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When Lightning Tickled History is a popular, narrative nonfiction, history audiobook designed as a supplemental history book for college students as well as a general interest audiobook. It is a light, breezy, historically-accurate collection of vignettes of incidents when lightning played in part in the drama of human affairs. It includes sections on lightning’s impact on the origin of life, Roman history, both Babylonian Captivities, Martin Luther, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Charles Darwin, Hindenburg, Nicholas Tesla, and the role of lightning in the modern age.

The saga of the last of the old-style vigilante committees and the first of the new-style vigilante committees - a blend that shows the transition....

Half a Bubble Off Level is a 50,000-word young adult nonfiction book designed to be a supplementary text for middle school and high school social science classes. It gives an overview of 15 significant historical theories and their real world applications. The subjects and personalities include the Elenctic Method, Council of Nicaea, Martin Luther, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Henry Ford, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, Credit, and Externalities. The chapters are written in a light, breezy fashion so that the concepts are understandable.

History is the most boring subject in school. Don’t believe me? Ask any student. Or read the lead story in Newsweek March 28 and April 4, 2011: “How to Get Smart Again”. If we want to make history a quality subject we have to make it relevant and interesting. What we are going to need are books that offer a fresh perspective on why history is important. What we need are books that are understandable, entertaining, and educational. In a nutshell, books like Who Really Cares What Happened on March 3, 1903?

This is the right audiobook at the right time in American history. It is a novel in the form of a collection of present day, interwoven, short stories of a nuts-and-bolts drama that is being played out everywhere in America: a powerful, rich, conservative Republican state senator wants to replace a low-income, ethnic neighborhood with a public building which he intends to name after himself. 

A gang of diamond bandits holds an entire city hostage for 25,000,000-dollars-worth in gems.

A retired female Alaska state trooper is forced to help drug smugglers in Alaska recover a shipment of cocaine. She is able to escape with the cocaine and being chased by the drug smugglers. She turns the tables and goes from the hunted to the hunter.

A broke, out-of-work Alaska bush pilot becomes entangled in a CIA/Red Chinese plot to steal 16 tons of gold from a plane wreck on a remote mountain top in Alaska. 

Faux history of North Carolina's outer banks.

On Borrowed Time is a literary, historical snapshot of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown going ghost because of corruption - not the gold running out. It is allegorical of what is happening today when the "bad guys" are “too big to jail.” A novel of interlocking, first-person vignettes, it is a three-year look at the nail-biting, day-to-day drama focused on how the rich legally squeeze out the middle and working class.

Santa Zanni, is a work of narrative nonfiction. It is a collection of interlocking short stories offering a snapshot of California history from 1916 to 1920. It is also humor disguised as social commentary disguised as literature. It falls into the category of creative nonfiction.

A young adult Alaska Gold Rush adventure.

The lessons of history are real life lessons. That is because history is real life. History is the study of the future. This book gives the high school students a dozen real life lessons and how to use history to see the future.

The book begins with the murder of the narrator. The bandits believe him to be dead so the largest mining company on the planet uses his apparent death as a cover to turn him into a secret agent. The planet, Cerberus, makes it money mining gold, and there is an unusual amount of high quality gold that is just appearing on the planetary market. That is driving the price of gold down, which is bad news for a planet.

The Best Boots I Ever Ate is a 70,000 word, literary, historically accurate saga of the Alaska Gold Rush novel of three years in the life of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown, from formation to demise, 1903 to 1906. The drama is told via 31 interconnected short stories focusing on the unique characters and events of the Alaska Gold Rush.

Two historians discover 1,000 pounds of double eagle $20 gold pieces that were hidden in a San Francisco basement for 150 years. But to get the gold they have to outsmart a street gang and beat a fleet of bulldozers to the vault site.

Find a Remedy is a street level look at Henry Ford's $5 Day from 17 different viewpoints including anarchists, socialists, union organizers, dynamiters, workers, worker's wifes, fellow magnates, historians, and economists. It is designed to show how the $5 Day was revolutionary in 1914 and a failure in 1919. It is snapshot of industrial history and perfect as a supplemental audiobook in an American history II class.

The Alaska Gold Rush is one of the most misunderstood eras of American history. In fact, many American think the Klondike Strike made famous by Jack London and Robert Service is the Alaska Gold Rush. Actually, the Klondike Strike was a 16-month stampede centered in Dawson in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The Alaska Gold Rush started in 1880 and lasted until World War II. What made it so unusual was that many of the sourdoughs never left.

February 5, 1898. Witnesses report a giant orange fireball reflected in the glacial waters of Alaska's Lynn Canal. At the height of Klondike gold fever, the Clara Nevada disappeared into an epic storm - taking passengers and priceless cargo with it. Was the explosion an accident or a robbery gone wrong? Did Captain C.H. Lewis make off with $165,000 ($13.6 million in today's currency) in raw gold? Or was the sinking a case of a sea-weary steamer meeting an untimely end?

In this lively narrative Steven C. Levi captures the color and the riches of the Alaska Gold Rush and tells the stories of the larger-than-life characters who lived the adventure. The Alaska Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century was the last great fit of gold fever in North America. Men and women, including African Americans, Portuguese, Japanese, Italians, and Chinese, all rushed north.