Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $65.95
Price: $48.14
Review One of a Kind: The Story of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Barrett Whitener
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $76.95
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Review Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier / Blackstone Audiobooks:From the author of They Called Him Stonewall. Definitive biography of the dashing Confederate general is history at its best: fascinating, colorful, provocative. Includes portraits of Stuart's early life, training at West Point, the fateful decision to side with the South and action-packed battle scenes. 7 maps. 8 pages of photos. 470 pages.
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $22.70
Price: $48.14
Review The Private World of Kenneth Williams (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $22.70
Price: $48.17
Review Diaries / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 1989-07-01
List Price: $72.00
Price: $72.00
Review Grant: A Biography Part 2 Of 2 / Books on Tape, Inc.:Part Two Of Two Parts Ulysses Grant showed little aptitude for the common careers open to young men, so he went off to West Point. He showed no great scholastic aptitude, fared better during the Mexican War, but when that contest was over he returned home. It was all downhill - from farmer to collector of rents to shop clerk. To such a man the Civil War spelled opportunity. Grant reached out and took it. His early war years in the Mississippi theatre were brilliant. His ruthless pursuit of victory brought him to Linclon's notice. Grant never looked back. In war he was strong and decisive, but these virtues did not last. His years as president were a disgrace and only when he again found himself in battle, his last with cancer, did he summon his heroic energies.
Creator: Mel Foster
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-06-07
Dewey code: 979.4054092
List Price: $74.25
Price: $48.26
Review Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger / Brilliance Audio Lib Ed:Laurence Leamer, author of three Kennedy bestsellers, presents the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his rise to fame and power, and his marriage to Maria Shriver. The life of Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most extraordinary success stories of our time. An immigrant with a heavy accent from a village in Austria, he became the greatest bodybuilder in history, the number one movie star in the world, the Republican husband of a Kennedy Princess, and the governor of the greatest of American states. Fantastic shows how and why this man of willful ambition and limitless drive achieved his unprecedented accomplishments. Leamer has had exclusive, intimate interviews with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, his closest associates, including his elementary school friends in Austria, his mentors, bodybuilding competitors, lifelong friends, first serious girlfriend, political rivals, agents, publicists and producers, many of whom have never been interviewed before. Leamer captures the public and private Schwarzenegger, a political/cultural figure unlike any other, who could change the face of politics in our country. This intimate book is studded with news-making revelations:- The untold story of Arnold's traumatic relationship with his father- How Arnold's first mentor, a Jewish partisan in WW II, helped shape the youth- The intimate story of Arnold's first great love and the five years the couple lived together- Why Arnold married Maria Shriver and the startling story of their wedding day- The star who hated Arnold and tried to ruin his career- How Arnold overcame the sordid sexual revelations and prevailed politically- How Maria took over management of her husband's campaign- The game plan that may bring Arnold to the White House.
Creator: Joanna Lumley
Publication date: 2004-10-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $20.65
Price: $47.77
Review No Room for Secrets / Penguin Audiobooks:Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous; Purdey in The New Avengers; Bond Girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; Sapphire in Sapphire and Steel; a castaway in Girl Friday; actress; model; writer; campaigner; inventor; TV presenter and journalist: Joanna Lumley has played many roles in her lifetime, but rarely had the opportunity to reveal her true self. Intimate, funny, intriguing and moving, No Room for Secrets is a more surprising and revealing autobiography than any sensational 'kiss and tell' memoir you will ever read. Inside you will find the real Joanna Lumley.
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $76.95
Price: $48.48
Review Old Soldiers Never Die / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Celia Montague
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-05
List Price: $49.95
Price: $47.46
Review A London Child of the 1870's (Reminiscence) / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Roberta Taylor
Publication date: 2006-09
List Price: $54.95
Price: $54.95
Review Too Many Mothers / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Creator: Jeff Riggenbach
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $89.95
Price: $54.15
Review John Quincy Adams: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Celia Montague
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-05
List Price: $54.95
Price: $47.77
Review A London Girl of the 1880's (Reminiscence) / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: A. J. Rochester
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01-30
Dewey code: 613
List Price: $48.00
Price: $48.00
Review Confessions Of A Reformed Dieter: How I Dropped Eight Dress Sizes and Took My Life Back / Bolinda Publishing:'I love food. Even worse, I love junk food. If lard could be double deep-fried I would eat it. If I could deep-fry headache pills I would. So it's no wonder I'm now the size of a small yet economically viable continent. 'When A. J. Rochester is selected to feature in a television series on obesity, she is at first appalled and then resolved. [+]At 109 kilos (17 stone), she knows she needs to lose weight - not because she yearns to become a twiglet but so she can keep up with her little boy and turn her life around at last. But after years of fighting a losing battle with the flab, A. J. knows she needs a miracle. So she decides to ditch the 'quick-fix' diets and the faddy exercise equipment and try a new approach - one that involves discovering her own inner strengths. It may not be easy - but it pays off. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter charts the highs, lows and plateaus of A. J. 's incredible journey, from overcoming an early setback - waking up in hospital with a broken leg after a drunken binge - to the triumph of shedding the first, and last, kilo.
