Sailing Alone Around the World (MP3) Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career, where he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Joshua Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Tur ...
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2005
Secret Empire - Vol 1 of 2 (MP3) Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage:
"In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the sm ...
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2005
Secret Empire - Vol 2 of 2 (MP3) Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage:
"In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the sm ...
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2005
Secrets of the Kingdom (MP3) In its final report, the 9/11 Commission famously called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, ...
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2005
Son of Tarzan, The (MP3) Paulvitch seeks revenge against Tarzan once again, this time by luring Lord Greystoke's rebellious son away from London. The great ape Akut foils the plot of revenge as he helps the boy escape the wrath of Paulvitch. Akut and the ...
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2005
Stalky & Co. (MP3) Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a t ...
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2005
Tarzan of the Apes (MP3) Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to surviv ...
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2005
The Cossacks (MP3) “I read The Cossacks and was carried away….”—Ivan Turgenev
Olenin, a young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life, finds himself caught up in the wild beauty of the Caucasus and the simplicity of its people.
I ...
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2005
The Path of the King (MP3) What is the true root of royal blood? A young Viking prince is stranded in a strange world with nothing but a band of gold. Through the turmoil of history, the band of gold is passed from generation to generation. Encounter the st ...
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2005
The World Set Free (MP3) In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over". You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today' ...
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2005
Underground City, The (MP3) How can humans survive and prosper 1500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark, yet magnificent story into this equally dark world. The story takes place in a revived and now prosperous coal mine. A ...
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2005
Abiding Darkness (MP3) Abiding Darkness
by John Aubrey Anderson
read by Lillian Thayer
Unabridged
Book One of The Black or White Chronicles
It is 1945 in Mississippi’s cotton country, and Missy Parker is seven years old, strong-willed, ...
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2006
A Map of Glass (MP3) Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Sylvia Bradley was ...
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2006
American Heroes: Amelia Earhart (MP3) As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once she even built a roller-coaster in her grandparent’s backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics ...
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2006
American Heroes: Chief Joseph (MP3) Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce tribe, lived from 1840 to 1904. He became a legend through his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon’s Wallowa Valley. For years he tried to accommodate encroaching white me ...
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2006
American Heroes: David Crockett (MP3) Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ("Davy") Crockett, the Tennessee frontiersman whose death at the Alamo in 1836 ensured his place in the Valhalla of American heroes. Crocke ...
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2006
American Heroes: George Washington (MP3) Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor l ...
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2006
American Heroes: John Muir (MP3) In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir emigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's wilderness. Best known for his long ...
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2006
American Heroes: Mary Edwards Walker (MP3) Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of ...
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2006
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Tantor) (MP3) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By Benjamin Franklin
Narrated by Walter Costello
Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolu ...
