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Dalai Lama
By: Diki Tsering
Narrated by: Arabella Hong
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Born to humble but prosperous peasants in 1901, the Year of the Ox, Diki Tsering grew up a simple girl with a simple life and the ordinary ambition to be a good wife and mother. When faith and fate led her son Lhamo Dhondup to be recognized as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, her world altered completely.
In Dalai Lama, My Son she recounts her own... Read more
The Camino - Abridged
By: Shirley MacLaine
Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It has been nearly five decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet.
The Camino is the story of a riveting odyssey that began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters... Read more
This House of Sky - Abridged
By: Ivan Doig
Narrated by: Ivan Doig
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Masterfully crafted with lyrical and haunting language, Doig’s memoir remains an enduring classic, a story to be savored by anyone who has ever loved a parent or been shaped by the land around them. Read more
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A Beautiful Mind
By: Sylvia Nasar
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard.“How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials... Read more
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Anton Chekhov
By: Donald Rayfield
Narrated by: Fred Williams
Length: 28 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Anton Chekhov’s life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature, but Donald Rayfield’s biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here... Read more
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Woodrow Wilson
By: Louis Auchincloss
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Woodrow Wilson sheds new light on Wilson’s upbringing and career and shows the grim determination that carried him to the presidency just before World War I. From the dynamic figure whose ringing speeches hypnotized vast crowds, to the gentle voice reading poetry to his children, to the rising academic and president of Princeton who made the... Read more
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Joan of Arc
By: Mary Gordon
Narrated by: Mari Devon
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only... Read more
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Papa Bravo Romeo - Abridged
By: Wynn Goldsmith
Narrated by: Eric Conger
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Our mission was independent, no-holds-barred combat against a stubborn enemy in the enemy's backyard."
In Vietnam, river warfare was often conducted in the dark. It was always dangerous, sometimes fatal--especially in the eastern end of the Cong-plagued Mekong Delta. In 1967, U.S. Navy Lt. Wynn Goldsmith was the "river rat" who... Read more
Life Stories
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Amy Irving, Philip Bosco & Alton Fitzgerald White
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the... Read more
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Mao Zedong
By: Jonathan Spence
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Born in rural China in 1893, Mao Zedong led his country through "a long-drawn-out adventure in upheaval." In the process, he became one of the monumental figures of the twentieth century. He died in 1976, just as China was entering a détente with the United States. This excellent biography illuminates Mao's family life, his early years as a... Read more
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Les plus belles Histoires de Haim - Vol 1
By: Yossef Brami & Haim Nisenbaum
Narrated by: Yossef Brami
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Vivez comme si vous y étiez de merveilleuses histoires juives jouées pour vous par des comédiens professionnels.Onkelos - Le miroir aux richesses - Les héritiers - Le Cadi de Mogador - Le petit grand-père Read more
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Selznick - Abridged
By: Bob Thomas
Narrated by: Carl Reiner
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It was the triumph and the tragedy of his life. As a producer, he had reached the pinnacle of success; there was nowhere else to go. In this biography, noted Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas reveals the stormy career of a shrewd, self-confident intellectual whiz kid who today personifies the image of a studio head during the Golden Age of movies.... Read more
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Life Is So Good - Abridged
By: George Dawson & Richard Glaubman
Narrated by: LeVar Burton
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
George Dawson was a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to the age of 103. In this remarkable memoir, he reflects on his life and shares valuable lessons in living, as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the entire sweep of the twentieth century. Dawson's irresistible voice and view of the world are captured... Read more
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The Greatest Generation Speaks
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Tom Brokaw
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation.
“When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have... Read more
King of Hearts
By: G. Wayne Miller
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the advent of open heart surgery, yet, until now, no one has brought to life all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph. G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed the amazing true story of how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt... Read more
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Life of Samuel Johnson (Unabridged)
By: James Boswell
Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
Length: 66 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered James Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the... Read more
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WWII Airmen
By: Multiple Authors
Narrated by: Various
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
These amazing accounts of airmen recorded during the war include stories of air combat, music of the time, and recordings made on bomb runs over Europe and Japan.
Eagles over Europe: (1) Introduction; (2) AAF Intro; (3) Bomb run over Germany, A-26; (4) Lt. Gilman, AT-9 Trainer; (5) Lt. Anderson, AT-7 Trainer; (6) Jack the Ripper air raid; (7)... Read more
Endurance - Abridged
By: Alfred Lansing
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance—just a day's sail short of its destination—became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten... Read more
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Mozart
By: Peter Gay
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The greatest mind in Western music is examined by a National Book Award–winning writer on culture and psychology in this concise account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The composer’s unshakable hold on the public’s fascination can only be strengthened by the historian and biographer Peter Gay’s bold new perspective.
His passionate and... Read more
James Joyce
By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer. A passionate and sensuous portrait, James Joyce is a return to the land of politics, history, saints, and scholars that shaped the creator of the twentieth century's groundbreaking novel Ulysses. O'Brien traces Joyce's early days as a rambunctious... Read more
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Saint Augustine
By: Garry Wills
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores... Read more
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Charles Turner
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncertain of his date of birth or the identity of his father, Frederick Douglass came into the world with one surety: he was born a slave, and would die a slave. But as he grew up, Douglass determined that he would teach himself to read and write, and that one day he would be free from slavery. In 1832, Douglass was sent to a plantation in St.... Read more
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Out of Africa - Abridged
By: Isak Dinesen
Narrated by: Julie Harris
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"When I was a young girl, it was very far from my thoughts to go to Africa, nor did I dream then that an African farm should be the place in which I should be perfectly happy."After the failure of her coffee farm, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark, where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life... Read more
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They Made a Monkee Out of Me - Abridged
By: Davy Jones
Narrated by: Davy Jones
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Aiming to cash in on the success of The Beatles, American television producers created a television show that featured a quartet of fun-loving musicians, achieving instant success with The Monkees. Davy Jones, a young, aspiring actor was cast in the series, which aired for the first time on September 12th, 1966. Within two months, the show had... Read more
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