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Emeritus Pope Benedict commands both adulation and unremitting criticism. In this second volume of Peter Seewald’s authoritative biography, the story runs from the Second Vatican Council (1965-68) that shaped Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s conservative ideas about the role of the Catholic Church, through his short, scandal-ridden papacy and unprecedented resignation. Volume two introduces listeners to the Pope Emeritus living in the Vatican Gardens, contemplating the future of the church and his controversial legacy within it.

This epic chronicle by Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) continues with the lives of great Grecians and Romans. These biographies of the men who created the ancient world are brought to life in this new, high-quality recording. Legends such as Caesar, Alexander, Cicero, Demosthenes, and many others come alive as their politics, economy, and their individual stories play out in the time of the ancients. This translation is by John Dryden and is considered by scholars to be the quintessential translation.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years At the...

From the victim or victims, the crime scenes, and the criminal investigations that ensued, we follow 12 true crime stories, some of which are solved and some that are still mysteries. We also take a look at cases where wrongful convictions have occurred and why. These true murder stories will take you on a journey across the globe and even back in time in some cases. Family massacres, individual true crime murder cases, and situations where murder goes unseen in suicide cases, plus many more.

Part two of the controversial Skinhead Diaries books. From no remorse to new horizons. Brutally honest—honestly brutal. Ten years in the heat of the battle as a fanatical right-wing leader and skinhead rabble rouser.

By the end of The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 1, the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The second volume of Carl Rollyson’s ambitious biography finds Faulkner lamenting the many threats to his creative existence. Feeling, as an artist, he should be above worldly concerns and even morality, he has instead inherited only debts and numerous mouths to feed and funerals to fund.

William Branham is a paradox in modern history. Beginning in 1946, his ministry leaped from obscurity to gain national attention in less than six months, and in the process it sparked a worldwide faith-healing revival. He accomplished this feat with he help of a unique gift – a supernatural sign that startled people into taking notice. Soon Christians around the world were noticing.

Neste segundo volume da trilogia biográfica de Lula, Fernando Morais reconstitui os anos finais da ditadura até a vitória do ex-líder sindical em 2002 como o primeiro presidente operário da história do Brasil. Mantendo o ritmo eletrizante do primeiro volume, no qual acompanhamos Lula até...

This audiobook bundle contains Book One: The Boy and His Deprivation (1909-1932); Book Two: The Young Man and His Desperation (1933-1946); and Book Three: The Man and His Commission (1946-1950).

Dans ce second et dernier volume, Maxime de La Rocheterie poursuit le portrait de Marie‑Antoinette, du faste contraignant aux heures d’épreuves, au cœur d’un royaume gagné par l’inquiétude. Avec la précision d’un historien du XIXe siècle, il suit la reine dans le passage de la faveur à la controverse, entre vie privée et affaires d’État, échos de la cour et clameurs de la rue.

If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this book for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.

Throughout the autobiography, Spurgeon records those aspects of life that only an autobiography can: his family circle, the daily labor behind his public works, and the feelings which led him to resist the reformation of the Faith of the Churches. Above all, he records his experiences of God's grace.

Want to know what Vietnam was really like? From a Marine sniper in Hue, to a medevac dust-off pilot going into a hot LZ, Navy Corpsmen, A-6 pilots taking out bridges and SAM sites in North Vietnam, a nurse on the USS Repose, combat medics deep in the jungle, machine gunners in I-Corps, mechanics working on the rolling deck of a big carrier on Yankee Station, squad leaders on infantry sweeps in “the Arizona Territory”, truck convoys under fire, riverine patrol boats in the Delta, and much more....

The unbelievably true story of a 40-day fast, beating cancer, dying, coming back to life, and ego death. This audiobook begins the Hard Times series, which follows up on the success of Stefan Aarnio's best-selling book, Hard Times Create Strong Men.

UMA TURNÊ DE ROCK VISTA PELO LADO DE DENTRO - O VOLUME 2 “Faça cada minuto virar dois; um para ter a experiência, outro para saboreá-la”. Neil Peart Durante a turnê de trigésimo aniversário do Rush, a R30, no verão de 2004, Neil Peart percorreu e viveu: 57 shows em 9 países...

“Se eu fosse orquestrar a trilha sonora da minha vida não seria com uma música vencedora de um Oscar de esplendor sinfônico: seria um aglomerado de guitarra, baixo, bateria e vocal”. Na sequência desta viagem de carro com Neil Peart, chegamos ao parque nacional Big Bend, mas também...

This audiobook includes music from New Order and original tracks from Stephen Morris, and an exclusive interview with Gillian Gilbert Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . . Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying...

This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'

The Indian Mate: Volume 2 uncovers a unique Australian experience through the eyes of an NRI (Non-Resident Indian) who later became an Australian citizen. With crushing expectations, $1000 and a bag full of dreams (his own and his family's), Divesh sets foot in Australia. Despite feelings of...

Throughout his baseball career and life, Christy Mathewson often wrote down his observations and philosophies. The most famous collection of these writings was published by John N. Wheeler in the classic baseball book Pitching in a Pinch. He was asked many times to write an autobiography yet never completed one. This audiobook is a compilation of many of those writings not included in Pitching in a Pinch and completes with that book and the brand-new Managing in a Moment, a marvelous and fascinating trilogy of Matty's nonfiction writings.