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ID: 131974

Title: John Ransom's Andersonville Diary

Author: John Ransom

Narrator: David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-04

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Military

Summary:

An extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville. Where 13,000 wretched Union prisoners died within barely 14 months, under conditions which bear witness to man's inhumanity to man. And, one man's undaunted spirit to survive, to tell the dreadful tale! The diary mirrors Ransom's changing attitudes from the moody early staccato sentences when he is first captured to the resigned and eventually cheerful prose when the war draws to a close.

This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville. Here 13,000 wretched Union prisoners died within barely fourteen months, from starvation, scurvy, and other diseases that spread through the camp. There was little shelter but makeshift tents; little in the way of blankets, warm clothing, or even shoes; and a scarcity of food and fresh water. Often they were forced to sleep on the muddy ground in very crowded conditions.

While the deplorable conditions bear witness to man's inhumanity to man, they also are witness to one man's undaunted spirit to survive to tell the dreadful tale.

AUTHOR

John Ransom, a Union soldier captured by the Confederate Army, ended up in the Andersonville prison. He had been a printer from Michigan, and he returned there after the war. Little else is known about his life except through his diary of his prison experience.

COMMENTARY

Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of John Ransom's Andersonville Diary

"David Thorn reads with a genteel calmness, even when recounting the most horrible experiences...Thorn's consistency helps tie together an account that...amply preserves a record of war's inhumanity."-AudioFile Online

I first became interested in the Civil War, and in history itself, watching the movie Gettysburg. I went on to read Killer Angels, the book on which the movie was based, and I was so taken with the historical figures depicted there that I sought out their biographies. From their biographies, I was drawn to investigate original sources: the writings of those people, themselves in letters and journals.

John Ransom's Diary is an original source that is fascinating, uplifting, horrifying, and shattering by turns. John Ransom, serving in the Union army, was twenty years old when he was captured by Confederates. Part of his incarceration was spent in the infamous Andersonville prison camp.

Here is a day-to-day record, sparse but gripping, of a man's imprisonment. There are villains as well as heroes among the prisoners. We hear not only of cooperation, of men banding together to keep each other going, but of cowards and thieves.

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ID: 132011

Title: Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: A Full Cast, Bobbie Frohman, Bruce Blau, David Thorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-04

Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics, Humor

Summary:

This delightful collection of gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his best here, poking fun at common hypocrisy as the self-satisfied pillars of the community are done in by their own greed.

Other stories in the collection include:

1. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg

2. The Double Barrelled Detective Story

3. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

4. The Million Dollar Bank Note

5. Benton and Mills

6. A Tale

7. Cannibalism in the Cars

8. The Stolen White Elephant

9. The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's

10. The Good Little Boy

11. The Bad Little Boy

12. Baker's Blue Jay Yarn

AUTHOR

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was born Samuel L. Clemens in the town of Florida, Missouri. One of the most popular and influential authors our nation has ever produced, his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. He has been called not only the greatest humorist of his age but the father of American literature.

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ID: 160415

Title: Brian's Hunt

Author: Gary Paulsen

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-03

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Action & Adventure, Tough Topics

Summary:

Brian sets out on the hunt of a lifetime in this follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!

 

Brian Robeson has stood up to the challenge of surviving the wilderness in Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return. Now, while camping alone on a lake in the woods, he finds a wounded and whimpering dog. As Brian treats her wounds, he worries about who or what did this to her. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly, to check on his Cree friends. With his new companion at his side, he sets out on the hunt.

 

Gary Paulsen expertly delivers a riveting story that brilliantly combines two of his great themes: the human animal's place in nature, and the mysterious and wonderful bond between humans and dogs.

“The Brian books reveal nature and humankind’s place in it with spare prose that seems ideally suited to the setting and plot.” —VOYA

 

“Based on real incidents, this well-written sequel to Hatchet and its successors will be gobbled up by the author’s legions of fans.” —Kirkus Reviews

Read all the Hatchet Adventures!

Brian's Winter

The River

Brian's Return

Brian's Hunt

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ID: 160437

Title: Great and Terrible Beauty

Author: Libba Bray

Narrator: Jo Wyatt

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-09-03

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one.

