Publication date: 1993-08
Price: $96.00
Review Laurence Olivier: A Biography / Books On Tape:A biography of the great English actor discusses Olivier's early stage appearances, his film roles, his marriage to Vivien Leigh and their subsequent divorce, his guilt-ridden ten-year affair with Danny Kaye, and his own self-doubts. Reprint. PW.
Creator: Steve Hodson
Publication date: 2007-08
List Price: $76.95
Price: $76.95
Review Narrow Dog to Carcassonne / ISIS Audio Books:"We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure. " It was absurd. It was foolhardy. And it was glorious. When they retired, Terry Darlington and his somewhat saner wife Monica—together with their dog, a whippet named Jim—chucked their earthbound life and set out in an utterly unseaworthy sixty-foot canal narrowboat across the notoriously treacherous English Channel and down to the South of France. Aboard the Phyllis May, you’ll dive through six-foot waves in the Channel and be swept down the terrible Rhône. You’ll meet the French nobody meets—poets, captains, scholars, madmen; they all want to know the couple on the painted boat and their narrow dog. You’ll visit the France nobody knows—the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, and the forbidden routes to the wine-dark Mediterranean Sea. [+]Aliens, trolls, gongoozlers, killer fish, and the walking dead all stand between our two-person, one-whippet crew and their goal: the ancient, many-towered city of Carcassonne. A tale of travel, travail, dubious wine, a balky pump, and a boat built for only a few feet of water, this exuberantly inventive and hugely entertaining odyssey of the spirit, senses, and heart will enchant lovers of France, England, and all that lies between.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1988-12
Review Gull on the Roof / Soundings:
Publication date: 1994-03
Review Jack Charlton / Speaking Book Co:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $76.95
Price: $76.95
Review Princess Margaret / Isis Publications:The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930–2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring—even more so than Princess Diana years later—and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret's life was "ruined" by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of her life—Group Captain Peter Townsend. Therefore her marriage to Lord Snowdon and her well-attested relationships with Roddy Llewellyn and others were mere consolation prizes. Margaret's often exotic personal life in places like Mustique is a key part of her story. The author received extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret, including her family (Lord Snowdon and her son, Lord Linley), three of her private secretaries, and many of her ladies in waiting; as well as gaining the Queen's permission to use the royal archives. Heald asks why one of the most famous and loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life a sad wheelchairbound figure, publicly reviled and ignored. This is a story of a life in which the private and the public seemed permanently in conflict.
Edition: Twelve 90-minute cassettes
Publication date: 1995
Review Heart of the Lonely Exile (An Emerald Ballad #2) / NorthStar Audio Books:
Publication date: 1990-08-01
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Goldwyn: A Biography Part 2 Of 2 / Books on Tape, Inc.:Part Two Of Two Parts Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood's greatest pioneer film producer, the man responsible for classics like "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "Wuthering Heights," started life as Schmuel Gelbfisz in Poland in 1879. How he worked his way to America, how he got to Hollywood, how he produced the first full-length movie, is the stuff movies are made of. Through Goldwyn's central role in movie making for over five decades, A. Scott Berg examines the innovations and incidents that defined Hollywood-the advent of sound, the "passing fad" of Technicolor, the studio system, and the black-list days of Joe McCarthy. "This story of a grabby but imaginative man would make a more telling movie about America than Goldwyn ever produced himself. " (The New York Times).
Authors
- David Gower
- Martin Johnson
Publication date: 1993-05
Review Gower / Argo:
Run time: 540 min.
Creator: Edward Holland (Amer.)
Publication date: 1999
Price: $260.87
Review Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Part 2 - (Audiobook on 12 Cassettes) / Books On Tape:The story of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. , the first recorded billionaire and one of the most controversial public figures in America. Although not necessarily a "how to do it" book for business students, this kind biography does spell out the formula the world's richest man used to earn his money, with hard work being the ingredient in greatest quantity. Deeply religious, John D. never took a drink and claimed to be the most Christian of businessmen ever to be bestowed the Midas touch. Mr. Holland's avuncular voice and comfortable pace makes the presentation of a long book pleasing to digest.
Authors
- Paul Hayward
- Sir Bobby Robson
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $20.65
Price: $77.11
Review Bobby Robson: Farewell But Not Goodbye - My Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Revered in Newcastle and the North-East, Sir Bobby Robson is a man whose fame knows no boundaries and who enjoys phenomenal popularity. His hugely successful playing days with Fulham and West Brom in the 1950s and 60s, his twenty England caps and his brilliant management career over the past thirty-eight years mean that he has inspired generations of fans. He has been witness to some of the most historic sporting moments throughout his incredible career, and in his book remembers epic incidents from the 'Hand of God' to the tears of Gazza. He also relives leading England through two World Cups, and the pain of coming within a penalty kick of the 1990 World Cup final. Sir Bobby's story is a rich and diverse one and this autobiography will celebrate his remarkable life.
