Creator: Tracey Lloyd
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
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Review The Brontes (Pocket Biographies) / ISIS Audio Books:This short biography covers the Bronte's childhood at Haworth parsonage, set on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, their trials as teachers and governess', the sad decline of their only brother Branwell, and their tragic early deaths. They are also set within the context of 19th-century society, and the position of women and education in both their lives and novels is explored.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-04-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
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Review Davy Crockett: My Own Story (Library Edition) / Joss:Even as a child, Davy Crockett “always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger. ” Better known to us as “King of the Wild Frontier,” Davy Crockett was not only a frontiersman but also a politician, who became during his lifetime a celebrity and folk hero. Here, in his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering. His reputation as a “b’ar” hunter sent him to Congress with an eye on the White House; but at the Alamo, he would cap off a legend that still holds Americans in its spell.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03-15
Dewey code: 796.83092
List Price: $72.95
Price: $45.96
Review Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship / Blackstone:Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different—young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his university’s law review. Yet they had in common forces that made them unforgettable: both were unprecedented performers who covered enormous insecurities by demanding, loudly and often, public acclaim. Theirs was an extraordinary alliance that produced drama, comedy, controversy, and a mutual respect that helped shape both men’s lives. Dave Kindred draws on his experiences with Ali and Cosell over nearly four decades, as well as new reporting and interviews, to break new ground in our understanding of these two giants who changed sports and television forever.
Creator: Martyn Read
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.94
Review Scott of the Antarctic: A Concise Biography (Isis) / ISIS Audio Books:This biography describes Captain Scott's short life and the explorations which he and his team made. Born in 1868, he joined the Navy as a cadet but asked to be involved in the exploration of the Antarctic after meeting Clements Markham. His bravery remains a part of exploration history.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-06-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $44.95
Price: $28.32
Review Grant (Great Generals) / Blackstone Audio Inc.:In this newest addition to the Great Generals Series, John Mosier brings to life the brilliant military strategist Ulysses S. Grant. A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming president of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership strategies and by integrating new technologies in classical military strategy. In this compelling biography, Mosier reveals the man behind the military legend, showing how Grant's creativity and genius off the battlefield shaped him into one of our nation's greatest military leaders.
Publication date: 1987-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
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Review The Story of My Life (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors:One of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library), finally published in complete form. The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That triumph, shared with her teacher Anne Sullivan, has been further popularized by the play and movie The Miracle Worker. Yet the astonishing original version of Keller's and Sullivan's story, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years and lost to the public. Now, one hundred years after its initial publication, eminent literary scholar Roger Shattuck, in collaboration with Keller biographer Dorothy Herrmann, has reedited the book to reflect more accurately its original composition. Keller's remarkable acquisition of language is presented here in three successive accounts: Keller's own version; the letters of "teacher" Anne Sullivan, submerged in the earliest edition; and the valuable documentation by their young assistant, John Macy. Including opening and closing commentary by Shattuck and notes by Hermann, this volume will stand for years as the definitive edition of a classic work. 10 b/w illustrations. Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. [+]That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women attended college and the disabled were often relegated to the background, spoken of only in hushed tones, is remarkable. But Keller's many other achievements are impressive by any standard: she authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her an FBI file), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. She also helped start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind around the world. As a young girl Keller was obstinate, prone to fits of violence, and seething with rage at her inability to express herself. But at the age of 7 this wild child was transformed when, at the urging of Alexander Graham Bell, Anne Sullivan became her teacher, an event she declares "the most important day I remember in all my life. " (Sullivan herself had once been blind, but partially recovered her sight after a series of operations. ) In a memorable passage, Keller writes of the day "Teacher" led her to a stream and repeatedly spelled out the letters w-a-t-e-r on one of her hands while pouring water over the other. This method proved a revelation: "That living world awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were barriers still, it is true, but barriers that could in time be swept away. " And, indeed, most of them were. In her lovingly crafted and deeply perceptive autobiography, Keller's joyous spirit is most vividly expressed in her connection to nature: Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom, had a part in my education. Few know what joy it is to feel the roses pressing softly into the hand, or the beautiful motion of the lilies as they sway in the morning breeze. Sometimes I caught an insect in the flower I was plucking, and I felt the faint noise of a pair of wings rubbed together in a sudden terror. The idea of feeling rather than hearing a sound, or of admiring a flower's motion rather than its color, evokes a strong visceral sensation in the reader, giving The Story of My Life a subtle power and beauty. Keller's celebration of discovery becomes our own. In the end, this blind and deaf woman succeeds in sharpening our eyes and ears to the beauty of the world. -Shawn Carkonen.
