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“christopher lascelles”

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  • Pontifex Maximus

    A Short History of the Popes

    by Christopher Lascelles ...
    “Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.”Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Short History of the World

    by Christopher Lascelles ...
    Narrated by Guy Bethell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    There is an increasing realization that our knowledge of world history—and how it all fits together—is far from perfect. Here, Christopher Lascelles aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to follow and assumes little prior knowledge of past events. He doesn't aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    City of Scoundrels

    The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

    by Gary Krist ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 34 min

    When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into “the Metropolis of the World.” But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city’s highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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    Into Africa

    The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

    by Martin Dugard ...
    Narrated by Simon Jones ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 48 min

    With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    In Distant Lands

    A Short History of the Crusades

    by Lars Brownworth ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    In the late fall of 1095, Pope Urban II gave a speech in Clermont, France, and set all of Europe into motion. As many as a hundred and fifty thousand people eventually responded to the call, leaving everything they knew behind to undertake what appeared to be a fool's mission: marching several thousand miles into enemy territory to reconquer Jerusalem for Christendom. Against all odds they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Fierce Patriot

    The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

    by Robert L. O'Connell ...
    Narrated by Andrew Garman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 59 min

    With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Soul of All Living Creatures

    What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

    by Vint Virga, DVM ...
    Narrated by Vint Virga, DVM ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Since Yesterday

    The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939

    by Frederick Lewis Allen ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    In this panorama of the thirties, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, “a talent for terse and telling résumé which is the envy of ... Read more

    $20.95 USD

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    The Unquiet Daughter

    by Danielle Flood ...
    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Danielle Flood, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, searches for her father after surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, estrangement, and cruelty.As she yearns for her father's love and presence, Danielle's beautiful French and Vietnamese mother leaves her in burlesque house dressing rooms in the American Midwest, in convent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Implied Spaces

    by Walter Jon Williams ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Culture Code

    An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do

    by Clotaire Rapaille ...
    Narrated by Barrett Whitener ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives around the world.Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that we acquire a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    How the Scots Invented the Modern World

    The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    by Arthur Herman ...
    Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 21 min

    Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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