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A Stranger Among Saints

Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth

by Jonathan Mack ...

Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia. A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months the Sea Venture ... Read more

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Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia. A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months the Sea Venture
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A Stranger Among Saints

Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth

by Jonathan Mack ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia.A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months the Sea Venture ... Read more

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Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia.A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months the Sea Venture
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The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo

The D.C. Sniper

by Carmeta Albarus, Jonathan H. Mack ...

"The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book."— The AtlanticIn October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and ... Read more

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"The best explanation I have yet read for the madness that was the Beltway sniper spree can be found in the pages of [this] fascinating new book."— The AtlanticIn October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and
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Harlem Renaissance Remembered, The

Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance

by Jonathan Gross, "Mack" Jay Jordan ...

Narrated by Jonathan Gross, "Mack" Jay Jordan ...

Unabridged

1 hour

Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem RenaissanceNew York City, uptown, Harlem. In the 1920s it was the most exciting place in the world. Poets, writers, dancers, and musicians all came together and invented a new American culture - a dazzling and revolutionary African American culture of music and poetry and art. Everyone who was anyone wanted to come to ... Read more

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Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem RenaissanceNew York City, uptown, Harlem. In the 1920s it was the most exciting place in the world. Poets, writers, dancers, and musicians all came together and invented a new American culture - a dazzling and revolutionary African American culture of music and poetry and art. Everyone who was anyone wanted to come to
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Gullah Spirit

The Art of Jonathan Green

by Jonathan Green ...

A celebration of the life and culture of the Gullah people of the South Carolina Lowcountry in 179 new paintingsJonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled between northern Florida and North Carolina during the nineteenth century. For decades, Green's vividly colored paintings and prints have ... Read more

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A celebration of the life and culture of the Gullah people of the South Carolina Lowcountry in 179 new paintingsJonathan Green is best known for his vibrant depictions of the Gullah life and culture established by descendants of enslaved Africans who settled between northern Florida and North Carolina during the nineteenth century. For decades, Green's vividly colored paintings and prints have
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The Not-Quite States of America

Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

by Doug Mack ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

10 hours 24 min

Everyone knows that the USA is made up of fifty states and, uh . . . some other stuff. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags and national parks and US post offices and some 4 million people, many of whom are as proudly red-white-and-blue as any Daughter of the ... Read more

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Everyone knows that the USA is made up of fifty states and, uh . . . some other stuff. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags and national parks and US post offices and some 4 million people, many of whom are as proudly red-white-and-blue as any Daughter of the
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4 SF Stories (Unabridged)

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by MACK REYNOLDS ...

Narrated by Jonathan Windsor, Joyce Sur, Stephanie Fields, Michael Hall ...

Unabridged

1 hour 39 min

Buckle up for a mind-bending journey through the dystopian imagination of Mack Reynolds! "4 SF Stories" blasts you off with a quartet of tales from the golden age of science fiction. In "Not in the Rules," a loophole in time travel throws a man into a nightmarish alternate future. "The Martians and the Coys" exposes the dark underbelly of a utopian society obsessed with conformity. "Tourists to ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Buckle up for a mind-bending journey through the dystopian imagination of Mack Reynolds! "4 SF Stories" blasts you off with a quartet of tales from the golden age of science fiction. In "Not in the Rules," a loophole in time travel throws a man into a nightmarish alternate future. "The Martians and the Coys" exposes the dark underbelly of a utopian society obsessed with conformity. "Tourists to
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The Edge of Sentience

Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

by Jonathan Birch ...

Narrated by Graham Mack ...

Unabridged

15 hours 44 min

Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI?These are questions about ... Read more

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Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI?These are questions about
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Imperfect Union

How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

by Steve Inskeep ...

Narrated by Steve Inskeep ...

Unabridged

13 hours 48 min

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political coupleJohn C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to ... Read more

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Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political coupleJohn C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to
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All the Gallant Men

An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor

by Donald Stratton, Ken Gire ...

Narrated by Mike Ortego ...

Unabridged

5 hours 55 min

The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor**“An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —**Reader’s DigestIn this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Se... ... Read more

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The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor**“An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —**Reader’s DigestIn this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Se...
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The Great Quake

How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

by Henry Fountain ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in ... Read more

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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in
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Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant

by Lisa Peebles, John O'Brien ...

"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." —Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota WintersA convicted man. A missing teen. A buried informant file. And a justice system more interested in clo... ... Read more

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"Scrapped captures the barren roads and fallow fields of Oswego County the way Capote captured Finney County, Kansas in In Cold Blood." —Tom Barbash, New York Times bestselling author of The Dakota WintersA convicted man. A missing teen. A buried informant file. And a justice system more interested in clo...
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