“As fun and fast and action-packed as a Saturday night at the movies with more double-crosses than a laced boot. A tribute to the creative process on the page, the stage, and what it takes to make one’s way in the cutthroat world of show business. A stand-out debut novel that is sure to be the first of many from Tyler Schwanke.” —Matt Goldman, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award–winning television writer
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- Breaking In
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Read by Jesse Vilinsky and Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/09/23
Formats: Digital Audy
Tyler Schwanke’s debut is a fast-moving, gritty, and hilarious tribute to Hollywood heist movies . . . and anyone who’s ever had a dream.
Millie has one goal: to make a movie in tribute to her late father. At the Manhattan Movie Academy, run by Ricky O’Naire, her favorite director, she’s determined to make it happen. But before she can finish her project, the academy is shut down. Seven months later, she sees a preview for the new O’Naire movie—and he’s stolen her idea.
Outraged, she reunites her former film crew to steal the movie and hold it for ransom days before its high-profile premiere. Putting their training and film-nerd backgrounds to use, they pull off the heist in extravagant fashion. But when an unexpected femme fatale uncovers their plan, it’s not long before a trio of hardened criminals want in on the take.
With the stakes now higher than she ever imagined—and her life on the line—Millie has no choice but to lead them all through a dazzling series of moves and countermoves that result in an ending not even Hollywood could see coming.
- Breaking In
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Read by Jesse Vilinsky and Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/09/23
Formats: Digital Audy
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- King’s Ransom
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Read by Melanie Ewbank, Dion Graham, and Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/13/21
Formats: Digital Audy
The book that readers have been waiting for.
In Frisco’s Kid, Tasha Francisco was a strong-willed, independent child, thrown into the temporary care of her Navy SEAL uncle, Alan “Frisco” Francisco.
Years older, but still just a kid himself, Thomas King lived nearby. Tasha took one look and declared she would marry him someday. Thomas wasn’t quite so sure about that.
Now Tasha is a strong-willed, independent young woman, and Thomas is an officer and a hospital corpsman with SEAL Team Ten.
When Tasha’s Uncle Alan asks Thomas for a favor—to help keep his niece safe as she travels to a remote ski lodge with her wealthy boyfriend’s royal family—Thomas grimly accepts his role as Tasha’s bodyguard. But things go horribly, terribly wrong, and Thomas and Tasha find themselves alone together in the freezing wilderness, on the run from the dangerous men who want her dead.
Thomas knows only one thing for sure: He will sacrifice everything and anything to keep Tasha safe.
- King’s Ransom
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Read by Melanie Ewbank, Dion Graham, and Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/13/21
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Fugitive Trail
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By Zane Grey
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/11/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Zane Grey’s bestselling novels have thrilled generations of readers with heart-and-guts characters, hard-shooting action, and high-plains panoramas.
When his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce Lockheart took the blame for it, leaving Barse clear to marry the beautiful Trinity Spencer. Bruce takes to the fugitive trail for a crime he didn’t commit and is hotly pursued by a relentless ranger and the woman who loves him, fighting to clear his name. If she failed, he would have to hide for the rest of his life—or die!
- The Fugitive Trail
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By Zane Grey
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/11/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Desert Rider
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By L. P. Holmes
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/07/19
Formats: Digital Audy
In Black Rock Desert, when Lee Cone is hired by Braz Boland to “chouse” a herd of horses from Carbide Junction into Maacama Basin through Black Rock Desert, he has no idea that it will reignite the old enmity between himself and Tasker Scott. Cone had left the basin two years earlier, when the girl he loved married Scott. When the horse herd reaches Antelope, the basin’s town, Boland refuses to pay Cone because of a horse stampede that happened going through the pass into the basin. Cone quickly learns that Scott has been running rough-shod over the basin and that his old partner in the Flat T Ranch, Buck Theodore, has been made destitute due to the rustling of their stock. Cone is determined to find out what has been going on in the basin, even if it means hurting the woman he once loved.
