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1000 Years of English Royalty
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Richard Hampton
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Audio Cassette ($16.16)
This look at the public and private lives of British royal families brings the monarchs to life through their diaries and speeches and through observations by their contemporaries.
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Edith's Story
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Edith Velmans
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Popular teenager Edith van Hessen was a Jewish high school student in Holland in 1939....
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Endurance
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Alfred Lansing
Abridged Edition
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The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...
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Heroes of History
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Will Durant
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At Will Durant's death at 96, in 1981, his personal papers were dispersed among relatives, collectors, and archive houses....
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Hiroshima
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John Hersey
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August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Alain de Botton
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Audio Cassette
Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life.
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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Ross King
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In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo...
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Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette
The biography of their lives is woven together by the poetry from these two influential 19th century English poets.
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Robert Frost
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June August
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The trials and triumphs of Robert Frost's life flow from narrative to poetry in this one-man performance...
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Roosevelt and Churchill
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David Stafford
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An intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...
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Shakespeare: His Life & Work
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Richard Hampton
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Excerpts from 33 plays, three poems, and well researched commentary about the bard and his literature.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
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Written as a letter to his son, this is Franklin's account of his personal life and career ending with his first mission to England in 1757.
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The Defining Moment
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Jonathan Alter
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In this dramatic and authoritative account, Alter explains how FDR used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first hundred days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.
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The Kennedys
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Thomas Maier
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This is a portrait of the country's favorite political dynasty - with a new understanding of how the Irish Catholic immigrant experience shaped their stunning success and spectacular tragedies.
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
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Antonia Fraser
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This magnificent story of 1,000 years of English history is told through the lives and deeds of Kings and Queens...
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Touch the Top of the World
by
Erik Weihenmayer
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From the snowcapped summit of McKinley to the ultimate challenge of Everest, this is a story about daring to dream...
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West with the Night
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Beryl Markham
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Audio CD ($31.46) | Audio Cassette
A dramatic true story of growing up in Africa in the 1920s: the excitement of big game hunting and horse training, and the first solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west.
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