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Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears

by Jack Ford ...

From award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a riveting and colorful dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII, combining breathtaking wartime narrative with a compelling Cold War espionage tale for fans of Christine Mangan, Pam Jenoff, Erika Robuck, and Kate Quinn.Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee ... Read more

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From award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a riveting and colorful dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII, combining breathtaking wartime narrative with a compelling Cold War espionage tale for fans of Christine Mangan, Pam Jenoff, Erika Robuck, and Kate Quinn.Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee
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Chariot on the Mountain

by Jack Ford ...

A formerly enslaved woman's remarkable story of pressing charges on her captors is vividly captured in this historical novel based on true events.Two decades before the Civil War, middle-class farmer Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. Not only is she is kept by the Maddox family as a slave, she is also ... Read more

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A formerly enslaved woman's remarkable story of pressing charges on her captors is vividly captured in this historical novel based on true events.Two decades before the Civil War, middle-class farmer Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. Not only is she is kept by the Maddox family as a slave, she is also
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Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears

by Jack Ford ...

Narrated by Cynthia Farrell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism career has been relegated to society events and fashion stories. But when she receives a tip about a Russian spy in a high-ranking government position at the height of the Cold War, she feels the thrill of a story that she hasn't felt since she was on the front lines of the European theater . . ... Read more

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Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee Carson, former war correspondent, is frustrated that her journalism career has been relegated to society events and fashion stories. But when she receives a tip about a Russian spy in a high-ranking government position at the height of the Cold War, she feels the thrill of a story that she hasn't felt since she was on the front lines of the European theater . .
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50 Short Story Masterpieces you have to listen before you die (Golden Deer Classics)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, O.Henry, Mark Twain, Kahlil Gibran, W.W. Jacobs, Anonymous, Thomas Jefferson, Founding Fathers, Plato, Lord Alfred Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, William Dean Howells, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leo Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Edgar Allan Poe, Lao Tzu, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Patrick Henry, H.G. Wells, Saki, Herman Melville, Clement Clarke Moore, Bret Harte, Immanuel Kant, Jack London, Henry Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, D.H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, John Muir ...

Narrated by Michael Scott ...

Unabridged

32 hours 31 min

F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred ... Read more

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F.Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 02. O.Henry - The Gift of the Magi 03. Mark Twain - On The Decay of the Art of Lying 04. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 05. E.A. Poe - The Raven 06. Kahlil Gibran - The Madman 07. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw 08. Anonymous - Aladdin 09. The Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence 10. Plato - The Apology of Socrates 11. Lord Alfred
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Library of Masterpieces - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

by William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Ford Madox Ford, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen, Rudyard Kipling, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli ...

The Centennial Library is an essential collection of timeless masterpieces from various genres and eras. This carefully chosen selection spans the vast landscape of world literature, offering readers a timeless journey through the most influential and enduring works: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Pride and ... Read more

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The Centennial Library is an essential collection of timeless masterpieces from various genres and eras. This carefully chosen selection spans the vast landscape of world literature, offering readers a timeless journey through the most influential and enduring works: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Pride and
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Live Like Sean

Important Life Lessons from My Special-Needs Son

by TJ Nelligan, Theresa Foy DiGeronimo ...

Narrated by Jack Ford ...

Unabridged

4 hours 25 min

2022 IPPY Book Awards Gold Medalist in Inspirational & Spiritual2022 IBPA Ben Franklin Award, Silver Winner - Parenting & Family2021 2021 BIBA® Non-Fiction Winner2021 Non-Fiction Book Author Association; Gold WinnerWhen my son Sean was born with special needs, his mother and I were told he would never be “normal” and we mourned for the life we had imagined for him. We thought we would have to be ... Read more

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2022 IPPY Book Awards Gold Medalist in Inspirational & Spiritual2022 IBPA Ben Franklin Award, Silver Winner - Parenting & Family2021 2021 BIBA® Non-Fiction Winner2021 Non-Fiction Book Author Association; Gold WinnerWhen my son Sean was born with special needs, his mother and I were told he would never be “normal” and we mourned for the life we had imagined for him. We thought we would have to be
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Chariot on the Mountain

by Jack Ford ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves—and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband’s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children.Already in ... Read more

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Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves—and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband’s property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children.Already in
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Madness

by Jack Whitney ...

