American Notes for General Circulation

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Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America

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An Open Boat

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The Wound Dresser

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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

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American Notes - For General Circulation (Unabridged)

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In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America

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Dido Elizabeth Belle: A Biography

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Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Waverley, Volume 2

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Mighty Bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent

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Heart of the West

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Jude the Obscure (Version 2)

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They

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill - Book 2 (Unabridged)

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Icons of Rock: In Their Own Words

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British Columbiana: A Millennial in a Gold Rush Town

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When the King Came: Stories from the Four Gospels

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Lilac

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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography

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The Making of America: Volume 2: Susan B. Anthony, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Thurgood Marshall

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Literary Treasures: Great Short Stories by Acclaimed Writers

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Whistling Season

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Confessions of a Knife

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 2

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Summary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

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N B C University Theater - The Romantic Comedians

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In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary

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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

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In the Weeds

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Eat, Pray, #FML

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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

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Outlander

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One Last Stop

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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir

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Travel Hacks: Any Procedures or Actions That Solve a Problem, Simplify a Task, Reduce Frustration, and Make Your Next Trip As Awesome As Possible

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Spotting Danger Before It Spots You: Build Situational Awareness To Stay Safe

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

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South

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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

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NPR Road Trips Collection

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Storyteller: how to be an audio book narrator

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Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home

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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

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Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship

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Summer on the Bluffs: A Novel

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Ready to Come About

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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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Tangerine

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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

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A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee

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My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

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The Chosen and the Beautiful

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Travels With Maurice: An Outrageous Adventure In Europe, 1968

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Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

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351 Nicole Maskiell, Wealth and Slavery in New Netherland: African chattel slavery, the predominant type of slavery practiced in colonial North America and the early United States, did not represent one monolithic practice of slavery. Practices of slavery varied by region, labor systems, legal codes, and...

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Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920” (Stanford UP, 2010): You’ve probably heard of hipsters. Heck, you may even be a hipster. If you don’t know what a hipster is, you might spend some time on this sometimes entertaining website. Where do hipsters come from? Let’s work backwards. Before hipsters (1990s),

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The Library at Nineveh: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a treasure house of Assyrian ideas.

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Best Of - Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind: Gordon Lightfoot has died, at the age of 84. He spoke with the Academy of Achievement last year, and we featured that interview in an episode. To honor the legendary singer and songwriter, we are re-posting the episode today. Gordon Lightfoot had a slew of international hits in the 1960's and 70's, including "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown" and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." His songs were also performed by some of the biggest stars of that time, including Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand. Lightfoot was still writing and performing into his 80's. In this interview you will find him as charming a raconteur as you might expect, given the nature of the songs he writes. He talks about his childhood in a small town in Ontario, and about his path to the top of the music industry. He describes the quirks of his songwriting process, and explains why he changed the words of "E

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The Barrel That Could Save A Forest

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Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile: Candice Millard recounts the trials and tribulations of a gruelling Victorian expedition to locate the source of the River Nile, from deadly diseases to bitter rivalries

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Vincent van Gogh: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.

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1942: Churchill’s darkest hour: Taylor Downing chronicles the events of the year 1942, which he contends was Britain’s lowest moment in the Second World War

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What Eye Has Wept for George IV?

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Authors in August: River of the Gods with Candice Millard: Candice Millard, the author of four New York Times bestselling books, is here this week to discuss her newest book River of the Gods. The story of the search for the elusive source of the Nile by 19th-century explorers, it gives rise to a...

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Celebrity Book Club: Penny Marshall’s My Mother Was Nuts (with Meredith Scardino)

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1066: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England: Dr Eleanor Parker brings to life what the Norman Conquest meant for England's children.

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Ep. 284: Mark Twain’s Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One): On "What Is Man" (1905). Twain describes a person as a machine. We have no free will and always act to win our own self-approval. This was a bleak enough picture that the essay was not printed until after Twain's death. Part two of this episode is...

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LIVE IN CHICAGO: The 400 Year Legacy with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ibram X. Kendi: In our third stop of the Fall tour, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the architect behind The 1619 Project, and Ibram Kendi, author of “How To Be an Antiracist”, join Chris Hayes to examine the 400 year legacy of slavery in America. Together they examine the sinister discrepancy between the history of this nation as it *was* and the history of this nation as we are taught it, and discuss what that history then demands from us in this moment. New York City - listen for important details about our December 8th show! We have a new guest and details for how to win free tickets! RELATED READING: The 1619 Project How to Be an Antiracist Stamped from the Beginning Black Reconstruction in America The Warmth of Other Suns The South Side YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: School Segregation in 2018 with Nikole Hannah-Jones (July 31, 2018)

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Harvest Festival (S3E7): It's a festival of massive proportion on today's episode, when Rob Lowe and Alan Yang recap S3E7 of Parks and Recreation. In "Harvest Festival" the day before the fest, a local Native American leader places a "curse" on the event because Leslie refuses to give in to his demands. On today's episode find out what happens when the entire town of Pawnee comes together, the origin of Li'l Sebastian, we get to the bottom of the Matchbox 20 / Rachel Ray mystery, and why a drone shot was necessary for worldbuilding. Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email: ParksandRecollectionTownHall@gmail.com Or leave a 30-Second voicemail at: (310) 893-6992 With the Harvest Festival days away, Leslie surprises everyone by booking Li’l Sebastian, a miniature horse and legendary Pawnee celebrity. Everyone is thrilled except Ben, who doesn't understand the fascination. The chief of the local Wamapoke tribe, Ken Hotate (Jonathan Joss), visits the Parks department an

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Yes, there is an alternative to free market capitalism (and, no, it's not socialism): Nick Romeo on how to build a just economy

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Bonnie & Clyde Pt. 2: The fame of their crime spree from 1932 to 1934 came about mostly by chance. But their resulting deaths were no accident.

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James Daniels on Cultivating Human-ness in Our Students: Welcome to FORMA, a podcast featuring conversations with authors, teachers, creators, and community leaders who are carefully contemplating the nature and practice of classical education.  In this episode, we are re-running a conversation David...

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Icelandic Sagas: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic sagas.

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The Golden Age of Athens

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119: David Cay Johnston

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Ellis Island: everything you wanted to know: Vincent Cannato answers listener questions of Ellis Island, the “gateway to America” for an estimated 12-13 million immigrants between the 1890s and 1920s

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#78 REHEARSAL FOR RECONSTRUCTION (Part the Second): In which we discuss the Port Royal Experiment on the South Carolina Sea Islands, which many people considered a dress rehearsal for the South's postwar reconstruction.

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Dead Authors for a Desert Island: Marlon and Jake are back-this time to discuss which dead author they'd take with them to a desert island to reread over and over again-as well as which ones they'd happily leave lost at sea. From the Jamaica of Wide Sargasso Sea to the lonely New England of Shirley Jackson, Marlon and Jake get fired up over the books they vehemently love and the ones they equally hate. Marlon explores his complicated love for James Clavell and the underappreciated wisdom of Pride & Prejudice's Charlotte Lucas, while Jake (unsuccessfully) attempts to convince Marlon that Agatha Christie is, in fact, not overrated. One thing they actually agree on? That would be their passionate disdain for Wuthering Heights-and it's not pretty-so Emily Bronte lovers, consider yourselves warned! Included Titles: - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James - We Have Always Lived in

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Episode 489: The Evangelical Empire Strikes Back & Barna Briefs with David Kinnaman: After the mess that was 2020, we had such high hopes for 2021. Were our expectations met? Phil and Skye look back on the year when the evangelical empire dug in its heels. Those opposed to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter responded by labeling empathy a...

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G: Relative Genius: Albert Einstein asked that when he died, his body be cremated and his ashes be scattered in a secret location. He didn’t want his grave, or his body, becoming a shrine to his genius. When he passed away in the early morning hours of April, 18, 1955, his family knew his wishes. There was only one problem: the pathologist who did the autopsy had different plans. In the third episode of “G”, Radiolab’s miniseries on intelligence, first aired back in 2019 we go on one of the strangest scavenger hunts for genius the world has ever seen. We follow Einstein’s stolen brain from that Princeton autopsy table, to a cider box in Wichita, Kansas, to labs all across the country. And eventually, beyond the brain itself entirely. All the while wondering, where exactly is the genius of a man who changed the way we view the world? Special thanks to: Elanor Taylor, Claudia Kalb, Dustin O’Halloran, Deborah Lee and Tim Huson. If you want to listen to more of BLINDSPOT: THE PLAGUE IN

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How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing: When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways that one might not entirely expect. Many conservative states made the procedure essentially illegal — that part was predictable. But there’s also been this striking backlash in blue states, with many of them making historic efforts to expand abortion access, for both their residents and for women living in abortion-restricted states. And this has created all kinds of new battle lines — between states, and states and the federal government — involving travel, speech, privacy and executive power. It’s an explosion of conflicts and constitutional questions that the legal historian Mary Ziegler says has no parallel in modern times. She’s the author of six books on reproductive rights in America, including “Roe: The History of a National Obsession,” and the Martin Luther King Jr. professor of law at the University of C

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#77 REHEARSAL FOR RECONSTRUCTION (Part the First): In which we set the stage for a discussion of the Port Royal Experiment, which took place on South Carolina's Sea Islands and which many people view as a "rehearsal for reconstruction."

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Darryl Pinckney & Zadie Smith on Achievement & Beyoncé: This week, we welcome two award-winning authors: American writer Darryl Pinckney and popular English novelist Zadie Smith. In this wide-ranging conversation, Pinckney and Smith talk about race, class, and Pinckney’s new novel, “Black...

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Roe v. Wade: America's Landmark Ruling: On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law banning abortion, effectively legalising the procedure nationwide. The court held that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicit in the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendme...