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Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm...

Jon Katz

In five memorable books, readers have followed Katzs transformation from a suburban New Jersey dog owner to squire of Bedlam Farm. In his latest book, Katz chronicles the experience of life with animals--what they teach us, and what t...

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Published: Jun 2007

1001 Nights in Iraq: The Shocking Sto...

Shant Kenderian

Shant Kendarian's visit to Baghdad in 1980 at age seventeen was supposed to be short, just long enough to make peace with his estranged father before returning home to the United States. But Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and sealed off ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of...

Mark Kurzem

The "spellbinding" (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freez...

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Published: Oct 2008

Too Fat to Fish

Artie Lange

Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show—with a foreword by Howard Stern.When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The H...

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Published: Jun 2009

If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name...

Heather Lende

Tiny Haines, Alaska, ninety miles north of Juneau, is accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace; and funerals are community...

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Published: Jun 2006

On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights i...

Emily Transue

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called 'Doctor' for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives i...

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Published: Aug 2005

Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister ...

John Van Der Kiste

This compelling biography of Xenia uses new archive material to give us fresh insight into the last days of the Tsar family.

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Published: May 2004

And the Band Played On . . .: The Tit...

Christopher Ward

The amazing true story of one of the band members who famously played as the Titanic sank, written by his grandson On April 14, 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, 1,500 passengers and crew lost t...

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Published: Apr 2012

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings

Alison Weir

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE brNew York Times bestselling author and noted British historian Alison Weir gives us the first full-scale, in-depth biography of Mary Boleyn, sist...

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Published: Sep 2012

Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and U...

Eric Blehm

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afgh...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Strong at the Broken Places: Voices o...

Richard M. Cohen

In an extension of his New York Times bestselling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and of their families. These "citizens of si...

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Published: Jan 2008

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Ma...

Candice Millard

The extraordinary New York Times-bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Mi...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Bolter

Frances Osborne

She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art.Some say she was "the Bolter" of Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love. She "played" Iris Storm in Michael Arlen's celebrated novel about fas...

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Published: May 2010

Black Boy

Richard Wright

One rises from the reading of such a book with mixed thoughts. Richard Wright uses vigorous and straightforward English; often there is real beauty in his words even when they are mingled with sadism....Yet at the result one is baffle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2005

Wilson

A. Scott Berg

In the tradition of Truman, John Adams, and Team of Rivals, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning biographer of Charles Lindbergh, Maxwell Perkins, and Samuel Goldwyn sheds new light on a president and his presidency in a...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Elephant to Hollywood

Michael Caine

Charming, engaging, and surprisingly forthright, Michael Caine gives us his insider's view of Hollywood and the story of his brilliant second actWhen he was in his late fifties, Michael Caine believed his glamorous, rags-to-riches Hol...

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Published: Nov 2010

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Benjamin S. Carson

This is the mass market edition of the popular book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring story tells of a frustrated inner-city kid whose faith in God helped him become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospi...

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Published: Feb 1992

Children of Jihad: Journeys into the ...

Jared Cohen

Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand. While studying on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, he took a crash course in Arabic, read voraciously on the histor...

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Published: Oct 2007

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina...

Misty Copeland

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. But when she first placed her hands on the barre at an after-school com...

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Published: Jan 2015

Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Y...

Brian Eule

Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost ev...

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Published: Mar 2010

Them

Francine du Plessix Gray

At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian 'migr's who consorted with Dali and Dietrich and told American women how to ...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey...

Bernd Heinrich

Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his 'old-fashioned' father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities. In...

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Published: Jul 2008

American Sniper: The Autobiography of...

Chris Kyle

He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . . . From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me

Howie Mandel

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–respe...

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Published: Sep 2010

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Li...

Clare Mulley

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War IIIn June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died...

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Published: May 2014

Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Anto...

Susan Nagel

The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution.Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention ...

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Published: Aug 2009

The Duck Commander Family: How Faith,...

Willie Robertson

Faith. Family. Ducks—in that order. This audiobook gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding A&E show—Duck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a booming...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memo...

Dave Van Ronk

*Winner of the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award* **Now the inspiration for a major motion picture written and directed by the Coen brothers** Dave Van Ronk was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more th...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2012

Tchaikovsky

Jeremy Siepmann

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers of all time. Many people who may never have heard his name know his melodies. They crop up on mobile telephones, alarm clocks and answering machines as often as on records and concert p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2003

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Soci...

Neil Strauss

Nearly every major city in the world has them: hidden underground seduction lairs where men gather to trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to seduce women. This is not fiction. For two years, bestselling ...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2010
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