Creator: Patricia Hodge
Publication date: 2003-01-20
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $28.90
Price: $25.47
Review Elizabeth / HarperCollins Audio:Published to accompany a Channel 4 series, Starkey turns the paradox into a person. This new approach to the enigma of Elizabeth's character presents a retelling of her reign, her love for Robert Dudley, the tragi-comedy of her suitors, her epic struggles with Mary and Philip II and the final debacle of her relationship with Robert Devereux.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 636.7
List Price: $45.00
Price: $28.35
Review The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind / Blackstone Audio Inc.:Reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster finds himself adopting various stray dogs, from a beagle abandoned in a dog run to a pit bull at a truck stop. The dogs offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes in New York City after 9/11, in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and during his heart attack.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-03-15
Dewey code: 700.974725
List Price: $63.00
Price: $27.68
Review De Kooning’s Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons / Blackstone:Some of the twentieth century’s most important artists and writers—from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg, Fairfield Porter to Jean Stafford—lived and worked on the East End of Long Island. The home they made there would affect their creative work for years to come. Pollock found there a connection to nature that inspired some of the most significant painting of our time. James Schuyler and Frank O’Hara found companionship and raw material for their poems on South Main Street and the city train. Willem de Kooning rode his bike every day to Gardiner’s Bay, where the light informed every brushstroke he put to canvas from the early 1960s on. Through searching, lyrical vignettes, critic and poet Robert Long mixes storytelling with history to recreate these lives and events that shaped American art and literature.
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $31.00
Price: $25.57
Review Peter Alliss: My Life / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Peter Alliss has spent his entire life steeped in golf. He was born in 1931, the son of Percy Alliss, one of Britain's leading professionals between 1920 and 1939. Peter himself turned professional in 1947, at the age of sixteen. During his pro career, which lasted until 1974, Peter won three British PGA championships, played in eight Ryder Cup teams, and ten teams representing England in the World Cup. He won 23 major tournaments in all, his most memorable achievement being in 1958 when he won the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Open Championships in three successive weeks. He has had a colourful personal life, which has not always been easy; he has been married twice and had five children, and also had to learn to cope with the grievous loss of his young daughter, Victoria. Peter Alliss is now universally known and loved for his golfing commentaries throughout the world, for the BBC in the UK and ABC in the US. For millions of people around the world, Peter Alliss is 'the Voice of Golf,' and his unique style has added insight for the viewer of the televised game. He was recently voted by Golf Digest as 'The Best Golf Commentator. [+]Ever. '.
Authors
- Ed Feldman with Tom Barton Read by Christian Hoff
Publication date: 2007-02-01
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $39.95
Price: $25.83
Review Tell Me How You Love The Picture / Creative Audio Books:A famous Hollywood producer's hilarious "take" on life among the stars, including Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and many more. The book is read by Tony-Award winning actor Christian Hoff, star of the smash Broadway hit, Tony-Award winner "Jersey Boys". Mr. Hoff has set a new world record for "Most Character Voices in an Audio Book" with his 241 character voices in the book.
Creator: Pamela Stephenson
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $31.00
Price: $25.36
Review Billy / HarperCollins Audio:From welding to folk singing to comedy to writing to acting, Billy Connolly has proved his versatility and sheer determination. Here, his wife Pamela gives the reader an insider's view of this talented musician, singer, TV presenter, comedian and actor.
Creator: Jerri Nielsen
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $39.25
Price: $25.02
Review Ice Bound: A Doctor / Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed:The Antarctic winter, with temperatures 100 degrees below zero, shuts supply lines down completely; conditions are too treacherous for planes and boats and the only connection with the rest of the world is satellite hook-up. During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the U. S. , she was forced to perform a biopsy and in June began to treat herself with chemotherapy, in order to insure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue in October. A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and in less than five minutes took off with Dr. Nielsen. Set in one of the most remote and desolate yet strikingly beautiful landscapes on earth, Jerri Nielsen's narrative of her transforming experiences is a thrilling adventure of researchers and scientists embattled by a hostile environment, a chronicle of marvels - and limits - of modern medical technology, and a penetrating exploration of the dynamics of an isolated, intensely connected community faced with adversity. But at its core this is a powerfully moving drama of one woman's voyage of self-discovery and courage and the fierce dedication of scores of colleagues - both known and unknown to her - whose aid proved to be her salvation.
