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Thalberg - Abridged
By: Bob Thomas
Narrated by: John Landis
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
More than 85 years after his untimely death at just age 37, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) remains a legendary Hollywood figure. Called the “Boy Wonder of Hollywood,” Thalberg quickly climbed the ranks at MGM studios to became one of the most powerful and high-profile producers of the time, elevating filmmaking to an art form. In this definitive... Read more
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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
By: Alan Deutschman
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred... Read more
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Eboys
By: Randall E. Stross
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy.
Randall Stross, author of acclaimed books on Microsoft and Steve Jobs, blends... Read more
The Coalwood Way - Abridged
By: Homer Hickam
Narrated by: David Lansbury
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads.
The strains can be felt within the... Read more
Lives of Moral Leadership - Abridged
By: Robert Coles
Narrated by: Harry Goz
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership--what it is, and how it is achieved--through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Boston bus driver, teachers in college, medical... Read more
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Off Camera - Abridged
By: Ted Koppel
Narrated by: Ted Koppel
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of America's most admired TV anchors gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In this engrossing narrative, a national bestseller, are all the most significant matters of that year--from Bill Clinton’s impeachment to Columbine, from the war in Kosovo to Y2K and the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the... Read more
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Ghost Light - Abridged
By: Frank Rich
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
There is a theater superstition that if the emptied house is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and musicians have left. In this eloquent and moving memoir, celebrated New York Times drama critic and columnist... Read more
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life - Abridged
By: Richard Ben Cramer
Narrated by: Richard Ben Cramer
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the hard-knuckled thirties, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty. As World War II loomed, Joltin' Joe launched a fifty-six game hitting streak -- and the nation literally sang his name. In the age of postwar ease and plenty, he became Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance... Read more
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Blackbird - Abridged
By: Jennifer Lauck
Narrated by: Jennifer Lauck
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.
To young Jenny, the house on Mary... Read more
Virginia Woolf
By: Nigel Nicolson
Narrated by: Karesa McElheny
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West (Vita was one of Woolf's closest and most intimate friends) threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so... Read more
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Leonardo Da Vinci
By: Sherwin Nuland
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren... Read more
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Cherry - Abridged
By: Mary Karr
Narrated by: Mary Karr
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mary Karr told the prize-winning tale of her hardscrabble Texas childhood with enough literary verve to spark a renaissance in memoir. The Liar's Club rode the top of The New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, and publications ranging from The New Yorker to People picked it as one of the best books of the year. But it left... Read more
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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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Land of a Thousand Hills
By: Rosamond Halsey Carr
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn’t realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce... Read more
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King David
By: Jonathan Kirsch
Narrated by: Jonathan Kirsch
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
David, King of the Jews, possessed every flaw and failing a mortal is capable of, yet men and women adored him and God showered him with many more blessings than he did Abraham or Moses. His sexual appetite and prowess were matched only by his violence, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom. A charismatic leader, exalted as "a man after... 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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Married to Laughter - Abridged
By: Jerry Stiller
Narrated by: Jerry Stiller
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara began performing together in coffehouses in Greenwich Village in the 1960's, and then as frequent guests on The Ed Sullivan Show. They based their standup characters on exaggerated vrsions of themselves, especially in the irrepressible commercials for Blue Nun wine. Offstage they raised two children, Amy and... Read more
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Bella Tuscany
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Frances Mayes
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to... Read more
His Bright Light
By: Danielle Steel
Narrated by: Traci Godfrey
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.
“This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race... Read more
The Language of Life
By: Bill Moyers
Narrated by: Bill Moyers
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most... Read more
What Falls Away
By: Mia Farrow
Narrated by: Mia Farrow
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In an exquisitely written memoir, Mia Farrow introduces us to the landscapes of her extraordinary life. Moving from her earliest memories of the walled gardens and rocky shores of western Ireland and her Hollywood childhood to her career as an actress, she writes of these experiences and her struggle to protect her children in a painful custody... 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
Desire of the Everlasting Hills
By: Thomas Cahill
Narrated by: Brian F. O'Byrne
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus—an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization.
"Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] makes Jesus a still-living literary presence." —The... Read more
Hillary's Choice - Abridged
By: Gail Sheehy
Narrated by: Gail Sheehy
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
This is the story of a woman and a marriage, both so famous the world over, we think we know everything there is to know. But Hillary's Choice renders America's First Lady fully human for the first time.
Gail Sheehy uncovers the lifelong imprint of Hillary's drillmaster father and the frustrated mother who taught her to bottle up her... Read more