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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of Steve Jobs.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American....
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Martin Luther King Jr.: We Shall Overcome
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Encompasses the most moving moments in American social history with the extraordinary civil rights leader.
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As Nature Made Him
by John Colapinto
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In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment.
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen Ambrose
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Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of Steve Jobs.
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The Literature of C.S. Lewis
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
C. S. Lewis produced a body of work as diverse as it is beloved. He is known the world over for his cherished Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also the author of novels for adults, scholarly work, and the writings that rival his Narnia series in terms of continued popularity: his eloquent defences of Christianity.
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Co. Aytch
by Sam R. Watkins
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
In 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment.
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Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet
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One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story-and explain how his incredible mind works.
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The Man Called Cash
by Steve Turner
Credits: Audio Download
Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today....
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The Story of My Life
by Farah Ahmedi
Credits: Audio Download
When ABC News' Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences, the network never imagined receiving more than 20,000 pages of inspiring stories....
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FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
From Pulitzer finalist Jean Edward Smith comes another lucid, well-written, tightly organized biography. The Roosevelt that emerges from this audiobook is a man of enormous complexity.
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American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
by Walter Isaacson
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What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?
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St. Patrick
by Michael J. McHugh
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Over 1600 years ago, God raised up a man named Patrick to take the Gospel of Christ to the people of Ireland....
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Credits: Audio Download
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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Great Biographies in Time
by Plutarch
Credits: Audio Download
Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.
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The Color of Water
by James McBride
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No fiction could be more unique and uplifting than this real-life biography of Rachel Deborah Shilsky...
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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
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The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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Great American Presidents
by Wikipedia
Credits: Audio Download
LearnOutLoud's Great American Presidents collects four biographies of some of America's most celebrated leaders.
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
by Tucker Max
Credits: Audio Download
I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, is a collection of first-person tales of sex, alcohol, and mayhem that transport the reader into Tucker's comical, perverse, and oftentimes surreal world.
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching....
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Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
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In this uniquely American memoir, Homer Sonny Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers...
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Lone Survivor
by Marcus Luttrell
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive.
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The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.
Credits: Audio Download
Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? How do they invest? How did they get rich? Can you ever become one of them?...
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