Creator: Cynthia Holloway
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-01
Dewey code: 338.4779509793135
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.83
Review Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas / Tantor Media:Wall Street Journal columnist Christina Binkley takes an up-close-and-personal look at how Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, and Dr. Gary Loveman are building a bigger and better Las Vegas and how their influence is spreading beyond the city's borders.
Creator: Read by To be announced
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-14
Dewey code: 818.52
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.92
Review Emily Post : Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Laura Claridge has written the first biography of the high society woman who became an advocate for the middle class and immigrant Americans. Today, almost a half century after the writers death, the name Emily Post remains a touchstone of twenty-first century Americans.
Publication date: 1997-07
List Price: $49.95
Price: $49.95
Review The Life of Christ Collection: Four Powerful Texts Offering an In-Depth Study of Jesus / Parsons Technology:
Creator: Samuel Byrd
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review A Picture Book Of Fredrick Douglass (Picture Book Biography) / Live Oak Media:
Edition: Library ed. Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-05
Dewey code: 615.856
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.85
Review Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam / Tantor Media:Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men.
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review Boy: Tales of Childhood / BBC Audiobooks America:"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten. " - Roald DahlAs full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, bestselling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did you know that Roald Dahl nearly lost his nose in a car accident? Have you heard about his involvement in the Great Mouse Plot of 1924? If not, you don't yet know all there is to know about Roald Dahl. Sure to captivate and delight you, the boyhood antics of this master storyteller are not to be missed!Performed by Derek Jacobi.
Creator: James Boles
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.81
Review Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson / Tantor Media:Told with grace and masterly detail, Alan Pell Crawford's unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Thomas Jefferson in his final years will change the way audiences think about this true American icon.
Creator: Laural Merlington
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-06-01
Dewey code: 364.1523092
List Price: $97.25
Price: $39.95
Review Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Army Wives goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life to bring listeners into the hearts and homes of today’s military wives. Biank tells the story of four typical army wives who, in a flash, find themselves in extraordinary circumstances that ultimately force them to redefine who they are as women and wives. This is a true story about what happens when real life collides with army convention. Army Wives is a groundbreaking narrative that takes the listener beyond the army’s gates, taking a close look at the other woman – the army itself – and how its traditions, rules, and wartime realities deeply impact marriage and home life. "A timely look at the impact of combat and military life on the families the soldiers leave behind. " - The Washington Post“Tanya Biank’s experience as a reporter has produced a candid and detailed study of her subjects and a riveting story, certain to engage army wives of all generations. ” – Joanne Patton, the wife of Major General George S. Patton and the daughter-in-law of General George S. Patton, Jr. “Tanya Biank has written a stunningly detailed, eye-opening account of what it is really like to be an army wife. [+]Army Wives demonstrates that while it is tough to be a soldier, it can be even tougher to be the wife of a soldier. Army Wives should be required reading for every military spouse and all those who are considering marrying into the military. ” – Ron Martz, military affairs correspondent, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and coauthor of Heavy Metal: A Tank Company’s Battle to Baghdad“Army Wives captivates readers with an up-close and personal look into the ‘real’ everyday lives and challenges of army spouses. ” – Victoria M. Parham, host of Military Spouse Talk Radio.
Creator: Mel Foster
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-21
Dewey code: 616.044
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.85
Review Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope / Tantor Media:In an extension of his New York Times bestselling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and of their families. Listeners will be carried into the hearts and minds of those who cope with sickness daily and learn about selfa "determination, courage in the face of adversity and ignorance, keeping hope alive, and finding strength and peace.
