Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| JUDY BLUME | SUPERFUDGE -
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.
Superfudge picks up from where Tails of a Fourth Grade Nothing leaves 12-year-old Peter, his 4-year-old brother Fudge, and the rest of the Hatcher family. As if Fudge hasn't caused enough problems already, now Peter's parents are planning on moving to the country for a whole year and having another baby. Will Peter have another tiny version of Fudge on his hands? The story chronicles these and other familiar growing pains for adolescents, as well as some less-than-typical issues, like the Hatchers' friendly neighbor who may or may not eat worms. Parents will love reading the Fudge stories to a captive audience, and children will laugh out loud at the hysterical reenactment of typical family situations.
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| DANIEL GOLEMAN | EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE -
Is IQ destiny? Not nearly as much as we think. This fascinating and persuasive program argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life.
Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Daniel Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do well. These factors add up to a different way of being smart -- one he terms "emotional intelligence." This includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness.
These are the qualities that mark people who excel in life, whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace. Lack of emotional intelligence can sabotage the intellect and ruin careers. Perhaps the greatest toll is on children, for whom risks include depression, eating disorders, unwanted pregnancies, aggressiveness and crime.
But the news is hopeful. Emotional intelligence is not fixed at birth, and the author shows how its vital qualities can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. And because the emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain's circuitry, he provides guidance as to how parents and schools can best use this window of opportunity in childhood. The message of this eye-opening program is one we must take to heart: the true "bell curve" for a democracy must measure emotional intelligence.
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| WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, JR. | THE HEARSTS: FATHER AND SON -
From San Juan Hill to San Simeon, from Patton's tanks to the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Hearst name has been at the forefront of American life for over a century.
As founder of the largest U.S. prewar media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr., forever changed the face of American journalism by using his newspapers to aid in forcing the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. As a public figure he was larger than life-first as ambitious congressman, then as reclusive yet active businessman in the famous castle that rises above the Pacific at San Simeon. The elder Hearst was known for his extravagance as well as his long affair with Marion Davies, images that were highly embellished in Orson Welles's reproach of the Hearst persona,CITIZEN KANE.
InThe HEARSTS: FATHER AND SON, William Randolph Hearst, Jr., and co-author Jack Casserly tell the extraordinary story of an American family from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. They also profile a cavalcade of reporters and columnists who became the stars of the Hearst newspapers, and portray the colorful New York nightlife of the 1930s and 1940s.
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| LYLE LEVERICH | TOM: THE UNKNOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (Part 1) -
This is the little-known story of Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams's childhood, which was marred by his parents' marital woes and his sister's madness. Fearing he would end up like his sister, Tom built a life away from his bullying father and doting mother. From the age of 12, when he got a typewriter, he channeled his fears into a fictional world that would ultimately lead to great fame.
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| LYLE LEVERICH | TOM: THE UNKNOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (Part 2) -
Lyle Leverich, the biographer whom Williams chose, follow Williams from his days as an introspective schoolboy to his stalled academic career to his early writing successes and on to the confusion he felt over his success.
"Impressively argued, wonderfully detailed and dramatic, compulsively readable."
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| ELIZABETH LONGFORD | QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED (PART 1) -
Queen Victoria liked to get her way. When asked how he dealt with her, Disraeli, her favorite prime minister, said: "I never argue. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
Such anecdotes help breathe life into a figure who for our age is in danger of becoming a caricature. But Elizabeth Longford's book gives us a fully-rounded portrait: Victoria in love with Albert, their brief marriage, his death and her collapse into grief and retirement, her iron-willed return.
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| ELIZABETH LONGFORD | QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED (PART 2) -
"What akes the Queen a character of permennial interest is that her private life, and (to an extent) her public life, was a battle with her temperament -- a battle which was still rolling on inside that small figure when she was an elderly lady of over sixty."
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| GEORGE MACDONALD | THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN -
There is a revived interest in the 19th-century writings of George MacDonald, the man C. S. Lewis called "my master." This is an ageless tale of courage and loyalty, beauty and honor, mystery and divinity, and above all, the conflict of good and evil. The discovery of a secret stairway running to the top of the castle leads Princess Irene to a revelation more weighty than miner boy Curdie's detection of the goblin community's fiendish plans. Will the Princess and Curdie understand the significance of what they have found, or will Harelip and the goblins successfuly execute their evil plan? Recommended for children aged 4 to 94.
