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Classics on Audiobooks - If you think you should read more literary classics, but don't have the time, try listening to one! This collection features some of the best readers in the audiobook field.
Micro-histories - The line between obsession and madness is very,very fine as these studies in micro-history show. The authors focus one one small item or idea that had a profound impact on history.
Titanic! - One-hundred years since it sunk the Titanic remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. There are movies, plays, novels and biographies relating the disaster.
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Zeitoun / Dave Eggers“Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) chronicles the tribulations of Syrian-born painting contractor Abdulrahman Zeitoun, who, while aiding in rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was inexplicably arrested by military personnel and swept into a bureaucratic maelstrom of civil injustices. This Kafka-esque story is sure to shock, horrify, and outrage listeners and will especially appeal to those who enjoy nonfiction survival stories. Library Journal.” I found the story of Abdulrahman and his wife captivating. It is especially a timely, educational and cautionary tale since the U.S. government has passed an indefinite detention law. Recommended by Tova (2/12)
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Library Journal's Best Video of 2011 - Library Journal's columnist, Jeff T. Dick, picks his top 20 home-video releases of documentaries and foreign, indie and classic films. Top Cult Movies: Entertainment Weekly Magazine - Films on this list "mostly died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect..." Entertainment Weekly Civil War
Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln / Doris Kearns GoodwinThis multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this that enabled Lincoln to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union.
Civil War Maps, 1861 -1865 from American Memory (LOC)
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