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A Deeper Blue
- The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
- Written by: Robert Earl Hardy
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’ - and America’s - greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour.
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A Deeper Blue
- The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-27
- Language: English
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Why Intelligence Fails
- Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series)
- Written by: Robert L. Jervis
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the belief that the Shah in Iran was secure and stable in 1978, and the claim that Iraq had active WMD programs in 2002.
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Why Intelligence Fails
- Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series)
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-24
- Language: English
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Al Capone and His American Boys
- Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
- Written by: William J. Helmer
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler - wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" - set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband, Gus.
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Al Capone and His American Boys
- Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-20
- Language: English
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
- Written by: Ralph F. Voss
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Ralph F. Voss examines Capote and In Cold Blood from many perspectives, not only as the crowning achievement of Capote's career, but also as a story in itself, focusing on Capote's artfully composed text, his extravagant claims for it as reportage, and its larger status in American popular culture.
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-16
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln
- A Life
- Written by: Michael Burlingame
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life.
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Abraham Lincoln
- A Life
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-29
- Language: English
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Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story
- American Popular Music Series, Book 6
- Written by: Bobbie Malone, Bill C. Malone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving in Nashville in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time independent songwriters in that musical city. In the course of their long careers, they created classic hits that pushed the boundaries of country music into the realms of pop and rock. Songs like “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Love Hurts,” and “Rocky Top” inspired young musicians everywhere. Here, for the first time, is a complete biography of Nashville’s power songwriting couple.
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Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story
- American Popular Music Series, Book 6
- Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
- Series: American Popular Music
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2020-07-13
- Language: English
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Written by: Barbara Barnes Sims
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters: its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there exists another story, told by Barbara Barnes Sims. In the male-dominated workforce of the 1950s, 24-year-old Sims found herself thriving in the demanding roles of publicist and sales promotion coordinator at Sun Records.
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The Next Elvis
- Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-29
- Language: English
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The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
- Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
- Written by: Steven Riess
- Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, author Steven Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday.
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The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
- Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
- Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-09
- Language: English
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Life with a Superhero
- Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
- Written by: Kathryn U. Hulings
- Narrated by: Heidi Paek
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Over 20 years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby - Michael - who is, in fact, very much alive and now 22 years-old. He also has Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised.
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Life with a Superhero
- Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
- Narrated by: Heidi Paek
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-11
- Language: English
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Clarence Bernard Henry
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of American, African American, popular, and world music traditions.
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Quincy Jones: His Life in Music
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Charles Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-15
- Language: English
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Philip R. Ratcliffe
- Narrated by: Steve Hart
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Mississippi John Hurt provides this legendary creator's life story for the first time. Biographer Philip Ratcliffe traces Hurt's roots to the moment his mother Mary Jane McCain and his father Isom Hurt were freed from slavery. Ratcliffe details Hurt's musical influences and the origins of his style and repertoire. The author also relates numerous stories from the time of his success, drawing on published sources and many hours of interviews with people who knew Hurt well.
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Steve Hart
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-09
- Language: English
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Rural Free
- A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living
- Written by: Rachel Peden
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance. Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues.
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Rural Free
- A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living
- Narrated by: Caroline Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-02
- Language: English
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
- Missouri Biography Series
- Written by: John E. Miller
- Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels and describes her 63 years of living in Mansfield, Missouri.
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
- Missouri Biography Series
- Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-04
- Language: English
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Patton's War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 1
- American Military Experience, Book 1
- Written by: Kevin M. Hymel
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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During his life, George S. Patton Jr. starred as an Olympic athlete in the 1912 Stockholm games, chased down Mexican bandits, and led tanks into battle in World War I. But he is best remembered for his exploits in World War II. Patton’s War follows the general from the beaches of Morocco, to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent. In highly engaging fashion, Kevin Hymel uncovers new facts, and challenges long-held beliefs about Patton. Through extensive research of soldiers’ memoirs and interviews, Hymel adds a new dimension.
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Patton's War: An American General’s Combat Leadership, Volume 1
- American Military Experience, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Series: American Military Experience
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-02
- Language: English
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South of Somewhere
- Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy (At Table)
- Written by: Robert V. Camuto
- Narrated by: Alan Reinhardt
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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New York Times Best Wine Book of 2021. South of Somewhere begins and ends in Robert Camuto’s maternal ancestral town of Vico Equense, Italy—a tiny paradise south of Naples on the Sorrento Peninsula. It was here in 1968, at 10-years-old, that the author first tasted Italian life.
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South of Somewhere
- Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy (At Table)
- Narrated by: Alan Reinhardt
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-28
- Language: English
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Bernard of Clairvaux
- An Inner Life
- Written by: Brian Patrick McGuire
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
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In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man's life, and McGuire presents it all in a deeply informed and clear-eyed biography.
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Bernard of Clairvaux
- An Inner Life
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-21
- Language: English
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That Fiend in Hell
- Soapy Smith in Legend
- Written by: Catherine Holder Spude
- Narrated by: Erin C Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too - among them Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860 - 98), who with an entourage of "bunco-men" conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the "uncrowned king of Skagway", remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob.
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That Fiend in Hell
- Soapy Smith in Legend
- Narrated by: Erin C Gray
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-01
- Language: English
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Losing It
- In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain
- Written by: William Ian Miller
- Narrated by: Michael Scherer
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The "it" in Miller's "losing it" refers mainly to mental faculties - memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as wel l- sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs?
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Losing It
- In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain
- Narrated by: Michael Scherer
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-12
- Language: English
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Maria of Agreda
- Mystical Lady in Blue
- Written by: Marilyn H. Fedewa
- Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Stories of Maria of Agreda's exceptional attributes spread from her cloistered convent in seventeenth-century Agreda, Spain, to the court in Madrid, and beyond. Without leaving her village, the abbess impacted the kingdom, her church, and the New World. Based upon her transcendent visionary experiences, Sor Maria chronicled the life of Mary, mother of Jesus of Nazareth, in the Mystical City of God. This work was temporarily condemned during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Maria of Agreda
- Mystical Lady in Blue
- Narrated by: Kelley Hazen
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-05
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
- Written by: Leigh H. Edwards
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes - the innocent mountain girl and the voluptuous sex symbol. By developing a multilayered image and persona, Dolly both critiques representations of femininity in country music and attracts a diverse fan base ranging from country and pop music fans to feminists and gay rights advocates.
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Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-05
- Language: English
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