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The John Updike Audio Collection
By: John Updike
Narrated by: John Updike
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more
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Nancy
By: Michael Deaver
Narrated by: Michael Deaver
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever publishedNancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily private one. Now Mike Deaver, whose relationship with Mrs. Reagan dates back to the1960s, shares the side of Nancy that only her intimates know.The woman... Read more
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The Meaning of Everything
By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Simon Winchester
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--""so vast,... Read more
Loud and Clear
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winner Anna Quindlen offers wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life in this provocative and inspiring book.
“A tour de force for our time, [Loud and Clear] is equally as compelling as a look at public events as it is a reflection on being a woman and on... Read more
Time and Tide
By: Frank Conroy
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged... Read more
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City of the Soul
By: William Murray
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“One lifetime is not enough for Rome,” the famous saying goes, and anyone who’s ever been there knows these words to be true. In City of the Soul, William Murray begins to show us why.
Growing up in Rome and spending much of his life in the city, William Murray is an expert guide as he takes us on an intimate walking tour of some of Rome’s most... Read more
Idyll Banter - Abridged
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Chris Bohjalian
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house.... Read more
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The Funny Thing Is...
By: Ellen DeGeneres
Narrated by: Ellen DeGeneres
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
An indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read—or wants to fool people into thinking they do—The Funny Thing Is... is sure to make you laugh.
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen... Read more
Blues City - Abridged
By: Ishmael Reed
Narrated by: Ishmael Reed
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more
Cosmopolitan - Abridged
By: Toby Cecchini
Narrated by: Toby Cecchini
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature—of the outlandish behavior of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, of lust, and of the sheer desire to bust loose and party. As the typical day progresses,... Read more
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Pau...
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of... Read more
The Borderlands of Science
By: Michael Shermer
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... Read more
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Home on the Prairie
By: Garrison Keillor
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul home. Others were recorded on the road in Dublin, Pasadena, Grand Forks, and other exotic places. Read more
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Blues City
By: Ishmael Reed
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes and a bay—and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, Gold Rush outpost,... Read more
True Believers - Abridged
By: Joe Queenan
Narrated by: Joe Queenan
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Bestselling author Joe Queenan's True Believers explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it?
For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for formerly inept teams like the Boston... Read more
Adventure Capitalist - Abridged
By: Jim Rogers
Narrated by: Jim Rogers
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In AdventureCapitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves... Read more
Hallowed Ground - Abridged
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: James M. McPherson
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more
Who's Your Caddy? - Abridged
By: Rick Reilly
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.
Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering,... Read more
Hallowed Ground
By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective... Read more
All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.
All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more
All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic multimillion copy bestseller
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.
When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year,... Read more
The Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small.
In this repackaged volume, after serving in the... Read more
James Herriot's Cat Stories
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
James Herriot's Cat Stories is the purr-fect gift for anyone who loves cuddling kitties.
Kittens and cats of all kinds abound in this program and, like their flesh-and-blood counterparts, they will purr their way into the hearts and minds of everyone who hears their stories. This warm and joyful volume of stories collects some of the Yorkshire... Read more