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Hannibal: One Man Against Rome (Unabridged), Harold Lamb Parents & Family This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome. When conflict between Rome and Carthage resumed in 219 B.C., after a brief hiatus from the first Punic War, the Romans decided to invade Spain. Eluding... (10 hours and 55 min.) ukázka audio |
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Philosophy for Studs: The Alpha Male Guide (Unabridged), Anthony Leccisi Parents & Family History's greatest thinkers, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sun Tzu, Seneca, Baudelaire, Sir Francis Bacon, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, and others expound their philosophies on wine, women, song, love, lust, life, living, m... (3 hours and 40 min.) ukázka audio |
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A Survey of the Middle Ages: c. 500 - c. 1270 A.D. (Unabridged), John Pruskin Parents & Family In this audiobook, John Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance. You have a ringside seat as the remnants of the Roman Empire emerge from the tangled chaos of the barbarian conquests. The eastern empir... (10 hours and 50 min.) |
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Black Like Me (Unabridged), John Howard Griffin Parents & Family Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race. Through medication, he dyed his skin dark and left his f... (6 hours and 59 min.) ukázka audio |
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A History of Rome, Volume 1 (Unabridged), Cyril Robinson Parents & Family A History of Rome is the story of a tiny market town on the Tiber, its rise to world domination, and then its slow, terrible plunge to utter ruin. It is the single greatest event in all human history. Discover the fascinating origin of Rome and its... (10 hours and 28 min.) ukázka audio |
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A History of Rome, Volume 2 (Unabridged), Cyril Robinson Parents & Family With Caesar's assassination comes renewed civil war. The aristocratic senatorial faction is defeated and the Republican form of government is replaced by dictatorship. Caesar's adopted nephew, Augustus, comes to power as the first Roman Emperor and puts... (7 hours and 57 min.) ukázka audio |
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Tuck Everlasting (Unabridged), Natalie Babbitt Parents & Family Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could live forever? In this modern classic, Tuck Everlasting, author Natalie Babbitt explores the unforeseen complications that arise when the Tuck family unwittingly drinks from a spring of eternal life. Then 10-year... (3 hours) ukázka audio |
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The Birchbark House (Unabridged), Louise Erdrich Parents & Family Set in the Lake Superior region in the mid-1800s, The Birchbark House is a vital novel providing fascinating details of a year in the life of young Omakayas, a girl of the Ojibwa. With exquisite care, National Book Critics Circle Award winner Lou... (5 hours and 30 min.) |
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A Survey of Ancient History, John Pruskin Parents & Family In this eight-hour audiobook, five thousand years of history have been condensed into a concise and easy to follow series of lectures. Each track is a titled section, no more than two to four minutes long, making the material easy to ingest, navigate an... (7 hours and 4 min.) |
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, Virginia Hamilton Parents & Family Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), a giant in the world of children's literature, was the first African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. In her prize-winning anthology of Americ... (3 hours and 47 min.) ukázka audio |
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Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick Parents & Family Can a whale attack a ship? The shipwrecked crew of the whaleship Essex was living proof that it could when a whale displayed a fury never before witnessed, ramming and sinking their vessel in a matter of minutes in November 1820. The story of their... (5 hours and 29 min.) ukázka audio |
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Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham, Volume 1 (Unabridged), William Somerset Maugham Parents & Family William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born at the height of British Imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life - the proud, the urb... (3 hours and 41 min.) ukázka audio |
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Introduction to English Literature: The Anglo-Saxon Era to the Victorian Era (Unabridged), Charles Lamarck Parents & Family The study of literature is the cornerstone of any liberal arts education. Literature is the history of ideas. It is a reflection of thoughts, feelings and culture of a time and a place. What better place to start when learning about the world we live in?<... (11 hours and 36 min.) ukázka audio |
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Zora Neale Hurston: Stories (Unabridged), Zora Neale Hurston Parents & Family As powerful as Zora Neale Hurston is in print, hearing her as narrated by Renee Joshua-Porter makes her work dance and soar with an unfettered vigor. Hurston's best known work is the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, but her short stories are a s... (3 hours and 9 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Three Documents That Made America (Unabridged), Sam Fink Parents & Family For the first time ever, the complete founding documents of the United States of America are here in one unabridged recording. Sam Fink, award-winning author of the highly acclaimed illustrated book of The Declaration of Independence, provides conc... (1 hour and 27 min.) ukázka audio |
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A History of Greece, Volume 1 (Unabridged), Cyril Robinson Parents & Family A History of Greece is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the greatest civilization the world has ever known. As Cyril Robinson's exquisite narrative unfolds, we find ourselves plunged into mankind's greatest and most magnifi... (9 hours and 21 min.) ukázka audio |
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A History of Greece, Volume 2 (Unabridged), Cyril Robinson Parents & Family A History of Greece continues with the bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens for mastery of the Hellenic world. Though Sparta finally emerges victorious, her victory soon turns to ashes with the ascendancy of Thebes and the still greater power... (7 hours and 18 min.) ukázka audio |
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Paddle-to-the-Sea (Unabridged), Holling Clancy Holling Parents & Family A young Indian boy from Nipigon country in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place. He must stay home and help his father, but yearns to learn... (59 min.) ukázka audio |
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Seedfolks (Unabridged), Paul Fleischman Parents & Family Thirteen lives. One garden. Set in Cleveland, Newbery-Award-winning author Paul Fleischman's poignant book is a large lesson in connectedness and community for all. When a derelict vacant lot is gradually transformed into a community garden in inner city... (1 hour and 26 min.) ukázka audio |
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American Tall Tales (Unabridged), Mary Pope Osborne Parents & Family This superb collection of larger-than-life folk heroes aptly represents America's robust early days, perfectly capturing the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness. Author Mary Pope Osborne supplies a f... (2 hours and 11 min.) ukázka audio |