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Title: Malmo

Author: Green Travel Guide

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-10

Publisher: Puttenham Ltd

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Come on an eco-journey to one of the greenest cities worldwide. The Green Travel Guide is a comprehensive audio tour recorded right on the scene.

You can BIKE all over the city for free, EAT wonderfully fresh Swedish seafood, DISCOVER why Malmo is leading the way in eco-living, and then of course, PARTY in tiny, famous Lilla Torg square. Why not make your next holiday a green one? Have a holiday, have a conscience, and most of all, have fun.

The Green Travel Guide donates 10 percent of all profits to green charities.

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Title: Thai Islands

Author: Green Travel Guide

Format: Original Recording

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-10

Publisher: Puttenham Ltd

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Come on an eco-journey to a natural paradise. The Green Travel Guide is a comprehensive audio tour recorded right on the scene.

You can SWIM and DIVE with eco-friendly tour operators, EXPLORE the crazy world of Doctor Fish, and PARTY at the full moon party with an eco-conscience - seriously! Why not make your next holiday a green one?

Have a holiday, have a conscience, and most of all, have fun.

The Green Travel Guide donates 10 percent of all profits to green charities.

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Title: How Lincoln Learned to Read

Subtitle: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them

Author: Daniel Wolff

Narrator: Jack Garrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Here is an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.

How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique perspective: how do we learn what we need to know? Beginning with Benjamin Franklin and ending with Elvis Presley, author Daniel Wolff creates a series of intimate, interlocking profiles of notable Americans that track the nations developing notion of what it means to get a good education.

From the stubborn early feminism of Abigail Adams to the miracle of Helen Keller, from the savage childhood of Andrew Jackson to the academic ambitions of W.E.B. Du Bois, a single, fascinating narrative emerges. It connects the illiterate Sojourner Truth to the privileged Jack Kennedy, takes us from Paiute Indians scavenging on western deserts to the birth of Henry Ford's assembly line. And as the book traces the education we value both in and outside the classroom it becomes a history of key American ideas.

In the end, How Lincoln Learned to Read delivers us to today's headlines. Standardized testing, achievement gaps, the very purpose of public education all have their roots in this narrative. Whether you're a parent trying to make sure your child is prepared, a teacher trying to do the best possible job, or a student navigating the educational system, How Lincoln Learned to Read offers a challenge to consider what we need to know and how we learn it. Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, built mostly on primary sources, this is an American story that begins and ends with hope.

Members Reviews:

Enlightening and Entertaining

I particularly appreciate the length that Wolff goes to contextualize the era these 12 americans lived in. He covers the social environment as well as the family environment that helped shape these individuals. The dimension that Wolff offers in this book better helps us understand the science of a useful education. It helps the reader to reevaluate our concept of how a useful education is obtained.

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Title: Andrew Zimmern's Pleasant Surprises

Subtitle: Chapter 17 from 'The Bizarre Truth'

Author: Andrew Zimmern

Narrator: Andrew Zimmern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-09

Publisher: Random House Audio

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel's hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that's consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda, to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in blood pudding in Iceland, and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style rooster balls in Los Angeles. For Zimmern, local cuisine - bizarre, gross or downright stomach turning as it may be to us - is not simply what's served at mealtime. It is a primary avenue to discovering what is most authentic - the bizarre truth - about cultures everywhere.

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Titel: Köln: Sagen und Legenden

Autor:: Kristina Hammann

Erzähler: Michael Nowack

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 10 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-23-09

Herausgeber: Verlag Michael John Media

Kategorien: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Doch auch ohne Heinzelmännchen ist Köln bis heute Sehens- und lebenswert geblieben. Kein Geringerer als Gaius Iulius Caesar ebnete durch den Sieg über wilde germanische Stämme und die Eroberung der linksrheinischen Gebiete den Weg für die römische Kolonie "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium" (CCAA). Noch heute findet man an vielen Orten Spuren aus der Römerzeit.

Mit dem Einmarsch der Franzosen 1794 endete Kölns Geschichte als freie Reichsstadt. Nach der Neudefinierung der europäischen Grenzen auf dem Wiener Kongress 1815 war Köln preußisch. Am 28. September 1917 wurde Konrad Adenauer Bürgermeister in Köln.

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Title: The Inspired Heart

Subtitle: An Artist's Journey of Transformation

Author: Jerry Wennstrom

Narrator: Jerry Wennstrom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-09

Publisher: Wetware Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

In his book The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation, Jerry Wennstrom tells the extraordinary story of his daring exploration into the source of his creativity. He tells of a life lived by the singular requirement of Grace - to remain fearlessly attuned to the heart. The Inspired Heart has a foreword by Care of the Soul author Thomas Moore.

Members Reviews:

An Inspiring Story

I purchased this title after listening to an interview given by it's author, Jerry Wennstrom. The book takes the form of a series of short stories from the authors life, that all come together to tell his amazing story. I really liked this format, because it is easy to just listen to one story, then come back and listen to another.

The narration comes from the author himself, which I loved. It is easy to follow, and there is nothing like listening to someone tell their own personal story - the emotion and nuance come through in the narrators voice.

The story itself is beautiful and inspiring. I felt encouraged to bring more beauty, serendipity, and trust into my own life after listening to these tales. There is a sense of humility, wonder, and love that comes across to the listener.

Highly recommended!

