Branch condenses his three-volume chronicle on race and democracy to its pivotal scenes, taking listeners on a journey into a political revolution that would change the face of America.
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Author:Branch, TaylorSummary: -
Author:Klein, GregSummary:A Big Easy legend returns to the limelight
New Orleans was once one of the hottest cities for pro wrestling because of one man — Sylvester Ritter, better known as the Junkyard Dog. JYD became a legend in the Big Easy,...
- Author:Stout, DavidSummary:
The Great Depression was a time of desperation in America-parents struggled to feed their children and unemployment was at a record high. Adding to the lawlessness of the decade, thugs with submachine guns and corrupt law-enforcement...
- Author:Lackenbauer, P Whitney, Heidt, DanielSummary:
"The first comprehensive study of the Canada-U.S. Joint Arctic Weather Stations, systematically analyzing large- and small-scale aspects from scientific diplomacy to site logistics to understand how these isolated posts were so...
- Author:Magee, DavidSummary:
While other American businesses are crumbling under low-cost foreign competition, John Deere Company thrives by maintaining such ideas as building the best product, being open for change and innovation, listening rather than leading and...
- Author:Little, BenildeSummary:
Abra Dixon is well educated, fashionable, and married to the perfect man. She also runs a film production company with her childhood friend, Natasha. Abra's perfect life is suddenly thrown off course when her husband leaves her for a...
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Author:Welsing, Frances CressSummary:A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
- Author:Shannon, Timothy J.Summary:
Shannon paints a vivid picture of the American frontier's most successful Indian confederacy.
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
Gideon Clarke, like his father before him, tries to prove that the Chicago Cubs played a game of over two thousand innings against the amateur league Iowa Baseball Confederacy in the summer of 1908 even though no one else seems to...
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Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across...
- Author:Slade, SuzanneSummary:
Reinhardt's mixed-media artwork includes several lighthearted moments (parallel scenes featuring Edison and Ford as children highlight the explosive results of early failed experiments). It's a rewarding look at the importance...
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Author:Equiano, OlaudahSummary:The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a...
- Author:Vlahos, HadleySummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments in this "brilliant" (Zibby Owens,...
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Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:On April 7, 2005, an I. E. D. blast in Afghanistan alters the course of Jeremy Merkin's life forever. Still grieving the loss of his best friend, who was killed by the explosion, and nursing the physical and psychological wounds of the...
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Author:Challen, PaulSummary:At the centre of the critically acclaimed Fox drama House, British actor Hugh Laurie has become the focus of fans across North America, Britain, and Australia. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series,...
- Author:Fagen, Cynthia, Patterson, JamesSummary:
The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them?
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Author:Williams, Terry TempestSummary:For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the...
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Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the US government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hit man, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin,...
- Author:Lurie, JohnSummary:
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie "A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual...
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Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:Annette Gordon-Reed tells the legendary story of the Hemingses of Monticello, an American slave family with direct blood ties to the American President Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed vividly describes the relationships between Jefferson...
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