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Death in the Strike Zone

The Mystery of America’s First Baseball Hero

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

“A fascinating must-read for baseball history buffs.”—Publishers WeeklyHe threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented ... Read more

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“A fascinating must-read for baseball history buffs.”—Publishers WeeklyHe threw the first fastball. The first curveball. He was baseball’s first star—and its first tragedy.In Death in the Strike Zone, acclaimed historian Thomas W. Gilbert uncovers the forgotten life of James Creighton, the first American ballplayer to become a national sensation. On the eve of the Civil War, Creighton invented
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How Baseball Happened

Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. ... Read more

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The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846.
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The Daughters of Salem How we sent our children to their deaths: Part 1

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book 1 - The Daughters of Salem
Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re ... Read more

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Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re
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Utopia

by Thomas More ...

Translated by Gilbert Burnet ...

Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest ... Read more

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Utopia is a fascinating novel that tells the story of a visitor to a distant island home to a community that has established an ideal society. Based on harmony, justice, rationality, virtue, equality and the pursuit of happiness, it presents a sharp contrast with sixteenth century England. This remarkable novel is complex, insightful and far-sighted, and has, for centuries, been of great interest
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Anno Domini 1000

Illustrated by Thomas Gilbert ...

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book Volume 0 - Anno Domini 1000
Brunehilde is a wolf-charmer.When her travels take her to a remote valley in southern France, she is horrified to discover famine, pestilence, and mass deforestation. Worse still, children are being found dead in the woods. For the villagers, the murders must be the work of a demon: a wild beast, a wolf. But for Brunehilde—a nomadic healer widely seen as a witch—nothing is less certain. She knows ... Read more

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Brunehilde is a wolf-charmer.When her travels take her to a remote valley in southern France, she is horrified to discover famine, pestilence, and mass deforestation. Worse still, children are being found dead in the woods. For the villagers, the murders must be the work of a demon: a wild beast, a wolf. But for Brunehilde—a nomadic healer widely seen as a witch—nothing is less certain. She knows
... Read more
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Blood Lines [Dramatized Adaptation]

World of the Lupi 3

by Eileen Wilks ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Alyssa Wilmoth, Matthew Bassett, Danny Gavigan, Dawn Ursula, Nora Achrati, Deidra Starnes, Kenyatta Rogers, James Konicek, Thomas Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, Joe Brack, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Matthew McGee, Richard Cutting, Yasmin Tuazon, Thomas Penny, David Jourdan, Jeff Allin, Nick DePinto, Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, James Lewis, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Ken Jackson, Lily Beacon, Tim Carlin, Richard Rohan, Damyon Richardson ...

Series series World of the Lupi
Unabridged

6 hours 27 min

Touch-sensitive FBI agent Lily Yu is recruited by the Secret Service to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts – bringing Lily and her werewolf bond-mate, Rule, to DC just before the holidays. But Lily must turn to fellow agent Cynna Weaver for help when Cynna's former teacher, a demon master, emerges as the main suspect behind the pacts. After a demon commits a gruesome ... Read more

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Touch-sensitive FBI agent Lily Yu is recruited by the Secret Service to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts – bringing Lily and her werewolf bond-mate, Rule, to DC just before the holidays. But Lily must turn to fellow agent Cynna Weaver for help when Cynna's former teacher, a demon master, emerges as the main suspect behind the pacts. After a demon commits a gruesome
... Read more
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The Blood Mirror (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Lightbringer Saga 4

by Brent Weeks ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Joe Brack, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Scheeren, Ren Casey, Alyssa Wilmoth, Elliot Dash, Johann Dettweiler, David Coyne, Scott McCormick, Michael Glenn, Thomas Keegan, Michael John Casey, Kimberly Gilbert, Nick DePinto, Nanette Savard, Andy Clemence, Bradley Smith, Chris Genebach, Lily Beacon, Chris Davenport, Audrey Bertaux, Colleen Delany, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Dawn Ursula, Ken Jackson, Robbie Gay, Terence Aselford, Thomas Penny, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Dylan Lynch, Delores King Williams, Elizabeth Jernigan ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Lightbringer
Unabridged

8 hours 24 min

When does an empire fall?The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four - and those are falling before the White King's armies.Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison Gavin may not be ... Read more

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When does an empire fall?The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four - and those are falling before the White King's armies.Gavin Guile, ex-emperor, ex-Prism, ex-galley slave, formerly the one man who might have averted war, is now lost, broken, and trapped in a prison crafted by his own hands to hold a great magical genius. But Gavin has no magic at all. Worse, in this prison Gavin may not be
... Read more
Our Alchemical Bodies

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Translated by MB Valente ...

Series Book 0 - Our Alchemical Bodies
Are you ready for revolution? Revolution of the mind. Revolution of the body. At Camille's invitation, Sarah and Aniss arrive in the Tuscan countryside to take part in a unique experience. Camille hopes to achieve a complete fusion of three souls and three bodies into a single organism. An act of spiritual and organic alchemy. Revolution! ... Read more

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Are you ready for revolution? Revolution of the mind. Revolution of the body. At Camille's invitation, Sarah and Aniss arrive in the Tuscan countryside to take part in a unique experience. Camille hopes to achieve a complete fusion of three souls and three bodies into a single organism. An act of spiritual and organic alchemy. Revolution!
... Read more
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How Baseball Happened

Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

by Thomas W. Gilbert ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they ... Read more

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The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they
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The Daughters of Salem How we sent our children to their deaths: Part 2

by Thomas Gilbert ...

Series Book 2 - The Daughters of Salem
Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Colonial Massachusets, early 1690's. When a young girl in a Puritan town rejects a farmer boy's gift and instead slips out into the forest to dance with a young man from the Abenaki tribe, it sets off a chain of events resulting in one of the worst cases of mass hysteria in U.S. history, as neighbor turns against neighbor and friends accuse friends of the most terrible things. A fictional re
... Read more
Utopia: Edited By Henry Morley (Mobi Classics)

by Thomas More,Gilbert Burnet (Translator) ...

De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.In 1516 More wrote his most famous and controversial work, Utopia, a novel wherein a traveller, Raphael Hythloday (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean ... Read more

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De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.In 1516 More wrote his most famous and controversial work, Utopia, a novel wherein a traveller, Raphael Hythloday (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean
... Read more
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Preacher's Massacre [Dramatized Adaptation]

The First Mountain Man 19

by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...

Narrated by A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, Eric Messner, Thomas Keegan, Kimberly Gilbert, James Keegan, Jonathan Watkins, Michael John Casey, David Harris, Richard Rohan, Michael Glenn, James Lewis, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Joe Brack, Nathanial Perry, Danny Gavigan, Bradley Smith, Patrick Stratton ...

Series series First Mountain Man
Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

Preacher is on the move, joining a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. An Indian war party, led by the cunning and ruthless Red Knife, has other plans.Furiously fighting their way to safety, the horse traders make it to Fort Gifford, where the beautiful wife of the fort's commander makes a raid of ... Read more

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Preacher is on the move, joining a trail drive led by freewheeling adventurer Wiley Courtland. Wiley has good horses to deliver to the American Fur Company at Fort Gifford. An Indian war party, led by the cunning and ruthless Red Knife, has other plans.Furiously fighting their way to safety, the horse traders make it to Fort Gifford, where the beautiful wife of the fort's commander makes a raid of
... Read more

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