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| GEORGE MACDONALD | THE GRAY WOLF & OTHER FANTASY STORIES -
George MacDonald was briefly a Congregationalist minister, but after being rejected by his congregation, he turned to writing as a means of supporting his family. His compassionate affection for humanity and nature are vividly illustrated throughout his captivating works of fiction.
"I do not write," MacDonald once said, "for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." Here then, for the childlike of all ages, is a collection of seven fairy tales and stories certain to delight both confirmed MacDonald readers and those about to meet him for the first time.
This series includes "The Gray Wolf," "The Cruel Painter," "The Broken Swords," "The Wow O'Rivven," "The Butcher's Bills," "Birth," "Dreaming," "Death," and "Uncle Cornelius: His Story." | Y
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| ANNE RICE | MERRICK -
Just when you thought it was safe for a bloodsucker to go out in the dark in New Orleans, along comes Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series.
It is Louis who brings about the collision of the fang and voodoo universes. Louis made Claudia a vampire in Rice's classic Interview with the Vampire, in which she was destroyed, and now he's obsessed with raising her ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the beyond. (Claudia physically resembles Rice's young daughter who died of a blood-related illness. Rice nearly died of a diabetic coma in 1998, and writing Merrick turned her excruciating recovery into an exhilarating burst of creativity).
Vampire David Talbot lobbies Merrick to call Claudia's spirit and slake Louis's guilt, but Talbot winds up in the grip of an obsession with the witch. You see, Talbot, unlike most vampires, lived 70 years as a human, so his sexual response to humans is still as strong as his blood thirst. Merrick can cast spells to make men crave her, and Talbot is tormented. After she reads his palm, he muses, "I wanted to take her in my arms, not to feed from her, no, not harm her, only kiss her, only sink my fangs a very little, only taste her blood and her secrets, but this was dreadful and I wouldn't let it go on."
The secrets of Merrick are dark and sensuous, but the book is a romp animated by Rice's feeling of coming back to life through the magic of a literary outpouring. The narrative flashes back to the past, to an Indiana Jones-ish adventure in a Guatemalan cave, and to scenes from many other Rice novels. It may be helpful to read Merrick with the Rice-approved guidebooks The Vampire Companion and The Witches' Companion at hand.
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| MERYLE SECREST | LEONARD BERNSTEIN: A LIFE -
Everything is here: the child growing up in a Hasidic family in Massachusetts, his father a rabbi's son; his first piano at age nine ("I remember touching it ... It was my contact with life, with God"); his reluctant, brilliant, argumentative years at Harvard; the rocky but exhilarating start of his career (scant jobs, no money, but friendships with Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Judy Holliday, Comden and Green, et al.); his spectacular debut (understudy into a star!) as substitute conductor at the New York Philharmonic; the great career over the years as a composer in classical music (the Kaddish Symphony, Chichester Psalms, Songfest), and in musical theater (On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue).
We see Bernstein: the good father to his three children, the man who adored his wife, Felicia Montealegre, the man who adored men, the brilliant and generous mentor, the temperamental artist, the hypochondriac, the politician, the businessman, the Pied Piper ...
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| JAMES SPADA | STREISAND HER LIFE -
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Streisand began performing in her teens as an actress; she only began singing on a dare. But it was because of her voice, which brought her cabaret bookings in the early 1960s, that she initially became famous.
Never conventionally beautiful, she knew she had to make her talent outshine her looks, and always refused to remake herself to anyone else's liking. That sense of resolve and single-mindedness paid off in the years to come, as success followed success: a record deal, the big break in Funny Girl on both stage and screen, and the transition from Broadway darling to the toast of Hollywood. As her movie career developed, the appeal of branching out into production and then direction became even stronger. Her 1983 directorial debut, Yentl, and her second film The Prince of Tides earned both box-office dollars and critical acclaim. An avid supporter of AIDS research and other charitable causes, Barbra has become more involved than ever in recent years as a political and social activist, but always continues to grow and take risks as an artist.
