Publication date: 2000-08-11
Price: $24.95
Review Malachi Martin : God's Messenger / Catholic Treasures:Fascinating documentary on Father Malachi Martin. Agent, close friends, chauffeur and fellow religious recall the exciting life of priest, exorcist, NY Times bestselling author and Vatican diplomat, Father Malachi Martin. Professionally produced and packaged, narrated by 4 announcers from New York, Dublin, and London.
Creator: Robert Hardy
Publication date: 1991-10
List Price: $101.95
Price: $101.95
Review Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader D.S.O., D.F.C. / Chivers Audio Books:Douglas Bader was a legend in his lifetime. After losing both legs in an air crash in 1931 and being dismissed as a cripple by the Royal Air Force, he fought his way back into the cockpit of a Spitfire to become one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. This inspiring biography of the famous World War II fighter pilot, first published in 1954, has a following of faithful readers who come back to the book time and again to re-read, share with their children and pass along to friends. Not many books have made such an impact on people's lives. Bader's story is so extraordinary that no one would dare invent it, and Brickhill succeeds in matching the excitement of Bader's war deeds with the triumph of his greater battle over a severe handicap. Told he would never walk without a cane, Bader learned to dance, swim, golf, and play tennis. Told he would never fly again, he became not only one of the RAF's top combat pilots but a squadron leader and innovator of fighter tactics that helped win the Battle of Britain. Among the thrilling incidents chronicled in the book are Bader's first successful encounter with an enemy plane, his own shoot down, and his succession of escapes from German prisons.
Creator: Paul Michaels
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-01
List Price: $64.00
Price: $117.99
Review Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World / Books on Tape:Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative. ” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U. N. ’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. [+]At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains”: as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. “Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation,” says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it. ”From the Hardcover edition.
Creator: Marguerite Gavin
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 920
Price: $35.95
Review Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, Library Edition (Ready Reader) / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Richard Derrington
Publication date: 1997-10-06
Review The Diving-bell and the Butterfly (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France, it is now a major motion picture directed by Julian Schnabel. On 8 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a massive stroke and slipped into a coma. When he regained consciousness three weeks later, the only muscle left functioning was in his left eyelid although his mind remained as active and alert as it had ever been. He spent most of 1996 writing this book, letter by letter, blinking as an alphabet was repeatedly read out to him. 'The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly' was published in France on Thursday 6th March 1997. It was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. And then, three days later, he died. 'The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly', which records Bauby's lonely existence, is probably the most remarkable book about the triumph of the human spirit, the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances, that you will ever read. It has now been made into a captivating film, directed by Julian Schnabel and starring Mathieu Amalric, which was the winner of the award for Best Director at Cannes and nominated for the Palm d'Or. [+]We've all got our idiosyncrasies when it comes to writing-a special chair we have to sit in, a certain kind of yellow paper we absolutely must use. To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him-his left eye-with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in" situation as a kind of death, Bauby ignited a fire of the imagination under himself and lived his last days-he died two days after the French publication of this slim volume-spiritually unfettered. In these pages Bauby journeys to exotic places he has and has not been, serving himself delectable gourmet meals along the way (surprise: everything's ripe and nothing burns). In the simplest of terms he describes how it feels to see reflected in a window "the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde. ".
Creator: Brian Johnston
Publication date: 1994
Review An Hour with Johnners / Listen for Pleasure:
Creator: Sophie Thompson
Publication date: 1996-02
Review Love Is Blue / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1993-11
Review Within Whicker's World / Argo:
Creator: Robin Browne
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1990-01
Review Letters from a Bomber Pilot / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Katharine Hepburn
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1994-09
Review Me (Bestseller Collection) / Random House Audiobooks:Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir. A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the YearA Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection.
