Creator: Tom Parker
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $48.00
Price: $48.00
Review Andrew Jackson: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Tanya Eby Sirois
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-09-09
List Price: $74.25
Price: $49.74
Review The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking - rape, torture, deprivation – until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind. Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 817
List Price: $25.00
Price: $79.99
Review Leading With My Chin / Harper Audio:The comedian and host of The Tonight Show offers a hilarious collection of anecodtes about growing up, his careers as a mechanic and stand-up comic, life on the road, and success. Read by Jay Leno. Simultaneous. So what do you expect from a celebrity autobiography? Tales of an impoverished childhood and an unappreciated early career? Angst-ridden revelation? In Jay Leno's take on the genre, tales have only one purpose-laughs. This is a book of jokey anecdotes and humorous stories marking the comedian's progress to the top. The persona of the young Leno is not so different and just as likable as the one appearing nightly on television. Whether it is his mother's advice, his teachers' complaints, or the awkward situations he finds himself in (for example, standing before an Orthodox Jewish audience who have been mistakenly led to expect a Yiddish storyteller) Leno always sees the funny side.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 909
List Price: $61.00
Price: $46.36
Review An Indian Boyhood: Learning Literature / In Audio:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 796.3570922
Price: $31.98
Review Teammates, The / Hyperion:As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio piled into a car and drove 1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, remained in Oregon to tend to his wife who had suffered a stroke. Besides providing a poignant travelogue of the elderly Pesky and DiMaggio's trip, David Halberstam's The Teammates goes back in time to profile the men as young ballplayers. Although it is enlightening to learn about Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio, the leader of the group and star of the book is Williams. Halberstam portrays the notoriously moody and difficult Williams as a complex man: driven by a rough childhood and a fiercely competitive nature to become perhaps the greatest pure hitter of all time while also being a magnetic personality and loving friend. While there is nothing exceptionally unusual about old men who have stayed friends (plenty of people stay friends, after all), baseball gives this particular relationship a unique makeup. Unlike most friendships, that of Williams, Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio was viewed all summer long by hooting, hollering Red Sox fans. As such, their bond is forged both of individual accomplishment, win-loss records, numerous road trips, and, since they played for the Red Sox, annual doses of disappointment. Halberstam, author of Summer of '49 and October 1964 is the ideal writer to tell two equally intriguing stories, both rich in America's pastime. Although he occasionally drops himself into the narrative, one expects that of Halberstam and gladly accepts it in exchange for the highly readable exposition infused with poetic majesty that has become his trademark. [+]-John Moe As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio piled into a car and drove 1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, remained in Oregon to tend to his wife who had suffered a stroke. Besides providing a poignant travelogue of the elderly Pesky and DiMaggio's trip, David Halberstam's The Teammates goes back in time to profile the men as young ballplayers. Although it is enlightening to learn about Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio, the leader of the group and star of the book is Williams. Halberstam portrays the notoriously moody and difficult Williams as a complex man: driven by a rough childhood and a fiercely competitive nature to become perhaps the greatest pure hitter of all time while also being a magnetic personality and loving friend. While there is nothing exceptionally unusual about old men who have stayed friends (plenty of people stay friends, after all), baseball gives this particular relationship a unique makeup. Unlike most friendships, that of Williams, Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio was viewed all summer long by hooting, hollering Red Sox fans. As such, their bond is forged both of individual accomplishment, win-loss records, numerous road trips, and, since they played for the Red Sox, annual doses of disappointment. Halberstam, author of Summer of '49 and October 1964 is the ideal writer to tell two equally intriguing stories, both rich in America's pastime. Although he occasionally drops himself into the narrative, one expects that of Halberstam and gladly accepts it in exchange for the highly readable exposition infused with poetic majesty that has become his trademark. -John Moe.
Creator: Michael (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged Library
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $70.00
Price: $48.27
Review Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In a series of ten essays spanning five centuries of history, Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California.
Authors
- Rosa Johnson Butler and Richard A. Long, Marcia Ann Gillespie
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 818.5409
List Price: $74.25
Price: $48.15
Review Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Maya Angelou’s memoirs, essay and poetry collections, and cookbooks have sold millions of copies. Now, Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by the people who know her best - her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler - it captures Angelou at home, at work, and in the public eye. Listeners who have come to know and love Maya Angelou will be surprised and delighted by this personal portrait of the renowned poet, author, playwright, and humanitarian.
Publication date: 1996
Price: $49.95
Review How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (The Secrets to Good Communication) / Nightingale-Conant Inc.:You can't help but benefit from Larry King's years of experience and sage advice. Even if you think you were born without the "gift of gab," you can begin to improve your speaking abilities immediately. King offers myriad techniques, skills, and ice breakers that anyone can learn to use with confidence. Mr. King also tells personal stories about the best and worst communicators he has met or interviewed. You'll hear the secrets that made Mario Cuomo, Richard Nixon, and JFK such powerful political speakers; how Jack Kent Cooke, Ted Turner, and Ross Perot became such dynamic businessmen through their communication styles; what makes George Burns, Bob Hope, and Don Rickles so funny all the time; how the super trial lawyers like Edward Bennett Williams, William Kunstler, and Louis Nizer use very different techniques to get amazingly similar results. Listen to this program, and you'll learn how to: * Open a conversation with anyone, anytime, anywhere. * Be confident that you will always have something interesting to say. * Get prospective clients, customers, and employers listening to what you're saying immediately. * Be prepared with the "greatest question ever asked. [+]".
