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  • The Power of Six

    Pittacus Lore

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Dec. 15, 2015)
    [Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)]Seven sometimes wonders if time has changed the group -- if they all still believe in their mission. There are six left. They're hiding, blending in, and avoiding contact with one another -- but their legacies are developing, and soon they'll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign Seven has been waiting for? Could Five or Six be the raven-haired girl with powers -- the girl who may be strong enough to bring the remaining group together? They caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, and Number Three in Kenya. They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio -- and failed. Number Seven is ready to fight.
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  • My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

    Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

    MP3 CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, April 3, 2018)
    From the New York Times bestselling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton -- a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Haunting, moving, and beautifully written, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources to tell Eliza's story as it's never been told before -- not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal -- but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.A general's daughter Coming of age on the perilous frontier of revolutionary New York, Elizabeth Schuyler champions the fight for independence. And when she meets Alexander Hamilton, Washington's penniless but passionate aide-de-camp, she's captivated by the young officer's charisma and brilliance. They fall in love, despite Hamilton's bastard birth and the uncertainties of war.A founding father's wife But the union they create -- in their marriage and the new nation -- is far from perfect. From glittering inaugural balls to bloody street riots, the Hamiltons are at the center of it all -- including the political treachery of America's first sex scandal, which forces Eliza to struggle through heartbreak and betrayal to find forgiveness.The last surviving light of the Revolution When a duel destroys Eliza's hard-won peace, the grieving widow fights her husband's enemies to preserve Alexander's legacy. But long-buried secrets threaten everything Eliza believes about her marriage and her own legacy. Questioning her tireless devotion to the man and country that have broken her heart, shes left with one last battle -- to understand the flawed man she married and imperfect union he could never have created without her.
  • Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War

    Raymond Lambert, Ray Lambert, Jim DeFelice

    Audio CD (HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio, May 28, 2019)
    Timed to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Normandy invasion, an extraordinary first-hand account of D-Day by a decorated U.S. Army medic who landed with the first wave on June 6, 1944, and saved dozens of his fellow American soldiers on Omaha Beach, despite having his back broken and being wounded at least three times.D-Day. June 6, 1944. At five a.m., U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert worked his way through a throng of nervous soldiers to a wind-swept deck on a troopship off the coast of France. Within moments, a familiar voice cut through the wind and rumble of the ship's diesels. “Ray!"" called his brother, Bill. The two men ducked into a corner away from the wind. Ray, head of a medical team for the First Division's famed 16th Infantry Regiment, had already won a silver star for running through German lines to rescue trapped men in Africa, one of countless rescues he'd made in Tunisia and Sicily. Bill, himself a former medic, was now a company first sergeant tasked to clear the most difficult defenses on shore.“This is going to be the worst yet,"" Ray told his brother.“If I don't make it,"" said Bill. “Take care of my family.""“I will,"" said Ray. He thought a moment about his wife and son, born two years before – a boy he had yet to see. “Same for me."" The words was barely out of Ray's mouth when there was a shout below.To the landing craft!The men parted as they always did, without hugs, without another word. Their destinies lay nine miles away, on the bloodiest rocks of Normandy, a plot of Omaha Beach ironically code named “Easy Red.""Less than five hours later, after saving dozens of lives and being wounded at least three separate times, Ray would lose consciousness in the shallow water of the beach under heavy fire. He would wake on the deck of a landing ship to find his battered brother clinging to life next to him.This is the unforgettable story not only of what happened in the incredible and desperate hours on Omaha Beach in between, but of the bravery courage that preceded them, from the vast sands and green hills of Africa, through the treacherous mountain passes of Sicily, and beyond to the greatest military victory the world has ever known.
  • The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

    Sam Kashner

    Audio CD (HarperCollins B and Blackstone Audio, Sept. 25, 2018)
    A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else--Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill--from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie's thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees--but nothing to her. ""I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime,"" read Jackie's final testament. Drawing on the authors' candid interviews with Lee Radziwill, The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters explores their complicated relationship, placing them at the center of twentieth-century fashion, design, and style.In life, Jackie and Lee were alike in so many ways. Both women had a keen eye for beauty--in fashion, design, painting, music, dance, sculpture, poetry--and both were talented artists. Both loved pre-revolutionary Russian culture, and the blinding sunlight, calm seas, and ancient olive groves of Greece. Both loved the siren call of the Atlantic, sharing sweet, early memories of swimming with the rakish father they adored, Jack Vernou Bouvier, at his East Hampton retreat. But Jackie was her father's favorite, and Lee, her mother's. One would grow to become the most iconic woman of her time, while the other lived in her shadow. As they grew up, the two sisters developed an extremely close relationship threaded with rivalry, jealousy, and competition. Yet it was probably the most important relationship of their lives.For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of these larger-than-life sisters. Drawing on new information and extensive interviews with Lee, now eighty-four, this dual biography sheds light on the public and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived through immense tragedy in enormous glamour.
  • Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

    Veronica Chambers

    Audio CD (HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Sept. 25, 2018)
    [Children's Nonfiction (Ages 8-12)] A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles--along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword--will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right.You may only be one person, but you have the power to change the world.Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc to John Lewis, Susan B. Anthony to Janet Mock--these remarkable figures show us what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, even when it would be far easier to stay quiet.Resist profiles men and women who resisted tyranny, fought the odds, and stood up to bullies that threatened to harm their communities. Along with their portraits and most memorable quotes, their stories will inspire you to speak out and rise up--every single day.
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  • The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

