American Circus
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Battle for the Big Top
- P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Millions have sat under the “big top,” watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country’s most beloved pastimes. In Battle for the Big Top, New York Times best-selling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings - James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling - all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus.
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Fantastic!
- By IsleWait on 09-30-22
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Battle for the Big Top
- P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-15-21
- Language: English
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Best-selling author Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when three circus kings - James Bailey, P. T. Barnum, and John Ringling - all vied for control of the vastly profitable and influential American Circus....
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The Circus Fire
- A True Story of an American Tragedy
- By: Stewart O'Nan
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In 1944, the big top of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford caught fire during the middle of an afternoon performance. Nine thousand people were inside. In seconds, the big top was burning out of control. The toll of the fire, and its circumstances, haunt Hartford to the present day. But it is the intense, detailed narrative - before, after, and especially during the panic under the burning tent - that will remain with listeners long after they finish this book.
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Harrowing and brilliantly detailed
- By P. M. Morris on 09-14-08
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The Circus Fire
- A True Story of an American Tragedy
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-04-08
- Language: English
- One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this account of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its people....
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Home of the American Circus
- By: Allison Larkin
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her suburban hometown of Somers, New York, to live in the house she inherited from her estranged parents. Despite attempts to lay low, Freya encounters childhood friends, familial enemies, and old flames—as well as her fifteen-year-old niece, Aubrey, who is secretly living in the derelict home. As they reconnect, Freya and Aubrey lean on each other, working to restore the house and come to terms with the devastating events that pulled them apart.
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Home of the American Circus
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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The acclaimed author of the “lyrical coming-of-age novel” (Good Morning America) The People We Keep returns with a luminous new story of redemption, breaking generational curses, and the power of family in its truest form.
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Fragile Things
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Marvelous creations, including a short story set in the world of The Matrix and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction, can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his entertaining (and dark) sense of humor.
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Perhaps a different format?
- By Karen on 11-03-10
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Fragile Things
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-26-06
- Language: English
- This extraordinary collection showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance, as well as his entertaining (and dark) sense of humor....
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P.T. Barnum: A Captivating Guide to the American Showman Who Founded What Became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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He wasn’t always the Great Showman. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum grew up in relative poverty with only his wits to help him along. When his father died, the 15-year-old boy entered the working world as a shopkeeper’s assistant. In leaps and bounds, he worked his way from assistant to shop owner, lottery office owner, and, eventually, entertainment promoter. The bulk of his career was focused on his beloved American Museum, where thousands of ticket holders flocked every day to look at the human oddities, stuffed animals, live whale, and American memorabilia.
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greatest. show
- By Amazon Customer nutbutter on 09-23-18
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P.T. Barnum: A Captivating Guide to the American Showman Who Founded What Became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-21-18
- Language: English
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He wasn’t always the Great Showman. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum grew up in relative poverty with only his wits to help him along. When his father died, the 15-year-old boy entered the working world as a shopkeeper’s assistant....
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Our Kindred Creatures
- How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
- By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts’s animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more.
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Great perspective
- By Myron on 11-17-24
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Our Kindred Creatures
- How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-23-24
- Language: English
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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid....
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Abracadabra
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- By: Raven Coyne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Madison may be the best Admiral Cutter has but what are the limits of trust?Madison finds out when Cutter is arrested for treason! Now she must fight for the more than the man’s good name, she must save his life. Or, does she? Buy Your Copy Today!
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Abracadabra
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 12-12-23
- Language: English
- Madison may be the best Admiral Cutter has but what are the limits of trust?Madison finds out when Cutter is arrested for treason! Now she must ...
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Bread and Circus
- By: Airea D. Matthews
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed by 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. Now, she presents a direct challenge to Smith’s theory of the invisible hand, which claims self-interest is the key to optimal economic outcomes. By juxtaposing redacted texts by Smith and the French Marxist Guy Debord with autobiographical prose and poems, Bread and Circus personally offers how self-interest fails when it reduces people to commodity and spectacle.
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Incredible Work, Compelling Delivery
- By Amazon Customer on 05-30-23
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Bread and Circus
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-30-23
- Language: English
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This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and artistic contribution to the ongoing conversation about American inequality.
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Going to Find Love
- A Small Town Friends to Lovers Family Secret Romance
- By: Rachelle Ayala
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Penny Barnes has never left home. She’s a pastor’s daughter, has a long-time boyfriend, and is a hometown sweetheart. Her fairy-tale life is upended when she discovers she’s adopted. Excited by the discovery of a genetic match, Penny is lured to a distant town with secrets of its own. She meets another lonely young woman who has more questions than answers. Her adoptive parents disappear. She runs into roadblocks and dead-ends, and someone powerful is determined to stop her from finding the truth. Mike Wolff drops everything to find Penny as she digs for through old secrets. When ...
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Going to Find Love
- A Small Town Friends to Lovers Family Secret Romance
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
- Penny Barnes has never left home. She’s a pastor’s daughter, has a long-time boyfriend, and is a hometown sweetheart. Her fairy-tale life is ...
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Fragile Things
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Here is a stunning collection of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.
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Hard to listen to
- By Amazon Customer on 11-19-08
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Fragile Things
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-12-07
- Language: English
- Here is a stunning collection of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul....
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Bread and Circus
- By: Airea D. Matthews
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imagining to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens. Examining the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on the author’s archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations.
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Bread and Circus
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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A virtuosic, formally adept and often deeply affecting memoir-in-verse from a former winner of the prestigious Yale Younger Poet’s Prize....
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Juggle
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- By: Raven Coyne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 43 mins
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To catch a spy you have to have the right bait.Count Facchini was sure the new A-12 anti-aircraft shell was just the trap to kill Madison Dix with. He was right. Buy Your Copy Today!
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Juggle
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 43 mins
- Release date: 12-12-23
- Language: English
- To catch a spy you have to have the right bait.Count Facchini was sure the new A-12 anti-aircraft shell was just the trap to kill Madison Dix with....
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Flash Paper
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- By: Raven Coyne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 49 mins
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It’s been slow for Madison, the Italians have been on their best behavior. But the German’s are another matter.The murder of a known German agent pits Madison against one of the deadliest agents in Europe and forces her in a race to save England’s new wonder weapon from falling into Hitler’s hands. Buy Your Copy Today!
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Flash Paper
- A Madison Dix Spy Thriller
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 12-12-23
- Language: English
- It’s been slow for Madison, the Italians have been on their best behavior. But the German’s are another matter.The murder of a known German ...
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Bread and Circus
- By: Airea D. Matthews
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imagining to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens. Examining the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on the author’s archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations.
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Bread and Circus
- Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-08-23
- Language: English
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A virtuosic, formally adept and often deeply affecting memoir-in-verse from a former winner of the prestigious Yale Younger Poet’s Prize....
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