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Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Gui...

Harvey Araton

It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport to pick up Hall of Fame catcher and national treasure Yogi Berra. Guidry drives him to the ballpark. They watch the young players. They talk shop....

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

Ava's Man

Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg was born a year after his maternal grandfather died in 1958, but resurrects him here, in this portrait of the grandfather he never knew. Researching the life of this much-loved patriarch br...

Abridged CD
Published: Aug 2001

The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron

Howard Bryant

The first definitive biography of Henry Aaron—baseball's great home-run champion and one of its most enduring legends.  As the steroid controversy has increasingly tarnished baseball's image, Hank Aaron's achievements have come to ...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2010

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, sc...

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Published: May 2016

The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look a...

Andy Cohen

A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent words As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exc...

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Published: Nov 2014

Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendsh...

Scott Eyman

Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. B...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2017

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial...

Timothy F. Geithner

From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression On January 26, 2009, during the ...

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Published: May 2014

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the...

Thich Nhat Hanh

Drawn directly from Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, Old Path White Clouds is the beautiful, classic recounting of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha over the course of eighty years. It is retold alternately through the eyes...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Am...

Roland Huntford

This acclaimed dual biography charts both British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911–12. Bizarrely, Scott died in his quest and became a tragic hero, whereas Amundsen, the victor, was la...

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Published: Aug 2009

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in...

Anjelica Huston

Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming of age as a model and nascent actress in New York.John Huston was filming The A...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, All...

Stephen Kinzer

[Read by David Cochran Heath] A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world. During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immens...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fat...

Michael Lewis

When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fat...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2009

Paris: A Love Story; A Memoir

Kati Marton

[Read by Kathe Mazur] This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris -- and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journal...

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Published: Aug 2012

C.S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius...

Alister E. McGrath

Fifty years after his death, C.S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions His legacy remains varied and vast. He was a towering intellectual figure, a popular fiction author who inspired a global movie franchise around the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the M...

Susan Page

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- The AtlanticA vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influe...

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Published: Apr 2019

James Patterson by James Patterson: T...

James Patterson

How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world?·         On the morning he was born, he nearly died. ·  ...

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Published: Jun 2022

Bird Cloud: A Memoir

Annie Proulx

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Ma...

Jeremy Schaap

Includes a one-hour interview from 1970 with boxing legend James Braddock! Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport's true Cinderella story. James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising l...

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Published: Apr 2005

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, On...

Rob Sheffield

Rock critic Rob Sheffield, an editor at Rolling Stone, uses 15 mix tapes to help structure his lively, funny, and surprisingly touching ode to the 1990s, rock music, and his punk-rock wife who died suddenly five years into their marri...

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Published: Jan 2007

A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

Danielle Steel

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's S...

Evan Thomas

Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in hi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

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From award-winning comedian, writer, producer, and actress Amy Schumer comes The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, a thoughtful, honest, and hysterical collection of (very) personal essays.Never one to shy away from the uproarious, cha...

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Published: Aug 2016

A Fighting Chance

Elizabeth Warren

In A Fighting Chance,an unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't  As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go t...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2014

The Best of Doreen Virtue 4-CD

Doreen Virtue

This 4-CD set includes: Manifesting with the Angels, Past-Life Regression with the Angels, Karma Releasing, and Healing with the Angels Manifesting with the Angels: Doreen guides you through a powerful manifestation session called...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2004

The Pact

Samson Davis

In this memoir of success, three men tell how, by hanging together, they got themselves out of Newark, into a program for minority youth, and through medical school. They supported each other and eventually realized their dreams of ca...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2002

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoi...

Chester Nez

In the 1920s, growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation wasn't easy. There was no electricity or indoor plumbing. The New Mexico summers were hot and the winters harsh. But the beautiful mesas provided bountiful la...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account...

Marcus Luttrell

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army i...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2013

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of Hist...

Ted Sorensen

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and t...

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Published: May 2008

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Gu...

Colin Beavan

A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmenta...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009
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