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The Future of Spacetime - Abridged
By: Richard H. Price
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Where the science of black holes, gravitational waves, and time travel will likely lead us, as reported by spacetime's most important theoreticians and observers.
Our minds tell us that some things in the universe must be true. The New Physics tells us that they are not, and in the process, blurs the line between science and science fiction. Here... Read more
The Next Fifty Years - Abridged
By: John Brockman
Narrated by: Henry Leyva, Jennifer Wiltsie, Oliver Wyman & S...
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A brilliant ensemble of the world’s most visionary scientists provides twenty-five original never-before-published essays about the advances in science and technology that we may see within our lifetimes.
Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Paul Davies examines the likelihood that by the year 2050 we will be able to establish a... Read more
The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2002 Edition - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey & Ken Auletta
Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jeff Woodman & Oliver Wyman
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Vintage Original
The first installment of an exciting new annual anthology–a year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Marshall Loeb have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Roughing It
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation;" not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way... Read more
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More Napalm and Silly Putty - Abridged
By: George Carlin
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He's back! In a voice more cantankerous and comically pungent than ever, George Carlin spouts off on everything from British royalty ("A Day in the Life of Henry VIII") to auto racing ("Sports Should Be Fixed") to American politics ("Don't Blame the Leaders").
With his manic mind and motor mouth in high gear, he rants against anyone who tells... Read more
Oh, the Things I Know!
By: Al Franken
Narrated by: Al Franken
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A Grammy® nominee.
The bestselling author and Emmy®-winning television star guides graduates across the uncertain seas of post-academic life. Inspired, inspiring, and laugh-out-loud funny. Read more
Shadow Warriors
By: Tom Clancy & General Carl Stiner
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 21 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Teams of dedicated, highly specialized soldiers trained to a higher standard than regular forces; an armamentarium of advanced weapons and tactics; a variety of exotic, critical assignments for the good of the nation; in short, the U.S. Special Forces seem tailor-made for Tom Clancy, progenitor of the techno-thriller. In this factual account... Read more
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Fierce Pajamas - Abridged
By: David Remnick & Henry Finder
Narrated by: Patrick Frederic & Chris Gannon
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S.... Read more
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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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French Lessons
By: Peter Mayle
Narrated by: Simon Jones
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.
The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French... Read more
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! - Abridged
By: Yogi Berra
Narrated by: Dale Berra
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Everyone knows Yogi Berra for his famous non sequiturs : "It ain't over 'til it's over." "It gets late early out here." "The future ain't what it used to be." They seem like throwaway lines, but over time they reveal deeper meanings--playful truths, like Zen koans. Yogi's not trying to be mystical, but his seemingly simple phrases reveal the... Read more
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Last Trout in Venice
By: Doug Lansky
Narrated by: Paul Mercer
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
With a bottomless taste for the absurd, nothing is too outrageous for Doug Lansky. In the plucky, hilarious, and irreverent spirit of Lansky's popular syndicated travel column, “Vagabond,” comes Last Trout in Venice, a book of adventurous and wacky travel essays that will have you laughing out loud. In Naples, Italy, Lansky rents a car precisely... Read more
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Napalm and Silly Putty - Abridged
By: George Carlin
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He's the inventor of Past-Tense TV (featuring "Got Smart," "Father Knew Best," and "It Was Left to Beaver"); the tireless crusader for such charities as the Center for Research into the Heebie Jeebies, Children of Parents with Bad Teeth, and the State Hospital for Those Who Felt All Right About a Year Ago; founder of the George Carlin Book Club... Read more
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The Best Business Stories of the Year 2001 - Abridged
By: Andrew Leckey
Narrated by: James Lurie & Eliza Floss
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
“[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.”–USA Today, on the 2001 edition
Series editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest... Read more
Roads - Abridged
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them.
Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry has felt the pull of the road. His town was... Read more
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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In Tuscany
By: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes & Edward Mayes
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany’s people, food, landscapes, and art, from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and See You in the Piazza
“A love letter to Italy written in precise and passionate language of near-poetic density.”—Newsday
In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at... Read more
Natural Blonde - Abridged
By: Liz Smith
Narrated by: Liz Smith
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford to the Kennedys and Madonna, the ultimate insider, Liz Smith has hobnobbed, air-kissed, and lunched with just about everybody who's been anybody over the last half-century--and then rushed to tell the world all about it. Now, in this candid, down-to-earth autobiography, she tells all about herself, and... Read more
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The Last River - Abridged
By: Todd Balf
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick Walker and Tom McEwan, extreme whitewater pioneers,... Read more
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The O'Reilly Factor - Abridged
By: Bill O'Reilly
Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The million-copy New York Times bestseller from the Fox News anchor who’s brought new excitement–and massive amounts of populist common sense and rock-solid honesty–to television news.
Now four seasons strong, Bill O’Reilly’s nightly cable news program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” is one of the hottest shows on the air. In book form, The O’Reilly... Read more
Lost and Found Sound
By: Jay Allison & The Kitchen Sisters
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
On January 1, 1999, All Things Considered aired the first in a series of richly layered stories that trace the soundtrack of the 20th century. Broadcast weekly through 1999, continuing monthly through 2000, Lost & Found Sound chronicles, reflects, and celebrates the human experience in rare recordings and "sonic snapshots" submitted by... Read more
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Tales from the Tummy Trilogy - Abridged
By: Calvin Trillin
Narrated by: Calvin Trillin
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Calvin Trillin is America’s funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cookingnot haute cuisine but genuine good food. Read more
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You Go Girl! Winning the Woman's Way
By: Kim Doren & Charlie Jones
Narrated by: Matilda Novak
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of first-person insights, thoughts, and stories from successful women in the world of sports, including Mia Hamm; Gabrielle Reece; Marion Jones; Kerri Strug; Chris Evert; Nancy Lopez; Picabo Street and more. Read more
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In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia.
His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that... Read more
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