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  • A Change Is Gonna Come

    Music, Race & the Soul of America

    by Craig Werner ...
    ". . . extraordinarily far-reaching. . . . highly accessible."—Notes"No one has written this way about music in a long, long time. Lucid, insightful, with real spiritual, political, intellectual, and emotional grasp of the whole picture. A book about why music matters, and how, and to whom."—Dave Marsh, author of Louie, Louie and Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story"This book is urgently ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Higher Ground

    Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul

    by Craig Werner ...
    An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In midcentury America it was soul music—particularly the dazzling stream of recordings made by these three stars ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lessons Of The Road

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #3

    by Craig Werner ...
    Series Book 3 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    Lessons of the RoadAfter years at sea, Rhys Taylor thought life on the open road would be simpler.With his partner Kat and his loyal Labrador Ted, Taylor sets out from Lake Tahoe in a battered camper van to explore the vast spine of America—the Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide. But what begins as a journey of freedom and discovery quickly turns into something far more dangerous.A chance ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    We Gotta Get Out of This Place

    The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." And for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Polity Of The Athenians And The Lacedaemonians Spartans (Unabridged)

    Narrated by Craig Werner ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 9 min

    The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens which may explain why he is so ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cold Case Files

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #16

    Series Book 16 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    THE COLD CASE FILES: A Taylor & Carter InvestigationRhys Taylor was starting to believe the quiet might kill him.Six months after a blood-soaked takedown in California wine country, life at his Lake Tahoe cabin feels almost…normal. Too normal. Then Annabelle Carter shows up with a grin, a proposition, and the kind of restless energy that only comes from a retired New Orleans detective who misses ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Retribution Road

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #18

    Series Book 18 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    On a quiet spring afternoon in Lake Tahoe, Rhys "Taylor" Taylor is repairing a warped porch rail while his son plays nearby. It's the kind of peaceful moment he fought to earn—after years of maritime danger, covert operations, and enemies made in dark corners of the world.Then the phone rings.An attempted abduction.A professional hit on his closest friend.A warning carved in blood and smoke.What ... Read more

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  • Lost Cargo

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #15

    Series Book 15 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    Lost CargoA Rhys Taylor StoryWhen two massive container ships disappear on the same route to South Africa, the shipping world is left with nothing but questions—no distress calls, no wreckage, no survivors.World Trade Logistics turns to former merchant mariner Rhys Taylor, asking him to take command of a third vessel and deliver a replacement cargo while secretly investigating what happened to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taylor Carter Investigations

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #17

    Series Book 17 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    Taylor Carter InvestigationsWhen former merchant seaman Rhys Taylor and retired New Orleans detective Annabelle Carter launch a new private investigation firm, they expect their first case to be a quiet one.Instead, they inherit a ghost from the Cold War.A long-dead double agent named Emil Varga has suddenly resurfaced—triggering a series of brutal assassinations targeting former intelligence ... Read more

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  • Spiked!

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #14

    Series Book 14 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    A quiet morning in the Tahoe pines turns into a nightmare when Rhys Taylor's chainsaw hits something that shouldn't be there.A steel spike—buried decades ago—explodes the chain in a spray of metal and blood, leaving Taylor fighting for his life in a Reno ICU. But the sabotage doesn't end in the woods.Minutes after surgery, the hospital goes dark. Monitors fail. Ventilators flicker. Patient records ... Read more

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  • Gold Along The Iron Road

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #19

    Series Book 19 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    A desert vacation was supposed to be simple.A little rock hunting.A little peace.A few quiet days under a wide Arizona sky.But when Rhys "Taylor" Taylor and his family stumble across a sealed railroad spur buried deep in the Sonoran Desert, they uncover something far older—and far more dangerous—than forgotten copper ore.Hidden beneath the sand lies a wartime secret: a vanished Japanese submarine ... Read more

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  • Shadows On The Water

    A Rhys Taylor Story, #5

    Series Book 5 - A Rhys Taylor Story
    SHADOWS ON THE WATERRhys Taylor has spent ten years riding steel hulls across dangerous seas, trusting his crew, trusting his instincts, and trusting that trouble usually stays in port.In Istanbul, that illusion ends.A stranger with a British accent slides into Taylor's booth and offers him a job that doesn't exist on any manifest: become an MI6 informant—an extra set of eyes and ears in a world ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus