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Frank W Abagnale (read by Barrett Whitener)
(57,689)
Summary: Abagnale's first-person narrative of his misadventures as a conman, forger, imposter, and escape artist before the age of 21.
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Call #: CD BOOK B ABAGNALE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Betty White
(41,364)
Summary: A personal account by the popular actress shares stories from her decades in Hollywood while offering her lighthearted perspectives on topics ranging from sex and aging to animal welfare and television.
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Call #: CD BOOK B WHITE
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Bruce Springsteen
(45,817)
Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SPRINGSTEEN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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David Halberstam
(4,880)
Summary: David Halberstam offers listeners this moving profile of NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick. Early in his life, Bill realized he had a special aptitude for football and teaching. During his 31 years...
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Call #: CD BOOK B BELICHICK
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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J. Rufus Fears
(293)
Summary: Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma examines the life of Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain during World War II.
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Call #: CD BOOK B CHURCHILL
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jeffrey Toobin (read by Paul Michael)
(11,161)
Summary: On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese...
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Call #: CD BOOK B HEARST
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Evan Thomas (read by Dan Cashman )
(1,495)
Summary: 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...
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Call #: CD BOOK B JONES
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Allen C. Guelzo , speaker
Summary: Professor Guelzo looks at Lincoln's life and legacy, from his youth and maturation into a successful lawyer through the evolution of his views on slavery to his presidency and triumphant management of emancipation and the restoration of the union.
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Call #: CD BOOK B LINCOLN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Ashlee Vance
Summary: An exciting narrative in the tradition of Michael Lewis which uses the extraordinary life of the entrepreneur Elon Musk, arguably the most powerful man in Silicon Valley, to look at America's return...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MUSK
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Randy Pausch (read by Erik Singer)
(334,189)
Summary: "A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." While they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science...
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Call #: CD BOOK B PAUSCH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Will Smith
(57,037)
Summary: Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era, and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, is an epic tale -- but it's only...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SMITH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Sonia Sotomayor (read by Rita Moreno )
(31,428)
Summary: "An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SOTOMAYOR
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Cheryl Strayed (read by Bernadette Dunne)
(748,141)
Summary: A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
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Call #: CD BOOK B STRAYED
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Pat Head Summitt
(4,280)
Summary: "Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women's basketball team. For 38 years, she has broken records, winning more games than any NCAA team in basketball history....
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Call #: CD BOOK B SUMMITT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Amy Tan
Summary: In this memoir, Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions...
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Call #: CD BOOK B TAN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jeannette Walls (read by Jeannette Walls)
(1,117,210)
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WALLS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jann Wenner
(1,567)
Summary: Rolling Stone founder, editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a memoir from the heart of the rock and roll generation: from the triumphs of the Beatles and the Stones to Bono and the Boss, from...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WENNER
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Elie Wiesel (read by Mark Bramhall )
(2,337)
Summary: "Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life."--Container.
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Call #: CD BOOK B WIESEL
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Jacqueline Winspear
Summary: Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, Jacqueline Winspear's memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WINSPEAR
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Sherryl Woods (read by Christina Traister )
(103)
Summary: Part memoir, part oral history, bestselling author Sherryl Woods provides a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.
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Call #: CD BOOK B WOODS
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Richard Wright (read by Peter Francis James)
(52,284)
Summary: Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly,...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WRIGHT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Malcolm X
(254,279)
Summary: In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth...
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Call #: CD BOOK B X
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Malala Yousafzai (read by Archie Panjabi)
(542,931)
Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. She was shot in the head at...
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Call #: CD BOOK B YOUSAFZAI
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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