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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD ($18.40)
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: We Shall Overcome
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($15.95)
Encompasses the most moving moments in American social history with the extraordinary civil rights leader.
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The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare
Formats: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($17.96)
The Bronze Bow won the 1962 Newberry Medal for this magnificent novel of Daniel's tormented journey from a blind, confining hatred to his acceptance and understanding of love.
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Introducing Postmodernism
by Richard Appignanesi
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
What on earth is postmodernism? Here, at last, is the perfect audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to describe our cultural condition of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
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Unlocking the Secrets of 2012
by John Major Jenkins
Formats: Audio Download ($13.10)
Did the ancient Mayans predict that the "end of time" would occur in 2012 . . . or is that a modern misunderstanding of their intended message?
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Warming the Stone Child
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Formats: Audio Download ($10.48) | Audio CD ($15.96)
The pain of abandonment—both real and metaphorical—can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience.
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen Ambrose
Formats: Audio Download ($15.95)
Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...
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Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Formats: Audio Download ($4.95)
France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...
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Co. Aytch
by Sam R. Watkins
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
In 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment.
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They Marched Into Sunlight
by David Maraniss
Formats: Audio Download ($15.95)
Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967.
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