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Audiobooks. Biographies. biography Biography. drama history History. MP3 (Audio coding standard) poetry Poetry.Homer
Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMHomer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMHomer
Summary: Recounts the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes during the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy by combined Greek armies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMRoker, Al
Summary: "These days, the road to success can feel jam-packed with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no one knows that better than Al Roker -- beloved cohost of The Today Show, weatherperson extraordinaire, and the man we all secretly wish we could turn to for wisdom and wisecracks in our everyday lives. From his college days as a polyester-suit clad weather forecaster...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 070.4 ROKFoner, 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 FONKahn, Roger.
Summary: Roger Kahn shares chronicles his life growing up near Ebbets Field. He also shares his experiences covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for the Herald Tribune.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.357 KAHPrager, Joshua
Summary: Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously unseen trove--and witnessed her final moments. This book presents her life in full.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 PRARogers, Kim
Summary: Young Becca is honored when her grandmother asks her for help with a new skill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Susan Rogers leads readers to musical self-awareness. She explains that we each possess a unique "listener profile" based on our brain's natural response to seven key dimensions of any song. Whether your taste is esoteric or mainstream, Rogers guides readers to recognize their musical personality, and offers language to describe one's own unique taste.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 781.11 ROGLuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
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 LUXEdwards, Gavin
Summary: Looking back at the history of the Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood television show and the creative visionary behind it, Edwards reminds us of the indelible lessons and insights that they conveyed and why they matter. With dozens of interviews of people whose lives were touched by Fred Rogers, this book is a love letter to this unforgettable cultural hero and role model and to the beautiful...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 ROGERS, FREDKing, Maxwell
Summary: Maxwell King delivers the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, telling the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, he traces Rogers's personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROGERS, FRED KINDurant, Will
Summary: The Durants offer profound and insightful interpretation of the most vital lessons of history based on their five decades of research and reflection on philosophy and history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 901.9 DURMeacham, Jon.
Summary: Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. As Meacham shows, faith - meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen people - has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights...
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 322.1 MeaSandford, John
Summary: In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers receives a message telling him that he's about to get a visit from an Israeli cop. She's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANAtkins, Robert C.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 613.25 ATKShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villain who through family mechinations, political marriages and military coups, usurps the crown from King Edward IV.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHATwain, Mark
Summary: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain once wrote. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion--to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 TWAIN, MARK TWADante Alighieri
Summary: At dusk on the eve of Good Friday, Dante and Virgil embark on a journey that will lead Dante to Heaven where a contentment with God will be found and his beloved Beatrice awaits. But they must first pass through the Gates of Hell and enter the underground world of sinners. The living man and his un-dead guide witness a succession of terrible punishments being inflicted on those who led ungodly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Word 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 DANWhite, E. B., (Elwyn Brooks)
Summary: E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: "Commuter" and "Critic," both published in the New Yorker in 1925.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 974.71 WHIBarry, John M.
Summary: Barry explores the development of the fundamental ideas of church and state through the story of Roger Williams. The first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, Williams helped shape the balance of religion and politics seen in America today.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 974.502 WILLIAMS, ROGER BarryBarry, John M.
Summary: Barry explores the development of the fundamental ideas of church and state through the story of Roger Williams. The first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, Williams helped shape the balance of religion and politics seen in America today.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012