Healthy at 100 (MP3) Healthy at 100
by John Robbins
read by Raymond Todd
Unabridged
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy? In this revolutionary book, best-selling author John Ro ...
English
2006
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (MP3) Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
by Laurence Gonzales
read by Stefan Rudnicki
Unabridged
"The study of survival offers an illuminating portal into the ...
English
2006
Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World (MP3) Cloning researchers claim to have created an embryo that is mostly human but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as “products” for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited mast ...
English
2006
Case Against Lawyers, The (MP3) As a child, Catherine Crier was enchanted by film portrayals of crusading lawyers like Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch. As a District Attorney, private lawyer, and judge, she saw firsthand how the U. S. Justice system works, and ...
English
2006
Candide (MP3) This is the tale of the happy but ill-fated Candide, and his progressive disillusionment with the idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds. His tutor, Dr. Pangloss embodies this philosophy of good cheer, even in the fa ...
English
2006
Beyond Band of Brothers (MP3) In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.
They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150 percent casualties while liberati ...
English
2006
Bell Witch, The - An American Haunting (MP3) Known throughout Tennessee as "Old Kate," the Bell Witch took up residence with John Bell's family in 1818. It was a cruel and noisy spirit, given to knocking and gnawing sounds before finding its own voices. With these voices and ...
English
2006
Art of Being, The (MP3) This classic work by psychologist and social philosopher Eric Fromm builds upon his previous popular book To Have or to Be? The Art of Being teaches us to avoid the tantalizing illusions of our consumer-driven world by learning to ...
English
2006
American Heroes: Mary Edwards Walker (MP3) Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of ...
English
2006
American Heroes: John Muir (MP3) In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir emigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's wilderness. Best known for his long ...
English
2006
American Heroes: George Washington (MP3) Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor l ...
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2006
American Heroes: Chief Joseph (MP3) Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce tribe, lived from 1840 to 1904. He became a legend through his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon’s Wallowa Valley. For years he tried to accommodate encroaching white me ...
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2006
American Heroes: Amelia Earhart (MP3) As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once she even built a roller-coaster in her grandparent’s backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics ...
English
2006
America Alone (MP3) America Alone
by Mark Steyn
read by Brian Emerson
Unabridged
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.
And liberals w ...
English
2006
Blood Diamonds (MP3) Blood Diamonds
by Greg Campbell
read by Tom Weiner
Unabridged
This is the true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood Diamonds.
The diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage reb ...
English
2006
Imperial Life in the Emerald City (MP3) Imperial Life in the Emerald City
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
read by Ray Porter
Unabridged
Finalist for the National Book Award
This is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our governmen ...
English
2006
American Heroes: David Crockett (MP3) Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ("Davy") Crockett, the Tennessee frontiersman whose death at the Alamo in 1836 ensured his place in the Valhalla of American heroes. Crocke ...
English
2006
Give Your Heart to the Hawks (MP3) This is the true story of America's mountain men including Jed Smith, John Fitzpatrick, Bill Williams and Jim Bridger, actual people and their actual doings. Every substantial event is verified by journals, newspapers, books and d ...
English
2006
American Grit (MP3) New York Times bestselling author Tony Blankley prescribes a three-pronged approach as key to America’s success in previous wars that must be “rediscovered” today. The political-correctness crowd will complain, but Blankley ...