In the title story, Buck English has been a hard and bitter loner willing to step outside the law ever since his father, Martin, former sheriff of the county, had been killed by outlaws. A friend of Martin’s, Jack Carleton, is sheriff now as well as the owner of the Red Mesa Ranch. Carleton fears that someday he will have to go after Buck if he continues on the trail he is on. To that end, he hires Buck to take over the ramrodding of his ranch as his duties as sheriff do not allow him to tend to the duties of his ranch, which has been suffering from rustling. Buck agrees, but he must submit to Carleton’s order that gunplay is not allowed.
- The Desert Rider
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By L. P. Holmes
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/07/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ute Peak Country
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By Lauran Paine
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/01/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn’t care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd—even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains. Miggs once told Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than two hundred feet away, he felt like things were closing in on him.
In return for Jack’s friendship, Frank would take Miggs’ pelts out in the fall, sell them at Fort Laramie and Cheyenne, then dig up the money he had buried for Jack, and bring it to him in the spring.
But this time Frank McCoy was accompanied by beautiful Beverly Shafter and a strange herd of Durham cattle driven by Denver Holt and his crew. They moved right into the grazing land that the Tolman herd had been coming to for years. There was no doubt about it—there was going to be trouble in Ute Peak country.
- Ute Peak Country
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By Lauran Paine
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/01/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- SEAL Camp
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 9/11/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Navy SEAL Lieutenant Jim “Spaceman” Slade’s got a problem. A SEAL team is only as fast as its slowest member—and right now, thanks to his battered knees—that’s Jim. He reluctantly takes medical leave, but he’s a SEAL, so he spends his “vacation” as an instructor, helping out a former senior chief who runs a camp for SEAL wannabes. But to Jim’s shock, he finds himself falling for the one woman attending the camp session—an obviously brilliant but seemingly timid lawyer who is determined to do everything her way, no matter how wrong.
Ashley DeWitt’s got a problem, too. She’s a kickass lawyer, but when it comes to her personal life, she’s a total pushover. When she finds herself hiding behind her condo dumpster to avoid a confrontation with an ex, she decides enough is enough and signs up for a session at a camp called SEAL World, in hopes she’ll discover how to be more assertive outside of the courtroom. And then she’s assigned to Jim’s team …
When an alpha male—smart, funny, strong, but terrified of a future trapped behind a desk—collides with a smart, funny, and quietly strong woman with a troubled past, sparks fly hot and fast. The tall, dark, and dangerous Navy SEALs of Team Ten are back, with reader favorites like Lucky, Joe Cat, Bobby Taylor and his wife Colleen, Thomas King, Rio Rosetti—and with Suzanne Brockmann’s signature blend of love, laughter, and a hint of danger in SEAL Camp.
- SEAL Camp
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 9/11/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Coffin Corner Boys
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By Carole Engle Avriett, with Captain George W. Starks
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/14/18
Formats: Digital Audy
As a young band of brothers flies over German-occupied France, they come under heavy fire. Their B-17 is shot down and the airmen―stumbling through fields and villages―scatter across Europe. Some struggled to flee for safety. Others were captured immediately and imprisoned. Now, for the first time, their incredible story of grit, survival, and reunion is told.
In 1944, George Starks was just a nineteen-year-old kid from Florida when he and his high school buddies enlisted in the US military. They wanted to join the action of WWII. George was assigned to the Ninety-Second Bomb Group, in which the median age was twenty-two, and on his crew’s first bombing mission together received the most vulnerable spot of a B-17 mission configuration: low squadron, low group, flying number six in the bomber-box formation.
Airmen called George’s position the “Coffin Corner” because here exposure was most likely to draw hostile fire. Sure enough, George’s plane was shot down by a German Fw 190, and he jumped at 25,000 feet for the “first and only time,” as he tells the story. He landed near Vitry-en-Perthois to begin a 300-mile trek through the dangers of war-torn France towards the freedom of neutral Switzerland.
