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Audiobooks on Compact Disc

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam

Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the [...]
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Dead Cert by Dick Francis

In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racing—where one man must bring his friends’ killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . . Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and [...]
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” –Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would [...]
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls’s father always called her “Mountain Goat” and there’s perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents–Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic [...]
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