Creator: Catherine Peters
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-01
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review Charles Dickens: A Concise Biography (Pocket Biographies) / ISIS Audio Books:
Authors
- William Hall
- William Roberts
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review James Dean: A Concise Biography (Isis) / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Brian Emerson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-05
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $59.95
Price: $37.77
Review Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Ken Howard
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $62.95
Price: $39.66
Review Fire Lover / Blackstone Audiobooks:On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department. From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed, nationally bestselling author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession - and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying secrets.
Creator: Brian Emerson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $49.95
Price: $31.47
Review Sufferings in Africa: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Peter Barker
Publication date: 1993-09
List Price: $54.95
Price: $54.95
Review Ebdon's Odyssey / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Martyn Read
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $24.94
Review Christopher Columbus: A Concise Biography (Pocket Biographies) / ISIS Audio Books:Christopher Columbus ranks among the most famous of explorers for his sailing of the Atlantic in 1492 and his discovery of America. This short biography offers an introduction to this and the rest of Columbus' life, including his three further crossings of the Atlantic and later political intrigue.
Authors
- Edith Wharton
- Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Publication date: 1996-01-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
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Review Italian Backgrounds (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors, Inc.:Edith Wharton's Italian Backgrounds, out of print since its original edition published in 1906, is a welcome discovery for lovers of that rich literary genre, the travel diary. Wharton, whose writings are today enjoying a revived interest, excels, as always, in detailing the milieu of her characters, here the Italian people, and that ancient country itself.
Authors
- Helen Keller
- Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Publication date: 2004-01-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review The World I Live In (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors, Inc.:Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature. This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.
Authors
- Norman B. Rohrer
- Jr. Peter Deyneka
Publication date: 1985
Price: $24.95
Review Peter Dynamite Twice Born Russian / Crown Magnetics:Biography of Peter Deyneka, Founder of The Slavic Gospel Association. The captivating story of tears and triumph which led a Russian peasant boy to international reknown as an evangelist. Read by Ruth Deyneka Shalanko, daugter of Peter Deyneka. For 25 years Ruth Deyneka Shalanko and her husband, Jack, were missionaries at radio HCJB in Quito, Ecuador directing the Russian broadcasts. Produced by LeBaron Productions with permission of Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Distributed by Crown Magnetics, Inc.
Authors
- Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Flo Gibson (Narrator)
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors, Inc.:In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meetings - a far cry from the magnolias and mint juleps of Gone with the Wind. "The South of the backwoods, hillbilly plain folk has at last found its true and inspired interpreter," says C. Vann Woodward.
Creator: Fred Williams
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $56.95
Price: $35.88
Review Anton Chekhov: A Life / Blackstone Audiobooks:Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles-either with his dependents or with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. Donald Rayfield spent more than five years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia, uncovering thousands of documents and letters from lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before. They tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected, and in Rayfield's hands allow us to look past Chekhov's restrained, ironic facade to appreciate the full heroism of his brief but prodigiously creative life. Rayfield's biography combines an extraordinarily rich cast of characters-Gorky, Tolstoy, and Tchaikovsky, to name just three-with a vivid portrait of Russia and Russian society one hundred years ago. He also delves deeply into the emotions, ideas, conflicts, and experiences that Chekhov transmuted from his life into his enduring art. A noted scholar of the art of Anton Chekhov now turns to his life (1860-1904), with equally revelatory results. Rayfield's densely documented account avoids general statements in favor of quiet accumulation of detail that gradually creates a multifaceted impression of Chekhov's contradictions. Witty, charming, and an ardent lover of women, Russia's greatest dramatist was also coolly detached, capable of capriciousness and considerable cruelty. In Anton Chekhov, Rayfield does not attempt to tidy up a messily complex psyche or to downplay the faults that were as intrinsic to Chekhov's genius as were his merits.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $44.95
Price: $24.95
Review A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Authors
- William Randolf, Jr. Hearst
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $62.95
Price: $39.66
Review Hearst's Father & Son / Blackstone Audiobooks:
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