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No Better Friend
One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
2015
EN
**This New York Times–bestseller "combines a gritty war story with a warm dog story—readers who like both will think they have gone to heaven" ( Boston Globe).Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoner...
The Divine Miss Marble
A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery
2020
EN
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**“In Robert Weintraub’s exhaustive biography, The Divine Miss Marble, he transports the reader into Marble’s vibrant world. It’s a dreamy, indomitable life worth reading about as today’s tennis tries to return to form.”—The Washington Post“An intriguing book about a fascinating woman…highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review)“Delightful and engrossing, this is a must for tennis fans.”—Publishers WeeklyThe story of 1930...
The House That Ruth Built
A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
2011
EN
"A fascinating tale of one of baseball's greatest moments—the emergence in 1923 of Babe Ruth and the Yankees . . . You're in for a rollicking good ride." —Johnathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1923, the floundering Yankees didn't have to rent the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals, the New York Giants, anymore. They finally got their own field. The newly-built, state-of-the art baseball palace in the Bronx was called "the Yankee Stadium," and its ou...
No Better Friend
A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II
2016
EN
A tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II in this young readers' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller.No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sens...
The Victory Season
The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age
2013
EN
"A beautifully written paean to the 1946 baseball season, when normalcy returned to the national pastime." —Mike Vaccaro, New York PostIn 1945 Major League Baseball had become a ghost of itself. Parks were half empty, the balls were made with fake rubber, and mediocre replacements roamed the fields, as hundreds of players, including the game's biggest stars, were serving abroad, devoted to unconditional Allied victory in World War II....
The House That Ruth Built
A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
- Narrated by
- Fred Berman
Unabridged
21 hours 55 min
2011
EN
Journalist Robert Weintraub vividly recreates the pivotal year that transformed the New York Yankees into the legendary franchise of today. Overshadowed by the New York Giants, the hapless Yankees played their home games at the ballpark of their cross-town rivals. But when Yankee Stadium was completed in 1923, Babe Ruth bounced back from a disappointing season-launching the Yankees' storied history and immortalizing the stadium as the "House That Ruth Built."
No Better Friend
One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
- Narrated by
- Dan Woren
Unabridged
14 hours 42 min
2015
EN
The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She sur...
The Divine Miss Marble
A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery
- Narrated by
- Johnathan McClain
Unabridged
15 hours 13 min
2020
EN
**“In Robert Weintraub’s exhaustive biography, The Divine Miss Marble, he transports the reader into Marble’s vibrant world. It’s a dreamy, indomitable life worth reading about as today’s tennis tries to return to form.”—The Washington Post“An intriguing book about a fascinating woman…highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review)“Delightful and engrossing, this is a must for tennis fans.”—Publishers WeeklyThe story of 1930...
No Better Friend
Young Readers Edition: A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II
- Narrated by
- P.J. Ochlan
Unabridged
6 hours 6 min
2020
EN
The young listeners' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend—the extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II.No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who ...
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We Are Not Ourselves
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- Narrated by
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Unabridged
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The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.”As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not only hold on to t...
Leaving Berlin
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Corey Brill
Unabridged
11 hours 38 min
2015
EN
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