Creator: Mel Foster
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 508
List Price: $65.99
Price: $41.07
Review Walden / Tantor Media:Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
Creator: Norman Dietz
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-22
Dewey code: 973.7092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $40.44
Review Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham Lincoln / Tantor Media:Our most revered president gets an informative, entertaining, and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent-and most unusual and surprising-questions asked about Abraham Lincoln.
Creator: Dick Hill
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-05
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $69.99
Price: $40.44
Review Fall of Frost / Tantor Media:Acclaimed novelist Brian Hall presents a fascinating and exquisitely written novel about the art and life of Robert Frost.
Authors
- Edward Heffron
- William Guarnere
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 940.5412730922
List Price: $69.99
Price: $41.37
Review Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story / Tantor Media:Tom Hanks introduces the rousing story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratroopers of the U. S. Army, and their story is a tribute to the lasting bond forged between comrades in arms-and to all those who fought for freedom.
Creator: Neville Jackson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 709.4509024
List Price: $41.98
Price: $41.98
Review The Lives of the Great Artists (Biography) / Naxos Audiobooks:This recording features a selection of extracts from "Lives of the Artists", which are still the principal source books on 15th century Italian painters today, 500 years after they were written. Artists featured include: Giotto, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci.
Authors
- Lt Lynn "Buck" Compton
- Marcus Brotherton
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-05-06
Dewey code: 940.5421421092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $40.44
Review Call of Duty (Library Edition): My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers / Tantor Media:This is the story of Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton of Easy Company, immortalized as the Band of Brothers, a real-life hero who traveled to a faraway place and put his life on the line for the cause of freedom.
Creator: Rene Raudman
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $59.99
Price: $40.56
Review Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl / Tantor Media:Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir Marley & Me a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert Stacey O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl-and their astonishing and unprecedented nineteen-year life together.
Creator: Marie Caliendo
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-09-01
List Price: $82.25
Price: $52.81
Review Thin Is the New Happy / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Like so many women in today’s society, Valerie Frankel’s world was dictated by her weight, from starvation and binge eating to her self-loathing and total preoccupation with her weight. Not wanting to pass this legacy on to her own daughters, Valerie set out to cleanse herself of these painful and damaging cycles. Yes, she lost twenty pounds and two dress sizes along the way – without dieting a single day. But more than that, she’s come out on the other side, loving her body, herself, and finally being free. Thin Is the New Happy is a hilarious, unflinching, self-deprecating, and joy-filled memoir for every woman who has ever felt good or bad about herself based on how she looks. “[A] poignant…hilarious memoir – As Frankel diets through good times and bad, she skewers her own weight-loss foibles and a society that teaches women that thin is all that matters. ” – Lucy S. Danziger, editor-in-chief, Self Magazine“Riotously funny…always thought-provoking…down-right inspiring. ” – Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries“It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think. ” – Jennifer Cruise, author of Agnes and the Hitman.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-11-30
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $55.00
Price: $41.80
Review Broadway Jeeves: The Diary of a Theatrical Adventure / New Millennium:
Creator: Phil Gigante
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 338.04092
List Price: $92.25
Price: $58.05
Review 1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:“My work is to create companies and build them,” writes Sam Wyly in this candid, engrossing memoir, which reveals how he established and expanded companies on the leading edge of advancements in technology, energy, retail, and investments over the last forty-five years. Wyly shares the process, relationships, struggles, and strategies that have made him one of the 1,000 wealthiest people in the world. From the hardships his parents faced trying to hold on to the family cotton farm during the Depression to the coaching he received on the high school football field, this self-made billionaire describes how his early years in Louisiana prepared him for what lay ahead. His sales experience with IBM and Honeywell in Dallas in the early 1960s gave him the idea to start the first “computer utility. ” Risking $1,000 of his savings, he founded University Computing in 1963 and took it public two years later, becoming a millionaire at the age of thirty. Part autobiography and part inspirational business guide, this audio is full of refreshing insights about what it takes to create, grow, and build successful companies.
Creator: Chris Fabry
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $64.00
Price: $40.32
Review Twice Adopted / Blackstone Audiobooks:Michael Reagan’s life is much more than just an interesting story. It is a testimony of how Christ allowed him to find healing from many of the issues that confront our culture today, such as sexual abuse, divorce, loneliness, the feeling of rejection, and the belief that God does not care about us. Michael Reagan’s first adoption gave him an identity, but he did not find his true identity until he found Christ. In this book, Mike Reagan shows how others can meet a God who loves them, and who wants to embrace them and bring them healing, salvation, and meaning to life.
Creator: Read by: Rhodes-Courter
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 362.733092
List Price: $70.00
Price: $44.05
Review Three Little Words: A Memoir / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama. "" Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.
