Extraordinary Lives
Ava's Man
Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods and knew...
Bound Feet and Western Dress
While Pang-Mei Natasha Chang was a Chinese Studies major at Harvard University, she stumbled across...
Christopher Columbus (Unabridged)
Given all of the revisionist accounts of the life of Christopher Columbus that have recently surfaced, this classic biography should be mandatory listening...
Conduct Under Fire
The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II....
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
As a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, Jacki Lyden has spent half her adult life...
Deported: Weasel's Diary
"I've been banished from the U.S., you know. Like they used to do in the medieval days. They used to ban fools. [Laughs] I went to kindergarten in L.A....
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls (Unabridged)
Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors....
Edmund Burke (Unabridged)
Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today....
Eiger Dreams
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly...
Endurance
The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...











