Page 1 -- Nonfiction audio books
Angela's Ashes (EA0088) A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Frank McCourt; 1110; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 900 Min, , (EA0383)
1999 Dave Pelzer; 850; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 300 Min, , 1995
Angela?s Ashes is a memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt and The book is written as a memoir which covers physical and emotional abuse
tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in between Dave Pelzer and his biological mother, which leads to Dave having
1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Born in a stutter and being unsure of himself later in life as an adult. Yet he has a
Brooklyn, New York City on 19 August 1930, Frank McCourt was the eldest family of his own now, even a son.
son of Malachy and Angela McCourt. Frank McCourt lived in New York with Subjects: CHILD ABUSE, AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
his parents and four younger siblings: Malachy, born in 1931; twins Oliver
and Eugene, born in 1932; and a younger sister, Margaret, who died just a
Counting coup-- a true story of basketball and honor
few weeks after birth, in 1935. Following this first tragedy, his family moved on the Little Big Horn (EA0406)
back to Ireland, where the twin brothers died within a year of the family's 796.32; Colton, Larry; 950; Audio Book (iPod), Professional,
arrival and where Frank's youngest brothers, Michael (b. 1936) and Alphie RECORDED BOOKS, 2013GV886;
(b. 1940), were born.
Presents a study of the girls' basketball team at Hardin High School on the
Subjects: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, IRISH-UNITED STATES, Crow reservation in Montana, focusing on talented young player Sharon
LaForge, and examines the social conditions that prevent her and other
Animals in translation-- using the mysteries of autism Native American athletes from reaching their potential on and off the court.
to decode animal behavior (EA0401) First They Killed My Father (EA0386)
591.5\; Grandin, Temple; 1130; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, Loung Ung; 920; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 300 Min, , 200
RECORDED BOOKS, 2013QL751; First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a 2000
Subjects: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, AUTISM, ANIMALS-HABITS AND nonfiction book written by Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and survivor of
the Pol Pot regime. It is a personal account of her experiences during the
BEHAVIOR,
Khmer Rouge years.
Subjects: AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (EA0196)
ANNE FRANK; 1080; Audio Book (iPod), I J S, 300 Min, , 1952 Frederick Douglass' Speech (EA0034)
The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the writings from a Dutch Frederick Douglass; Audio Book (iPod), J-S, 13 Min, , 1852
language diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years Frederick Douglass' Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the
with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family Hypocrisy of Slavery; July 4, 1852
was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Subjects: SLAVERY-UNITED STATES, SLAVERY, SPEECHES,
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved
by Anne's father, Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family. Free: The Future of a Radical Price (EA0080)
Subjects: HOLOCAUST, YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE, Chris Anderson; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 420 Min, , 2009
In the digital marketplace, the most effective price is no price at all,
Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving (EA0297) argues Anderson (The Long Tail). He illustrates how savvy businesses are
raking it in with indirect routes from product to revenue with such models
John Medina; Audio Book (iPod), S T, 690 Min, , 2009 as cross-subsidies and freemiums. New media models have allowed
Multitasking is the great buzz word in business today, but as developmental successes like Obama's campaign billboards on Xbox Live, Webkinz dolls
molecular biologist Medina tells readers in a chapter on attention, the brain and Radiohead's name-your-own-price experiment with its latest album.
can really only focus on one thing at a time. This alone is the best argument A generational and global shift is at play?those below 30 won't pay
for not talking on your cellphone while driving. Medina presents readers with for information, knowing it will be available somewhere for free, and in
a basket containing an even dozen good principles on how the brain works China, piracy accounts for about 95% of music consumption?to the delight
and how we can use them to our benefit at home and work. The author says of artists and labels, who profit off free publicity through concerts and
that we don't sleep to give our brain a rest?studies show our neurons firing merchandising. Anderson provides a thorough overview of the history of
furiously away while the rest of the body is catching a few z's. While our pricing and commerce, the mental transaction costs that differentiate zero
brain indeed loses cells as we age, it compensates so that we continue to be and any other price into two entirely different markets, the psychology of
able to learn well into our golden years. Many of these findings and minutiae digital piracy and the open-source war between Microsoft and Linux.
will be familiar to science buffs, but the author employs an appealing style, Subjects: BUSINESS, ECONOMICS,
with suggestions on how to apply his principles, which should engage all
readers. The Glass Castle: A Memoir (EA0345)
Subjects: EDUCATION: CONTENT: STAFF DEVELOPMENT, BRAIN, Jeannette Walls; 1010; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 600
BRAIN RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, Min, , 2005
The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (EA0489) is an autobiographical memoir that recounts Walls' and her siblings'
unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply
James Swanson; 980; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 240 Min, , 0 dysfunctional parents.
