Creator: Tom Parker
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-09
Dewey code: 796.3570973
List Price: $63.00
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Review Baseball in '41: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:A celebration the best baseball seasons in history discusses DiMaggio's fifty-six-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's. 406 batting average, the Yankees classic World Series, and such baseball personalities as Lefty Grove, Bobby Feller, and Hank Greenberg. Reprint. NYT.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-05
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $63.00
Price: $39.68
Review Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography / Blackstone Audio Inc.:She was beautiful, talented, irascible, ruthless, vulnerable, and a true Hollywood legend. From abused child to dance hall entertainer to silent film actress, she went on to become one of Hollywood's screen goddesses with films such as Possessed (opposite Clark Gable, with whom she began a torrid off-screen affair), Grand Hotel, and Mildred Pierce, her Academy Award-winning film. Joan Crawford succeeded-and survived-through sheer determination, talent, invention and re-invention. Now, Charlotte Chandler, the acclaimed biographer of Ingrid Bergman (Ingrid), Bette Davis (The Girl Who Walked Home Alone), and Groucho Marx (Hello, I Must Be Going), gives us a revealing and often surprising portrait of Joan Crawford, much of it in her own words.
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 945.311082092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.81
Review Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon / Tantor Media:From the acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair comes the vivid and dramatic story of the fall of Venice and the rise of a new age during the tumultuous Napoleonic period, as seen through the eyes of his great-great-great-great-grandmother. Q&A with Andrea di Robilant Q. A discovery of letters between a young beauty, Giustiniana Wynne, and your ancestor, the Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo, inspired your first work, A Venetian Affair. What lead to the discovery of Lucia’s letters and what inspired you to tell her story in your new book, Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon? It was only after finishing A Venetian Affair that I realized there was another box of letters among my father's papers which I had not yet opened. They turned out to be by Andrea Memmo's daughter, Lucia, to her future husband, Alvise Mocenigo. These letters, written when Lucia was only sixteen, were so vivid and immediate and provided such a fascinating insight into the complex negotiations leading to an arranged marriage in Venice in the late 18th century, that they seemed to be the perfect starting point for a narrative on that period. In the course of researching Lucia's life I was lucky to find several more collections of her correspondence in the archives in Venice and other cities of northern Italy, which, taken together, covered her entire life time. The sheer quality of her correspondence throughout her life-her observations, her descriptions, her wonderful habit of transcribing dialogues, the precise information about her personal life and the world around her-compelled me to write her story. Q. How did the experience of writing Lucia differ from that of A Venetian Affair? In writing A Venetian Affair I was entirely absorbed by the intensity of the love story between Andrea and Giustiniana. [+]Lucia, instead, is more like a rich family saga. Whereas I had something of a crush on Giustiniana, the relationship I developed with Lucia was at once deeper and more complex. I grew to love and admire her. She was a strong, courageous, passionate woman. But she also irritated me at times, and disappointed me and even exasperated me. Q. Who was Colonel Plunkett and what role did he play in Lucia's life? After the fall of the Venetian Republic, Colonel Plunkett, a dashing officer with the occupying Austrian troops, became Lucia's secret lover. He fathered her only surviving child, Alvisetto, before being killed in action while fighting the French in Switzerland. All traces of this love affair were carefully erased by Lucia. Alvisetto was passed off as Alvise's son, thereby ensuring the survival of the Mocenigo line. See the entire Q&A with Andrea di Robilant.
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2006-07-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir / Tantor Media:The anticipated sequel to the bestselling "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" finds the author now a dutiful husband and devoted dad who's as relentlessly self-sabotaging as ever with a demonstrated knack for attracting misfortune, publicity and devoted readers. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
Creator: Michael Prichard
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2006-06-20
Dewey code: 362.2092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.58
Review Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness / Tantor Media:Pete Earley had no idea. He'd been a journalist for over thirty years.
Creator: Patrick Lawlor
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-04-15
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $63.00
Price: $39.69
Review Miles to Go (Library Edition) / Blackstone Audio Inc.:Miles to Go is a frank and intimate exploration of Davis’s eccentric working life, drug habits, paranoia, depression, and subsequent recovery. The book delves into the dynamics that made Davis’s band work so well together, placing Davis’s work in a historic, literary, and musical framework. Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and a very unlikely Mother Teresa all have walk-on parts in this engaging, intelligent, and often hilarious narrative.
Creator: Norman Dietz
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-12-01
Dewey code: 384.54092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review Touch and Go: A Memoir / Tantor Media:At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that-embodying the spirit of the man himself-is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.
Creator: Laural Merlington
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 945.652
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria / Tantor Media:From village feasts and rustic tavernas to ancient piazzas and moonlit balconies, the smells and tastes and sounds and soul of Umbria come alive in bestselling author Marlena de Blasi's evocative memoir. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.79
Review In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate / Tantor Media:L. Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. Gray became the target of one of Watergatea (TM)s most shocking acts-Nixon's "smoking gun" attempt to have the CIA stop the FBI investigation. This book is Gray's firsthand account of what really happened during his crucial year as acting director of the FBI, based on a never-before-published first-person account and previously secret documents.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-05
Dewey code: 362.733092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.76
Review Hope's Boy (Library Edition): A Memoir / Tantor Media:From a disastrous decade in foster care to Harvard Law School and beyond: this is the profoundly moving memoir of one boy who beat the system.
