George Packer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. That year, his pieces "War after the War" and "The Children of Freetown" each won an Overseas Press Club award. He is the author of The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals and is the editor of The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World.
Ken Adelman, a former U.N. Ambassador and director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Reagan Administration, is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board. He has worked for Donald Rumsfeld three times since 1970. He has been national editor of Washingtonian magazine for 15 years and is the author of several books.
Mark Danner has been a contributor since 1990. That year, his threepart series of articles on Haiti won the National Magazine Award for Reporting. The December 6, 1993, issue of the magazine was devoted entirely to his piece "The Truth of El Mozote", which won an Overseas Press Club Award and was the basis of his book The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War. His new book is The Road to Illegitimacy: What Really Happened in the 2000 Florida Vote ReCount.
David Frum's books include The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush and What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America. From January 2001 to February 2002, he was special assistant to the President for economic speechwriting. He is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for the National Review Online, and a panelist on NPR's Left, Right, and Center.
Katha Pollitt writes the Subject to Debate column for The Nation, where she has been a contributor since 1980. A 1992 Nation essay, "Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me", won a National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism. She has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1975.
Mike White wrote the screenplay for the film School of Rock, about a failed rock musician who pretends to be a substitute teacher....
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Edwidge Danticat discusses her deeply personal new memoir, a National Book Award finalist for 2007, with her friend, director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)...
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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The ultimate Kings of Heavy are Led Zeppelin, and no one can deny the powerful influence they have had on rock bands throughout the world since the early 1970s....
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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This exclusive Motley Crue audiobiog features Vince Neil backstage at Donnington, reminiscing over the band's wild tour with Ozzy Osbourne in the states....
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Ms. Michelle Huneven, Mr. Philipp Meyer, Ms. Joanna Smith Rakoff, Mr. Christos Tsiolkas
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Mr. Patrick Brown
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Los Angeles Times
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$ 4.19
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$ 2.93
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Mr. Michael Connelly, Mr. Robert Crais, Mr. T. Jefferson Parker
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Ms. Paula Woods
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Here are worldfamous explorer and national treasure Ranulph Fiennes' stories of a life lived to the very limits, recorded in front of a live audience....
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Nicole Krauss is the author of two novels, Man Walks Into a Room and The History of Love, which was published this year....
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Mark Arax, Scott Martelle, Jim Newton, Deanne Stillman
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Steven J. Ross
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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times Festival of Booksbegan in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....
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Edwidge Danticat's books include the novels Breath, Eyes, Memory; The Farming of Bones, which received an American Book Award in 1999; and The Dew Breaker....
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Actor and director Alan Alda played Hawkeye Pierce on the television series M*A*S*H and has acted in, written, and directed many feature films....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
audio-book provider. Audible is responsible for supplying audio
content to Apple's ITunes service. I have been listening,
enjoying and creating audio books for many years. With
the arrival of the internet and portable digital devices,
audio-books began to become availalbe for download.
Having tried most of
the other download services myself, I finally came to
the conclusion that Audible offers the best and most
reliable service. Whether you are using an IPod, IPhone,
mobile phone, Dune or one of the many other MP3 players
availalbe, Audilbe makes downloading great quality audio
content easy and umcomplicated.
In addition to this, Audible also boasts the most comprehensive collection
of audio books anywhere. Depending on the promotion currently on
offer, you can download any audiobook of your
choice for free (including almost
certainly the title on this
page, too).
This link will take you to Audible...
All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
enjoyable.
Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
Indeed, now that the digital age is upon, listening to your
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from children’s to Adult, you are guaranteed to find your
downloadable favourite.
Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
books that can be downloaded from audible. At audible
audiobooks you get your own online library, which makes
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over to your Ipod or mp3 player. You can also sign up for
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