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California Characters
By: Charles Hillinger
Narrated by: Dennis McKee
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For forty-six years, Charles Hillinger journeyed around the world writing human-interest stories for the Los Angeles Times. He also helped to create and produce special features for the popular NBC television show Real People.From this work comes California Characters, a collection of stories of intriguing, eccentric, or simply amazing... 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 Great Philosophers
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Every biography is a story of adventure. The energetic personalities of the world represent an adventure in living. The philosophical personalities, on the other hand, represent an adventure in thinking. And when we examine the lives of the philosophers, we find that the procession of a man’s thoughts can be as exciting a spectacle as the... Read more
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The Chain Gang
By: Richard McCord
Narrated by: Richard McCord
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the biggest under-told stories of the past twenty years is the swallowing up of small independent newspapers by large corporations. This is the dramatic account of two battles waged by Richard McCord with his independent newspapers against the Gannett Company, one of the country's largest newspaper chains.In Santa Fe, New Mexico, McCord... Read more
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
By: Susan Hertog
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 17 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first full-length study of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Susan Hertog pierces the public image of Anne and Charles to reveal their story from inside the marriage and gives us a true understanding of the author of the bestselling classic The Gift from the Sea.Susan Hertog plumbs the depths of Anne Lindbergh’s search for her own identity and... Read more
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The Sage of Monticello
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The Sage of Monticello is the sixth and final volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, Jefferson and His Time, a biography begun in 1943 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1975. More wide ranging than the preceding volumes, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family... Read more
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Living Biographies of Famous Women
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Each of the individuals featured in this book played an important role in history. Their accomplishments span a wide range of fields, from the literary and the political to the medical. They include Cleopatra; Theodora; Joan of Arc; Mary, Queen of Scots; Queen Christina; Madame de Maintenon; Charlotte Brontë; George Eliot; Elizabeth Barrett... Read more
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Bing Crosby
By: Gary Giddins
Narrated by: Edward Lewis
Length: 22 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From 1934 to 1954, Bing Crosby utterly dominated American entertainment. The number one movie star for five years in a row, he had more hit records than anyone in history. The rise of Bing Crosby was the rise of the American popular culture itself.In this commanding biography, eminent cultural critic Gary Giddins takes us on the remarkable... Read more
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The Last Marlin
By: Fred Waitzkin
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Marlin is an unforgettable memoir of growing up in the fifties. Young Fred is a Jewish boy who is stretched between the divergent values of parents who cannot tolerate one another. Fred's father, Abe, is a brilliantly talented salesman whose relentless will drives him to succeed, at any cost. He marries Stella, an abstract artist, the... Read more
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Living Biographies of Great Painters
By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Pat Bottino
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their... 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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To Hell and Back
By: Audie Murphy
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
The time is 1943, the place is Sicily, and the event is the start of the most remarkable career of any American infantryman in the war. Audie Murphy was a desperately poor eighteen-year-old orphan when he joined the Army, nineteen when he first saw a buddy die from an enemy bullet and an enemy die from one of his own. By V-E day, he had killed... Read more
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Rose Cottage Chronicles
By: Arch Frederick Blakely, Ann Smith Lainhart & Wi...
Narrated by: Christopher Walker
Length: 18 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War.Set both at home in Florida and on the front, the letters were written by two generations of families whose members included radical secessionists, moderates, and even a few unionists.The domestic letters, written... Read more
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Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805–1809
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 24 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Jefferson series completes the story of his presidency, carrying him through his troubled second term but also to the end of an official career that spanned some forty years. Although Jefferson remained the major unifying factor in his party, the government, and the country, he was confronted by a... Read more
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The Rockefellers
By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz
Narrated by: Michael Anthony
Length: 30 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of an American dynasty. It begins with John D. Rockefeller, Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry. It follows Rockefeller junior as he built the charities and foundations that made the name a public institution, and it tracks the... Read more
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Edison
By: Paul Israel
Narrated by: Raymond Todd
Length: 22 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention—from the preeminent Edison scholarThe conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds to become one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from... Read more
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The Fighting Pattons
By: Brian M. Sobel
Narrated by: Adams Morgan
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This book gives readers a unique look at a bold and legendary general, and the compelling story of his only son, who followed in his father’s footsteps.In America’s triumph over Nazi Germany, no name was more legendary than Patton, the general feared and admired even by his enemies. While Patton cut a path of victory in Europe, his son was... Read more
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Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801–1805
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize–winning work recounts Thomas Jefferson's eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson's first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the administrations of Washington and Adams. During this term he... Read more
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Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
By: Dumas Malone
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 19 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished, Pulitzer Prize–winning study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson's life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state; his retirement to Monticello; his assumption of the... Read more
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The Gift of Valor
By: Michael M. Phillips
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story of US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham's brave act that saved fellow Marines and earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Corporal Dunham was on patrol near the Syrian border, on April 14, 2004, when a black-clad Iraqi leaped out of a car and grabbed him around his neck. Fighting hand-to-hand in the dirt, Dunham saw his... Read more
By Myself and Then Some - Abridged
By: Lauren Bacall
Narrated by: Lauren Bacall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart, she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollywood's most celebrated couple.But when Bogart died of... Read more
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Father to the Fatherless
By: Paul H Boge
Narrated by: Peter Friberg
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Six-year-old Charles Mulli wakes up in his Kenyan hut to discover his parents have abandoned him. Forced to beg from hut to hut in search of food, Charles scrapes out a meagre existence while trying to come to terms with his abusive past and seemingly hopeless future. As a teenager, Charles is invited by a friend to a crusade where he commits... Read more
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Unraveled
By: Maria Housden
Narrated by: Staci Snell
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... Read more
A Paper Life - Abridged
By: Tatum O'Neal
Narrated by: Tatum O'Neal
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Filled with stunning revelations, here is the sensational memoir of one of Hollywood’s most talented and troubled stars—an inspirational true tale of survival and triumph against all oddsThough she has shunned the media spotlight, Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal at last goes on the record to tell her story-a tale of personal turmoil... Read more
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