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Review Freedom Part 1 , Novel of President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War ... Historical Novel , Docudrama biography of Abe , by William Safire ... read by Jeff Riggenbach / Blackstone Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-06-06
Review The Two of Us / Bloomsbury:When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driver. When he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an outsider. In fact his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and television was beginning to make its mark. With his roles in Z-Cars and The Sweeney, fame came quickly. But it was John's role as Morse that made him an icon. In 1974 he married Sheila Hancock, with whom he shared a working-class background and a RADA education. Sheila was already the star of the TV series The Rag Trade and went on to become the first woman artistic director at the RSC. Theirs was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate relationship, and in this remarkable book Sheila describes their love - weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink and cancer - with honesty and piercing intelligence, and evokes two lives lived to the utmost.
Publication date: 1986-11-17
Price: $48.00
Review Slide Rule: The Autobiography Of An Engineer / Books on Tape, Inc.:Nevil Shute best describes this autobiography in his own words: "Most of my adult life, perhaps all the worthwhile part of it, has been spent messing about with airplanes. For 30 years there was a period when airplanes would fly when you wanted them to, but there were still fresh things to be learned on every flight, a period when airplanes were small and so easily built that experiments were cheap and new designs could fly within six months of the first glimmer in the mind of the designer. "That halcyon period started about 1910 and it was in full flower after WW I when I was a young man; it died with WW II when airplanes had grown too costly and too compli- cated for individuals to build or even to operate. I count myself lucky that that fleeting period coincided with my youth and my young manhood, and that I had a part in it. ".
Publication date: 1983-01
Price: $80.00
Review The Last Lion: Visions of Glory Part 1 of 2 / Books On Tape:
Creator: Pamela Donald
Publication date: 2000-01
Review Green Are My Mountains / Story Sound:
Creator: Stuart Hall
Publication date: 2000-10-02
Review Heaven and Hall: A Prodigal Life (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The collected writings and reports of TV personality Stuart Hall, renowned for his coverage of 30 years of footballing highs and lows, his travel writing, and also his presentation of TV shows such as "It's a Knockout".
Creator: Peter Wickham
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-09
Review Tales of the Old Woodlanders: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence) / ISIS Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-09
Review Love Lessons / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1999-06
Price: $24.95
Review Tornado Down & Team Tornado / Hodder/Headline Audiobooks:This cassette contains readings of two books recounting the experiences of John Nichol of the RAF, whose Tornado was shot down over Iraq during the Gulf War. It also tells of Nichol's return to England and subsequent life in the armed forces.
Creator: Mike Read
Publication date: 2004-04
Price: $19.95
Review George Harrison (Beatles) / Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.:Well-researched and frank, this full biography includes an account of Harrison's rivalries, drug abuse, religious obsession, marital ructions, artistic plagarism and finally his reputation as a talented, charitable, middle-aged musician.
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Malachi Martin : God's Messenger, Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader D.S.O., D.F.C., Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, Library Edition (Ready Reader), The Diving-bell and the Butterfly (BBC Radio Collection), An Hour with Johnners, Love Is Blue, Within Whicker's World, Letters from a Bomber Pilot, Me (Bestseller Collection), Freedom Part 1 , Novel of President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War ... Historical Novel , Docudrama biography of Abe , by William Safire ... read by Jeff Riggenbach, The Two of Us, Slide Rule: The Autobiography Of An Engineer, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory Part 1 of 2, Green Are My Mountains, Heaven and Hall: A Prodigal Life (BBC Radio Collection), Tales of the Old Woodlanders: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence), Love Lessons, Tornado Down & Team Tornado, George Harrison (Beatles)Top headlines: Great expectations await Michelle Obama: The moving trucks haven't even arrived, and already Michelle Obama's being touted as the next Jackie Kennedy, the woman who'll infuse Washington with a sense of style and vigor not seen since the days of Camelot. ›21:51 Will mad cow prevention mean pollution?: A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could lead to cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs and polluting the water. ›22:20 5 tips to cut your Thanksgiving bill in half: In this economic climate, the cost of Thanksgiving dinner can put a stress on a family's budget. 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