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Der geschenkte Gaul
By: Hildegard Knef
Narrated by: Hildegard Knef
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
"Der geschenkte Gaul", die 1970 veröffentlichte "Geschichte einer Generation", gilt auch heute noch als bedeutender literarischer Beitrag zur Geschichte Deutschlands zwischen den Jahren 1930 und 1950. Dank seiner mitreißenden, eigenwilligen und ungeschönten Sprache wurde das Werk direkt nach Erscheinen zu einer literarischen Sensation und... Read more
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Havana Dreams
By: Wendy Gimbel
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the fascinating true story of four generations of Cuban women whose personal lives are woven with the story of their nation. At its center is Naty, a socialite born in 1925, who becomes intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. Here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while Castro was in jail. Naty raises... Read more
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Comrades - Abridged
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Stephen E. Ambrose
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.
Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them... Read more
Before the Wind - Abridged
By: Stefan Rudnicki
Narrated by: Kevin Kling
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In seafaring literature, no fictional sailor's story can match this true, real-life adventure. Before the Wind is the memoir of early nineteenth-century sea captain Charles Tyng— from his childhood and love affair with the sea to his rise through the ranks to captain and ship owner in the tea and sugar trade. Before the Wind takes... Read more
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Nixon in Winter
By: Monica Crowley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Monica Crowley served as a personal assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon from July 1990 until his death in April 1994. This remarkable story of his final public and private years is based on full reconstructions of the conversations she had with him at the time. Nixon in Winter puts the reader behind the scenes with the former... Read more
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Deadlines and Datelines
By: Dan Rather
Narrated by: David Ackroyd
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Compelling essays from Peabody and Emmy-award winning newsman Dan RatherWith his distinctive blend of frontline determination and a journalist's knack for a good story, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather looks at the awesome struggles and everyday accomplishments he's witnessed at home and around the globe. Ranging from the Iraq conflict to a... Read more
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A Sportsman's Life - Abridged
By: Leigh Perkins & Geoffrey Norman
Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Insights from a businessman who achieved the ultimate accomplishment— transforming his personal enthusiasm into a wildly successful company.Imagine if you could live a life in which there were no boundaries between work and play, if you could blend the job you love— running a company that is committed to excellence— ... Read more
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Braces - Abridged
By: Donald Davis
Narrated by: Donald Davis
Length: 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Braces hurt. Braces are embarrassing. Braces are inconvenient. Many get fitted with them at the very time of their life when their self-confidence is lowest and their self-consciousness is highest. This coming-of-age story, created and performed by Donald Davis, employs the author's trademark characterizations and humor to explore the state of... Read more
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Rodin
By: Frederic V. Grunfeld
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 27 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Auguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor—known for such works as The Thinker, The Kiss, The Hand of God, and dozens of others—but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous... Read more
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
By: James Boswell
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 54 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson.James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the... Read more
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Eva Perón
By: Nicholas Fraser & Marysa Navarro
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas, where a girl, born out of wedlock, scrambles her way to the capital city by the time she is fifteen. It ends with the embalmed corpse of Eva Per├Án being hidden away by nervous politicians for fear that if the working people of Argentina knew where it was buried, it would inspire... Read more
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Christian Dior
By: Marie-France Pochna
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet, Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.Born... Read more
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe - Abridged
By: Donald Wolfe
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan & William Atherton
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe enchanted and captivated the world. Sixty years after her death, devotion to the pop culture icon is as strong as ever, and the truth about her mysterious death continues to fascinate fans and experts alike. With explosive revelations concerning the "National... Read more
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Rocket Boys - Abridged
By: Homer Hickam
Narrated by: Beau Bridges
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives....And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a... Read more
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The Starr Report
By: Kenneth Starr & Tracy Brooks Swope
Narrated by: David Ackroyd
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
Following an unprecedented, relentless four-year investigation, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered 36 boxes of evidence against then-President Bill Clinton to the House of Representatives on September 9, 1998. Dubbed “The Starr Report,” the documents alleged—in lurid detail—that Clinton lied under oath in a sworn deposition about his... Read more
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Forgotten Heroes
By: Susan Ware
Narrated by: Susan Ware
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
For Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five prominent historians chose their favorite stories of unsung American figures. From Johnny Appleseed and John Quincy Adams to abolitionist Sojourner Truth and Margaret Anderson, the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, these profiles remind us that history depends upon the great deeds of women and men, whether... Read more
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I Am Jackie Chan - Abridged
By: Jackie Chan & Jeff Yang
Narrated by: Daxing Zhang
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As one of the biggest stars in the world, Jackie Chan has wowed audiences with death-defying stunts for decades. But who really is this boyishly handsome, lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts moviemaking? Jackie Chan has never told his own story in his own words. In I Am Jackie Chan, he tells the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately... Read more
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Our Lady of the Freedoms - Abridged
By: Corwin Morman
Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A great American voice narrates a poignant tribute to our most outstanding monument. One of Charles Kuralt's last projects, Our Lady of the Freedoms is a full-scale production of writer-director Norman Corwin's account of how the Statue of Liberty came to New York harbor.
Charles Kuralt's brilliant narration accompanies dramatizations of the... Read more
About This Life - Abridged
By: Barry Lopez
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez captivated the world with his bestselling books Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men. Now, in this memoir, Lopez takes the listener on a literal and figurative journey through essays that provide great wisdom and insights into our times. Lopez leads listeners from Japan's beautiful Hokkaido Island to the... Read more
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Warped Factors - Abridged
By: Walter Koenig
Narrated by: Walter Koenig
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This is actor Walter Koenig's story— from growing up as the neurotic child of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan through his rise to fame on Star Trek as Pavel Chekov, Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise. With wry wit, striking candor, and a true gift for storytelling, Koenig takes us on a sometimes bumpy but often... Read more
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The Cowboy Detective - Abridged
By: Charles Siringo
Narrated by: Michael Martin Murphey
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A fascinating, true-life memoir of an undercover agent in the wild, wild west of the late 1800s!After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo settled down in Caldwell, Kansas to run a store— until an acquaintance told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. Thereupon, Siringo joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, where... Read more
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Angela's Ashes - Abridged
By: Frank McCourt
Narrated by: Frank McCourt
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is... Read more
Douglas Wilson: Honor's Voice
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Douglas Wilson, author of Honor's Voice, talks about the life of President Abraham Lincoln. On "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." Read more
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I Think I'm Outta Here - Abridged
By: Carroll O'connor
Narrated by: Caroll O'Connor
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It is the genius of actor Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie would never have imagined. Now, O'Connor speaks eloquently and intimately about his great triumphs and terrible tragedies -- and a... Read more
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