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Author:
John Lewis Gaddis
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Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 27
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In the late 1940s, George Kennan, one of the greatest of Cold War strategists, wrote two documents that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influenceis revealed. Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography, 2012, and The National Book Critics Circle Award winner for Biography, 2011.
"First-rate... Written with care and elegance."—New Yorker
Item #: E9B5385
ISBN: 9781455155385
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Author:
Steve Coll
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format:
Playaway
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To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Steve Collrecounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks.
Item #: EP5181
ISBN: 9781455115181
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Author:
Saul Bellow
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 13
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Meet Moses Herzog – great sufferer, joker and moaner, cuckold, charmer, and man of our time. Struggling with the complexity of existence, longing for redemption, he cannot keep from asking what he calls the "piercing" questions. The answers he finds matter not only to him but to all of us. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Item #: M9B189
ISBN: 9781441711892
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Author:
Glenn Carle
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 8
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Here are the confessions of a senior CIA operative who ran the interrogation of one of the highest profile al-Qaeda captured in the last decade. His is a tale of international intrigue, deceit, and betrayal – and an intimate portraitof our war on terror.
Item #: E8B185
ISBN: 9781455121854
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Author:
Howard Behar
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 4
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This top Starbucks veteran discusses the importance of clarity of purpose, independent thinking, and accountability, and outlines a simple yet effective approach to success: focus on people over profits. He presents ten enduring principleshe uses in his own life and has practiced as a leader at one of the most recognized companies in the world. As energizing as an Espresso Macchiato.
Item #: K3B803
ISBN: 9781433208034
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Author:
Richard Liebmann-Smith
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 8
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Henry and William James... Frank and Jesse James: four of the most celebrated men of the 19th century. Two were men of letters; two were ruthless outlaws. This tale conceives the possibility that the four were actually all brothers, and draws us into a year in the life of the James boys. "A delightful narrative... picaresque [and] well-imagined."—Booklist
Item #: M8B5407
ISBN: 9781433215407
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Author:
Thurston Clarke
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 12
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A minute-by-minute account of President John F. Kennedy's last 100 days that asks what might have been. Events included the death of his premature, infant son; an appreciation of the power of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time; pushing through the Limited Test Ban Treaty; warming relations with Khruschev following the Cuban missile crisis; and more.
Item #: E9F171
ISBN: 9781611761719
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Author:
Peter Carlson
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 9
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When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. in 1959, he told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot, and pouted because he couldn't go to Disneyland. This crabby communist's road trip took place against the backdrop of the fifties, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his visit like the Sword of Damocles. "Hugely entertaining... consistently informative and funny... a fine example of popular history at its most engaging."—Booklist
Item #: E6B9683
ISBN: 9781433279683
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Author:
Walter Isaacson
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 25
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By the time Henry Kissinger became secretary of state in 1973, he was the most admired person in America. Yet he was also reviled by many. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy hepursued.
Item #: E9B178
ISBN: 9781482911787
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Author:
Scott Anderson
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 14
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The Arab revolt against the Turks in WWI was shaped in great part by a handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the center was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist digging ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army. "A lively, contrasting study of hubris and humility."—Kirkus Reviews
Item #: E9B9972
ISBN: 9781482939972
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Author:
Nelson Algren
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 12
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A card sharp uses morphine to numb the guilt for the drunken spree that put his manipulative wife into a wheelchair. A fiction classic, made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak, directed by Otto Preminger. National Book Awardwinner, 1950. "Packs more of a punch than... either Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett."—Scotsman
Item #: M9B6796
ISBN: 9781433296796
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Author:
Steve Hodel, with Ralph Pezullo , Ralph Pezullo
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 6
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A veteran LAPD homicide detective investigates the crimes of his late father, the killer in the infamous Black Dahlia murder case – and one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Among his crimes are dozens of unsolved murders stretching back 60 years. This audiobook compiles an astonishing amount of never-before-seen visual, circumstantial, and forensic evidence.
Item #: E7N045
ISBN: 9781441800459
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Steve Hodel, with Ralph Pezullo
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 1
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A veteran LAPD homicide detective investigates the crimes of his late father, the killer in the infamous Black Dahlia murder case – and one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Among his crimes are dozens of unsolved murders stretching back 60 years. This audiobook compiles an astonishing amount of never-before-seen visual, circumstantial, and forensic evidence.
Item #: E1N047
ISBN: 9781441800473
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Author:
Rosemary Wells
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 6
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The stock market crash in 1929 changes everything. When his dad goes west looking for work, Oscar has to live with his no-nonsense aunt. His loneliness is only alleviated by a mysterious drifter he sees every day. When he witnesses a stunning crime, it catapults him into a miraculous, time-hopping train journey.
Item #: H6N9180
ISBN: 9781455899180
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Author:
Michael Tougias
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 6
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The five of them set out on a pleasure trek from Connecticut to Bermuda. But four days out, a storm threw the captain and the first mate overboard, forcing the remaining three to struggle with the wind and 50-foot waves – as the two in the sea fought for their lives. By the author of Ten Hours Till Dawn. "Hillgartner's urgency never ceases. He keeps the tension so high in this tale of weather on the Atlantic that listeners may need to turn it off occasionally to lower their heart rates."—AudioFile
Item #: E9B267
ISBN: 9781441742674
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Author:
Michael J. Tougias
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format:
Playaway
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The five of them set out on a pleasure trek from Connecticut to Bermuda. But four days out, a storm threw the captain and the first mate overboard, forcing the remaining three to struggle with the wind and 50-foot waves – as the two in the sea fought for their lives. By the author of Ten Hours Till Dawn. "Hillgartner's urgency never ceases. He keeps the tension so high in this tale of weather on the Atlantic that listeners may need to turn it off occasionally to lower their heart rates."—AudioFile
Item #: EP7285
ISBN: 9781441742711
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Author:
David Nasaw
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: 24
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A distinguished biographer starts from scratch to discover the truth behind Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President Kennedy. Though far from a saint, his life exemplifies the best in American political, economic, and social life. His rags-to-riches story reveals exclusion and discrimination overcome by entrepreneurship, ingenuity, and unshakable endurance. "A major contribution to Kennedy history."—Booklist
Item #: E9F138
ISBN: 9781611761382
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Author:
Stanley Weintraub
Reader:
Malcolm Hillgartner
Format:
Playaway
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December 1941 was one of the most memorable holiday seasons in American history. Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Churchill arrived in America to plan a new Allied strategy with Roosevelt. The two leaders then forged one of the century's greatest alliances.
Item #: EP9050
ISBN: 9781455109050
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