Publication date: 2006-06-10
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review The Place of Knowing: A Spiritual Autobiography / Grey Matters Publishing:Here is urgent information in a world of doubt and a great fear of death. Having been to the place of knowing, Emma Lou Warner Thayne returns from death with a promise to make light as real as dark. Her stories are alive with connection to the human spirit: with a Hindu monk in a lava temple and the first prophet of Mormonism in the Sacred Grove; with a Russian woman in a cemetery in Leningrad and a Muslim matron in her tent in Palestine; with a new baby meditating on a changing table and a grown grandson finding a Cadillac limousine on a high mountain; with a young painter friend dying of AIDS; sitting on all-male corporate boards and women-only steering committees; with a born-again Christian in a searching conversation on a train and a young captain on leave from the war in Iraq; or experiencing light and "Danny Boy" in an Irish cathedral-always with a transcendant expectation. This book can be a guide and comfort to anyone of any age. It is a book about love and loss, expectation and fulfillment in the healing power of nature, medicine, human connection, and Divine intervention. Hearing this voice reaffirms life and can remove any fear of death. "Since my accident, the nanoseconds, the smallest measure of time of my being back from death, mount up to years as the mystical connections multiply like stars in the heavens. Days go by so fast I can't live them. Only reflection saves their gifts to my life. I hope this book makes clear that they are there for anyone, the small miracles. [+]But only through paying attention can we respect and retain what is there to awaken us, to guide us to a state of realization. ".
Creator: Todd McLaren
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 610.28
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.97
Review The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever / Tantor Media:The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration between Charles Lindbergh and Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, who shared the goal of finding a scientific path to life without death. Unabridged. 10 CDs.
Creator: Robertson Dean
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 384.8092
List Price: $88.00
Price: $55.44
Review You're Only As Good As Your Next One: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:The legendary studiohead with seven Best Picture Oscars under his belt takes us behind Hollywood's velvet rope with an authoritative, inside history of the movie industry from the 1960s on. Name any one of the most highly regarded films of the last four decades and chances are better than good that it's got producer Mike Medavoy's prints somewhere on it: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Amadeus; The Silence of the Lambs; Apocalypse Now; Philadelphia; Rocky, the list is endless. Born in Shanghai and raised in Chile, Medavoy has taken the hard road to the highest echelons of Hollywood power, rising from the mailroom, never losing sight of his convictions, and staying true to the art of making movies. YOU'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR NEXT ONE explores in detail what Medavoy calls a terrifying business for the faint of heart. ' He traces how the making and marketing of movies has changed now that the Hollywood studios have become divisions of large corporations. Recalling his many successes (and claiming just as many failures), Medavoy takes the reader into the eye of Hollywood's biggest storms: the madness on the set of Apocalypse Now; the political fallout of Mississippi Burning and The People vs. Larry Flynt; and the Woody Allen scandal that rocked Husbands and Wives, plus close encounters with colleagues like Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, Dustin Hoffman, and Steven Spielberg. It's a look at the last forty years in a business that is everybody's second business.
Publication date: 1996-11-01
Price: $19.95
Review Gift and Mystery / Random House Audio:In a personal spiritual testimony, Pope John Paul II decribes his journey to the priesthood, discussing his childhood, education, the years of Nazi occupation that led him to dedicate his life to God, and his ministry within the Catholic Church. 1,000,000 first printing.
Publication date: 2007-02-28
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review Picture Book of Ben Franklin (Picture Book Biographies) / Live Oak Media:
Publication date: 2007-02-28
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Picture Book Biograp[hies) / Live Oak Media:A brief biography of the African American scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 782.42166092
List Price: $49.95
Price: $600.00
Review Kiss and Make-Up / New Millennium Press:Delivered in Gene's own honest, outrageous and uncensored voice, he tells of his early beginnings in Israel, of his arrival in New York at the age of eight, his first taste of 1950s pop culture and his developing thirst for fame, fun and girls. Undoubtedly, one of the most infamous rock and roll legends alive, Gene tells the never before revealed story of Kiss' reign as the biggest, most fiercely adulated band in the world. Finally, the real story of the man behind the make up.
Run time: 360 min.
Creator: Mark Doty
Publication date: 2007
Review Dog Years / Harper Audio:When Dody adopts a dog for his dying partner, he brings home Beau-a large retriever in need of loving care. beau and the retriever who is already part of the family, keep Doty's companion from abandoning hope during the darkest days.
