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The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
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The biography of legendary film actress Natalie Wood.
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With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life -- then and now.
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In January 1906, a sensitive woman naturalist, nature lover, and accomplished artist began to chronicle all that she encountered while walking and bicycling around the countryside of her native Eng...
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The most controversial attorney general in U.S. history tells untold story behind the war on terror in post-9/11 America.
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In his latest voyage of discovery Michael Palin reads his own account of a journey into a new Europe.
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Ted Conover becomes a corrections officer at Sing Sing to get the inside story.
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The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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In this Audio book from the DVD of the same name, Nick Pope for the first time since leaving the MOD goes on the record and spells out his beliefs, opinions and reveals his inside knowledge.
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With a culture dating back to at least 700 B.C., West Africa has a long and rich history. British influence after the 16th century, and especially in the 18th century, changed the region's course. ...
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Marla Runyan was 9 years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, an irreversible form of macular degeneration. This is the story of how she refused to let her diagnosis limit her dreams.
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The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
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When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.
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A joy from beginning to end and wonderfully read by the author, this is a classic childhood memoir...a Yorkshire childhood, from the nation's best-loved gardener...
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In her frank, funny, and down-to-earth memoir, Mary Cheney describes life inside the bubble of a national campaign...
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Often Wrong, Never in Doubt is an inspirational book from one of America's most colorful and exciting entrepreneurs. He lays out the core principles that propelled him to create tremendous wealth...
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Returning to their home after an extended absence, Carol and her husband Michel are looking forward to summer together on the farm. A shocking blow leaves Carol alone. The future is uncertain...
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On Liberty - John Stuart Mill advocated individual liberty based on a philosophical concept called utilitarianism, or "the greatest happiness for the greater number." This intellectual tradition re...
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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon.
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For everyone who finds inspiration in hearing about a champion on and off the course.
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In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what is was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice acros...
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Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life.
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Come to understand why playing in the Open at Bethpage meant so much to so many.
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As a well-paid war correspondent, Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. He would later transform the experience into his most famous short story, The Open Boat, in 1898.
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From the heart and mind of Amy Tan, a reflection on the opposite of fate.
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The story of the Knights of Malta is filled with mystery, intrigue and excitement. Come with us on a journey into the heart of battle.
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A brilliant, hopeful, and inspiring book about the children of the South Bronx.
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The million-copy best seller...now a major motion picture, two sisters compete for the greatest prize: the love of a king.
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In this rare, sweeping history, Michael Barone draws from deep within the political and social record of modern America to tell the story of how the country of our parents and of our grandparents b...
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This is the first full account in nearly half a century of this voyage into history: a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.
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Many people know and love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie Wooster. But what of their creator, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse? Was he really a traitor to his country who broadcast danger...
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True life tale of the French resistance during WW11.
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Pam Ayres at her entertaining best in a live stage show from Stratford-upon-Avon...
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Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years...
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A story of strength and courage, unflinchingly honest, yet poignant and often funny.
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Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left: a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world
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A teeming and engrossing audiobook, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.
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The diary of Samuel Pepys is like no other book in the world. One reason is that its writer had no idea of making a book at all. He never dreamed of human eyes falling upon his blessedly frank and naked page. The record was a secret between himself and his own soul. To those who love humanity...
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Ms. Terry Moore reveals the private Hughes
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Popular actress Penelope Keith discusses her work as a reader for BBC Audiobooks.
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More than half of the world's oil comes from Persian Gulf states. Political instability and religious strife here threaten to interrupt the world's economic routines. This presentation examines the...
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's 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 a look at the changing...
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In June 1722, Philip Ashton was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia.
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Pinned is a tough, savvy tale that melds the hard, tough sport of wrestling with the hard,tough lives of two young men who seem locked into each others' destinies.
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Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies.
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The breakdown of Europe's Eastern Bloc proves that the map of Europe cannot be redrawn merely to serve political ends. Perhaps no country illustrates this more clearly than Poland, whose borders of...
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Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again.
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Tucker Carlson loosens his signature bowtie and cracks wise on all things political.
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Although over two millennia old, Aristotle's Politics remains central to the perplexing questions posed in the study of political science. His carefully argued analysis is based on a study of more ...
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In a place where men post claims of manhood on bug deflectors, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife with a pistol and a Bible, and where the most senior firefighter is a cross-eyed butcher.
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Using the first-hand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used...
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Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died. Her bold, brilliant canvasses had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence ...
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Joyce describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus.
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The Preacher and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together.
