Creator: Kate Fleming
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $43.00
Price: $32.03
Review Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Primary Source History) / In Audio:In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meetings - a far cry from the magnolias and mint juleps of Gone with the Wind. "The South of the backwoods, hillbilly plain folk has at last found its true and inspired interpreter," says C. Vann Woodward.
Publication date: 2003-08-18
List Price: $31.00
Price: $30.38
Review Nobby Stiles: After the Ball - My Autobiography / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:"After the Ball" is Nobby Stiles' account of a lifetime spent living and breathing football. Signed to Manchester United at the age of fifteen, he progressed to the England team, and had a starring role in the 1966 World Cup. He is one of only two Englishmen (Bobby Charlton is the other) to win both the World Cup and the European Cup. After playing at the highest level, Nobby Stiles became a manager, then a youth coach at Old Trafford, where he dealt with the new United of Beckham, Scholes, Giggs and the Neville brothers. His appraisals of these players from this exciting period are revealed, as well as studies of unforgettable teammates such as George Best and Bobby Charlton. This frank and entertaining autobiography celebrates the remarkable life of one of England's most charismatic of players.
Authors
- Mary Beth Brown
- Chris Fabry
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 291
List Price: $48.00
Price: $30.23
Review Hand Of Providence: The Strong And Quiet Faith Of Ronald Reagan Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Authors
- Marla Runyan
- Sally Jenkins
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 796.424092
List Price: $61.25
Price: $61.25
Review No Finish Line : My Life As I See It (Library Edition Abridged) / CD Library Edition:"Blind? I think there's no doubt that Marla Runyan can see things much clearer than most of us with 20/20 vision. " - Lance ArmstrongMarla Runyan was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, an irreversible form of macular degeneration. With the uneasy but unwavering support of her parents, she refused to let her diagnosis limit her dreams. Despite her severely impaired, ever-worsening vision, Marla rode horseback and learned to play the violin. And she found her true calling in sports. A gifted and natural athlete, Marla began to compete in the unlikeliest event of all: the heptathlon, the grueling women's equivalent of the decathlon, consisting of seven events: the 200-meter dash, high jump, shot put, 100-meter hurdles, long jump, javelin throw, and 800-meter run. In 1996, she astonished the sports world by qualifying for the U. S. Olympic Trials and, along the way, set the American record for heptathlon 800. It was then that she decided to concentrate on her running. [+]Four years of intense effort paid off. In 2000, she qualified for the U. S. Olympic team by finishing third in the 1,500 meters. In Sydney, she placed eighth in the finals, the top American finisher - the highest women's placing for the United States in the event's history. With self-deprecation and surprising wit, Marla reveals what it's like to see the world through her eyes, how it feels to grow up "disabled" in a society where expectations are often based on perceived abilities, and what it means to compete at the world-class level despite the fact that - quite literally, for her - there is no finish line.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-04-01
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $34.95
Price: $30.16
Review South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Veteran explorer Ernest Shackleton recounts the story of his last expedition, when his ship was crushed by pack ice. He sailed 800 miles in an open boat and then hiked twenty miles through the mountains to save his men.
Creator: Buck Schirner
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-03-25
Dewey code: 796.352092
List Price: $82.25
Price: $82.25
Review In Search of Tiger (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc) (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc) / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Tom Callahan has written the seminal book on golfing great Tiger Woods. Woods, who has gone out of his way to protect his privacy, has never allowed himself to get close enough to a writer to be properly examined on the page. Callahan, commonly regarded as one of the best all-round sports writers in the country, has followed Tiger around the world of golf for more than seven years, enjoying a certain access to the man and his family. He even went so far as to travel to Vietnam to learn the fate of the South Vietnamese soldier who was Earl Wood’s best friend during the war - and his son’s namesake. Tiger is twenty years old when the book opens and twenty-seven when it closes. During those years, Callahan covered Woods at all the Majors, including the Masters, the U. S. Open, and the British Open, culminating in Tiger’s heart-stopping race to make history by clinching the string of Majors affectionately nicknamed the Tiger Slam. Along the way, Tom Callahan hears from everyone who is anyone in the world of Tiger Woods, including Phil Mickelson, Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Butch Harmon, Ernie Els, and, of course, Tiger’s rather ubiquitous mother and father. As much as we learn about Tiger - how he sees himself in relation to the courses he plays on and the players he has learned from and competed with - we also enjoy a bird’s-eye view of golf as it is now with Tiger on the scene, and as it was for centuries before.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 291
List Price: $48.00
Price: $30.24
Review Surprised by Joy / Blackstone Audiobooks:In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity. This book, together with his early diary All My Road Before Me, form the closest thing we have to an autobiography.
