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The Grouchy Historian

An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs

by Ed. Weinberger, Ed Asner ...

In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama’s death panels, ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it.Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama’s death panels,
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Pilgrimage to Beethoven, A

by Richard Wagner, Bernard da Costa ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

58 min

Adapted from the diaries of Richard Wagner, Beethoven’s music soars in the background as a poor young composer named Richard Wagner struggles toward Vienna to meet the composer he idealizes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Allan Corduner, Arye Gross and Paul Mercier.©2010 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2010 L.A. Theatre Works ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Adapted from the diaries of Richard Wagner, Beethoven’s music soars in the background as a poor young composer named Richard Wagner struggles toward Vienna to meet the composer he idealizes.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Allan Corduner, Arye Gross and Paul Mercier.©2010 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2010 L.A. Theatre Works
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Acting for the Camera

by Tony Barr ...

Learn how to adapt the craft of acting to the needs of the camera and how to make it in TV & film with this guide full of insights from pros in the field.Culled from Tony Barr's forty years of experience as a performer, director, and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera.This updated ... Read more

$23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to adapt the craft of acting to the needs of the camera and how to make it in TV & film with this guide full of insights from pros in the field.Culled from Tony Barr's forty years of experience as a performer, director, and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera.This updated
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Tomorrow's God

Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

by Neale Donald Walsch ...

Narrated by Neale Donald Walsch, Ellen Burstyn, Ed Asner ...

Abridged

4 hours 51 min

All great truths begin as blasphemy.The time to challenge your most sacred beliefs is at hand.If you don't challenge your beliefs soon, your beliefs are going to challenge you.This audiobook is meant to be challenging.This audiobook is meant to save the world.Something extraordinary is about to happen on this planet.This audiobook contains an astonishing prediction. And that prediction comes from ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

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All great truths begin as blasphemy.The time to challenge your most sacred beliefs is at hand.If you don't challenge your beliefs soon, your beliefs are going to challenge you.This audiobook is meant to be challenging.This audiobook is meant to save the world.Something extraordinary is about to happen on this planet.This audiobook contains an astonishing prediction. And that prediction comes from
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The New Revelations

A Conversation With God

by Neale Donald Walsch ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Ellen Burstyn ...

Abridged

6 hours 1 min

The human race has reached a Time of Choosing. Our options are being placed before us by the tide of events -- and by those who are creating them. We can either move forward, building together at last a new world of peace and harmony based on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward, separately and continuously reconstructing the old world of conflict and discord.The New Revelations ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

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The human race has reached a Time of Choosing. Our options are being placed before us by the tide of events -- and by those who are creating them. We can either move forward, building together at last a new world of peace and harmony based on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward, separately and continuously reconstructing the old world of conflict and discord.The New Revelations
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The Book of Virtues: 30th Anniversary Edition

by William J. Bennett, Elayne Glover Bennett ...

Narrated by William J. Bennett, Elayne Glover Bennett, Ed Asner, Jenn Bennett, Claire Bloom, Barbara Bush, Janina Edwards, Dorian Hairwood, Charlton Heston0, Kirby Heyborne1, Dana Ivey2, David Mccallum3, Andrea Martin4, Joe Morton5, Leon Nixon6, Kate Nelligan7, Timothy Andrés Pabon8, Robert Petkoff9, Tonya Pinkins0, Faith Prince1, Tom Selleck2, Matt Stango3, Richard Thomas4, Harriet Walter5, Fritz Weaver6, Eunice Wong7, Michael York8 ...

Unabridged

22 hours 8 min

Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most popular moral primers ever written, an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop character—and helps parents teach it to them. ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

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Help your children develop moral character with this updated, 30th anniversary edition of the perennial classic The Book of Virtues.Almost 3 million copies of the Book of Virtues have been sold since it was published in 1993. It is one of the most popular moral primers ever written, an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop character—and helps parents teach it to them.
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Idiot, The

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Fishelson ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 43 min

Dostoyevsky’s monumental novel The Idiot, adapted into a spellbinding full-cast drama by playwright David Fishelson.In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

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Dostoyevsky’s monumental novel The Idiot, adapted into a spellbinding full-cast drama by playwright David Fishelson.In The Idiot, meet the kindly, childlike Prince Myshkin, as he returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful, sought-after women in the town compete for his affections, in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast
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Gulf War/Black

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Joe Spano, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

1 hour 31 min

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glasses are drained, the evening becomes ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glasses are drained, the evening becomes
... Read more
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Unquestioned Integrity

The Hill/Thomas Hearings

by Mame Hunt ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Ella Joyce, Paul Winfield ...

Unabridged

1 hour 23 min

Adapted directly from the actual transcripts by Mame Hunt, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Edward Asner as The SenatorElla Joyce as Professor HillPaul Winfield as Judge ThomasDirected by Roberta Levitow. ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Adapted directly from the actual transcripts by Mame Hunt, Unquestioned Integrity examines the notorious Senate Confirmation hearings when law professor Anita Hill charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Edward Asner as The SenatorElla Joyce as Professor HillPaul Winfield as Judge ThomasDirected by Roberta Levitow.
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Bent Toward Justice

A Novel Inspired By True Stories

by Steven R. Feldman ...

Narrated by Ed Asner ...

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min

A unifying narrative for divided times, Bent Toward Justice tells the story of Murray Schwartzman, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and escaped to America. But while Schwartzman may have found respite from external conflict in his peaceful and supportive American Jewish community, he faces a new internal upheaval. An encounter with an apparently anti-Semitic doctor forces Schwartzman to ... Read more

$31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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A unifying narrative for divided times, Bent Toward Justice tells the story of Murray Schwartzman, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and escaped to America. But while Schwartzman may have found respite from external conflict in his peaceful and supportive American Jewish community, he faces a new internal upheaval. An encounter with an apparently anti-Semitic doctor forces Schwartzman to
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Song Bird

by Larry Weiner ...

Narrated by Kelli O'Hara, Ed Asner, Shirley Jones ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

Maureen Barnett (Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara) was once a singer renowned the world over. Now though, things couldn't get much worse. She's stuck performing in dives, her daughter hates her, and she's recovering from a severe nervous breakdown that leaves her petrified in front of large crowds. Prospects couldn't look bleaker, when in walks Amelia Storm (Academy Award winner Shirley Jones), an ... Read more

$16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Maureen Barnett (Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara) was once a singer renowned the world over. Now though, things couldn't get much worse. She's stuck performing in dives, her daughter hates her, and she's recovering from a severe nervous breakdown that leaves her petrified in front of large crowds. Prospects couldn't look bleaker, when in walks Amelia Storm (Academy Award winner Shirley Jones), an
... Read more
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Joyce Carol Oates Collection, The

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

Narrated by Ed Asner, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors, this collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ bestselling novel American Appetites, two comedic plays The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller, four short stories Gulf War, Black, The Key and Tone Clusters, as well as her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.American ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors, this collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ bestselling novel American Appetites, two comedic plays The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller, four short stories Gulf War, Black, The Key and Tone Clusters, as well as her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.American
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