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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Audio Collection, The
    On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on...
    
    
  • Natasha - The Biography of Natalie Wood
    The biography of legendary film actress Natalie Wood.
    
    
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave
    The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders.
    
    
  • No Finish Line
    Marla Runyan was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, an irreversible form of macular degeneration. With the uneasy but unwavering support of her parents, she refused to let her diagnosis limit her dreams. Despite her severely impaired, ever-worsening vision, Marla rode horseback and learned to play the violin. And she found her true calling in sports.
    
    
  • Nigeria and West Africa
    With a culture dating back to at least 700 B.C., West Africa has a long and rich history. British influence after the 16th century, and especially in the 18th century, changed the region's course. ...
    
    
  • Newjack
    Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards - both...
    
    
  • Nancy - A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan
    Candid, moving and insightful, Nancy is the most personal look at Nancy Davis Reagan ever published. Nancy Davis Reagan has led an extraordinary life; it has also been an extraordinarily...
    
    
  • Most Dangerous Man in America, The
    There have been numerous biographies of Benjamin Franklin, including his own notorious autobiography. This is the most charming and captivating account of all. Every chapter is a bewitching gem, and Franklin lives and breathes on every page.
    
    
  • Mornings on Horseback
    From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of John Adams. Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore...
    
    
  • Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
    In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than fifty years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of ten ...
    
    
  • My Life in the Middle Ages
    A comic and poignant memoir that's both personal and generational.
    
    
  • My Country Versus Me
    Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, had devoted almost his entire life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities. He loved his job at Los Alamos National...
    
    
  • My Boyfriend's Back
    Poignant and heartwarming, My Boyfriend's Back captures the love story of former high school sweethearts Ed Oster and Donna Hanover — journalist, actress and former First Lady of the City of New...
    
    
  • Pam Ayres Poetry Collection, The
    Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years...
    
    
  • P. G. Wodehouse: The Authorised Biography
    Many people know and love the impeccable Jeeves and the inimitable Bertie Wooster. But what of their creator, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse? Was he really a traitor to his country who broadcast danger...
    
    
  • Over the Edge of the World
    In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves,...
    
    
  • Persian Gulf States, The
    More than half of the world's oil comes from Persian Gulf states. Political instability and religious strife here threaten to interrupt the world's economic routines. This presentation examines the...
    
    
  • Parish Priest
    Father Michael McGivney was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric, a man who has left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world.
    
    
  • Paper Life, A
    A story of strength and courage, unflinchingly honest, yet poignant and often funny.
    
    
  • Opposite of Fate, The
    Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while...
    
    
  • Nobbut A Lad: A Yorkshire Childhood
    A joy from beginning to end and wonderfully read by the author, this is a classic childhood memoir...a Yorkshire childhood, from the nation's best-loved gardener...
    
    
  • No Room for Error
    When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.
    
    
  • No One Left Behind (Abridged)
    The true story of a pilot who went missing on the opening eve of the Gulf War.
    
    
  • Open
    Come to understand why playing in the Open at Bethpage meant so much to so many.
    
    
  • One Soldier's Story
    Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the...
    
    
  • On Liberty/Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    On Liberty - John Stuart Mill advocated individual liberty based on a philosophical concept called utilitarianism, or "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
    
    
  • Middletown, America
    Fifty people never came home to Middletown, New Jersey after September 11th. Wall Street fathers, young Port Authority police, single working moms, the beloved coach of the girls basketball team.
    
    
  • Lives of The Artists Vol. 1
    Vasari described the lives of great artists with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Volume one includes Brunelleschi, da Vin...
    
    
  • Lincoln's Prose Major Works of a Great American Writer
    Speeches, Essays and other writings including 'The Gettysburg Address' and 'The Second Inaugural Address'.
    
    
  • Lincoln's Letters The Private Man and the Warrior
    Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. Audio Best of the Year - Publishers Weekly, 10 BEST - Library Journal
    
    
  • Living Biographies Of Great Philosophers
    The twenty-one philosophical personalities who represent an adventure in thinking are: Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Lock...
    