Through waist-deep snow, seering exhaustion, and close encounters with Nazis, George repeated to himself the mantra “just one more day.” He battled to keep walking. His comrades were scattered all across Europe and experienced places as formidable as German POW camps and as hospitable as Spain, each crew member always wondering about the fate of the others.
After the war, George made two vows: he would never lose touch with his men again and one day would attempt to thank those who had risked their lives to save his. Despite passage of time and demands of career and family, he accomplished both. He reunited with his crew and then twenty-five years later, returned to France to locate as many as he could of the brave souls who had helped him evade the enemy.
Join George as he retraces his steps to freedom and discover the amazing stories of sacrifice and survival and how ten young American boys plus their French helpers became heroes.
- Coffin Corner Boys
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By Carole Engle Avriett, with Captain George W. Starks
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/14/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Give-a-Damn Jones
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/08/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren’t all heroes.
Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He’s a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That’s what happened in Box Elder, a small Montana town. Tensions are running high, and anything—or anyone—could be the fuse to ignite them: a recently released convict trying to prove his innocence, a prominent cattleman who craves respect at any cost, a wily traveling dentist at odds with a violent local blacksmith, or a firebrand of an editor who is determined to unlock the town’s secrets.
Jones walks into the middle of it all, and this time, he may be the hero that this town needs.
- Give-a-Damn Jones
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Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 5/08/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Despot’s Apprentice
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By Brian Klaas
Foreword by David Talbot
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/09/18
Formats: Digital Audy
An ex–US campaign advisor who has sat with the world’s dictators explains Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian tactics and the threat they pose to American democracy.
Donald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like the “despot’s apprentice,” an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including
- attacking the press,
- threatening rule of law by firing those who investigate his alleged wrongdoings,
- using nepotism to staff the White House, and
- countless other techniques.
Donald Trump is borrowing tactics from the world’s dictators and despots. Trump’s fascination for the military, his obsession with his own cult of personality, and his deliberate campaign to blur the line between fact and falsehood are nothing new to the world of despots. But they are new to the United States. With each authoritarian tactic or tweet, Trump poses a unique threat to democratic government in the world’s most powerful democracy.
At the same time, Trump’s apprenticeship has serious consequences beyond the United States. His bizarre adoration and idolization of despotic strongmen―from Russia’s Putin, to Turkey’s Erdogan, or to the Philippines’ Duterte―has transformed American foreign policy into a powerful cheerleader for some of the world’s worst regimes.
The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy explores how Trump uniquely threatens democracy―and how to save it from him.
- The Despot’s Apprentice
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By Brian Klaas
Foreword by David Talbot
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/09/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Law and Vengeance
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 11/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Vengence will be theirs!
The Bergman-Deketomis Law Firm built their powerhouse legal team fully understanding that their opponents rarely play by the rules, but the gruesome murder of one of their senior partners has placed them on a playing field where there are no rules.
They are caught up in a way that has to be won outside of a courtroom. One of America’s largest weapons manufacturers has them in its crosshairs, and a negotiated settlement is not an option.
Sometimes the pursuit of justice isn’t enough. Sometimes the law of vengeance is the only path.
- Law and Vengeance
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 11/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Wanted: Dead or Alive
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By Ray Hogan
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 9/05/17
Formats: Digital Audy
Ray Hogan remains one of the masters of Western fiction. His stories are especially notable for their compelling characters united with a narrative style that is as intensely interesting as it is emotionally involving.
Between Life and Death
Recently released from prison, Dade Lockett was serving time as an accessory to robbery. His partner in crime, Pete Dillard, was not captured. In fact, Dillard abandoned Lockett during the chase, taking all the money with him. While on his way to confront Dillard and settle the score, Lockett witnesses a raid on a ranch defended by a young woman, her younger brother, and an old man. The last thing Lockett wants is to be distracted from his purpose, but his fundamental sense of decency compels him to act. With the element of surprise on his side, he joins in the fray.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
In the second novel in this duo, Ben Jordan leaves Mexico after receiving a job offer from Tom Ashburn, an old friend of Ben’s late father. But while making the journey north, Ben is caught in a terrific thunderstorm in which he loses his horse and gear. He manages to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned cabin, only to find the mortally wounded Walt Woodward. Woodward tells Ben that he is carrying $20,000 in his saddlebags, the proceeds from selling his ranch. If Ben will deliver the money to Woodward’s wife, he can keep $1,000 for himself. But a gang of thieves has been on Woodward’s trail from the very beginning—and they’ll kill anyone who stands between them and the money.