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Michael Beschloss's dramatic and inspiring saga explores crucial times when courageous Presidents changed the history of the United States.
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The ultimate guided tour of the nation's most famous dwelling, The President's House is truly a national treasure.
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The Prince - Machiavelli wrote The Prince for his ruler as a guide for gaining and keeping power. Central themes of his essay are the relation between politics and ethics; what the best form of gov...
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Whether he was a sad, self-obsessed man or a tortured comic genius, Williams had a unique talent, which Benson captures incredibly well in this one-off insight into Williams' private life
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author who is a shining example of what overcoming adversity really means now shares the final stage of his uplifting journey that has touched the lives of millions.
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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men.
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Lifts the lid off today's legal system with details more shocking than any fictional TV show
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Filled with inspiring stories and tremendous insight, Putting Like A Genius will improve your game, and make it more enjoyable.
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Dylan Thomas tells stories of his childhood in Wales, piling on the sights and smells and sounds experienced by one rough-and-tumble Welsh lad with a miraculous sense of wonder.
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In wartime Hungary, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg issued countless "false" visas and documents which saved approximately 100,000 Jews from the Nazis. After Wallenberg's arrest by Russian milita...
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In this rare actual recording from 1938, Freud talks about his professional career and his escape from the Nazis at the age of 82.
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In the fall of 1787, the call went out: Each of the 13 states assembled special conventions to consider ratification of a proposed Constitution of the United States. Without ratification by nine co...
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A consummate innovator, Sandy Weill has written a memoir which uniquely brings to life the dramatic evolution of the modern financial services industry." -Alan Greenspan
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Dr. Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe preserve forever altered the very definition of "humanity".
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Finally, the official book of The Red Hat Society, which is sweeping the nation.
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An epic work of fiction, the dramatic, intertwining tale of two families struggling to make a place for themselves in an America deeply divided after the Civil War.
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Ed Butchart shares his stories as a professional Santa Claus in The Red Suit Diaries. Woven throughout is a faith and a joy of giving that energizes Butchart's mission to spread love to all kinds.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France is a slashing attack on the French Revolution by one of Britain's most famous statesmen. Liberty and social order, Burke argues, are maintained by the tradit...
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Reggie Yates talking about his experiences of working on Dr Who.
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Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in BBC R3's Sunday Feature 'Rembrandt 400'...
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Filled with stories of heads of state, network moguls, competing journalists, celebrities, and family members, Reporting Live is a funny, real, knowledgeable audiobook.
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Riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places.
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Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today and how he came to believe as he does.
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Pope John Paul II's recollections of his life and thoughts on issues facing the world.
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Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history, Pete is thrust into a world-wide adventure that reveals an unsettled and poignant history, while unearthing a good pint in the most...
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This is the story of an American dynasty: the father, who built the fortune, the son who cleansed the name, the brothers who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends, and the cou...
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In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars.
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The author's adventures riding the rails with America's hoboes.
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who had left their stamp.
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Their path to the White House - 1911 to 1980.
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'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh...well, it's the best job in the world,' said Ronnie Barker.
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Rothstein is a colorful biography that brings to life the underworld denizens of Jazz Age New York City and its unrivaled kingpin, when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham.
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Tales of why men and women are drawn to the sea and the battles they find there; savage storms, rough waves, mountainous icebergs, sharks, starvation.
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In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India," Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his...
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An inside look at the life of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century - Ernest Hemingway - from the woman who was both his personal secretary and his daughter-in-law.
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Khidhir Hamza, the Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb, tells how he secretly developed the bomb with the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts and...
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Periods of difficult travel will be repaid with new sights and sounds, people, languages, food and customs.
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In November 1910, a team of explorers left New Zealand led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. This is Scott's detailed memoir of his journ...
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The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead.
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In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St.John discovered that by letting them draw her into their world, she could understand their voices and their language. When she was introduced to the silent world of the autistic, she took what she had learned from the dolphins and broke...
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Jouney to find the man behind the myth, from the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats to his secret life as a spy, and the pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.
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Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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The Sense of Wonder relates Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, in their walks along the sea coast and through forests and fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight, and storm clouds. It is a guide to capturing the simple power of discovery that Carson...
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations.
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Bill Bryson's short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series, pairing great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.
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In this wonderfully evocative volume, Jimmy Carter shows us the things that matter most.
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From the tremendous high of her hit show The Osbournes to the devastating low of Ozzy's near fatal motorcycle accident, Sharon' s tenacity, honesty, and humor have triumphed again and again.
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The launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, The Myths, and a brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity, by the bestselling writer...
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