Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-04-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $23.07
Review Age is Just a Number: Making the Impossible Possible at Any Time in Your Life / Random House Audio:Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and 8 years since her last Olympics. When she took 3 silver medals in Beijing—including a heartbreaking. 01 finish behind the gold medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle—America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results. Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback first came to her—when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious training—while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved father’s long battle with cancer. Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletes’ game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finally—about seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all ages—and with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.
Publication date: 2008-04
List Price: $39.99
Price: $25.43
Review Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency / Recorded Books:
Creator: Michael J. Fox
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-04-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $34.95
Price: $23.07
Review Always Looking Up CD: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist / HarperAudio:
Publication date: 2007-02-06
List Price: $29.99
Price: $23.69
Review Walk With Me / Tate Publishing:Mark Lynch’s book is a journey that takes the reader down his very personal path and allows us a look into his private life of youth, love, pain and hardships.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2008-12-02
Dewey code: 613.25
List Price: $34.95
Price: $23.07
Review Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever / Penguin Audio:Abridged CDs • 5 CDs, 6 hoursFrom beloved American Idol judge Randy Jackson, a complete, inspiring wellness plan for taking control of your health.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-05-01
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $34.95
Price: $23.07
Review What Am I Doing Here? / Phoenix Audio:For a half-century the worlds most influential figures have been telling their stories to incomparable TV-host Larry King. Now the man in suspenders shares his riveting and inspiring storyfrom his humble roots in Depression-era Brooklyn to the heights of celebrity as host of CNNs Larry King Live.
Creator: Jonathan Reese
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $35.99
Price: $24.03
Review Pocahontas: My Own Story / Tantor Media:This is the original account of Captain John Smith's relationship with Pocahontas that has inspired so many retellings.
Creator: Sandy Tolan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-05-04
Dewey code: 956.94050922
List Price: $36.95
Price: $23.68
Review Lemon Tree / Highbridge Audio:In 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Arabs ventured into the town of Ramla, in Jewish Israel. They were on a pilgrimage to see their separate childhood homes, from which their families had been driven out nearly twenty years before during the Israeli war for independence. Only one was welcomed: Bashir Al-Khayri was greeted at the door by a young woman named Dalia. This act of kindness in the face of years of animosity and warfare is the starting point for a remarkable true story of two families, one Arab, one Jewish; an unlikely friendship that encompasses the entire modern history of Israelis and Palestinians and that holds in its framework a hope for true peace and reconciliation for the region.
Creator: Frances Cassidy
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $35.99
Price: $23.75
Review The Story of My Life / Tantor Media:The extraordinary personal account of Helen Keller's struggle to overcome the challenges of being deaf and blind-a masterpiece of modern biography.
Creator: Richard E. Grant
Publication date: 2006-11-03
List Price: $23.18
Price: $23.18
Review The "Wah-wah" Diaries: The Making of a Film / Macmillan Audio Books:Ten years after the publication of "With Nails", Richard E Grant's brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Macmillan Audio Books are proud to be publishing "Wah-Wah", the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name. It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire. Through the mayhem - never-ending financial pressures; hostilities and finally breakdown of communication with his Producer; the nerve-racking quest to persuade the King of Swaziland to grant permission to film in his country; the assembly of a stellar cast including Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, and Julie Walters - Richard E Grant has written and reads, with characteristic humour and charm, an extraordinarily honest and revealing account of a labour of love and the realisation of a dream.
Publication date: 2003-12-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $41.35
Price: $23.88
Review The Point of Departure / Simon & Schuster Audio:As the Iraqi conflict led to his resignation from the Cabinet, Robin Cook, former Foreign Secretary, will naturally focus on the build-up to and the consequences of the war. He will also explore how the excitement at Blair's victory in l997 - and the very real advances in his first parliament - have given way to a decline in public confidence, deepening challenges to parliamentary democracy and an increasing loss of momentum in his second parliament. Based on first-hand experiences of the Cabinet and Commons since the last election, Cook will explain how decisions came to be taken and explore the consequences of those decisions. The struggle for greater democracy, the increased conservatism of the present government and the march to war provides a dramatic and compelling story.