Authors
- Dottie Walters and Terri Marie
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-02-14
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review The Solution is at Hand: The Dottie Walters Story / White Wing Entertainment and Walters Speaker Services:Very seldom do you run across a person who can see the answer just floating around you. Such a person was the legendary Dottie Walters. With a blessed gift of insight and inspiration, Dottie had spoken around the world. In this work, completed just before her passing and written with author Terri Marie, Dottie has put together a collection of some of her best advice, stories and ideas to help you on your incredible journey through life.
Authors
- Len Sherman
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Dewey code: 363.2092
List Price: $87.25
Price: $39.95
Review Joe's Law: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs, and Everything Else That Threatens America / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:He is both feared and admired, and for the past two decades he has been both lionized and demonized by the media. Outspoken, no-nonsense, and eminently fascinating, Joseph M. Arpaio captured the public’s imagination from his first day as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona (a county larger than the state of New Jersey) in 1992. He has become an icon, not only in his own state, but around the world. For sixteen straight years he has averaged an unprecedented 80 percent approval rating. To his ardent followers, “Sheriff Joe,” as he is universally known, is a hero: both for his toughness on crime - and criminals - and his sense of humanity. Sheriff Joe conceived the Tent City Jail, where he houses inmates in surplus army tents left over from the Korean War. Known as the “Alcatraz of Arizona,” his jail brought back male and female chain gangs (for cleaning parks and roadways) and provides stringent, often unorthodox discipline. To discourage theft, the Sheriff insisted that his inmates be restrained with pink handcuffs, and don pink underwear and socks. Inmates are permitted to watch educational programming only, like news, Animal Planet, and The Weather Channel. [+]And by eliminating comforts for his inmates, he has managed to shave $500,000 annually from the cost of keeping prisoners. But he also offers a wide range of educational and therapeutic programs for his inmates, though they’re far less publicized. His opponents decry him for his iron-fisted approach, but no one can deny that Sheriff Joe is one of the country’s most respected elected officials. In this book, “America’s Toughest Sheriff” takes an uncensored look at some of the most difficult and important issues facing America today. The only local law enforcement official in the country directing his deputies to arrest illegal immigrants, Arpaio has shamed the U. S. Border Patrol, the Dept. of Homeland Security, and other federal bureaus, and become a prominent leader in the fight against some of our most pervasive problems. In Joe’s Law he tackles the issue of illegal immigration head on: its relationship with drug trafficking, taxes, and crime, and how it impacts healthcare and education as well. Arpaio offers fair and innovative ways to solve this dilemma and many others, not only for his own state, but for the entire country. The Sheriff’s struggle has personal consequences as well, as the book opens with the revelation of an all-too-credible assassination plot against him, arising from his aggressive and very public anti–illegal immigration campaign. Compelling and courageous, Joe’s Law is a candid take on some of American society’s most pressing problems, and one man’s revolutionary vision for eliminating them.
Creator: Susan O'Malley
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $80.00
Price: $50.40
Review When Character Was King / Blackstone Audiobooks:From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders. It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American people's affection but now, as he approaches the end of his life, he has received what he deserved even more: their deep respect. What was the wellspring of his greatness? Peggy Noonan, bestselling author of the classic Reagan-era memoir What I Saw at the Revolution, former speechwriter, and now a columnist and contributing editor for The Wall Street Journal, argues that the secret of Reagan's success was no secret at all. It was his character—his courage, his kindness, his persistence, his honesty, and his almost heroic patience in the face of setbacks—that was the most important element of his success. The one thing a man must bring into the White House with him if he is to succeed, Noonan contends, is a character that people come to recognize as high, sturdy, and reliable. Noonan, renowned for her special insight into Ronald Reagan's history and personality, brings her own reflections to Reagan to bear in When Character Was King and discloses never-before-told stories from the former president's family, friends, and White House colleagues to reveal the true nature of a man even his opponents now view as a maker of big history. Marked by incisive wit and elegant prose, When Character Was King will enlighten and move readers.
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