Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast--an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his [...]
Everyone makes mistakes, big and small. Sometimes our mistakes take us down the wrong path and send us spiraling into destructive life patterns, and sometimes we learn a lesson and never make the same mistake again. But how? How do we recognize our destructive patterns, make new choices, and then fo[...]
Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight, Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of f[...]
When a client asks Wolfe to find something unsavory about his son's fiancTe in order to stop their interracial marriage, the white girl's record comes up clean but she comes up dead, with her black fiancT accused. Read by Michael Prichard.[...]
Dazzling in its originality, "Rites of Spring" probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing that "The Great War was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whol[...]