My Time with God for Daily Drives: 20 Personal Devotions to Refuel Your Busy Day (Audio CD)

My Time with God for Daily Drives: 20 Personal Devotions to Refuel Your Busy Day (Audio CD)
By Thomas Nelson

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The Lonely Mile (Audible Audio Edition)

The Lonely Mile (Audible Audio Edition)
By Allan Leverone

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High Tech Gadgets: Everything You Need to Know About the New Technology Found On Our Cool Tech Gadgets and Tech News On How to Use the Best Gadgets on the Market Today (Kindle Edition)

High Tech Gadgets: Everything You Need to Know About the New Technology Found On Our Cool Tech Gadgets and Tech News On How to Use the Best Gadgets on the Market Today (Kindle Edition)
By Robert Marcotte

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The Planets (Audio CD)

The Planets (Audio CD)
By Dava Sobel

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Creative Labs Zen Mx Se 8 GB MP3 Player- Black (Electronics)

Creative Labs Zen Mx Se 8 GB MP3 Player- Black (Electronics)
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Audio CD)

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Audio CD)
By Alison Weir

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Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella’s political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, “the She-Wolf of France.”

Now the acclaimed author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir, reexamines the life of Isabella of England, history’s other notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward II’s mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and ruling in his stead as co-regents for Isabella’s young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover.

Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story. She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward II’s brutal murder in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder even took place.

Isabella’s reputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison Weir gives a startling, groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella, in this first full biography in more than 150 years. In a work of extraordinary original research, Weir effectively strips away centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and reveals a truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in which she lived and the history of western Europe.

Engaging, vibrant, alive with breathtaking detail and unforgettable characters, Queen Isabella is biographical history at its finest. Read more

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Listener's Bible KJV CD (Audio CD)

Listener's Bible KJV CD (Audio CD)
By Max McLean

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65 CDs (80 Hours) Audio Collection includingzippered carrying caseProduct InformationExperience the majestic language of the King James Bible skillfully narratedThrough the powerful voice of Max McLean.  The King James Bible (KJV) waswritten with oral interpretation in mind. When presented by a gifted narratorthe grandeur of its phrasing and the rich musicality of its rhythms resonate inthe ear and mind of the listener.Includes Disc 1 - Genesis 1-19 Disc 2 - Genesis 20-33 Disc 3 - Genesis 34-48 Disc 4 - Genesis 49-50 and Exodus 1-15 Disc 5 - Exodus 16-31 Disc 6 - Exodus 32-40 and Leviticus 1-7 Disc 7 - Leviticus 8-22 Disc 8 - Leviticus 23-27 and Numbers 1-7 Disc 9 - Numbers 8-22 Disc 10 - Numbers 23-36 and Deuteronomy 1 Disc 11 - Deuteronomy 2-18 Disc 12 - Deuteronomy 19-34 Disc 13 - Joshua 1-18 Disc 14 - Joshua 19-24 and Judges 1-8 Disc 15 - Judges 9-21 and Ruth 1-2 Disc 16 - Ruth 3-4 and Samuel 1-14 Disc 17 - 1 Samuel 15-29 Disc 18 - 1 Samuel 30-31 and 2 Samuel 1-14 Disc 19 - 2 Samuel 15-24 and 1 Kings 1-2 Disc 20 - 1 Kings 3-14 Disc 21 - 1 Kings 15-22 and Kings 1-4 Disc 22 - 2 Kings 5-17 Disc 23 - 2 Kings 18-25 and 1 Chronicles 1-6 Disc 24 - 1 Chronicles 7-25 Disc 25 - 1 Chronicles 26-29 and 2 Chronicles 1-15 Disc 26 - 2 Chronicles 16-32 Disc 27 - 2 Chronicles 33-36 EZRA and Nehemiah 1-3 Disc 28 - Nehemiah 4-13 and Esther 1-7 Disc 29 - Esther 8-10 and Job 1-25 Disc 30 - Job 26-42 and Psalms 1-17 Disc 31 - Psalms 18-54 Disc 32 - Psalms 55-90 Disc 33 - Psalms 91-128 Disc 34 - Psalms 129-150 and Proverbs 1-14 Disc 35 - Proverbs 15-31 and Ecclesiastes 1-6 Disc 36 - Ecclesiastes 7-12 Song Of Solomon and Isaiah 1-9 Disc 37 - Isaiah 10-30 Disc 38 - Isaiah 31-48 Disc 39 - Isaiah 49-66 and Jeremiah 1-2 Disc 40 - Jeremiah 3-18 Disc 41 - Jeremiah 19-33 Disc 42 - Jeremiah 34-49 Disc 43 - Jeremiah 50-52 Lamentations and Ezekiel 1-7 Disc 44 - Ezekiel 8-22 Disc 45 - Ezekiel 23-37 Read more

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My Sister's Keeper (Audio CD)

My Sister's Keeper (Audio CD)
By Jodi Picoult

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"A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can't help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. Read more

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Soundfly AUX MP3 Player Car Fm Transmitter for SD Card, USB Stick, Mp3 Players (iPod, Zune, Sansa) with Remote Control (Electronics)