    Sean McFate

    Audio CD (HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Jan. 22, 2019)
    "Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATOAn Economist Book of the Year 2019An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare past, present and future and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University.War is timeless. Some things change weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of Durable Disorder a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China s rise, Russia s resurgence, America s retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He s seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation.This devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? McFate calls upon the legends of military study Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience, and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and nation states have less. With examples from the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and others, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and shadow warfare, and much more. McFate s new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be.Some of these principles are ancient, others are new, but all will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them he argues, we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed and rule the world.
  • After the Funeral: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

    Agatha Christie

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, June 14, 2016)
    [Read by Hugh Fraser]A familys attorney calls on Hercule Poirot to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, for even after the funeral, death isnt finished yet.
  • The Night Agent: A Novel

    Matthew Quirk

    Audio CD (HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Jan. 15, 2019)
    [Read by Chris Andrew Ciulla] To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one.To save America from a catastrophic betrayal, an idealistic young FBI agent must stop a Russian mole in the White House in this exhilarating political thriller reminiscent of the early novels of John Grisham and David Baldacci.No one was more surprised than FBI Agent Peter Sutherland when he's tapped to work in the White House Situation Room. From his earliest days as a surveillance specialist, Peter has scrupulously done everything by the book, hoping his record will help him escape the taint of his past. When Peter was a boy, his father, a section chief in FBI counterintelligence, was suspected of selling secrets to the Russians -- a catastrophic breach that had cost him his career, his reputation, and eventually his life. Peter knows intimately how one broken rule can cost lives. Nowhere is he more vigilant than in this room, the sanctum of America's secrets. Staffing the night action desk, his job is monitoring an emergency line for a call that has not -- and might never -- come. Until tonight.At 1:05 a.m. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that her aunt and uncle have just been murdered and that the killer is still in the house with her. Before their deaths, they gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: ''Tell them OSPREY was right. It's happening. . . ''The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands and do the right thing, no matter the cost. He plunges into a desperate hunt for the traitor -- a treacherous odyssey that pits him and Rose against some of Russia's most skilled and ruthless operatives and the full force of the FBI itself. Peter knows that the wider a secret is broadcast, the more dangerous it gets for the people at the center. With the fate of the country on the line, he and Rose must evade seasoned assassins and maneuver past jolting betrayals to find the shocking truth -- and stop the threat from inside before it's too late.
  • The Deep State: How an Army of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy Donald Trump

    Jason Chaffetz

    MP3 CD (HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio, Sept. 18, 2018)
    Former Congressman and current Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz explains how we ended up with a federal government that actively works to defend the Democratic party and undermine Trump.The liberal media frequently declares the Obama years were free of scandal. They pretend this is true because every office in the Executive Branch worked to slow the information about Hillary's e-mails, the cover-up of Benghazi, the IRS, and so much more. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, making it sound like everything he does is the new Watergate.In Deep State, Jason Chaffetz explains how the federal government has grown into a branch of the Democratic party of the past decade or more. The former chairman of the House Oversight committee explains what really happened during the Obama administration, and how we can start to undo the damage caused by this army of liberal sycophants, and build a better future.
  • The Hate U Give

    Angie Thomas

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, Feb. 28, 2017)
    [Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Read by Bahni Turpin]The Hate U Give is a groundbreaking, thought-provoking debut novel inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, about a teen girl who is the only witness to her friend's fatal shooting by a police officer.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, Khalil's death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Starr's best friend at school suggests he may have had it coming. When it becomes clear the police have little interest in investigating the incident, protesters take to the streets and Starr's neighborhood becomes a war zone. What everyone wants to know is: What really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does -- or does not -- say could destroy her community. It could also endanger her life.
  • At Bertram's Hotel: A Miss Marple Mystery

    Agatha Christie

    MP3 CD (HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio, June 14, 2016)
    [Read by Stephanie Cole]When Jane Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what shes looking for at Bertrams: a restored London hotel with traditional decor, impeccable serviceand an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day.
  • Beyond Belief: My Secret Life inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

    Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer

    Audio CD (HarperCollins Audio and Blackstone Audio, July 8, 2014)
    [Read by Sandy Rustin]At once captivating and disturbing, Beyond Belief is an eye-opening exploration of the limits of religion and the lengths to which one woman went to break free. - - Jenna Miscavige Hill was raised to obey. As the niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this highly controversial and powerful organization. But at twenty-one, Jenna made a daring break, risking everything she had ever known and loved to leave Scientology once and for all. Now she speaks out about her life, the church, and her dramatic escape, going deep inside a religion that, for decades, has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide. - - Piercing the veil of secrecy that has long shrouded the world of Scientology, this insider reveals unprecedented firsthand knowledge of the religion, its obscure rituals, and its mysterious leader - David Miscavige. From her prolonged separation from her parents as a small child to being indoctrinated to serve the greater good of the church, from her lack of personal freedoms to the organization's emphasis on celebrity recruitment, Jenna goes behind the scenes of Scientology's oppressive and alienating culture, detailing an environment rooted in control in which the most devoted followers often face the harshest punishments when they fall out of line. Addressing some of the church's most notorious practices in startling detail, she also describes a childhood of isolation and neglect - a childhood that, painful as it was, prepared her for a tough life in the church's most devoted order, the Sea Org. - - Despite this hardship, it is only when her family approaches dissolution and her world begins to unravel that she is finally able to see the patterns of stifling conformity and psychological control that have ruled her life. Faced with a heartbreaking choice, she mounts a courageous escape, but not before being put through the ultimate test of family, faith, and love.