Creator: Michael Prichard
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 973.41092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review In the Name of the Father (Library Edition): Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation / Tantor Media:A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $63.00
Price: $39.68
Review Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome / Blackstone Audio, Inc.:On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's Half Dome, even as the sky darkened and thunder rolled. By night's end, two would be dead from a lightning strike, three gravely wounded, and desperate EMTs would be overseeing a harrowing midnight helicopter rescue.
Authors
- Tom Clancy
- Jr. (Ret) General Franks
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-02-01
Dewey code: 956.70442
List Price: $32.00
Price: $39.76
Review Into The Storm: A Study In Command / Simon & Schuster Audio:Tom Clancy has explored the military and security issues of our time in a brilliant series of novels. Now he takes us into the heart and mind of a remarkable military leader to show us the nature of war and command from the inside. Based on the story of America's greatest military triumph since World War II - the victory over Iraq in the Gulf War - Into the Storm tells us how leaders learn and grow, and how they forge people, elements and forces together into a campaign of power and precision. We hear how General Frederick M. Franks, Jr. commanded the armor and infantry of VII Corps, the main coalition force that broke the back of Iraq's Republican Guard. Beyond that, Into the Storm describes the transformation of an army traumatized by the Vietnam War and the metamorphosis of a man devastated by the loss of a leg in that war. The former once again became the world's most powerful force; the latter, the first amputee active-duty general since the Civil War. Together the story of that army, that man, and the war they fought make Into the Storm an instant classic of military history. Tom Clancy's latest love-letter to the military-industrial complex focuses on the Army-and Fred Franks, a general who helped smash Iraq in the Gulf War. [+]In this first volume of a series on the intricacies of military command, Clancy traces the organizational success story of the U. S. Army's rise from the slough of Vietnam to the heights of victory in the Persian Gulf. In 1972, the Army lacked proper discipline, training, weapons, and doctrine; all these would be overhauled in the next 15 years. For those readers keen on such nuts and bolts, the book will be fascinating. But the book truly sparkles when Franks tells his story. A "tanker" who lost a foot in the invasion of Cambodia, he is a man of great courage, thoughtfulness, and integrity. One cannot help but wince when a civilian tells him, "You and those boys did that for nothing. " And for all the acronyms and military history, that is what this book is about: healing the wounds Vietnam inflicted. "But this time [the Gulf War], it was going to end differently. They all would see to that. ".
Creator: Nadia May
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $62.95
Price: $39.66
Review Christian Dior / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Brian Emerson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-11
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $63.00
Price: $39.69
Review Eisenhower: Library Edition (Great Generals Series) / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Jonathan Reese
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-04-15
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $59.99
Price: $39.57
Review The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty (Library Edition) / Tantor Media:In a personal but objective narrative based on the HMAV Bounty's log, Commander William Bligh himself tells of the stormy voyage to Tahiti, his crew's insatiable attachment to the island paradise, and the incredible 3,600-mile journey to safety after the mutineers cast him-and eighteen loyal crew members-adrift in a small, open boat with few supplies.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03-15
Dewey code: 364
List Price: $63.00
Price: $39.69
Review Escape from Alcatraz / Blackstone:Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud aka the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, called "The Rock" and known for its harsh conditions. This gripping true crime classic, originally written in 1963 and newly reissued, tells the story of life on The Rock and of fourteen ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners. Most notable perhaps was Frank Morris, whose daring plan of escape was the basis for the memorable 1979 Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz.
Creator: Josephine Bailey
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 956.704431
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review A Hundred & One Days (Library Edition) / Tantor Media:The New York Times best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a stunning and intimate portrait of Baghdad under siege From January until April 2003-for one hundred and one days-Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Bagdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the attacks by the American and British forces. But Seierstad was after a story far less obvious than the military invasion. From the moment she arrived in Baghdad Seierstad was determined to understand the modern secrets of an ancient place and to find out how the Iraqi people really live. In A Hundred and One Days, she introduces us to daily life under the constant threat of attack-first from the Iraqi government and later from American bombs. Moving from the deafening silence of life under Hussein to the explosions that destroyed the power supply, the water supply, and security, Seierstad sets out to discover: What happens to people when the dam bursts? What do they choose to say when they can suddenly say what they like? What do they miss most when their world changes overnight? Displaying the novelist's eye and lyrical storytelling that have won her awards around the world, Seierstad here brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters to tell the stories we never see on the evening news. The only woman in the world to cover both the fall of Kabul in 2001 and the bombings of Baghdad in 2003, Asne Seierstad has redefined war reporting with her mesmerizing book.
Authors
- Charles Fleming
- Howard Dully
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 617.481
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.70
Review My Lobotomy: A Memoir / Tantor Media:In this gut-wrenching memoir, Howard Dully recounts what life was like after he was needlessly lobotomized by an unlicensed physician at the age of twelve at the behest of his abusive stepmother.
Creator: Richard Allen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-04-03
Dewey code: 796.357092
List Price: $69.99
Price: $39.56
Review Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season / Tantor Media:April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. In Opening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil rights era.
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Baseball in '41: Library Edition, Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, a Personal Biography, Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon, The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir, Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness, Miles to Go (Library Edition), Touch and Go: A Memoir, The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria, In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate, Hope's Boy (Library Edition): A Memoir, In the Name of the Father (Library Edition): Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation, Shattered Air: A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome, Into The Storm: A Study In Command, Christian Dior, Eisenhower: Library Edition (Great Generals Series), The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty (Library Edition), Escape from Alcatraz, A Hundred & One Days (Library Edition), My Lobotomy: A Memoir, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First SeasonTop headlines: Got man boobs? 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