Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Books on Cassette

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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea with Headphones (Playaway Adult Nonfiction)
by Playaway (Audio Cassette)

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.

Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Library Edition
by Blackstone Audiobooks (Audio Cassette)

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's ...

Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Recorded Books (Audio Cassette)

David McCullough
John Adams
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 2001-05-01)

Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
by Random House Audio (Audio Cassette) (Release Date: 1996-01-23)

Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Home Front in World War II
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

David J. Pelzer
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
by Recorded Books (Audio Cassette)

Me Talk Pretty One Day
by Hachette Audio (Audio Cassette)

John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by Blackstone Audiobooks (Audio Cassette)

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