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
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By Ray Hogan
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 9/05/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- NeuroWisdom
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By Mark Robert Waldman and Chris Manning, PhD
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/31/17
Formats: Digital Audy
From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures, and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise.
The promise of their original class—and now of this book—is to help people create more “wealth” in their lives, defined as the combination of money, happiness, and success. The book presents both the scientific background and sets of NeuroWisdom exercises that will help everyone transform their environment into a more meaningful and enjoyable place. By spending just a few minutes each day, these exercises reduce neurological stress and increase happiness, motivation, and productivity. The “worry” centers of the brain are turned off and the optimism circuits are turned on. Work becomes more pleasurable and creativity is increased, enabling the brain to anticipate and solve problems more efficiently.
- NeuroWisdom
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By Mark Robert Waldman and Chris Manning, PhD
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/31/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Home Fire Inferno
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 1/17/17
Formats: Digital Audy
In this short novella from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, she returns to her long-running Troubleshooters series featuring sexy SEALs.
Featuring: Navy SEALs Izzy Zanella, Dan Gillman, Jay Lopez, Mark Jenkins, Senior Chief Stan Wolchonok, and introducing Hubert Bickles (a.k.a. HoboMofo); Eden Zanella, Jenn Gillman, Brianna Bickles, and Brianna’s fifth grade teacher Carol Redmond.
Location: Manila, Philippines, and San Diego and Obsidian Springs, California
Time Frame: This Troubleshooters story takes place in January 2010, about eight months after the end of Breaking the Rules and about two weeks after Free Fall.
Navy SEAL Dan Gillman’s wife, Jenn, goes into early labor while stranded in the California desert, as he and most of Team Sixteen are mission ready overseas. Meanwhile, left behind with a recent knee injury and faced with impending surgery and rehab, Chief Jay Lopez decides that the timing might be exactly right for a romantic interlude with a pretty fifth grade teacher … High jinks definitely ensue.
Home Fire Inferno is the second story in a connected trilogy of Troubleshooters short stories and novellas that starts with Free Fall and concludes with Ready to Roll.
- Home Fire Inferno
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 1/17/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Ready to Roll
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 12/27/16
Formats: Digital Audy
The only easy day is yesterday. BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training is known for being the toughest, meanest, most physically punishing program in the entire US Navy, and a new crop of tadpoles have arrived in Coronado eager to prove their worth—to make it through Hell Week, and become US Navy SEALs.
Although Izzy prefers assignments out in the “real world,” he’s glad to be an instructor for the current BUD/S class, because it allows him to spend time at home with his wife, Eden, and her lively and lovable extended family.
Eden’s sixteen-year-old brother, Ben, is dealing with a new crush and a homophobic bully in his high school, but it soon appears that things are not as they seem.
Meanwhile, Eden’s other brother (and Izzy’s SEAL teammate and former frenemy) Danny Gillman and his wife Jenn have just had a baby who has colic and cries constantly.
As Ben deals with the type of too-serious high school drama that could involve a body count, and Danny and Jenn juggle a new baby, lack of sleep, and postpartum blues, Izzy is intrigued by “Boat Squad John,” a misfit team of young SEAL candidates all named John, including the intriguing young Seagull, his swim buddy Timebomb, and Seagull’s nemesis Hans.
Does Seagull have what it takes to keep Boat Squad John still standing when the dust of BUD/S Hell Week settles or will they ring out?
