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Howe, Ben Ryder.

Summary: It starts with a gift. When Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store, Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review, agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot more complicated. After the business struggles, Howe finds himself living in the basement of his in-laws' Staten Island home, commuting to the Paris...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 920 HOW

Chernow, Ron

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRANT, ULYSSES S. CHE

Reagan, Ron.

Summary: In celebration of what would be President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, his son, Ron Reagan, honors his father's lasting legacy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 REAGAN, RONALD REA

Meacham, Jon

Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LIN

Meacham, Jon

Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times best selling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush's diaries and to his family, this paints a vivid and affecting portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Krakauer, Jon.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 1999

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCANDLESS, CHRISTOPHER KRA

Gutman, Dan

Summary: Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the Beatles, from their childhoods and early days as musicians to the formation and rise of the band to become the greatest of all time.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J 782.42 GUT

De Visé, Daniel

Summary: A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs. Written by Don Knotts's brother-in-law and featuring extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to both men.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 DE V

Abrams, Dan

Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABR

Payne, Les

Summary: In 1990, investigative journalist Les Payne embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 X, MALCOLM PAY

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