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Love in the Driest Season - Abridged
By: Neely Tucker
Narrated by: Neely Tucker
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to... Read more
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The Big Year - Abridged
By: Mark Obmascik
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more
Over the Edge of the World - Abridged
By: Laurence Bergreen
Narrated by: Laurence Bergreen
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A majestic tale of discovery thatchanged many long-held views about the world In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors... Read more
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Time and Tide
By: Frank Conroy
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged... Read more
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Cork Boat - Abridged
By: John Pollack
Narrated by: John Pollack
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after... Read more
City of the Soul
By: William Murray
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.
Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most... Read more
Love in the Driest Season
By: Neely Tucker
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to... Read more
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Walking The Bible - Abridged
By: Bruce Feiler
Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
The first person ever to complete the perilous 10,000 mile journey across the inscrutable desert landscape of the Middle East, Bruce Feiler, a fifth generation Southern Jew, embarks upon a quest to reconnect with the stories of the Bible, and uncover fresh answers to profound questions. This inspiring personal odyssey through the most famous... Read more
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Blues City - Abridged
By: Ishmael Reed
Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more
Cork Boat
By: John Pollack
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey.
Cork Boat tells the story of Pollack’s improbable quest. Overcoming one obstacle after... Read more
The Big Year
By: Mark Obmascik
Narrated by: Del Roy
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or “birders,” spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world’s quirkiest contests -- the race... Read more
Blues City
By: Ishmael Reed
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more
A Tale of Two Valleys
By: Alan Deutschman
Narrated by: Michael Cerveris
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
When acclaimed journalist Alan Deutschman came to the California wine country as the lucky house guest of very rich friends, he was surprised to discover a raging controversy. A civil war was being fought between the Napa Valley, which epitomized elitism, prestige and wealthy excess, and the neighboring Sonoma Valley, a rag-tag bohemian enclave... Read more
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Hallowed Ground - Abridged
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: James M. McPherson
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
Adventure Capitalist - Abridged
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Jim Rogers
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In AdventureCapitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more
Hallowed Ground
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
Adventure Capitalist
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In AdventureCapitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more
How the World Sees America
By: Mark Hertsgaard
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a profound sense, most U.S. citizens are insulated from the realties of the rest of the world. Even with worldwide communication technologies, the major U.S. media filters out much of what goes on beyond American borders, only focusing on major events. Here, a former overseas journalist and writer, Mark Hertsgaard, speaks of how others... Read more
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Touch the Top of the World
By: Erik Weihenmayer
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual... Read more
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Revenge - Abridged
By: Laura Blumenfeld
Narrated by: Laura Blumenfeld
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible for attacks on several tourists in the Old City. Her father lived, but Blumenfeld's desire for revenge haunted her. This is her story.
Traveling to Israel, Blumenfeld gathers stories and methods of avengers as she plots to infiltrate... 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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Last Breath - Abridged
By: Peter Stark
Narrated by: Peter Stark
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Sudden, extreme deaths have always fascinated us-- and now more than ever as athletes and travelers rise to the challenges of high-risk sports and journeys on the edge. In this spellbinding book, veteran travel and outdoor sports writer Peter Stark reenacts the dramas of what happens inside our bodies, our minds, and our souls when we push... 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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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
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