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Our Brother Jim

by Lloyd J. Stefanic ...

About the BookA touching and deeply personal memoir, Our Brother Jim recounts the author’s experience growing up with a brother with disabilities. Through his parents’ constant care and his family’s loving encouragement, Jim exceeded every doctor’s expectations, learning to do those “everyday” things that proved so difficult for him—like walking, counting, and communicating with others. With a ... Read more

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About the BookA touching and deeply personal memoir, Our Brother Jim recounts the author’s experience growing up with a brother with disabilities. Through his parents’ constant care and his family’s loving encouragement, Jim exceeded every doctor’s expectations, learning to do those “everyday” things that proved so difficult for him—like walking, counting, and communicating with others. With a
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Our Brother Jim

by Lloyd J. Stefanic ...

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A touching and deeply personal memoir, Our Brother Jim recounts the author’s experience growing up with a brother with disabilities. Through his parents’ constant care and his family’s loving encouragement, Jim exceeded every doctor’s expectations, learning to do those “everyday” things that proved so difficult for him—like walking, counting, and communicating with others. With a radiant smile and ... Read more

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A touching and deeply personal memoir, Our Brother Jim recounts the author’s experience growing up with a brother with disabilities. Through his parents’ constant care and his family’s loving encouragement, Jim exceeded every doctor’s expectations, learning to do those “everyday” things that proved so difficult for him—like walking, counting, and communicating with others. With a radiant smile and
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Cowards

The Complete Series 1-2

by Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key, Lloyd Woolf ...

Narrated by Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key, Lloyd Woolf ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

The complete series 1 and 2 of the smart and surreal sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.In this complete collection of BBC Radio 4 series of 'Cowards', a batch of hapless and hopeful nearly-men battle with the challenge of everyday life, doing their very best to meet the demands of the modern world.Bikes start talking, genies appear that force you to guess ... Read more

$17.45 USD

The complete series 1 and 2 of the smart and surreal sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.In this complete collection of BBC Radio 4 series of 'Cowards', a batch of hapless and hopeful nearly-men battle with the challenge of everyday life, doing their very best to meet the demands of the modern world.Bikes start talking, genies appear that force you to guess
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Dancing Bears

True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life under Tyranny

by Claire Bloom, Witold Szabłowski ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning ... Read more

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For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning
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The Cold War's Killing Fields

Rethinking the Long Peace

by Paul Thomas Chamberlin ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

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22 hours 32 min

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the ""Long Peace"" actually was.In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold ... Read more

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A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the ""Long Peace"" actually was.In this sweeping, deeply researched book, Paul Thomas Chamberlin boldly argues that the Cold
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The Chain

Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

by Ted Genoways ...

Narrated by Michael Kramer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of ... Read more

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On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat-processing plants have routinely accelerated the pace of conveyors, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable and often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of
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Jacksonland

President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

by Steve Inskeep ...

Narrated by Steve Inskeep ...

Unabridged

11 hours 48 min

Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling ... Read more

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Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling
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Bringing Down the Colonel

A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

by Patricia Miller ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

Unabridged

13 hours 22 min

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won
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As Good as Dead

The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp

by Stephen L. Moore ...

Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

In the tradition of Unbroken, a dramatic story of American POWs in the Pacific and their incredible escape from a Japanese labor camp. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines ... Read more

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In the tradition of Unbroken, a dramatic story of American POWs in the Pacific and their incredible escape from a Japanese labor camp. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. As soldiers, sailors and Marines
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Parrot’s Perch, The

A Memoir

by Karen Keilt ...

Narrated by Teri Clark Linden ...

Unabridged

8 hours 22 min

The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but ... Read more

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The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but
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Our First Revolution

The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

by Michael Barone ...

Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In a work of popular history that stands with recent ... Read more

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The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In a work of popular history that stands with recent
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You Better Not Cry

Stories for Christmas

by Augusten Burroughs ...

With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever ... Read more

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With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot stuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever
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