Set in Coronado during BUD/S training Hell Week, in Ready to Roll Brockmann introduces the SEAL officer and instructor nicknamed Grunge—Lt. Peter Greene—as she delivers what she does best: a story celebrating the US Navy SEALs—and the women (and sometimes men) who wholeheartedly love and support them.
- Ready to Roll
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 12/27/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism
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By John Zmirak
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 9/26/16
Formats: Digital Audy
A brand-new installment in the beloved Politically Incorrect Guides!
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism is an honest look at the Catholic Church, including history and present controversies, from the author of the Bad Catholic’s Guides.
Back by popular demand, the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guides provide an unvarnished, unapologetic overview of controversial topics every American should understand. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism refutes misrepresentations and misconceptions about the Catholic Church and separates rumor from truth when it comes to Catholic traditions, faith, and controversial leaders.
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism
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By John Zmirak
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 9/26/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Force of Nature
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 6/28/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Florida private investigator Ric Alvarado’s life is spiraling out of control. His beautiful new assistant, Annie Dugan, is far more interested in fieldwork than filing, and despite Ric’s best efforts to ignore the attraction, sparks are flying between them. Then one of Ric’s clients turns femme fatale and tries to gun down an innocent man. Thanks to quick thinking and even quicker reflexes, Ric comes to the rescue, only to learn he’s done a very good deed for some very bad people.
Suddenly Ric finds himself deep undercover with Annie, working for notorious crime boss Gordon Burns. One mistake from Ric’s painfully inexperienced partner could leave them both dead.
FBI agent Jules Cassidy’s life isn’t in much better shape. For years the FBI has been trying to prove Gordon Burns’ ties to terrorist activity. Now, thanks to Ric and Annie, Jules has found a way into the lion’s den. But in the course of his investigation he comes face-to-face with Robin Chadwick, the charismatic but self-destructive and closeted movie star for whom Jules feels a powerful attraction. Robin is in town promoting his latest film—and Gordon Burns is a star-struck movie buff.
With Robin and Jules’ help, Ric and Annie are soon entrenched in Burns’ organization, surrounded by killers who may already have executed an FBI infiltrator. Before long the couple realizes that many more lives besides their own will be at stake if they make a false move. As the heat between them reaches dangerous levels, so do the risks they’re willing to take—in the line of duty, for the sake of loyalty, and in the name of something that runs even deeper.
- Force of Nature
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 6/28/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition
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By Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/21/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Here is the revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller.
Over the past decade, A Patriot’s History of the United States has become the definitive conservative history of our country, correcting the biases of historians and other intellectuals who downplay the greatness of America’s patriots. Professors Schweikart and Allen have now revised, updated, and expanded their book, which covers America’s long history with an appreciation for the values that made this nation uniquely successful.
- A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition
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By Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/21/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Into the Storm
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 5/24/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann blends high adventure, harrowing drama, and heart-racing passion into thrilling novels of suspense. Whether tackling danger or wrestling with desire, her elite heroes and heroines never fail to give their all in stories that soar above and beyond expectations. Now, in her electrifying tenth Troubleshooters novel, Brockmann takes us into the storm.
In a remote, frozen corner of New Hampshire, a Navy SEAL team and the elite security experts of Troubleshooters Incorporated are going head-to-head as fierce but friendly rivals in a raid-and-rescue training exercise. Despite the frigid winter temperatures, tension smolders between veteran SEAL Petty Officer Mark “Jenk” Jenkins and former cop turned troubleshooter Lindsey Fontaine after an impulsive night goes awry. And then suddenly Tracy Shapiro, the Troubleshooters’ new receptionist, vanishes while playing the role of hostage during a mock rescue operation.
Teaming up with the FBI to launch a manhunt in the treacherous wilderness, Jenk and Lindsey must put aside their feelings as a record snowstorm approaches, dramatically reducing any hope of finding Tracy alive. The trail is colder than the biting New England climate until a lucky break leads to a horrifying discovery—a brutally murdered young woman wearing the jacket Tracy wore when she disappeared. Suddenly there is a chilling certainty that Tracy has fallen prey to a serial killer—one who knows the backwoods terrain and who doesn’t play by the rules of engagement.