Creator: Edward Herrmann
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2008-10-14
Dewey code: 971.0113092
List Price: $39.99
Price: $24.10
Review Champlain's Dream / Simon & Schuster Audio:The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington's Crossing offers a sweeping, enthralling biography as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays. Soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France, the remarkable Samuel de Champlain comes to life in acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer's Champlain's Dream. Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain fought in France's religious wars for the great Henri IV, with whom he shared religious tolerance in an age of murderous sectarianism. He was also a brilliant navigator, never losing a ship in 27 Atlantic crossings. But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by ship and canoe he traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states, where he founded, colonized, and administered French settlements in North America. Despite much resistance and many defeats, Champlain's astonishing dedication and stamina finally established France's New World colony. He tried constantly to maintain peace among Indian nations, but when he had to take up arms he forcefully imposed a new balance of power, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior. Throughout his three decades in North America, Champlain remained committed to a remarkable Grand Design for France's colony. A leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence, he was a true visionary, especially when compared to his English and Spanish contemporaries.
Publication date: 2005-10-25
Price: $23.77
Review Shakespeare Title 1 CD / Audiobooks:Peter Ackroyd’s insightful new four-part biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world, conjuring up the texture of his life and imparting an amazingly vivid feel to place, period and background. Walk through sixteenth century London and Stratford as Ackroyd uncovers the intimate circumstances of Shakespeare’s life, and the theatrical world in which he lived.
Creator: David Fisher
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-02-25
Dewey code: 364
List Price: $34.98
Price: $23.09
Review The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel / Hachette Audio:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-06-16
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $34.95
Price: $22.83
Review Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews / Highbridge Audio:From the 1950s through 1997, Louis “Studs” Terkel, bestselling author of Hard Times, Working, The Great War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT Radio in Chicago. This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program was an ideal showcase for his curmudgeonly wit, his maverick opinions, and his genius as an interviewer. The 48 interviews in this collection, span Terkel’s five decades on radio and encompass a wide range of entertainers, scientists, writers and thinkers, including Dorothy Parker, Pete Seeger, Bob Woodward, Simone de Beauvoir, and many more.
Authors
- John And Jean and Mcconnell
- Silverwood
- Malcolm
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $60.00
Price: $23.39
Review Black Wave / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:An exhilarating real-life adventure of one familys extraordinary voyage of self-discovery and survival against incredible odds.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $29.95
Price: $23.08
Review Lives of the Presidents / Audio Bookshelf:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-16
Dewey code: 973.931092
List Price: $44.95
Price: $25.03
Review Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency / Penguin Audio:Unabridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.
Publication date: 2005-09-12
Price: $23.07
Review Nobody's Child / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:What's it like to be an abandoned child? Kate Adie unravels the stories of many of those who've come through the ordeal and reveals where life has taken those brought up without a mother and father - or sometimes even a name of their own. Curious because of her own experience as an adopted child, she looks at issues of abandonment in different parts of the world from Russia to China from the USA to Britain, through history from the first Foundling Hospital in the 18th century to the present means of foster care, and from the moral standpoint of our current laws - from every perspective Kate Adie brings us a personal, moving and fascinating insight into the very toughest of childhood experiences - and shows what makes us who we really are.
Authors
- Dale Erickson And Jesse Sturdevant
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10-02
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $29.95
Price: $23.66
Review Stryper: Loud N' Clear / Classic CD Books:This biography chronicles the entire history of this legendary Christian metal band, from the members' childhoods through the present.
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Age is Just a Number: Making the Impossible Possible at Any Time in Your Life, Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency, Always Looking Up CD: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, Walk With Me, Body with Soul: Slash Sugar, Cut Cholesterol, and Get a Jump on Your Best Health Ever, What Am I Doing Here?, Pocahontas: My Own Story, Lemon Tree, The Story of My Life, The "Wah-wah" Diaries: The Making of a Film, The Point of Departure, Champlain's Dream, Shakespeare Title 1 CD, The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel, Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews, Black Wave, Lives of the Presidents, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Nobody's Child, Stryper: Loud N' ClearTop headlines: First Read: Geithner likely to be treasury secretary: part of an effort to reassure markets. ›20:04 21 Nov, Fri Lawsuit claims teen with HIV was bullied: The family of a 14-year-old girl who says she was bullied so badly over her HIV-positive status that she left school is suing the school district. ›21:22 21 Nov, Fri EpiPens emerge as life-saving kid accessory: As allergies to peanuts, milk, eggs and gluten have risen, a cult-like following has emerged around the EpiPen, a single-shot of medication that can halt a potentially deadly reaction. ›19:56 20 Nov, Thu Video: Citi under siege: Nov. 21: Major trouble with financial giant Citigroup weighed on markets Thursday, but stocks rallied late in the day. 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