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First Into Nagasaki

The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

by George Weller, Anthony Weller ...

George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just ... Read more

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George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war’s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur’s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The intrepid newspaperman reached Nagasaki just
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Weller's War

A Legendary Foreign Correspondent's Saga of World War II on Five Continents

by George Weller ...

Walter Cronkite called him “one of our best war correspondents.” His stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Paciﬁc during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now, George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless, intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited by his son, Weller’s War provides an eyewitness look at modern history’s greatest upheaval, and also ... Read more

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Walter Cronkite called him “one of our best war correspondents.” His stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Paciﬁc during World War II won him the Pulitzer Prize. Now, George Weller is immortalized in a collection of fearless, intrepid dispatches that crisscross a shattered globe. Edited by his son, Weller’s War provides an eyewitness look at modern history’s greatest upheaval, and also
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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Enriched edition. The Rise and Fall of Tudor Power: Political Intrigues and Cardinal Wolsey's Legacy

by George Cavendish, Garrett Ewing ...

In "The Life of Cardinal Wolsey," George Cavendish provides a compelling narrative exploring the life of one of Britain's most influential figures during the Tudor period. Utilizing a biographical framework, Cavendish presents a rich tapestry of historical events, political intrigues, and personal anecdotes that illuminate Wolsey's rise and fall. The literary style is both engaging and poignant, ... Read more

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In "The Life of Cardinal Wolsey," George Cavendish provides a compelling narrative exploring the life of one of Britain's most influential figures during the Tudor period. Utilizing a biographical framework, Cavendish presents a rich tapestry of historical events, political intrigues, and personal anecdotes that illuminate Wolsey's rise and fall. The literary style is both engaging and poignant,
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First into Nagasaki

The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War

by George Weller, Anthony Weller ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

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11 hours 40 min

On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb’s victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became the first to enter the Allied POW camps, which rivaled ... Read more

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On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into hospitals and consulting doctors of the bomb’s victims, he was the first to document its unprecedented medical effects. He also became the first to enter the Allied POW camps, which rivaled
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Shadow Show

All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

by Sam Weller, Mort Castle ...

Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury?You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America, ... Read more

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What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury?You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America,
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The Last Dangerous Visions

by J. Michael Straczynski, J. Michael Straczynski, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Cecil Castellucci, Richard Peck, Max Brooks0, various authors1, Adrian Tchaikovsky2, Cory Doctorow3, James S. A. Corey0 ...

Narrated by J. Michael Straczynski, Jennifer Pickens4, Robin Miles5, Lisa Flanagan6, Mark Sanderlin7, Robert Fass8, Charlie Albers9, Bronson Pinchot0, Alison McKenna1, Natalie Naudus2, various narrators3, Tim Campbell4, Neil Hellegers5, Josh Innerst6, Dion Graham7, Emily Woo Zeller8, James Anderson Foster9, Feodor Chin0, Paul Bellantoni1, Marc Vietor2, John Pirhalla3, Scott Brick4, Steven Jay Cohen5, Jim Meskimen6, P. J. Ochlan7, Gary Bennett8, Noah Michael Levine9 ...

Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
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14 hours 32 min

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed ... Read more

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An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed
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The John Varley Reader

Thirty Years of Short Fiction

by John Varley ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Susan Hanfield, Arthur Morey, Paul Boehmer, various narrators, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre ...

Unabridged

26 hours 37 min

From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.Now, The John ... Read more

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From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction.Now, The John
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The Truth and Other Stories

by Stanislaw Lem ...

Narrated by David Aaron Baker ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader ... Read more

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Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem’s intensecuriosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader
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Pawn’s Gambit

And Other Stratagems

by Timothy Zahn ...

Narrated by Erin deWard ...

Unabridged

15 hours 14 min

A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award–winning novella Cascade Point.Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here."The Price of Survival" features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose ... Read more

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A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award–winning novella Cascade Point.Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here."The Price of Survival" features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose
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Again, Dangerous Visions

by Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., various authors, Piers Anthony, Ben Bova, James Tiptree, Kate Wilhelm, Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury0, Gene Wolfe1, Ursula K. Le Guin2 ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki3, Jim Meskimen4, Grover Gardner5, Erica Sullivan6, Natalie Naudus7, Kevin Kenerly8, Heath Miller9, John Pirhalla0, Dion Graham1, Tim Campbell2, Joe Hempel3, Scott Brick4, Zura Johnson5, various narrators6, Neil Hellegers7, Hillary Huber8, Ramiz Monsef9, Alex Boyles0, Gary Bennett1, P.J. Ochlan2 ...

Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
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41 hours 5 min

A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second ... Read more

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A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second
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New Frontiers

A Collection of Tales about the Past, the Present, and the Future

by Ben Bova ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Alex Hyde-White ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length ... Read more

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New Frontiers offers fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from Ben Bova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions—frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length
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Arabella of Mars

by David D. Levine ...

Narrated by Bianca Amato ...

Series series Adventures of Arabella Ashby
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11 hours 40 min

Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella’s mother takes the girls back to London, where they’re sure to find suitable husbands among the ton.Weighed down by Earth’s gravity—and her own unhappiness ... Read more

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Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella’s mother takes the girls back to London, where they’re sure to find suitable husbands among the ton.Weighed down by Earth’s gravity—and her own unhappiness
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