Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $56.21
Review Lewis and Clark (Bio-Graphics) / Abdo Publishing Company:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! Lewis and Clark have been plucked from history books and their lives and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Creator: Barr McClellan
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 364
List Price: $79.99
Price: $56.29
Review Blood, Money & Power (Library Edition): How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. / Tantor Media:The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings.
Creator: S. Patricia
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.69
Review Josephine / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Alluring, wealthy, and married to the conqueror of Europe, Josephine appeared in 1804 as the most favored woman in France; but her actual life was far darker. Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life. When she married Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796, Rose de Beauharnais was a 32-year-old widow who had narrowly escaped the French Revolution's guillotine. She was six years older than he, notorious for her lovers, and unlikely to give him children, but possessed of the social connections and skills the ambitious young general thought would help him rise in the revolutionary army. He gave "his living reverie, his dream of perfect passion" a new name, Josephine-perhaps hoping it would blot out her unsavory past. Instead, she continued to be promiscuous as well as extravagant, and the marriage soured as Napoleon ascended to first consul and then emperor of the French. Yet he divorced her only in 1810, when political events made it clear he must have an heir. This highly colored biography practically wallows in Josephine's lurid personal life, colored in by luscious descriptions of the period's clothes, food, and amusements. The author, whose many previous books mostly deal with English royalty, does not burden readers with excessive doses of French history; the focus is always on Josephine, whose psychology is discussed at length. Erickson succeeds in making her subject an attractive figure, if hardly an exemplar of moral rectitude. [+]Her book should appeal to those who like their historical biographies titillating and not too taxing. -Wendy Smith.
Creator: Diana Bishop
Publication date: 2004-04
List Price: $64.95
Price: $57.12
Review Frogspawn and Floor Polish (Soundings) / ISIS Audio Books:'I've never forgotten the photographer who came in as white as a sheet and said he hadn't realised the fence was electrified. Until he was astride it. Nasty. ' Join Mary Mackie and husband Chris as they revisit Felbrigg Hall, the stately home they lived and worked in for several years. Behind the beauty of the gardens, resplendent with apple blossom and wisteria, and beyond the imposing majesty of the seventeenth-century architecture, a constant battle is waged against mould and fungus, over-zealous conservationists, and floors on the brink of collapse. Mary reveals the quirks and quagmires of living in this wonderful Norfolk National Trust house.
Creator: Tom Weiner
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-11-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:A brilliant new biography of Saint Paul, whose interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus transformed a loosely organized, grassroots peasant movement into the structured religion we know todayWithout Paul, there would be no Christianity. His letters to various churches scattered throughout the Roman Empire articulated, for the first time, the beliefs that make up the heart of Christian practice and faith. In this extraordinary biography, Bruce Chilton explains the changing images of Paul, from the early Church period when he was regarded as the premiere apostle who separated Christianity from Judaism to more recent liberal evaluations, which paint him as an antifeminist, homophobic figure more dedicated to doctrine than to spiritual freedom. By illuminating Paul’s thoughts and contributions within the context of his time, Chilton restores him to his place as the founding architect of the Church and one of the most important figures in Western history. Rabbi Paul is at once a compelling, highly readable biography and a window on how Jesus’ message was transformed into a religion embraced by millions around the world. Drawing on Paul’s own writings as well as historical and scholarly documents about his life and times, Chilton portrays an all-too-human saint who helped to create both the most beautiful and the most troublesome aspects of the Church. He shows that Paul sought to specify the correct approach to such central concerns as sexuality, obedience, faith, conscience, and spirit, to define religion as an institution, and to clarify the nature of the religious personality—issues that Christians still struggle with today.
Creator: Michael Kramer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review Raoul Wallenberg: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Dick Hill
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 364.1523092274723
List Price: $99.99
Price: $57.09
Review The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia / Tantor Media:The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops convicted in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their acts behind their badges while working for the mob. Their crimes included participation in the murders of at least eight men, kidnapping, and torture. "[O]ne of the most spectacular police corruption scandals in the city's history," proclaimed the New York Times in its front-page coverage of the verdict.