Creator: Laura Durant
Publication date: 2008-01
Dewey code: 973.30922
List Price: $39.95
Price: $25.86
Review For the Love of Country: The Revolutionary Collection (For the Love of Country) / America Two Publishing LLC:
Publication date: 2005-04-11
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $31.00
Price: $29.88
Review An Auctioneer's Lot / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed gypsies with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In An Auctioneer's Lot he brings to life a world in which the most valuable antiques frequently turn up in the most unlikely places - and accompanied by the most unlikely people. For over thirty years he has uncovered a huge range of priceless (and occasionally worthless) antiques, and he has met, done business with and befriended people from the farthest corners of English life - normal, eccentric, sometimes lovable, often baffled and occasionally terrifying. Funny, startling, poignant and above all true, these stories of ordinary people with extraordinary possessions are the perfect inspiration for anyone who's ever wondered whether they might just be sitting on a fortune. What's in your attic?.
Creator: Joe (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged Library
Publication date: 2008-09-12
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $33.00
Price: $23.10
Review Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaskas Political Establishment Upside Down / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In 2006, Sarah Palin became a long-shot candidate for Alaska governor, demanding a higher ethical standard in state government. When a political scandal hit, Alaskans began listening to Palins reform message, and they liked what they heard.
Authors
- Patrick Cullen
- Mark Skousen
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 338
List Price: $39.95
Price: $25.17
Review The Making of Modern Economics / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Jim Dale
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 811
List Price: $39.25
Price: $24.93
Review Bikeman / Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed:I live to talk about it,to relate the tale as it happens,not only its extremities and cruelty,but also the goodness that flourishes too. Seasoned journalist Tom Flynn shares his experiences on that “forever September morning” from his perspective as a journalist and neutral observer who stands apart from the event, but also as a participant, a survivor, and now a defining chronicler of the morning that changed our nation forever - September 11, 2001. What began with a bicycle ride to the World Trade Center to cover the first tower’s attack, continued as the tower fell and Flynn found himself both bearing witness to, and with a disquieting view, participating in, the very event his well-trained journalistic senses intended to record and report. From those whose deaths revealed the most private moments of their lives, to those who helped guide the way to safety like the medic Avi who called him Bikeman, Flynn writes of the fellowship he felt toward others who shared his experience. In Bikeman, you will experience the battle against the blackness of a “boiling brimstone avalanche” of chaos, silence, life, death, heat, ash, and the rising and falling of the gray-colored unknown. “We did not live through it, we just did not die,” Flynn writes. What sets his story apart from other 9/11 accounts is his visceral interpretation of the event through a journalist’s eye and a poet’s pen. He has composed a historical ballad that is part quest, part memoir, part eulogy, and part survivor’s lament, conveying the events of that morning in harrowing, unforgettable detail.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 2004-08-31
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $18.95
Price: $18.95
Review The Winds Of Destiny / R & B Trading Co:The Winds of Destiny is reminiscent of the movie, Down in the Delta with real life characters similar to the protagonists and antagonists in the movies, The Color Purple and Beloved. The book reveals beliefs in voodoo or witchcraft by blacks in the rural south during the nineteen fifties. Some blacks believed that witchcraft could cause death and a wealth of other illnesses. The book begins with the true story of the death of the author’s youngest uncle in a modern day trucking accident and the effects that it had on his family. From the visit of his nearly century year old mother for the trucker’s funeral, to scenes of his previous brushes with death, and a voyage back into time during the nineteen fifties of events that shaped the trucker’s destiny; this book is a roller coaster ride. The main characters of this book are well described and will be etched forever in the readers’ minds as larger than life characters. The story hints at the beginning of a dark secret that hung like a dark cloud over the picturesque farm where the trucker was reared. The book then cleverly portrays what the dark secret is and afterwards it provides the readers with more clues that further confirm the identity of the story’s villain. However, the reader will have to decide if the person was a villain or just someone caught up in a situation that spun tragically out of control. Perhaps the tragedy was destined to happen, and thereby change the course of many people’s lives. [+]With picturesque descriptions of rural life on the farm and the interplay between the main characters of the story, this book delivers well. This book, about true-life events that involved the author’s family, will be the topic of many discussions and its appeal to readers will be astronomical.
