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Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 932.021 CLEOPATRA SchSchiff, Stacy
Summary: Analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.2 SCHHamilton, Nigel
Summary: To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war-proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 HAMHinton, Elizabeth
Summary: Historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates that the nationwide protests that arose in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 had clear precursors, and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring strife, Hinton also issues a warning: rebellions will surely...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021