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  • Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome

    John Man, James Adams

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, July 15, 2006)
    The name Attila the Hun is a byword for barbarism, savagery, and violence. In the years 434-454 A.D. the fate of Europe hung upon the actions of one man, Attila, king of the Huns. The decaying Roman empire still stood astride the Western World, but it was threatened by a new force, the much-feared Barbarian hordes. Today, Attila remains the most enduring bogeyman in history, a one-man wrecking ball that helped put the final boot into Rome’s decaying splendor. Masterful storyteller John Man brings to life this marauding figure of the battlefield and his descriptions of the Huns’ grotesque techniques of impaling enemies and unruly family members will leave you with curled toes and crossed legs. Packed with many new insights, Attila is a riveting work of historical scholarship that reads like an adventure story.
  • Tanglewood Tales

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Full Cast, A Full Cast, David Thorn

    MP3 CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, March 1, 2006)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne masterfully grabs the imagination of children with these timeless tales of adventure based on the incomparable Greek mythological heroes' escapades. Children will enter a world of magic and intrigue as they face ferocious beasts, clever enchantresses, and tricky gods, alongside the greatest heroes of all time. Will Theseus escape from the maze that is guarded by the awful Minotaur? Can Jason steal the Golden Fleece from under the nose and claws of a vicious dragon? Can Odysseus outsmart the witch whose potion has turned his men into pigs? And will Cadmus rescue his sister from the bull who has kidnapped her--and who turns out to be none other than mighty Zeus himself in disguise? Find out in this enchanting retelling of the classic tales, spun by an American master.
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  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

    John Steinbeck

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Oct. 12, 2007)
    This text is a collection of Steinbeck's rendition of stories heroic, romantic, and tragic from Malory's Morte D'Arthur, which chronicles the life of Arthur, from his mysterious birth through battles and adventures to his establishment as king.
  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and The American Civil War

    Drew Gilpin Faust, Lorna Raver

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., March 15, 2008)
    During the Civil War 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. The equivalent proportion of todays population would be six million. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual.
  • The Awakening

    Kate Chopin, Grace Conlin

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., July 3, 2005)
    Although the book was originally published in 1899, its leading character, Edna Pontellier, could be mistaken for a modern-day liberated woman. In the summer of her twenty-eighth year, as she watched numerous mothers on a beach, she vowed to honor the deep yearnings within her that she sensed were unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.
  • After You With the Pistol

    Kyril Bonfiglioli

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, March 1, 2006)
    These three great comedy-noir crime thriller became cult classics among the British literati when published in the UK in the ‘seventies. Now for the first time, they are available in the U.S.
  • A Grief Observed

    C.S. Lewis

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Oct. 15, 2005)
    A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
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  • The Hallowed Hunt

    Lois McMaster Bujold, Gavin Marguerite

    MP3 CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, March 1, 2007)
    Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid, perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with this tale of devotion and strange destiny. The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. His mission is an ugly and delicate one, for the imminent death of the old Hallow King has placed the crown in play, and the road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey's destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
  • Jesus His Life and Teachings

    Joseph F. Girzone

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Joseph Girzone, who so powerfully captured the spirit of Jesus in his Joshua novels and in his best-selling A Portrait of Jesus, brings his work to a beautiful culmination with this retelling of the life and work of Jesus, based on the accounts in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Girzone captures the greatest story ever told in language that will open the hearts of readers from all backgrounds. From the birth of the Messiah to the wedding at Cana, the Sermon on the Mount, the Passion, and the triumphant Resurrection, each episode and lesson from the life of Jesus is rendered with wisdom and freshness.
  • Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

    Otis Skinner, Cornelia, Kimbrough, Emily, reader: To be announced

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., Jan. 1, 2008)
    Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr.
  • South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage

    Shackleton, Ernest

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., April 1, 2009)
    Veteran explorer Ernest Shackleton recounts the story of his last expedition, when his ship was crushed by pack ice. He sailed 800 miles in an open boat and then hiked twenty miles through the mountains to save his men.
  • Flight

    Sherman Alexie, Read by Adam Beach

    Audio CD (Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., Sept. 1, 2008)
    Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful, swift prose, Flight follows the troubled teenager as he learns that violence is not the answer.