Between Two Worlds (MP3) From Tyranny to Freedom My Escape from the Inner Circle of Saddam
By Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
Narrated by Josephine Bailey
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's perso ...
English
2006
Being Martha ( MP3) .The Inside Story of Martha Stewart
“With Being Martha I will reveal sides of Martha Stewart that have not been seen. I am a friend and former neighbor, and I am partial to her. My closeness to Martha over the years has prov ...
English
2005
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Tantor) (MP3) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By Benjamin Franklin
Narrated by Walter Costello
Considered to be one of the best autobiographies written in colonial America, Franklin portrays a fascinating picture of life in pre-revolu ...
English
2006
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The (Inaudio) (MP3) From printer's apprentice to internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin led a most remarkable life. Seldom is history so well articulated by someone who was there.
English
2003
Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome (MP3) Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
by John Man
read by James Adams
Unabridged
Audio Sample
“Engrossing”—Booklist
"One could not wish for a better storyteller or analyst than John Man. . . . His Attila i ...
English
2006
Alexander the Great and His Time (MP3) "To be mystical and intensely practical, to dream greatly and to do greatly, is not," says Agnes Savill, "given to many men; it is this combination which gives Alexander his place apart in history. Aristotle had taught him that ma ...
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2004
All The Shah's Men (MP3) An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror:
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil indu ...
English
2005
Banker to the Poor (MP3) Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
read by Brian Emerson
Unabridged
In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. Based on the belief that cred ...
English
2006
Great Souls (MP3) The "great souls" chronicled by Aikman, a former senior correspondent for TIME Magazine, are Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, Elie Wiesel, and Nelson Mandela. Aikman explores the historical b ...
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2003
Bin Laden:The Man who declares War on America Disk 1/2 (MP3) Who is Osama bin Ladenthe only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that h ...
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2003
Defying Hitler (MP3) When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of ninety-one in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1939, but with the advent of World War II, Haffner had set it a ...
English
2003
A Beautiful Mind Disk 2 Of 2 (MP3) In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recove ...
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2003
A Beautiful Mind Disk 1 Of 2 (MP3) In this powerful and dramatic biography, Sylvia Nasar vividly re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recove ...
English
2003
Rothstein (MP3) The life, times, and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 world series.
The model for The Great Gatsby?s Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, ...
English
2003
Facets of Ayn Rand (MP3) Facets of Ayn Rand is based on forty-eight hours of interviews with Mary Ann and Charles Sures, longtime personal friends of Ayn Rand. Their recollections make vividly real the Ayn Rand they knew so well.
Here are many examples ...
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2003
Bin Laden:The Man who declares War on America Disk 2/2 (MP3) Who is Osama bin Ladenthe only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that h ...
English
2003
Frankies Place (MP3) One summer Jim Sterba, veteran war correspondent, accepts an invitation for a weekend visit from a woman he barely knows, author Frances FitzGerald. He arrives and discovers a secluded little house on the Maine coast, with evergre ...
English
2004
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (MP3) Letters of a Woman Homestader presents an outstanding first-person account of life on the American frontier. Elinore Pruitt Stewart took up homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming, in 1909, to prove that a woman could ranch. Her capti ...
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2004
Agent 146 (MP3) A spy has feelings like any other man. As you will see from my story, he falls in love, gives way to the same passions, has moments of black despair and great jubilation. But, unlike other men, he walks hand in hand with fear. . ...
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2004
Divorced from the Mob (MP3) From mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kidsa tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver.
As a chil ...