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A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.
By Norman Davies and Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400134687 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, October 1, 2007), cover price $109.99 | About this edition: A re-examination of World War II and its outcome poses key questions about the war's battles and political ideologies, evaluating established facts that can promote greater understanding about popular beliefs.

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Product Description: 'Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future...read more
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9780786184583 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer".

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Product Description: This stand-alone adventure from the mighty Patrick O'Brian begins just where his devoted fans would want it to: with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433206535 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2008), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This stand-alone adventure from the mighty Patrick O'Brian begins just where his devoted fans would want it to: with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon.

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9781433206528 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2008), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This stand-alone adventure from the mighty Patrick O'Brian begins just where his devoted fans would want it to: with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon.

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Product Description: It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year. After his long and reluctant investigation of the murders of a handful of local prostitutes, Gaius Petreius Ruso needs to get out of town. With that in mind, he has volunteered for a posting with the army in the far reaches of Britannia-a calmer place for a tired man...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400156672 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year.
9781400106677 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: It is spring in the year 118, and Hadrian has been emperor of Rome for less than a year.

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Product Description: In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Times bestselling debut, beloved army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain, where he runs into murder and the ghosts of his vexingly beautiful slave Tilla's past.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400136674 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 31, 2008), cover price $79.99 | About this edition: In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Times bestselling debut, beloved army doctor Gaius Petrius Ruso strikes out for the uncivilized borders of Roman Britain, where he runs into murder and the ghosts of his vexingly beautiful slave Tilla's past.

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Product Description: In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation.Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433213915 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2008), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.

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9781433213908 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2008), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.

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Product Description: The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world...read more
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9781433214622 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 3, 2008), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 presents compelling new evidence that the European Renaissance was spurred in large part by Chinese advances in science, art, and technology.

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9781433214615 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 3, 2008), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world.

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Product Description: When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433227530 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.
9781433227509 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2008), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.

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Product Description: [Read by Simon Vance] This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who loyally served the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV. When the dashing young D'Artagnon arrives in Paris from Gascony, he becomes embroiled in three duels with the three musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433215841 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: [Read by Simon Vance] This historical romance, perhaps the greatest cloak-and-sword story ever written, relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who loyally served the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

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Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: Maarten Troost is a laowai (foreigner) in the Middle Kingdom, ill-equipped with a sliver of Mandarin, questing to discover the "essential Chineseness" of an ancient and often mystifying land. What he finds is a country with its feet suctioned in the clay of traditional culture and a head straining into the polluted stratosphere of unencumbered capitalism, where cyclopean portraits of Chairman Mao (largely perceived as mostly good, except for that nasty bit toward the end) spoon comfortably with Hong Kong's embrace of rat-race modernity...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433248641 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 8, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
9781433248658 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 8, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

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Product Description: Brother-and-sister writing team Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own (some 200 years later, in 1807) to bring ten of his best plays to the young reader.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400158546 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Brother-and-sister writing team Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own (some 200 years later, in 1807) to bring ten of his best plays to the young reader.

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Product Description: Gaston Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400107995 | Tantor Media Inc, September 1, 2008, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Gaston Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.
9781400137992 | Tantor Media Inc, September 1, 2008, cover price $55.99 | About this edition: The Mystery of the Yellow Room is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece, and it turned out to be his most successful book during his lifetime.
9781400157990 | Mp3 edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 1, 2008), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Gaston Leroux's landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.

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Product Description: Every child loves a story about a horse, and Black Beauty remains one of the finest, most touching ever written. Set in Victorian London, the novel follows the shifting fortunes of a horse as he moves from owner to owner. Narrated by the noble Black Beauty himself, the tale offers an animal's perspective of the world and highlights the thoughtless, even cruel treatment animals endured during that period...read more
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9781400108619 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 4, 2008), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Every child loves a story about a horse, and Black Beauty remains one of the finest, most touching ever written.