Creator: Roe Kendall
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 509
List Price: $64.00
Price: $40.32
Review Six Great Scientists: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 635
List Price: $31.00
Price: $42.10
Review An Evening with Alan Titchmarsh / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Simon Chandler
Publication date: 2004-05-06
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $26.85
Price: $44.36
Review Touching the Void / Random House Audiobooks:Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship. Concise and yet packed with detail, Touching the Void, Joe Simpson's harrowing account of near-death in the Peruvian Andes, is a compact tour de force that wrestles with issues of bravery, friendship, physical endurance, the code of the mountains, and the will to live. Simpson dedicates the book to his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and to "those friends who have gone to the mountains and have not returned. " What is it that compels certain individuals to willingly seek out the most inhospitable climate on earth? To risk their lives in an attempt to leave footprints where few or none have gone before? Simpson's vivid narrative of a dangerous climbing expedition will convince even the most die-hard couch potato that such pursuits fall within the realm of the sane. [+]As the author struggles ever higher, readers learn of the mountain's awesome power, the beautiful-and sometimes deadly-sheets of blue glacial ice, and the accomplishment of a successful ascent. And then catastrophe: the second half of Touching the Void sees Simpson at his darkest moment. With a smashed, useless leg, he and his partner must struggle down a near-vertical face-and that's only the beginning of their troubles.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $64.00
Price: $40.32
Review Searching for Bobby Fischer / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: John Lee
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-22
Dewey code: 956.7044092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $40.44
Review Muqtada (Library Edition): Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq / Tantor Media:From one of the bravest and most experienced correspondents in the Middle East, this is the first biography of the formidable Shiite resistance leader destined to shape the future of post-occupation Iraq.
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-03-31
Dewey code: 413.092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $42.05
Review The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of "Roget's Thesaurus" / Tantor Media:Award-winning journalist Joshua Kendall presents the extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary thesaurus.
Creator: Kimberly Dozier
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 070.92
List Price: $69.99
Price: $42.19
Review Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report--And Survive--The War in Iraq / Tantor Media:CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, who battled back from critical injuries sustained in a Baghdad bombing on Memorial Day in 2007, seizes that event as a pivotal moment from which to assess her world-her rise to network broadcasting, the demands on and perils of women covering dangerous events, and the politics around her.
Creator: Ian Peakes
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-11-06
Dewey code: 782.42166092
List Price: $61.25
Price: $61.25
Review Madonna / CD Library Edition:At the age of forty-three, with a career that spans two decades and ranges from the scandalous to the transcendent, Madonna is a bigger phenomenon than ever. But who is the private woman behind the public image? Andrew Morton, whose #1 New York Times bestsellers about Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky have proved his ability to gain access to insiders who won't talk to anyone else, answers that question in this decidedly unauthorized biography. Morton's extensive, in-depth interviews with members of Madonna's inner circle - lovers, friends (even as far back as school friends), and business connections, many of whom have never spoken before now - allow him to go behind the carefully constructed myths to unmask the real Madonna. Andrew Morton is able to make startling revelations, among them the real story of Madonna's family background; the events behind the violent attack that changed her views on sex and men; her relationships with Michael Jackson, Prince, John F. Kennedy Jr. , Vanilla Ice, and other rock and Hollywood stars; the mystery man she wanted to marry; and the darkest days of her career when she threatened to quit show business. From motherless child to wife and mother, from "boy toy" to fiercely independent diva, Madonna is one of the most remarkable women of our time.
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Walden, Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham Lincoln, Fall of Frost, Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story, The Lives of the Great Artists (Biography), Call of Duty (Library Edition): My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl, Thin Is the New Happy, Broadway Jeeves: The Diary of a Theatrical Adventure, 1,000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire, Twice Adopted, Three Little Words: A Memoir, Six Great Scientists: Library Edition, An Evening with Alan Titchmarsh, Touching the Void, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Muqtada (Library Edition): Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of "Roget's Thesaurus", Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report--And Survive--The War in Iraq, MadonnaTop 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 21 Nov, Fri EU wants early foreign policy from Obama: The European Union's foreign policy chief says he expects the president-elect to move quickly to deal with top trans-Atlantic goals, including Middle East peace, Iran and global warming. ›18:45 21 Nov, Fri Book Excerpt: Vegetable Dishes I Cant Live Without: A book excerpt by Mollie Katzen. ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat Inaugural crowd to face intense scrutiny: Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in. ›23:19 21 Nov, Fri Top 10 Sports Cars on MSN Autos: The most popular sports cars on MSN Autos, based on visits to the site's vehicle pages. ›07:00 18 Oct, Thu Turkeys killed as Palin addresses media: Gov. 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