When the Century was Young
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Oil Booms and Flimflammers is about America's booming 20s seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy, including Brown's own hilarious foray into entrepreneurship. Teenaged Printer and Fledgling Journalist follows Brown after high school, when he learned the printer's trade, rudiments of journalism, and the mysteries of employer-employee relations at a small Ozark newspaper. In How Not to Report a Tornado, Brown is pressed into service as a teenaged reporter, sifts through rubble for tornado victims, and then rushes back to the newspaper office to compose his story directly on an old Linotype. With Encounter with the Newton County Law, Brown finds himself spending the night in Newton County's one-cell jail. The charge: bank robbery!
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The Ambulance Drivers
- Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
- De: James McGrath Morris
- Narrado por: Dean Temple
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense 20-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Morris always delivers interesting biographies...
- De NMwritergal en 04-08-17
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
- De: Lilian Jackson Braun
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 763
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Back in Pickax, Jim Qwilleran expects to resume a quiet life, but the people and animals of Pickax have other ideas. A noisy cardinal wakes him every morning. Nosy neighbors drop by uninvited, and the Siamese misbehave, even sneezing on guests. As if they weren't bad enough, Qwill's long-time companion acts as though she is in love, with another man. But worst of all, Qwill finds a body in his apple orchard.
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4 out of 5 stars
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lovely
- De Kindle Customer en 03-25-10
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Arthur Addison
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 566
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for Civil War Buffs!
- De Ms Winston en 12-06-14
De: Tony Horwitz
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The Girls of Atomic City
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,927
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,634
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,623
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important story of this secret city
- De CBlox en 11-14-13
De: Denise Kiernan
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Destined to Witness
- Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
- De: Hans Massaquoi
- Narrado por: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 135
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What would life be like for a Black boy growing up in Nazi Germany? This unprecedented autobiography answers that question with the spellbinding true story of Hans J. Massaquoi’s life in Hamburg during the height of Hitler’s regime. Hans is the son of a Black Liberian diplomat father and a white German mother. His father returns to Africa at the beginning of the war, leaving them behind in poverty without the means to flee. Within this tense atmosphere, increasingly violent Nazi policies and Allied bombing raids make Hans and his mother’s lives a day-to-day survival struggle.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An important story, marred by lackluster writing.
- De Christopher en 03-04-15
De: Hans Massaquoi
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
- Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- De: Phillip Hoose
- Narrado por: Phillip Hoose, Michael Braun
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What courage and determination...
- De Lorraine en 04-02-16
De: Phillip Hoose
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Hard Country
- A Novel
- De: Michael McGarrity
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,646
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,403
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,387
National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory - a job that will forever change his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Country lives up to it's title.
- De mar en 12-14-12
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Hellhound on His Trail
- The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Hampton Sides
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 826
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 826
On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man - whose real name was James Earl Ray -drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History Comes Alive
- De L. Lyter en 06-29-10
De: Hampton Sides
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China in Ten Words
- De: Yu Hua, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation. Characterized by Yu Hua’s trademark wit, insight, and courage, China in Ten Words is a refreshingly candid vision of the “Chinese miracle” and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Best Popular Book on China
- De taylor storey en 09-21-14
De: Yu Hua, y otros
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Night Soldiers
- De: Alan Furst
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 18 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,902
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,561
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,566
New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- De Placeholder en 04-27-11
De: Alan Furst
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30,764
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25,410
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rich Read!
- De D en 09-18-03
De: Erik Larson
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The Secret Game
- A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
- De: Scott Ellsworth
- Narrado por: Scott Ellsworth
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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In the wartime fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing the game forever. Within six months his Eagles would become the highest-scoring college basketball team in America, a fast-breaking, hard-pressing juggernaut that would shatter its opponents by as many as 60 points per game. The last student of James Naismith, basketball's inventor, McLendon had opened the door to its future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My hometown
- De Jimmy_C en 02-27-25
De: Scott Ellsworth
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Eighty Days
- Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
- De: Matthew Goodman
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 18 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who knew?
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 03-18-13
De: Matthew Goodman
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Scoop
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Cadell
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 278
In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed "a newspaper adventure", Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondants as he tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaelia to London as the "Daily's Beast's" more accoladed overseas reporter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well Written & Funny but Lacking
- De Michael en 07-19-15
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes
- A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
- De: Jason Fagone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,551
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,970
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,958
In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the US government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the Adam and Eve of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, has never been told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating Biography
- De Jean en 11-20-17
De: Jason Fagone