    
  • Lives of the Twelve Caesars
    Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and...
    
    
  • Lives of the Great Artists, The
    The Lives of the Great Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art.
    
    
  • Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The
    This is the poignant and compelling story of perhaps the most naturally gifted musical genius of all time. Copiously illustrated with examples of his music, it tells of Mozart's extraordinary...
    
    
  • Life and Works of Chopin, The
    Frederic Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music - his waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three...
    
    
  • Life and Works of Beethoven, The
    The story of Beethoven, widely believed to be the greatest composer who ever lived.
    
    
  • Life and Work of Marcel Proust
    This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses. From his youth in the salons of Belle Epoque Paris, we follow his...
    
    
  • Life of Shakespeare, A
    The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness. There may be few solid facts about Shakespeare the man, and yet not only do we want to know all about...
    
    
  • Life of Oscar Wilde, The
    The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed...
    
    
  • Life and Works of W.B. Yeats, The
    W.B. Yeats remains one of the most popular poets of the twentieth century. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, Down by the Salley Gardens, The Secret Rose - these...
    
    
  • Me: Moir, Volume One
    Comic masterpiece from one of the biggest names in British comedy...
    
    
  • Map That Changed the World, The
    From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology. In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith,...
    
    
  • Many Lives, Many Masters
    The revolutionary, phenomenal bestseller on past-life therapy. Dr. Brian Weiss is a highly respected psychiatrist from the mainstream of the medical establishment. Catherine is one of his...
    
    
  • Mexico
    In 1540, Mexico was declared to be New Spain. With a diverse culture and great natural resources, it should have prospered like its northern neighbor. But Mexico's history includes political corrup...
    
    
  • Mediterranean Basin, The
    The lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea contain some of the oldest cultures on Earth. Italy and the other countries of Europe and North Africa have played a central role in various expanding em...
    
    
  • Meaning of Everything, The
    A scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument erected to living language.
    
    
  • Man Called Cash, The: The Life, Love, and Faith of an American Legend
    Johnny Cash was a poor sharecropper's son from Arkansas who became one of the most influential figures in American music. In the 1950s he embarked on a music career that took him to the heights of ...
    
    
  • Lost Men, The
    In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party...
    
    
  • Lobster Chronicles, The
    After seventeen years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles...
    
    
  • Living Biographies Of Religious Leaders
    The great religious leaders whose lives and tenets are presented here are: Jesus Christ, Moses, Isaiah, Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius, John the Baptist, Paul, Muhammad, Francis of Assisi, John Huss,...
    
    
  • Madonna
    At the age of forty-three, with a career that spans two decades and ranges from the scandalous to the transcendent, Madonna is a bigger phenomenon than ever. But who is the private woman behind the...
    
    
  • Lucky - Unabridged
    The critically acclaimed memoir from the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the Lovely Bones. In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life...
    
    
  • Luckiest Man
    Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's strongest and most determined superstar, struck down in his prime by a disease that now bears his name. But who was Lou Gehrig, really? Lou...
    
    
  • Toast
    Britain’s most popular cook describes his personal culinary odyssey, from dangerous encounters with his mother’s weevil-seasoned cakes to being harangued by readers who think he deliberately styles...
    
    
  • 'Tis
    'Angela’s Ashes', Frank McCourt’s critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish childhood, won the Pulitzer Prize...
    
    
  • Taking Heat
    Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes in the West Wing.
    
    
  • Truman
    Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman captured...
    
    
  • Trip to the Beach, A
    This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise - and discover that even...
    
    
  • Trial and the Death of Socrates, The
    The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. In Apology Socrates defends himself...
    
    
  • Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals
    Selection of stories full of suffering, compassion, genuine courage and how bad things can get when events transpire against us.
    
    
  • Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
    The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages...
    
    
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom
    Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his...
    
