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Evelyn Dove: Britain’s Black Cabaret Queen
Bourne, StephenSaga EgmontEvelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva...
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Not One Inch : America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
Sarotte, M.E.Tantor Media, Inc. 2022 UnabridgedA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 "Sarotte is the unofficial...
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Free : A Child and a Country at the End of History
Ypi, LeaTantor Media, Inc. 2022 UnabridgedLonglisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi gr...
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Peel Me a Lotus
Clift, CharmianSaga EgmontIn 1954 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post- war London for Greece. Moving first to the tiny island of Kalymnos they then settled on Hydra and...
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There Is Nothing For You Here : Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Hill, FionaHarperAudio 2021 Unabridged""This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."—Timothy Snyder, New York Times be...
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Ice Cold Killers - The Rituals of Murderers
History, WorldSaga EgmontFrom singling out victims at bus stops, targeting women with long, blonde hair, saving trophies, or dismembering and even eating their victims, each serial killer set a unique ritu...
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Ice Cold Killers - Addicted to Death
History, WorldSaga EgmontWhat makes a serial killer? There is a huge difference between killers who kill once in the heat of the moment, mass murderers who slaughter many people at once, and serial killers...
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Peril
Woodward, Bob; Costa, RobertSimon & Schuster Audio 2021 UnabridgedThe transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history. But as #1 internationally bestsellin...
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Countdown bin Laden : The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice
Wallace, Chris; Weiss, MitchSimon & Schuster Audio 2021 Unabridged#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deep...
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I Alone Can Fix It : Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
Leonnig, Carol; Rucker, PhilipBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office,...
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The Perfect Police State : An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
Cain, GeoffreyHachette Audio 2021 UnabridgedA riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants...
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The Sickness is the System : When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
Wolff, Richard D.Tantor Media, Inc. 2021 UnabridgedThe coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist...
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After the Fall : Being American in the World We've Made
Rhodes, BenBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United St...
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Blitzkrieg
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. The country needed to be subjugated quickly before Britain and France could intervene. Germany’s Panzer divisions proved unstoppable. B...
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The Allies Fight Back
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe Germans and their Japanese allies have gone from victory to victory since the start of the war, but in the autumn of 1942, that begins to change. On the small Pacific island of...
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Total War
History, WorldSaga EgmontIt is 03:14 on 22nd June 1941. Along a 1,800-kilometre front line that stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north, to Romania in the South, German soldiers are ready for battle. A...
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The Net Tightens Around Hitler
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn 27th January 1944, Stalin declares that Leningrad has been liberated. After a siege lasting two and a half years, German forces retreat with the Red Army in hot pursuit. Encoura...
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Special Operations
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe battle is won, the enemy driven out, and everyone can breathe again. Many field generals thought this – but generals often make mistakes. Throughout World War II, specially tra...
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Unsettled : What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
Koonin, Steven E.BenBella Books 2021 Unabridged"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.""Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster."You've heard all th...
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Ages of American Capitalism : A History of the United States
Levy, JonathanBooks on Tape 2021 UnabridgedA leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era...