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"Charles Hillinger's America is not the crisis-ridden, argumentative, highly
politicized country that we read about on the front pages. It's much more neighborly and much
more interesting than that. If you ask me, it's much truer to our real lives, too. If some historian
of the future wants to know what we Americans were like in the second half of the twentieth
century, he'll find us in this book."--Charles Kuralt, from the foreword to the book
This collection is the fruit of Hillinger's nearly forty-six years of a dream job spent traveling the
United States as a feature writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. The result
was 6,000 human and general interest stories. He traveled, came home to write, and hit the
road again.
In Charles Hillinger's America, you will learn about Thomas Edison's first motion picture
studio, built in New Jersey; about the only surviving wooden whaling ship, in Connecticut; about
the place in West Virginia where someone actually built a mountain out of a molehill; about the
hauntingly mysterious mural in Utah known as the Great Gallery; about why Minnesota is the
looniest state in the lower 48, and why firemen from America beat a steady path to Ponce,
Puerto Rico.
Alan Bennett - Untold Stories Part 2: DiariesAuthor - Alan BennettNarrator - Alan BennettPublisher - BBC Audiobooks LtdLength - 2 hours 35 minutesCategories - Autobiography
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After seventeen years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles... See full description...
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PolandAuthor - Victoria VargaNarrator - Peter HackesPublisher - Blackstone Audio IncLength - 3 hoursCategories - PoliticsDownload Price - $12.95
The breakdown of Europe's Eastern Bloc proves that the map of Europe cannot be redrawn merely to serve political ends. Perhaps no country illustrates this more clearly than Poland, whose borders of... See full description...
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Lucky - UnabridgedAuthor - Alice SeboldNarrator - Alice SeboldPublisher - Simon & SchusterLength - 9 hours 30 minutesCategories - True Crime
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