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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD ($18.40)
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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The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Formats: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD ($18.38)
The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....
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Art and Madness
Formats: Audio Download ($8.00)
Images of the tormented artist, poet, painter and composer are familiar. but is there really a link between madness and art?
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Reflections on the Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
Formats: Audio Download ($13.10) | Audio CD ($19.96)
Everyone is capable of creativity - not just the chosen few. In this inspiring audio Julia Cameron...
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The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38)
This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language...
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Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...
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More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US.
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A Life of Johnson
by James Boswell
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity...
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Realms of Gold
by John Keats
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft...
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The Life & Work of Marcel Proust
by Neville Jason
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38)
This, the first audio-biography of Marcel Proust, tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses....
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