Publication date: 1995-04-19
Price: $96.00
Review George Washington: A Biography Part 2 Of 2 / Books on Tape, Inc.:
Creator: Christopher Timothy
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07
Price: $206.86
Review The Real James Herriot / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $76.95
Price: $76.95
Review Shadows Of The Workhouse / Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd:In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the fascinating people she encountered. There's the story of Jane who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, comes to visit the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatten Garden in the nun's room. The case is taken to court and Sister Monica Joan becomes a cause celebre. These stories give a fascinating insight into the lives of the poor in 1950s London, of the shadow of the workhouse that always hung over their lives but also of the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
Creator: Roy Castle
Publication date: 1994-11-15
Review Roy Castle (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-04-02
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $124.95
Price: $78.72
Review Timothy Leary: An Experimental Life / Blackstone Audio Inc.:To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged but instituted their experimental use among students and faculty. What began as research into human consciousness turned into a mission to alter consciousness itself. Leary transformed himself from serious social scientist into counterculture shaman, embodying the idealism and the hedonism of an age of revolutionary change. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America.
Publication date: 1953-01
Price: $56.00
Review Seven Years in Tibet / Books On Tape:This real-life adventure is the story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian who, during World War II, escaped from a British internment camp in India and walked across the Himalayas. Harrer eventually arrived in Tibet, where he spent seven years with the Dalai Lama. This fascinating audiobook coincides with the release of the feature film starring Brad Pitt. October publication date. 2 cassettes. Originally published in 1953, this adventure classic recounts Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer's 1943 escape from a British internment camp in India, his daring trek across the Himalayas, and his happy sojourn in Tibet, then, as now, a remote land little visited by foreigners. Warmly welcomed, he eventually became tutor to the Dalai Lama, teenaged god-king of the theocratic nation. The author's vivid descriptions of Tibetan rites and customs capture its unique traditions before the Chinese invasion in 1950, which prompted Harrer's departure. A 1996 epilogue details the genocidal havoc wrought over the past half-century.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $105.95
Price: $77.33
Review Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:From his spectacular launch of Playboy magazine to his recent television hit The Girls Next Door, Hugh Hefner has attracted public attention and controversy for decades. But how did a man who is at once socially astute and morally unconventional, part Bill Gates and part Casanova, also evolve into a figure at the forefront of cultural change? Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that Hefner has profoundly altered American life and values. Punctuated with anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, the book tells the compelling and uniquely American story of how one person with a provocative idea, a finger on the pulse of popular opinion, and a passion for his work altered the course of modern history. Amazon Exclusive: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion 1. He has been keeping an exhaustive “scrapbook” of his life since adolescence, which now consists of over 1800 volumes and takes up much of the third floor of the Mansion. 2. His favorite weekly event is Monday’s “Manly Night,” a gathering of longstanding male friends for an evening devoted to eating, trading friendly insults and stories, and watching old films. 3. Hefner became obsessed with backgammon in the 1970s, playing in tournaments at the Mansion that attracted world-class players and lasted for hours, sometimes days. 4. [+]He was deeply traumatized during his college days when his fiancé confessed that she was involved in a sexual affair. 5. He nearly choked to death in the late 1970s after ingesting a small sex toy during a raucous lovemaking session with his girlfriend. She dislodged it with the Heimlich maneuver. 6. Hefner was a strong backer of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, contributing money and booking African American entertainers for his television show and the Playboy Clubs. 7. The Mansion library still prominently displays a large ceramic bust of Barbi Benton, Hefner’s girlfriend from the late 1960s and early 1970s. 8. The Mansion staff is inundated with requests for invitations to Hefner’s big parties. Some are from celebrities who want to bring their friends, and many are from young women who send photos of themselves in skimpy clothing and provocative poses. Nearly all are turned down. 9. Every bathroom at the Mansion is equipped with a bottle of baby oil, bottle of aspirin, and Jergens cherry-almond skin lotion. During big parties, many of them also have bowls filled with condoms. 10. Hefner has all of his meals brought to him in his bedroom suite at the Mansion. Even when the Mansion is filled with dozens of guests enjoying an elegant buffet meal for movie nights on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, he eats in his room before joining the crowd.
Publication date: 1995
Review The Autobiography of Santa Claus, Its Better to Give:
Creator: Dorota Puzio
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1994-01-12
Review Zlata's Diary (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:The experiences of Zlata Filipovic+a7 from 1991 through 1993 in Sarajevo reveal an innocent life of piano lessons and birthday parties horrifyingly transformed into days of food shortages, friends dying, and hiding out in a neighbor's cellar during bombings. Reprint.
Run time: 1980 min.
Creator: Connor O'Brien
Publication date: 1998
Review T. R.: the Last Romantic (Unabridged Audio) / Books on Tape, Inc.:The unabridged Connor O'Brien reading of H. W. Brands' excellent 1997 biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Consists of 22 cassette tapes, 90 minutes each.
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Laurence Olivier: A Biography, Narrow Dog to Carcassonne, Gull on the Roof, Jack Charlton, Princess Margaret, Heart of the Lonely Exile (An Emerald Ballad #2), Goldwyn: A Biography Part 2 Of 2, Gower, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Part 2 - (Audiobook on 12 Cassettes), Bobby Robson: Farewell But Not Goodbye - My Autobiography, George Washington: A Biography Part 2 Of 2, The Real James Herriot, Shadows Of The Workhouse, Roy Castle (BBC Radio Collection), Timothy Leary: An Experimental Life, Seven Years in Tibet, Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Library Edition, The Autobiography of Santa Claus, Its Better to Give, Zlata's Diary (Penguin Audiobooks), T. R.: the Last Romantic (Unabridged Audio)Top headlines: Video: Colleges taking hard knocks: Nov. 21: The endowments of many higher education institutions have been hit hard by recent market losses. 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