Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| BARBARA BRANDEN | THE PASSION OF AYN RAND: (part 1)
Ayn Rand was larger than life. She lived life on an epic scale. She was intellectual and emotional, exalted but tragic, a passionate lover who could burn with hatred.
She was extremely admired and yet savagely attacked. No one was neutral about her. Yet despite her furor, her life remained private. Her public and professional activities took place on a lighted stage, her personal life was the background. Her personal life, revealed here for the first time, was the stuff of legend.
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| BARBARA BRANDEN | THE PASSION OF AYN RAND: (part 2)
"A superb biography...has the sweep, drama and narrative momentum of the great works of Ayn Rand herself." (Washington Post) | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| PETER COLLIER/DAVID HOROWITZ | THE ROOSEVELTS - At one time, the two Roosevelt family branches -- Teddy's and Franklin's -- were intimately intertwined and driven by a common ambition. But then the clan divided and thus began the struggle for dominance.
The author also shows how two U.S. presidents passed their ideals on to members of later generations -- and what those members did with them. It's a daunting story about the vanity of human aspirations.
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(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| JON KRAKAUER | INTO THE WILD -
Chris McCandless, an intensely idealistic young man from an affluent East Coast family, graduated with honors in 1990 from Emory University, changed his name, burned all his money, and vanished in search of a raw, transcendent experience. In April 1992, he hitchhiked from Montana to Alaska and walked "into the wild" to begin his adventure, carrying little more than a rifle, 10 pounds of rice, and a collection of books by Tolstoy and Thoreau. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found at his campsite by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of INTO THE WILD. | Y
(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| ROBERT K. MASSIE | PETER THE GREAT (part 1) -
In this magnificent biography by the author of NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, Massie depicts the life and times of one of civilization's most extraordinary rulers, Peter I, Czar of Russia. The first czar to travel outside his own country, he was insatiably curious and was fired by Western ideas.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| ROBERT K. MASSIE | PETER THE GREAT (part 2) -
Peter wanted to bring Russia out of its stifling medievalism and was driven to change everything: government, society and economy. He created the Russian navy, and established schools, hospitals, museums and libraries. He was responsible for printing the first newspaper in the country. He also edited and published books. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| ROBERT K. MASSIE | PETER THE GREAT (part 3) -
"The author is a clear, entirely unpretentious master of narrative history." (Newsweek) | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| ARNOLD RAMPERSAD | JACKIE ROBINSON: A BIOGRAPHY (part 1) -
The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson, the first man to break the color barrier in major-league baseball, is here explored as never before. Chosen by the athlete's widow to tell this story, Arnold Rampersad combs through interviews and archival materials from the Jackie Robinson Foundation, as well as previously unpublished letters from Robinson to his family. After the Negro National League and WW II, Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. Hard to believe today, but at the time he encountered pointed discrimination. Showing great strength of character, Robinson rose above vituperation. Nevertheless, he was dedicated to the nascent Civil Rights movement and was an early supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. He died unexpectedly at age 52, but his legend lives on.
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(10T,15H) | $32 | No | T |
| ARNOLD RAMPERSAD | JACKIE ROBINSON: A BIOGRAPHY (part 2) -
"Riveting as a historic narrative, unflinching in its discussion of American racism in Jackie Robinson's time, this sympathetic biography of the first black man to play major-league baseball is a model of it genre." (Joyce Carol Oates) | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| PIERS PAUL READ | ALIVE -
Their plane crashed high in the Andes. Their only shelter was the plane's shattered fuselage, their only supplies a little wine and some bits of candy. In the beginning, there were 32 survivors. Then, only 27, then, 19...and, in the end, 16. This is their story -- the greatest modern epic of catastrophe and human endurance. Those who survived clung to life with extraordinary tenacity...and made the most difficult decision in order to cheat starvation.
"A masterpiece of narrative....It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told." --Graham Greene
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(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| MORRIE SCHWARTZ | MORRIE: IN HIS OWN WORDS -
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Alborn's true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil, soared to the top of the bestseller lists and became a publishing phenomenon. Morrie Schwartz became an inspiration to millions of viewers because of his willingness to talk openly about the intimate aspects of facing an imminent death, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Before he died, Morrie finished the manuscript for this book, an unforgettable guide to caring for the mind and spirit when the body grows frail. | Y
(2T,3H) | $10 | No | T |
| GEOFFREY C. WARD | A FIRST CLASS TEMPERAMENT (part 1) -
This vivid, unsentimental account of FDR'S emergence as a political force follows the author's portrait of the young Roosevelt in BEFORE THE TRUMPET. Like its predecessor, this volume speaks with clarity, wit and comprehension.
Beginning in 1905, with the Roosevelt's European honeymoon, A FIRST CLASS TEMPERAMENT traces FDR'S career as a lawyer and follows him into politics. (Roosevelt began as a senator, then moved to Washington during WW I where he served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.) It also tells the personal story of FDR, how he found within himself the strength to live with polio and then go on to master the two great crisis of our century...the Depression and WW II.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| GEOFFREY C. WARD | A FIRST CLASS TEMPERAMENT (part 2) -
"An engrossing biography...magnificent social history. A triumph of scholarly detective work." (The New Yorker) | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $32 | No | T |
| EDMUND WHITE | MARCEL PROUST -
Considered one of the greatest - and most influential - writers of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust was also one of its most fascinating figures. A strange, reclusive genius who often lay in bed for days at a time obsessively rewriting his masterpiece, REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, Proust was at other times a tireless socialite, attending the grandest parties and dazzling guests with his vivacity and wit. But as a boy Proust was yearning and lonely, an ambitious grasper after honors, and a miserably closeted homosexual, an aspect of his life that this book explores frankly and perceptively. | Y
(3T,4.5H) | $12 | No | T |
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