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Title: Brotherhood of Warriors

Subtitle: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units

Author: Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-08

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 148 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen was 18 years old when he left behind his privileged American life with the single-minded ambition of joining Israel's top anti-terrorist commando unit. After 15 months of grueling training, Cohen was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold: a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct Hamas leaders and bring them to Israel for trial. Cohen learned flawless Arabic, lost all semblance of his all-American appearance, and participated in countless life-or-death missions. A propulsive, gripping read, Cohen's story is a rare fly-on-the-wall view into the shadowy world of "Black Ops".

©2008 Aaron Cohen; (P)2008 Tantor

Critic Reviews:

"Aaron Cohen has something to say. And he knows what he's talking about....A no-nonsense, riveting read." (General Tommy Franks, U.S. Army, Ret.)

"A raw, intensely personal, and astonishing look at the journey of a very unlikely hero....It's more than a story of the making of an elite unconventional warfare operative-it's a real, in-your-face, and mesmerizing look at the birth of a patriot. You will be inspired, believe me." (Dale Brown)

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Title: Heart in the Right Place

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Carolyn Jourdan

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office - assured it would only be for a few days.

©2007 Carolyn Jourdan; (P)2008 Recorded Books

Critic Reviews:

"Jourdan's dispatches from the reception desk make for a stirring, beautiful memoir that is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, and ultimately a triumph." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Author: T. E. Lawrence

Narrator: James Wilby

Format: Abridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-08

Publisher: CSA Word

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 99 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Lawrence of Arabia's seminal work charts his time with British Military Intelligence in the Levantine territories, during the wars with the Turks. The manuscript is candid and action-packed (and was entirely re-written after Lawrence lost the original manuscript whilst changing trains).

©2007 CSA Word; (P)2007 CSA Word

Critic Reviews:

"This is a masterful recording of the memoirs of the man better known as Lawrence of Arabia." (Financial Times)

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Título: Historia Viva [Living History]

Autor: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Narrador: Anna Silvetti

Formato: Abridged

Duración: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-09-08

Editor: FonoLibro Inc. (Audiolibros - Audio Libros)

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 34 votos

Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Resumen del editor:

En Historia Viva, Hillary Rodham Clinton describe con franqueza, humor, pasión sobre su formación como mujer durante una agitada época de cambios sociales y políticos en los Estados Unidos y sobre sus años en la Casa Blanca. Cuenta la historia de su aventura de treinta años en el amor y la política junto a Bill Clinton, en la que logró sobrevivir a traiciones personales, investigaciones partidistas si tregua y el escrutinio constante del público. Y ofrece también un reflejo claro de sus ideas y opiniones acerca de los temas políticos de mayor actualidad: salud, relaciones internacionales, derechos humanos, de la mujer y mucho más.

Historia Viva, un audiolibro íntimo, poderoso, e inspirador, captura la esencia de esta mujer excepcional y el proceso arduo a través del cual llegó a definirse y encontrar su propia voz: como madre, esposa, y una de las figuras más formidables en la historia de la política estadounidense.

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Title: Mr Nice

Author: Howard Marks

Narrator: Howard Marks

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-07

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Marks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosophy course at Oxford, and soon he was moving much larger quantities into Europe and into America. The academic life began to lose its allure. At the height of his career, he was smuggling consignments of up to 50 tons from Pakistan and Thailand to America and Canada and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. Numerous newspaper profiles, books, and television documentaries have been devoted to Howard Mark's life. Touched with humour, charm, and candour, Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story.

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Title: The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness

Subtitle: A True Story

Author: Joel ben Izzy

Narrator: Joel ben Izzy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-07

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Once upon a time, a successful storyteller lost his voice to throat cancer. Deprived of the instrument of his art and his livelihood, he retreated into dark, sullen silence and depression. While searching for a spiritual explanation, he encountered his former mentor, a cantankerous and often drunken old man. Their meetings began a journey into the timeless wisdom of ancient tales: of beggars and kings, monks and tigers, lost horses, buried treasures, and ultimately the secret of happiness.