Creator: Alan Sklar
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $39.95
Price: $25.17
Review Gallant Lady: The Biography of the USS Archerfish / Blackstone Audiobooks:The Archerfish, a diesel powered Balao-class submarine crafted in the 1940s, won a unique, heroic place in military history and the memories of her crew members. Here is her story: from her assembly in New England and her dedication by Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal secretary, to her service in World War II, where she broke the back of the Japanese Navy, and her critical role in the Cold War. Here, too, is the story of her crew, who waited years to serve on the Archerfish. In their own words, these men tell how, against all odds, they sent a Japanese aircraft carrier to the ocean floor. Heroic actions, exotic ports, B-girls, perilous shore leaves, and the fascinating details of life aboard a sub—it’s all here. An extraordinary real-life odyssey, Gallant Lady is a vivid, unforgettable portrait of a submariner’s life.
Creator: Taylor Mali
Publication date: 2007-02
List Price: $39.95
Price: $25.40
Review Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini / Audio Bookshelf:Who was this man who could walk through brick walls and, with a snap of his fingers, vanish elephants? In these pages you will meet the astonishing Houdini—magician, ghost chaser, daredevil, pioneer aviator, and king of escape artists. No jail cell or straitjacket could hold him! He shucked off handcuffs as easily as gloves. In this fresh, witty biography of the most famous bamboozler since Merlin, Sid Fleischman, a former professional magician, enriches his warm homage with insider information and unmaskings. Did Houdini really pick the jailhouse lock to let a fellow circus performer escape? Were his secrets really buried with him? Was he a bum magician, as some rivals claimed? How did he manage to be born in two cities, in two countries, on two continents at the same instant? Here are the stories of how a knockabout kid named Ehrich Weiss, the son of an impoverished rabbi, presto-changoed himself into the legendary Harry Houdini. Here, too, are rare photographs never before seen by the general reader!.
Creator: Jeno Jando
Publication date: 2003-11-30
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $35.99
Price: $25.14
Review The Life and Works of Franz Schubert (Life & Works) / Naxos:
Creator: Robert Whitfield
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $40.00
Price: $25.20
Review Men of Iron: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:Master storyteller Howard Pyle at his best, incorporating fascinating historical information about life in a medieval castle, knighthood, and chivalry into the fast-moving and entertaining story of young Myles Falworth's fight to restore his family's rights and good name.
Creator: Patrick Cullen
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $40.00
Price: $25.20
Review The Most Reluctant Convert: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist!Listed in Booklist's Best Adult Religion Books of the Year in 2002!His books have sold millions, including classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he leave behind a staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?Other biographies of Lewis explore his childhood or his dramatic conversion to Christianity. But as David Downing reveals in this fascinating book, the rarely discussed period from Lewis's childhood to his early thirties took him on a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration before he became a "most reluctant convert. " It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life's ultimate meaning so well and went on to become one of the most compelling authors of the twentieth century. Weaving the people, places and events of Lewis's life together with excerpts from Lewis's own writing, Downing shows how Lewis's spiritual quest can also light the path for other seekers.
