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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"It is two years before the Civil War, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his lovely wife Teresa are popular fixtures in Washington, D.C. society. Because Congressman Sickles is frequently out of town, he trusts his friend, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key--son of Francis Scott Key--to escort the beautiful Mrs. Sickles to parties in his absence. Then one day an anonymous note sets into motion a tragic course of events that culminates in a shocking...
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began stalking humans, moving like a phantom through the lush foothills of the Himalayas. As the death toll reached an astonishing 436 lives, a young local hunter was dispatched to stop the man-eater before it struck again. This is the extraordinary true story of the "Champawat Man-Eater," the deadliest animal in recorded history.
One part pulse-pounding thriller, one part soulful natural history of the endangered...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"These everyday American heroes serve our neighbors, our friends, our families. Their stories, their lives, are extraordinary and unforgettable. Around the clock and across the country, ER nurses are the heart and soul of our city, town, and county hospitals. They make a difference every day, to everyone they touch. E.R. Nurses puts names and faces to these men and women who are there for us whenever we need them, who fight for our lives and never...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then, with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women, everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented...
1105) Stories for kids who dare to be different: true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
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Language
English
Description
"Profiles over seventy people who broke the rules and smashed stereotypes, including such figures as Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, and Sally Ride." --
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Language
English
Description
"Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II." --
1108) The Commanders
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...
1109) Captive
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The star of the the 1980s television series Dynasty tells of her struggles to free her daughter from NXIVM, the controversial organization that many consider to be a cult.
1110) The book of Joe
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Structured around key moments in Biden's life and career, this blend of biography, advice, and humor will reveal the experiences that forged Joe Biden, and the lessons people can use in their own lives. Along the way, listeners will also encounter fun asides about his love of muscle cars, his most endearing gaffes, his bromance with President Obama, and much more." --
1111) The queen
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor's personality was well suited to her youthful ambition of living quietly in the country, raising a family, and caring for her dogs and horses. But when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated, she became heir to the throne, embarking on a journey that would test her as a woman and as a queen."--
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows." --
1114) Every breath you take
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush, a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times best selling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties, telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation that quite literally saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon."--
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Penny Junor casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world." --
1118) The last American hero
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator--and returned to space...
1119) An unladylike profession
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from stepping into the breach, defying gender norms and official restrictions to establish roles for themselves-and to write new kinds of narratives about women and war. Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than thirty other American women who worked as war reporters. As...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist. In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who repeatedly kill: they are almost exclusively male. But, as with all things, there is always an outlier'someone who bucks the trend, defying the reliable profiles and leaving investigators and researchers scratching...
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