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Blood on the Risers - Abridged
By: John Leppelman
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
In three straight years he was a paratropper, and army seaman, and a LRRP—and he lived to tell about it.
As an FNG paratrooper in the 173d Airborne, John Leppelman made that unit's only combat jump in Vietnam. Then he spent months in fruitless search of the enemy, watching as his buddies died because of poor leadership and lousy weapons. Often... Read more
13 Cent Killers - Abridged
By: John Culbertson
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.”
In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his buck than the 5th Marine Regiment Sniper Platoon. So feared were these lethal marksmen that the Viet Cong offered huge rewards for killing them. Now noted Vietnam author John J. Culbertson, a... Read more
Platoon Leader - Abridged
By: James R. McDonough
Narrated by: Joel Rooks
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A remarkable memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam.'
"Using a lean style and a sense of pacing drawn from the tautest of novels, McDonough has produced a gripping account of his first command, a U.S. platoon taking part in the 'strategic hamlet' program. . . . Rather than present a potpourri... Read more
Five Years to Freedom - Abridged
By: James N. Rowe
Narrated by: Reathel Bean
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.
In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die.... Read more
All Things Wise and Wonderful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Readers adore James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom, and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece drama.
In the midst of World War II, James is training... Read more
The Gift of Jazzy
By: Cindy Adams
Narrated by: Cindy Adams
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
After the New York Post's savvy, seemingly tough columnist Cindy Adams lost her beloved husband— the famed comedian Joey Adams— the last thing on her mind was finding a companion. But that's exactly what she got when a visit from a friend arrived with a surprise: a Yorkshire terrier named “ Jazzy.” ... Read more
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William McKinley
By: Kevin Phillips
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of... Read more
The Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small.
In this repackaged volume, after serving in the... Read more
James Herriot's Cat Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
James Herriot's Cat Stories is the purr-fect gift for anyone who loves cuddling kitties.
Kittens and cats of all kinds abound in this program and, like their flesh-and-blood counterparts, they will purr their way into the hearts and minds of everyone who hears their stories. This warm and joyful volume of stories collects some of the Yorkshire... Read more
Grover Cleveland
By: Henry F. Graff
Narrated by: Ira Claffey
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of... Read more
Theodore Roosevelt
By: Louis Auchincloss
Narrated by: Ira Claffey
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th century
The warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt's involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated, military career, and his ascent to the national political stage. Caricatured through history as the "bull moose", Roosevelt was in fact a man of... Read more
James Herriot's Animal Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Available for the first time on CD, ten more delightful stories from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian—a perfect gift book guaranteed to delight the Yorkshire vet's worldwide legions of fans.
When you enter the world of James Herriot's Animal Stories, you'll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he... Read more
Every Living Thing
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.
Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more
All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.
All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more
All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic multimillion copy bestseller
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.
When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year,... Read more
Running with Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture!
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve,... Read more
Are You Somebody? - Abridged
By: Nuala O'Faolain
Narrated by: Nuala O'Faolain
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in... Read more
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Almost There
By: Nuala O'Faolain
Narrated by: Nuala O'Faolain
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1996, a small Irish press approached Nuala O'Faolain to publish a collection of her opinion columns from the Irish Times. She offered to write an introduction to explain the life experience that had shaped this Irish woman's views. Convinced that none but a few diehard fans of the columns would ever see the book, she took the opportunity to... Read more
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Lost in America
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrated by: Sherwin B. Nuland
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy when I was small, because it sounded American and that is how he so desperately wanted things to... Read more
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Kiss and Make-up
By: Gene Simmons
Narrated by: Gene Simmons
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Exploding on the music scene in the early 1970s, the rock group KISS combined raw energy with theatrical showmanship—not to mention face painting! Founding member Gene Simmons—an outrageous star whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonic makeup have made him a rock icon—recounts his own story as well as the history of the... Read more
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Kate Remembered
By: A. Scott Berg
Narrated by: Tony Goldwyn
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller!
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century—reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
In 1983—at the age of 75,... Read more
Clash of the Titans
By: Richard Hack
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A dual biography of two media titans— Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner.When Ted Turner started out in business, he owned a small billboard company in rural Georgia. Over the decades, he built a multi-billion empire that included CNN, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), MGM studios, and the Atlanta Braves. Risk-taking, careful planning, and... Read more
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Condi - Abridged
By: Antonia Felix
Narrated by: Antonia Felix
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is the remarkable and galvanizing true story of Condoleezza Rice—sixty-sixth United States Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, who once said about his close confidante, “Dr. Rice is not only a brilliant person, she is an experienced person. . . . America will find that she is a wise person.”With the current release of her own... Read more
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Into Africa
By: Martin Dugard
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily ... Read more
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