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Beyond Love - Abridged
By: Dominique Lapierre
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From its first appearance in the late 1970s to the remarkable treatment methods that are now keeping millions alive, AIDS has been a headlining topic for decades. Master storyteller Dominique Lapierre— renowned for his best sellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy— has created his most extraordinary epic of human... Read more
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Ryan White - Abridged
By: Ryan White, Greg Louganis & Ann Marie Cunningham
Narrated by: Lukas Haas
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case,... Read more
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Flashbacks - Abridged
By: Timothy Leary
Narrated by: Timothy Leary
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was an American psychologist, educator, and author who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs. His books included Exo-Psychology, Your Brain Is God, and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. Read more
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Mozart
By: Marcia Davenport
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had... Read more
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Chutzpah - Abridged
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
According to Alan M. Dershowitz, “ chutzpah” is "boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows." Assessing his experiences, he brings to bear all the chutzpah for which he is famous in examining such issues as antisemitism, assimilation, the... Read more
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Bootlegger's Boy - Abridged
By: Barry Switzer
Narrated by: Barry Switzer
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A riveting memoir by one of the most successful football coaches in America!As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to... Read more
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The Tempting of America - Abridged
By: Robert H. Bork
Narrated by: Robert H. Bork
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A rare, insider' s look into the Supreme Court nomination process.In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of... Read more
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1
By: William Manchester
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 41 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century.His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our... Read more
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The Inklings
By: Humphrey Carpenter
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams—remarkable friends, writers, and scholars—met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings,... Read more
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There's a Country in My Cellar - Abridged
By: Russell Baker
Narrated by: Arte Johnson
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of America's most beloved social commentators— Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Russell Baker— followed up his bestselling memoir, The Good Times, with this collection of his best New York Times columns, dating back to 1962. There' s a Country in My Cellar covers Baker's usual wide range of... Read more
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Wiseguy - Abridged
By: Nicholas Pileggi
Narrated by: Nicholas Pileggi
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).
This is... Read more
What I Saw at the Revolution - Abridged
By: Peggy Noonan
Narrated by: Peggy Noonan
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Ronald Reagan carried a conservative vision of America to the White House, where his administration gave it life. Peggy Noonan followed Reagan to Washington as his speechwriter— and gave his vision voice. As speech writer for George Bush during his Presidential campaign, Noonan dispelled her candidate's "wimpy" image and replaced it... Read more
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Elizabeth Taylor - Abridged
By: Kitty Kelley
Narrated by: Susan Strasberg
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Before she became a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already a star, appearing in such films as Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. One of the few child actors to transition to a successful film career as an adult, Taylor starred in such classics as Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Who' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In... Read more
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 2
By: William Manchester & Eric Garner
Narrated by: Richard Brown
Length: 36 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an... Read more
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Harry S. Truman
By: Robert H. Ferrell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 21 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty,... Read more
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One Up On Wall Street - Abridged
By: Peter Lynch
Narrated by: Peter Lynch
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.
America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the... Read more
Goldwyn - Abridged
By: A. Scott Berg
Narrated by: Roddy McDowall
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
In 1895, teenager Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto to become Samuel Goldwyn, one of the most acclaimed producers in Hollywood history. Among Goldwyn' s films are such classics as The Pride of the Yankees, Wuthering Heights, and The Bishop' s Wife— all famous for conveying the “ Goldwyn... Read more
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It's Always Something - Abridged
By: Gilda Radner
Narrated by: Gilda Radner
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
To honor the twentieth anniversary of beloved comedienne Gilda Radner’s death from ovarian cancer comes a commemo- rative edition of her memoir, It’s Always Something—featuring a newly updated resource guide for people living with cancer and a tribute by Radner’s former colleagues at Saturday Night Live.
As a cast member on the original Saturday... Read more
Hollywood Anecdotes - Abridged
By: Paul F. Boller Jr.
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
What do legends Groucho Marx, Bette Davis, W. C. Fields, and Alfred Hitchcock have in common? They are just four of the luminaries mentioned in Hollywood Anecdotes, the definitive oral history of film's Golden Era. Educational and entertaining, here are authentic and apocryphal anecdotes about the American movie industry and various aspects of... Read more
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The Mermaid Man - Abridged
By: Marion Watson
Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Viewing Hans Christian Andersen's boots and travelling bags at his museum in Denmark in 1986, triggered an idea for a script about his life to be done for Audioscape. His shyness and rather off-putting appearance did not win him many friends, yet eventually, the crown-heads of Europe solicited his presence. Millions since then, have... Read more
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The Great Getty - Abridged
By: Robert Lenzner
Narrated by: Liz Smith
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a shrewd industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, ultimately becoming a dominant player in the oil industry. In The Great Getty, Robert Lenzner presents an in-depth biography of the savviest entrepreneur of the 20th century and the world's richest private citizen at the time of his death— ... Read more
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Mark It and Strike It - Abridged
By: Steve Allen
Narrated by: Steve Allen
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's hard to believe there was only one Steve Allen! This same person created The Tonight Show, wrote more than 50 books, composed more than 8,500 songs, recorded some 40 record albums, starred on Broadway and in motion pictures, composed Broadway, television, and film scores, starred in his own television series, and created, wrote, and hosted... Read more
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My Husband, My Friend - Abridged
By: Neile McQueen-Toffel
Narrated by: Neile McQueen-Toffel
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the 1960s and 70s, actor Steve McQueen was the king of cool, appearing in such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bullitt. McQueen left the world at age 50, a film legend who went from abandoned child to glittering superstar to a haunted man. In My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir, Steve' s wife of more than 15... Read more
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Made in America - Abridged
By: Peter Ueberroth
Narrated by: Peter Ueberroth
Length: 1 hour 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A behind-the-scenes look about how Los Angeles prepared to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.For five years Peter Ueberroth spearheaded the committee that oversaw the 23rd Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California. While the athletes trained, competed, and qualified, this future baseball commissioner and his committee—primarily comprised of business... Read more
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