In a race against time, a raging blizzard, and a cunning opponent, Jenk and Lindsey are put to the ultimate test. Risking everything, they must finally come together in a desperate attempt to save Tracy—and each other.
- Into the Storm
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Read by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank
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Release Date: 5/24/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Fight the Future
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Adapted by Elizabeth Hand
Based on the screenplay by Chris Carter
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/06/15
Formats: cpid_11
Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race awaits …
After forty years, members of the global conspiracy known only as the Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully alone have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history. And only they know that the truth isn’t out there anymore—it’s already here.
- Fight the Future
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Adapted by Elizabeth Hand
Based on the screenplay by Chris Carter
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/06/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- I Want to Believe
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Based on the screenplay by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/06/15
Formats: cpid_11
During a brutal winter in rural Virginia, women are inexplicably vanishing. The only clues to the bizarre disappearances are the grotesque human remains that are turning up in snow banks along the highway. And a disgraced priest has begun to experience strange and disturbing visions connected to a terrible secret. But are the images haunting a fallen man of God to be trusted … or are they the deadly lies of a twisted mind?
It is a case right out of the X-Files. But the FBI suspended its investigations into the paranormal years ago. Ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully are the best team for the job, but they have no desire to revisit the past. The truth about these horrific crimes is out there, and only Mulder and Scully can uncover it.
- I Want to Believe
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Based on the screenplay by Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/06/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Antibodies
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/02/15
Formats: cpid_11
Don’t miss this thrilling book in the series based on the Emmy Award–winning television show The X-Files!
When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the “X-Files”—cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable—Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI … and beyond.
Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery. Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease and heal any wound. In theory, this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality. It was also the only way Dr. Kennessy could save his leukemia-stricken son.
But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it’s anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every step by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government—even perhaps of their own agency—at their command. These enemies will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls into the right hands—their hands.
As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy while Mulder comes face to face with a crazed and desperate man—a man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death, and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still.
- Antibodies
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/02/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Skin
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By Ben Mezrich
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/02/15
Formats: cpid_11
When moonlighting medical students harvesting skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic: a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city’s most wanted fugitive.
Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI agents investigating the “X-Files”—strange and inexplicable cases the bureau wants to keep hidden—Mulder and Scully are determined to track down the forces they suspect are behind the murders.
While the police hunt the fleeing professor, Mulder and Scully track the skin that was grafted onto him, a trail that leads from the morgue to the headquarters of a cutting-edge biotech company to the jungles of Thailand. Together they begin to uncover an unholy and undeniable alliance between a battle-trained plastic surgeon, international politicians, and a legendary Thai monster known as the Skin Eater.
- Skin
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By Ben Mezrich
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/02/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Ground Zero
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/19/15
Formats: cpid_11
Don't miss this thrilling book in the series based on the award-winning television show The X-Files!
Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead—he's been charred to a radioactive cinder.
Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases—mysteries the FBI doesn't want solved.
When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or to Gregory, is obliterated in the New Mexico desert and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimensions of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.
- Ground Zero
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/19/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Ruins
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/05/15
Formats: cpid_11
Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there … and panics—the cases filed under "X."
In this ambitious and exciting X-Files adventure, Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucat├ín jungle to investigate a missing team of archaeologists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins—a signal aimed upward, at the stars.
- Ruins
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 5/05/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Goblins
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/07/15
Formats: cpid_11
Opening the X-Files …
Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI—the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line.
Their job is to investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. These are the cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there … and panics—the cases filed under "X."
- Goblins
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/07/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Whirlwind
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/07/15
Formats: cpid_11
Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: the victims have been both sexes and all races, ages, and ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims: they were the victims of a natural disaster—one of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable—leading to a most painful, most certain, and most hideous death.
Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to investigate the eerie unsolved mysteries the Bureau wants handled quietly but quickly, before the public finds out what's really out there … and panics—the cases filed under "X."
