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“lee sandlin”

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  • Wicked River

    The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    A riveting narrative look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America's historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the 19th century.Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the siege of Vicksburg in 1863, Wicked River brings to life a place where river pirates brushed elbows with future presidents and religious visionaries ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Distancers

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Storm Kings

    The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Distancers

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    Narrated by Chris Henry Coffey ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    In The Distancers , seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and uncles with whom Sandlin spent the summers of his youth, a whole history of quiet ambition and stoic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Storm Kings

    The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    Narrated by Andrew Garman ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 27 min

    A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster -- the super cell tornado -- that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Wicked River

    The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild

    by Lee Sandlin ...
    Narrated by Jeff McCarthy ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 44 min

    Acclaimed journalist and author Lee Sandlin delivers a riveting glimpse of a dangerous and colorful place in America's historical landscape-the Mississippi River of the 19th century. Long before it was dredged into a shipping channel or romanticized into myth, the untamed Mississippi-the lifeblood of communities that rose and fell along its banks-spawned a motley array of pirates and dignitaries, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Great Departure

    Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

    by Tara Zahra ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    In this riveting book, Tara Zahra takes the story of immigration that Americans know so well and weaves it into a larger story of emigration that we have long neglected. In this riveting book, Tara Zahra takes the story of immigration that Americans know so well and weaves it into a larger story of emigration that we have long neglected. With all the drama of a novel and all the nuance of history ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    River Horse

    A Voyage Across America

    by William Heat-Moon, William Least heat-moon ...
    Narrated by Jay O. Sanders ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 37 min

    In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes. Brimming with history, drama, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Wrong Enemy

    America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

    by Carlotta Gall ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (Financial Times).Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Cuckoo's Calling

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Narrated by Robert Glenister ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Cormoran Strike Novel

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 32 min

    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Men Who United the States

    America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 34 min

    “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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