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James Herriot's Animal Stories
by James Herriot
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($13.56)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Here are ten more stories from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian; stories guaranteed to delight the Yorkshire vet's worldwide legions of fans...
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James Herriot's Cat Stories
by James Herriot
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($13.56)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
What better match of author and subject than James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and the adorable felines that delight so many millions of pet fanciers around the world?
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Shadow Divers
by Robert Kurson
Formats: Audio CD ($11.99)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport....
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Climb
by Clint Willis
Formats: Digital Download ($17.47)
Average Rating:  (4.7 Stars)
Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes...
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Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.76)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima, Japan. The first atom bomb was dropped on this city, killing 100,000...
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.96)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...
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Reason for Hope
by Jane Goodall
Formats: Audio CD ($19.98)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Jane Goodall's destiny has been blessed with faith, resolve, and purpose. From a little girl inspired by Tarzan...
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
Formats: Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($15.29)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing ~ Helen Keller
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James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories
by James Herriot
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.95)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
This enchanting program collects some of the Yorkshire vet's favorite stories about one of his favorite animals, each tale as memorable and heartwarming as the last...
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Wisdom Of The Masters
by Wayne Dyer
Formats: Digital Download ($15.00)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Dr. Dyer reflects on the many great teachers who have influenced him.
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A Long Way from Home
by Tom Brokaw
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
In this beautiful collection of memories and reflections, Tom Brokaw speaks of growing up in the American heartland...
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We Are All the Same
by Jim Wooten
Formats: MP3 CD ($17.99)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
The extraordinary story of the little South African boy whose bravery and fierce determination to make a difference despite being born with AIDS has made him the human symbol of the world's fight against the disease, told by the veteran American journalist whose life he changed.
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The Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter
Formats: Audio CD ($19.76) | Digital Download ($15.37)
Average Rating: (2.8 Stars)
This tale about the upbringing of a half-Native American boy has sparked much debate over whether or not...
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Rocket Boys
by Homer Hickam
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
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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3000 Degrees
by Sean Flynn
Formats: Digital 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.
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About Alice
by Calvin Trillin
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
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"…
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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…
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At Home with Daddy's Stories
by Kathryn Tucker Windham
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
She is a living icon of the family storytelling renaissance in American. And to hear her tell it, Kathryn Tucker Windham owes it all to her father…
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The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
Formats: Digital Download ($11.17)
Christopher Isherwood's dramatized memoirs are prophetic images of a country preparing itself...
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The Button Box
by Barbara McBride-Smith
Formats: Audio CD ($14.95)
Mama believed the woman who dies with the most fabric scraps wins. She saved scraps from odd sewing job for neighbors. She saved buttons from old winter coats and birthday dresses.
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By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Formats: Audio Cassette ($17.60)
Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
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The Colossus of New York
by Colson Whitehead
Formats: Audio CD ($19.99)
New York Times best-selling author and New York native Colson Whitehead composes a breathtaking tribute to his hometown....
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96)
After her plane crashes, a 17-year-old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
by Charles Osgood
Formats: Audio CD ($13.49)
With great attention to detail, the "poet in residence" of "CBS News" captures the texture of life in a very different era, before anyone had heard of penicillin or the atomic bomb.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.99)
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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