art Thief: A Novel

by Noah Charney

Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Genevi - ve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's greatest treasure, White-on-White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich. London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the... (more)

Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World

Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan

With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919 , Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most significant moments in modern history. In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first... (more)

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)

The Incredible Journey

by Sheila Burnford

Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great... (more)

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

Edward Bear acquires a new name, Winnie-the-Pooh, and a new life with the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Woods.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered... (more)

Lucky Man: A Memoir

by Michael J. Fox

The remarkable memoir of film star Michael J. Fox and his first ten years living with Parkinson's Disease. Diagnosed in 1991, Michael eventually lost his balance, his grace, his spontaneity, and the ability to read the morning newspaper. Even so, he realizes that, in fact, he is a lucky man.

A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl

A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl

by Mariane Pearl

For five weeks the world waited for news about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan....And then came the broadcast of his shocking murder. The complete account of his abduction, the intense effort to rescue him, and the aftermath are told here -- in astonishing detail, and with courage and insight -- by his surviving wife, Mariane. A Mighty Heart is the... (more)

We Of The Never-never

by Jeanie "Mrs Aeneas" Gunn

Enough to Make a Cat Laugh

by Deric Longden

Throughout the 1990s Deric Longden has shared his life with a blind novelist, Aileen Armitage, and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a very painful business. She hardly ever trips over them these days, but they are always in danger of being mistaken for a cardigan, or inadvertently locked in the cellar. Ever since Thermal... (more)

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an... (more)

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: My Twelve Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: My Twelve Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict

by Alice Cooper

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons—with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since. Today he and his band... (more)

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Late Roman Empire, Revised Edition (7 CDs)

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Late Roman Empire, Revised Edition (7 CDs)

by Susan Wise Bauer

The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is "liquid gold" (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as "timeless and intelligent" ( Publishers Weekly ). These spirited readings of the first volume in Bauer's history series bring to life the stories and records of human history from ancient times to the present. Written in an engaging,... (more)

Star Wars, Episode IV - A New Hope (The Original Radio Drama)

Star Wars, Episode IV - A New Hope (The Original Radio Drama)

by Lucasfilm Ltd., National Public Radio

When this series was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981, it generated the largest response in the network's history: 50,000 letters and phone calls in a single week, an audience of 750,000 per episode, and a subsequent 40-percent jump in NPR listenership. This landmark production, perhaps the most ambitious radio project ever attempted, began when Star Wars creator George Lucas donated the story... (more)

Gregory's Shadow (Live Oak Readalong)

by Don Freeman

Gregory is a shy groundhog, and having his friend Shadow close by makes him feel brave. But one day Gregory and Shadow go outside to look for food, and they get separated. Scared and lonely, they search and search for one another. To make matters worse, tomorrow is Groundhog Day, and everyone will be waiting to see if Gregory and his shadow leave their home together. Will the two friends find each other in time... (more)

The Ladies of Letters Collection (BBC Radio Collection)

The Ladies of Letters Collection (BBC Radio Collection)

by Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield

This is a collection of all four volumes of "Ladies of Letters" - the collected correspondence between pensioners Vera Small and Irene Spencer. Their regular missives concern petty rivalries, pithy observations and details of their friends and family.

Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles

Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles

by Massey, Geoff, Howard Emerick

The Sayings of Confucius (Asiapac Comic Series)Confucius

The Sayings of Confucius (Asiapac Comic Series)

by Confucius

The Bunnicula Collection: Books 1-3 (Unabridged)

The Bunnicula Collection: Books 1-3 (Unabridged)

by James Howe, Deborah Howe

Each story in the popular and critically acclaimed series has been read by the talented actor, Victor Garber. Now fans who can't get enough of the vampire bunny, Bunnicula, will have something new to add to their collection.

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