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Product Description: When sudden tragedy strikes his family, young Paul Dear embarks on a great adventure into the magical Anyplace to seek the greatest hero of his time: the Boy of Legend, in this continuation of the Peter Pan story.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433253485 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 31, 2008), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: When sudden tragedy strikes his family, young Paul Dear embarks on a great adventure into the magical Anyplace to seek the greatest hero of his time: the Boy of Legend, in this continuation of the Peter Pan story.
9781433253492 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 31, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When sudden tragedy strikes his family, young Paul Dear embarks on a great adventure into the magical Anyplace to seek the greatest hero of his time: the Boy of Legend, in this continuation of the Peter Pan story.

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9781433253478 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 31, 2008), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: When sudden tragedy strikes his family, young Paul Dear embarks on a great adventure into the magical Anyplace to seek the greatest hero of his time: the Boy of Legend, in this continuation of the Peter Pan story.

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By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781596446526 | 35 una anv edition (Hovel Audio Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $26.98 | About this edition: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################
9781596446533 | Mp3 una an edition (Hovel Audio Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $19.98 | About this edition: As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines.

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Product Description: In response to the interest of OBrians many fans, here is the tantalizingly incomplete manuscript of the final Aubrey-Maturin novel that the author was writing when he died, meant to chronicle Aubreys mission to South Africa.
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9781433229589 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In response to the interest of OBrians many fans, here is the tantalizingly incomplete manuscript of the final Aubrey-Maturin novel that the author was writing when he died, meant to chronicle Aubreys mission to South Africa.

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9781433229572 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 30, 2008), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In response to the interest of OBrians many fans, here is the tantalizingly incomplete manuscript of the final Aubrey-Maturin novel that the author was writing when he died, meant to chronicle Aubreys mission to South Africa.

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Product Description: These five short stories represent five secret occasions in the life of James Bond, all crucial assignments for 007. For Bond, its just routine; for anyone else, certain death.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433270260 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: These five short stories represent five secret occasions in the life of James Bond, all crucial assignments for 007.

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Product Description: Many of Ian Flemings short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise. This collections title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433270109 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 15, 2008), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Many of Ian Flemings short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise.

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9781433270093 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 15, 2008), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Many of Ian Flemings short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise.

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By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400158768 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 4, 2008), cover price $19.99

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Product Description: Spanning England's most turbulent and dramatic decades-from the 1520s to the 1640s-Quarrel with the King tells the story of four generations of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, and follows their glamorous trajectory across 130 years of change, ambition, resistance, and war...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400138760 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 4, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Spanning England's most turbulent and dramatic decades-from the 1520s to the 1640s-Quarrel with the King tells the story of four generations of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, and follows their glamorous trajectory across 130 years of change, ambition, resistance, and war.

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Product Description: Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire...read more
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400139521 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 24, 2008), cover price $119.99 | About this edition: Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.

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Product Description: Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire...read more
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9781400109524 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 24, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.
9781400159529 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 24, 2008), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: National bestselling author Jacqueline Carey opens a new trilogy set in the same extraordinary world as her extended New York Times bestseller Kushiel's Avatar.

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Product Description: Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday presents a piece of history that very few have ever been able to experience: a peek on the set of a classic Python film.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781400160433 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 24, 2008), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday presents a piece of history that very few have ever been able to experience: a peek on the set of a classic Python film.

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Product Description: C. S. Lewis is generally regarded as a commonsense Christian, yet his works display a distinct sense of the mystical. Downing explores the breadth of Lewiss writing and the context of Christian mysticism in his day.
By Simon Vance (narrator)
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9781433257735 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: C.
9781433257704 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: C.

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9781433257698 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: C.

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Product Description: This New York Times bestseller makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus. Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of their astonishing voyages, 1421 rewrites our understanding of history in a landmark work of historical investigation...read more
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9781433255113 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This New York Times bestseller makes the fascinating argument that the Chinese discovered the Americas a full 70 years before Columbus.

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