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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West (Unabridged)
Running time : 9 hours and 22 min.
Author : Ethan Rarick
Narrator : Christopher Prince
Publisher : Audible, Inc.
Normal Retail Price : $ 32.78
Audible Price : $ 22.95

Desperate Passage casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often confront....
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Empire of the Summer Moon (Unabridged)
Running time : 15 hours and 4 min.
Author : S. C. Gwynne
Narrator : David Drummond
Publisher : Tantor Media
Normal Retail Price : $ 39.99
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Few people realize that the Comanche Indians were the greatest warring tribe in American history. Their 40year battle with settlers held up the development of the new nation...
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The Book of Honor
Running time : 6 hours
Author : Ted Gup
Narrator : Frank Muller
Publisher : Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 25.95
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In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventyone stars are carved each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty...
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American Mobsters: Bathtub Hooch, Bullets & Babyfaced Killers (Unabridged)
Running time : 3 hours and 9 min.
Author : Jimmy Gray
Narrator : Ron Jordan, Joe Loesch, Chris Ruleman
Publisher : Readio Theatre, LLC
Normal Retail Price : $ 19.95
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The Roaring '20s: a time of bootleg gin and brickwall massacres; Chicago in the grip of Capone; American fixated by Bonnie and Clyde....
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Abuse of Power (Unabridged)
Running time : 8 hours and 29 min.
Author : Stanley I. Kutler
Narrator : David Ackroyd, David Dukes, William Window
Publisher : Phoenix Books
Normal Retail Price : $ 32.95
Audible Price : $ 23.07

In this dramatic reconstruction of the Nixon White House tapes, the personalities of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Haig, Kissinger, and Dean are vividly captured in their own words....
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Conquering Gotham: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (Unabridged)
Running time : 11 hours and 29 min.
Author : Jill Jonnes
Narrator : David Drummond
Publisher : Tantor Media
Normal Retail Price : $ 34.99
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The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats....
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 19431944
Running time : 10 hours and 10 min.
Author : Rick Atkinson
Narrator : Rick Atkinson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 39.95
Audible Price : $ 31.93

The Italian campaign's outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate....
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The Founding Fathers (Unabridged)
Running time : 22 hours and 48 min.
Author : Arthur M. Schlesinger (Editor), James McGregor Burns, Susan Dunn, John Patrick Diggins, Joyce Appleby, Gary Wills
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Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 59.95
Audible Price : $ 47.93

The Founding Fathers series examines the presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison....
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Unabridged)
Running time : 13 hours and 25 min.
Author : David Laskin
Narrator : Erik Synnestvedt
Publisher : Tantor Media
Normal Retail Price : $ 39.99
Audible Price : $ 27.99

The United States has always been a nation of immigrantsnever more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War....
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Global Jihad: Understanding September 11 (Unabridged)
Running time : 1 hour 46 min.
Author : Quintan Wiktorowicz
Narrator : Grover Gardner
Publisher : Commuter's Library
Normal Retail Price : $ 7.07
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A Middle East scholar writes in a clear straightforward manner, carefully explaining who the terrorists are, where they come from...
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Amazing American Achievers, Volume 1: Inspirational Stories (Unabridged)
Running time : 1 hour and 2 min.
Author : Charles Margerison, Frances Corcoran (general editor)
Narrator : Josh Bergman, J. S. Gilbert, Nicolas Bearde
Publisher : Hachette Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 6.73
Audible Price : $ 4.71

Experience outstanding stories in Amazing Americans and be inspired by some of the amazing people who helped shape the United States.....
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Democracy in America (Excerpts)
Running time : 4 hours and 49 min.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Narrator : George Guidall
Publisher : Recorded Books
Normal Retail Price : $ 24.95
Audible Price : $ 17.47

Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831...
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Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches with Personal Reflections
Running time : 5 hours and 11 min.
Author : Ronald Reagan
Narrator : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 27.00
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One man, more than any other, has helped define the most important issues of our time....
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (Unabridged)
Running time : 16 hours and 25 min.
Author : James D. Hornfischer
Narrator : Barrett Whitener
Publisher : Books on Tape
Normal Retail Price : $ 49.95
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This is an unforgettable narrative that captures the essence of heroism, the power of loyalty, and the way in which the unadorned truth is more stirring than legend itself....
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (Unabridged)
Running time : 11 hours and 11 min.
Author : Chalmers Johnson
Narrator : Tom Weiner
Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Normal Retail Price : $ 29.95
Audible Price : $ 20.97

Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....
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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma (Unabridged)
Running time : 8 hours and 10 min.
Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Narrator : David Case
Publisher : Random House Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 40.00
Audible Price : $ 31.93

George MacDonald Fraser beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels offers an actionpacked memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. ....
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea (Unabridged)
Running time : 15 hours and 37 min.
Author : Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Narrator : Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
Publisher : Random House Audio
Normal Retail Price : $ 50.00
Audible Price : $ 39.93

America's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved....
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The Civil War Part 2 (Unabridged)
Running time : 2 hours and 43 min.
Author : Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
Narrator : George C. Scott
Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Normal Retail Price : $ 15.95
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On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered what remained of his Confederate Army....
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Dangerous Ground: America's Failed Arms Control Policy from FDR to Obama (Unabridged)
Running time : 18 hours and 42 min.
Author : Scott Ritter
Narrator : Brett Barry
Publisher : Audible, Inc.
Normal Retail Price : $ 42.78
Audible Price : $ 29.95

In Dangerous Ground, Scott Ritter tells a bold and revisionist account of the inseparable histories of the postWorld War II American presidency and nuclear weapons....
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester (Unabridged)
Running time : 6 hours and 19 min.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Narrator : Grover Gardner
Publisher : Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Normal Retail Price : $ 19.95
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Fishing at sea, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history, may be coming to an end....
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