Creator: Emilia Fox
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-08-04
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $28.90
Price: $24.07
Review The Bookseller of Kabul / Time Warner AudioBooks:For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. In spring 2002 award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. As she steps back from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment. The result is a unique portrait of a family and a country. 'A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and bookselling, relations and squabbles, firmly anchored by pleasing details about food and customs, all set against the backdrop of a derelict city, filthy and crammed but not defeated. [Seierstad] was fascinated by everything she witnessed, and her curiosity and perceptive eye colours every page' INDEPENDENT.
Publication date: 2005-03-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $26.85
Price: $25.08
Review Moving on / Penguin Books Ltd:A sequel to THE KID, where Kevin Lewis takes us through his journey of writing the novel, securing the book deal with Penguin and facing the enormous press interest. He also takes us through the reactions of his various family members, most importantly his parents, Gloria and Dennis both of whom he has meetings in the book. He tells us of the reactions from family, friends, from teachers and foster parents who tried to help him in the past, and who have made contact after reading the book. And he also touches on his concerns about the welfare system even now, as the 5 children of one of his sister's are taken into care and almost handed straight into the arms of Gloria. And lastly, he touches on his plans and hopes for the future his ambitions to move on from his terrible beginnings and really make something of his life.
Publication date: 2005-01
Review Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography / Teaching Company:
Publication date: 2000-01-01
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $32.50
Price: $32.50
Review The Beatles: As it Happened / Chrome Dreams:Interview Disc. The Beatles are the most popular band the world has ever known. Almost 40 years since their inception, their profile has not been as high since they officially split up in 1971. With the long awaited official biography to be released imminently and a new, 'All The A Sides' package on the way, The Beatles As It Happened, fits perfectly into the current market place.
Creator: Raymond Todd
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 817
List Price: $49.95
Price: $23.99
Review Surely You're Joking / Blackstone Audiobooks:This winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in physics tells his astonishing life story, a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah.
Creator: Matthew Parris
Publication date: 2005-10-06
Price: $24.24
Review A Castle in Spain / Penguin Books Ltd:
Creator: Dwain Contribution by Kyles
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.99
Price: $22.34
Review The Everything Martin Luther King Jr. Book: The Struggle, the Dream, the Legacy (Everything Books) / Oasis Audio:
Creator: Christopher Timothy
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-12-13
Dewey code: 636.089092
List Price: $49.95
Price: $28.53
Review All Creatures Great and Small / Macmillan Audio:These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year, the book became recognized as a masterpiece. And in the three decades that followed, Dr. Herriot became one of the most universally loved authors of our time. In this first volume of memoirs, then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby and he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? With the local farmers? And what will the animals think? This program is filled with hilarious and touching tales of the unpredictable Sigfriend Farnon, Sigfreid's zany brother, Tristan, and Herriot's first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen. Now as then, All Creatures Great and Small is full of humor, warmth, pathos, drama, and James Herriot's love of life. His journey across the Yorkshire dales, and his encounters with humans and dogs, cows, and kittens are lovingly told by Christopher Timothy with all the fascination, affection, and joy that suffuses Dr. Herriot's work.
Publication date: 2007-09-24
List Price: $37.99
Price: $24.01
Review Chad's Triumph: The Story of the Life of Chad Green / Tate Outloud:
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review Women of Vision: Dona Gracia, Sarah Schneirer, and Rebbetzin Aidel / The Destiny Foundation:Feminists may charge that Jewish women lack power, but a look at Jewish history proves otherwise. Dona Gracia, Sarah Schenirer, and Aidel, daughter of the Baal Shem Tov, were indeed exceptional, but in assuming the mantle of leadership, each shaped the Jewish world with a feminine and caring touch. With these riveting biographies, Rabbi Wein sheds light on the lives and achievements of three women of vision.
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review Three Among the Six Million / The Destiny Foundation:The number six million is so vast, it is impossible to connect it with living, breathing people. Only by focusing in on a few individuals can we feel the humanity behind that horrifying number. Rabbi Wein pays tribute to three outstanding but little known men, victims of the Holocaust whose contributions to the Jewish people were tragically cut short.
