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Closing Time: A Memoir
by Joe Queenan
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
June 2009
Joe Queenan's acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop culture have made him one of the most popular humorists and commentators of our time. In Closing Time, Queenan turns his sights on a more serious and personal topic: his childhood in a Philadelphia housing project in the early 1960s.
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The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
June 2009
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats.
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Lance Armstrong: The Making of the World's Greatest Champion
by John Wilcockson
Formats: Audio Download ($17.47) | Audio CD ($22.46)
Published:
June 2009
The definitive biography of the seven-time Tour de France champion and creative force behind the Live Strong campaign…
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A License to Steal
by Walter T. Shaw
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($54.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
June 2009
Walter L. Shaw was a visionary high-tech inventor who was repeatedly cheated out of the rewards of his efforts. To even the score, his son became a prolific jewel thief, while Shaw Sr. put his brilliance to work for the mob.
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Barrymore
by William Luce
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
John Barrymore was the black sheep of America’s most illustrious acting family. Celebrated for his charisma and matinee-idol looks, he was for awhile America’s most popular actor. Famous for his stage roles in Richard IIIand Hamlet, he also made more than fifty films.
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Crazy for the Storm
by Norman Ollestad
Formats: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($26.96)
Published:
May 2009
Eleven-year-old Norman had been coached by his father for competitive sports from a very young age. But when their private plane crashed in the mountains, killing his father, Normans skills were put to the ultimate test.
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My Remarkable Journey
by Larry King
Formats: Audio Download ($24.47) | Audio CD ($31.46)
Published:
May 2009
For a half-century the worlds most influential figures have been telling their stories to incomparable TV-host Larry King. Now the man in suspenders shares his riveting and inspiring storyfrom his humble roots in Depression-era Brooklyn to the heights of celebrity as host of CNNs Larry King Live.
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Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
by Danzy Senna
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Published:
May 2009
When Danzy Senna’s parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. A white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man raised by a struggling single mother, these two beautiful young American writers were boldly challenging long-held racial biases.
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Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
by Paul Schneider
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
April 2009
In Paul Schneider's hands, the legend behind the daring movie that revolutionized Hollywood becomes the true story of Bonnie and Clyde. Told in the lovers' own voices, it offers verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
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Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, the Man Who Swindled the World
by Deborah Strober
Formats: Audio Download ($13.97) | Audio CD ($17.96)
Published:
April 2009
In the first comprehensive account of Bernard Madoff, "Catastrophe" exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind's disastrous crimes.
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Finding Grace: A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life...and Finding It Again
by Donna Vanliere
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
April 2009
Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace.
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The Secret Holocaust Diaries
by Nonna Bannister
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.39)
Published:
April 2009
Nonna's story is one of suffering, torture, and death--but also of incredible acts of kindness that show the ultimate triumph of faith and love over despair and evil.
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When You Lie about Your Age, the Terrorists Win
by Carol Leifer
Formats: Audio Download ($16.06) | Audio CD ($20.66)
Published:
April 2009
In this uproarious audiobook, standup comic and comedy writer Leifer reveals all--her age, her outlook, her life philosophy--no holds barred.
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
by Allen Barra
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Published:
April 2009
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with 14 pennants, 10 World Series, and three MVPs.
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($27.00) | Audio Cassette ($22.95)
Published:
March 2009
Samuel Becketts work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers.
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Borges in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($27.00) | Audio Cassette ($22.95)
Published:
March 2009
Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges work is both timeless and touching, a product of deep suffering and incorrigible innocence. Strathern offers a concise, expert account of his life and ideas.
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($24.30) | Audio Cassette ($22.95)
Published:
March 2009
D. H. Lawrences works were an attempt to revive some vivid, instinctual part of the human spirit that he felt had been lost or damaged. Strathern offers a witty and incisive appraisal of the writer and his work.
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Happens Every Day
by Isabel Gillies
Formats: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($23.99)
Published:
March 2009
Gillies pens a fast-paced, intriguing memoir in which she is forced to come to terms with the swift destruction of her picture-perfect life after her husband leaves her for another woman--something her rival reminds her, happens every day.
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James Joyce in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($24.30) | Audio Cassette ($22.95)
Published:
March 2009
Through his art, James Joyce sought to reveal the radiance and meaning that lurks in the everyday world. Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Joyces life and ideas and explains their profound influence on modern literature.
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Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
by Edward Ugel
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($80.00) | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
March 2009
This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. A neurotic gambler himself, Ed Ugel made a lucrative living with a company that capitalized on other gamblers weaknesses.
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No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
by Jay Dobyns
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
March 2009
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols...
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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
March 2009
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars.
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Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There
by Tom Davis
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Published:
March 2009
39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities---Al Franken, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Michael O'Donoghue, and Chris Farley.
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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($27.00) | Audio Cassette ($22.95)
Published:
March 2009
Though prone to periods of mental breakdown, Virginia Woolf portrayed an exceptionally lucid introspective insight in her writing. This incisive guide examines Woolfs life and works in an accessible fashion.
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Cross Bearer
by Joe Eszterhas
Formats: Audio Download ($20.97) | Audio CD ($26.96)
Published:
February 2009
Joe Eszterhas knows a lot about darkness. A writer of sinister, sexually graphic, violent films like Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, he awoke one hellishly hot day in 2001 and found God. Or, rather, God found him.
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