    
  • Secret Man, The
    In Washington, D. C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat—the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in...
    
    
  • Stuffed: Adventures Of A Restaurant Family
    This funny and charming memoir tells about a bigger-than-life New York family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgen's in the garment district. Sharing life and good food for three gener...
    
    
  • Storyteller's Daughter
    
    
  • Story of My Life, The
    When ABC News' Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences, the network never imagined receiving more than twenty thousand pages of inspiring stories....
    
    
  • Winners are Driven
    Throughout his life, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Unser has approached his racing career and personal life the same way - with a relentless drive to succeed. Talk to him today and he'll...
    
    
  • Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places
    A classic collection of traveller's tales from the wilderness, forest, desert, glacier and jungle.
    
    
  • Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
    This is Lou Gerstner's extraordinary story of IBM's historic turnaround.
    
    
  • Zoo Quest for a Dragon
    David Attenborough, Britain's voice of natural history, narrates his early adventures in the wilds of Indon...
    
    
  • Woman's Hour - A Celebration of Mothers
    Interviews, discussions, readings and poems celebrating motherhood in all its diversity.
    
    
  • With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together: Part II Hookin' Up (Unabridged)
    Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: Part II Hookin' Up...
    
    
  • Virgin of Bennington, The
    The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . .a story of sex, drugs, and poetry.
    
    
  • Ugly Americans
    Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the...
    
    
  • Tyrannosaurus Sue
    In 1990, Peter Larson, with his team of commercial fossil hunters from the Black Hills Institute, discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen in history. He dubbed it
    
    
  • Truth & Beauty
    The author of Bel Canto -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running New York Times bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship...
    
    
  • Ustinov at Eighty
    As heard on BBC Radio 4, Peter Ustinov discusses his life and career.
    
    
  • Undaunted Courage (Abridged)
    In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and...
    
    
  • Unbeaten
    Britain’s Queen of Clean tells the harrowing story of the shocking and brutal abuse she suffered as a child, which she has now overcome. Read by the author.
    
    
  • Sahara
    Michael Palin's latest journey is across the Sahara desert, a place of romantic, almost magical appeal. Although famous as a geological location, its life, landscape and rich history are not so...
    
    
  • Private World of Kenneth Williams, The
    Whether he was a sad, self-obsessed man or a tortured comic genius, Williams had a unique talent, which Benson captures incredibly well in this one-off insight into Williams' private life
    
    
  • Prince, The / Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
    The Prince - Machiavelli wrote The Prince for his ruler as a guide for gaining and keeping power. Central themes of his essay are the relation between politics and ethics; what the best form of gov...
    
    
  • President's House, The
    As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting, but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence,...
    
    
  • Prosecuters, The
    Lifts the lid off today's legal system with details more shocking than any fictional TV show
    
    
  • Professor and the Madman, The (Unabridged)
    The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making...
    
    
  • Privilege of Youth, The
    More than six million readers can attest to the heartbreak and courage of Dave Pelzer's story of growing up in an abusive home. His inspirational books have helped countless others triumph over...
    
    
  • Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
    Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died. Her bold, brilliant canvasses had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence ...
    
    
  • Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites
    Every weeknight, millions of Americans tune in to see Tucker Carlson anchor the right side of the aisle on CNN's Crossfire. Named by New York magazine as the journalist most likely to succeed in...
    
    
  • Pole to Pole
    Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Travelling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they...
    
    
  • Pocahontas: My Own Story
    This book explains the human problems of settling Jamestown. Pocahontas not only saved John Smith's life, but saved all their lived by providing them with food and by alerting them of pending India...
    
    
  • Portrait of a Killer
    Using the first-hand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used...
    
    
  • Population: 485
    After a 12-year absence, a real-life prodigal seeks to serve his hometown -- New Auburn, Wisconsin, population: 485 -- by joining the volunteer fire and rescue department. In a place where men post...
    
