| |
|
1. |
|
21: Bringing Down the House
by Ben Mezrich
Formats: Audio Download ($14.90)
In the midst of the Go-Go '90s, the culture of greed infused the MIT campus. A small blackjack club sprang up, dedicated to counting cards and beating the house at major casinos around the country.
|
| |
|
2. |
|
3000 Degrees
by Sean Flynn
Formats: Audio Download ($19.56)
On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worcester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. Firefighters love the excitement of a "triple." But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flashovers, backdrafts, this one had it all.
|
| |
|
3. |
|
About Alice
by Calvin Trillin
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day"…
|
| |
|
4. |
|
About This Life
by Barry Lopez
Formats: Audio Download ($12.25)
With the publication of his best selling Of Wolves and Men and the astonishing originality of...
|
| |
|
5. |
|
After the Fire
by Robin Gaby Fisher
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.95)
Two college students survived a fire that raged through their dormitory. This is the extraordinary story of their fight to recover, of their supportive families, and of the women who would come to love them.
|
| |
|
6. |
|
Amazing Women
by Mae Bertha Carter
Formats: Audio Download ($14.95)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Stories of women who inspire all.
|
| |
|
7. |
|
Amelia Earhart: Young Air Pioneer
by Jane Moore Howe
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
Listen to this children's series about the childhood adventures of American heroes and heroines.
|
| |
|
8. |
|
American Gangster: And Other Tales of New York
by Mark Jacobson
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($19.95)
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster.
|
| |
|
9. |
|
Ana's Story
by Jenna Bush
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
She's 17. She's been abused. She has a child. And she's HIV-positive.
|
| |
|
10. |
|
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
Formats: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($11.99)
Frank McCourt reads his own unforgettable story of growing up in depression-era Ireland. His voice has enthralled audiences at readings across the country.
|
| |
|
11. |
|
Anne Frank's Story
by Carol Ann Lee
Formats: Audio CD ($14.40)
Anne Frank's Story follows Anne Frank from her birth in Germany and her happy childhood in Amsterdam through the years she and her family spent in hiding from the Nazis…
|
| |
|
12. |
|
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Formats: Audio Download ($17.49)
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story.
|
| |
|
13. |
|
Annie Oakley: Woman at Arms
by Courtney Ryley Cooper
Formats: Audio Download ($14.00) | MP3 CD ($19.99)
This is the exceptional story of the sharpshooting markswoman whom Will Rogers once called "the finest and truest of American women."
|
| |
|
14. |
|
As Luck Would Have It
by Joshua Piven
Formats: Audio Download ($18.35)
Once upon a time, there was a swimming-pool repairman who only had a hundred-dollar bill to pay for a hotdog, requested the change in lottery tickets, and subsequently won $180 million. Strange, but ultimately true.
|
| |
|
15. |
|
Bad Mother
by Ayelet Waldman
Formats: Audio Download ($17.49)
Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman delivers a humorous, encouraging look at the nearly impossible—and often thankless!—job of mothering.
|
| |
|
16. |
|
Be Strong for Me
by Mark Adkins
Formats: Audio Download ($10.47)
The death of a spouse - while common - is among the most painful experiences we can know. This poignant...
|
| |
|
17. |
|
The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
Formats: Audio Download ($11.17)
Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself...
|
| |
|
18. |
|
Blackbird
by Jennifer Lauck
Formats: Audio Download ($13.24)
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl...
|
| |
|
19. |
|
Blue Skies, No Fences
by Lynne V. Cheney
Formats: Audio Download ($14.90)
Home to the Wonder Bar, the Rialto Theater, and Lloyd's Confectionary, Casper was like many small towns in the 1940s -- except it sat on mile-high Wyoming prairie stretching on as far as the eye could see.
|
| |
|
20. |
|
Body of Work
by Christine Montross
Formats: Audio Download ($17.50)
This is a hauntingly moving memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and the first-year medical student who cuts her open.
|
| |
|
21. |
|
The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers
by Sampson Davis
Formats: Audio Download ($17.50)
The Three Doctors---Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt---discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: as children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance.
|
| |
|
22. |
|
Busting Vegas
by Ben Mezrich
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95)
Average Rating:  (4.3 Stars)
He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine, but it would nearly cost him his life.
|
| |
|
23. |
|
By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.80)
Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
|
| |
|
24. |
|
Change in the Weather: Life After Stroke
by Mark McEwen
Formats: Audio Download ($15.00) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Change in the Weather signals a change in America's mind-set, led by one of our most dynamic new crusaders for stroke victims and their families.
|
| |
|
25. |
|
Chosen by a Horse
by Susan Richards
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio Cassette ($19.95)
An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all loveeven an animalshas the power to heal.
|