Biography Audiobooks Index 8
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Young American sea captain James Riley, shipwrecked off the coast of north Africa in 1815, was captured by nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. This dramatic account of Riley's trials and suffering...
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The Straight-Talking Former Ambassador Takes Listeners Behind the Scenes at the State Department and the U.N.
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Selection of stories full of suffering, compassion, genuine courage and how bad things can get when events transpire against us.
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"Sing no sad songs for Christopher Kennedy Lawford. We are fortunate to have his story in prose that is jazzy, rocking, sometimes dark but, in the end, bright with hope."
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Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
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Tales from My Table is a collection of twelve true stories about food. Bittersweet, funny, and thought-provoking, the stories explore the way food influences our lives and our memories.
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The End of the First National Welfare System. In less than fifty months, Henry VIII and his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, swept away the monasteries...
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CARDINAL WOLSEY... The Last Great Medieval Minister...'Built Hampton Court, didn`t he?'...
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Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, is the only professional soldier in English history to have served also as Prime Minister...
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Phil Spector, once an outsider despised by his peers, learned all about music and quickly became the top producer of early rock and roll. Hit followed hit, all with his signature "wall of sound." But the boy-man who owned pop culture spiraled into paranoid isolation and peculiar behavior.
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Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style...
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An inside look at the life of President Bush's most respected aide and confidante.
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"[A] fragrant tale of life and love in the mountains of Sicily....Swift, sinuous, deep and brimming with cultural artifacts."� Kirkus Reviews
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This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.
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This presentation explores the social and political turmoil during which Leviathan was written, including an examination of the radical political philosophies spawned by opposition to the Stuart mo...
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The second volume in this six-volume biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George...
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The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work vividly recounts 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...
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The sixth and final volume of Dumas Malone's epic masterwork, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties of Jefferson's last seventeen years, including his retirement from Washington and the presidency, his correspondence with John Adams...
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This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone's Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Based on vast sources, it covers Jefferson's ancestry, youth, education, and legal career; his marriage and the building of Monticello; the...
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The third volume in Dumas Malone's distinguished 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...
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The fifth volume of the Jefferson series is a vibrant account of Jefferson's disparate activities, sponsoring the Lewis and Clark expedition, concluding the naval "war" with the Barbary pirates, engaging in a political duel with Chief Justice Marshall over the trial of Aaron Burr, attempting to...
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An astonishing around-the-world adventure and a life-affirming inward journey.
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To a generation in revolt in the 1960s, Dr. Timothy Leary was its guru. The brilliant psychologist became obsessed with the effects of psychedelic drugs while teaching at Harvard. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America.
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'Angela's Ashes', Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish childhood, won the Pulitzer Prize...
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Titanic is a unique record of one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. Not only does Colonel Gracie describe his own experience on that fateful night but the stories of as many other survivors as he could track down. He also attended a court hearing to obtain the official record....
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Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose�one of the country's most influential historians�confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs.
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity.
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In his classic WWII memoir, Audie Murphy depicts the harrowing events of the war, relating the fear, courage, and death that followed the men he knew into battle. In the two years that he fought in Italy, France, and Germany, he killed at least 240 Germans, single-handedly destroyed a German...
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Hilarious, irreverent and mouthwatering, TOAST captures thirty years of British cooking and the recipes that we have grown up with since the days when a grilled grapefruit was the last word in chic.
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In this 25-minute interview, Cockey discusses a variety of subjects, including his entry into the mystery-writing world, how he creates his characters, and the importance of his hometown of Baltimore.
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A Q&A with Author David Kushner and Jon "Jonny Magic" Finkel..if you think a gang of real-life geeks can't take on the world and win big...think again.
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'A gut-wrenching memoir that still has you gasping with laughter. A hell of a book'
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The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history.
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Opening a gourmet restaurant in paradise fulfills a couple's dreams.
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With the engaging charm, warm humour and down-to-earth style that has made him Britain's favourite television gardener and a popular TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh has now written 'a touch of the memoi
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Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953.
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Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
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This is the world of Donald Trump, full of glitz, glamour, and other people's money. Yet despite glaring cracks in the shimmering fa�ade, the myth and the image have remained stubbornly impenetrable.
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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when that person is not your lover, but your best friend?
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Two Lives weaves together two extraordinary stories that comprise one astonishing love affair an unmissable experience
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The true story of Sue, the greatest Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered.
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A real-life mixture of Liar's Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters.
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Collection of Sedaris's hilarious audio programs, including two of his most recent releases
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Britain's Queen of Clean tells the harrowing story of the shocking and brutal abuse she suffered as a child, which she has now overcome. Read by the author.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River.
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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies.
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The untold story of Ashley Smith, the Atlanta hostage who miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols � a
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FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich had a plum assignment after years of chasing mobsters, drug dealers, and white-collar criminals�performing background checks on White House appointees. What he discovered in the first months of the Clinton administration left him troubled, alarmed, and finally...
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As heard on BBC Radio 4, Peter Ustinov discusses his life and career.
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The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . .a story of sex, drugs, and poetry.
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Leon Walras (1834-1910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematical, deterministic science. For the first time, Walras expressed rigorously the view that all markets are related, and that their relationships can be described and analyzed mathematically. These...
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"Sweets, I'm okay. I'm okay. Don't worry... It's not my building. " Kristen didn't know what he was saying. He told her to turn on the television...
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With simplicity, candor, and humility, renowned Christian thinker Ravi Zacharias shares the intimate account of his journey beyond a turbulent childhood...
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Unforgettable memoires from soldiers, citizens and historians. Includes tales of bravery, courage, sadness and reflection.
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The inspiration for the hit television series Medium, Allison DuBois now brings listeners into her psychic experiences. Recalling her communication with spirits who have touched her over the years...
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Vince Lombardi, the son of an immigrant Italian butcher, rose to the top, and his character transformed him, his wife, his children, his players, his sport, and ultimately the country.
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In 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-two comrades were captured by Barbary corsairs. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on Christendom.
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This is Lou Gerstner's extraordinary story of IBM's historic turnaround.
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William Wilberforce is chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England. He was at the heart of British politics for over forty years during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He lived just long enough to see the passage of the act to...
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Believed to be impossible to ascend, these majestic giants have remained unexplored until recently ...
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A classic collection of traveller's tales from the wilderness, forest, desert, glacier and jungle.
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The secrets of living a successful life from one of auto racing's living legends.
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Jack Welch knows how to win. During his forty-year career at General Electric, he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe, in multiple markets, against brutal competition.
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, cherished not...
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, cherished...
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: Part I Before We Met...
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: Part II Hookin' Up...
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: Part III The Family Comes of Age...
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Interviews, discussions, readings and poems celebrating motherhood in all its diversity.
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An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature for many generations to come...
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One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. Our fearless author, A.J. Jacobs, tackles a new intellectual adventure.
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Based on exhaustive research and astonishing new evidence, Young Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR from the perspective of those who would bring it into being.
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'Treat yourself to the commentary that sets Neil apart from all the rest in Your Money or Your Life'
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Being on The Apprentice made Rancic an overnight celebrity. But his winning strategies were developed long before that, and in You're Hired, he uses examples from his own life to prove his theories...
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David Attenborough, Britain's voice of natural history, narrates his early adventures in the wilds of Indon...
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