    
  • Politics
    Although over two millennia old, Aristotle's Politics remains central to the perplexing questions posed in the study of political science. His carefully argued analysis is based on a study of more ...
    
    
  • Road to McCarthy, The
    Determined to pin down mythical tales of his own clan history, Pete is thrust into a world-wide adventure that reveals an unsettled and poignant history, while unearthing a good pint in the most...
    
    
  • Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way
    Pope John Paul II's recollections of his life and thoughts on issues facing the world.
    
    
  • Right from the Beginning
    Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today and how he came to believe as he does.
    
    
  • Running with the Bulls
    A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had...
    
    
  • Rothstein
    Rothstein is a colorful biography that brings to life the underworld denizens of Jazz Age New York City and its unrivaled kingpin, when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham.
    
    
  • Ronnie Barker - At The Beeb
    'To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh…well, it's the best job in the world,' says Ronnie Barker. And few are better at it,...
    
    
  • Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea
    Riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places.
    
    
  • Ratification Debates, The
    In the fall of 1787, the call went out: Each of the 13 states assembled special conventions to consider ratification of a proposed Constitution of the United States. Without ratification by nine co...
    
    
  • Raoul Wallenberg
    In wartime Hungary, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg issued countless
    
    
  • Putting Like A Genius
    One of the leading performance consultants in America, Dr.Bob Rotella has tutored some of golf's greatest players including Nick Price, Tom Kite, David Duvall, and Brad Faxon. Now Rotella, or...
    
    
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France / Rights of Man
    Reflections on the Revolution in France is a slashing attack on the French Revolution by one of Britain's most famous statesmen. Liberty and social order, Burke argues, are maintained by the tradit...
    
    
  • Red Hat Society
    Finally, the official book of The Red Hat Society, which is sweeping the nation.
    
    
  • Reason For Hope
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  • Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth II, The
    The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has seen huge changes in the lifestyle and expectations of peoples and nations. She has proved to be the constitutional monarch par excellence - while primarily a...
    
    
  • China
    Since Marco Polo, the fabled markets of China have drawn the west like a magnet. This ancient culture has been colonized by foreign powers, buffeted by war and revolution – yet China remains one of...
    
    
  • Chile and Argentina
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  • Chasing The Devil
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  • Circus Fire, The
    One of America's most acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction in this powerful re-creation of the great Hartford circus fire, which took the lives of 167 people and forever changed the city and its...
    
    
  • Chronicles - Volume One
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  • Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New
    Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris struggling to recover from wartime devastation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt...
    
    
  • Chain of Command
    Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu...
    
    
  • Building Bridges
    Each Autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, the Board of Directors of the Foundation presents a Medal...
    
    
  • Brother's Journey, A
    Richard Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive childhood.
    
    
  • Bringing Elizabeth Home
    At 3:58 in the morning of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart awoke to the sound of their nine-year-old daughter Mary Katherine's frightened voice.
    
    
  • Captured by Indians: A True Account by Mary Rowlandson
    In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson’s village. Most were killed. 'The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same through the bowels of my...
    
    
  • Camp
    How the life lessons from summer camp shaped Michael D. Eisner into the man he is today.
    
    
  • Busting Vegas
    In the classroom they were geeks, on the casino floor they were unstoppable. Busting Vegas is an unbelievable true story; a riveting account of monumental greed, violence and excess at its best...
    
    
  • Dickie Bird: An Evening with
    Dickie Bird is not only the world's most famous cricket umpire, he is also one of the most entertaining public speakers of our time...
    
    
  • Democracy In America
    In 1831, the French nobleman, Alexis de Tocqueville, journeyed to America to examine a new political force: democracy. Although alarmed by "the tyranny of the majority", Tocqueville believed that d...
    
    
  • Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
    The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily...
    
    
  • Do-Gooders
    Mona Charen has a loyal following from her syndicated newspaper column (which runs in more than two hundred newspapers) and her many television and radio appearances. Her first book, Useful...
    
