Publication date: 2005-03-01
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $25.00
Price: $35.68
Review An Evening with Ranulph Fiennes / Hodder Audio:Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been described by The Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer. " He has led over 30 expeditions, including the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent. He discovered the legendary Lost City of Ubar and has also completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. In his inspirational one-man show, Sir Ranulph enthrals theater audiences with tales of his amazing exploits and astonishing feats of physical and mental endurance as a member of the SAS and as an explorer and adventurer.
Authors
- Dick Winters
- Cole C. Kingseed
Publication date: 2006-04-15
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $72.00
Price: $45.36
Review Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Library Edition) / Blackstone Audio Inc.:In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible. They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters led them through the Battle of the Bulge, the attack on Foy—where Easy Company reached its breaking point—and finally into Germany, by which time each member had been wounded. Outside Munich, they liberated an S. S. death camp and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s alpine retreat. Beyond Band of Brothers is Winters’s memoir, based on his wartime diary, but it also includes his comrades’ untold stories. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war’s end. This is their story, told in his words for the first time.
Creator: Alan Sklar
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $55.99
Price: $35.60
Review Saint Patrick of Ireland / Tantor Media:Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their super-natural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths.
Publication date: 2000-10-01
Review Der Hase im Rausch. 2 CDs. Eberhard Esche liest autobiographische Geschichten. / Eulenspiegel:
Authors
- Elizabeth Sherrill
- John Sherrill
Publication date: 2000-02-28
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $64.00
Price: $39.96
Review The Hiding Place / Blackstone Audiobooks:“I pray that God forgive them. ”Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed. Both woman had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ’s Spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to save—at the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror. [+]Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ’s message and the courage woman who listened and lived to pass it along—with joy and triumph!.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-08
Dewey code: 362.196994490092
List Price: $63.00
Price: $37.84
Review The Middle Place / Blackstone Audio, Inc.:In a coming of age memoir about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up, Kelly Corrigan brilliantly explores the "middle place" between childhood and adulthood, and how one woman made the leap to the other side. "The thing you need to know about me," she begins, "is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter. " Intertwining her own story with that of her larger-than-life, Irish-American, born-salesman father, Corrigan illustrates an unbelievably powerful and healing father/daughter relationship which evolves as they both must battle cancer. Uplifting without shying away from the realities of illness, Corrigan's highly personal story examines what it means when the one person who has been your source of strength is in need of some himself, and that bittersweet "in between" moment when you're a devoted wife and mother, but you'll always be daddy's girl.
Creator: Robert Whitfield
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $56.00
Price: $35.28
Review The Great Escape / Blackstone Audiobooks:"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale. "—Philadelphia Inquirer They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs.
Creator: Mark A Cross
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $69.95
Price: $39.80
Review Drink with the Devil / New Millennium Audio:With the peace process breaking down in Ireland, former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with sinister forces as he races against time to recover a vast fortune in gold bullion, hijacked and lost at sea some ten years before. Lit Guild Main. Jack Higgins is the Ebola virus of thriller writers: his prose is so contagious that it makes you read along feverishly until the bitter end. Since there's no known cure, you might as well lie back and enjoy his latest attack, a compulsively readable story about an alliance between the New York Mafia and Irish Loyalists to recover 50 million pounds worth of stolen gold bullion from the bottom of the Irish Sea. It pits Sean Dillon, one of Higgins's trademark superheroes, against a variety of villains-none more frightening than a young woman driven mad by hatred.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-04-07
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $34.98
Price: $34.98
Review The Essential Sir Arthur Conn Doyle / Naxos AudioBooks:The rich life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is featured here: his work as a doctor, his novels and journalistic writings, his support of Spiritualism and his defence of fairies. This is a unique set for the 150th anniversary of his birth. After his early years in medicine, the writing talents of Arthur Conan Doyle took over. "Sherlock Holmes" and "Professor Challenger" were among his successes. David Timson, an actor and director who has read the complete "Sherlock Holmes" collection for Naxos AudioBooks, has compiled this commemorative collection showing the range of Conan Doyle's life and work. It includes the 2CD biography by Hesketh Pearson, "The Speckled Band", an excerpt from "The Lost World" and his defence of the "Cottingley Fairies".
Creator: Alan Sklar
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $55.99
Price: $35.27
Review Sailing Alone Around the World / Tantor Media:Full of astounding adventures, Sailing Alone Around the World is the true story of the first man ever to circle the globe alone entirely by sea.