Creator: Jeremy Siepmann
Publication date: 2003-11
List Price: $35.99
Price: $35.99
Review Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos)) / Naxos:The Life and Works series presents the life and works of the major composers. The recording is illustrated with quotations from the composer and his contemporaries, enhanced by extended musical extracts from representative works. An extended companion booklet (over 150 pages) containing extensive essays and notes on the composer and his times accompanies each autobiography. "terrific idea, this, and very well done. The format is to weave a selection of each composer's musical output around the narrated story of their lives, coloured by contemporary articles and writings read by actors. The actors breathe life into the contemporary material to make for rewarding and entertaining discs" Classic FM Magazine.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 796
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.95
Review More Sex, Lies & Superspeedways (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 2) (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 2) / Carbon Pr Llc:This is not your ordinary audio book! It's another collection of stories from Smokey Yunick's autobiography: Best Damn Garage in Town. Smokey Yunick, the world's most famous mechanic, accomplished more in one life than most people could in five. He flew 50 missions as a B-17 pilot in WWII. He was an integral part of the birth of stock car racing and ran open wheel cars during the glory days of the Indy 500. He spent years in the jungles of Ecuador and held 10 U. S. patents. Smokey was concerned for the future, so he developed more efficient and powerful engines for passenger cars and safer crash barriers for race tracks. These are the real stories of racing and everything automotive in America told by someone who was there every step of the way! To add to the fun we had people from all around racing read Smokey's stories. And while they were at it, we asked them to give you their thoughts on Smokey you won't believe what they had to say! Dick Berggren publisher of Speedway Illustrated and Fox Sports pit reporter Dave Bowman Co-host of Two Guys Garage Monte Dutton Author and racing reporter Ray Evernham Owner of two NASCAR Winston Cup Teams Don Garlits Top fuel drag racing champion Ralph Johnson inventor of the double-pumper carburetor Steve Lewis USAC midget team owner Bill Miller manufactures aluminum pistons and rods for Winston Cup & NHRA Major Jeff Neischel, USAF B-52 pilot and Smokey fan Bob Snodgrass president and ceo of Brumos Porsche Bill Walker SmokeyÕs B-17 training buddy from WWII Renee Walker SmokeyÕs sister.
| Models & Brands:
Elizabeth, The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind, De Kooning’s Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons, Peter Alliss: My Life, Tell Me How You Love The Picture, Billy, Ice Bound: A Doctor, For the Love of Country: The Revolutionary Collection (For the Love of Country), An Auctioneer's Lot, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaskas Political Establishment Upside Down, The Making of Modern Economics, Bikeman, The Winds Of Destiny, Gallant Lady: The Biography of the USS Archerfish, Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini, The Life and Works of Franz Schubert (Life & Works), Men of Iron: Library Edition, The Most Reluctant Convert: Library Edition, Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos)), More Sex, Lies & Superspeedways (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 2) (Sex, Lies & Superspeedways, 2)Top headlines: Starr: How to Fix the Yankees: With their longtime manager halfway out the door, the Yankees in transition will be the most fascinating story in baseball. ›22:28 10 Oct, Wed Detroit: Behind the UAWs Striking Ways: The unions strategic mini-strikes against Chrysler and GM struck a chord with members and fear among management. Is Ford next? ›00:16 11 Oct, Thu Book Excerpt: Vegetable Dishes I Cant Live Without: A book excerpt by Mollie Katzen. ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat Witness: Vick thought it 'funny' when dogs died: Michael Vick put family pets in rings with pit bulls and thought it was funny watching the trained killers injure or kill the helpless dogs, a witness told federal investigators during the dogfighting investigation that brought Vick down.In a 17-page report filed Aug. 28, 2008, by case agent James Knorr of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and released Friday under the Freedom of Information Act, a person identified as confidential witness No. ›04:56 Why Democrats gave Big Three a reprieve: A look at the political reasoning behind the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to give the Big Three auto makers another shot at a $25 billion loan. ›21:49 20 Nov, Thu $1 billion network for green cars vowed: A $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations will dot San Francisco Bay area highways under a plan unveiled Thursday. ›22:55 20 Nov, Thu Deflation poses new economic threat: Strapped consumers are rejoicing at falling prices. But some economists warn of the growing risk of a ruinous downward price spiral called deflation. Here's what's at stake. ›17:10 21 Nov, Fri Saad Hariri on Lebanons Future: Saad Hariri takes up the mantle of his assassinated father, and argues for the world to isolate Syria. ›15:46 12 Oct, Fri 'Card check' best hope for auto workers union?: One advantage the Honda and Hyundai plants in Alabama have over the General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford plants in Michigan is lower labor costs. But what if the UAW could more easily organize workers at Honda and Hyundai? ›17:38 21 Nov, Fri Yosemite rockfalls force camp closures: A third of the units at a lodging complex at Yosemite will be permanently closed because an unstable cliff has created the potential for deadly rockslides, the National Park Service said Friday. ›19:43 21 Nov, Fri Capital Sources: Cutting the Cocaine Flow: The White House trumpets success in the drug war, even as it prepares a big new aid program. Is it real, or is it politics? ›21:26 5 Oct, Fri EU wants early foreign policy from Obama: The European Union's foreign policy chief says he expects the president-elect to move quickly to deal with top trans-Atlantic goals, including Middle East peace, Iran and global warming. ›18:45 21 Nov, Fri AIDS official blasts Russia as infections rise: A top Russian anti-AIDS coordinator on Friday lambasted the government's approach to fighting HIV, saying the number of registered cases was growing 10 percent a year. ›22:43 21 Nov, Fri Cheney prosecutor yells at judge: A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. ›22:16 21 Nov, Fri Al Gore's Nobel Patrol: A vigilant fan of the former veep keeps watch as the Nobel Committee announces its peace prize. ›15:10 12 Oct, Fri Portis questionable for game vs. Seahawks: Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis was limited in practice Friday with his sprained knee and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks.Coach Jim Zorn said Portis will be a game-time decision, although Portis has given every indication that he will play. He ran for 68 yards on 15 carries in last week's game against the Dallas Cowboys despite not practicing at all."Clinton is game-time because he's really not full speed," Zorn said. ›03:25 Sorry, but I have to rob you: The man who held up a general store in Vermont was not only apologetic about it, he even left behind one-dollar bills at the owner's request. ›20:31 21 Nov, Fri Climate crusaders set to act in Congress: Democrats now have all their climate ducks lined up: Four crusaders from California ready to join forces in Congress with President-elect Barack Obama to pass mandatory emissions curbs . ›23:16 21 Nov, Fri Judges reject Alaska offshore drilling plan: Federal regulators improperly granted Shell Oil permission for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. ›17:08 21 Nov, Fri GM, Chrysler make cuts to hold on for loans: Chrysler and GM need to follow Lee Iacocca's play book now as they try to outlast the debate in Washington over whether they will get billions in government loans. ›00:55 Gifting necessities seen as big holiday hit: Forget the wish list. Shoppers may be giving the gift of necessity this holiday season, buying up cards for gas, groceries and even utilities to help friends and family through lean times. ›19:57 21 Nov, Fri Bill Gates Answers Your Questions: The Microsoft co-founder and leading philanthropist answers selected reader questions in this exclusive NEWSWEEK forum. ›22:02 9 Oct, Tue Child deaths test faith-healing exemptions: Three criminal cases have revived concerns about exemptions that most states grant to parents who rely on faith healing instead of doctors to treat sick children. ›20:05 21 Nov, Fri Honda unveils fuel cell sportscar concept: American Honda Motor Co. has overhauled the look of its fuel cell concept cars, unveiling a futuristic, lightweight three-seater at the Los Angeles Auto Show dubbed the FC Sport. ›18:13 20 Nov, Thu |
