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FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executi...

Anita Folsom

Burton Folsom's New Deal or Raw Deal? was heralded by critics across the board, and #1 New York Times bestselling author and media personality Glenn Beck called it "a must read to help understand our current fiscal problems."...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

Frederick Forsyth

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own.  For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Mel Foster

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences...

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Published: May 2010

This Thing of Ours: How Faith Saved M...

Cammy Franzese

A handsome Italian film producer and a beautiful Mexican dancer... A match made on a movie set and a lavish Beverly Hills wedding. The beginning of Camille Franzese's story takes on the shade of an exotic fairy tale. But a closer look...

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Published: Jan 2012

When Life Gives You Pears: The Healin...

Jeannie Gaffigan

New York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerThe Big Sick meets Dad is Fat in this funny and heartfelt memoir from writer, director, wife, and mother Jeannie Gaffigan, as she reflects on the life-changing impact of battling a pear-siz...

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Published: Sep 2019

Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry...

Jerry Garcia

Listen in on hours of revelatory conversations with Jerry Garcia, one of the most beloved and missed figures in the world of music, with JERRY ON JERRY. More than twenty years after his death, at too young an age, Jerry remains a cult...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Garner Files: A Memoir

James Garner

After suffering physical abuse at the hands of his stepmother, James Garner left home at fourteen. He became Oklahoma's first draftee of the Korean War and was awarded with two Purple Hearts before returning to the United States and s...

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Published: Nov 2011

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Susan Jane Gilman

They were young, brilliant, and ambitious. They set out to conquer the world. Instead, the world conquered them. Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's riveting new memoir is a hilarious and haunting true adventure. IIt's filled wit...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Mon...

Natalie Goldberg

The difficulty of writing and the difficulty of living meet in Natalie Goldberg's memoir THE GREAT FAILURE. Goldberg's earlier works, WRITING DOWN THE BONES and WILD MIND, are cherished and passed along by her writing students, who fi...

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Published: Sep 2004

Antony & Cleopatra

Adrian Goldsworthy

In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal of his subjects, set against the political backdrop o...

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Published: Jun 2015

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickins...

Lyndall Gordon

Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon presents a startling portrayal of one of America's most significant literary figures that will change the way we view her life and legacy.

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Published: Jun 2010

Gotti Confidential

Victoria Gotti

For decades, scandalous rumors and sensational tabloid headlines have obscured the truth about one of the most famous and intriguing families in modern history: the real players, the real relationships, behind the closed doors of the ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Gr...

James Grant

During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the s...

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Published: Aug 2019

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

[Read by Robin Field] Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and...

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Published: Jun 2012

Lawrence and the Arabs

Robert Graves

T. E. Lawrence began his lifelong affair with the Middle East as a student at Oxford, taking a four-month walking tour of Syria to study the Crusaders castles. He later returned to the area as an archaeologist and was attached to Brit...

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Published: Feb 2010

Black Fire: The True Story of the Ori...

Robert Graysmith

When twenty-eight-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at a local bathhouse in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first novel. As Twain steamed, played cards, and drank beer with Sawyer (a v...

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Published: Oct 2012

Tim Gunn: the Natty Professor: A Mast...

Tim Gunn

Tim Gunn, America's favorite reality TV cohost, is known for his kind but firm approach in providing wisdom, guidance, and support to the scores of design hopefuls on Project Runway. Having begun his fashion career as a teacher at Par...

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Published: Mar 2015

James Madison and the Making of Ameri...

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

In James Madison and the Making of America, historian Kevin Gutzman looks beyond the way James Madison is traditionally seen-as "The Father of the Constitution"-to find a more complex and sometimes contradictory portrait of ...

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Published: Feb 2012

After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story...

Michael Hainey

Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attac...

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Published: May 2013

Firehouse

David Halberstam

"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other m...

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Published: Jun 2004

Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Mode...

Shyima Hall

Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved two hours away to Egypt's capitol city of Cairo to live with ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Playing to the Edge: American Intelli...

Michael V. Hayden

An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change  For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge m...

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Published: Feb 2016

Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story o...

Bruce Henderson

[Read by Brett Barry]In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 German-born Jews in special interrogation techniques and making use of their mastery ...

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Published: Jul 2017

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and...

Diana B. Henriques

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself.

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Published: Jun 2011

Hill 488

Ray Hildreth

On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of...

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Published: Apr 2015

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend

James S. Hirsch

Authorized by Willie Mays, the definitive biography of one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Alan Turing: The Enigma

Andrew Hodges

Listed as one of the essential 50 books of all time in The GuardianIt's only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial int...

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Published: Feb 2015

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, S...

Georgina Howell

She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the cre...

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Published: Oct 2016

A Simple Christmas: Bestseller's Choi...

Mike Huckabee

The former presidential candidate, governor and pastor and current talk-show host and best-selling author shares 12 true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy

Mike Huckabee

In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York Times bestselling author explores today's fractious American culture, where division...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2015
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