Unabridged Audio Books
|
| | (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) | | AUTHOR | TITLE | Unabr | SALE | New | Media |
| BOX 15A |
| PATCH ADAMS M.D. | GESUNDHEIT! -
Bringing good health to you, the medical system, and society through physician service, complementary therapies, humor and joy.
"A book full of wisdom that ought to be read by everyone." Bernie Segel, M.D.
| Yes
(4T,6H) | $9 | No | T |
| SCOTT BERG | LINDBERGH (Part 1) -
From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself embarked on an odyssey for which he was ill-prepared ... becoming the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed Lindbergh's character, the astonishing transatlantic flight, then the thrilling aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of this son's kidnapper; Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and his leadership of the America First movement; his remarkable unsung work in the fields of medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation; and at the heart of it all, his fascinating, complex marriage to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness.
| Yes
(13T,19.5H) | $58 | No | T |
| SCOTT BERG | LINDBERGH (Part 2) -
"Compelling ... The kind of heroic, tragic and ultimately puzzling subject that is irresistible in its complexity."
| Yes
(9T,13.5H) | $38 | No | T |
| RICK BRAGG | ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN'
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the NY Times.
| No
(2T,3H) | $4 | No | T |
| RICHARD ELLMANN | JOMES JOYCE (Part 1) -
This revision of Ellmann's 1959 classic brings what Anthony Burgess called "the greatest literary biography of the century" up to date for a new generation to enjoy. The fresh material, in 100 new pages, deals with most aspects of Joyce's life: his writings and his attitude toward them, his loves and desires, his domestic problems, his political views.
| Yes
(15T,22.5H) | $ | No | T |
| RICHARD ELLMANN | JAMES JOYCE (Part 2) -
As Ellmann notes, "the additions may help to assuage some of the curiosity that still persists about this bizarre and wonderful creature who turned literature and language on end."
"The genius of Ellmann's Joyce is its abundance of detail ... its wealth of anecdotes and letters, recovered conversations and poems."
| Yes
(13T,19.5H) | $ | No | T |
| ANTONIA FRASER | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (Part 1) -
Mary Stuart is one of history's enigmas. She inspired devotion in her followers but hatred in Elizabeth's court. Antonia Fraser reveals to the listener an intensely feminine, regal, yet tagic figure ... a woman more moved about on history's stage than responsible for her own actions.
| Yes
(11T,16.5) | $44 | No | T |
| ANTONIA FRASER | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (Part 2) -
"... this excellent and lively biography is ... a work not of sentiment but of scholarship and symptathy." (The London Times)
| Yes
(10T,15H) | $40 | No | T |
| RHODA LERMAN | ELEANOR: HER SECRET JOURNEY -
A Full-Cast production, the complete play on 1 audiocassette. As Eleanor roosevelt, the woman who became known as "the First Lady of the World," Jean Stapleton takes us on a voyage of discovery and growth. This commanding performance captures the duality of Eleanor's complex personality: her public toughness versus her private frailty.
| Yes
(1T,80') | $9 | No | T |
| LAURIE LISLE | PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST -
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of 98. Her vivid visual vocabulary-sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth-had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century. And, her personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvasses.
Here is the story of a great romance-between the extraordinary painter and her much older mentor, lover, and husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, Georgia O'Keeffe is a twentieth-century legend. Her dazzling career spans virtually the entire history of modern art in America.
| Yes
(10T,15H) | $49 | No | T |
| JANET LOWE | BILL GATES SPEAKS -
An icon more powerful than anything found on a Windows screen, today Bill Gates stands atop his fabled Microsoft fortress, staring down competitors, threats and injunctions from an annoyed U.S. Justice Department. Whether admired or detested, glorified or vilified, Gates is a household name and a world wide curiosity.
Here, the author discloses what Bill Gates has to say on everything from financing a start-up company to running a conglomerate, from developing technology to raising a family, from increasing his business to expanding his personal net worth. | No
(2T,3H) | $8 | No | T |
| NELSON MANDELA | LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Part 1) -
To millions, Nelson Mandela personifies the ultimate triumph of those widely admired (but rarely found) virtues in political activists: faith,hope and charity. But it wasn't always thus. In his youth, Mandela advocated active violence as a means to ending apartheid, and for his pains, spent 27 years in prison.
