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How Baseball Happened

Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. ... Read more

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The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846.
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Death in the Strike Zone

The Mystery of America’s First Baseball Hero

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

“A fascinating must-read for baseball history buffs.”—Publishers WeeklyHe threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented ... Read more

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“A fascinating must-read for baseball history buffs.”—Publishers WeeklyHe threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented
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Sins of Honor [Dramatized Adaptation]

Deathlands 110

by James Axler ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Delores King Williams, Colleen Delany, Thomas Keegan, Yasmin Tuazon, Kimberly Gilbert, Scott McCormick, Eric Messner, Casie Platt, Nick DePinto, Christopher Graybill, Katy Carkuff, Steven Carpenter, Michael John Casey, Ken Jackson, James Konicek, Patrick Bussink, Faith Potts, Nathanial Perry, Dylan Lynch, Nanette Savard, Tim Andrés Pabon ...

Series series Deathlands
Unabridged

4 hours 29 min

The survivors of postnuclear America struggle against the free fall into anarchy and barbarism. Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for somewhere to call home. Until then, it's survival at all cost.New Hampshire is rich with big game, more than enough to feed Ryan and his hungry companions. But claims to a ... Read more

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The survivors of postnuclear America struggle against the free fall into anarchy and barbarism. Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for somewhere to call home. Until then, it's survival at all cost.New Hampshire is rich with big game, more than enough to feed Ryan and his hungry companions. But claims to a
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The Daughters of Salem How we sent our children to their deaths: Part 1

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book 1 - The Daughters of Salem
Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re ... Read more

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Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re
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The Wolf's Hour (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

The Wolf's Hour 1

by Robert McCammon ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Thomas Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, James Konicek, Terence Aselford, Evan Casey, Mort Shelby, Alyssa Wilmoth, Tim Carlin, Joe Brack, Karen Novack, Tim Getman, Lily Beacon, Christopher Scheeren, James Lewis, Daniel Sonntag, Alexander Strain, Colleen Delany, Bradley Smith, Eric Messner, Patrick Bussink, Christopher Graybill, Scott McCormick, James Keegan ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Michael Gallatin
Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier.Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in ... Read more

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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier.Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in
... Read more
The Daughters of Salem How we sent our children to their deaths: Part 2

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book 2 - The Daughters of Salem
Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re
... Read more
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How Baseball Happened

Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they ... Read more

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The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they
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Utopia

by Thomas More ...

Translated by Gilbert Burnet ...

Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest ... Read more

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Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest
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Anno Domini 1000

Illustrated by Thomas Gilbert ...

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book Volume 0 - Anno Domini 1000
Brunehilde is a wolf-charmer.When her travels take her to a remote valley in southern France, she is horrified to discover famine, pestilence, and mass deforestation. Worse still, children are being found dead in the woods. For the villagers, the murders must be the work of a demon: a wild beast, a wolf. But for Brunehilde—a nomadic healer widely seen as a witch—nothing is less certain. She knows ... Read more

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Brunehilde is a wolf-charmer.When her travels take her to a remote valley in southern France, she is horrified to discover famine, pestilence, and mass deforestation. Worse still, children are being found dead in the woods. For the villagers, the murders must be the work of a demon: a wild beast, a wolf. But for Brunehilde—a nomadic healer widely seen as a witch—nothing is less certain. She knows
... Read more
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People of the Wolf (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

North America's Forgotten Past 1

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Joseph Thornhill, Karen Novack, Thomas Keegan, Christopher Scheeren, David Coyne, Michael Glenn, Lily Beacon, Yasmin Tuazon, Kimberly Gilbert, Thomas Penny ...

Series Audiobook 2 - North America's Forgotten Past
Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An ... Read more

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As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An
... Read more
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The Daylight War (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Demon Cycle 3

by Peter V. Brett ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, Thomas Penny, Johann Dettweiler, Eva Wilhelm, Colleen Delany, Alyssa Wilmoth, Bradley Smith, Joe Brack, Katy Carkuff, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Lily Beacon, Yasmin Tuazon, Eric Messner, Christopher Scheeren, Thomas Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, Nora Achrati, Nick DePinto, James Lewis, Terence Aselford, Ren Kasey, Scott McCormick, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Christopher Graybill, Casie Platt, Richard Rohan, Julie-Ann Elliott ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Demon Cycle
Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all.Arlen Bales was once an ordinary man, but now he has become something more—the Warded Man, tattooed with eldritch wards ... Read more

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On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all.Arlen Bales was once an ordinary man, but now he has become something more—the Warded Man, tattooed with eldritch wards
... Read more
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People of the Wolf (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

North America's Forgotten Past 1

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Joseph Thornhill, Karen Novack, Lily Beacon, Thomas Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, David Coyne, Barbara Pinolini, Christopher Scheeren, Yasmin Tuazon ...

Series Audiobook 1 - North America's Forgotten Past
Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An ... Read more

$22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An
... Read more

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