Narrated by Angelina Rocca, Bradley Ford ...

Series series Young Decay
Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

ANDI: For a decade, I've managed to dodge getting assigned to photograph my brother's rock band, Young Decay. It's only for ten days. Just long enough to capture their Halloween homecoming show run and while they find a permanent replacement.I'm set for home, thinking I can avoid all the fears going home comes with. However, I don't expect to find someone who sees my darkness not as a flaw but as ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

ANDI: For a decade, I've managed to dodge getting assigned to photograph my brother's rock band, Young Decay. It's only for ten days. Just long enough to capture their Halloween homecoming show run and while they find a permanent replacement.I'm set for home, thinking I can avoid all the fears going home comes with. However, I don't expect to find someone who sees my darkness not as a flaw but as
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A Slow Death or, The Silence of the Old World

by Alexander J. Ford, Jack R. Parnell ...

It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "The age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The passage of time has long since rendered the verdict that those were vatic words rather than reactionary contrivances, nearer to the ... Read more

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It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "The age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The passage of time has long since rendered the verdict that those were vatic words rather than reactionary contrivances, nearer to the
... Read more
Valentine Candy Murder

by Leslie Meier ...

Series series A Lucy Stone Mystery
In these two beloved mysteries now collected in one volume for the very first time, it’s Valentine’s Day in Tinker’s Cove, Maine—but when it comes to foul play, Pennysaver reporter Lucy Stone can’t sugar-coat the truth . . .VALENTINE MURDERLucy has barely arrived at her first library board meeting when the new librarian is found dead in the basement. The agitated group assumes Bitsy Howell was ... Read more

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In these two beloved mysteries now collected in one volume for the very first time, it’s Valentine’s Day in Tinker’s Cove, Maine—but when it comes to foul play, Pennysaver reporter Lucy Stone can’t sugar-coat the truth . . .VALENTINE MURDERLucy has barely arrived at her first library board meeting when the new librarian is found dead in the basement. The agitated group assumes Bitsy Howell was
... Read more
Living Lies

A Novel of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

by James Lawler ...

"Living Lies" is an enthralling story about espionage, human frailty, and loyalty. The plot focuses on a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program, as written by a senior CIA operations officer whose career was devoted to battling the spread of weapons of mass destruction. He also led the CIA team which disrupted the deadliest nuclear weapons network in history. This is the first installment of a ... Read more

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"Living Lies" is an enthralling story about espionage, human frailty, and loyalty. The plot focuses on a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program, as written by a senior CIA operations officer whose career was devoted to battling the spread of weapons of mass destruction. He also led the CIA team which disrupted the deadliest nuclear weapons network in history. This is the first installment of a
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Angel's Inferno

by William Hjortsberg ...

Series Book 2 - The Falling Angel Novels
A 1950s amnesiac and hard-boiled detective sets out for revenge in this blend of mystery, supernatural horror, and metaphysical fiction.Private investigator Harry Angel is in a jam. Handcuffed in his apartment along with the cops and a corpse, he stands accused of violently murdering three people. The good news is he knows who did it. But in order to exonerate himself, Harry must first make his ... Read more

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A 1950s amnesiac and hard-boiled detective sets out for revenge in this blend of mystery, supernatural horror, and metaphysical fiction.Private investigator Harry Angel is in a jam. Handcuffed in his apartment along with the cops and a corpse, he stands accused of violently murdering three people. The good news is he knows who did it. But in order to exonerate himself, Harry must first make his
... Read more

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