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An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember
Christopher Andersen
It was one of the greatest romances of our time. They were both Hollywood giants in their own right, yet it was the nine hit films Katherine Hepburn made with Spencer Tracy that, in the eyes of the...
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Al Capone
Al Capone
The Untouchable Legend
Langbein & Skalnik Media

A unique one-hour biography of the most notorious gangster in history.

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Alexander the Great and His Time
Alexander the Great and His Time
Agnes Savill

"To be mystical and intensely practical, to dream greatly and to do greatly, is not," says Agnes Savill, "given to many men; it is this combination which gives Alexander his place apart in history....

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American Gangster and Other Tales of New York
American Gangster and Other Tales of New York
Mark Jacobson

In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas...

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American Prometheus
American Prometheus
Kai Bird

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic...

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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood

Ten years in the making, the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood reveals Benjamin Franklin's life and meaning.

Why did Benjamin Franklin retire from business and...

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver

In this seamless diary narrative, best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia after suffering through years of drought in Arizona. Their...

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Anxious Souls Will Ask
Anxious Souls Will Ask
The Christ Centered Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
John Matthews

This brief yet brilliant book shows that the prison reflections of Dietrich Bonhoeffer contain profound inspiration for all who desire to walk more closely with Jesus in today's often troubling...

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April 4, 1968
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and the Transformation of America
Michael Eric Dyson

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, was fatally shot. Only hours earlier, he had ended his final public speech by promising that "we as...

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Army Wives
Army Wives
The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage
Tanya Biank
Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring listeners into the hearts and homes of today's military wives.

Biank tells the story of four typical army wives...
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