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    War in the Middle East

    A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War

    by Wilborn Hampton ...
    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 18 min

    New York Times editor and critic Wilborn Hampton is the acclaimed author of gripping narratives like Kennedy Assassination, Meltdown, and September 11, 2001. In War in the Middle East, the veteran journalist offers a fascinating account of his early 1970s reports from the volatile desert region amidst Black September and the Yom Kippur War. This insider's view of life in a war zone shows Hampton ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • September 11, 2001

    Attack on New York City

    by Wilborn R. Hampton ...
    The award-winning Wilborn Hampton recounts one horrifying day in history through the eyes of several who experienced it firsthand. (Age 10 and up).Ten years after the tragic event that changed the course of America's history, the interviews and accounts of survivors, heroes, and terrorists are no less poignant. Seasoned reporter and award-winning author Wilborn Hampton creates an intimate portrait ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Babe Ruth

    by Wilborn Hampton ...
    Series series Up Close
    Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Babe Ruth in this captivating entry in the Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.Babe Ruth is still regarded as perhaps the greatest baseball player ever to step on a diamond. Born into a poor family that lived above a saloon on the Baltimore waterfront, George Herman Ruth Jr. was sent to a Catholic reform school at age seven, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Horton Foote

    America's Storyteller

    by Wilborn Hampton ...
    No playwright in the history of the American theater has captured the soul of the nation more incisively than Horton Foote.From his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Young Man From Atlanta, to his film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which received an Oscar, millions of people have been touched by Foote's work. He has long been regarded by other playwrights and screenwriters, actors, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Elvis Presley

    by Wilborn Hampton ...
    Series series Up Close
    Discover the incredible life and enduring legacy of Elvis Presley in this captivating Up Close biography series about twentieth-century America.Meet the King of rock and roll.Elvis Presley made a sound that was all his own, a sound so different that it ushered in a new kind of music—rock and roll. From the time he was a boy in East Tupelo, Mississippi, he absorbed the music around him: gospel, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    The Life of Bette Davis

    by Ed Sikov ...
    The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatnessShe was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart once remarked, "Unless you're very big she can knock you down." Bette Davis was a force of nature—an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Hockey Dad

    True Confessions Of A (Crazy?) Hockey Parent

    by Bob McKenzie ...
    A revealing look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of minor hockey culture Known as TSN's "Hockey Insider," Canada's Bob McKenzie is synonymous with the sport and one of its most respected analysts. In Hockey Dad, McKenzie describes firsthand the joys and heartbreak of raising two sons, with entirely diverging athletic futures. He details their separate paths, describing Michael, a 22-year-old ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

    Steel-True 1907-1940

    by Victoria Wilson ...
    “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Babe & Me

    A Baseball Card Adventure

    by Dan Gutman ...
    Series Book 3 - Baseball Card Adventures
    With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!On October 1, 1932, during Game Three of the Chicago Cubs–New York Yankees World Series, Babe Ruth belted a long home run to straightaway centerfield. According to legend, just before he hit, Babe pointed to the bleachers and boldly predicted he would slam the next pitch there.Did he ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    by Scott Eyman ...
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Who Was Babe Ruth?

    by Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Ted Hammond ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Just in time for baseball season!Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he was a handful. It was at a reform school that Babe discovered his talent for baseball, and by the age of nineteen, he was on his way to becoming a sports legend. Babe was often out of shape and even more often out on the town, but he had a big heart and an even bigger swing! Kids will learn all about the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Into the Dark

    The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941–1950

    by Mark A. Vieira ...
    Series series Turner Classic Movies
    You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.Into the Dark is the first book to tell the story of film noir in its own voice. Author Mark A. Vieira quotes the artists who made these movies and the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD