Tantor Media
42) Telex from Cuba
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom, three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dream-world, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of grown-ups around them -- the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana,...
Author
Series
Anna Curtis novels volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
As a newly minted assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna Curtis has already developed a thick skin to help her deal with the unsettling brutality she encounters daily with her overflowing stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson walks into Anna's life-battered by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine's Day-there's something about this particular case that Anna can't quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Albert, Duke of York began to see speech therapist Lionel Logue in a desperate bid to cure his lifelong stammer. Little did the two men know that this unlikely friendship would ultimately save the House of Windsor from collapse. The amiable Logue gave the shy young Duke the skills and the confidence to stand and deliver before a crowd. And when his elder brother, Edward VIII, abdicated the throne to marry for love, 'Bertie' was able to assume the...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2007], c2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon. That night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find and kicked it into a gallop.So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single, thrilling narrative, this book...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
49) Plagued by quilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Kath and her needlework group TGIF (Thank Goodness It's Fiber) are preparing to teach a workshop at the Holston Homeplace Living History Farm, but their lesson in crazy quilts is no match for the crazy antics of the assistant director, Phillip Bell. Hamming it up with equal parts history and histrionics, Phillip leads an archaeological dig of the farm's original dump site-until one student stops the show by uncovering some human bones. When a full...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2013
Edition
Unabr. ed.
Language
English
Description
When five-week-old Prudence, a brown tabby, meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan's Lower East Side, she knows she's found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn't come home. From Prudence's perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah,...