- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 7, 2009
- Price: $34.95
From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 30, 2007
- Price: $34.95
From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: November 11, 2008
- Price: $39.95
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 14, 2008
- Price: $29.95
“All my life I had one dream and that was to be in the movies.”
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 6, 2008
- Price: $29.95
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me:
“I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 17, 2006
- Price: $50.00
Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: June 29, 2010
- Price: $35.00
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- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: June 10, 2008
- Price: $29.95
Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 9, 2007
- Price: $29.95
“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: June 12, 2007
- Price: $29.95
"Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist."
–Academy... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 6, 2008
- Price: $29.95
Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years–and memories of shanked 7-irons faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 3, 2005
- Price: $25.95
Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention!
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 10, 2007
- Price: $34.95
The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf.
Born in 1862, Edith Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative beginnings, she developed a forceful literary professionalism and... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 16, 2007
- Price: $27.95
The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 10, 2008
- Price: $44.95
A CD collection featuring the best-selling audiobooks, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father from Grammy® award-winning author, Barack Obama.
The Audacity of Hope
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 10, 2008
- Price: $19.99
John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 15, 2007
- Price: $34.95
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America’s greatest presidents.
This is... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 23, 2007
- Price: $29.95
During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences–for politics, domestic policy, and international affairs–and their marital troubles became a national soap opera. Based on unparalleled access to scores of... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 29, 2008
- Price: $29.95
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR’s official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women–particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd–that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with Roosevelt the... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: October 4, 2005
- Price: $14.99
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: April 5, 2005
- Price: $27.50
Includes an interview with the author and recipe cards!
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: February 22, 2005
- Price: $16.00
Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: March 22, 2005
- Price: $37.95
“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting–and momentous–eight years of his life.
When Franklin embarked, the colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder or common cause; like all adolescents, they were to discover... Read more »
- Format: Abridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: May 30, 2006
- Price: $29.95
From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.
Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker... Read more »
- Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
- On Sale: November 24, 2009
- Price: $30.00
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.
Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host of the enormously... Read more »
