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Forty years ago, Buzz Aldrin became the second human, minutes after Neil Armstrong, to set foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. The event remains one of mankind's greatest achievements and was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. In the years since, millions more have had their Earth-centric perspective unalterably changed by the iconic photograph of Aldrin ...
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The rousing story of Samuel Adams, the Founding Father who has been undeservedly overlooked by history but who, in Thomas Jefferson's words, was "truly the Man of the Revolution."
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Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and became a child soldier.
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The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs.
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Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, England's cricketing superstar, hero of the Ashes victory and British Sports Personality of the Year 2005, celebrates his rise to stardom with this fascinating audiobook.
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Beck revisited Thomas Paine's famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Glenn Beck's Common Sense." Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation of "The Federalist Papers."
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This delightful memoir of Julia's years in Paris, Marseilles, and Provence opens with Paul and Julia--a tall, wide-eyed girl from Pasadena who can't cook and doesn't speak a word of French--disembarking in Le Havre, and ends with the launching of the two "Mastering" cookbooks and Julia winning the heart of America as "The French Chef." Abridged. 5 CDs.
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Celebrated playwright Harold Pinter and critically acclaimed biographer Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later on Christmas Eve 2008. This title presents a testimony of their life together, based partly on Antonia Fraser's own diaries and also her own recollections of their life together.
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After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France. However, the homecoming celebrations are overshadowed by disturbing discoveries.
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The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap sheets before they can even hope to have a platinum record. So with all this grandstanding about their criminal nature, why haven't more hip-hop artists been busted for the crimes that they brag of, and why haven't high profile crimes replete with witne
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The nation's most revered president gets an informative, entertaining, and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent--and most unusual and surprising--questions asked about Abraham Lincoln. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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The heartwarming true story of how one special cocker spaniel turned four strangers into family
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THE RUNAWAY "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER AND AUDIE AWARD WINNER "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Fr...
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Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corporation's twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings t
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Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. In his funny memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was.
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In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
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In this honest, suspenseful, and moving memoir, Nasser tells of a life filled with heartbreak and healing. Forced to escape from a country gripped in a religious revolution, Nasser and his family run for their lives in an attempt to find refuge.
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Captain Benjamin Tupper takes listeners inside the intricacies of the war in Afghanistan, opening up a unique and multifaceted view of both Afghan culture and the daily life of an American soldier.
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In this frank memoir, Steve Miller, who has spent the majority of his career salvaging American companies on the verge of ruin, reveals a rarely seen side of American management. This is a blunt and unsparing look at Miller's own education as an American executive.
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John Peel's contribution to British culture is undeniable. His 40-year career on Radio 1 and Radio 4 reached a huge and diverse audience, and he influenced the musical tastes of millions. Suitable for John Peel's many fans, these CDs are a reminder of the genius of a man many regarded as the best DJ ever.
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Bestselling author Gervase Phinn writes with warmth and wit on the pleasures and pains of growing older.
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gives intimate new insights into the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a complex and enigmatic woman who found fulfillment through her creative career during book publishings legendary golden age.
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John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of battle, was the great American hero of the Age of Sail. He was to history what Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower are to fiction. Ruthless, indomitable, clever; he vowed to sail, as he put it, "in harm's way."
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Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend. Read by Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley, featuring Keith Richards. Unabridged edition.
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One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story-and explain how his incredible mind works.
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Drawing on interviews with those closest to them, as well as on hundreds of recently declassified private letters and telephone calls, Nicholas Wapshott depicts a complex, personal, and sometimes argumentative relationship between two unlikely political soulmates.
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A fascinating and lively memoir of the author's experiences in Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen-one of the oldest and most conservative Muslim countries-where she worked for a year as editor of the Yemen Observer, an English-language newspaper, and discovered a surprising romance.
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With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, The Partnership chronicles the brilliant men who built one of the world's largest investment banks.
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Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday presents a piece of history that very few have ever been able to experience: a peek on the set of a classic Python film.
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When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is Donald Rumsfeld. His great fear was a second Pearl Harbor. When it happened on September 11, 2001, he led th
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TOAST is top food writer Nigel Slater's eat-and-tell autobiography. Detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked his passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer, this is also a catalogue of how the British have eaten over the last three decades.
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""I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me."" That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper's ...
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history. This book presents a detailed portrait of the last days of this one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
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When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on "leather pants, hostile shirts, and pointy shoes"? Or wear something more appropriate to the "tax-paying, property-owning, investment-holding lotus eater" his success has allowed him to become? This dilemma is at the heart of Copeland's vastly entertaining memoir-in-stories, "Strange Things Happen." The world knows Cop...
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When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) - only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred Vinson, Earl Warren,...
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Norris, host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," set out to write about "the hidden conversation on race" and in doing so unearthed painful family secrets--from her father's shooting by the Birmingham police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II to her grandmother's peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima.
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Based on a wealth of groundbreaking research, a leading psychologist's fascinating investigation of why we are all "wired to kill."Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitive-the younger woman involved in a love triangle is at a high risk of being killed-he puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations wh
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