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Talking to the Dead

Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism

by Barbara Weisberg ...

Barbara Weisberg's Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism.A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the ... Read more

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Barbara Weisberg's Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism.A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the
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Strong Passions

A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

by Barbara Weisberg ...

**"Riveting.…Weisberg tells a story that fiction could not touch." —Liesel Schillinger, New York Times Book ReviewShocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.**What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother ... Read more

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**"Riveting.…Weisberg tells a story that fiction could not touch." —Liesel Schillinger, New York Times Book ReviewShocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets.**What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother
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Strong Passions

A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

by Barbara Weisberg ...

Narrated by Elisabeth Ashby ...

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8 hours 52 min

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by confessing to a two-year affair with his brother. Peter sued ... Read more

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What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by confessing to a two-year affair with his brother. Peter sued
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Expect Great Things!

How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

by Vanda Krefft ...

Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

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10 hours 47 min

A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world.It’s a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series Mad Men would have ... Read more

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A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world.It’s a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series Mad Men would have
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Camera Girl

The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

by Carl Sferrazza Anthony ...

Narrated by Imani Jade Powers ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

This revealing biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy explores her early years as a writer, photographer, and ambitious young woman—offering a fresh portrait of the future First Lady before her life with John F. Kennedy.“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony, ... Read more

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This revealing biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy explores her early years as a writer, photographer, and ambitious young woman—offering a fresh portrait of the future First Lady before her life with John F. Kennedy.“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony,
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A Rome of One's Own

The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

by Emma Southon ...

Narrated by Danielle Cohen ...

Unabridged

14 hours 1 min

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of twenty-one extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient worldThe history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of “the Doing of Important Things.” It is a history of winning battles, passing laws, and “Having ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of twenty-one extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient worldThe history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of “the Doing of Important Things.” It is a history of winning battles, passing laws, and “Having
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Eight Bears

Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

by Gloria Dickie ...

Narrated by Cassidy Brown ...

Unabridged

8 hours 40 min

A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face.Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species ... Read more

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A global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face.Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species
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By Hands Now Known

Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

by Margaret A. Burnham ...

Narrated by Diana Blue ...

Unabridged

10 hours 59 min

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the ... Read more

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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the
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Because Internet

Understanding the New Rules of Language

by Gretchen McCulloch ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington PostA Wired Must-Read Book of Summer“Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too<s... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington PostA Wired Must-Read Book of Summer“Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too<s...
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Roanoke

Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

by Lee Miller ...

November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare—is ... Read more

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November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among them the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare—is
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The Splendid and the Vile

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

by Erik Larson ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis“One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.” ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis“One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”
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The Last Madam

A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

by Chris Wiltz ...

The "raunchy, hilarious, and thrilling" true story of the incomparable Norma Wallace, proprietor of a notorious 1920s New Orleans brothel (NPR).Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans' French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a "landlady"—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city's most lavish brothels. It was ... Read more

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The "raunchy, hilarious, and thrilling" true story of the incomparable Norma Wallace, proprietor of a notorious 1920s New Orleans brothel (NPR).Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans' French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a "landlady"—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city's most lavish brothels. It was
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