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Bob Gibson, a two-time Cy Young Award winner and eight-time All Star, won 251 games and achieved a lifetime ERA of 2.91 during his seventeen years with the St. Louis Cardinals. He is a special adviser to the Cardinals.
Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs and drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career; he played three World Series-winning seasons with the Oakland Athletics, and two with the New York Yankees. He is a special adviser to the Yankees.
Lonnie Wheeler collaborated with Bob Gibson and Hank Aaron on their autobiographies and is the author of two other books about... Read More
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Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $30.00
Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.
Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.
Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about... Read more >
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Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $29.95
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.”–People
John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” The Chicago Tribune hailed Carter’s next book, New England... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $35.00
Mann lost his younger brother, Jason, two years ago–an innocent bystander in a shooting on his own porch. These murders are a frequent occurrence in Mann’s neighborhood. They’re so common, in fact, that he and his best friend, Kee-lee, keep a running tally of all the deceased, since no one else... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $55.00
Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Of course, Zac brushes this off as a tall tale -- until his grandfather is murdered and their apartment is completely ransacked. Clearly somebody is after... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $22.00
A stunning and revealing examination of oil's indelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it.
Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the "resource curse"—the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. In Crude... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 19, 2010
Price: $20.00
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $17.50
Mann lost his younger brother, Jason, two years ago–an innocent bystander in a shooting on his own porch. These murders are a frequent occurrence in Mann’s neighborhood. They’re so common, in fact, that he and his best friend, Kee-lee, keep a running tally of all the deceased, since no one else... Read more >
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Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.”–People
John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller.” The Chicago Tribune hailed Carter’s next book, New England... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.00
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $27.50
Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Of course, Zac brushes this off as a tall tale -- until his grandfather is murdered and their apartment is completely ransacked. Clearly somebody is after... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $20.00
As a young man, Earvin “Magic” Johnson admired his father and other small-town entrepreneurs who created jobs and served as leaders in his Midwestern community. He worked for them, watched them, and his interest in building communities through economic development grew even while his basketball career flourished. His fame as an... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 9, 2009
Price: $25.00
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through... Read more >
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Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.00
Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.
Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.
Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $17.50
In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $15.00
“Before I have a big meeting or decision to make,” says Oprah Winfrey, “I go and I sit with the ancestors. Literally, I go and sit in my closet and I say their names. I just say their names so that when I walk into the space, I don’t walk alone.”
This... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $22.50
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
Wallace Turnage was a... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $22.50
Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African Americans... Read more >
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Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.
Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.
Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about... Read more >
