This fourth volume of Revolution takes listeners from William of Orange's accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, a time of the founding of the Bank of England and the stock exchange.
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Author: Ackroyd, PeterSummary:Genre: History and geography -
Author: Aird, CatherineSummary:When a body is found in the center of a maze of yew trees, Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds that his investigation into the murder of a woman has more twists and turns that the...
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Author: Aird, CatherineSummary:
A collection of sixteen short mystery stories.
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Author: Aird, CatherineSummary:
A letter received by an old woman's son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman's death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder....
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Author: Aird, CatherineSummary:
Inspector C. D. Sloan is called in when it is discovered that a large collection of artifacts that has been left to the Calleshire museum includes a 3,000-year-old mummy case containing an all-too...
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Author: Moorehead, CarolineSummary:
In the late summer of 1943, Italy broke with Germany and joined the Allies. This historical account explores the women of Italy that liberated their country from the fascists. Partisans gave...
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Author: Sands, LynsaySummary:
After escaping from the English soldiers who attacked her home and imprisoned her in a dungeon, Lady Elysande de Valance is grateful for the rugged Scots who are escorting her to safety in the...
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Author: Mason, TimothySummary:
With ingenuity, intelligence, and wit, debut novelist Tim Mason has created a powerfully entertaining thriller. For fans of Caleb Carr and Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Darwin Affair is a rousing tale...
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Author: Wells, MarthaSummary:
The kingdom of Ile-Rien lies in peril, menaced by sorcerous threats and devious court intrigues. As the weak King Roland, flattered and misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only...
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Author: Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western notions of progress, biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of...
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Author: Crossan, John DominicSummary:
Scholar John Dominic Crossan explores the Christian culture wars--the debates over church and state--from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and...
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Author: Rogan, EugeneSummary:In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context...
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Author: Byrne, KerriganSummary:They're rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster. Gavin St. James,...
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Author: Freedman, LawrenceSummary:In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was...
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Author: Cooper, IsabelSummary:In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down,...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Romance fiction