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  The Rio Grande Sniper Killings -...

  John Primomo

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  Untangle the complex conspiracy that led to the tragic deaths of Charlotte Kay Elliott and Kevin Edwin Frase on the banks of the Rio Grande. On the night of July 13, 1980, a hitman fired a high-powered rifle into the crowd at Pepe's On the River, an outdoor bar in Mission, Texas. He missed his target, a witness in the Loop 360 drug case, but killed two young bystanders. While state court prosecutions for capital murder inexplicably faltered, a federal court gave the assassin a life sentence for attempted murder of a grand jury witness. A member of the judge's staff who was present throughout the trial, author John W. Primomo revisits the dramatic twists and turns surrounding this murder on the Rio Grande.

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  Crécy and Agincourt: The History...

  Editors Charles River

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  Although it ended over 550 years ago, the Hundred Years’ War still looms large in the historical consciousness of England and France, even if the name of the famous war is a misnomer. The war was more of a series of separate conflicts between the English and French monarchies, interspersed with periods of peace, and its reputation remains an odd one, in part because its origins were based on royal claims that dated back centuries. Furthermore, the English and French remained adversaries for nearly 400 years after it ended.  
  	That said, the war was transformative in many respects, and the impact it had on the geopolitical situation of Europe cannot be overstated. While some might think of the war as being a continuation of the feudal tradition of knights and peasants, the Hundred Years’ War revolutionized European warfare, and it truly helped to usher in the concept of nationalism on the continent. In England, it is remembered as a period of grandeur and success, even though the English lost the war and huge swathes of territory with it, while the French remember it as a strategic victory that ensured the continued independence of France and the denial of English hegemony. The legacy of the war has lived on ever since, helping determine how England became politically severed from the continent, how the knightly chivalric tradition slid into irrelevance, and how battlefield dominance can still leave a nation a loser in war.  
  Indeed, nothing characterized that dominance quite like the campaign that culminated with the Battle of Crécy, where the English used their diverse forces to maximum effect to defeat the French, a victory that allowed the English to eventually take and hold Calais. Agincourt was a hard-fought battle, and Henry V at one point ordered prisoners executed to avoid allowing them to be rescued. In the end the English won a decisive victory, taking 1,500 prisoners and marching on safely to Calais. 

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  Two Treatises of Government

  John Locke

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  What if political power were not born from blood, conquest, or divine command—but from the consent of free people? 
   
  In *Two Treatises of Government*, John Locke gives one of the defining arguments of modern political philosophy. Written in the atmosphere of seventeenth-century conflict over monarchy, authority, property, liberty, and resistance, this landmark work challenges absolute power and asks what makes government legitimate. 
   
  The first treatise attacks the theory that kings possess natural or divinely inherited authority over mankind. The second treatise develops Locke’s enduring vision of civil society: human beings possess natural rights, political authority exists by consent, property arises through labor, and government becomes a trust that may be resisted when it betrays its purpose. 
   
  Locke’s ideas helped shape later debates about constitutional government, liberalism, revolution, individual liberty, and the limits of state power. For listeners interested in political theory, philosophy, law, history, democracy, and the roots of modern rights language, this work remains essential. 
   
  This AI-narrated audiobook offers a clear, polished, and accessible listening experience, helping modern audiences follow Locke’s dense reasoning, historical argument, and philosophical structure with steadiness and precision. 
   
  Enter one of the great arguments against absolute rule, and hear the work that continues to echo wherever liberty, property, government, and consent are debated.

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  Just Hear Me Out - How to Change...

  Colin Marshall

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  A guide to persuasion for people who want to change minds without manipulation or coercion. 
  Most of us have given up on persuasion. We say our problems are too pressing, people are too polarized, and success is too dubious—and it’s true! After all, when was the last time you heard someone actually change their mind? To improve our persuasive powers, self-help books often ask us to stoop to dishonest, manipulative tricks that rarely achieve lasting results. But perhaps there is a way to persuade people that is neither hopelessly misguided nor morally suspect. 
  In Just Hear Me Out, philosopher Colin Marshall describes a persuasive method that is both effective and ethical. Rather than share a flurry of tips for how to win friends and influence people, Marshall invites us to take up persuasion as fundamentally civil work, good both for our conscience and our communities. Real-world persuaders such as Jane Addams, Daryl Davis, and Fred Rogers show us an ethical route, he argues, to changing hearts through patience, respect, and compassion. 
  Accessible, practical, and buoyed by hope, Just Hear Me Out offers a powerful method for all who want to persuade others but aren’t interested in winning at any cost. When it works, people don’t just change their minds; they discover anew how to value our common humanity.

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  Professor jiang: jiang xueqin...

  Steve Nico Williams

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  PROFESSOR JIANG: JIANG XUEQIN THE WHITEBOARD PROPHET tells the astonishing true story of the Chinese‑Canadian high school teacher who saw the future no one else could see. In May 2024, Jiang Xueqin stood before a whiteboard in a Beijing classroom and calmly explained why a U.S. war with Iran would end in catastrophe. His students barely listened. The video he uploaded that night received zero views. Two years later, with American warships burning in the Strait of Hormuz and the world hurtling toward a conflict Washington could not win, that same grainy footage exploded—viewed forty million times and counting. Suddenly the quiet educator became Professor Jiang, the Whiteboard Prophet whose unflinching analysis of terrain, logistics, and the ancient Athenian disaster in Sicily had predicted the unthinkable. This landmark biography traces Jiang Xueqin from his childhood scrubbing dishes in a Toronto kitchen and his lonely years at Yale to his deportation from China and his improbable return as the architect of a new kind of education. At the heart of the book lies the Whiteboard Prophet’s revolutionary “Predictive History” framework—a way of seeing the patterns that shape wars, economies, and our own daily decisions. Part geopolitical thriller, part immigrant odyssey, part manual for thinking clearly in a chaotic age, PROFESSOR JIANG is the definitive portrait of the man who taught the world to look at the map before it marched into the mountains of Iran. For anyone wondering what happens next in the Strait of Hormuz and beyond, Jiang Xueqin’s story is essential reading.

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  Her America - Eight Women Who...

  Heather B. Moore

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  From award-winning, starred-review author Heather B. Moore comes a powerful portrait of eight American women whose courage and conviction smashed stereotypes and built a nation. 
   
  Her America recognizes eight remarkable women who refused to wait for permission to prove a woman’s worth in society. They fought for American independence, the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and civil rights with their pens and their voices, empowered by their unwavering convictions and courage, to challenge the status quo. Through vivid fictional vignettes and meticulously researched nonfiction accounts, Her America immerses readers in these women’s crucial role in transforming this nation.  
   
  Mercy Otis Warren ignited a revolution with her politically impassioned plays and became the first published female historian of America.  
  Sojourner Truth electrified audiences with her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and turned her freedom into a crusade for abolition and equality.  
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton authored the Declaration of Sentiments, launching the women’s suffrage movement.  
  Susan B. Anthony built an unstoppable campaign for women’s voting rights that reshaped American democracy.  
  Harriet Tubman rescued enslaved families through the Underground Railroad and later commanded Union troops to freedom.  
  Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of First Lady and shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  
  Jovita Idár founded schools, organized resistance, and wielded her pen to defend Mexican American civil rights.  
  Marguerite Higgins broke barriers as a Pulitzer Prize–winning frontline war correspondent.  
   
  Her America is an essential addition to any collection on women’s history, social justice, and the power of courage in action. It is perfect for classrooms, book clubs, and libraries, as it invites discussion, inspires leadership, and connects past to present with clarity and mastery.

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