America's Victory (MP3) In 1850 a brilliant young boat designer and an unlikely team of humble, hard working men faced the might and arrogance of the British empire in a yacht race for The Great Exhibition in England. Revolutionary in design and striking ...
English
2004
Afghanistan (MP3) For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. As a result of the United States' engaging in armed conflict with ...
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2003
A History Of Europe Disk 3 OF 3 (MP3) How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts's sweeping and entertaining history notes the par ...
English
2003
A History Of Europe Disk 2 OF 3 (MP3) How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts's sweeping and entertaining history notes the par ...
English
2003
A History Of Europe Disk 1 OF 3 (MP3) How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions, has managed to exert so profound an influence on the rest of the world? Roberts's sweeping and entertaining history notes the par ...
English
2003
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 ...
English
2006
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, ...
English
2006
All The Shah's Men (MP3) An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror:
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil indu ...
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2005
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 ...
English
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: 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 ...
English
2006
Around the World in 80 Days (MP3) On a wager, the eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a challenge to circle the globe in eighty days. Follow Phileas and his faithful valet Passepartout, in this classic fantastic adventure
English
2005
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich (MP3) A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling addition to the literature of espionage. In 1943, a young official named Fritz Kolbe ...
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2005
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (Inaudio) (MP3) From printer's apprentice to internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin led a most remarkable life. Seldom is history so well articulated by someone who was there.
English
2003
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 ...
English
2006
Age of Lincoln, The (MP3) The Age of Lincoln
by Vernon Orville Burton
read by Rich Mock
Unabridged
Available: 19 June 07
Distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton suggests that, while abolishing slavery was the age's most extraordinary acco ...