Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| SARAH BRADFORD (© 1996) | ELIZABETH (part 1) -
Sarah Bradford's new biography examines the woman who has reigned over Britain for the past forty years. After a decade years of researching private archives and interviewing sources close to Her Majesty, Sarah Bradford has painted a faithful and revealing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II -- once the poised young queen presiding gracefully in war and peace, now the embattled matriarch managing the affairs of her chaotic household. It is a complex, sometimes paradoxical view of a woman who has always maintained her dignity, despite the pressures of politics and domestic strife. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| SARAH BRADFORD (© 1996) | ELIZABETH (part 2) -
Written in commemoration of the queen's seventieth birthday last year, Elizabeth is destined to become the definitive study of the woman who may be England's last monarch. | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
| PETER GRAY | FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME (part 1) -
Enter the world of Sigmund Freud: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, fruitful and embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories, struggling toward his discoveries, quarreling with his disciples.
But the book is more than biography. The author's explanations of Freud's theories of dreams and sexuality, development and neurosis, love and hate are a brilliant review of pschoanalytic thought.
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(14T,21H) | $50 | No | T |
| PETER GRAY | FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME (part 2) -
Freud emerges whole--student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, Jew, victim and victor. As W.H. Auden said of him, he is "...no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion." | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| ROBERT LACEY | FORD: THE MEN AND THE MACHAINE (part 1) -
Genius is rarely quiet, and Henry Ford was no exception. He started more than a company: It was a revolution. He turned not only the United States on its head, but the world. Think of his impact, for better or worse: a stunning accomplishment, carried on for four generations by his family. Now Robert Lacey has captured the public achievements and the private tragedies, the feuds, affairs and personalities that make up this epic tale.
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(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| ROBERT LACEY | FORD: THE MEN AND THE MACHAINE (part 2) -
FORD is above all the story of a handful of powerful individuals whose ambitions have helped shape modern American society: Henry Ford I, the founder; Edsel Ford, the son; Harry Bennett, the henchman; Henry Ford II, Edsel's son; and Lee Iacocca, right hand (subsequently severed) of Henry II. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JAMES PATTERSON | CAT And MOUSE -
Alex Cross -- psychologist, single father, homicide detective -- returns to face not one but two vicious killers. His old foe, Gary Soneji has escaped from prision and is dying from AIDS. Now he's gunning for Alex . If Soneji happens to kill thousands of others along the Eastern seaboard while aiming for Alex , so be it. A new murderer, the enigmatic Mr. Smith, leaves a bloody trail of corpses throughout Europe. Will Alex survive? As his life hangs in the balance, a doctor devoted to chasing serial killers steps into the double investigation. Now who is cat and who is mouse? A shocking and brutal roller-coaster ride, this James Patterson thriller is not for the faint of heart.
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(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| ELIZABETH PETERS | THE LOVE TALKER -
There may be worse fates than spending a few months at Idlewood, Laurie thinks as the Chicago winter howls around her. Certainly her Aunt Ida's invitation is well-intentioned, and she can't really have meant what she said: "I have nothing of which to complain, considering my age. I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!"
But when Laurie and her brother, Doug, arrive at the family home in the Maryland countryside, they discover that Aunt Ida may have reason to fear... and that something is indeed in the woods.
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(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| PAUL PRESTON (© 1993) | FRANCO (part 1) -
Francisco Franco, Spain's Caudillo for five decades, won the civil war, kept Spain neutral during WWII (by duping Hitler), modernized his country, orchestrated its economic boom and selected his own successor. Franco himself would approve of this recital, because he authored it.
Now another author, Paul Preston, sifts through the evidence of those five decades and gives us his conclusions. Certainly Franco got the job done, but at what cost? But equally, at what cost to Spain had he failed? For Franco was the most tenacious of Europe's 20th-century dictators. He did, after all, save his country from Communism, Nazism and invasion.
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(15%,22.5H) | $48 | No | T |
| PAUL PRESTON (© 1993) | FRANCO (part 2) -
"Genuinely fascinating...(Preston) is the greatest historian of Spain writing in English today." (The New York Times)
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(14T,21H) | $48 | No | T |
| JAMES REDFIELD | THE CELESTINE PROPHECY -
Within months of its first printing, word of mouth alone generated over a hundred thousand readers of this magical, moving work. The story takes us high into the Andes, where deep in ancient ruins, we find a life-changing discovery.
This treasure is an ancient Peruvian manuscript containing nine insights that present a new way of being. Its timeless wisdom helps us find the oldest truth: that all discovery begins with oneself.
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(8T,8H) | $20 | No | T |
| NORA ROBERTS | RIVER'S END -
Olivia MacBride and her parents, a fairy-tale Hollywood family, had everything--fame, fortune, and love. But when 4-year-old Olivia awakens one night to find her mother brutally murdered and her father, Sam, standing over her corpse, the little girl's dreamland dissolves before her very eyes.
Whisked away to the sanctuary of the Olympic Peninsula by her grandparents, Olivia learns to bury the past deep within her. Determined to protect herself from painful memories, Olivia limits her life to the emerald rain forests and the River's End resort. Years later, when Noah Brady arrives on her doorstop, Olivia allows her defenses to slip and opens herself to the passion that sparks between them.
When she learns that Noah is fascinated with her mother's death and is writing a tell-all novel, Olivia is devastated. But as Noah helps Olivia acknowledge the lingering effects of her painful memories, she learns to trust him again. With careful research and the apparent cooperation of Sam, Noah begins to unravel the mysteries of that night. However, soon after Sam's release from prison, dangerous threats begin to pursue Noah and Olivia. When the killer enters the serenity of their world, Noah and Olivia must face the dark secrets of the past, or fail to secure a safe future.
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(9T,14H) | $20 | No | T |
| ARTHUR SAXON | P.T. BARNUM: THE LEGEND AND THE MAN -
"For too long the public impression of P.T. Barnum has been one laced with thoughts of humbug and chicanery, with the shadiness of the pitchman. Here, in these fascinating letters, we find him to be too complex, too complicated a man to have such a reputation. The quintessential Barnum, a man we've never quite seen before, turns out to be full of ideas and energy, a humorist, a social critic, now beleaguered, now triumphant, a most fascinating character." –Stuart Thayer, Former President of the Circus Historical Society
"I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, to attract attention to a show," Phineas Taylor Barnum wrote to a publisher in 1860. "I don't believe in 'duping the public,' but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them."
The name P.T. Barnum is virtually synonymous with the fine art of self-advertisement and the apocryphal statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Nearly a century after his death, Barnum remains one of America's most celebrated figures.
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(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| TOM WOLFE | A MAN IN FULL (part 1) -
A decade ago, THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America. This time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia, where Charlie Croker, once a college football star, is now a late middle aged entrepreneur with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. He has a 28,000 acre plantation, a young and demanding second wife and a half empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When a star running back is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance shatters overnight. If Charlie can help the city's ambitious black mayor maintain calm, the bank just might be persuaded to ease up on him. Examining in microscopic precision the obsessions, preoccupations, habits and lingo of life at the top and bottom of American society, A MAN IN FULL proves once again why Wolfe is one of our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelists.
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(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| TOM WOLFE | A MAN IN FULL (part 2) -
"The novel contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written..." (New York Times Book Review) | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
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