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HighBridge - The Cold War Audio Book Excerpt for 12-16-2005

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE COLD WAR(http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/coldwar.html). From the dean of Cold War historians (New York Times) an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age. Drawing on new and often startling information from newly opened Soviet, Eastern European, and Chinese archives, this thrilling account explores the strategic dynamics that drove the Cold War, provides illuminating portraits of its major personalities, and offers m...

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[ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - The Romantic Poets - Audio Book Excerpt for 12-09-05

HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE ROMANTIC POETS (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/romanticpoets.html). Evocative, emotional, imaginative, personal, and powerful, the poetry of the Romantic period still inspires us today. This collection includes the works of Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth12 hours in all. The following is commentary on and then a reading of Wordsworths I wandered lonely as a cloud....

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[ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge Audio - Fresh Air Stage and Screen - Excerpt for 12-02-05

FRESH AIR fans have reason to celebrate this season with the release of THE BEST OF STAGE AND SCREEN on CD. Award-winning host Terry Gross engages actors, directors, playwrights, producers, icons, and legends in intelligent and entertaining discussions of their craft. The three CD-set includes 17 interviews the following excerpt features actor Robert Duvall discussing his famous line from Apocalypse Now I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents FRESH AI...

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[ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Commercial Radio - Audio Book Excerpt for 11-25-05

It's Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, when retailers expect Christmas sales to turn their balance sheets from red to black (thus the name). And so HighBridge Audio excerpts presents COMMERICAL RADIO (www.highbridgeaudio.com/cora.html) from Garrison Keillor. The quirky official sponsors of A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION remind you to eat more ketchup, fly to your holiday destination on Lutheran Air, and appreciate the many uses for duct tape (Christmas wrapping probably among them)>...

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[ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Christmas Companion (Keillor) - Audio Excerpt for 11-18-05

HighBridge Audio Excerpts presents THE CHRISTMAS COMPANION with Garrison Keillor (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/christmascompanion.html). Go Prairie Ho-Ho-Home for the Holidays with this first Christmas collection in over a decade. It features lots of music from special guests Rene Fleming, Diana Krall, Ricky Skaggs, Sarah Jessica Parker, and more--as well as plenty of sketches and stories, including one memorable Christmas in Lake Wobegon when the dark angel of stomach flu visited. In the fol...

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[ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Articles of War - Audio Book Excerpt 11-11-05

On this Veterans Day, a reminder that war is Heck. Nick Arvins ARTICLES of WAR tells the WWII story of George Tilson, an 18-year-old Iowa farm boy, nicknamed Heck because he won't curse. Other than that, he's a typical soldier, willing to do his duty without much fuss or musing about grand goals. During his first horrific exposure to combat, Heck discovers a dark truth about himself He is a coward. As the stark reality of combat--and the knowledge that he could cease to exist at any moment--pre...

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[ Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - The Age of Anxiety - Audio Book Excerpt for 11-04-05

In this masterful history of the McCarthy era, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson recreate that time of crisis, painting vivid portraits of the main players Eisenhower, who hated McCarthy but would not attack him the politicians who both used and feared McCarthy the media that feed on the controversy journalist Edward R. Murrow and lawyer Joseph Welch, whose courageous stances exposed the lies and, most striking, figure of Joseph McCarthy himself. Publishers Weekly calls the AGE OF...

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[ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Trail Mix Louis L'Amour Stories - Audio Book Excerpt 10-28-05

Louis L'Amour was arguably the greatest writer of Westerns the world has ever known. Seven of his classic stories are presented on two collections TRAIL MIX VOLUME ONE (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/trailmix1.html) and TRAIL MIX VOLUME TWO (http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/trailmix2.html). The stories are read by legendary country singer Willie Nelson. On the following excerpt from 'Riding for the Brand' (VOLUME ONE) Willie is joined by friends Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings...

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[ Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Studs Terkel Voices of Our Time Audio Book Excerpt 10-21-05

For five decades, Louis Studs Terkel, bestselling author of many books, included his latest AND THEY ALL SANG, brought artists, philosophers, scientists, and activists--the voices of our time--into our living rooms through his program on WFMT in Chicago. With his wit, maverick opinions, and eye to the people and issues of the times, Studs exemplifies what a new generation of alternative broadcasters, sattelite jockeys and podcasters are seeking to bring back to the air waves originality of thoug...

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[ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Lincoln's Melancholy - Audio Book Excerpt for 10-07-05

Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts presents 'LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY How Depression Challendged a President And Fueled His Greatness' by Joshua Wolf Shenk read by Richard Davidson. ('www.highbridgeaudio.com/lincolnsmelancholy.html'). An American Bookseller's Association 'BookSense Pick' for November, LINCOLN'S MELANCHOLY offers a wholly new perspective on how our greatest president brought America through its greatest crisis. Shenk describes how Lincoln harnessed his depression and gained the stre...

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[ Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge - Year of Magical Thinking - Audio Book Excerpt for 09-30-05

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. Thus begins Joan Didion's account of a year that began with her daughter in a coma and her husband and collaborator John Dunne dead of a sudden heart attack. What follows is an profoundly moving story that will touch anyone who has loved and lost. Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts presents THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion read by Barbara Caruso(www.highbridgeaudio.com/yearofmagicalthinking.html). "A lyrical, disciplined entry in the anna...

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[ Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

HighBridge A Million Little Pieces - Audiobook Excerpt - 09-23-05

Our inaugural issue of Highbridge Audio Book Excerpts is James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (www.highbridgeaudio.com/millitpiec.html). Yesterday Oprah Winfrey selected A Million Little Pieces as her new Oprah Book Club title. A Million Little Pieces tells the story of Frey's drug and alcohol addiction and his path to sobriety. An uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and reconstructed, it offers a provocative alternative understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of re...

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[ Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:56:23 -0600 ]

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