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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Honeymoon in Tehran
by Azadeh Moaveni
Formats: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($65.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
February 2009
For readers of Kabul Beauty School and Funny in Farsi, the unforgettable story of a young American journalist who falls in love and starts a family in Iran.
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Wishful Drinking
by Carrie Fisher
Formats: Audio Download ($12.41) | Audio CD ($11.99)
Published:
February 2009
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir.
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Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices
by John Quinones
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Published:
January 2009
Texas native and veteran ABC journalist John Quiñones has traveled the world and the country reporting on hundreds of stories during his illustrious career. Long ago he realized that the stories he was most attracted to had one thing in common - a shared focus on the goodness inherent in ordinary Americans.
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Voluntary Madness
by Norah Vincent
Formats: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($49.46) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Published:
January 2009
Norah Vincent’s journey takes her from a big-city mental hospital to a facility in the Midwest and finally to an upscale retreat down south, as she analyzes the impact of institutionalization on the unwell, the tyranny of drugs as treatment, and the dysfunctional dynamics between caregivers and patients.
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