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This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

This quartet of crime stories about deadly books, penned by award-winning contemporary mystery writers, includes The Little Men, What's in a Name?, The Book of the Lion, and From the Queen.

A memoir of the Pacific Theatre of World War 2, as told by PT Boat sailor Thomas Hart. Hart's detailed account covers PT Squadron 16's journey from New Orleans Louisiana in 1942 to the Panama Canal, Alaska, and action in the Philippines and South Pacific.

A memoir of the early 20th century in Appalachian Ohio. Born in 1920, Thomas Hart's memoir tells the story of a small, tight knit community in rural Ohio on the brink of change. Automobiles become common, roads are widened and paved, and Prohibition forces adults to hide their liquor in the tall grass. Hart relates boyhood memories of a bygone era where children learned in one room school houses, the circus was the greatest spectacle ever to behold, and leisure time consisted of hunting, fishing, camping, cabin building, and springing the best pranks on your friends and neighbors. The ...

When the Japanese military steamrolled through the Far East in 1941 – a campaign that included the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7 – U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart was in command of what was known at that time as the Asiatic Fleet. Suddenly finding himself and the forces under his control facing a merciless, nearly unstoppable enemy, Hart fought back with everything that was at his disposal – which wasn't much. Hart's classic order to the Asiatic Fleet just before the battle of Makassar Strait was, "Submarines and surface ships will attack the enemy, and no vessel will leave the ...