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Author
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Recorded by Hunter S. Thompson onto audio tapes between 1965 and 1975 and used in part for the documentary, Gonzo: the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, these recordings provide a glimpse into the life and mind of Hunter S. Thompson as he reported on what was happening around him, including his unique thoughts and reflections. Includes booklet with reproductions of rare photographs and clippings from the collected works of Hunter S. Thompson's...
36862) Agave pack
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Launchpad Pre-K Academy gives preschool-aged children 5 different paths to explore on their way to kindergarten. Using the Academy can help little learners develop the skills needed to enter their first year of school and inspire them to try new things with confidence. - Explore imagination and pretend play - Interpret music through movement - Draw with lines & shapes - Sing and express emotion creatively.
Choo Choo Beach is about inspiring creativity...
36864) A magnificent catastrophe
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the presidential election campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson describes the fierce rivalry that was called "America's Second Revolution" and reveals the pivotal roles played by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
The remarkable untold story of a World War II U.S. Air Force turret gunner who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and, through incredible acts of friendship, heroism, and valor, evades Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom.
36866) The age of innocence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Iliad: An epic poem that focuses on Greek warrior Achilles, recounting some of the significant events during the final weeks of the Trojan War and the Greek siege of the city of Troy.
The Odyssey: An epic poem that focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy.
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
℗2010.
Language
English
Description
Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea, with Savannah in its path. The Lester ladies--attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie--struggle to save the family rice plantation. Hattie and the general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them when Sherman offers the city to Lincoln as "a Christmas gift."
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After escaping a Soviet prison camp, Lina is pursued by a powerful witch and her shadow wolves in a riveting debut that imbues frozen wilderness with fairy-tale magic. All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows to reach Moscow and find her long-lost grandmother,...
36871) Lightning down
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
36872) I︠A︡rmarka tshcheslavii︠a︡
Author
Series
Publisher
ARDIS Audiokniga
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Russian
36873) Them
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the traditional tribes are falling apart, Sasse argues, frustrated and displaced Americans are trying to fill the vacuum with Anti-tribes on social media and cable news, surrounding themselves with people they already agree with and identifying a common enemy. Sasse offers his own prescription for addressing this challenge, calling for a radical effort to rebuild and remake the institutions that are foundering within communities and a nationwide...
36874) Food for thought!
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Kids will learn to sharpen their minds and develop their critical thinking skills as they complete math exercises, word games, puzzles, and more. - This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad - Increase problem-solving skills - Improve understanding of patterns and counting - Develop math skills"
Introduce your child to 15 popular fruits. The app features four instructional sections including fruit school, fruit play, fruit...
36875) World War II: the Pacific
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Eyewitness accounts taken from the soundtracks of documentary films produced by Lou Reda Productions in the WWII battle classics series. The first section chronicles the unseen story of the violent decade of miscalculation that brought the U.S. and Japan into confrontation. The second tells the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and those who tried to defend it. The third tells the previously untold story, in gruesome detail,...
36876) Redemption
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This is a close up and intimate book about the last fateful hours of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. It draws on dozens of interviews by the author with people who were immersed in the Memphis events, as well as on recently released documents from archives in Atlanta. The fresh material yields a wealth of illuminating detail, including a lapse, never before reported, by the Memphis Police Department to provide security for King. It unveils the financial...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1809 Lieutenant Sharpe and his riflemen are in Portugal, preparing for Napoleon's next strike. The much smaller English force will probably pull out before it gets slaughtered -- but not Sharpe. His orders are clear. He must find the missing daughter of an English wine shipper. Suddenly, the punishing French assault is launched. Now Sharpe and his men are trapped behind enemy lines, and they have only just begun their mission.
36878) Time twisters: Books 3 and 4
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 3
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, space cowboys: The students of Ms. Maybee's class used to think history was boring, but that was before time started to get twisted! When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin inexplicably lands in 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the moon. It's up to siblings Doc and Abby to untwist history and get these historical figures back where they belong.
Amelia Earhart and...
36879) Black swan rising
Author
Publisher
HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Price wants a career in politics. But she has a secret past that won't stay past, threatening her job on a San Diego congressman's reelection campaign. Casey Cheng wants a story. An ambitious local television reporter, Casey needs to get her career back on track after being seriously injured in a mass shooting. When she investigates the man who nearly killed her, she finds a connection to a group of online harassers called #TrueMen, and realizes...
36880) The accidental highwayman
Author
Series
Accidental highwayman trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher Kit Bristol is the unwitting servant of notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. One dark night, Kit finds his master bleeding from a mortal wound, dons the mans riding cloak to seek help, and changes the course of his life forever. Mistaken for Whistling Jack and on the run from redcoats, Kit is catapulted into a world of magic and wonders he thought the stuff of fairy tales. Bound by magical law, Kit...
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