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Flying Colors
By: Tim Lefens
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
When Tim Lefens walked into the Matheny School in New Jersey to show slides of his paintings, his one-hour visit became a life-changing experience. The students he met had severe physical challenges: only one of them could talk, none could walk, and all lacked the use of their hands. As a painter facing his own gradual loss of eyesight, Tim had... Read more
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Frankie’s Place
By: Jim Sterba
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
One summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergreens and blackberry bushes all around, views of forested mountains, and a fjord full of seabirds and sailboats.He... Read more
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
René Descartes spent much of his life in solitude. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: “I think, therefore I am.” Convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts alone. This internal reality,... Read more
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Defying Hitler
By: Sebastian Haffner
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at age ninety-one in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers that offers a compelling eyewitness account of the rise of Hitler and Nazism. He describes the country's inflation and the political climate that contributed to Hitler's rise to power and also examines the... Read more
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Four against the Arctic
By: David Roberts
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity,... Read more
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided... Read more
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Stuffed
By: Patricia Volk
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Patricia Volk's delicious, charming, and wildly funny memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating, and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry—you're starving to death, and you're never just full—you're stuffed.Volk's family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introduced... Read more
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
One of two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was Wittgenstein's linguistic analysis. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and his fundamental question: "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question was beyond the reach of reason and was the primary "given" of every individual life. To... Read more
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Positively 4th Street
By: David Hajdu
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young people—Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña—gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s.Even before they became lovers in 1963, Dylan and Joan Baez were seen as the reigning king and queen of folk music.... Read more
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Into the Rising Sun
By: Patrick K. O’Donnell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Patrick O’Donnell has made a career of uncovering the hidden history of World War II by tracking down and interviewing its most elite troops: the Rangers, Airborne, Marines, and First Special Service Force, forerunners to America’s Special Forces. These veterans were often the first in and the last out of every conflict, from Guadalcanal and... Read more
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Her Husband
By: Diane Middlebrook
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six and a half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and the style and substance of his verse.In this stunning new biography of their marriage, Diane... Read more
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who... Read more
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought... Read more
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Rothstein
By: David Pietrusza
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls' Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David... Read more
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism," makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's fa├ºade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the universal Will—blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery... Read more
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
By: Paul Strathern
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 1 hour 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God—one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza’s conclusions are deeply in accord with... Read more
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One Man’s War
By: Tommy LaMore & Dan Baker
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Escaping certain death—not once but several times—lies at the core of the riveting, real-life story of an American soldier during World War II. In One Man's War, B-17 pilot Tommy LaMore vividly details his experiences in war-ravaged Germany, from the horrific to the romantic and beyond.LaMore's saga began when his plane collided with another... Read more
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The Unruly Life of Woody Allen
By: Marion Meade
Narrated by: Mary Woods
Length: 15 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
After forty years in the spotlight as comedian, author, director, and professional neurotic, Woody Allen is a living legend. To fans, his films have always represented a sort of ongoing autobiography. This is the first uncensored biography to investigate one of our era’s most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmakers.For over three... Read more
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Facets of Ayn Rand
By: Mary Ann Sures & Charles Sures
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Facets of Ayn Rand is based on forty-eight hours of interviews with Mary Ann and Charles Sures, longtime personal friends of Ayn Rand. Their recollections make vividly real the Ayn Rand they knew so well.Here are many examples of not only Ayn Rand’s mind and intellectual generosity in action but also lesser-known aspects of this unique woman.... Read more
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Steve Martin
By: Morris Wayne Walker
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the wild and crazy years that the author spent growing up with Steve Martin and their apprenticeship in comedy. No one could better chronicle Steve’s life than his best and oldest friend, Morris Walker.Steve and Morris were class clowns together, charming the girls and the teachers with their wit and later setting out on the... Read more
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What One Man Said to Another
By: Peter Josyph
Narrated by: Peter Josyph & Raymond Todd
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
What One Man Said to Another is, on one level, a series of extended conversations between friends. On another, it is the spoken autobiography of Richard Selzer, respected surgeon and writer, as recorded by artist and writer Peter Josyph.In these pages, we learn firsthand of Selzer’s life as a surgeon in an isolated village in Korea in the early... Read more
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In the Hands of Providence
By: Alice Rains Trulock
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Joshua Chamberlain of Maine forged an incredible career during the Civil War. An academic and theologian by training, this modest young professor left Bowdoin College to accept a commission as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine. He fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg, then led his regiment to glory at Gettysburg, where he ordered the... Read more
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A Personal Odyssey
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this... Read more
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Living Biographies of Religious Leaders
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world’s foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries.In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors... Read more
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