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Harvardinates
- Leveretts in the New World, Book 5
- By: Thomas Leverett
- Narrated by: Anne Charlotte
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This book tells the story of a time when society was divided and Harvard was becoming what it is today. It is not an exhaustive biography, but it has family information which puts things in perspective, and tells how he and Mather, who were about the same age, lived through the Salem witch trials. Leverett was busy writing logic textbooks in Latin at the time, but didn't dare speak out against the leader of the colony.
By: Thomas Leverett
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Deaths and Rescues in Zion National Park (2nd Edition)
- By: Dave Nally
- Narrated by: Dave Nally
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This book includes new heartbreaking stories, such as the seven canyoneers in 2015 who all died in a flash flood in Keyhole Canyon, two separate BASE jumping deaths, rock climbing, and flash flood deaths in the Narrows. Zion National Park is home to majestic and wondrous canyons, cliffs, crags, mesas, rivers, and slot canyons. World travelers remain in awe as they drive, walk, hike, and climb into such a unique place that is filled with vibrant, sacred, and mystical energy.
By: Dave Nally
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Peep Light
- Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain
- By: Lee Hendrix
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River. Hendrix, formerly a pilot for the Delta Queen Steamboat Co., has worked on the Mississippi for fifty years. In 2014, Hendrix became captain of the towboat Mississippi with the US Army Corps of Engineers, then he later retired to return to passenger vessels.
By: Lee Hendrix
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NASA and the American South
- By: Brian C. Odom - edited by, Stephen P. Waring - edited by
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bridging the gap between the history of technology and its geographical and cultural contexts, this book offers an unprecedented reevaluation of the impact of the space program on its surrounding landscape, introducing a new framework for interpreting the agency's legacy.
By: Brian C. Odom - edited by, and others
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Ghostwriter
- Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
- By: Lawrence Wells
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, "Ghostwriter" is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (“Mrs. F,” then 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was William Shakespeare.
By: Lawrence Wells
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How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism
- The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks
- By: David J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Countering the conventional narrative that Florida's tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida's tourism. David Nelson argues that state and federal government programs designed to reboot the economy during this decade are crucial to understanding the state today.
By: David J. Nelson
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Harvardinates
- Leveretts in the New World, Book 5
- By: Thomas Leverett
- Narrated by: Anne Charlotte
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
This book tells the story of a time when society was divided and Harvard was becoming what it is today. It is not an exhaustive biography, but it has family information which puts things in perspective, and tells how he and Mather, who were about the same age, lived through the Salem witch trials. Leverett was busy writing logic textbooks in Latin at the time, but didn't dare speak out against the leader of the colony.
By: Thomas Leverett
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Deaths and Rescues in Zion National Park (2nd Edition)
- By: Dave Nally
- Narrated by: Dave Nally
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
This book includes new heartbreaking stories, such as the seven canyoneers in 2015 who all died in a flash flood in Keyhole Canyon, two separate BASE jumping deaths, rock climbing, and flash flood deaths in the Narrows. Zion National Park is home to majestic and wondrous canyons, cliffs, crags, mesas, rivers, and slot canyons. World travelers remain in awe as they drive, walk, hike, and climb into such a unique place that is filled with vibrant, sacred, and mystical energy.
By: Dave Nally
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Peep Light
- Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain
- By: Lee Hendrix
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In Peep Light, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River. Hendrix, formerly a pilot for the Delta Queen Steamboat Co., has worked on the Mississippi for fifty years. In 2014, Hendrix became captain of the towboat Mississippi with the US Army Corps of Engineers, then he later retired to return to passenger vessels.
By: Lee Hendrix
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NASA and the American South
- By: Brian C. Odom - edited by, Stephen P. Waring - edited by
- Narrated by: Kent Klineman
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Bridging the gap between the history of technology and its geographical and cultural contexts, this book offers an unprecedented reevaluation of the impact of the space program on its surrounding landscape, introducing a new framework for interpreting the agency's legacy.
By: Brian C. Odom - edited by, and others
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Ghostwriter
- Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
- By: Lawrence Wells
- Narrated by: Lawrence Wells
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, "Ghostwriter" is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor (“Mrs. F,” then 75), who was convinced that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was William Shakespeare.