    
  • Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman
    Divorced from the Mob breaks the mob code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Mafia and her courageous escape. A view of mob life largely unexplored by film and lite...
    
    
  • Different Drummer, A
    A warm, personal portrait of Ronald Reagan, A Different Drummer brims with recollections from a relationship that has spanned three decades. A former aide and longtime family friend, Michael Deaver...
    
    
  • Dave Barry's Money Secrets - Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?
    Finally, Dave reveals his money secrets!!
    
    
  • Colombia and Panama
    Colombia in the 1980s became known for its role in the illegal drug trade, and for political instability and violence caused by this problem. But much of this is a recent development in Colombia's ...
    
    
  • Clemente
    From the bestselling' author of When Pride Still Mattered... a sports biography destined to become a modern classic...
    
    
  • Civil Disobedience / The Liberator
    Civil Disobedience discusses Thoreau's arguments for civil disobedience-the deliberate violation of laws for reasons of conscience. Thoreau's concept is based on the belief that no law should comma...
    
    
  • Course of Human Events, The
    On May 15th, 2003 David McCullough presented The Course of Human Events...
    
    
  • Country Matters
    In this delightful memoir, at once hilarious, canny, and moving, Michael Korda does for Dutchess County, New York, what Frances Mayes did for Tuscany. This witty memoir reads like a novel, as it...
    
    
  • Communist Manifesto, The / Social Contract
    Communist Manifesto examines the theory and goals expounded by Marx. Marx argues that history flows inevitably toward a social revolution, which will result in a society without economic classes. T...
    
    
  • Blindsided
    Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right...
    
    
  • American Soldier
    Few individuals have the chance to contribute so much of themselves to theAmerican story as General Tommy Franks. In American Soldier, he captures it all. The Commander in Chief of the...
    
    
  • Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, The
    The good life abroad just keeps getting better as Christ Stewart, one-time Genesis drummer, turned sheepshearer, turned bestselling writer, returns with a new book..
    
    
  • Alistair Cooke at the BBC
    A specially compiled collection charting the career of veteran journalist Alistair Cooke.
    
    
  • Anatomy of Greed
    Brian Cruver first entered the
    
    
  • An Unfinished Life
    The first single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written in nearly four decades.
    
    
  • America's Women
    America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists...
    
    
  • Alan Bennett - Untold Stories Part 2: Diaries
    Alan Bennett's diaries from 1997-2004 are an erudite collection of witty yet poignant recollections told In his own unique voice...
    
    
  • Against All Enemies
    The real war on terror has happened largely behind closed doors, run by the White House, drawing on secret intelligence and operations around the world. There is no man who knows more about it...
    
    
  • 3000 Degrees (Abridged)
    The true story of a deadly fire and the men who fought it
    
    
  • 109 East Palace
    They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only...
    
    
  • Alan Bennett - Untold Stories Part 1: Stories
    Untold Stories is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret, an incredible piece...
    
    
  • Alan Bennett at the BBC
    Alan Bennett presents highlights from his remarkable career at the BBC.
    
    
  • Alan and Thora
    Alan Bennett introduces three monologues starring Thora Hird including her final performance.
    
    
  • Benn Tapes 2, The
    A second volume of labour MP Tony Benn's behind the scenes revalations first broadcast on BBC radio 4...
    
    
  • Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
    Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted..
    
    
  • Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life
    Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Martha's family, close friends and colleagues, Allen reveals the woman behind the public image, following her from childhood to the early days of her...
    
    
  • Bill of Rights and Additional Amendments, The
    In 1791, the Constitution was amended to include ten amendments, which are commonly referred to as The Bill of Rights. These were the guarantees of individual liberty upon which critics of the Cons...
    
    
  • Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
    The immortalized Band of Brothers suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe, an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander, and only he was present from the ...
    
    
  • Between Good And Evil
    A master criminal profiler's hunt for society's most violent predators.
    
    
  • Bad Boy
    Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: a loving home life with his...
    
