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Memorial Days

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are griev…

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Bite the Woman That Feeds (Dirty Blood, #1)

Kingsnake only wanted my blood—but now he wants all of me.

A sickness has claimed the kingdoms of men. Everyone is either sick or dying, weak to a curse that has no cure—except for me. I’m immune to th…

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Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

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Late Antiquity: Crisis and Transformation

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The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)

Conspiracy. Betrayal. Rebellion.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their ex…

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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues curse words with such power--and why we love th…

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The Deadline

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The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxies-has stemmed from scientists who've been willing to ponder the unanswerable. And with the advent of…

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering art…

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also ou…

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The High Middle Ages

12 Audio CD set in two volumes. 24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture.

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English in America: A Linguistic History

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How to Read and Understand Shakespeare

Listening Length: 12 hours and 6 minutes

Shakespeare's works are among the greatest of humanity's cultural expressions and, as such, demand to be experienced and understood.

But, simply put, Shakespeare…

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