Random House Audio Publishing
81) My reading life
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Three stories about the adventures of Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie and the fast-draw Cactus Kid.
In A Trail to the West, Riding under an alias, Bowdrie joins up with Queen's ruthless gang to rescue the pretty niece of a powerful Texas judge. But when Queen discovers the lawman's true identity, Bowdrie must do some fast thinking and even faster shooting to beat the odds--five guns to one! In Love and the Cactus Kid, folks far and wide know that the...
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
℗2007
Language
English
Description
The popular actor looks back to reassess the meaning of his own life and the paths he has taken, from the turbulent 1960s to the tragedy of September 11, and to answer such questions as "What do I value?" and "What, exactly, is the good life?"
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
℗2006
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with General Tommy Franks, Condoleezza Rice, and other officials and military personnel to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making process that determined the nature of American involvement in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The strong shall live: When they burned his home, he rebuilt it. When they shot at him, he shot back. But now the man they call Cavagan is in the worst bind of his life. With his hands tied and his body stiff from beatings, he has been left for dead at the bottom of a deep sand pit in the searing Santa Fe desert. Sixty miles from the nearest water. On foot, without a weapon, in one hundred and twenty degree heat. Only one thought drives him on: "I...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth...
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
p2011., p2011., [2011], p2011, [2011], p2011., p2011., [2011], p2011., p2011., [2011], p2011
Language
English
Description
Three city siblings, now living on a farm during the Great Depression, must survive on their own when their father takes a construction job miles away.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Language
English
Description
When the bail bonds office burns down and bodies are found at an empty construction lot, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum begins working cases out of her motor home. On the personal front, Stephanie is one step closer to choosing between the men in her life, Morelli and Ranger. However, life suddenly becomes much more complicated when a man from her past moves back to Trenton.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2008], ©2008
Language
English
Description
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean meet as teenagers in the mid-60s, the civil rights movement is moving along and so are their everyday lives. Their regular gathering place is Earl's All-You-Can-Eat diner, the first black-owned business in downtown Plainview, Indiana. Dubbed the Supremes by their friends, the inseparable trio is watched over by big-hearted Earl during their complicated high school days, and then every Sunday after church as they...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private -- the world's most exclusive detective agency -- saved her from a horrific death. Now, after eight years, the terror follows her to London. The only man who can help is former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London. In London, young women are being abducted and their bodies found mutilated in a grotesque, mysterious...