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| STEVE THAYER | SILENT SNOW -
In this quirky and complex suspense novel, Thayer entangles some of the main characters from his debut thriller, The Weatherman, in a re-creation of the Lindbergh kidnapping in present-day Minnesota.
Rick Beanblossom is the Twin Cities' top investigative reporter. He has a devoted wife. A brand-new son. He is contented. But on the March 1st anniversary of the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping, all that will change-when history repeats....
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| NELLIE BLY | OPRAH! UP CLOSE AND DOWN HOME -
She was born dirt poor on a Mississippi farm, got raped at nine and, at 14, bore a child who died during delivery. But now, in her early 40s, Oprah Winfrey is America's #1 talk show host, is worth at l3ast $250 million and is loved around the world.
How did she do it? And what is she doing with her remarkable success? This intimate, no-holds-barred look at this phenomenal woman spells it out.
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| RAY BRADBURY | FAHRENHEIT 451 -
Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do!
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| EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS | TARZAN OF THE APES -
Deep in the heart of the Congo, a small baby is adopted by Kala-fierce anthropoid ape of the tribe of Kerchak. Here, protected by his savage foster mother, Tarzan (for so she named him) learns the secrets of jungle life: how to talk with all animals, how to move like a shadow, how to swing freely through the teeming forest, how to fight great carnivores barehanded. Here he acquires the strength and agility of his guardian apes, and the same keen sense of smell and sound that all wild creatures need to protect themselves. Here he cements his lifelong friendship with the tribe of Tantor, the great grey elephants. And here, in time, his human intelligence brings him to the leadership of his own tribe.
Fierce, proud, free, superlatively strong and nobly made, Tarzan of the Apes proves himself truly the unconquerable Lord of the Jungle. But civilization holds traps for the jungle-bred-and even Tarzan is not immune to the craft and guile of human beings.
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| GEORGE BUSH | ALL THE BEST, George Bush -
Read by the author and his family.
Though reticent in public, George Bush has openly shared his private thoughts in his correspondence throughout his life. Fortunately, since the former president does not plan to write his autobiography, this collection of letters, diary entries, and memos, with his accompanying commentary, will fill that void.
Organized chronologically, the volume begins with eighteen-year-old George's letters to his parents during World War II when, at the time he was commissioned, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy. Listeners will gain insights into Bush's career highlights -- the oil business, his two terms in Congress, his ambassadorship to the U N., his service as an envoy in China, his tenure with the Central Intelligence Agency, and of course, the vice presidency, the presidency, and the postpresidency.
They will also observe a devoted husband, father, and American. Ranging from a love letter to Barbara and a letter to his mother, about missing his daughter Robin after her death from leukemia, to a letter to his children two weeks before Nixon's resignation, to one written to them just before the beginning of Desert Storm, the writings are remarkable for their candor, humor and poignancy.
As the Bushes continue to emerge as a major political family, this portrait of its unassuming patriarch is timely and important. That George Bush is allowing this much of the collection to be published is remarkable in itself. All the Best, George Bush provides a surprisingly intimate and insightful portrayal of the forty-first president of the United States.
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| JOHN GRAY, PH.D. | MARS and VENUS IN LOVE -
This is a tape of love stories -- a collection of true-life tales that will show you something about your own love story that may have eluded you for a long time. A few insights, techniques, and changes in habits of mind and body nourish love and make it grow, and like little one-act plays, these stories show you how. Mars and Venus in Love gives you the opportunity to see yourself in the stories of others and to recognize yuour own communication and behavior patterns in the circumstances they describe.
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| JOHN GRAY, PH.D. | MARS & VENUS IN LOVE IN THE BEDROOM -
Mars and Venus in the Bedroom provides both men and women with specific instructions on how their new relationship skills can be used to improve their sex lives. Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come only from John Gray, it shows couples how they can become sexually satisfied without frustrating their partners, be better lovers, keep their monogamous relationship passionate, communicate their sexual needs romantically and get more pleasure out of sex.
Yes, men are still from Mars and women are from Venus, and vive la difference. With John Gray's guidance, these two celestial bodies can harness their differences to come into closer orbit with each other and enjoy some close encounters of the most heavenly kind.