Soundfly AUX MP3 Player Car Fm Transmitter for SD Card, USB Stick, Mp3 Players (iPod, Zune, Sansa) with Remote Control (Electronics)
By Satechi

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Soundfly AUX lets you listen to MP3 sound files stored in portable memory devices like USB flash memory & SD card, etc through your car radio speakers. Music can play through both Fm frequency and direct connection with Aux port in your car. 1.5 inch Black LCD screen shows playing time, artist name, song name, folder name. It also lets you navigate through files and folders in your portable memory device. Soundfly AUX transmits to all FM frequencies (88.1MHz-107.9MHz) and memorizes up to 4 FM frequencies. It has RDS function that also lets you view artist and song name on your compatible radio display. You can also transmit music from other Mp3 players such as iPod, Zune, Sansa etc. Other functions include bookmarking, repeat, shuffle & volume, treble, bass, contrast adjustment. Fully functional remote control enables easy operation. Just plug USB stick or SD card in Sound-Fly Aux & Enjoy music! Read more

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Curious George Complete Adventures Deluxe Book and CD Gift Set (Paperback)

Curious George Complete Adventures Deluxe Book and CD Gift Set (Paperback)
By Margret Rey

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This handsome gift set includes the top-selling The Complete Adventures of Curious George plus an unabridged audio collection.
Featuring not only all seven original Curious George stories (Curious George, Curious George Flies a Kite, Curious George Gets a Medal, Curious George Goes to the Hospital, Curious George Rides a Bike, Curious George Takes a Job, and Curious George Learns the Alphabet), the special collector’s edition also includes a bonus photo album of the Reys, an introduction by Leonard Marcus, and an essay by Dee Jones. The book is packaged with five CDs that include audio recordings of the stories, available with and without turn signals, for three and a half hours of entertainment. CDs are packaged in reusable paper slipcase. Read more

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Platinum (Audible Audio Edition)

Platinum (Audible Audio Edition)
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Execution Dock (Audible Audio Edition)

Execution Dock (Audible Audio Edition)
By Anne Perry

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The Red Church (Audible Audio Edition)

The Red Church (Audible Audio Edition)
By Scott Nicholson

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Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll: An Exclusive Audio Adventure (Audio CD)

Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll: An Exclusive Audio Adventure (Audio CD)
By Simon Messingham,

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A brand new Audio Original story featuring David Tennant. When the Doctor arrives in England, 2073, he's in for a nasty shock. Instead of the greatest party ever held in the Solar System (according to the guide), he finds a time of famine and world starvation. Even worse, something is coming out of the ground to steal people away... Read more

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DSM-III PERSONALITY DISORDERS" DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT TAPES (Audio Cassette)

DSM-III PERSONALITY DISORDERS" DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT TAPES (Audio Cassette)
By Allen, M.D. Frances

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Kindness of Strangers (Big Finish Stargate Atlantis 3) (Hardcover)

Kindness of Strangers (Big Finish Stargate Atlantis 3) (Hardcover)
By Sharon Gosling

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Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide cd (CD-ROM)

Freedom in Your Relationship with Food: An Everyday Guide cd (CD-ROM)
By Myra Lewin

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Unabridged edition read by the author. This 5 CD audio book includes printable worksheets, charts, and recipes!
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In a culture driven by advertising, convenience, and weight-loss gimmicks, our relationship with food has become sadly out-of touch. Yoga teacher Myra Lewin encourages us to slow down and cultivate a healthy relationship with what we put in our bodies. Drawing from the basic principles of Ayurveda and Yoga, Freedom in Your Relationship to Food is a simple and effective guide to enhancing your relationship with food and the process of eating. Including lists of foods to seek out or avoid, simple breathing and meditation exercises, and practical recipes, this book will help you overcome mental and physical obstacles to attain excellent health. Read more

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The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' (The Wheel of Time, Book Two) (Audio CD)

The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' (The Wheel of Time, Book Two) (Audio CD)
By Robert Jordan

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The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth returns again. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of th Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of...Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.
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Louis L'Amour: Four Card Draw, Keep Travelin' Rider, Dutchmans Flat, His Brothers Debt (Audio CD)

Louis L'Amour: Four Card Draw, Keep Travelin' Rider, Dutchmans Flat, His Brothers Debt (Audio CD)
By Louis L'Amour

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Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World (Audio CD)

Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World (Audio CD)
By Lisa Bloom

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An essential guide from award-winning journalist, legal analyst, and trial attorney Lisa Bloom that shows women how to seize back control of their lives and minds from the excesses of pop culture and learn to think for themselves again. Read more

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Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes: Volume Three: 1966-1967 (BBC Audio) (Audio CD)

Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes: Volume Three: 1966-1967 (BBC Audio) (Audio CD)
By Broadcasting Corp. British

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Dozens of Doctor Who TV episodes are lost as visual film recordings—but they survive as audio soundtracks, digitally remastered with additional linking narration by members of the original cast. This handsome box set collects five adventures starring William Hartnell as the original Doctor. Read more

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Hercule Poirot's Greatest Cases - 28 Audio CD's (BBC Dramatization) (Audio CD)

Hercule Poirot's Greatest Cases - 28 Audio CD's (BBC Dramatization) (Audio CD)
By Agatha Christie

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Collected in one fabulous set, Agatha Christie's peerless detective in fourteen of his greatest cases, presented by a full cast!

Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas that originally aired on BBC Radio 4, John Moffatt stars as the unruffled Poirot. The perfect present for any Poirot aficionado!

The complete title list: Murder on the Links; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Mystery of the Blue Train; Peril at End House; Lord Edgware Dies; Murder on the Orient Express; The ABC Murders; Murder in Mesopotamia; Death on the Nile; Hercule Poirot's Christmas; Evil Under the Sun; Five Little Pigs; After the Funeral, and Hallowe'en Party.

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Help, The (Hardcover)

Help, The (Hardcover)
By Kathryn Stockett

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Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t. Read more

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Shadowheart: Shadowmarch: Volume IV (Audio CD)

Shadowheart: Shadowmarch: Volume IV (Audio CD)
By Tad Williams

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Thousands of years ago the gods fought and fell in the deeps beneath what is now Southmarch Castle, then were banished into eternal sleep. Now at least one of them is stirring again, dreaming of vengeance against humankind. Southmarch haunts the dreams of men as well as gods. Royal twins Barrick and Briony Eddon, the heirs of Southmarch’s ruling family, are hurrying back home as well: Barrick now carries the heritage of the immortal Qar inside him, and Briony has a small army at her back and a fiery determination to recover her father’s throne and revenge herself on the usurpers. The cruel and powerful southern ruler known as the Autarch of Xis wants the power of the gods for his own, a power he can only gain if he conquers Southmarch. And nobody knows what the Qar want, only that the mysterious fairy - folk are prepared to die for it — or to kill every living thing in Southmarch Castle and in all the lands around. It will come to an apocalyptic conclusion on Midsummer Night, when the spirits of the haunted past and the desperate struggles of the present come together in one great final battle. Many will die. Many more will be transformed out of all recognition, and the world will be forever changed.

Christopher Paolini and Tad Williams: Author One-on-One

Christopher Paolini's abiding love of fantasy inspired him to write the Inheritance cycle--Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr--which quickly became an internationally bestselling series. Christopher draws inspiration for the world of Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, from the natural beauty that surrounds his home in Montana: the tumultuous weather, the rushing Yellowstone River, and the soaring Beartooth Mountains.

Read on for Paolini and Tad Williams's discussion about why they write fantasy, their upcoming projects, and more.

Tad: Hi, Christopher. Nice to talk to you, albeit virtually. It was great hanging out with you and your family this summer. Pretty much all of us fell in love with your part of the world, too.

Be warned: this isn't my best time of the day, so if I start calling you "Herman" and asking what it was about whaling that interested you, please forgive.

The first thing I'd like to ask you as a starter question is: why fantasy? I mean, there's the obvious answer (which is also true for me) that it was something I loved to read growing up, but I guess I'm curious what is it that still resonates for you. Why do these kind of stories, these kinds of characters, these kinds of worlds, still speak to you?
In a similar vein, do you have another kind of fiction, another genre, that you'd really like to try? If so, why? Any genres you think you'll never write but wish you could?

Christopher: Hi Tad. Great talking to you as well. We all had a wonderful time when you guys visited. Definitely one of the highlights of the year.

I'm still waking up as well -- takes a few cups of tea and a few strips of bacon before the little gray cells start firing properly -- so if I sound a bit muddled, that's why. Still, we can make a stab at coherency, eh?

Hmm. Why do I write fantasy? As you said, it's because I enjoy reading it, but I enjoy reading it because . . . well, for a number of reasons, I suppose. First of all, fantasy allows for all sorts of dangerous situations, and those can provide a lot of excitement in a story. And excitement is always fun. Also, epic fantasy usually deals with themes and situations that everyone can relate to, such as the challenge of growing up, or how one is supposed to deal with moral quandaries. Fantasy is the oldest form of literature; the very first stories that humans told while crouched around campfires were stories about gods and monsters and tragic mistakes and heroic feats. Even now, those topics still resonate with us on a primal level, which is one reason I think fantasy will remain popular with readers as long as humans are still human. And I love the sense of awe and wonder one can often find in fantastical literature. . . . Fantasy can allow you to see and hear and experience things that have never existed and never *could* exist. To me, that is the closest we come to real magic in this world.

  That said, there are a number of other genres I'd like to try my hand at: mystery, thriller, horror, science-fiction, romance, etc. I love stories of all kinds -- although mythic ones certainly hold the greatest appeal to me -- and I'm very much looking forward to experimenting once I finish the Inheritance cycle. Any genres I think I'll never write but wish I could? . . . Probably long-form epic poetry or a witty comedy of manners. Poetry is fun, but my grasp on it is rather shaky, and a comedy of manners (while I enjoy them) is so different from my usual life, I'm not sure I could pull it off properly.

And now a question for you: You have just finished your third (large) series. What is it about big epic stories that so fascinates you? Why not write small, intimate books about a fishmonger whose greatest love is his toothpick sculpture of the Brooklyn Bridge?

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