Creator: Barnaby Conrad
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $48.00
Price: $30.24
Review Name Dropping: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Authors
- Quincy Cdrhin 74363 Jones
List Price: $59.98
Price: $49.99
Review Musical Biography of Quincy Jones / RHINO RECORDS:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-03
List Price: $49.95
Price: $33.40
Review Britney Spears: The Complete Set with CD (Audio) / Wheezy Multimedia:
Publication date: 2003-10-31
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $34.95
Price: $30.95
Review The Book of Pirates (Adventure Classics) (Adventure Classics) / In Audio:New, Unabridged on 7 Cd’s; Shrinkwrapped. Narrated by Ralph Cosham. Rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Includes The Ghost of Captain Brand, Tom Chist, and The Treasure Box. Narrator Ralph Cosham has recorded more InAudio titles by far than any other narrator, and he has received numerous awards to include several Audio Best of the year & Earphone Awards.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10-31
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $39.95
Price: $31.41
Review Mozart: The Golden Touch / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio):
Publication date: 2003-08-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $31.00
Price: $30.38
Review An Evening with Blowers / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Henry Blofield is one of the greatest characters in cricket. For nearly 30 years, his distinctive, rich plummy voice and his famous expression, "My dear old thing!" have delighted the millions of listeners to BBC radio's Test Match Special. In this entertaining one-man show, Henry takes his audience on a humerous journey from his eccentric childhood in Norfolk to his schooldays as a prolific batsman at Eton and his successful career as an international cricket writer and broadcaster. He tells many colourful anecdotes about the game of cricket and his BBC colleagues, including John Arlott and Brian Johnston, and reveals what really happened when the Queen presented the TMS team with a special cake!.
Publication date: 2003-11-17
Price: $30.95
Review Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly / Headline Book Publishing:"Billy", the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the personal and professional life of the genius that is Billy Connolly. Now, in the sequel to that bestselling book, the award-winning Pamela Stephenson celebrates life with the Scottish beastie as he hits the big six-oh. Here we relive colourful and epic moments from Billy's early life in Glasgow - the background to an intimate portrait of his marriage with Pamela and his life in Scotland, LA and the rest of the world. Witty, insightful and intimate, "Bravemouth" draws the reader into two very different worlds - hers of international sexology and the serious psychology of humorists, his of incontinence pants, being married to a shrink. and the finer points of banjo playing.
Creator: Andrea Ashworth
Publication date: 2002-09-06
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $20.65
Price: $34.79
Review Once in a House on Fire / Macmillan Audio Books:Andrea Ashworth's father died when she was five leaving her, her three-year-old sister and mother to fend for themselves. A succession of stepfathers, some violent and an itinerant life of poverty were her lot but reading was her escape route out of misery. In her engrossing memoir, Once in a House on Fire, Andrea Ashworth recalls growing up poor in a violent English household during the 1970s and 1980s. Ashworth's father drowned when she was just 5. Her mother then married a man who beat her frequently and made life miserable for the whole family. When Ashworth's mother finally got rid of him, she married a small-time criminal who also soon became violent. Throughout her childhood, the author struggled to protect her little sisters from their stepfathers and kept the family going when their mother could not function because of her injuries, depressions, and blinding headaches. Ashworth and her family moved around quite a bit, often living in other people's houses, sleeping in cots or on floors. They all suffered from the emotional and economic instability of their situation. Ashworth recalls the sunglasses her mother wore through cloudy dark English winters to conceal her bruised eyes. [+]She also remembers sneaking out of the house one day to run through a rich neighborhood, where she paused occasionally to open the mailboxes of the wealthy and smell their comfort and safety. Although Ashworth's story is all about loneliness and love gone wrong, the surprising thing is that this book is not always terribly sad- there are interludes when the children have fun and in those sunny moments it seems probable that all of them, especially Andrea, will survive more or less intact. Ashworth recalls the details of her childhood vividly, in brief scenes. In one of those scenes, two sisters race down a cobbled street at breakneck speed. Each of them has one roller skate on-they are sharing. Ashworth's writing is crisp, her dialogue right to the point. This book is reminiscent of Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, both classic memoirs of adolescence. -Jill Marquis.