James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Subjects: POVERTY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial
manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the Hiroshima (EA0416)
manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about 940.54; Hersey, John; 1190; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High,
the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase RECORDED BOOKS, 2011D767.25.H6;
through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland,
Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the
and into the forests of Virginia.
atomic blast.
Subjects: CIVIL WAR, ASSASSINATION, Subjects: Atomic bomb - Blast effect, WORLD WAR, 1939-1945,
Talking books,
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow (EA0384) In Cold Blood (EA0278)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti; 1050; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 300 Truman Capote; 1040; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 840
Min, , 2005 Min, , 1966
By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote detailing
children belonged to the Hitler Youth. It would become the largest youth the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb,
group in history. Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the Kansas, his wife and two of their children. The oldest daughters no longer
loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people. Her lived at the farm. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder before
research includes telling interviews with surviving Hitler Youth members. the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about
the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author
Subjects: HITLER, ADOLPH 1889-1945, WORLD WAR, 1939-1945-
Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators
PROPAGANDA, assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers,
Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested not long after the
Hole in My Life (EA0356) murders, and Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book.
Jack Gantos; 840; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 240 Min, , 2002 Subjects: CRIME, NOVEL, JUSTICE,
In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young
people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the Into the Wild (EA0134)
end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed
Jon Krakauer; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 420 Min, , 1996
moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final
year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a bestselling non-fiction book about the
prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos ? adventures of Christopher McCandless. It is an expansion of Krakauer's
once he was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell ? moved from wanting 9,000-word article, "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January
to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating himself more fully to the thing 1993 issue of Outside. The book was adapted into a 2007 movie of
he most wanted to do helped him endure and ultimately overcome the worst the same name directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as
experience of his life. McCandless. McCandless died in a wilderness area in the state of Alaska.
Krakauer suggested in the book that McCandless died of eating a wild
Subjects: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, DRUGS AND CRIME, potato root which had a poisonous fungus on it, leading to his starvation.
After specimens around the bus where he died did not test positive for
Horse Soldiers (EA0276) the toxin, Krakauer modified his theory to suggest that a mold that hinders
Doug Stanton; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 240 Min, , 2009 digestion could be responsible; however, the official cause of McCandless's
death is simply starvation.
In this absolutely riveting account, full of horror and raw courage, journalist
Stanton (In Harm's Way) recreates the miseries and triumphs of specially Subjects: ADVENTURE AND ADVENTURERS, ALASKA,
trained mounted U.S. soldiers, deployed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan
mountains to fight alongside the Northern Alliance-thousands of rag-tag Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of (EA0262)
Afghans who fought themselves to exhaustion or death-against the Taliban.
Marcus Luttrell; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 310 Min, , 2007
Subjects: WAR STORIES, JOURNALISM, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost
Heroes of Seal Team 10 is a work of non-fiction written by Marcus Luttrell
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and with contributions from Patrick Robinson and published in 2007 by Little,
Was Shot by the Taliban (EA0494) Brown and Company. The narrative takes place in Afghanistan where the
reader follows Marcus Luttrell and a group of Navy SEALs.
Audio Book (iPod), J S, 600 Min, , 2013
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Subjects: WAR, WAR STORIES, TERRORISM, MIDDLE EAST,
Taliban. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one
girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her The Lost Boy (EA0248)
right to an education.<p><p>On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was Dave Pelzer; 1100; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 350 Min, , 1997
fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at
The Lost Boy (1997) is the second installment of a trilogy of books which
point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected
depict the life of Dave Pelzer, who as a young boy who was physically,
her to survive.
emotionally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother. The
Subjects: WAR, ASIA, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, book discusses Pelzer's struggling with his ability to fit in and adapt to the
new environment around him as he is put into foster care. It also talks about
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (EA0460) the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him as well
as his inability to brush his mother aside.The Lost Boy is included as the
616/.0; Skloot, Rebecca; 1280; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High,
second book in Dave Pelzer's compilation My Story.
Random House Audio, 2008RC265.6.L24;
Subjects: FAMILY LIFE, FAMILY LIFE STORIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting
descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept CHILD ABUSE, FOSTER CHILDREN,
alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in
vitro fertilization, and gene mapping. The lost painting (EA0463)
Subjects: African American women - History, HeLa cells, Cancer - 759.5\; Harr, Jonathan; 1020; Audio Book (iPod), Professional,
Research, Cell culture, Medical ethics, Audiobooks, Compact discs, Random House Audiobooks, 2005ND623.C26;
Recounts the events surrounding the discovery of Italian Baroque artist
Caravaggio's masterpiece "The Taking of Christ", which went undiscovered
for decades in a dusty attic, and explores the controversy surrounding the
painting's discovery and restoration.
