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  • DON CARLEONE

    Italian Mafia Romance

    DON CARLEONE is a dark, passionate Italian Mafia romance filled with a ruthless billionaire hero, forced marriage, forbidden attraction, family betrayal, dangerous enemies, luxury, suspense, and a love powerful enough to change a Mafia empire.. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Most Improbable Journey

    A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

    "A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." —Sean B. CarrollBig History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so far been the domain of historians. Famed geologist Walter Alvarez—best known for the “Impact Theory” explaining dinosaur ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mountains of Saint Francis

    Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth

    One of the world's leading geologists takes readers into Italy's Apennine Mountain Range—the Mountains of Saint Francis—on a journey to discover the fascinating secrets of the Earth's deep history.Modern geologists, Walter Alvarez among them, showed in the last decades of the twentieth century that the history of our planet has witnessed events profoundly more dramatic than even the most ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • "T. rex" and the Crater of Doom

    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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    T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

    Narrated by Joel Richards ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsunami, continent-scale wildfires, darkness, and cold, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Most Improbable Journey

    A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez-best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction-makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History. He brings a scientist's view to the human story, from the creation of our universe ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Great Departure

    Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

    by Tara Zahra ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    In this riveting book, Tara Zahra takes the story of immigration that Americans know so well and weaves it into a larger story of emigration that we have long neglected. In this riveting book, Tara Zahra takes the story of immigration that Americans know so well and weaves it into a larger story of emigration that we have long neglected. With all the drama of a novel and all the nuance of history ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Eyes on the Prize

    America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

    by Juan Williams ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma–Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize.From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Freedom National

    The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

    by James Oakes ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 54 min

    The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle.In the disloyal South the federal ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Eruption

    The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens

    by Steve Olson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 34 min

    Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster. For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the longquiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died, including newlywed logger John ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Remarkable Creatures

    Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

    Narrated by Jim Bond ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet (Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Determined Spy

    The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner

    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 24 min

    From Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions--resonates with the international crises we see today.Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in 1950s Washington, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD