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Get to know Tom Sawyer and his friends as he gets into all kinds of shenanigans on the Mississippi River! In addition to being a fun experience, this beautifully illustrated story features original music performed by Tim Oehlers. This adapted and condensed version of the tale by Mark Twain will introduce young audiences to the beloved characters from the original and give them a taste of the adventure-filled classic. About the 10 Minute Classics series:...
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Get to know Tom Sawyer and his friends as he gets into all kinds of shenanigans on the Mississippi River! In addition to being a fun experience, this beautifully illustrated story features original music performed by Tim Oehlers. This adapted and condensed version of the tale by Mark Twain will introduce young audiences to the beloved characters from the original and give them a taste of the adventure-filled classic. About the 10 Minute Classics series:...
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"From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology. The summer of 1876 was a key time period in the development of the mythology of the Old West. Many individuals who are considered legends by modern readers were involved in events that began their notoriety or turned out to be the most famous - or infamous - moments of their lives. Those individuals...
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"Winter 1967. An arctic storm traps three soldiers at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland. When the rescue team finally reaches them, two of the soldiers have died in what seems to be an accidental fire and the third, Private Connor Murphy, is left severely burned--with no memory of the previous seven days. New York psychiatrist--and occasional CIA consultant--Jack Miller is tasked with uncovering Murphy's memories....
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A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the...
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the...
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Three terrorist attacks are launched from freighters against the United States. Only one fully succeeds, but in the blink of an eye all of the country west of the Rocky Mountains is transformed into the technological equivalent of the eighteenth century-no electricity, no computers, no electronics of any kind, or any of the amenities of modern life that depend on them. This is the story of ordinary and extraordinary people, high and low, who struggle...
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From the Gulf of Sidra to the skies over Afghanistan, Tomcat Fury is the complete combat history of the F-14 Tomcat, as told by the pilots who flew it.
For more than three decades, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was the US Navy's premier carrier-based, multirole fighter jet. From its harrowing combat missions over Libya to its appearance on the silver screen in movies like Top Gun and Executive Decision, the F-14 has become an icon of American air power.
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A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from “The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost”.
Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that's raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon's grandmother falls ill, he's sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn...
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In yet another collection of essays, investigative journalist Dave Barry is on the job, hard at work between lunch and naps researching and compiling out-of-the-ordinary news stories from his legion of loyal readers all across the country. Reported as only Dave's wit and wisdom can accomplish, Barry covers everything from exploding municipal toilets to spontaneous human combustion (over 200 cases) to humor impairment-citing Exhibit A, former President...
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Northern Russia 1924: The Red Army is eliminating those who resist the fledgling Soviet government. At the Battle of the Plutonian Plain, the White Russian forces do not fall, but instead retreat into the dangers of Pellucidar. Mikhail Kirillivitch Kirov, a young conscript caught up in this mad scheme, is fascinated by this new world. He finds Pellucidar's Stone Age landscape and inhabitants a revelation-until he's grabbed by a mammoth Skal and...
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ACTION FIGURES ON THE LOOSE!
It's 1974, and Adventure Command International is still on the job in hotspots - and cold! - at the four corners of the wide world! After a harrowing year, Adventure Command's members have taken their knocks and licked their wounds, and now stand ready to plunge into a new set of three amazing adventures designed to thrill boys and girls of all ages!
Rev up the Mobile Command Vehicle and set up the Flying Recon! Give...
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Joe Archibald's pulp detective series features Willie Klump-a hapless private investigator who formerly worked for the prestigious Hawkeye Detective Agency-and his many misadventures. Here in "Skip Tracer Bullets," Willie is once again down on his luck. His fortunes change when a new case leads him to stolen diamonds … but Willie soon finds himself in over his head. One of Archibald's later stories, "Skip Tracer Bullets" was originally published...
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A Chicago lawyer gets swept up in a conspiracy of spies, double-crosses, brainwashing, and murder.
Defense attorney John J. Malone may be a habitué of Windy City dive bars, but he's never lost his balance-until now. Not only is he shaken by the contract killing of his latest client, but one of his best friends, socialite Helene Justus, is turning into a complete stranger.
At the urging of a mysterious old college chum, the job-phobic heiress has...
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Based on true events, this historic unveiling is not a dream, not a hoax, and not a parallel universe! Two of the most unique investigators of all time try to untangle the same mystery … one hundred years apart from each other.Set in the lawless Wild West, the hidden world of Victorian London, and the present-day hell of Hollywood, Cry of Thunder: Sherlock Holmes & Kolchak the Night Stalker follows Holmes' trail of a man who was wrongfully-and willingly-imprisoned;...
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When feared Yankees slugger Cliff Bullard goes barnstorming around the northeast, offering $10,000 to any local pitcher who can strike him out, Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon get a sneaky idea. There's a local legend about a crackpot inventor who once built a robot capable of throwing a baseball 110 MPH, and the professor thinks that if they find the machine, they can win Bullard's prize. They discover the rusted old monstrosity in an abandoned...
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The abandoned schoolhouse sits just outside the town of Duston Heights, Massachusetts, and Johnny Dixon is not sure what called him there. Inside the darkened building, he finds three chilling stained glass windows which show a hooded monster, a vengeful angel, and the hateful, staring face of Zebulon Windrow. Impossibly, the old man speaks to Johnny, threatening revenge on behalf of one of his descendants—and then the room is filled with horrible...
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David, as he's currently known, was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone, and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue-and they need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across...
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THEY'RE NOT JUST TOYING WITH YOU...
It's 1973 and every kid in America wants to roar into action with D.C. Jones and his Adventure Command Intl., the world-famous band of explorers and troubleshooters who make danger their business across the globe! Each member of the team is the best at what they do-on land, at sea, and in the air-but their missions frequently confront them with challenges even they can't always see coming!
Ride with Adventure...
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"The Metal Monster" — Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The group is saved from death in the mountains by a magnificent woman they get to know as...
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Will Rogers-pithy, political, and plainspoken-was one of the finest entertainers of his generation. As a great American humorist, it was considered an honor to be made fun of by him. By the time of his death in 1935, he had traveled the globe three times, written some four thousand articles, and was one of America's highest-paid film stars.
He began his act in Vaudeville by saying, "All I know is what I read in the papers," while idly swinging a lasso...