    
  • Are You There Alone
    In the tradition of In Cold Blood , The Executioner's Song , and A Civil Action , Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of the most horrifying crime in recent...
    
    
  • Anton Chekhov: A Life
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    The true story of a deadly fire and the men who fought it
    
    
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  • All of these People
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  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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    Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (born 1899) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the mid-twentieth century ascendancy of Keynesian e...
    
    
  • Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, The
    Pat Garrett was the sheriff of Lincoln County who killed Billy the Kid. When Garrett’s book appeared, eight lurid dime novels had glorified and falsified the Kid, making him into a murderous super-outlaw. Garrett’s book tells the more genuine story of a young, reckless cowhand who became a...
    
    
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The
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    When an antitank mine tore off Captain David Rozelle's right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most determined foes. They were wrong. Refusing to let his...
    
    
  • Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
    One day Muhammad Yunus loaned $27 from his own pocket to forty-two stool makers living in a tiny village in Bangladesh. Seeing the profound effect of a little credit for the very poor, Yunus changed his life to establish the Grameen Bank, which provides miniscule loans to the poor of Bangladesh.
    
    
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  • Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton
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  • Case for Democracy, The
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  • Central Europe
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  • Chain Gang, The
    “I’m afraid they’re going to get me,” said Frank Wood, publisher of the Green Bay News-Chronicle, in a phone call to colleague Richard McCord. Wood could not hold out much longer against a devouring giant, the Gannett Company. McCord, as a publisher of the Santa Fe Reporter, had successfully...
    
    
  • Charles Hillinger's America: People and Places in All 50 States
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  • Climb
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  • Communist Manifesto / Social Contract
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  • Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, The
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  • Confessions of a Video Vixen
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  • Constitutional Convention, The
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  • Crime Beat
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  • Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
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  • Destined for Destiny
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    Reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster finds himself adopting various stray dogs, from a beagle abandoned in a dog run to a pit bull at a truck stop. The dogs offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes in New York City after 9/11, in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and during his...
    
    
  • Don't Kiss Them Goodbye
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  • Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
    In Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Dostoevsky's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place...
    
    
  • Douglas Adams at the BBC
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  • Dr Crippen
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  • Dylan Thomas: A New Life
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  • Eamonn Holmes - This is my Life
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  • East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
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  • Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
    This volume brings out the great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation with the American colonies, his involvement in cutting back the domestic power of George III, and his resi...
    
    
  • Einstein
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  • Einstein (Unabridged)
    How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagniation sprang from the rebellious nature...
    
    
  • Elizabeth
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  • Elizabeth
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  • Ending the War on Drugs: A Solution for America
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  • English Governess at the Siamese Court, The
    The English Governess at the Siamese Court, written in 1870, recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam and as transla...
    
    
  • Evening With Alan Titchmarsh, An
    Fun and frolics with the award-winning broadcaster!
    
    
  • Evening With John Simpson, An
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  • Every Mother Is a Daughter
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  • Exploring and Mapmaking
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  • Eyewitness 1970-1979
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    Transport back to fifteenth-century Rome to find the secrets of the Vatican.
    
    
  • Famous People in History 2
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  • Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea
    "[A] dramatic, pared-down account...Tougias smartly leavens his spare narrative with similar worst-case scenarios that resulted when other seamen miscalculated the sea's wrathful...
    
    
  • Federalist Papers, The
    The U.S. Constitution was approved by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787. It was to become law only if it was ratified by 9 of the 13 states. New York was a key state, but it conta...
    
    
  • Fifth Quarter
    Subtitled: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter George Allen was a top-ranked NFL coach throughout the 1960s and 1970s, coaching in turn the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles...
    
    
  • Firehouse
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  • Flashback
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  • Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 3: Jefferson and The Ordeal of Liberty
    The third volume in Dumas Malone’s distinguished study of Thomas Jefferson and his time deals with one of the most fascinating and controversial periods of Jefferson’s life. It includes the story of the final and most crucial phase of his secretaryship of state, his retirement to Monticello, his...
    