Creator: Grover Gardner
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $48.00
Price: $30.24
Review Flying Colors: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Shelly Frasier
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Dewey code: 362.8292092273
List Price: $69.99
Price: $30.81
Review If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation / Tantor Media:A heartwrenching yet beautifully crafted memoir about two intelligent, attractive sisters-one of whom escaped years of abuse by men, and one who did not.
Creator: To be announced (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged Library
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $50.00
Price: $31.14
Review After the Fire: A True Story of Love and Survival / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:When a fire raged through a college dormitory, killing or injuring sixty-one students, Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos survived but were both burned terribly. This is the story of the struggle for survival of these extraordinary young men.
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: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $48.00
Price: $30.24
Review The Summer of My Greek Taverna / Blackstone Audiobooks:Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel - and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, the tiny island where St. John received the apocalyptic visions recorded in the Book of Revelations, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to stay a little longer. Seven idyllic years later, after the birth of their second child, they left Patmos for Crete, where Stone taught English to civil servants and Danielle painted icons for tourists. But Stone's heart was still on Patmos, and when a Patmian friend, Theológos, called and offered him a summer partnership in his beach tavérna, The Beautiful Helen, Stone jumped at the chance - much to the dismay of his wife, who cautioned him not to forget the old adage about Greeks bearing gifts. Back on Patmos, Stone quickly discovered that he was no longer a friend or a patron but a competitor. He learned hard lessons about the Greeks' skill at bargaining, and about how truly effective the curse of the Evil Eye can be. There was no longer time to leisurely sip Greek coffee in the morning or linger over oregano-scented lunches with friends. The tavérna closed for the tourists at 3 A. [+]M. and opened for the fishermen at 7; work sometimes seemed little more than a battle to stay awake. Spurring him on were the enormous profits that Theológos had assured him would materialize in August. And there were still the many joys of being back in Patmos: the beauty of the island, the friendships he had made over the years, and the adrenaline rush of success as news began to spread about Stone's cooking; yachts sailed over from Mykonos for dinner. But then came August, and the realization that Theológos had been cheating him out of thousands of dollars. His illusions shattered, Stone turned to his wife and children, who had been there all the time, offering their support. And their love. Featuring Stone's recipes, including his variation on the traditional Greek tzatzíki, his own Chicken Retsina, and the ultimate moussaka, The Summer of My Greek Tavérna is as much a love story as it is the grand, humorous, and sometimes bittersweet adventure of an American pursuing his dreams in a foreign land, a modern-day innocent abroad.
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Primary Source History), Nobby Stiles: After the Ball - My Autobiography, Hand Of Providence: The Strong And Quiet Faith Of Ronald Reagan Library Edition, No Finish Line : My Life As I See It (Library Edition Abridged), South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage, In Search of Tiger (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc) (Brilliance Audio on Compact Disc), Surprised by Joy, Name Dropping: Library Edition, Musical Biography of Quincy Jones, Britney Spears: The Complete Set with CD (Audio), The Book of Pirates (Adventure Classics) (Adventure Classics), Mozart: The Golden Touch, An Evening with Blowers, Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly, Once in a House on Fire, Flying Colors: Library Edition, If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation, After the Fire: A True Story of Love and Survival, Rugby's Great Heroes and Entertainers, The Summer of My Greek TavernaTop headlines: Bush pushes economy, N. 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