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Pete Hamill on Eddie Stanky - Abridged
By: Pete Hamill
Narrated by: Pete Hamill
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's a cold spring day in 1944. A young Pete Hamill is with his father watching the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Boston Braves. The wartime teams are just dismal - many major league players are serving their country and the teams have been clogged with has-beens and guys that are 4-F. But Pete's father tells him to "watch this little guy." His name... Read more
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Dante
By: R. W. B. Lewis
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In Dante, Lewis traces the life and complex development—emotional, artistic, philosophical—of this supreme poet-historian, from his wanderings through Tuscan hills and splendid churches to his days as a young soldier fighting for democracy, to his civic leadership and years of embittered exile from the city that would fiercely reclaim him a... Read more
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Paradise
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to her son in her final days, his mother makes a... Read more
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A Passion to Win - Abridged
By: Sumner Redstone
Narrated by: Sumner Redstone
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A titan of modern media, Sumner Redstone shares how he became the head of one of the world’s great media empires and one of the richest men in the entertainment business.
In one of the most fascinating and eye-opening business autobiographies written, Sumner Redstone shares the unvarnished story of how he overcame significant obstacles on his... Read more
Shiksa Goddess - Abridged
By: Wendy Wasserstein
Narrated by: Wendy Wasserstein
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Though celebrated playwright Wendy Wasserstein was firmly rooted in New York's cultural life, her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays, all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor. The full range of Wasserstein' s mid-life... Read more
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Ghost Soldiers - Abridged
By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II.
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a... Read more
John Adams
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Nelson Runger
Length: 29 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more
John Adams - Abridged
By: David McCullough
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann & Jan Maxwell
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent,... Read more
An Album of Memories - Abridged
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“I cannot go anywhere in America without people wanting to share their wartime experiences....The stories and the lessons have emerged from long-forgotten letters home, from reunions of old buddies and outfits, from unpublished diaries and home-published memoirs....As the stories in this album of memories remind us, it truly was an American... Read more
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Special Agent - Abridged
By: Candice DeLong
Narrated by: Candice DeLong
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A twenty-year veteran of the FBI, Candice DeLong worked on some of the toughest hig-stakes criminal investigations of our time. As a field profiler, DeLong collected evidence at the scene of the crime to creat a specific portrait of criminals via behavioral patterns, character traits, background, etc. Special Agent is her remarkable personal... Read more
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Comfort Me with Apples - Abridged
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Ruth Reichl’s latest book — one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales — the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company. Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl’s transformation from chef to food writer, a process... Read more
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Diary of an Airborne Ranger - Abridged
By: Frank Johnson
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Perhaps the most accurate story of LRRPs at war
ever to appear in print!
When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was nineteen, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others--but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long range reconnaissance... Read more
LRRP Company Command - Abridged
By: Kregg P. Jorgenson
Narrated by: Don Leslie
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A gripping account of ordinary men with extraordinary courage and heroism who had one last chance to make good—and one helluva war zone to do it in.
The new commander of the Company E, 52d Infantry LRRPs, Capt. George Paccerelli, was tough, but the men’s new AO was brutal. It was bad enough that the provinces of Binh Long, Phuoc Long, and Tay... Read more
Let Me Entertain You
By: David Brown
Narrated by: David Brown
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Seldom has the world seen a man with the grace, style, intellect, and success of journalist, author, publisher, Broadway and film producer, and husband to long-time Cosmopolitan head Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown. Throughout his remarkable life, he was a friend, acquaintance, and confidant of the world's most powerful, most famous, and most... Read more
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Far Appalachia
By: Noah Adams
Narrated by: Noah Adams
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
With his sharp eye and gentle wit, Noah Adams doesn't just tell stories, he lets them unfold quietly, powerfully, and eloquently. Now the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered and bestselling author of Piano Lessons takes us on a river journey through the heart of Appalachia--a journey shared by pioneers and preachers, white-water... Read more
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Radical Son
By: David Horowitz
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 18 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions. Read more
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Death in the Jungle - Abridged
By: Gary R. Smith & Alan Maki
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Read by Eric Conger
2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.
With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to... Read more
Be Quick - But Don't Hurry
By: Andrew Hill
Narrated by: Andrew Hill
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Be Quick, But Don't Hurry presents the team-building management secrets of the greatest coach of the twentieth century, cloaked in the heartwarming tale of the reluctant protege who learned those secrets in spite of himself.
Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by... Read more
Prince of Tennesee
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Prince of Tennessee, David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima explore in rich detail the forces that have shaped Al Gore's life, and the ways that his past offers clues to what kind of president he might have been. The Gore who comes to life in this audiobook is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that... Read more
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Best Friends
By: Samantha Glen
Narrated by: Juliette Parker
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the... Read more
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Shackleton's Way
By: Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. When the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile-trip across the... Read more
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Buddha
By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This rich, timely, and highly original portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. In lucid and compelling prose, Armstrong brings to life the Buddha’s quest, from his renunciation of his privileged life to the discovery of a truth that he believed would utterly transform human beings and enable them to... Read more
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Jane Austen
By: Carol Shields
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement,... Read more
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Paris to the Moon - Abridged
By: Adam Gopnik
Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafes, breathtaking facades around every corner—in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more