Larson, Erik.
Summary: In 1933, President Roosevelt personally selected William E. Dodd to be the United States ambassador to Nazi Germany. Dodd took his family with him, including his daughter Martha. Initially enamored with the Nazi party and its passion, Martha supported the Third Reich. However, when Hitler's violent policies became apparent, Martha changed her opinion and watched in horror. Here, author Erik...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.086 LARGreene, Thomas Christopher.
Summary: Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man's memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of Vermont's elite Lancaster School. It is the place he feels has given him his life, but is also the site of his undoing as events spiral out of his control. Found wandering naked in Central Park, he begins to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILMount, Harry
Summary: In this lighthearted, guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 478.242 LATAhamed, Liaquat.
Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHAMukherjee, Siddhartha.
Summary: A stunning combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. Siddhartha Mukherjee provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way doctors, scientists, philosophers, and lay people have observed and understood the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 Mukherjee 2010Brands, H. W.
Summary: Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon. Playing a major role in ending Communism in the Soviet Union, Reagan established himself as one of the truly great presidents of the twentieth century. Follow him from small-town Illinois through his career as an actor and finally into politics, as a California governor and then president whose pragmatic leadership and steadfast vision transformed the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015