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  Become a Better Writer in One...

  Howard Dunkley

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  For many writers, the first sentence of an essay is intimidating. This audio book, which is narrated like a conversation with a personal tutor, guides you on planning and editing an outstanding essay. It offers practical, easy-to-follow instructions that help you overcome anxiety and self-doubt. There are many resources on grammar and punctuation. This audio book does not explore them at great length. Instead, it hones in on the overarching issues that many English language learners, persons pursuing a high school equivalency diploma, and college students enrolled in remedial and introductory writing courses face. You are 30 minutes away from beginning the process of unleashing your true writing potential.

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  The United States of English -...

  Rosemarie Ostler

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  The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between 
   
   
   
  By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. 
   
   
   
  The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred years, explaining both how and why it changed and which parts of the "mother tongue" it preserved (I guess was heard in the British countryside long before it became a typical Americanism). Plentiful examples of the American vernacular, past and present, bring the language to life and make for an engaging as well as enlightening listen.

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  Marie Antoinette – A Queen...

  Sebastian Williams

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  Marie Antoinette—symbol of luxury, excess, and the tragic downfall of the French monarchy. From her lavish life at Versailles to her dramatic trial and execution during the French Revolution, her story is one of power, extravagance, and ultimate sacrifice. 
  This audiobook takes you inside the world of palace intrigues, political chaos, and personal struggles that defined Marie Antoinette’s reign. Was she truly an out-of-touch queen, or a misunderstood woman trapped in history’s most turbulent times? 
  Marie Antoinette – A Queen Caught Between Luxury and Revolution is a gripping exploration of the woman behind the legend. Perfect for history lovers, royal enthusiasts, and those intrigued by powerful women in history.

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  The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran

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  The Prophet is a book beloved by millions for 100 years. The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It is Gibran's best-known work.
  The prophet Al Mustafa has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship that will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
  Although published in 1923, the book contains universal wisdom that still rings true to this day and makes an excellent audiobook.

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  Empire Unraveled

  Santiago Machain

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  This book charts the turbulent twilight of the Mongol imperium and the astonishing resilience of the world it rewired. Beginning with the succession crises after Kublai Khan, it follows the splintering of the Yuan, Ilkhanate, Chagatai, and the Golden Horde—revealing how court intrigue, climate shocks, and the Black Death intersected with finance, technology, and faith. Across nine deeply researched chapters, the book uncovers how postal roads became arteries for ideas as much as armies; how blue-and-white porcelain, paper finance, and siege machines moved across languages and borders; and how legal reforms and city-building created bureaucratic habits that endured long after dynasties fell.

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  The Thirty-First of March - An...

  Horace Busby, Scott Busby

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  An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson's politics and presidency by one of his closest advisors. 
   
   
   
  Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisors; their close working and personal relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis. From the aftereffects of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns that defined the Great Society—civil rights, the economy, social legislation, housing, and the Vietnam War—Busby not only articulated and refined Johnson's political thinking, he also helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda since FDR's New Deal. 
   
   
   
  Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK's choice of an open limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father, sickened by the deaths of young men fighting and dying in Vietnam on his orders. The Thirty-first of March is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of Johnson's presidency, as seen through the eyes of one of the people who understood him best.

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