Creator: Arthur (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Money For Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. A neurotic gambler himself, Ed Ugel made a lucrative living with a company that capitalized on other gamblers weaknesses.
Creator: Robert Whitfield
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.59
Review Churchill: Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-volume biography of an extraordinary life. In some ways a companion piece to his excellent biography of Gladstone, "Churchill" is packed with insights that only a fellow politician could convey. "There is no doubt that he has surpassed himself. This is the biography of the year. " - Robert McCrum, "Observer". "This is a first class, well-sustained work of history and a masterpiece of biography " - Andrew Roberts, "Sunday Telegraph". "Lord Jenkins of Hillhead is an outstanding biographer. [+]it has the narrative power, sweep and sparkle of the author in his prime. " - John Grigg, "Times". Winston Churchill was querulous, childish, self-indulgent, and difficult, writes English historian Roy Jenkins. But he was also brilliant, tenacious, and capable-in short, "the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street. " Jenkins's book stands as the best single-volume biography of Churchill in recent years. Marked by the author's wide experience writing on British leaders such as Balfour and Gladstone and his tenure as a member of Parliament, his book adds much to the vast library of works on Churchill. While acknowledging his subject's prickly nature, Jenkins credits Churchill for, among other things, recognizing far earlier than his peers the dangers of Hitler's regime. He praises Churchill for his leadership during the war years, especially at the outset, when England stood alone and in imminent danger of defeat. He also examines Churchill's struggle to forge political consensus to meet that desperate crisis, and he sheds new light on Churchill's postwar decline. -Gregory McNamee.
Creator: Celia Montague
Publication date: 2004-06
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.63
Review A London Girl of the 1880s / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.60
Review Dylan Thomas: A New Life, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Richard M. Davidson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 597
Price: $45.00
Review Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World / New Millennium Press:The Cod - wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious that gold. This book spans 1,000 years and four continents. From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with this prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. He blends in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present. In a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus, he shows how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction. You probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading about them? Mark Kurlansky has written a fabulous book-well worth your time-about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other. The cod helped inspire the discovery and exploration of North America. It had a profound impact upon the economic development of New England and eastern Canada from the earliest times. [+]Today, however, overfishing is a constant threat. Kurlansky sprinkles his well-written and occasionally humorous history with interesting asides on the possible origin of the word codpiece and dozens of fish recipes. Sometimes a book on an offbeat or neglected subject really makes the grade. This is one of them.
Run time: 6600 min.
Publication date: 2008
Price: $76.00
Review Great Non-Jews in Jewish History: From Alexander the Great to Harry S. Truman / The Destiny Foundation:A remarkable part of Jewish survival is the role played by non Jews in the Jewish experience. This series highlights the involvement and contributions of important personalities and illustrates how they colored events in the Jewish world and aided the cause of the Jewish people.
Creator: Edward
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-07-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $77.17
Review Ulysses S. Grant / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Perret's absorbing biography explains how Grant he triumphed in war by creating a new approach to battle, and why, as Americas first modern leader, he was so widely misunderstood and underrated as president. Ulysses S. Grant worked with Red Cloud, chief of the Lakota Sioux, to create an arguably more humane Indian policy-"no president could have done more," argues Geoffrey Perret, whose reassessment of Grant as a politician is his biography's finest achievement. Not that he scants his subject's military genius; the relentless, aggressive campaigns that won the Civil War are skillfully outlined and analyzed. Grant emerges in this nuanced portrait as a quintessential American: he is depicted as a restless rover perpetually in search of "movement, drama, adventure. " Firmly situated in his time, he nonetheless seems a strikingly modern man.
Creator: George Guidall
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-05-17
Dewey code: 520.92
List Price: $39.95
Price: $111.28
Review Galileo's Daughter / Random House Audio:Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest. Galileo's oldest child was thirteen when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then. GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER is an unforgettable story. [+]Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief-that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me. " Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me"). While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste-whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens-provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today. to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it. " With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. -Sunny Delaney.
Creator: Jenny Agutter
Publication date: 2002-11-15
Price: $79.68
Review The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth / Greenpark Media Ltd:Wordsworth's "exquisite sister", as Coleridge described her, was not only the cherished companion of the two poets, but also a writer who possessed a geniune poetic imagination in her own right. The journals she kept at Alfoxden, in 1798, where her brother and Coleridge were composing the Lyrical Ballads and at Grasmere from 1800 to 1803, when she and Wordsworth were living at Dove Cottage are printed here for the first time as Dorothy wrote them. Two of Dorothy's poems are included in the appendix, along with thirty-three poems by Wordsworth, which are referred to in the journals.