To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

“A delicious, elegant gothic.”—PW, Starred 

“Shivery with both passion and terror.”—Kirkus Reviews 

'Compulsively readable.' --VOYA 

A New York Times Bestseller

A Publishers Weekly Bestseller

A Book Sense Bestseller

BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults)

Iowa High School Book Award

Garden State Teen Book Award

Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award

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ID: 289812

Title: Trojan Odyssey

Author: Clive Cussler

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-03

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.

 

Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something strange and beautiful and ancient.  And the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight for them and a nearby floating luxury resort hotel called Ocean Wanderer. 

 

The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable. And now that Dirk Pitt has learned he’s a father, he will stop at nothing to protect his two children. He rushes into the chaos, only to find that what’s left in the storm’s wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the world, and Summer’s relic may be the only clue to the man calling the shots. Whoever he is, he’s connected to a cult that believes the Celts, also known as the Achaeans, reached the New World millennia before the accepted history suggests. If he’s right, his ancestors laid the foundation for the work he will soon complete—and our world will be a very different place.

Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is already a very different place...

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ID: 103093

Title: Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage

Author: Philip Taubman

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-03

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

'In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering.' -Publishers Weekly

'New York Times editor Taubman exudes admiration for the contrarian thinking and enterprise that brought into being the U-2, the SR-71, and the Corona series of surveillance satellites.' -Booklist

During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, revolutionized spying and warfare. In great secrecy and beyond the prying eyes of Congress and the press, they built exotic new machines that opened up the Soviet Union to surveillance and protected the United States from surprise nuclear attack. Secret Empire is the dramatic story of these men and their inventions, told in full for the first time.

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ID: 296192

Title: Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History

Author: Andro Linklater

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-03

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Law, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

'This expertly written and eminently enjoyable chronicle is highly recommended for history and history of science collections.' -Library Journal

'Make room on the library shelf for the never-before-told saga of the survey that converted the vast wilderness west of the Ohio River into a commodity marked out for government sale.' -Booklist, Starred Review

How we ultimately gained the American Customary System-the last traditional system in the world-and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see America's history-and our democracy-in a brilliant new light.

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ID: 160682

Title: His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3)

Author: Philip Pullman

Narrator: Philip Pullman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-03

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

The unforgettable His Dark Materials trilogy that began with The Golden Compass and continued with The Subtle Knife, reaches its astonishing conclusion in The Amber Spyglass. These modern fantasy classics have been hailed by Entertainment Weekly as an 'All-Time Greatest Novel' and Newsweek as a 'Top 100 Book of All Time'

Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel's audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play—and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed.

Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape.

As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—comes to depend on Lyra and Will. On the choices they make in love, and for love, forevermore.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the Whitbread Award

Winner of the British Book Award (Children's)

Published in 40 Countries

'Masterful.... This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.' —Smithsonian Magazine

'Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement.' —The Cincinnati Enquirer

'War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted.' —The New York Times Book Review

'Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told.' —The Boston Globe

Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!

** THE BOOK OF DUST **

La Belle Sauvage

The Secret Commonwealth

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ID: 251184

Title: Fledgling

Author: Jane Langton

Narrator: Mary Beth Hurt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-03

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

A Newbery Honor Book

An ALA Notable Book

A Children's Editors' Choice

It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came to her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly.

Jane Langton spins a marvelous fantasy that wild delight all who dream that someday, somehow, we will magically find ourselves aloft and suddenly able to fly!

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ID: 201130

Title: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)

Author: Philip Pullman

Narrator: Alison Dowling, Douglas Blackwell, Garrick Hagon, Jill Shilling, Jo Wyatt, John O'connor, Philip Pullman, Rupert Degas, Sean Barrett, Stephen Thorne, Susan Sheridan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-03

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!

The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes listeners to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.

Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.

But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

A masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction

Published in 40 Countries

'Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years.' —The Washington Post

'Very grand indeed.' —The New York Times

'Pullman is quite possibly a genius.' —Newsweek

Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials!

** THE BOOK OF DUST **

La Belle Sauvage

The Secret Commonwealth

Contact: [email protected]