In this altogether original book, Joel ben Izzy shares his personal account of surviving loss, gaining wisdom, and rediscovering one's true purpose. Weaving in tales he's collected over the years from Sufi, Muslim, Chinese, Jewish, Iraqi, Zen Buddhist, Italian, and Indian cultures, he passes along the lessons he has learned. As we travel with ben Izzy from tragedy back into light and sound, we are encouraged to see our own lives as stories, and to open our own hearts to happiness.

Critic Reviews:

"His memoir shines with brisk suspense as well as his unerring, precise eye for including only the elements of his hard-won wisdom that matter the most." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Wasted

Author: Mark Johnson

Narrator: Steven Mackintosh

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-07

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Constantly in trouble at school, he began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin at age 11. Art college beckoned the sensitive and intelligent boy, but he ended up in Portland prison instead.

With searing honesty, Wasted documents Mark's descent into the very depths of addiction and criminality. Homeless and hooked on heroin and crack, no one, least of all Mark, believed he would survive. And yet he somehow found the strength to pull through, and now runs his own thriving tree-surgery business, employing and helping other recovering addicts.

Both shocking and inspirational, this is a heartbreaking and compelling account of one man's struggle to save himself, and help save others in the process.

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Title: Inside the Jihad

Subtitle: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story

Author: Omar Nasiri

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-06

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 214 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is a detailed portrait of a complex man who fought on both sides. From Europe's burgeoning terrorist underground in the 1990s, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, Omar Nasiri offers a unique and chilling perspective, on both the rise of Al Qaeda and the intelligence services that struggled to contain it.

Inside the Jihad is the story of a double agent operative working for UK and French intelligence by infiltrating Al Qaeda training camps. During his time in the camps, Nasiri met all of the top terrorist leaders, including Osama bin Laden, and engaged in a wide range of illegal activities. Strikingly well-written and gripping, Inside the Jihad is a terrifying, suspenseful read.

Editorial Reviews:

Why You Should Download This Audiobook: Many are the listens that examine Al Qaeda from the outside. Now, for the first time, comes a voice from the insidea man who met Osama bin Laden and his top operatives. One expects that accounts of this kind will provide fascinating insight into an alien place; however, one cannot be certain the writing quality will live up to the excitment of the narrative. In this case, it does. Don't miss this one.

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Title: Class 11

Subtitle: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class

Author: T.J. Waters

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-06

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 106 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Like all Americans, T. J. Waters was stunned, angry, and grief stricken by the terrorist attacks of September 11. More than that, he wanted to take action to help prevent such an event from ever happening again. Waters was not alone. In the weeks following the attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency received over 150,000 résumés from people wanting to serve their nation as spies. More than 100 students were admitted to the CIA's Clandestine Service to become Class 11, the first training class after the terrorist event.

It was the largest and most diverse class in the agency's history. Joining Waters were a World Trade Center victim's fiancée, an NFL alumnus, a New York City comedian, a college athletics coach, a hostage negotiator, and a single mother. Class 11 is the real story of how this band of everyday Americans joined together to endure the challenge of a lifetime and serve their country. Waters takes readers behind the scenes as the trainees learn methods of subterfuge, master disguises, withstand interrogations, and cross into hostile territory without being detected.

Class 11 is a fascinating and moving portrait of an extraordinary group of Americans with the courage and resolve to make a difference in the war on terror.

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Title: Long Walk to Freedom

Subtitle: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Author: Nelson Mandela

Narrator: Danny Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-06

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 141 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling, and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience, and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.

©1994 Nelson Mandela; (P)2004 Time Warner AudioBooks UK

Critic Reviews:

"Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity....Unforgettable." (Andre Brink)

"Enthralling....Mandela emulates the few great political leaders such as Lincoln and Gandhi, who go beyond mere consensus and move out ahead of their followers to break new ground." (Sunday Times)

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