Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| ANONYMOUS | PRIMARY COLORS - Primary Colors has its rich rewards as a savvy insider's look at life on the stump. But it travels far beyond mere gossip and exposT and discovers a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nutcases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private lives illuminate each other-sometimes by casting dark shadows. This story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth-the kind of truth that only fiction can tell. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| SAUL BELLOW | HUMBOLDT'S GIFT - For many years, Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were the best of friends-Humboldt a grand erratic figure; Charlie a young man of frenzied and noble longings. But by the 1970s, Humboldt has died a failure in New York and Charlie's success-ridden life in Chicago has taken various turns for the worse. Then Humboldt acts from the grave to change Charlie's life-he leaves Charlie a bequest in his will.
Now, Charlie is middle-aged and a bit shaky and it is high time that his life came to something. His days are cluttered with comic absurdities and his destiny seems obscured. Himself a thinker, he longs to come from left field and knock them all dead, to make intellectuals as clearly superfluous as they seem to him to be. But his ex-wife has him enmeshed in law suits; he is held in thrall by the young, sexually-beguiling but expensive and unsuitable Renata; he has fallen into the hands of a neurotic Mafioso named Rinaldo Cantabile; and his career seems to have ground to a halt.
How the gentle but resilient Charlie comes to know what he must do and how he triumphs over his ever more ridiculous tribulations is the great discovery of Humboldt's Gift.
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(13T,19.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| THOMAS BERGER | LITTLE BIG MAN - Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man.
As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer. As a white man, he helped hunt the buffalo into extinction, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok--and lived through the showdown that followed. He also survivied the Battle of Little Bighorn, where he fought side by side with Custer himself--even though he'd sworn to kill him.
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(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| OLIVE ANN BURNS | COLD SASSY TREE - Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoats showed, the ladies could make the talk last a week.
But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson -- a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
"Rich with emotion, humor and tenderness...a novel about an old man growing young, a young man growing up, and the modern age coming to a small Southern town." (The Washington Post Book World) | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON | BLUE HIGHWAYS - Robert Penn Warren writes, "When Least Heat-Moon (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessities, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about America...it is a masterpiece.
Everywhere, Heat-Moon drew people into conversation -- from bars to communities of Trappists. He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves, exploring their lives and capturing their language. In short, he makes America -- and its people -- seem new in a very special way. BLUE HIGHWAYS is a magnificent and unique tour, with the price of gasoline no object."
Note: This book was originally recorded for radio and is abridged.
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(5T,5H) | $20 | No | T |
| GEORGE HIGGINS | THE PROGRESS OF THE SEASONS - This is a book about baseball, our national pastime. The centerpiece is a team that hasn't won the championship for more than eighty years. The Boston Red Sox, however, are only part of the story. The rest turns on thoughts about family and continuity and, of course, the progress of the seasons—something, you'll learn, any reasonably intelligent man or woman is supposed to know about. The Progress of the Seasons confirms what admirers of the author's sparkling accurate prose already know: Higgins is to writing what Ted Williams was to baseball—an all-star.
Beginning in 1946, the then eight-year-old author, accompanied by father and grandfather, takes the long train ride out to Fenway Park to find some truth in immortals like Doerr, DiMaggio, York, and Williams (imagine the records Ted Williams would have engraved if he hadn't left the field for World War II and Korea), and, later, Yastremski, Marty Barrett, and many more. Beyond the games, there's a magical moment when George Higgins calls on his own mythic Emily to check the all-time lineup with his deceased forebears. By then you've come to know what the author's values have in common with those in Our Town and why certain professional athletes achieve immortality and others don't. And to think, as Johnny Pesky reminds us, "It's such a simple game... and it's so hard to play."
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| JOE KANE | RUNNING THE AMAZON - Until the summer of 1985 no one had ever traveled the 4200 miles of the Amazon River. It looked just too formidable. But in late August of that year nine young men and women made the attempt. They had an incredible journey.
They came from all over the world...for sport, for science, for the thrill. In the event there was something for everyone. But the biggest reward was to have done it, to have conquered the endless Amazon from its source to its Atlantic spillway.