Creator: Patrick Cullen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-12
List Price: $56.00
Price: $35.28
Review King of Hearts / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Anita Wright
Publication date: 2004-02
List Price: $34.95
Price: $34.95
Review Cleopatra / ISIS Audio Books:Cleopatra ruled Ptolemaic Egypt from 51-30 B. C. , and was the last Macedonian ruler of that country. She first ruled jointly with her brothers/husbands Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, but her romantic liaisons with two of the most famous Romans of their day ensured Cleopatra's undying fame and place in history. Her relationship with Julius Caesar established her firmly upon the throne. When Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 B. C. , Cleopatra returned from Rome to Egypt and began an ill-fated love affair with the brilliant but self-indulgent Roman commander, Marc Antony. Their relationship was bitterly opposed by his brother-in-law Octavian (who became Emperor Augustus), and in 32 B. C. [+]Rome declared war on Egypt. A decisive naval defeat at the Battle of Actium, off the west coast of Greece, sent the lovers back to Egypt where they committed suicide as Octavian captured the city - Cleopatra allegedly killing herself with an asp after Antony fell upon his sword.
Creator: Paul M Garcia
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03
Dewey code: 956
List Price: $45.00
Price: $35.19
Review We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah / Blackstone Audiobooks:The platoon included four pairs of best friends. Each of the four would lose a best friend forever. Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company’s 1st Platoon found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand combat since World War II. Civilians were used as human shields or as bait to lure soldiers into buildings rigged with explosives; suicide bombers approached from every corner hoping to die and take Americans with them; radical insurgents, high on adrenaline, fought to the death. The Marines of the 1st Platoon (part of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment) were among the first to fight in Fallujah, and they bore the brunt of this epic battle. When it was over, the platoon had suffered thirty-five casualties, including four dead. This is their story. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O’Donnell stood shoulder-to-shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted. O’Donnell captures not only the sights, sounds, and smells of the gritty street combat, but also the human drama of young men in a close-knit platoon fighting for their lives-and the lives of their buddies. We Were One chronicles the 1st Platoon’s story, from its formation at Camp Pendleton in California to its near destruction in the smoldering ruins of Fallujah. [+]We Were One is an unforgettable portrait of the new “Greatest Generation. ”With 16 pages of extraordinary photographs from the front lines of the Battle for Fallujah.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-02-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $34.95
Review Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:The first book to tell the extraordinary history of Joseph P. Kennedys reign in Hollywoodfrom 1926 to 1930, during which time he simultaneously ran three movie studios; led the revolution in sound pictures and created the first modern entertainment empire that became the blueprint for contemporary Hollywood.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $18.95
Price: $35.36
Review Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Picture Book Biography) / Live Oak Media:
Publication date: 2005-07
Price: $24.99
Review Holy Father: Pope Benedict XVI, Pontiff for a New Era / Recorded Books:
Creator: David Thorn
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $56.00
Price: $35.28
Review John Ransom's Diary Andersonville / Blackstone Audiobooks:John Ransom was a 20-year-old Union soldier when he became a prisoner of war in 1863. In his unforgettable diary, Ransom reveals the true story of his day-to-day struggle in the worst of Confederate prison camps-where hundreds of prisoners died daily. Ransom's story of survival is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a great adventure. observant, eloquent, and moving. ".
Publication date: 2002
Review Life and Work of Mark Twain (The Great Courses) / The Teaching Company:12 Audio Cd's, 24 lectures.
Creator: Susan O'Malley
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $56.00
Price: $35.28
Review Young Joan / Blackstone Audiobooks:Joan, a girl growing up in the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn country in opposition to the English invaders.
Authors
- Stefanie Zweig
- Franziska Pigulla
Price: $35.34
Review Nirgendwo in Afrika. 4 CDs. Autobiographischer Roman. / Langen/Müller Audio-Books:
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An Evening with Ranulph Fiennes, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (Library Edition), Saint Patrick of Ireland, Der Hase im Rausch. 2 CDs. Eberhard Esche liest autobiographische Geschichten., The Hiding Place, The Middle Place, The Great Escape, Drink with the Devil, The Essential Sir Arthur Conn Doyle, Sailing Alone Around the World, King of Hearts, Cleopatra, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years, Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Picture Book Biography), Holy Father: Pope Benedict XVI, Pontiff for a New Era, John Ransom's Diary Andersonville, Life and Work of Mark Twain (The Great Courses), Young Joan, Nirgendwo in Afrika. 4 CDs. Autobiographischer Roman.Top headlines: Woman hits jackpot in first trip to Las Vegas: A 24-year-old woman, on her first trip to Las Vegas, is worrying less about the nation's economy. 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