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Bill Browder
Summary: Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where...
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Call #: CD BOOK B BROWDER
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Frank W Abagnale (read by Barrett Whitener)
(57,055)
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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Nelson Mandela (read by Danny Glover)
(80,749)
Summary: This is an articulate, moving account of Mandela's life from his "country childhood" following his birth on July 18, 1918 to his inauguration as president of South Africa on May 10, 1994. Mandela...
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Call #: CD BOOK B MANDELA
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Evan Thomas (read by Dan Cashman )
(1,484)
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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Betty White
(39,738)
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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Rob Lowe (read by Rob Lowe)
(73,146)
Summary: A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood...
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Call #: CD BOOK B LOWE
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Walter Isaacson
(1,158,576)
Summary: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author...
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Call #: CD BOOK B JOBS
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Sally Bedell Smith (read by Rosalyn Landor)
(27,942)
Summary: From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well...
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Call #: CD BOOK B ELIZABETH
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Robert Hardman
(143)
Summary: Throughout history, there has been no Monarch like her. She is not merely the oldest Sovereign this country has ever known. She is the most worldly. She has travelled further than all her...
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Call #: CD BOOK B ELIZABETH II
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Carole King (read by Author)
(4,732)
Summary: This book is a memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her...
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Call #: CD BOOK B KING
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Anne Lamott (read by Sam Lamott )
(12,408)
Summary: Bestselling author Anne Lamott together with her son, Sam, chronicle his first year as a father and her own evolution to being both a mother and a grandmother.
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Call #: CD BOOK B LAMOTT
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Cheryl Strayed (read by Bernadette Dunne)
(725,242)
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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H. W Brands (read by Stephen Hoye )
(5,822)
Summary: Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GRANT
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Maya Angelou (read by Maya Angelou)
(23,583)
Summary: For the first time, Maya Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence - a presence...
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Call #: CD BOOK B ANGELOU
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Elie Wiesel (read by Mark Bramhall )
(2,283)
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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Sonia Sotomayor (read by Rita Moreno )
(31,027)
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
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Pat Head Summitt
(4,155)
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
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Salvatore A. Giunta
(722)
Summary: A compelling memoir from a true hero, and one of the few living persons to ever be awarded the celebrated Medal of Honor. Sal Giunta was just a regular kid from Iowa when he enlisted in the army to...
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Call #: CD BOOK B GIUNTA
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Tracy Kidder (read by Lincoln Hoppe)
(704)
Summary: Written for young people and adapted from Tracy Kidder's critically acclaimed adult nonfiction work, Mountains beyond mountains; is the true story of a Dr. Paul Farmer whose humanity and dedication...
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Call #: CD BOOK B FARMER
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Billy Crystal (read by Billy Crystal)
(15,662)
Summary: Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's biggest movie stars as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career.
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Call #: CD BOOK B CRYSTAL
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Reggie Jackson
(196)
Summary: Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs and drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career; he played three World Series-winning seasons with the Oakland Athletics, and two with the New...
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Call #: CD BOOK B JACKSON
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Malala Yousafzai (read by Archie Panjabi)
(525,878)
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
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John F Ross (read by Edward Herrmann)
(556)
Summary: Eddie Rickenbacker was an American archetype: our greatest World War I hero, and the quintessential flying ace. As a boy from the wrong side of the tracks in Columbus, Ohio, Eddie was smitten at the...
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Call #: CD BOOK B RICKENBACKER
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Jeff Pearlman (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
(1,903)
Summary: At five feet ten inches tall, running back Walter Payton was not the largest player in the NFL, but he developed a larger-than-life reputation for his strength, speed, and grit. Nicknamed "Sweetness"...
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Call #: CD BOOK B PAYTON
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Amy Poehler (read by Amy Poehler)
(491,069)
Summary: The actress best known for her work on "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live" reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her...
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Call #: CD BOOK B POEHLER
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Robert L. O'Connell (read by Andrew Garman)
Summary: A profile of the iconic Civil War general explores the paradoxes attributed to his character to discuss such topics as his achievements as a military strategist, his contributions to the...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SHERMAN
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David G McCullough (read by David McCullough)
(86,950)
Summary: On December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot...
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Call #: CD BOOK B WRIGHT
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J. Rufus Fears
(283)
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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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
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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
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Jon Meacham (read by Paul Michael )
(7,650)
Summary: "In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his...
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Call #: CD BOOK B BUSH
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Kate Clifford Larson
(24,865)
Summary: The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
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Call #: CD BOOK B KENNEDY
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
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Philip H Knight (read by Norbert Leo Butz)
(245,293)
Summary: In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of...
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Call #: CD BOOK B KNIGHT
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Eric Ripert (read by Peter Ganim)
(6,206)
Summary: Even before he knew how to make a proper omelet, Eric Ripert was a young boy in the South of France who felt that his world had come to an end. The only place he felt at home was in the kitchen. His...
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Call #: CD BOOK B RIPERT
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Amy Schumer (read by Amy Schumer)
(117,891)
Summary: Never one to shy away from the uproarious, challenging, and remarkable moments that make up life, this exceptionally candid book will have readers wincing with recognition, nodding their head in...
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Call #: CD BOOK B SCHUMER
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Bryan Cranston (read by Bryan Cranston)
(17,316)
Summary: Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father cast him in a United Way commercial. Acting was clearly the boy's destiny, until one day his father disappeared. Destiny suddenly took a...
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Call #: CD BOOK B CRANSTON
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