Edition: Csst
Publication date: 1996-12
Price: $10.95
Review A Maddening Space / UNAPIX:
Creator: Susan O'Malley
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-11
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $76.95
Price: $48.48
Review American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson / Blackstone Audiobooks:For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight-and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity-now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety-has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was "as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing. " In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams. " For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large-a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to "keep it in storage"). [+]We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naïveté, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all-our very own sphinx. Well timed to coincide with Ken Burns's documentary (on which the author served as a consultant), this new biography doesn't aim to displace the many massive tomes about America's third president that already weigh down bookshelves. Instead, as suggested by the subtitle-"The Character of Thomas Jefferson"-Ellis searches for the "living, breathing person" underneath the icon and tries to elucidate his actual beliefs. Jefferson's most ardent admirers may find this perspective too critical, but Ellis's portrait of a complex, sometimes devious man who both sought and abhorred power has the ring of truth.
Creator: Frederick Davidson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $76.95
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Review Rudyard Kipling: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1978
Review Studies in the Lives of the Twelve Disciples (Biblical Biographies Series) / Don Anderson Ministries, Inc.:This is a series of 9 cassettes in the original two plastic folders. The series includes studies of Peter, John, Philip, Nathaniel, Judas, Thaddaeus, Lebbaeus,Peter, Andrew, Mathew, Thomas, kJames, Simon, James Alphaeus, etc.
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $76.95
Price: $48.48
Review The Rockefellers / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: John MacDonald
Publication date: 1997-08
List Price: $76.95
Price: $48.48
Review Witness / Blackstone Audiobooks:An autobiographical memoir, written just after Chambers confessed to his earlier affiliation with the Communist Party and testified against his former friend and comrade, Alger Hiss, in perhaps the most celebrated espionage trial of the century. 11 cassettes. First published in 1952, Witness was at once a literary effort, a philosophical treatise, and a bestseller. Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview-e. g. "e;man without mysticism is a monster"e;-went on to help make political conservatism a national force.
Creator: Clement Freud
Publication date: 2001-10-22
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $22.70
Price: $48.12
Review Clement Freud: Freud EGO (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Sigmund Freud's youngest grandson, Clement Freud arrived in England speaking only German. He guides us through his many lives as restaurateur, TV chef, Liberal MP and raconteur. He points out the many absurdities in life while revelling in it only as an inveterate gambler and gourmand can.
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One of a Kind: The Story of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player, Library Edition, Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier, The Private World of Kenneth Williams (BBC Radio Collection), Diaries, Grant: A Biography Part 2 Of 2, Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, No Room for Secrets, Old Soldiers Never Die, A London Child of the 1870's (Reminiscence), Too Many Mothers, John Quincy Adams: Library Edition, A London Girl of the 1880's (Reminiscence), Confessions Of A Reformed Dieter: How I Dropped Eight Dress Sizes and Took My Life Back, A Maddening Space, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Rudyard Kipling: Library Edition, Studies in the Lives of the Twelve Disciples (Biblical Biographies Series), The Rockefellers, Witness, Clement Freud: Freud EGO (Radio Collection)Top headlines: Afghanistan markets pomegranates: Afghanistan is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates. ›00:40 The 'Dog Whisperer' Wins Another Convert: A few minutes with Cesar MillanTVs Dog Whispererwas all it took to win back a skeptic. ›18:28 10 Oct, Wed Napolitano eyed for Homeland Security: An early Barack Obama supporter from the southwestern part of the country, the former Arizona attorney general is a leading contender for the job of secretary of homeland security. ›22:42 20 Nov, Thu Bush effigy burned at Iraq protest: Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President Bush in Baghdad as they protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday. ›13:45 U.S. intel office adds warming to warnings: A major U.S. intelligence report coming out Thursday is adding climate change to the "traditional" mix of factors expected to destabilize the world into the near future. ›21:33 19 Nov, Wed Experts warn of water shortages by 2080: Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. ›16:07 18 Nov, Tue EU announces interest in Arctic region: The European Union's executive body said Thursday that the bloc should try to obtain its fair share of oil, gas, minerals and fish exposed by the melting of the Arctic ice cap. ›23:14 20 Nov, Thu Cosmic Log: A galaxy far, farther away: Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The Hubble Space Telescope helps scientists figure out why a galaxy seemed unusually active. 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