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $69.99
Price: $46.98
Review Samuel Adams: A Life / Tantor Media:The rousing story of Samuel Adams, the Founding Father who has been undeservedly overlooked by history but who, in Thomas Jefferson's words, was "truly the Man of the Revolution. ".
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 973.3341
List Price: $69.99
Price: $47.49
Review The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army / Tantor Media:Historian Paul Lockhart writes the dramatic story of a forgotten founding father-Baron de Steuben-who whipped the Continental Army into shape to make victory against the British possible.
Creator: Michael Perry
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-04-01
Dewey code: 811.54
List Price: $29.95
Price: $48.50
Review Population: 485 CD / HarperAudio:Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485), where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now - after a decade away - he has returned. Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy. Tracing his calls on a map in the little firehouse, he sees "a dense, benevolent web, spun one frantic zigzag at a time" from which the story of a tiny town emerges, building to a final chapter that is at once devastating and transcendent.
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.99
Price: $48.51
Review Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello / Tantor Media:In this moving and intimate look at the final days of our most enigmatic president, Andrew Burstein sheds new light on what Thomas Jefferson actually thought about sexuality, race, gender, and politics. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, leaving behind a series of mysteries that captured the imaginations of historical investigators-an interest rekindled by the recent revelation that he fathered a child by Sally Hemmings, a woman he legally owned-yet there is still surprisingly little known about him as a man. In Jefferson's Secrets Andrew Burstein focuses on Jefferson's last days to create an emotionally powerful portrait of the uncensored private citizen who was also a giant of a man. Drawing on sources previous biographers have glossed over or missed entirely, Burstein uncovers, first and foremost, how Jefferson confronted his own mortality; and in doing so, he reveals how he viewed his sexual choices. Delving into Jefferson's soul, Burstein lays bare the president's thoughts about his own legacy, his predictions for American democracy, and his feelings regarding women and religion. The result is a moving and surprising work of history that sets a new standard, post-DNA, for the next generation's reassessment of the most evocative and provocative of this country's founders.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03-15
Dewey code: 796.83092
List Price: $99.00
Price: $46.80
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: Toni Lamond
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $72.00
Price: $48.00
Review Still A Gypsy: Library Edition / Bolinda Publishing:
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 970.016092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $46.84
Review Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African American Explorer of the American South / Tantor Media:The never-before-told true story of the first great explorer and adventurer in American history-an African slave who led three Spanish noblemen on an eight-year journey from Florida to California in the sixteenth century.
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-12-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $75.99
Price: $47.87
Review Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty / Tantor Media:The New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Guys Won! chronicles the rise and fall of the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s-the storied three-time Super Bowl champions and the most beloved, despised, and unforgettable dynasty in NFL history.
Creator: Todd McLaren
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 371.855
List Price: $69.99
Price: $47.65
Review The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie / Tantor Media:The creator of "Animal House" at last tells the real story of the fraternity that inspired the iconic film-a story far more outrageous (and funny) than any movie could ever capture. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-15
Dewey code: 338.76292092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $47.08
Review The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies / Tantor Media:In this frank memoir, Steve Miller, who has spent the majority of his career salvaging American companies on the verge of ruin, reveals a rarely seen side of American management. This is a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own education as an American executive.
Publication date: 2004-12
Price: $87.75
Review Winston Churchill: Man of the Century / Recorded Books:
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2004-09-20
Dewey code: 798
List Price: $28.90
Price: $46.26
Review Frankie / HarperCollins Audio:Frankie Dettori is a unique character in modern-day Britain: a millionaire champion jockey irresistible to the punters; a charismatic personality with an easy charm and immaculate dress sense that make him an instant favourite on TV chat shows; and a celebrity with a fascinating life story encompassing drama, passion, death and deliverance. In his own words, Frankie Dettori charts his rise from stable lad to champion jockey, revealing the endless hours of hard work, the fun along the way, and his determination to succeed against the odds. Controversial, informative and hugely entertaining, Frankie Dettori's life story will appeal to the millions of people who follow the sport as well as those intrigued to know more about one of the greatest talents that horse-racing has ever seen.
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Andrew Jackson: Library Edition, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine, Leading With My Chin, An Indian Boyhood: Learning Literature, Teammates, The, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration, How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (The Secrets to Good Communication), Samuel Adams: A Life, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army, Population: 485 CD, Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello, Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship, Still A Gypsy: Library Edition, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African American Explorer of the American South, Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty, The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie, The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies, Winston Churchill: Man of the Century, FrankieTop headlines: Yosemite rockfalls force camp closures: A third of the units at a lodging complex at Yosemite will be permanently closed because an unstable cliff has created the potential for deadly rockslides, the National Park Service said Friday. ›19:43 21 Nov, Fri 'Mercenary is a Slanderous Term': The founder of Blackwater defends himselfand his company. ›03:32 13 Oct, Sat Obama makes key Cabinet picks: Several key appointments, including State and Treasury Department secretaries appear to be nearly-done deals, with Democratic officials confirming President-elect Barack Obama's intended nominees. ›00:51 Could Nobel Win Push Gore Into 08 Race?: Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. 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