By: Lawrence Wells
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How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism
- The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks
- By: David J. Nelson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
-
Story
Countering the conventional narrative that Florida's tourism industry suffered during the Great Depression, this book shows that the 1930s were the starting point for much that characterizes modern Florida's tourism. David Nelson argues that state and federal government programs designed to reboot the economy during this decade are crucial to understanding the state today.
By: David J. Nelson
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The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
- The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery
- By: Di Rushing
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam decided to open the first winery in Mississippi. Their business was thriving by 1990, with eight national award-winning wines, a beautiful vineyard, and a successful restaurant. But in March of 1990, a series of unforeseen events rocked the operation. After the Rushings discovered one of the tour guides, Ray Russell, selling drugs in the winery parking lot, they fired him. He responded with a terrorizing vengeance that persisted over the next nine months.
By: Di Rushing
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The Oregon Trail
- By: Francis Parkman
- Narrated by: Tom North
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Francis Parkman was a noted 19th Century American historian who wrote widely about the American West.
By: Francis Parkman
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Inventing Paradise
- The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles
- By: Paul Haddad
- Narrated by: Paul Haddad
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.
By: Paul Haddad
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Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
- Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
- By: Seth Stern
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Most Holocaust survivors who came to the US after WWII settled in big cities, but some chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this chapter in American Jewish history when these refugees—including the author's grandparents—found an unlikely gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms.
By: Seth Stern
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The Tao of Raven
- An Alaska Native Memoir
- By: Ernestine Hayes
- Narrated by: Erin Tripp
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer.
By: Ernestine Hayes
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New City
- By: Patrick Girondi
- Narrated by: Patrick Girondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world’s largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny’s wife’s infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the “white man's” world. Standing over six feet tall, with a chiseled body, he can fix anything from leaky pipes to broken hearts.
By: Patrick Girondi
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Heart of American Darkness
- Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
- By: Robert G. Parkinson
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startlingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans.
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The Great River
- The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
- By: Boyce Upholt
- Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. But European settlers and American pioneers had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer. In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of human attempts to own and contain the Mississippi River, from Thomas Jefferson's expansionist land hunger through today's era of environmental concern
By: Boyce Upholt
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Under the Dome
- Politics, Crisis, and Architecture at the United States Capitol
- By: Alan M. Hantman, Sen. Harry M. Reid Jr. - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In Under the Dome, Alan Hantman, the Architect of the Capitol from 1997 to 2007, provides a personal account of how the Capitol works as a physical space; who runs it, how and why decisions are made about the security of the Capitol and the people who work there, and how politicians think about the Capitol Building.
By: Alan M. Hantman, and others
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I Don't Want to Go Home
- The Oral History of the Stone Pony
- By: Nick Corasaniti
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Jim Meskimen
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1970, Asbury Park, New Jersey, was ripped apart by race riots that left the once-proud beach town an hour away from Manhattan smoldering, suffering and left for dead. Four years later, a few miles down the coast in Seaside Heights, two bouncers, Jack Roig and Butch Pielka, tired of the daily grind, dreamt of owning their own place. Under-prepared and minimally funded, the two bought the first bar they considered, in a city where no one wanted to be, without setting one foot in the place. They named it the Stone Pony.
By: Nick Corasaniti
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Bloody Tuesday
- The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
- By: John M. Giggie
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bloody Tuesday, John Giggie powerfully recovers one of the last great untold stories of the civil rights movement and its role in the reckoning with America's ongoing struggle for racial justice.
By: John M. Giggie
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Killdozer
- The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage
- By: Patrick Brower
- Narrated by: Beau Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 4, 2004, Marvin Heeymeyer unleashed his gigantic, armored, tank-like bulldozer upon the small town of Granby, Colorado. It was an act of defiant, but misguided, revenge upon those who he perceived had done him wrong in a long series of local property disputes. Over a period of serveral hours, Heemeyer proceeded to cause mayhem and destruction while overwhelming the efforts of local police to stop the Killdozer in its tracks.
By: Patrick Brower