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  • The Mathematician's Shiva

    A Novel

    by Stuart Rojstaczer ...
    **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DEBUT FICTIONFor readers of This Is Where I Leave You and Everything Is Illuminated, “a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history and humor” (Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here)**When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander “Sasha” Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his ... Read more

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    The Mathematician's Shiva

    by Stuart Rojstaczer ...
    Narrated by Angela Brazil, Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics, and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. As a ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Once in Golconda

    A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1928

    by John Brooks ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial TimesOnce in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Machines of Loving Grace

    The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

    by John Markoff ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 53 min

    Read by George Newbern"George Newbern provides a convincing, conversational narration of this audiobook about robot intelligence. There's a lot to digest. Much of it deals with speculation as to who will be right: those who believe in AI (artificial intelligence machines that may eventually supplant human workers) or those who believe in IA (intelligence augmentation machines that will work with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Water to the Angels

    William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

    by Les Standiford ...
    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 11 min

    The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Americans in Paris

    Life and Death under Nazi Occupation

    by Charles Glass ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 19 min

    Acclaimed journalist Charles Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation.In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of expatriates and their struggles in Nazi Paris ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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    Birdmen

    The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

    by Lawrence Goldstone ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Fried ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the most talented machinist of his day; he first became the fastest man alive when he perfected the motorcycle, then turned his eyes toward the skies to become the fastest man aloft. But between the Wrights and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Sistine Secrets

    Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

    by Roy Doliner, Benjamin Blech ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Brief Encounters with Che Guevara

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    by Ben Fountain ...
    Narrated by Christian Baskous ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human. ... Read more

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    The Maytrees

    by Annie Dillard ...
    Narrated by David Rasche ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The Ballad of Bob Dylan

    A Portrait

    by Daniel Mark Epstein ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 25 min

    The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century—a man widely regarded as the most important lyricist America has ever produced.Acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein frames Dylan against the backdrop of four seminal concerts—all of which he attended: Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C., 1963; Madison Square Garden, New ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

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    The Dynamics of Disaster

    by Susan W. Kieffer ...
    Narrated by Heather Henderson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected.In 2011 there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars' worth of property in the United States alone. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and major earthquakes struck in Italy, the Philippines, Iran, and ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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