Grover Gardner
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
20 CDs (25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Considered to be one of America's all-time brightest authors, Mark Twain has left his mark on the literary world. Authoring such gems as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Twain's insight on the ever-evolving and expanding America gave the world a better understanding on the social issues that plagued the country. Here in his own words, Twain chronicles his life and career, offering some perspectives on how his books were created.
23) The year 1000
Author
Pub. Date
p2000
Physical Desc
5 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vivid portrait of life in England a thousand years ago. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, the authors interview top historians and archaeologists, and they examine the human and social ingredients that were to make for achievement and success in the next thousand years.
24) 1876
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Series
Narratives of empire volume 3
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
13 CDs (16 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers. The centennial of the United States was celebrated with great fanfare--fireworks,...
25) Edgar Allan Poe
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Five stories by the nineteenth-century American writer best known for his tales of horror.
Author
Series
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume 22
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the midst of days of rain and floods, Italy's favorite detective, Montalbano, is called to investigate the murder of a man found dead in a water supply tunnel. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, his investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as the mud.
27) Hounded
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 12
Description
Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. And that, Andy discovers, is why he and Laurie were called to the scene-- Pete wants them to take care of the boy and the dog so they...
Author
Series
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume .5
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2016, ©1998
Physical Desc
14 CDs (17.3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels. In Montalbano?s First Case, and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy?s famous detective through highlight cases of his career. From the title story, featuring a young Deputy Montalbano newly assigned to Vig?ta, to "Montalbano Says No," in which the inspector makes a late-night call to Camilleri...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter remembers every dog that's come through the Tara Foundation's doors, but the most well-known alum of the dog rescue organization that Andy founded in Paterson, New Jersey, may be Mamie. Adopted by famous actress Jenny Nichols--Andy's high school girlfriend--the miniature French poodle is now practically a starlet in her own right. Andy doesn't hold it against his friend. In fact, he and his wife, Laurie, have dinner...
30) Unleashed
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 11
Description
When Barry Price, an old high school friend, contacts Sam Willis with a desperate plea for help but later dies in the crash of a private plane, Sam and Andy Carpenter reach the terrifying realization that Sam was also intended to be a victim of the crash.
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 10
Description
Believing that a client whose case he lost nine years earlier is innocent, lawyer Andy Carpenter visits the man's aging uncle, who imparts knowledge about a dangerous, secret-ruled world where the key to Andy's client's freedom may be found.
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The classic motivational parable (over 500,000 copies sold worldwide) that shows you how to make your own opportunities in life, updated for the modern reader by bestselling business author Alan Axelrod
Ever since its first printing by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, The Go-Getter has inspired employees and entrepreneurs to take initiative, increase their productivity, and excel against the odds. Now, more than half a million copies later, Alan...
33) Babbitt
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George F. Babbitt is a hustling, prosperous real estate broker in a city of about 350,000. Back of his business and clubs and 100% activities is a wistful wonder as to what this business of living is all about.
34) Sudden death
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 4
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Description
When a star football player is murdered, suspicion falls on a rival from another team. Enter defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who quickly discovers that his client hasn't told him the whole truth.
35) Dog tags
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 8
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Description
Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder.
36) New tricks
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 7
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Description
"Edgar-award nominated author David Rosenfelt's hilarious hero, Andy Carpenter, plunges into a high-profile murder case in which a Bernese puppy and his golden retriever play instrumental roles"--Provided by publisher.
37) The jungle
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Description
In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the...
38) Best in snow
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 24
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect. Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow - white Christmas and all that - but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day. When Andy's...
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 25
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter's calling has always been running the Tara Foundation. The dog rescue organization places hundreds of dogs in new homes every year. It's added up to so many dogs and new owners that Andy can't even do the math. But there's one dog-and one owner-Andy will always remember. About a year ago, Rachel Morehouse came to the foundation looking for a companion. In her sixties and recently widowed, Rachel wanted a senior dog that...