Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartiere, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever. Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist...

Sound discs contains: Disc 1. Remembering Jim Crow: an American RadioWorks Documentary -- Disc 2. Voices from Behind the Veil: Selections from the Behind the Veil Project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American...

"Just when Skip O'Rourke thinks he's finally free of his con-artist family, they drag him back to Long Island for one last scam...but nothing about this con is what it seems"--

Includes two collections of stories from the Star Wars prequel trilogy and the original Star Wars trilogy. Each collection includes 18 stories.

Casey Crenshaw has inherited a hotel in Montana and wants to sell the thing as soon as possible. Although the scene of a murder, it's not ghosts that worry Casey but the flesh-and-blood man trying to stop her.

In The Mother Goose diaries, Mother Goose's diary entries over the last five hundred years take listeners on a journey to learn buried secrets. In Queen Red Riding Hood's guide to royalty, the young queen gives us her take on politics, government, health, love, and of course, what it means to be royalty.

Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Seated upon his ever so lean horse, and accompanied by the pragmatic and faithful squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Along the way the duo...

Discusses the failure of America's political elites to recognize how group identities drive politics both at home and abroad, and outlines recommendations for reversing the country's foreign policy failures and overcoming destructive political tribalism at home. "Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most--the ones that people will kill and die for--are ethnic, religious, sectarian,...

"Join Andy and Terry in their spectacular new 78-storey treehouse. They've added 13 new levels including a drive-through car wash, a combining machine, a scribbletorium, an ALL-BALL sports stadium, Andyland, Terrytown, a high-security potato chip-storage facility and an open-air movie theatre. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!"--Container.

On Christmas Day, Mel finds General George Washington lying dead as a doornail in a stable. But Mel knows that George Washington must cross the Delaware River, or the course of American history will be changed forever. Could Mel₂s iPhone have sent him back in time to 1776? And can Mel and his schoolmates, know-it-all Bev and laid-back Brandon, come to the rescue? Perhaps, with a little help from two colonial kids and Benjamin Franklin himself.