HighBridge Audio (Firm)
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English
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Ten years after Griffin Gilkyson dies in a car accident, his widow Jean returns to their small hometown in Wyoming to rescue their child and herself from the latest in a string of abusive boyfriends. Refuge, however, comes at a cost: facing the wrath of a father-in-law who blames Jean for the death of his beloved son.
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English
Description
In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as...
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English
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Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves--and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children. Already in her fifties and with no children of her own, Mary...
Author
Publisher
High Bridge
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss the themes and roots of human myth which is seen as man's attempt to relate himself to the universe. Starting with various topics Campbell shows both how man creates his universe and is controlled by the myth he has created.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--
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Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town for almost 40 years. The Chatterbox Cafe, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens are places and people we know and love, thanks to Keillor's ability to weave a story. Never before collected, these expertly crafted tales are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and surprising insights into family, relationships, community, faith, and hope.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun -- and an invasion of Washington, D.C., from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East...