"A first-hand account of adventure in the grand manner." (Publisher's Source)
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(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| JON KRAKAUER | EIGER DREAMS - In INTO THIN AIR, Jon Krakauer gave his terrifying firsthand account of a disaster on Mount Everest. Now he introduces us to the wider fraternity of mountaineers - the daredevils, athletes and misfits who play a game whose stakes grow more dangerous with each climb. He takes us to Pakistan, where the fearsome K2 claims the lives of thirteen of the world's most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer. Then we visit Valdez, Alaska, where two men scale a frozen waterfall over a four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip international crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders figures out new ways to risk their lives on the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they do it? How do they do it? In this extraordinary book, a great outdoorsman explores the drive to climb above the clouds and look death in the eye. | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| PETER MAYLE | ENCORE PROVENCE - Four years away from his beloved Provence was as much as Peter Mayle could bear. So he went back, with glorious success. Mayle celebrates his homecoming to Provence with a joyous mix of Gallic characters, adventure, and culinary treats. The pauses for refreshment include a feast in a converted gas station, a rendezvous with the best bouillabaisse in Marseilles, and visits to eventful Sunday-morning markets. But there is life after lunch, and we also discover a school for noses in Haute-Provence, a gardener who grows black tomatoes, and the unsolved murder of a handsome butcher. Never has Peter Mayle written with more unabashed pleasure about his heaven on earth. Peter Mayle is the author of two previous nonfiction books on France, A YEAR IN PROVENCE and TOUJOURS PROVENCE, and four novels including CHASING CEZANNE.
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| M. SCOTT PECK, M.D. | IN SEARCH OF STONES - The story of a three-week trip through the countryside of Wales, England, and Scotland that Dr. Peck took with his wife Lily--looking for the ancient megalithic stones that became their obsession. In Search of Stones is also a search for meaning and mystery, and ultimately an unveiling of the pilgrimage of life itself.
During the trip Dr. Peck discusses many related realms of human experience--parenthood, holiness, romance and art, to name a few--and we travel with him on an adventure of the spirit, striving to understand the journey, as he frankly faces his own fears and shortcomings, and through the power of his insight we are challenged to do the same.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| JONATHAN RABAN (© 1979) | Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth - ARABIA is the story of Jonathan Raban's magic carpet ride through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. Not only does it reveal the Arabs and their culture, it also introduces us to a series of memorable individuals.
Much of the book's strength is the author's gift for friendships. He brings us into markets and hotels to glamorous parties and seedy rooms, to a sheikh's fortress and the home of a Bedu family. He opens up the world of the rich and the poor and gives us the feel, the smells, the sounds, the very texture of Arabia.
"Beautifully written, poignant, funny, ARABIA is more than travel book, it is a tale of the collision of cultures, observed at an historically crucial time." (Publisher's Source)
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(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| THOMAS SOWELL | MIGRATIONS AND CULTURES - To future generations, the late twentieth century may come to be known as the time of the DPs: Displaced Persons. Migration and relocation are raising inflammatory issues from Germany to the Tex-Mex border. Into this whirlpool of half-truths, sermons, prejudices, and fears dives Hoover Institution economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell. It is not necessary to agree with all of his views to admire his imposing attempt to arrive at a theory of migration and culture. Or to succumb to his fascinating tales of how immigrants have coped and exceled on strange new shores. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| GEORGE WILL | MEN AT WORK THE CRAFT OF BASEBALL - Being an informed, observant baseball fan is a form of participation in that complex, subtle ritual. "Baseball," writes George F. Will, "is indeed a game, but one at which men work with admirable seriousness." It is best appreciated by those fans who understand the discipline and attention to detail practiced by players and managers.
Based on his own extensive contacts with participants in this sport, Will treats the elements of the game by examining four men who are exemplars of its various crafts. The manager is Tony La Russa of the Oakland Athletics, the pitcher, Dodger Orel Hershiser. Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres represents batters, while Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken exemplifies defense.
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