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Too Human : A Political Education [ABRIDGED] by George Stephanopoulos(Reader) |
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Time Warner Audio Books Audio Cassette Abridged edition (April 1999) |
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| Amazon.com A Rhodes scholar with a healthy ego, the young idealist George Stephanopoulos thought he was ready for the obscure governor of Arkansas. But soon after he signed on as his presidential-campaign manager, the odds of Clinton's triumph soared, and so did the chance for calamity via Gennifer Flowers and... Read more
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Angela's
Ashes (AUDIO CASSETTE) [UNABRIDGED] by Frank McCourt(Reader) |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette unabridged edition (October 1997) |
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| Amazon.com "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to... Read more
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The
Perfect Storm [UNABRIDGED] by Sebastian Junger, Richard M. Davidson (Reader) |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette unabridged edition (June 1998) |
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| Amazon.com The unabridged audio version of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, read by Richard M. Davidson, moves in the same haunting fashion as the deadly storm referenced in the title. Opening slowly, the story lulls you with a false sense of calm, behind which looms an inexorable power. Almost... Read more
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Yesterday
I Cried : Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving by Iyanla Vanzant(Reader) |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Audio csst edition (April 1999) |
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| Amazon.com "Life is about cleaning up the crap and, while you're doing it, being okay with the fact that you have to do it.... A word of caution. You can't get caught up in the crap! If you do, you will surely lose sight of the real meaning of life and lose your Self." Iyanla Vanzant knows plenty about dealing... Read more
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Against
the Gods : The Remarkable Story of Risk [ABRIDGED] by Peter L. Bernstein |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (March 1997) |
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| Amazon.com With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability,... Read more
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The
Professor and the Madman [ABRIDGED] by Simon Winchester, Simon Jones (Reader) |
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Harper Audio Audio Cassette (September 1998) |
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| Amazon.com When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the... Read more
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Into
Thin Air [UNABRIDGED] by Jon Krakauer(Reader) |
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Bantam Books-Audio Audio Cassette unabridged edition (May 1998) |
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| Amazon.com "Intrinsically irrational" is how Jon Krakauer characterizes the compulsion to climb Mount Everest in his audiobook Into Thin Air. The highly publicized fates of the May 1996 Everest expeditions, including the tragic loss of 12 lives, seem to bear out Krakauer's statement. Listening to... Read more
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Churchill
in His Own Voice/Cassettes/50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
[ABRIDGED] by Winston Churchill, et al |
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HarperCollins Publishers Audio Cassette - 5 pages Abridged edition (June 1994) |
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| Synopsis The story of the great British prime minister and his era is brilliantly chronicled through the powerful speeches of Churchill, FDR, Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others. Churchill's memoirs read by Sir Lawrence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. 2 cassettes. Read more
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Titan
: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Cassette/Abridged) [ABRIDGED] by Ron Chernow, George Plimpton (Narrator) |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (June 1998) |
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| Amazon.com The patrician accent of George Plimpton (author of Truman Capote and The X Factor), with its edge of aristocracy and money, is perfectly suited for telling the rags-to-riches story of America's most famous businessman and philanthropist. Indeed, Plimpton seems to positively relish the superlatives... Read more
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Angela's
Ashes (abridged) [ABRIDGED] by Frank McCourt(Reader) |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (December 1996) |
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| Amazon.com Frank McCourt's haunting memoir takes on new life when the author reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland, McCourt paints a brutal yet poignant picture of his early days when there was rarely enough food on the table,... Read more
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Ordinary Time : Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in
World War Ii/Cassettes by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edward Herrmann (Reader) |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette (October 1995) |
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| Amazon.com A compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. With an uncanny feel for detail and a novelist's grasp of drama and depth, Doris Kearns Goodwin brilliantly narrates the interrelationship between the inner workings of the Roosevelt White House and... Read more
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Dutch
: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan [ABRIDGED] by Edmund Morris |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (September 1999) (September 30, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Why did Pulitzer-winning Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris controversially choose to write his authorized biography of Ronald Reagan in the form of a historical novel? There's a clue in a quote the book attributes to Jane Wyman, Reagan's first wife. As Ronnie speechified about the Red... Read more
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The
