Amazing Writers
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for allCharlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane EyreMark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerJacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’Ayn Rand,... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Architects and Artists
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents:Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona LisaChristopher Wren who rebuilt LondonAntoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaPablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painterFrida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist BRITISH ENGLISHWord count:... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Writers
By: author
Narrated by: Anne Collins
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in historyCharles Dickens who wanted to make England a better placeVictor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poorLeo Tolstoy, the... Read more
View audiobookDenn mit dem Herzen sieht man besser! Eine wahre Geschichte voller Hoffnung, Kraft und Menschlichkeit
By: Dirk Planert
Narrated by: Dirk Planert
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Bosnien, 1993. Auf Bihac gehen täglich bis zu 2.000 Granaten nieder, über 100.000 Menschen sind im sogenannten Kessel rund um die Stadt eingeschlossen. Sie hungern, haben Durst und verlassen sich auf Menschen wie Dirk, die humanitäre Hilfe leisten. Was unter "normalen" Umständen schon ein wahrer Albtraum ist, spitzt sich zu, als Dirk den Auftrag... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Entrepreneurs and Business People
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchupWilliam Lever who made millions from soapMichael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer storesHenry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordableCoco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Scientists
By: author
Narrated by: Anne Collins
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbookHumphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolutionGregor Mendel who first discovered the science of geneticsLouis Pasteur who saved... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Medical People
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpoxFlorence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctorCarl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mindJonas Salk who defeated... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Thinkers and Humanitarians
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Confucius, the great Chinese philosopherSocrates, the great Greek philosopherAristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledgeWilliam Wilberforce who ended the British slave tradeKarl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das KapitalMahatma Gandhi who... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Scientists
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Alessandro Volta, inventor of the batteryMichael Faraday, inventor of the electric motorMarie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivityAlbert Einstein, creator of the Theory of RelativityAlexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibioticLinus Pauling,... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Entrepreneurs and Business People
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family richCornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world’s biggest cereal companyElizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Women
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Harriet Tubman, the slave who helped hundreds of other slaves to escapeEmmeline Pankhurst who wanted women to be able to voteMaria Montessori, the doctor who found a new way to teach childrenHelen Keller, the deaf and blind woman who became a famous teacherEva... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Composers
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg ConcertosWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child geniusGiuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La TraviataJohann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan LakeIrving Berlin who... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Mathematicians
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sunRené Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity worksCarl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’Charles Babbage who invented... Read more
View audiobookBefore I Go
By: Catherine Cookson
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK’s most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. Before I Go is the definitive story of her life, in the author’s own candid words.While Cookson had authored previous... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Performers
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents:Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USAPérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USALuciano Pavarotti, one of the world’s best opera singersJohn Lennon,... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Performers
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-playerLouis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singerFrank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actorÉdith Piaf, France's famous singing starMaria Callas, the Greek opera singerElvis Presley, the man who changed pop... Read more
View audiobookAmazing Philanthropists
By: author
Narrated by: Collins
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel PrizeAndrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor peopleJohn D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all awayThomas Barnardo who created homes for poor childrenHenry Wellcome who used his money for... Read more
View audiobookAva Gardner
By: Kendra Bean & Anthony Uzarowski
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned for her screen performances, down-to-earth personality, and love affair with Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner left an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Her adventurous life story is told through authoritative text and hundreds of photos in Ava: A Life in Movies.
Ava is an illustrated tribute to a legendary life. Authors Kendra Bean and... Read more
Daddy's Girl
By: Otishia Emmens
Narrated by: Otishia Emmens
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"There are children who blend well into a new family and for that I salute you. When the transitioning adults are genuine in the approach of creating a safe and solid atmosphere between all parties, harmony flows however, for the children who get lost in the midst of adults yearning to fulfill missing pieces without properly investigating... Read more
View audiobookSo Much Things to Say
By: Roger Steffens
Narrated by: Roger Steffens
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945–1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers, interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively, and took iconic Marley photographs. Now,... Read more
View audiobookPathfinder Pioneer
By: Raymond E. Brim
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this engaging book we see how an eighteen-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe.
Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked... Read more
Lee
By: Clifford Dowdey
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 33 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
General Robert E. Lee is well known as a major figure in the Civil War. However, by removing Lee from the delimiting frame of the Civil War and placing him in the context of the Republic’s total history, Dowdey shows the “eternal relevance” of this tragic figure to the American heritage. With access to hundreds of personal letters, Dowdey brings... Read more
View audiobookReckless Years
By: Heather Chaplin
Narrated by: Heather Chaplin
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The “searingly honest, brilliantly written” (Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a woman trying to reinvent her life who finds, after her divorce, that true freedom to make any choice means being free to make every mistake.
“What to do now, I don’t know. You see, I no longer love my husband.”
A thirty-something journalist... Read more
The Netanyahu Years
By: Ben Caspit & Ora Cummings
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 17 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A portrait of the current Israeli prime minister, one of Israel's more noticeable leaders in recent decades. Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass,... Read more
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