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  At the 11th Hour - Twenty-one...

  Johnny Rafter, Julie Dean,...

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  At the 11th Hour is designed especially for intermediate to advanced learners of English as a Second Language. It contains 21 thrilling stories which have plot twists and surprise endings. It was written, developed, and tested by English teachers with many years of classroom experience. The audio-book brings the stories to life with male and female voices, music and sound effects.
  
  A woman from Germany receives a letter from the United States saying that she has inherited all the assets of her deceased uncle. She is excited and can’t wait to become rich. But a big surprise awaits her across the Atlantic Ocean.
  
  Two terrorists decide to steal a truck on the street in the middle of the night. They have no idea that something inside is waiting for them. If only they knew.
  
  A young woman who hates beggars finds herself on the street as a beggar herself. Will the experience change her?
  
  And much more. What happens next? A mystery, the unexpected, the surprise will reveal itself in each story. Learning is fun and easy when you can’t wait to find out what happens next while acquiring new vocabulary and expressions.An Open Book audio production.

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  On the Future of Our Educational...

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his sense of purpose. The genius of such thinkers and makers—like the genius of the ancient Greeks—was the only touchstone for true understanding. How then was education to answer to such genius? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy...What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the great problems of modern societies.

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  84 Charing Cross Road

  Helene Hanff

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  When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find books through Marks and Co., Booksellers, she begins a twenty-year love affair with Frank Doel, the proper English bookseller who answers her letter and sends along her first order in the fall of 1949.  
  They are two very unlikely correspondents: she a cranky Jewish New Yorker who writes TV scripts and lives in a messy apartment on East 95th Street; he a determinedly courteous middle-class Englishman who sends her beautifully bound and often obscure antiquarian books from the shop he manages on Charing Cross Road in London.  
  The letters, written between 1949 and 1969, capture the period and pay tribute to the special kind of reader who treasures a well-worn classic.

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  On the Side of My People - A...

  Louis A. DeCaro Jr.

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  “A groundbreaking study of Malcolm’s relationship to Islam . . . This is the best, most thorough account we have of Malcolm X as a religious leader.” —Publishers Weekly   In On the Side of My People, Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. offers the first book length religious treatment of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was certainly a political man. Yet he was also a man of Allah, struggling with his salvation—as concerned with redemption as with revolution. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including extensive interviews with Malcolm’s oldest brother, FBI surveillance documents, the black press, and tape-recorded speeches and interviews, DeCaro examines the charismatic leader from the standpoint of his two conversion experiences—to the Nation while he was in jail and to traditional Islam climaxing in his pilgrimage to Mecca. Examining Malcolm beyond his well-known years as spokesman for the Nation, On the Side My People explores Malcolm’s early religious training and the influence of his Garveyite parents, his relationship with Elijah Muhammad, his often overlooked journey to Africa in 1959, and his life as a traditional Muslim after the 1964 pilgrimage. In his critical analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, DeCaro provides insight into the motivation behind Malcolm’s own story, offering a key to understanding how and why Malcolm portrayed his life in his own autobiography as told to Alex Haley. Inspiring and necessary, On the Side My People presents readers with a Malcolm X few were privileged to know. By filling in the gaps of Malcolm’s life, DeCaro paints a more complete portrait of one of the most powerful and relevant civil rights figures in American history.

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  Game Set and Match - The Tennis...

  Herbert Warren Wind

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  The leading players and outstanding matches of two thrilling decades in tennis history From Rod Laver’s amateur Grand Slam in 1962 to the first US Open held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, legendary sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind captures the grace and drama of modern tennis in this brilliant collection drawn from the pages of the New Yorker.   The era’s biggest names, including Margaret Court, Chris Evert, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, and Pancho Gonzales, thrill the crowds of Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Forest Hills, and America’s Davis Cup team battles patriotic linesmen and frenzied fans in an epic showdown against the Romanians in Bucharest. In “Mrs. King versus Mr. Riggs,” Wind paints a witty and evocative portrait of Billy Jean King’s historic beatdown of Bobby Riggs, and in “Forest Hills and the Final Between Connors and Borg,” he vividly recounts one of the wildest and woolliest tournaments in the sport’s history.   Rendered with the same authority and eloquence that led the New York Times to declare Wind the dean of American golf writers, these dispatches from center court testify to the celebrated journalist’s passion and versatility.  

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  Life as it Happens 2000 - 2005

  Howard Mack

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  A collection of two short stories about life of an IT consultant between the years 2000 - 2005.The stories take place in Toronto, Montreal and Paris. It contains stories of both a homeless adventure and a fantastic vacation in Paris.

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