- Whirlwind
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 4/07/15
Formats: cpid_11
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- Kate Wilhelm in Orbit
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By Kate Wilhelm
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 1/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit series of anthologies, representing the finest writing in the science fiction genre. Nineteen of Kate Wilhelm's stories were included in this series of twenty-one volumes. Among these are "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," an exploration of infertility and cloning in the aftermath of global environmental collapse. It won the Locus, Jupiter, and Hugo awards for Best Novel in 1977. "The Planners" reaches into the moral conflicts of a primate researcher and won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1968. Other stories include a road trip into a woman's psyche; primal fears through the eyes of a wise and empathetic alien; an encounter in a bus depot during a raging winter storm; and the first "interactive" reality TV show. Ms. Wilhelm's stories are prophetic yet as recognizable as a story in this morning's paper.
- Kate Wilhelm in Orbit
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By Kate Wilhelm
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 1/06/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- William Henry Harrison
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/07
Formats: Digital Audy
Meet our ninth US president before his famous victory over the native chief Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe. Young readers will thrill to “Billy” Harrison’s dramatic rescue of his sister, Sally, as she struggles to stay afloat after falling into a river, and admire his courage when he captures a British soldier at the age of eight. Find out more about these and the rest of Billy’s boyhood adventures.
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today’s young readers into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The evidence of character, ability, responsibility, and courage are showcased in situations to which every child can relate.
- William Henry Harrison
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/07
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Tarzan the Untamed
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 3/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Here is the continuing adventure of one of fiction's most dramatic heroes, Tarzan the ape-man. In this new episode, Tarzan has given up his jungle ways and is living contentedly on a farm with his beloved wife, Jane, as a wealthy member of British nobility. But when he returns one day from a trip to Nairobi, he finds his farm has been laid to waste by German troops—with no one left alive. In grief and rage, he casts off the veneer of civilization to become once again the primitive ape-man, ranging the country in search of those who killed his mate to mete out the vengeance of the jungle.
Never has master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs so skillfully shown the struggles within the breast of his ape-man hero who, through dozens of adventures and hair-breadth escapes, tracks down his enemies and triumphs in a crashing, action-packed climax.
- Tarzan the Untamed
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 3/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- A Patriot’s History of the United States
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By Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Since the liberal revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative, distorting the way America’s past is taught. They overemphasize America’s racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots. As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington, more on the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII than D-day or Iwo Jima, more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.
This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history. The authors reexamine America’s discovery, founding, and development with an appreciation for the principles of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that have made this nation so uniquely successful.
- A Patriot’s History of the United States
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By Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Lew Wallace
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Lew Wallace gained world-wide fame as the author of the bestselling novel Ben-Hur. But did you know that as a boy, he played hooky from school? Governor, foreign minister, Civil War general, inventor, artist, and author, Lew Wallace spent his boyhood in the fields and rivers of his native Midwest. Join Lew as he rescues his baby brother from death and entertains friends with portraits from his “magic pencil.”
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today’s young readers into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The evidence of character, responsibility, ability, and courage showcase situations to which every child can relate.
- Lew Wallace
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- James Whitcomb Riley
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By Minnie Belle Mitchell and Montrew Dunham
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "Little Orphan Annie," "The Old Swimmin' Hole," and hundreds more poems, "Bud" Riley spent his childhood in mid-nineteenth century Indiana, where stagecoaches were a common sight, rope swings were the only thrill rides, and telling spooky stories by firelight was the best entertainment of all.
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today's young readers into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The evidence of character, responsibility, ability, and courage showcase situations to which every child can relate.
- James Whitcomb Riley
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By Minnie Belle Mitchell and Montrew Dunham
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Eddie Rickenbacker
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s first attempt at flight was riding his bicycle off the roof while holding an umbrella! Growing up in the Midwest in the early 1900s, young Eddie, whose parents were Swiss immigrants, worked hard to help support his family but found time to build a “pushmobile,” experience a thrilling ride in a “horseless carriage,” and come face-to-face with a moving train.