    
  • Thomas Jefferson and His Time Vol. 4: The President, First Term, 1801-1805
    The fourth volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning six-volume work vividly recounts Jefferson’s eventful first presidential term. Though characterized by calmer seas than his second presidential voyage, Jefferson’s first years in office find him confronting a nation deeply divided following the...
    
    
  • Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 5: Second Term, 1805-1809
    The fifth volume of the Jefferson series is a vibrant account of Jefferson’s disparate activities, sponsoring the Lewis and Clark expedition, concluding the naval “war” with the Barbary pirates, engaging in a political duel with Chief Justice Marshall over the trial of Aaron Burr, attempting to...
    
    
  • Thomas Jefferson and His Time Vol. 6: The Sage of Monticello
    The sixth and final volume of Dumas Malone’s epic masterwork, The Sage of Monticello brilliantly recounts the accomplishments, friendships, and family difficulties of Jefferson’s last seventeen years, including his retirement from Washington and the presidency, his correspondence with John Adams...
    
    
  • Three Weeks With My Brother
    An astonishing around-the-world adventure and a life-affirming inward journey.
    
    
  • Timothy Leary: A Biography
    To a generation in revolt in the 1960s, Dr. Timothy Leary was its guru. The brilliant psychologist became obsessed with the effects of psychedelic drugs while teaching at Harvard. Timothy Leary is the first major biography of one of the most controversial figures in postwar America.
    
    
  • To America
    Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose—one of the country's most influential historians—confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To...
    
    
  • To Conquer The Air
    
    
  • To Hell and Back
    In his classic WWII memoir, Audie Murphy depicts the harrowing events of the war, relating the fear, courage, and death that followed the men he knew into battle. In the two years that he fought in Italy, France, and Germany, he killed at least 240 Germans, single-handedly destroyed a German...
    
    
  • Trowel and Error
    With the engaging charm, warm humour and down-to-earth style that has made him Britain's favourite television gardener and a popular TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh has now written 'a touch of the memoi
    
    
  • True at First Light
    Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in...
    
    
  • Trumpnation
    He has one of the highest-rated shows on television-yet he prefers to spend his nights at home, quietly watching television and munching hamburgers. He has a line of stylish clothing and...
    
    
  • Truth & Beauty
    The author of Bel Canto -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running New York Times bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship...
    
    
  • Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set, The
    Collection of Sedaris's hilarious audio programs, including two of his most recent releases
    
    
  • Undaunted Courage (Unabridged)
    In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and...
    
    
  • Unlikely Angel
    The untold story of Ashley Smith, the Atlanta hostage who miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols — a
    
    
  • Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House
    FBI Special Agent Gary Aldrich had a plum assignment after years of chasing mobsters, drug dealers, and white-collar criminals—performing background checks on White House appointees. What he discovered in the first months of the Clinton administration left him troubled, alarmed, and finally...
    
    
  • Vision of Leon Walras, The
    Leon Walras (1834-1910) transformed economics from a literary discipline into a mathematical, deterministic science. For the first time, Walras expressed rigorously the view that all markets are related, and that their relationships can be described and analyzed mathematically. These...
    
    
  • Walking From East to West
    With simplicity, candor, and humility, renowned Christian thinker Ravi Zacharias shares the intimate account of his journey beyond a turbulent childhood...
    
    
  • War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II
    Unforgettable memoires from soldiers, citizens and historians. Includes tales of bravery, courage, sadness and reflection.
    
    
  • We Are Their Heaven
    The inspiration for the hit television series Medium, Allison DuBois now brings listeners into her psychic experiences. Recalling her communication with spirits who have touched her over the years...
    
    
  • White Gold
    The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves. 'Milton's story could scarcely be more action-packed, and its settings and subsidiary characters...
    
    
  • Wilberforce
    William Wilberforce is chiefly remembered as the reformer who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade in England. He was at the heart of