Subjects: Painting, Italian - Attribution, Painting - Expertising,
Page 3 -- Nonfiction audio books
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (EA0077) The Things They Carried (EA0396)
Audio Book (iPod), J S, 60 Min, , 1845 Tim O'Brien; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 600 Min, , 1990
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is a memoir The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien,
and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. The Things They
Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of Carried employs heavy use of metafiction, as O?Brien has stated his belief
narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, that truth can be more effectively communicated that way. Many of the
the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the characters are semi-autobiographical, and readers of O'Brien's work will
most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the notice that some of the characters share similarities with characters from his
early 19th century in the United States. memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. O'Brien
Subjects: SLAVERY, dedicated The Things They Carried to the men of the Alpha Company with
whom he fought during the war.
Nickel and dimed-- on (not) getting by in America Subjects: VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975, Short stories,
(EA0429)
The Things They Carried (EA0273)
Ehrenreich, Barbara; 1340; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High,
RECORDED BOOKS, 2011 Tim O'Brien; 880; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 350 Min, ,
1990
To discover how others exist on minimum wage, the author leaves her
home, takes the cheapest lodgings she can find, and accepts whatever The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien,
jobs she's offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she works about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, originally
variously as a waitress, nursing home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin, 1990. While apparently based
She learned many things, including the fact that one job is not enough: you on some of O'Brien's own experiences, the title page refers to the
need at least two if you intend to live indoors. book as "a work of fiction"; indeed, the majority of stories in the book
possess some quality of metafiction. Before publication in 1990, five of
Subjects: POVERTY, Audiobooks,
the stories, including "The Things They Carried," "Sweetheart of the Song
Tra Bong," "The Ghost Soldiers," and "The Lives of the Dead," had been
The omnivore's dilemma-- a natural history of four published in Esquire. "Speaking of Courage" was originally published (in
meals (EA0467) heavily modified form) as a chapter of O'Brien's earlier novel Going After
Cacciato.<p>
394.1/; Pollan, Michael; 930; Audio Book (iPod), Junior High,
Penguin Audio, 2006 Subjects: WAR STORIES, VIETNAM WAR, 1961-1975, SHORT
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from STORY,
what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be
fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since Difference (EA0205)
man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary
Malcolm Gladwell; Audio Book (iPod), Senior High, 480 Min, ,
book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may
determine our survival as a species.--From publisher description. 2007
Subjects: Food habits, Food preferences, EVOLUTION, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is a book
by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little Brown in 2000.<p>Gladwell
defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the
Please Stop Laughing at Me (EA0288) boiling point." The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious"
Jodee Blanco; 750; Audio Book (iPod), J S, 420 Min, , 2003 sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, "Ideas
A publicist (and author of The Complete Guide to Book Publicity) who has and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do." The
promoted several bestsellers, Blanco was once a troubled child, tormented examples of such changes in his book include the rise in popularity and
by her school mates. In this moving account, Blanco describes how she was sales of Hush Puppies shoes in the mid-1990s and the precipitous drop in
first victimized in a Roman Catholic grammar school because she defended the New York City crime rate after 1990.
some deaf children when they were picked on by hearing students. She Subjects: MONEY, ECONOMICS, CONSUMPTION (ECONOMICS),
gave the names of the ringleaders of this cruel activity to one of the nuns, CONSUMER EDUCATION,
and was subsequently ostracized by former friends for being a tattletale.
After Blanco transferred to another school, she continued a pattern of Unbroken-- a World War II story of survival, resilience,
reporting bad behavior to authority figures and became a true outsider.
According to the author, her parents were sympathetic, but they made
and redemption (EA0475)
things worse by forcing her to see a therapist. He prescribed medication 940.54; Hillenbrand, Laura; 1090; Audio Book (iPod), J S,
that made her sleepy and told her that "kids will be kids." In high school, Random House Audiobooks, 2008D805.J3;
she was physically abused by students who also objected to her "goody
two shoes" attitude. During her teen years, Blanco's emotional Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed
into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean
Subjects: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Bullying, before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner
until the end of the war.
Stiff-- the curious lives of human cadavers (EA0443) Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese,
611\22; Roach, Mary; 1230; Audio Book (iPod), Professional, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, American, WORLD WAR,
Tantor Audio, 2003R853.H8; 1939-1945 CAMPAIGNS, Sound recording, Audiobooks,
Explores how human cadavers have been used throughout history,
discussing how the use of dead bodies has benefited every aspect of
human existence.
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine, Dead, Human
dissection,