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today’s young listeners into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The early evidence of character, responsibility, ability, and courage showcase situations to which every child can relate.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- George Rogers Clark
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
George Rogers Clark was a famous general in the Revolutionary War, and his explorations served as the inspiration for his younger brother, William, the leader of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. Now you can read about the boyhood of George and share in the first adventures of this lifelong hero.
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today's young listeners into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The early evidence of character, responsibility, ability, and courage are showcased in common situations to which every child can relate.
- George Rogers Clark
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- John Hancock
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
Young Patriots Series
The life of John Hancock, contemporary of Samuel Adams and Paul Revere and first person to sign the Declaration of Independence, is featured in this volume of the Young Patriots series. Detailing Hancock's early years, this work focuses on his relationship with boyhood friend, John Adams, and his academic struggles with what he would later become most famous for: his writings.
Praised by parents, teachers, and historians, the Young Patriots Series is an ideal way to sweep today's young readers into history. The everyday details of family life, the time period in which they lived, what they wore, and the challenges they faced in school create a window through which children can access history. The early evidence of character, responsibility, ability, and courage showcase situations to which every child can relate.
- John Hancock
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/06
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The King of Slippery Falls
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By Sid Hite
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/01/05
Formats: Digital Audy
Lewis lives in the small town of Slippery Falls, Idaho, where for some time he has dreamed of catching an enormous trout that lives in a small pool behind a waterfall. But on Lewis’ sixteenth birthday, his adoptive parents hand him a letter that his real mother left with him in his baby basket. Lewis is shocked to discover that he is French and seemingly linked to French royalty.
For Lewis, now unsure of his origin, fishing for the trout becomes a quest to discover who he really is. Just as he is about to nab his fish, he accidentally falls into the water and nearly dies.
The King of Slippery Falls is a touching and good-hearted novel about the search for self and the power of belief.
- The King of Slippery Falls
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By Sid Hite
Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/01/05
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Door into Summer
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Read By Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/05
Formats: Digital Audy
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach—and Dan’s life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the “long sleep”—suspended animation for thirty years.
But when he awoke in the far different world of AD 2000, he made an amazing discovery. And suddenly Dan had the means to travel back in time—and get his revenge.
Once again, grand master Robert Heinlein’s genius shines through, illustrating why his books have sold millions of copies and won countless awards.
- The Door into Summer
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Read By Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 1/01/05
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Cave Girl
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/01/04
Formats: Digital Audy
"In an instant there sloughed from the heart and mind and soul of Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones every particle of civilization and culture and refinement that had required countless ages in the building, stripping him naked, age on age, down to the primordial beast that had begot his first human progenitor. He saw red as he leaped for the throat of the man-beast whose ruthless hands were upon Nadara…"
Back in Boston, Massachusetts, he was a blue blood named Waldo Smith-Jones. But when he found himself cast ashore on a lost island in the Pacific, an island populated by primitive men and beasts, he won not only a new name but also the hand of the cave princess, Nadara.
This is the exciting tale of his desperate efforts to survive, of his victories and losses, and of his quest for romance.
- The Cave Girl
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 6/01/04
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Justin Morgan Had a Horse
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/01/03
Formats: Digital Audy
“Nope, that little feller don’t look like he’ll amount to much.” That’s what almost everyone said about Little Bub. But young Joel Goss knew that Little Bub was a special colt, even though he was a runt. When schoolteacher Justin Morgan asked Joel to gentle the colt, Joel was thrilled. Little Bub proved that size and breed weren’t everything, and soon word spread throughout the entire Northeast that this spirited colt could pull heavier loads than a pair of oxen and run faster than thoroughbreds.
This book, which garnered a Newbery Honor, presents the true story of a simple horse who, through pure spirit, rose to greatness. His descendants, who helped settlers tame the American wilderness, would become a world-famous breed of American horses, the Morgan.
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse
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Read by Patrick Lawlor
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Release Date: 7/01/03
Formats: Digital Audy