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Audiobooks Baltimore (Md.) History Civil War, 1861-1865 Bruce, Lenny History HISTORY General Italy History, Military 1914-1945 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination attempt, 1861 Presidents Assassination attempts United States United States United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd.Daniken, Erich.
Summary: The culmination of bestselling author Erich von Daniken's long-term research, The Return of the Gods argues that humans are very much in the minds of other cosmic life forms, and as a result, many of the teachings of historical and religious texts--even the idea of Judgment Day--should be reinterpreted.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 001.94 DANDaniken, Erich von.
Summary: Bestselling author Erich von Daniken travels far and wide around the globe to study the many strange phenomena that all point to one conclusion--that many thousands of years ago, Earth was visited by a race of superhuman powers and intelligence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 001.94 DANRice, Jerry
Summary: "As a three-time Super Bowl winner and Super Bowl MVP, Jerry Rice has firsthand knowledge of what it takes to win championships. In this celebration of the biggest game in professional sports, Rice counts down the fifty greatest moments from the grand, fifty-year history of the Super Bowl. Through scores of first-person accounts from the players and coaches themselves, readers get new and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 796.332 RICCohen, Rich
Summary: For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 COHRice, Otis K.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 975.4 RICAtkinson, Rick.
Summary: The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 ATKBowers, Rick
Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.11 BOWAtkinson, Rick.
Summary: The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 ATKHolmes, Jamie
Summary: Jamie Holmes tells the story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II, and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war.​
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: Presents the true story of the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War, tracing the efforts of detective Allan Pinkerton and private eye Kate Warne to identify and stop the would-be killers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 973.7092 StaBrown, Daniel
Summary: This is the remarkable story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from Eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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Summary: Two-time Edgar award-winning author Daniel Stashower uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: MacMillan Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7092 STABruce, Lenny.
Summary: Complilation on six sound discs with accompanying book, by the same title, of various Lenny Bruce performances. A more detailed description of disc contents can be found on p. 71-76 in book.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BRU1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BRU
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.72 DUNBrown, Daniel James
Summary: An unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe. Based on Daniel James Brown's extensive interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, it portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese-American families and their sons, who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROFoner, Eric
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 FONPoole, Eric.
Summary: There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the incredible and harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia. It is the remarkable account of a Medal of Honor recipient whose brave actions were forgotten for over three decades: Leslie Sabo Jr. Sabo and other replacement soldiers in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015