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Peeling the Onion

Gunter Grass

* Mp3 CD Format *. In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prizewinning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was publis...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2007

Really Bad Girls of the Bible: More L...

Liz Curtis Higgs

Discover the Truth AboutGod's Sovereigntyfrom the Bible's Really Bad Girls.  Eight of the Bible's most notorious females strut across the pages of Really Bad Girls of the Bible with troubles that still hit home in the twenty-first ce...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2016

Shadows of a Princess

Patrick Jephson

Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period.In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by man...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2017

Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories ...

Dalia Jurgensen

A clever and affectionate glimpse at the truth about what goes on behind that swinging door, full of "great insider stuff" (Anthony Bourdain) Life in a restaurant kitchen is strenuous and exciting, while its inhabitants ar...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters,...

Catherine Kerrison

The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America  Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Mar...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2019

I am Hutterite: Audio Book on

Mary-Ann Kirkby

A fascinating memoir revealing the unique culture of the Hutterite religious community.I Am Hutterite takes readers into the hidden heart of the little-known Hutterite colony where author Mary-Ann Kirkby spent her childhood. When sh...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the...

Jeffrey Kluger

The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Apollo 13. With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradic...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2005

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of ...

Phil Knight

In this instantand tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight "offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh" (Booklist, starred review), illuminati...

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Published: Feb 2017

You'll Never Make Love in This Town A...

Lois Lee

Wild, graphic, sometimes funny, ultimately sad -- this is the book that had Hollywood hiding behind closed doors and 'no comment.' Four beautiful young women tell the stories of the famous, the sexy, the rich, and the sadistic.

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006

Although Of Course You End Up Becomin...

David Lipsky

"If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves.  To ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from t...

Scott McEwen

What McEwen was able to achieve in telling the story of American Sniper, he and Miniter take a step further in telling many Navy SEAL stories in EYES ON TARGET. Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

The Story of My Father

Sue Miller

The best-selling author of The Good Mother recalls her relationship with her father as she describes how she became increasingly involved in caring for him as he succumbed to the ravages of Alzheimer's, reflecting on the changing natu...

Abridged CD
Published: Mar 2003

Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspirin...

Ben Montgomery

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2016

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoi...

Chester Nez

He is the only original World War II Navajo code talker still alive—and this is his story . . . His name wasn't Chestesr Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was...

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Published: Aug 2012

Happy Endings

Jim Norton

BEST HEARD ON AN EMPTY STOMACH Jim Norton is a pervert in the truest sense of the word. The physical equivalent of a tall slug, he pays top dollar for massages with happy endings, and is fascinated by shitty sitcoms and fat girls. ...

Abridged CD
Published: Jul 2007

Elvis: The King Revealed (The Docuboo...

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His song, "Blue Suede Shoes" ushered in the era of Rock and Roll. Request Audiobooks presents an audio documentary on the public and private life of Elvis Presley, "The King" of rock 'n' roll.You will hear from the...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2006

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up ...

Tim O'Brien

Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2012

Freedom: The Story of My Second Life

Malika Oufkir

The author describes her return to the world after twenty years in a Moroccan jail, as she struggled to adjust to the modern world, understand the reality of freedom, fall in love, and experience an intimate relationship for the first...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2006

Providence

Daniel Quinn

Providence is Quinn's fascinating memoir of his life-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream in Omaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant in the Trappist order under the guid...

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Published: May 1996

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Bara...

David Remnick

No story has been more central to America's history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book thatfully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama's life or e...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of...

Martha A. Sandweiss

Noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the uniquely American story of Clarence King, a man who hid from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family the fact that he lived a double life---as the celebrated white explorer, geologist,...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2009

The Antelope in the Living Room: The ...

Melanie Shankle

Welcome to the story of a real marriage. Marriage is simultaneously the biggest blessing and the greatest challenge two people can ever take on. It is the joy of knowing there is someone to share in your joys and sorrows, and the ch...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2014

Hamlet's Dresser

Bob Smith

Bob Smith grew up in a town named for Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford, Connecticut. His troubled childhood was spent in a struggle to help his devastated parents care for his severely retarded sister. But at age ten, Smith stumb...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2003

House Rules: A Memoir

Rachel Sontag

At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal fights; disobedience meant humiliating...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2009

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Thron...

David Starkey

In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the 'Virgin Queen, ' recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original d...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2007

Application of Impossible Things: A N...

Natalie Sudman

This is an amazing true story of a female civilian employee of the Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah and Nasiriyah, Iraq. She was riding in a truck with other men when a roadside bomb destroyed the vehicle. Her body was so severely da...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2012

John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father...

Evan Thomas

John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, cle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2005

Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in th...

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her deci...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2010

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal...

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first no...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLong-listed for PEN Open Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Jezeb...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2019
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