Awful narration

What would have made The Inspired Heart better?

A proper narrator. I think the story is quite interesting but the story telling is so dreary it's almost unlistenable to.

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Title: Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman

Subtitle: Travels with Sled Dogs in Canada's Frozen North

Author: Polly Evans

Narrator: Lucy Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-09

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Publisher's Summary:

In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada's far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus 40 and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. Her mission: to learn to drive sled dogs. But when she arrives, she finds there's more to this unspoilt wilderness than deathly cold.

©2009 Polly Evans; (P)2009 Oakhill Publshing

Critic Reviews:

"Evans excels at 'stranger in a strange land' travel writing." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Good Story BUT!!

I liked the story, but the Liberal bias is evident. Global Warming comments, Oil Companies and how bad they are could have been left out of the book.

She does not appear to be a die hard Lib, so it is not that bad. Just do not expect the same propaganda I hear every day, in a book I am listening to for enjoyment.

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Title: A Feast of Words

Subtitle: The Triumph of Edith Wharton

Author: Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This new edition includes two chapters: one on Lily Bart and the lethal stereotypes of women on the 19th-century stage, and another on the way Wharton's own sensual awakening led from the frozen austerity of Ethan Frome to the lyricism and tempered happiness of Summer. Everyone who admires Wharton's novels or enjoys the films made from them will want to experience this superb biography.

Critic Reviews:

"Immensely satisfying...reflects a fine understanding of the interior life of a woman writer." (New York Times Book Review)

"Gives us the flesh and blood woman - and a splendidly gallant creature she is." (St. Louis Dispatch)

Members Reviews:

Very useful contribution to Wharton biography

At the risk of violating Audible guidelines, the review by Linda Lou is so harsh and unforgiving that I want to push back at her just a bit. Quite apart from the criticism of Anna Fields delivery, the book itself, updated from an original version, is one of just a few first rate critical biographies of Edith Wharton, whose life and writing bridged the Victorian and Modern era. Miss Lou must not be familiar with academic writing, much of which is so abstruse and arcane it makes your teeth ache. Professor Wolff has a literate and graceful style and takes on the entire corpus of Wharton writing, placing it in context of the time it was written, differentiating for example between the erotic content in pre and post-Fullerton efforts. Her work on Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome as well as Summer, House of Mirth, and Custom of the Country, is first rate and she may even have presented Hitchcockians with a source for Hitchcocks famous MacGuffin. Wolff was a Professor of Literature at MIT when this piece came out in the 90s and may be retired by now. She deserves better than the previous review and Audible is to be congratulated for including academic work like this in their offerings. Charles Bland, Niagara Falls New York

Interesting yet excruciatingly verbose

It is evident that the author Wolff has a great deal of insight into Wharton, which she brings to bear in this tome. If you are looking for a detailed assessment that frequently borders on tiresome over-analysis of Wharton's life, you will find it here. What I found especially irksome - and misplaced - was the last section titled 'Afterwards,' whereupon Wolff launches yet again into a re-review of Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth. It seemed to rehash much of the same ground as in previous chapters covering same without further illumination, although Wolff appeared to be focusing on certain autobiographical comparisons, and theatrical devices Wharton employed in her writing. I was happy to get to the end!

Feast of Words - know what you're embarking on

I fall exactly between the reviewers, Linda Lou and Charles Bland. I appreciate the erudite weight of a well-researched examination of Edith Wharton's contribution to literature as well as the many sources both personal and literary that made it possible. But that examination can be exhausting and professorial for the typical, casual listener who may not be expecting the kind of reading you would only tackle if you were armed with the red pen of an editor, doing a favor to a doctoral thesis candidate.

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Title: Oscar Wilde

Author: Frank Harris

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Later years found Harris increasingly frustrated with Wilde, as the playwright's humor gave way to bitterness and self-pity. Repeatedly, Harris urged the author of The Importance of Being Earnest to continue to write. His pleas met with excuses, indolence, and incessant requests for money. Harris' frustration peaked when he bought an idea for a play from Wilde, then learned that Wilde had already sold the idea to several others.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating and highly informative.

What did you like most about Oscar Wilde?

It is a wonderful and different account of Oscar's life. A great insight into his personality and take on life.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Not relevant too much here as Oscar is the main character.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The entire book is a journey into Oscar's life and behaviour in a rather unique way I felt.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Oscar Wilde.... There is only room for one Oscar in this world and one is enough.

Any additional comments?

You will love this audio book. If you have even the slightest interest in what makes Oscar tick then this is one of the best buys there is. I don't think you will regret it.

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Titel: Nürnberger Sagen und Legenden

Autor:: Marco Kirchner

Erzähler: Marco Kirchner

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 2 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 04-09-09

Herausgeber: Verlag Michael John Media

Kategorien: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Rund um die alte Reichsstadt Nürnberg ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Sagen, die heute leider weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind. Der passionierte Geschichtenerzähler Marco Kirchner hat sie zusammengetragen und haucht ihnen neues Leben ein. Packend berichtet er davon, wie der goldene Ring in das Brunnengitter kam, warum des abends um neun im Nürnberger Land alle Glocken läuten, von Zwergen, Goldschätzen, so manch gruseliger Gestalt oder gar der Begegnung mit dem Teufel selbst.

(c)+(p) 2006/2007 Verlag Michael John Media