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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

$15.99 USD

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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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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

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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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Audiobook

God's Eye

by A.J. Scudiere, Joe Barrett, Ed Asner ...

Narrated by Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

Winner of Booky Award for top 10 book of the year 2011Finalist - USA Best Book Awards for mystery/suspense and cover design Fiction 2012Finalist - Best Audiobook Award 2012Katharine can't believe what she's seeing. Her world has always been planned and orderly, but now, she's petrified that she's going insane, and she's equally afraid that she's not. What if the strange creatures she's seeing ... Read more

$14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Winner of Booky Award for top 10 book of the year 2011Finalist - USA Best Book Awards for mystery/suspense and cover design Fiction 2012Finalist - Best Audiobook Award 2012Katharine can't believe what she's seeing. Her world has always been planned and orderly, but now, she's petrified that she's going insane, and she's equally afraid that she's not. What if the strange creatures she's seeing
... Read more
Audiobook

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

$22.99 USD 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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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

$6.99 USD

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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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

$19.99 USD

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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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Armed Madhouse

Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War

by Greg Palast, Brod Bagert, Medea Benjamin, Jello Biafra, Randy Credico, Kevin Danaher, Larry David, Brad Friedman, Janeane Garofalo0, Amy E. Goodman1, Jim Hightower2, Mark Crispin Miller3, Greg Proops4, Randi Rhodes6, Shiva Rose7 ...

Narrated by Greg Palast, Jerry Quickley5 ...

Abridged

6 hours 15 min

The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers his most provocative and funniest book yet!Greg Palast has spent the last thirty years getting the goods on corporate con men and political hucksters. Now he and his special guests cut through the TV news babytalk in Armed Madhouse. Armed with more than fifty classified documents and confidential memos, Palast brings you the stories ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers his most provocative and funniest book yet!Greg Palast has spent the last thirty years getting the goods on corporate con men and political hucksters. Now he and his special guests cut through the TV news babytalk in Armed Madhouse. Armed with more than fifty classified documents and confidential memos, Palast brings you the stories
... Read more
Audiobook

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

$18.99 USD

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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 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

$34.99 USD

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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.
... Read more

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Audiobook

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

$12.99 USD 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
Audiobook

Top Secret

The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (1991)

by Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons ...

Narrated by Philip Abbott, Irene Arranga, Bo Foxworth, Darrell Larson, Ed Begley Jr., Edward Asner, Gerrit Graham, Harris Yulin, Harry Shearer, Hector Elizondo, Howard Hesseman, Jack Coleman, James Whitmore, Joe Spano, Marsha Mason, Nan Martin, Richard Dysart, Richard Riehle, Robert Foxworth, Robin Gammell, Stacy Keach ...

Unabridged

1 hour 44 min

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George WilsonRecorded before a live audience ... Read more

$6.99 USD

The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee, Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George WilsonRecorded before a live audience
... Read more
Audiobook

Speaking Effective English!

Your Guide to Acquiring New Confidence In Personal and Professional Communication

by John Arthur Watkins, Hugh Lampman, Bettye Zoller ...

Narrated by Bettye Zoller ...

Abridged

1 hour 57 min

Speaking effective English! is the definitive "listen & learn" speech program!In this breakthrough audio program, three of America's top voice coaches give you the tools you need to speak clearly, powerfully, and effectively -- and get what you want through the power of speech! With this audiobook, you will learn:How to make a knockout first impressionHow to minimize accents and dialectsHow to ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Speaking effective English! is the definitive "listen & learn" speech program!In this breakthrough audio program, three of America's top voice coaches give you the tools you need to speak clearly, powerfully, and effectively -- and get what you want through the power of speech! With this audiobook, you will learn:How to make a knockout first impressionHow to minimize accents and dialectsHow to
... Read more