Creator: Joanna Savill
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review Christian Dior: The Man Who Made The World Look New, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Marlena
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-20
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review That Summer In Sicily / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:The discovery of a secret Sicilian villa in a forgotten time and place, run by widows and ruled by ritual, brings lessons of life, love, and eating well, even as a fairy-tale romance between an unforgettable woman and an Italian prince unfolds.
Creator: Alan Sklar
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-08-27
Dewey code: 973.931092
List Price: $99.99
Price: $56.78
Review Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President / Tantor Media:New York Times bestselling author Stephen F. Hayes delivers a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important political figures in modern times.
Creator: Mark Rosenwinkel
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-02
Dewey code: 220
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review God In Sandals / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Norman Dietz
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 973.41092
List Price: $99.99
Price: $57.08
Review For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions / Tantor Media:On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were.
Creator: Fred Williams
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.69
Review Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $84.14
Price: $57.42
Review Abraham Lincoln (Bio-Graphics) / Graphic Planet:Graphic novels aren t just for superheroes! Abraham Lincoln has been plucked from history books and his life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels.
Creator: Tom
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review Daniel Boone / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In the most reliable biography of Daniel Boone to date, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays Americas famous frontier hero, while illuminating the American hero-making process itself.
Run time: 710 min.
Creator: Dan Woren
Publication date: 2007
Price: $56.96
Review The Brother One Cell / Books on Tape:An American coming of Age in South Korea's prisons
Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-05
Dewey code: 973.7092
List Price: $99.99
Price: $56.61
Review President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman / Tantor Media:The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world-and back in the nineteenth century, a great man held that office. William Lee Millera (TM)s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.
Creator: Stefan Rudnicki
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-11
Dewey code: 972
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review After Fidel: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Stefan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-01
Dewey code: 364.1552092
List Price: $99.00
Price: $57.05
Review Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Immediately gripping and thoroughly harrowing, Storming Las Vegas tells the story of a remarkable true-life crime spreea story that was previously squashed so as not to disturb tourism, in the ultimate proof of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Creator: Anna Fields
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-11-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $90.00
Price: $56.70
Review Doris Lessing: A Biography, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:A searching first biography of the celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work, this book is based on exclusive interviews with the fascinating Doris Lessing's lovers, colleagues, and friends. This first biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers uncovers the woman that Lessing herself withheld in her autobiographical novels and memoirs. For beyond the courageous, resourceful figure who fearlessly challenges the status quo in works like the four-volume Children of Violence or Lessing's masterpiece Golden Notebook, this revealing study finds an emotionally fragile woman forever in search of her essential identity. Displaced and rebellious, Lessing also always broke the rules. Born in Persia to a hypercritical mother, and a father who had been shell-shocked in World War I, she was raised in Rhodesia. Twice married and divorced by the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase and only one of her children in hand. An ardent Communist before and during World War II - when she was married to a German - she distanced herself from the Party shortly thereafter. Similarly, she ardently embraced and then discarded feminism. A prolific writer, she continued throughout her career to chart new territory, most famously with the series of science-fiction novels she submitted to her publisher under a pseudonym, and to reinvent the formidable persona masking the far more frangible self that this book reveals.
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Killed J.F.K., Josephine, Frogspawn and Floor Polish (Soundings), Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, Library Edition, Raoul Wallenberg: Library Edition, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia, Christian Dior: The Man Who Made The World Look New, Library Edition, That Summer In Sicily, Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, God In Sandals, For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions, Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys: Library Edition, Abraham Lincoln (Bio-Graphics), Daniel Boone, The Brother One Cell, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman, After Fidel: Library Edition, Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars, Doris Lessing: A Biography, Library EditionTop headlines: Real Estate: Keeping Tabs On 'This Old House': Now in its 28th year, 'This Old House' has helped transform dozens of houses. 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