That's Not in My American History Book (MP3) Most people don�t know that:
Benjamin Franklin almost killed himself trying to electrocute a turkey.
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly an airplane.
There was a fourteenth state that the original thirteen wouldn ...
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2004
Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, The (MP3) David Wilson is called �Pudd�nhead� by the townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. He redeems himself by simultaneously solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities.
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2004
Odysseus: A Life (MP3) From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating ?biography? of Homer?s fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the ...
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2004
Winesburg, Ohio (MP3) Through twenty-three connected short stories, the author looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. In a simple and intense style, these psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginat ...
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2004
Dragon Seekers, The (MP3) Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world�a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary rem ...
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2004
Burning Moon (MP3) Off California’s San Miguel Island, a fishing boat struggles in the battering-ram seas and blinding rain of a sudden squall.
On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. ...
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2004
An Unpardonable Crime (MP3) Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heires ...
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2004
Frankies Place (MP3) One summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergre ...
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2004
The Dragon's Doom (MP3) Hawkril the mighty warrior, Embra the beautiful sorceress, and Craer the crafty thief mourn their lost companion but now must forge new alliances in their roles as overdukes of Aglirta, a land that has been torn asunder by double- ...
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2004
Crowded Land of Liberty (MP3) The number of legal immigrants accelerated in the 1990s to an average of more than a million a year. That was up from just over 300,000 a year in the 1960s and 600,000 a year by the 1980s. When the number of illegal immigrants is ...
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2004
Love Is Murder (MP3) Morgan Tyler is a beautiful, sassy young widow who lost the love of her life before she turned thirty and now puts all her romantic energies into her job as the head writer of the award-winning soap opera, Love of My Life.
Whe ...
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2004
Thou Shall Prosper Disk 1 of 2 (MP3) Rabbi Daniel Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of ancient Jewish faith and culture. Outlining ten fundamental “command-ments” relating to business and money, Thou Shall Prospe ...
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2004
Thunder Horse (MP3) Toussaint, Montana, isn?t easily rattled, but an earthquake uncovers an ancient burial ground and the well-preserved bones of a primitive people. When an archeologist is found with a bullet in his back and a dinosaur tooth in his ...
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2004
Wolves & Honey (MP3) Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient threads that bind humans to the natural world. Anchored in the emblematic experiences ...
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2004
The Trail to Crazy Man (MP3) The Trail to Crazy Man is one of Louis L?Amour?s finest short novels. Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings?but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Carad ...
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2004
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (MP3) Anne Catherine Emmerich was born in Germany in 1774. As a child she believed that angels, saints, and the Holy Family visited and talked with her as she worked in the fields. At twenty-four, she had her first mystic vision of the ...
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2004
Superior Position (MP3) Bill Tatum is a Deputy Sheriff of Mineral County, Colorado and lives in the picturesque city of Dumont. Dumont is a small town nestled in a valley of the
San Juan Mountains. During Bill’s routine sunrise run through the trails b ...
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2004
True North (MP3) The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker ...
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2004
Thou Shall Prosper Disk 2 of 2 (MP3) Rabbi Daniel Lapin offers a practical approach to creating wealth based on the established principles of ancient Jewish faith and culture. Outlining ten fundamental “command-ments” relating to business and money, Thou Shall Prospe ...
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2004
Divorced from the Mob (MP3) From mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kids—a tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver.
As a chil ...
