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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Chasing the Dream Subtitle: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series Author: Joe Torre Narrator: Joe Torre Format: Abridged Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 12-07-07 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: He had all but given up his dream when the New York Yankees made him an offer to manage their 1996 club. Encouraged by his wife and others, he accepted. And so began one of the greatest seasons in the fabled history of the New York Yankee franchise and one of the most inspiring, heartwarming stories in all of baseball. Here is the ultimate insider's record of that unforgettable season by the man whose personal struggles captured the hearts and imaginations of fans everywhere. Tough, gritty, but always fair and honest, Torre vividly reveals how he turned a potentially volatile mix of talented youngsters such as Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter, seasoned veterans like Wade Boggs and Paul O'Neill, and so-called "problem" players like Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden into a cohesive unit that cared more about winning than personal egos. He explains how he played his hunches and earned his team's confidence and respect as he focused his players from spring training on toward one goal: the World Series. And he did it all in a pressure-filled sports city that expects nothing less than a champion. Here is Joe Torre's own story, told for the first time in his own words, from his early childhood in Brooklyn, to his celebrated baseball career playing with the likes of Hank Aaron and Bob Gibson, to his stint as the first native New Yorker ever to manage the Yankees. Offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at a season to remember and a man who went through so much to reach the pinnacle of his profession, Chasing the Dream is more than just another sports story. It is a poignant reminder of why we love the game - and how, sometimes, nice guys do finish first. Critic Reviews: "[A] sensational and heartwarming memoir...with a love for baseball so pure and winning, we can almost hear the crack of the bat." (San Francisco Chronicle)

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Jim Thorpe, Original All-American Author: Joseph Bruchac Narrator: Joseph Bruchac Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 11-30-07 Publisher: Listening Library Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Focusing on Jim Thorpe's years at Carlisle, this book brings his early athletic career, and especially his college football days, to life, while also dispelling some myths about him and movingly depicting the Native American experience at the turn of the 20th century. This is a book for history buffs as well as sports fans: an illuminating and lively listen about a truly great American.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Slave No More Subtitle: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom Author: David W. Blight Narrator: Arthur Morey, Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 11-06-07 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wallace Turnage was a teenage field-hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell gripping stories of escape. Working from an unusual abundance of genealogical material, historian David W. Blight has reconstructed Turnage's and Washington's childhoods as sons of white slaveholders and their climb to black working-class stability in the North, where they reunited their families. In A Slave No More, the untold stories of two ordinary men take their place at the heart of the American experience. Critic Reviews: "These powerful memoirs reveal poignant, heroic, painful and inspiring lives." (Publishers Weekly)

Escuche este audio libro completo gratis en https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 Título: Casi una Mujer (Texto Completo) [Almost a Woman ] Autor: Esmeralda Santiago Narrador: Esmeralda Santiago Formato: Unabridged Duración: 13 hrs and 23 mins Idioma: Español Fecha de publicación: 10-16-07 Editor: Recorded Books Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 40 votos Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Resumen del editor: Note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Este audiolibro es en Espanol.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Education of Henry Adams Author: Henry Adams Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 08-30-07 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 95 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Exploring America as both a success and a failure, contradiction was the very impetus that compelled Adams to write Education, in which he was also able to voice his deep skepticism about mankind's power to control the direction of history. Written with immense wit and irony, reassembling the past while glimpsing the future, Adams' vision expresses what Henry James declared the "complex fate" to be an American. Today, it remains one of the most compelling works of American autobiography.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Forever on the Mountain Author: James Tabor Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins Language: English Release date: 07-06-07 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 139 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: No bodies were ever recovered. No cameras, diaries, or films shed light on the climbers' final agonizing days. Yet agenda-driven critics and officials fearing lawsuits pronounced self-serving verdicts. Further obscuring the truth, two prominent expedition members offered conflicting versions of the catastrophe. Through interviews with those involved, unpublished correspondence and diaries, and sensitive government documents, James M. Tabor uncovered an array of new information: a feud with the expedition leader, Joe Wilcox; a stillborn rescue operation thwarted by the Park Service bureaucracy; and the heroic efforts made by other civilian climbers. To interpret the details, he consulted experts in disciplines as diverse as forensics, meteorology, and psychology. In the end, Tabor has pieced together for the first time the complete, untold story of this expedition, whose victims and survivors both remain, in many ways, forever on the mountain. Critic Reviews: "An often gripping, detailed account." (Publishers Weekly)

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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1565 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Punishment of Virtue Subtitle: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban Author: Sarah Chayes Narrator: Renée Raudman Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 10-10-06 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With remarkable access to leading players in the postwar government, Chayes witnessed a tragic, perverse turn of events: the U.S. government and armed forces allowing and abetting the return to power of corrupt militia commanders to the country. In addition, the reinfiltration of Taliban forces was supported by a U.S. ally, Pakistan. In this dramatic account of her four years on the ground, working with Afghanis to restore their country to order and establish democracy, Chayes opens Americans' eyes to the sobering realities of this vital front in the war on terror. Critic Reviews: "Absorbing...necessary, even" (Kirkus) "[Chayes'] hands-on experience as a deeply immersed reporter and activist gives her [book] a practical scope and persuasive authority." (Publishers Weekly)

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