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  The American Experience - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton,...

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  Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history. Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end all contests in the rowdy days of the Forty-Niners. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" tells of one man's strange fascination with another. "The Ransom of Red Chief" is another of O. Henry's tales of a kidnapping that goes horribly, horribly, wrong. 
   
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  "Rip Van Winkle" 
  by Washington Irving, 
  narrated by George Vafiadis 
   
  "The Man of the Crowd" 
  by Edgar Allan Poe, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "The Red Badge of Courage" 
  by Stephen Crane, 
  narrated by Sean Pratt 
   
  "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 
  by Mark Twain, 
  narrated by Thomas Becker 
   
  "The Ransom of Red Chief" 
  by O'Henry, 
  narrated by Michael Hanson 
   
  "The Call of the Wild" 
  by Jack London, 
  narrated by Michael Kramer 
   
  "Desiree's Baby" 
  by Kate Chopin, 
  narrated by Jacquilin Kinlow 
   
  "Miss Tempy's Watchers" 
  by Sarah Orne Jewett, 
  narrated by Tana Hickens 
   
  "The Eyes" 
  by Edith Wharton, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" 
  by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 
  narrated by Kimberly Schraf

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  31 Men of the Bible - Who They...

  Holman Bible Staff

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  31 Men of the Bible features 31 profiles of important men in the Bible. Each profile includes the related Scripture reference, a character summary, and application questions to help the listener discover who these men were and what we can learn from them today.
  
  Features include: 
  31 profiles of important men in the Bible, with life application questions 
  A study tool that provides a greater understanding of important men in the Bible
  
  An EChristian, Inc. production.

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  Lover Come Back - A Memoir (An...

  Scott Hildreth

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  Scott Hildreth is a married father of six children. He is a bestselling romance author who has published over fifty novels, half of which have been number one bestsellers. His journey to his current existence, however, wasn't an easy one. 
  At one point, he had it all: a house on the hill, a wife, three children, and a career in construction management. After becoming the focus of an ATF investigation, he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit. 
  His fight on the U.S. Supreme Court steps ended in a loss, and he went to federal prison. In doing so, he lost his wife, contact with his children, and his home. 
  After serving his time in prison, he returned to work and reunited with the men in his motorcycle club. Once again on top of the world, but lacking trust in society—and women in general—his only relationship was with his motorcycle. 
  Three years later, he was jobless, carless, penniless, and holding an eviction notice. 
  Inspired by a woman he met at a donut shop, he took a chance at a career he had no formal training in—being an author. 
  Fueled by nothing more than his love for her, he climbed to the top of his industry, and hasn't looked back since. 
  Lover Come Back is a true—but often unbelievable—tale of loss, sacrifice, second chances, and, ultimately, love. It takes the listener from the courtroom to the lush beaches of Naples, Florida, where Scott and his family currently reside. 
  The journey is gut-wrenching, comedic, hard to believe, and heartwarming. In the end, it is a love story that will leave you believing in second chances and first loves. 
  Contains mature themes.

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  Hannibal - A Hellenistic Life

  Eve MacDonald

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  The life of the great Carthaginian general who marched into Rome during the Second Punic War is reexamined in this revealing and scholarly biography.   Once of the greatest military minds of the Ancient World, Hannibal Barca lived a life of daring and survival, massive battles, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into Rome’s own heartland to fight the Second Punic War. Yet the Romans were the ultimate victors. They eventually captured and destroyed Carthage, and thus it was they who wrote the legend of Hannibal: a brilliant and worthy enemy whose defeat represented military glory for Rome.   In this groundbreaking biography, Eve MacDonald employs archaeological findings and documentary sources to expand the memory of Hannibal beyond his military career. Considering him in the context of his time and the Carthaginian culture that shaped him, MacDonald offers a complex portrait of a man from a prominent family who was both a military hero and a statesman. MacDonald also analyzes Hannibal’s legend over the millennia, exploring how statuary, Jacobean tragedy, opera, nineteenth-century fiction, and other depictions illuminate the character of one of the most fascinating figures in all of history.

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  Summary: Killers of the Flower...

  Brooks Bryant

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  DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK. 
  This is a summary, and it does not accompany the official 
  'Killers of the Flower Moon' by David Grann uncovers a dark chapter in American history from the 1920s. At that time, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma was the world's wealthiest community per capita, thanks to the discovery of oil beneath their land. They lived in luxury, but their newfound prosperity attracted a sinister wave of violence. 
  Members of the Osage Nation, including Mollie Burkhart's family, began to be systematically murdered, with some shot and others poisoned. Investigations into these killings were met with deadly consequences, as those who dared to inquire were also murdered. 
  The newly established FBI stepped in to investigate, with the young director J. Edgar Hoover is assigning former Texas Ranger Tom White to crack the case. White assembled an undercover team, including a Native American agent, to infiltrate the region. Together with the Osage, they exposed a chilling conspiracy that is one of the most disturbing in American history. 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is a gripping true story of murder, intrigue, and the birth of the FBI in the face of a shocking conspiracy.

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  The Last Sheriff in Texas - A...

  James P. McCollom

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  A timely and sharply observed examination of a changing America through one small town election. Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point-blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine's full-page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff's extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from all across America poured into Beeville's tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville's favorite son, Johnny Barnhart. Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again. The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo-Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban-rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, distrust of politicians and the political process-all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.

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