Douglass, Frederick
Summary: Douglass's autobiography traces his birth into slavery, his escape to the North and the beginnings of the career that was to make him the preeminent spokesman for his people.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUTougias, Mike
Summary: During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard's plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 551.555 TOUBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 333.72 BRIRushkoff, Douglas
Summary: The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Douglas Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so. He shows us how to transcend a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies, and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 RUSRushkoff, Douglas
Summary: Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303.48 RUSDouglas, Claire.
Summary: Someone knows where she is ...The old Victorian pier was a thing of beauty until it was allowed to decay. It was where the youth of Oldcliffe-on-Sea would go to hang out. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Collier disappeared eighteen years ago.Francesca Howe, known as Frankie, was Sophie's best friend, and even now she is haunted by the mystery of what happened to her. When Frankie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.85 McGraPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide--and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 PREWeir, Alison
Summary: A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEIRoberts, David
Summary: On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013