Creator: Elizabeth Bell
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 811
List Price: $18.60
Price: $39.72
Review The World's Wife / Macmillan Audio Books:'This book is going to be a hit, and can only consolidate Duffy's position as one of the most widely read British poets of her generation'. - Robert Crawford, "Herald". 'It sparkles with wit, intelligence and an impressive lightness of touch, while drawing on some weighty emotional experiences: loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, the fierceness of a mother's love. ' - Christina Patterson, "Independent". 'She reveals the foibles of the great, the ghastly and the ordinary bloke and the sufferings of those closest to them. The result is a melange of history lesson, fairy-tale and modern-day domestic tragedy, with the occasional joke thrown in for good measure. Duffy's poetics are flawless - she never misses a beat, her pace is exhilarating, and her language is original and exciting'. - "Scotsman". [+]'These thirty poems vibrate with intense colloquialisms, physicality, energy, freshness and cheek. Many of them are very funny. the best are inventive, subversive and written with great rhythmical and rhyming dash. ' - "Sunday Telegraph".
Creator: Christopher Lane
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 956.70443092
List Price: $49.99
Price: $32.06
Review From Baghdad to America: Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava / Tantor Media:In this inspired, timely follow-up to the New York Times bestseller From Baghdad, With Love-Jay Kopelman's moving story of adopting an abandoned puppy named Lava-the author credits his canine best friend with keeping him sane after he returned home from the war.
Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-12
List Price: $35.99
Price: $33.17
Review Brahms (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:Brahms is one of the best loved, yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful. Though humble, he was consumed by a sense of destiny, and his inner life, colored by his adoration and fear of women, found expression in some of the greatest music ever written. Listening to this audio-biography is leaping inside the life and times of a great German Romantic, understanding the man who was haunted by the ghost of Beethoven for years and was forty-three before he wrote his First Symphony. Accompanied by a richly detailed booklet, this 4 CD-set is a sympathetic, absorbing account of a fascinating composer.
Run time: 510 min.
Creator: Tom Stechschulte
Edition: Unabridged CD
Publication date: 2001
Review An Hour Before Daylight : Memories of a Rural Boyhood / Recorded Books:7 CDs.
Creator: To be announced (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged Library
Publication date: 2008-09-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $50.00
Price: $32.75
Review The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:When a group of thirteen middle-aged women friends decides to buy and share a $37,000 diamond necklace, they learn more than they ever thought possible about themselves, friendship, and the power of possibility.
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $49.99
Price: $33.28
Review Chaucer (Ackroyd's Brief Lives) / Tantor Media:In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poeta (TM)s works.
Authors
- James T Wooten
- Jim Wooten
- Jim Wooten
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 616
List Price: $59.99
Price: $33.91
Review We Are All the Same (Library Edition): A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love / Tantor Media:The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.
Edition: 6 Compact Disc Version With Paperback Guidebook
Publication date: 1999
Review Unleash The Power Within: Personal Coaching To Transform Your Life!; His Complete Program For Self-Empowerment / Nightingale Conant:
Publication date: 2007-08-01
List Price: $34.95
Price: $31.86
Review Betty Johnson - In Her Own Words / Bliss Tavern Music:Betty Johnson's extraordinary voice lifted her from the arduous cotton fields of North Carolina to the luxury of Park Avenue. From the sweet sounds of the Johnson Family Singers, America's first family of gospel, to the elegant rhythms of her solo career in top venues around the globe, music was the saving force in a difficult life filled with personal hardships and devastating secrets. The Cinderella tale of this hard-working, determined woman leaves you cheering as the triumphs of her later life overshadow the pain of her early life. This is a story of tremendous faith and even greater love, but above all, it is a story of music, told by the author in her still beautiful voice, with actual recordings spanning over seventy years of her career.
Creator: William Dufris
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-07
Dewey code: 782.421642092
List Price: $59.99
Price: $32.72
Review A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck / Tantor Media:Country music superstar Trace Adkins isna (TM)t exactly known for holding back whata (TM)s on his mind. And if the millions of albums hea (TM)s sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things ought to be.
Authors
- Kimbrough
- Emily
- Otis Skinner
- Cornelia
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-01
Dewey code: 900
List Price: $55.00
Price: $33.24
Review Our Hearts Were Young and Gay / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr.
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 941
Price: $31.00
Review Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1664-1666 v. 2 / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:In this second part of the famous diary specially adapted for audio, Pepys gives us vivid eye-witness accounts of two famous events: the Plague and the Great Fire of London. Not only do we learn how these two events affected the people of London but also how Pepys and his family were affected, along with his usual minute observations of seventeenth century London life.
Creator: Alice Sebold
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 346.1532092
Price: $39.95
Review Lucky / Simon & Schuster Audio:THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LOVELY BONES In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their effords to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative in turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victim even as she imparts wisdom profoundly won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved. ".
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $31.00
Price: $31.48
Review Rugby's Great Heroes and Entertainers / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Bill McLaren's career as a rugby commentator spanned fifty years and earned him enormous respect. He is therefore well placed to choose his all-time favourites from the world of rugby in this entertaining collection. His marvellous powers of description and huge depth of knowledge ensure that this is a comprehensive insight into rugby's most memorable moments and characters.
Creator: Bob Smith
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $64.00
Price: $40.30
Review Hamlet's Dresser: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:A vivid and lyrical memoir of a man damaged in childhood but redeemed by Shakespeare. 'Written with such delicate and sensitive humanity that laughter and tears are constantly interchanging. What a lovely man, with a golden gift for words and a deep understanding of human frailties and fears. The Shakespearean motif is superbly handled, never tricksy or clever but true and moving. I found it inspirational; it made me look at those around me more sympathetically - especially the aged. His compassion touched me deeply'. Derek Jacobi Bob Smith was a fragile boy from a difficult household that was presided over by an unstable, depressive mother who depended on him, an unsupportive, unavailable father and a severely disabled, beautiful sister who lived at home, largely cared for by Bob. At the age of ten he stumbled upon a line from THE MERCHANT OF VENICE - 'in sooth I know not why I am so sad' - recognized himself in this poetic, melancholy language, and found a buoy that would keep him afloat for the rest of his tumultuous life. He now knows every single Shakespeare play inside and out and every week Bob teaches the play to over six hundred senior citizens. A sad, funny and inspiring account of how one man's life was saved by Shakespeare, this will be the memoir of the year.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-04
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $49.99
Price: $31.49
Review Soul of the Age / SpringWater:
Publication date: 2007-11-05
List Price: $32.95
Price: $32.95
Review Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson / The University of North Carolina Press:Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life. In addition to offering a bottom-up history of life in a segregated mental institution, Burch and Joyner's biography also enriches the traditional interpretation of Jim Crow by highlighting the complicated intersections of race and disability as well as of community and language.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-12-01
Dewey code: 200
Price: $23.95
Review Around the Campfire / St Joseph Communications Inc:How much do you know about the women of the Old Testament? Have you ever heard the inspirational tales of these often forgotten Jewish maidens and mothers whose courage testifies to the need to foster hope amidst adversity? How can these fearless females from generations long past deepen our faith today? In what ways can they motivate us to renew our commitment to serve the Lord, no matter what the cost? Now you finally get to know these wonderful Jewish women - amazing role models for Catholics to stand up for their beliefs with bold conviction and passion. Practical Lessons for Life In this new three-tape (or CD) series, Around the Campfire: Stories of Women in the Old Testament, Bob Fishman - a Jewish convert to Roman Catholicism - invites you to attentively listen to vivid tales of the great (and one not so great) women of the Bible. With great devotion, he carefully chronicles how these remarkable paradigms of faith faced adversity, accepted astonishing challenges and courageously risked their very lives to manifest unshakable faith in Yahweh. Though most were ordinary people, you will soon discover that the women of the Old Testament made critical choices that led to extraordinary outcomes. Renowned Storyteller A lay brother in the Franciscan Community of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity, Bob Fishman is a renowned storyteller who speaks from a rich backdrop of personal and pastoral experience, as well as intense study and reflection. Steeped in his Hebrew tradition and a rich Biblical background, Br. Bob Fishman has the uncanny ability to recreate the cultural context and provide the necessary Scriptural connections, to gradually unfold a tapestry of truth. As you listen to the inspired Old Testament passages, the daring deeds of Judith, Ruth, Esther, Deborah, and Miriam are magnificently revealed. You will also be introduced to Jezebel - a negative example of someone who worshiped false gods. What you may have thought to be "dusty old stories" come alive when presented in a lively fashion and in a uniquely Semitic perspective. [+]The six "fireside" chats recorded in this set are certain to warm your heart and stimulate your soul. Bob has a special gift to retell stories in an exciting fashion so that the divine mysteries and inspiring messages they contain emerge through the vivid images and intimate details. You will be amazed as these ancient accounts unfurl to reveal no-nonsense wisdom - practical lessons for life - that speaks to every age and sheds insight to practically all situations. Listen and Learn in a Unique Way In these difficult and confusing times, let these age-old Biblical narratives kindle new fire into your faith. As you listen to these inspiring stories of godly women of the Old Testament, you will be moved to deepen your trust in God to face any and all opposition. Purchase your copy of Around the Campfire for yourself and invite your loved ones to take note. This special series provides a simple method to spend quality family time together as you listen and learn in a truly unique manner. Let Br. Bob Fishman introduce you to some powerful women that can completely change the way you view Christianity. Rekindle your faith by rediscovering your holy heritage. In This Series You’ll Discover: The true nature of oral tradition in relationship to the Bible How women were treated in Old Testament times Why storytelling is an effective way to evangelize others How Judith's example of deep prayer, careful plotting and unshakable courage can be a source of inspiration for believers Why the story of Ruth was one of the favorites of Benjamin Franklin What one should do when facing adversity and even serious oppression How Queen Esther used her extraordinary wisdom, courage and inner beauty to save her people Why the Judges were used to distinguish godly wisdom and to settle disputes How we are called to "look out" for the ones we love-.
Publication date: 2008-08-25
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $48.00
Price: $31.68
Review Autobiography of a Yogi Audio Book: A New Approach to Renunciation / Crystal Clarity Publishers:Autobiography of a Yogi is not an ordinary book. It is a spiritual treasure. To read its message of hope is to awaken to a great adventure. Now Yogananda's thrilling Autobiography comes to new life in this unabridged audio book. The original unaltered 1946 first edition is read by Swami Kriyananda, one of Yogananda's closet disciples. His gentle voice, along with his deep understanding and attunement of Yogananda's words, will delight and inspire.
Creator: Bernadette Dunne
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $72.00
Price: $45.36
Review Her Husband / Blackstone Audiobooks:Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world and brought new significance to his poetry. In this stunning new biography of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook renders a portrait of Hughes as a man, as a poet and as a husband, haunted - and nourished - his entire life by the aftermath of his first marriage. Middlebrook presents Hughes as a complicated, conflicted figure: sexually magnetic, fiercely ambitious, immensely caring and shrewd in business. She argues that Plath's suicide, though it devastated Hughes and made him vulnerable to the savage attacks of Plath's growing readership, ultimately gave him his true subject - recreating himself for posterity through his marriage to Sylvia Plath and his struggles within his own historical circumstances.
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