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The Believer

Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack

by Ralph Blumenthal ...

The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.Nothing in Mack’s four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the ... Read more

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The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.Nothing in Mack’s four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the
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The Gotti Tapes

The Sensational FBI Tapes That Convicted America's Most Powerful Mobster

by Ralph Blumenthal ...

The author of Last Days of the Sicilians presents a look into the Mafia in the tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses. Culled from years of wiretapping, here are the unexpurgated FBI tapes of mobster John Gotti, which reveal in detail how he and his crew commanded the most powerful organized crime family in the country.Gotti talks:“I’m not gonna leave a circus when I go to jail. I don’t wanna be ... Read more

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The author of Last Days of the Sicilians presents a look into the Mafia in the tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses. Culled from years of wiretapping, here are the unexpurgated FBI tapes of mobster John Gotti, which reveal in detail how he and his crew commanded the most powerful organized crime family in the country.Gotti talks:“I’m not gonna leave a circus when I go to jail. I don’t wanna be
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UFOhs!

Mysteries in the Sky

by Deborah Blumenthal, Ralph Blumenthal ...

Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...

Series series Barbara Guth Worlds of Wonder Science Series for Young Readers
UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky is the first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of unidentified aerial phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world. Playful, probing, and beautifully illustrated, UFOhs! ... Read more

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UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky is the first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of unidentified aerial phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world. Playful, probing, and beautifully illustrated, UFOhs!
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Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings

The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

by Kurt Tucholsky ...

Translated by Harry Zohn ...

Series Book 3 - Tucholsky in Translation
Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers ... Read more

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Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers
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Miracle at Sing Sing

How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners

by Ralph Blumenthal ...

In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes presided over 300 executions. His progressive ideas shocked many, but he taught the nation that a ... Read more

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In 1919, Lewis E. Lawes moved his wife and young daughters into the warden's mansion at Sing Sing prison. They shared a yard with 1,096 of the toughest inmates in the world-murderers, rapists, and thieves who Lawes alone believed capable of redemption. Adamantly opposed to the death penalty, Lawes presided over 300 executions. His progressive ideas shocked many, but he taught the nation that a
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Last Days of the Sicilians

At War with the Mafia

by Ralph Blumenthal ...

July 12, 1979: The fearsome Bonanno family boss, Carmine Galante, is gunned down in a gruesome ambush at a Brooklyn restaurant. The hit launches an FBI investigation that soon becomes the largest in the bureau's history, as agents uncover a trail leading to a clandestine arm of the Sicilian Mafia. Evidence points to an all but unknown criminal franchise at work in the U.S. within the strife-torn ... Read more

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July 12, 1979: The fearsome Bonanno family boss, Carmine Galante, is gunned down in a gruesome ambush at a Brooklyn restaurant. The hit launches an FBI investigation that soon becomes the largest in the bureau's history, as agents uncover a trail leading to a clandestine arm of the Sicilian Mafia. Evidence points to an all but unknown criminal franchise at work in the U.S. within the strife-torn
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The Believer

Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack

by Ralph Blumenthal ...

Narrated by Phil Thron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the ... Read more

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The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.Nothing in Mack's four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the
... Read more

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UFOhs!

Mysteries in the Sky

by Deborah Blumenthal, Ralph Blumenthal ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

10 min

UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky is the first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world. Playful and probing, UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky ... Read more

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UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky is the first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world. Playful and probing, UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky
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Berlin! Berlin!

Dispatches from the Weimar Republic

by Kurt Tucholsky ...

Translated by Cindy Opitz ...

Series Book 1 - Tucholsky in Translation
Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities ... Read more

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Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities
... Read more
Prayer After the Slaughter

Poems and Stories From World War I

by Kurt Tucholsky, Peter Appelbaum, James Scott ...

Series Book 4 - Tucholsky in Translation
No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that ... Read more

$7.99 USD

No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that
... Read more
Hereafter

We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

by Kurt Tucholsky ...

Translated by Cindy Opitz ...

Series Book 5 - Tucholsky in Translation
What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of ... Read more

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What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of
... Read more
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Encounters

Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences

by D. W. Pasulka ...

Narrated by D. W. Pasulka ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development.In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes listeners to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts across a spectrum of ... Read more

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A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into the experiences of people at the forefront of this development.In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes listeners to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts across a spectrum of
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