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Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of... Read more
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Wilt, 1962 - Abridged
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more
Cinderella Man - Abridged
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
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Cinderella Man
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
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Newjack
By: Ted Conover
Narrated by: Ted Conover
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards—both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works... Read more
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The Story of My Life - Abridged
By: Farah Ahmedi
Narrated by: Masuda Sultan
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Farah Ahmedi recounts her heartbreaking journey from war-torn Kabul to America in her New York Times bestselling inspirational memoir.
Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" (Chicago Tribune) chronicles her journey from war to peace. Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait... Read more
Garlic and Sapphires
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more
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Searching for the Sound - Abridged
By: Phil Lesh
Narrated by: Phil Lesh
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass and joined him in a new group that blended R & B, country, and rock 'n' roll with an experimental fervor never before heard.
In time for the Grateful Dead's fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the... Read more
One Soldier's Story - Abridged
By: Bob Dole
Narrated by: Paul Hecht & Cynthia Darlow
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
“A poignant and inspiring memoir. . . . Dole’s odyssey of courage and determination can be a guideline to us all.”— Philadelphia InquirerIn his own words, Bob Dole tells his legendary World War II story—a personal odyssey of tremendous courage, sacrifice, and faithIn One Soldier’s Story, Dole recites the moving, inspirational story of his... Read more
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Three Nights in August
By: Buzz Bissinger
Narrated by: Jeffrey Nordling
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights follows 2004 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa through a three-game series with the arch-rival Chicago Cubs. Bissinger chronicles the process by which the manager leads his players to victory and distills the essence of the game from locker room and front... Read more
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Luckiest Man - Abridged
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... Read more
Wilt, 1962
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more
My Life So Far
By: Jane Fonda
Narrated by: Jane Fonda
Length: 21 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more
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My Life So Far - Abridged
By: Jane Fonda
Narrated by: Jane Fonda
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her... Read more
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Garlic and Sapphires - Abridged
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double... Read more
Assassination Vacation - Abridged
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King & Dave...
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and... Read more
Nothing's Sacred
By: Lewis Black
Narrated by: Lewis Black
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian Lewis Black unleashes his trademark subversive wit while recounting his own life story in his New York Times bestselling memoir.
You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy... Read more
Inside the Kingdom
By: Carmen Bin Ladin
Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women.
On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her ex-brother-in-law was involved... Read more
Smashed
By: Koren Zailckas
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas... Read more
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Splendid Solution
By: Jeffrey Kluger
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13.
With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. It begins with the birth of Jonas Salk, shortly before... Read more
Alice in Genderland
By: Richard J. Novic M.D.
Narrated by: Jason Vande Brake
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Alice in Genderland is the first ever memoir by a crossdresser who is not content to live behind closed doors—and who takes it much further than his straighter, more circumspect peers might ever care to go. Most of the time, Harvard-educated psychiatrist Richard Novic is Rick, a man at the office or a husband and father at home. But one night a... Read more
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Downtown - Abridged
By: Pete Hamill
Narrated by: Pete Hamill
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Downtown, Pete Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. Read more
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Naked - Abridged
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does... Read more
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Chasing the Devil - Abridged
By: Sheriff David Reichert
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.
For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more