Time and experience tempered his thought. On emerging from confinement he spoke for reconciliation ... a great gift to the continent and to its people, black and white, who must make their peace with each other. man. | Yes
(10T,15H) | $48 | No | T |
| NELSON MANDELA | LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Part 2) -
In this absorbing autobiography, we are privileged to get inside the heart and head of this remarkable man. | Yes
(9T,13.4H) | $40 | No | T |
| BERYL MARKHAM | WEST WITH THE NIGHT -
Beryl Markham was born in England in 1902 but grew up in Kenya. She knew colonial Africa in a way we can only imagine.
Always competitive, Markham started out training race horses. Her interest soon turned to aviation, and she carried mail, passengers and supplies to oil fields in the Sudan, Kenya and Rhodesia. She flew the Atlantic from east to west, solo, an aviation first. But it is her work as an author that remains.
Hemingway commended her book, but could not have known that this adventurous young woman would speak to a whole new generation. She had the wisdom to write just once, and her book shines with the vitality and intelligence that illuminated her life.
| Yes
(7T,10.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| FRANK MCCOURT | ANGELA'S ASHES - A luminous memoir of Depression-era childhood survival with its desperate poverty and casualty cruelty, told with eloquence and forgiveness | Yes
(10T,15H) | $29 | No | T |
| FRANK MCCOURT | ANGELA'S ASHES - A luminous memoir of Depression-era childhood survival with its desperate poverty and casualty cruelty, told with eloquence and forgiveness | No
(4T,4.5H) | $14 | No | T |
| LARRY MCMURTRY | CRAZY HORSE -
Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is now South Dakota. Already the arrival of white settlers--who brought with them such mixed blessings as metal tools, firearms, and smallpox--had begun to transform the culture of the Plains Indians. But soon a more ominous note crept into the relationship: "The Plains Indians were beginning to be seen as mobile impediments; what they stood in the way of was progress, a concept dear to the American politician." As whites sought to remove these impediments with increasing brutality, Crazy Horse led his people in a sporadic and ultimately doomed resistance, which peaked at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Within a year the young warrior (and occasional visionary) had surrendered to the United States Army. Four months later he was dead, stabbed in a highly suspicious scuffle with white and Indian policemen, and the Sioux resistance died with its legendary leader.
McMurtry's powers of compression are formidable. In no more than a few rapid paragraphs, he gives a sense of how this "prairie Platonist" divided the world into transient things and eternal, invisible spirits. He also conveys his opinion of Caucasian double-dealing with fine, acerbic efficiency: "In August, Custer emerged and described the beauties of the Black Hills in mouthwatering terms. In another life he would have made a wonderful real-estate developer. In this case he sold one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate in the West to a broke, depressed public who couldn't wait to get into those hills and start scratching up gold." McMurtry's Crazy Horse is the leanest and least rhetorical version yet of this American tragedy--which makes it, oddly enough, among the most moving.
| No
(2T,3H) | $9 | No | T |
| JACK MILES | GOD -
"A scintillating work of literary scholarship that will forever color, if not downright alter, our conception of the Bible as a work of art ... Dazzling " Yew York Times | No
(2T,3H) | $4 | No | T |
| N. RICHARD NASH | THE RAINMAKER -
A full-cast production, the complete play on two audio cassettes. The story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt and ruthless companies in America ... and exposing a complex, multi-billion dollar insurance scam
| Yes
(2T,2H) | $14 | No | T |
| JACK NEWFIELD | ONLY IN AMERICA -
If Don King were a city, he'd be Las Vegas: flamboyant, money-driven, rooted in gambling. But King has an even seedier side. After he worked his way out of street crime, running numbers, and jail .... for stomping a man to death ... he became a powerhouse in the fight game.
He did it by out-negotiationg corporate giants, fleecing entire countries and ruining the lives of boxing's greatest champions, including Ali, Friazier, Holmes and Tyson. It's only fitting that biographer Newfield, a columnist for the New York Post, takes the point of view of Don King's casualties .. the fighters he cheated, exploited, betrayed and abandoned.
| Yes
(8T,12H) | $39 | No | T |
| DORTHY PARKER | WHAT FRESH HELL IS THAT? -
She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theatre criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker-a private life set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts.
In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the dark side of Parker and her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S.J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker.
| Yes
(12T,18H) | $49 | No | T |
| |
| Wholesale Price Box - 25% MSRP (Single books On Sale For up to 60% -OFF MSRP) |
| Media Mail S&H (Insurance optional to buyer) |
| |
|
|
|