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Stirring, heroic, and wonderfully laced with the musical languages of the Bayou, Ernest J. Gaines-the foremost voice in contemporary African American literature-adds another breathtaking saga to his canon with A Gathering of Old Men. When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way? Building to a climax that is as stunning as it is inevitable, A Gathering of Old Men powerfully describes the racial tensions in 1970s Louisiana. Narrators Peter Francis James, Michelle-Denise Woods, Sally Darling, Graham Brown, Murphy Guyer, Tom Stechschulte and Mark Hammer bring Gaines' masterful prose to vivid life. This insightful novel takes its place among Gaines' thought-provoking classics, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and In My Father's House.

Ernest J. Gaines (Author), Graham Brown, Mark Hammer, Michelle-Denise Woods, Murphy Guyer, Peter Francis James, Sally Darling, Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)

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What If...? Vol 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these what-ifs, providing a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include: * The Repulse of the English Fireships: The Spanish Armada Triumphs by Geoffrey Parker * Unlikely Victory: Thirteen Ways the Americans Could Have Lost the Revolution by Thomas Fleming * What the Fog Wrought: The Revolution's Dunkirk by David McCullough * Ruler of the World: Napoleon's Missed Opportunities by Alistair Horne * If the Lost Order Hadn't Been Lost: Robert E. Lee Humbles the Union by James M. McPherson * A Confederate Cannae and Other Scenarios: How the Civil War Might Have Turned Out Differently by Stephen W. Sears

Robert Cowley (Author), Murphy Guyer (Narrator)

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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax sporesover battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory. Germs uncovers the truth about biological weapons and shows why bio-warfare and bio-terrorism are fast becoming our worst national nightmare. Based on hundreds of interviews with scientists and senior officials -- including President Clinton and defectors from the former Soviet Union's sinister bio weapons labs -- as well as recently declassified documents, Germs shows is bioo-warriors past and present at work at their trade. A frightening and unforgetable narrative of cutting-edge science and spycraft, Germs shows us why advances in biology and the spread of germ weapons expertise to such countries as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea could make germs the weapon of the twenty-first century.

Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad (Author), Murphy Guyer (Narrator)

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A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance

"The understanding, reassurance, and guidance offered by SIMPLE ABUNDANCE have helped millions of women discover what Sarah Ban Breathnach calls their "authentic self." Ever since SIMPLE ABUNDANCE was first published, Sarah has been deluged by requests from readers to explore a man's journey. But as a woman, she didn't feel she could investigate the issues crucial to men as thoughtfully or as thoroughly as she did for women. But the requests for such a book increased. So in collaboration with Michael Segell, a former Esquire magazine columnist and author of STANDUP GUY: MASCULINITY THAT WORKS (Villard), Sarah has devised A MAN'S JOURNEY TO SIMPLE ABUNDANCE, which explores the four major interests of a man's life: work, love, sex, and play. Similar in scope to SIMPLE ABUNDANCE but different in format and execution, A MAN'S JOURNEY TO SIMPLE ABUNDANCE will parallel SIMPLE ABUNDANCE in subtle but distinct ways. Instead of being a daybook of meditations, A MAN'S JOURNEY will be a series of 52 essays, one for each week. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE featured a single voice; A MAN'S JOURNEY will have 50 separate voices. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE offers specific exhortations to change, along with recommendations on how to accomplish it; A MAN'S JOURNEY will be less prescriptive; it.offers a path to authentic success by examples, both positive and negative, provided by its contributors. The book will be divided into three sections -- Departures, Crossroads, and Destinations -- and will subtly mimic SIMPLE ABUNDANCE in its structure but will not be as deliberately prescriptive as SIMPLE ABUNDANCE. Some of the topics addressed in A MAN'S JOURNEY TO SIMPLE ABUNDANCE will be: Success, Risk, Play, Friendship, Sex, Heroes, Money , Love, Responsibility, Drive, Bonds, Grief

Sarah Ban Breathnach (Author), Murphy Guyer (Narrator)

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What If...? Vol 3: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost historians speculating on these "what ifs", providing a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. The essays include: * Infectious Alternatives: The Plague that Saved Jerusalem by William H. McNeil * No Glory That Was Greece: The Persians Win at Salamis by Victor Davis Hanson * Conquest Denied: Alexander the Great's Premature Death by Josiah Ober * Furor Teutonicus: The Teutoburg by Lewis Lapham * The Dark Ages Made Lighter: The Consequences of Two Defeats by Barry S. Strauss * The Death that Saved Europe: The Mongols Turn Back by Cecilia Holland * If Only It Had Not Been Such a Wet Summer by Theodore K. Rabb * The Immolation of Hern Cort by Ross Hassig

Robert Cowley (Author), Murphy Guyer (Narrator)

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