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| AUGUST HECKSCHER | WOODROW WILSON A BIOGRAPHY (PART 1) -
This biography traces Wilson's meteoric career with sympathy but penetrating objectivity. A president of Princeton, Wilson ran successfully for the New Jersey governorship. Two years later, he was in the White House.
Wilson was our leader in the 20th Century's first great conflict. He defined the terms for ending WWI. An idealist, he crusaded for the league of Nations.
Then the public mood darkened. Wilson's errors of judgment, worsened by failing health, broke his hopes for a liberal peace.
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| AUGUST HECKSCHER | WOODROW WILSON A BIOGRAPHY (PART 2) -
Today, with the revival of collective security and international law as valid concepts, Wilson's prophetic ideals have acquired fresh significance.
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| DAVID MCCULLOUGH | TRUMAN (PART 1) -
The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur.
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| DAVID MCCULLOUGH | TRUMAN (PART 2) -
Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman's own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary "man from Missouri" who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
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| M. SCOTT PECK | GOLF AND THE SPIRIT -
Golf can teach you some of life's most important lessons. Whether you're a master, beginner, or know nothing about golf and couldn't care less, by playing side by side with Dr. Peck on an imaginary course of his own design, you'll come to learn the rich spiritual truths the game holds. | Y
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| EDGAR ALLAN POE | CLASSIC POE -
The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, M.S. Found in a Bottle, The Bells, The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the "Tale for Effect." He is known throughout the world for his dark-edged poetry and stories. This is an unabridged collection of some of his best-known and most engaging works. The narration is superb, providing the listener with a spine tingling journey into the world of Poe.
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| DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER | HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! -
Dr. Laura Schlessinger's potent prescription against the epidemic that's killing America's ethics and values. A wise and witty audiobook that topples the lame excuses we invent when we do the wrong thing, How Could You Do That?! challenges readers to find their Character, Conscience, Courage, Self-respect, Morals, Integrity, and Principles by discussing such issues as love versus lust, irresponsible parenting, and the mindless pursuit of happiness at the expense of others.
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| L. SCHLESSINGER & S. VOGEL | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -
Everybody knows The Ten Commandments, right? Let's see: there's something about stealing, lying, murdering...ahhh...but that's only three...what are the rest?
More people claim to live by the Ten Commandments than seem to know what they are, let alone what they mean. And in this modern, jet-propelled, nuclear, genetic-engineered world, how important are they?
Each day we make innumerable decisions about things that don't really seem earth-shattering in importance. So what if we break a promise? So what if we are married but find passion in another bed? So what if we are too focused on work, TV, or clubs to spend time with family?
Written and read in collaboration with Rabbi Stewart Vogel, The Ten Commandments is a modern application of God's laws, incorporating lively discussion on the Bible and the Judeo-Christian values derived from it. Filled with passion, emotion, provocative and profound insights, The Ten Commandments will move, enlighten, inspire, educate, and entertain you. You won't be able to look at even mundane moments in your life the same way again.
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| DANIELLE STEEL | IRRESISTIBLE FORCES -
For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street's top firms. Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere. The only thing missing in their lives is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn't ready and doesn't have time. Not yet. Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for the brass ring - in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. Meredith is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at an exciting young high-tech company. Traditionally, men's careers forces families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to abandon friends, home, and lives to follow. But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying he'll join her as he can find a new job himself, they can begin their family at last.
Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bi-coastal marriage, as Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own. Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives in increasingly separate worlds. And despite the best of intentions, irresistible forces begin to tear their lives and hearts apart.
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| DAVID SWEETMAN | VAN GOGH: HIS LIFE AND HIS ART -
Published on the centenary of his death, this is the first comprehensive biography of Vincent Van Gogh in over 25 years. It glows with new information. The author wanted his book to shed new light on his subject, and it does.
We learn much of Van Gogh's early years: his conflict about becoming an artist, his strong spiritual beliefs and the failed love affairs that deepened his depression and despair.
"A lucid, balanced biography. Sweetman's understated study makes the artist's story and hard-won genius particularly moving." (Kirkus Reviews)
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