Beatrice Gormley
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Joe Biden
- By: Beatrice Gormley
- Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 23, 2021
- Language: English
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A biography of Joe Biden, the forty-sixth president of the United States: from childhood through the Senate to his election as vice president and, in 2020, as president.The road to the presidency of the United States was a long-and determined-one... Read more
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.
In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now ...
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Saving Stalin
During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory–and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. Unofficially, he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin–the man who had killed over six ...
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Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great
In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens’ story about Cyrus the Great’s military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more accessible edition of one of history’s most extraordinary and successful leaders is emerging.Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 ...
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in ancient Rome
In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one fifty-year ...
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Footprints in the Dust
The word “refugee” sparks conversation and fuels emotion. There are more than twenty-two million refugees worldwide and another sixty-five million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs–but these photos only offer a glimpse into their stories.
As a young ER nurse in Boston, Roberta Gately was stopped cold ...
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The Darkness Manifesto
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant ...
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Culture Warrior
With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than 4 million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America’s heart and soul.Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior—and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness ...
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Imaginary
Zach should’ve outgrown his imaginary friend by now. He knows that …
Zach’s eleven, long past the days when kids are supposed to go on epic, makebelieve adventures with their invisible friends. But after the death of his father five years ago, all Zach has wanted is an escape from the real world. So his
imaginary friend, Shovel, hasn’t faded away like the other kids’ have.
Shovel ...
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Elora Magdove
Elora has been suspended from the council……but it’s only the beginning of her journey.Elf Elora is something of a celebrity in her home city. After being tested as a child, it’s discovered that her magical ability is off the charts—it can’t even be measured.Since working as a paranormal investigator at the royal palace and working on a cure for “half curses” Elora has been putting ...
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Bullseye
Caught in the crosshairs of a deadly standoff, Detective Michael Bennett must kill…or be killed. Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan’s exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold ...
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