Publication date: 2001
Review Churchill - The Teaching Company / The Teaching Company:High quality university level teaching. Contains 12 lectures, 30 minutes each lecture: 1. Heritage and Destiny 2. Young Churchill 3. On the Empires Frontier 4. Political Beginnings 5. Churchill and Controversy 6. Post-War Challenges 7. In the Wilderness 8. The Nazi Menace 9. [+]Rallying the Nation 10. The Tide of War Turns 11. Champion of Freedom 12. The Legacy of Churchill.
Publication date: 2004-06
List Price: $24.95
Price: $24.95
Review No Blacks No Irish No Dogs / Centre Publishing:From humble beginnings, the son of Jamaican immigrants, John Taylor was brought up in the industrial heartland of Birmingham, England. In 1996 he was admitted to the House of Lords as the youngest and the only black Lord amongst 1,700 Dukes, Duchesses, Earls, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons and Law Lords. He took the title The Right Honourable Lord Taylor of Warwick. Lord Taylor has become one of Britain's most senior black politicians. As a judge, barrister, university chancellor and Vice President of the British Board of Film Classification, Lord Taylor's judgement has an impact far beyond the historic Houses of Parliament. Lord Taylor's story is an inspiration to us all. Listen to this remarkable man - with his perfect English accent - and understand why. Lord Taylor is in conversation with British broadcaster Roy Sheppard. "Strive to be not only the best IN the world, but the best FOR the world. " Lord Taylor of Warwick.
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review Torah and the Academic World / The Destiny Foundation:To this day, Jews of the modern world struggle to balance Torah wisdom and secular knowledge. Achieving that balance was even a greater challenge in previous generations, when secular knowledge was regarded with outright suspicion. Yet some exceptional individuals reached phenomenal heights in both spheres: the pioneer educator Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer; his student and successor Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman; and the little-known Rambam scholar Rabbi Chaim Heller. Their biographies, narrated in vivid detail by Rabbi Berel Wein, bring their extraordinary accomplishments to life.
Creator: Kevin Keegan
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $23.95
Price: $23.95
Review The Music Of Kevin Keegan / Clo Iar-Chonnachta:
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review Rav Kook: Holy Man in the Holy Land / The Destiny Foundation:The name Rav Kook excites controversy even now, but his influence is indisputable. Gentle in personality and tolerant on principle, it is ironic that his life was one of fierce ideological battle. No matter where you stand on Rav Kook, this biography, tracing his beginnings in Eastern Europe to his leadership in the Land of Israel, cannot fail to impress.
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $400.00
Price: $24.00
Review U.X.L. Biographies Mac / UXL:
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review The Chofetz Chaim: A Gadol Emerges / The Destiny Foundation:He came from a poor, fatherless family in a tiny village. He barely stood five feet tall and his manner was as humble as his origins. What were the odds that Yisroel Meir Kagan would become the greatest rabbi of his generation? With eye-witness accounts from the people who knew him, Rabbi Wein weeds out the legends from the facts, producing a shining human portrait of a man whose Torah genius was only matched by his love for his fellow Jew.
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $24.00
Review The Chazon Ish: A Visionary for the Ages / The Destiny Foundation:The Chazon Ish aimed for a quiet life of anonymity, but history made different demands. As the two World Wars swept European Jewry into a storm, the Chazon Ish found his niche guiding the Jewish people, first in Vilna, and ultimately, in the Holy Land.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $45.00
Price: $28.35
Review How To Build A Tin Canoe: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
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The Bookseller of Kabul, Moving on, Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography, The Beatles: As it Happened, Surely You're Joking, A Castle in Spain, The Everything Martin Luther King Jr. Book: The Struggle, the Dream, the Legacy (Everything Books), All Creatures Great and Small, Chad's Triumph: The Story of the Life of Chad Green, Women of Vision: Dona Gracia, Sarah Schneirer, and Rebbetzin Aidel, Three Among the Six Million, Churchill - The Teaching Company, No Blacks No Irish No Dogs, Torah and the Academic World, The Music Of Kevin Keegan, Rav Kook: Holy Man in the Holy Land, U.X.L. 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