Creator: Peter Jay Fernandez
Publication date: 2004-12
Price: $119.75
Review Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare / Recorded Books:
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Publication date: 2006
Price: $79.14
Review The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen (AUDIOBOOK) [CD]:The author of over 200 books, Caldecott Medal winner Jane Yolen is beloved for her delightful childrens stories. This Junior Library Guild Selection chronicles the life of Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen. Growing up poor, Hans struggles to bring his artistic vision to the world. In time, he becomes world-renowned, most especially for the wondrous fairy tales he so vividly imagined.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-06-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.60
Review Lives if the Artists Vol. 1 (Lives of the Artists) / Blackstone Audio Inc.:Vasari described the lives of great artists with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. He had shrewd judgment and an ability to pinpoint the emotions aroused by works of art. Volume one includes Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and fifteen more.
Creator: Pat (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 973
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Co. Aytch: The Classic Memoir of the Civil War by a Confederate Soldier (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:In this classic memoir of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Sam R. Watkins balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and sharp eye for the lighter side of battle.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review My Life On A Hillside Allotment / Isis:Set against the changing social scene in Wales—as the traditional culture of coal mining, heavy engineering, and poverty gave way to a greener landscape and more affluent community—this is the story of a man with a great passion in life. Terry Walton's allotment, a small parcel of land for gardening, has been the center of his universe. From the first time he opened his eyes in a nursing home the other side of the allotment fence to his current role as media personality on radio, TV, and in the press, Terry's tale unfolds in fascinating detail. He lovingly documents the changes over the years, the characters he meets and his own heartfelt conversion to organic gardening methods. This fascinating memoir also includes anecdotes, topical tips, and family recipes plus delightful line drawings, which will make it the perfect gift for gardeners and allotmenteers.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review The Lodger / Isis Publications:
Creator: Grover Gardner
Publication date: 2004-12
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.60
Review The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf / Blackstone Audiobooks:In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, an amateur golfer began a decade of unparalleled achievement, seeming a ray of light in an otherwise depressed America. Bobby Jones won the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open and the US Amateur Championship. A new phrase was born: The Grand Slam. A modest, sensitive man, a lawyer from a middle-class Atlanta family, Bobby Jones had barely survived a sickly childhood, and took up golf at the age of five for health reasons. Jones made his debut at the US Amateur Championship in 1916 and his genius was recognised by his inspiration, Francis Ouimet, but he had an ungovernable temper, and it wasn't until 1923 that Jones harnessed his talent, and eclipsed Ouimet. However, his health was never good, and the strain of completing the Slam exacted a ferocious toll; the US Open, played in July in blazing heat, nearly killed him. Jones fought to keep his fragile condition a secret from a country suffering from the Depression, but at the age of twenty-eight, after winning the US Amateur, he retired. His abrupt disappearance at the height of his renown inspired an impenetrable myth, to this day still fiercely protected by family and friends.
Creator: Frederick Davidson
Publication date: 2007-08
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $120.00
Price: $75.60
Review The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels) / Blackstone Audiobooks:The story of Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster parents, is one of the most beloved heroines in all literature. 9 cassettes. When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl. " It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables-but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull. " And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L. M. Montgomery's many stories. [+]Adapter M. C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more-luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) -Emilie Coulter.
Creator: Frederick Davidson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
Price: $80.30
Review Stalin: Breaker of Nations, Library Edition / Blackstone Audiobooks:A leading scholar-historian of the U. S. S. R. offers a penetrating look at one of the most enigmatic and terrifying figures of modern times. Distilling a lifetime's study, Conquest provides a powerful, living portrait of Josef Stalin as child and student, revolutionary and Communist theoretician, political animal and paranoid leader. "A brisk, informative synthesis. "-The Wall Street Journal.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-11-30
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review Beyond Nab End / Chivers Audio Books:The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. Eventually he decides to "get some leernin" and his first white-collar job starts for the Water Board. Continuing to pursue his studies, he finally wins a place at Ruskin College, Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic concludes this second volume.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $79.95
Price: $79.95
Review Rathcormick / Ulverscroft Large Print:
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Money For Nothing: One Man's Journey through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions (Library), Churchill: Library Edition, A London Girl of the 1880s, Dylan Thomas: A New Life, Library Edition, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Great Non-Jews in Jewish History: From Alexander the Great to Harry S. Truman, Ulysses S. Grant, Galileo's Daughter, The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen (AUDIOBOOK) [CD], Lives if the Artists Vol. 1 (Lives of the Artists), Co. Aytch: The Classic Memoir of the Civil War by a Confederate Soldier (Library), My Life On A Hillside Allotment, The Lodger, The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf, The Life of Thomas More (Anne of Green Gables Novels), Stalin: Breaker of Nations, Library Edition, Beyond Nab End, RathcormickTop headlines: Video: Gas prices tanking: Nov. 21: Lower gas prices may be giving American drivers a financial reprieve, but they're a symptom of a very sick global economy. NBC's Tom Costello reports.(Nightly News) ›23:48 21 Nov, Fri 'Top Chef': Jill is ostrich-ized and sent home: In the second week of Top Chef, it was all about showing your craft. After a hot Quickfire challenge, the cooks had to cook and serve lunch to their biggest critics yet former "Top Chef" hopefuls. In the end, Jill was forced to pack up her knives after she was unable to stand by her dish. ›16:25 20 Nov, Thu Gday! 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