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True Blue
A Tribute to Mike Krzyzewski's Career at Duke
2013
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It’s been over thirty years since Mike Krzyzewski became the head basketball coach at Duke University. And on November 15, 2011, Coach K became the most successful coach in NCAA Division I men’s basketball history with his 903rd victory. Now the impact and inspiration of this living legend is captured in this newly revised edition of True Blue. In this one-of-a-kind volume, Dick “Hoops” Weiss brings together over twenty of the friends, colleagues, and players who know Coach K best...
Dick Vitale's Mount Rushmores of College Basketball
Solid Gold Prime Time Performers From My Four Decades at ESPN
2018
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One day, I was sitting with a bunch of my buddies and, as usual, the conversation was all about sports. We began to battle back and forth about whether anyone would supplant Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time in the world of basketball. It has been generally felt by many experts that Jordan has not had anyone equal his stature. The fun began as I said, wait a minute, what about King James, LeBron James!Then the battle began.Names came flying out, fast and furious. Jor...
Dick Vitale's Living A Dream
Reflections on 25 Years Sitting in the Best Seat in the House
2013
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Since joining ESPN in 1979, Dick Vitale has become the senior spokesman for college hoops. In Living A Dream, Vitale reveals details about his start at ESPN and shares his feelings about the most important people in the college basketball world. A must-have for any basketball fan.
It’s Awesome, Baby!
75 Years of Memories and a Lifetime of Opinions on the Game I Love
2014
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It’s hard to believe, but Dick Vitale, ESPN’s perennially youthful basketball analyst, is 75.From his blue-collar roots in New Jersey, his first college coaching job at Rutgers, his ultimate dream job with the Pistons (where he got the Ziggy!), to his 35 years at ESPN as a "Prime-time Performer." This is Vitale as you've never seen him, an inside look at America’s favorite basketball fan.Learn the secret of his longevity in the fast-changing world of TV. More than the perso...
From the Bench to the Boardroom
My Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEO
2021
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“From the Bench to the Boardroom, Michael MacDonald shares his journey from his college basketball career at Rutgers to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. His leadership, work ethic, and persistence, which were on display every step of the way, have made him a valued member of our board at the Jimmy V Foundation.” —Mike Krzyzewski, Naismith Hall of Fame coach, Duke University“Mike holds a deep reverence and appreciation for his time at Rutgers, as ...
From the Bench to the Boardroom
My Journey from Underdog Athlete to Turnaround CEO
- Narrated by
- Rich Miller
Unabridged
6 hours 20 min
2021
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An inspirational, motivational book that chronicles Michael MacDonald's transformation from a scholarship player at Rutgers' high-level Division I basketball program to a highly successful executive at Xerox and then chairman and CEO of Medifast.
Surely You Can't Be Serious
The True Story of Airplane!
- Narrated by
- David ZuckerJerry ZuckerJim Abrahams"Weird Al" YankovicArne SchmidtBarry DillerBeau BridgesBill HaderBob WeissDick ChudnowHunt LowryJames MurrayJimmy KimmelJoe PrainoJohn LandisJon DavisonJoyce BulifantJulie HagertyKen CollinsLaura OrricoLee BryantLloyd SchwartzLorna PattersonMarcy GoldmanMatt StoneMichael EisnerMolly ShannonPat ProftPatton OswaltPeter FarrellyRich MarkeyRoss HarrisSarah SilvermanTom ParryTrey ParkerRobert Hays
Unabridged
7 hours 53 min
2023
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This program is read by the authors (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker), Laura Orrico and Joe Praino, with special appearances by an all-star cast of comedy giants, including the film's stars, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays, as well as Beau Bridges, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Peter Farrelly, Bill Hader, Jimmy Kimmel, John Landis, Patton Oswalt, Trey Parker, Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Matt Stone, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Dick Chudnow, Ken Co...
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A View from the Stars
Stories and Essays
- Narrated by
- Brian Nishii
Unabridged
6 hours 11 min
2024
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"Narrator Brian Nishii perfectly conveys the author's joy and feelings of isolation at discovering science fiction as a child, the exhilaration of world-building as a science fiction writer, and the imaginative process of predicting our world in 50 years."—AudioFile"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the unive...
Opposable Thumbs
How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
- Narrated by
- Matt Singer
Unabridged
9 hours 35 min
2023
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**Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”**On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awa...
Big Time
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Eva Kaminsky
Unabridged
7 hours 45 min
2024
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Quiet Boy comes a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken?Grace Berney is a mid-level...
On a Move
Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice
- Narrated by
- Mike Africa Jr.
Unabridged
10 hours 6 min
2024
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Read by author Mike Africa Jr., who brings this powerful story to life.The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians—by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family."As necessary and powerful as it is captivating." –
Edison's Ghosts
The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
- Narrated by
- Susie Riddell
Unabridged
10 hours 53 min
2023
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Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known.“As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be...