Glory of Their Times : The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by
the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter |
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HighBridge Company Audio CD 4 CDs edition (April 1998) |
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| Amazon.com The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, Glory sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories... Read more
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The
Best of Npr : Biography & Autobiography by Richard Feynman, et al |
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Time Warner Audio Books Audio Cassette Cassette edition (March 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Biographies, says NPR commentator Neil Conan, are well suited to radio, "the perfect medium for storytelling." There really is something about the immediacy of the spoken word that makes the lives of the 10 extraordinary people we meet here capture the imagination--and renders their humanity clear... Read more
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The
Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans |
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Dove Entertainment Inc Audio Cassette Reiss csst edition (September 1994) |
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| Synopsis This account of the rise, fall, and rise again of Robert Evans, Hollywood giant and legendary "bad boy," is an autobiography more gripping than fiction at its best. 4 cassettes. Read more
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Profiles
in Courage/Cassettes by John F., Jr. Kennedy(Reader) |
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Caedmon Audio Cassette Audio Cassette (December 1989) |
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| Book Description The Pulitzer Prize-winning account of men of principle, integrity and bravery in American politics is here available in a handsome illustrated format. Eight men who served the United States Senate were selected by John F. Kennedy as models of virtue and courage under pressure. These eight men... Read more
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Tis
: A Memoir [ABRIDGED] by Frank McCourt(Reader) |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (September 21, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward... Read more
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The
Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Cassette/Abridged)
[ABRIDGED] by Sebastian Junger, Stanley Tucci (Reader) |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (May 1997) |
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| Amazon.com The Perfect Storm is the tale of a doomed ship caught in the middle of what some meteorologists have called the storm of the century. At its heart is a gripping narrative about struggling for survival in a tempest of ferocious winds and 100-foot waves. But rookie author Sebastian Junger does more... Read more
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Rocket
Boys (aka October Sky) [ABRIDGED] by Homer H. Hickam Jr., et al |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette - 5 pages Abridged edition (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so... Read more
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| 20. | The
Color of Water : A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Cassette) by James McBride, et al |
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Dove Audio Audio Cassette Abridged cassette, 2 tapes, 3 hours edition (February 1996) |
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| Amazon.com Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she... Read more
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Adventures
of a Psychic : The Fascinating and Inspiring True-Life Story of One of
America's Most Successful Clairvoyants [ABRIDGED] by Sylvia Browne(Reader), Jill Kramer |
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Hay House, Inc. Audio Cassette Abridged edition (November 1998) |
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| Amazon.com Adventures of a Psychic might not be the next Indiana Jones sequel, but the "adventures" in the title is appropriate, since Sylvia Browne never stops amazing us with her channeling, psychic visions, healing, and even ghost stories. Coauthor Antoinette May's biographical talents are first rate,... Read more
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Forbes
: Great Minds of Business [ABRIDGED] by Smith Grove, et al |
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Simon & Schuster (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (October 1997) |
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| Synopsis Derived from the upcoming PBS special of the same name, this is a unique made-for-audio program--think "Business 101" taught by five of the top business minds of our time, each talking about a specific area of expertise! It features Andy Grove of Intel on management; Fred Smith of Federal Express on... Read more
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| 23. | Wild
Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, Anne Massey (Reader) |
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Dh Audio Audio Cassette abridged edition (September 1993) |
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| Amazon.com In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with... Read more
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Wired
for Sound : A Journey into Hearing by Beverly Biderman |
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Trifolium Books Inc Paperback - 240 pages (September 1998) |
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| Library Journal, May 15,
1998 A practical book that is highly referenced, it contains a fine appendix with many resources and a reading list. Recommended for patient education and consumer health collections. Read more
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Work
in Progress [ABRIDGED] by Michael Eisner(Reader), Tony Schwartz |
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Random House (Audio) Audio Cassette Abridged edition (September 1998) |
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| Amazon.com In 1964, NBC clerk Michael Eisner made $65 a week. Though he only took one business course in his life--accounting--he did have a head for business: as CEO of Disney, he earned over half a billion bucks in 1997. Though he had no foundation in finance, he averted the bloody dismemberment of Disney by... Read more
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