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Al Bernstein

30 Years, 30 Undeniable Truths About Boxing, Sports, and TV

by Al Bernstein, Jeremy Schaap ...

The legendary cable television sports broadcaster takes a humorous look back on the fight game—as seen from a ringside seat.For more than thirty years, Al Bernstein has been one of the most recognizable and respected sportscasters in America. In those three decades, the "voice of boxing" reported the funny, poignant, and bizarre events that helped shape sports television, ESPN, boxing, Las Vegas, ... Read more

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The legendary cable television sports broadcaster takes a humorous look back on the fight game—as seen from a ringside seat.For more than thirty years, Al Bernstein has been one of the most recognizable and respected sportscasters in America. In those three decades, the "voice of boxing" reported the funny, poignant, and bizarre events that helped shape sports television, ESPN, boxing, Las Vegas,
... Read more
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The Song of Leonard Cohen

by Harry Rasky ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Unabridged

4 hours 52 min

“‘Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.’Then he left his personal number.” Harry Rasky, April 2000.No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original ... Read more

$9.99 USD

“‘Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.’Then he left his personal number.” Harry Rasky, April 2000.No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original
... Read more
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Captain of the Steppe

by Oleg Pavlov ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Tales from the Last Days
Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men . . .This blackly comic novel shows the ... Read more

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Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. The captain hopes for nothing more from life than a meagre pension and a state-owned flat. Until, one Spring, he decides to plant a field of potatoes to feed his half-starved men . . .This blackly comic novel shows the
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The Man Who Couldn't Die

The Tale of an Authentic Human Being

by Olga Slavnikova ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life―and the means and meaning of their own lives―by creating a world that doesn ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him―and his pension―alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life―and the means and meaning of their own lives―by creating a world that doesn
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The Rehearsals

by Vladimir Sharov ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Unabridged

11 hours 58 min

Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic ... Read more

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Seventeenth century Russia, New Jerusalem Monastery. The recently deposed Patriarch Nikon, whose reforms lead to a schism in the Orthodox church, employs a French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming of Christ. Jacques de Sertan’s troupe consists of untrained and illiterate peasants. The actors are divided into roles, whole families play different social or ethnic
... Read more
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Before and During

by Vladimir Sharov ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Unabridged

11 hours 25 min

Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment. Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who “died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my ... Read more

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Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment. Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who “died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my
... Read more
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Near Death

by Nancy Kilpatrick ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Power of the Blood World
Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair
... Read more
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The Matiushin Case

by Oleg Pavlov ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Tales from the Last Days
Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the
... Read more

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Requiem for a Soldier

by Oleg Pavlov ...

Narrated by Al Bernstein ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Tales from the Last Days
Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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In the vast Kazakh steppes of the crumbling Soviet Empire, Alyosha has finished his army service and is promised a gift from his deaf commander: an everlasting steel tooth. As he waits for it in the infirmary, he agrees to help out a medical officer, and they set out on a journey that takes them all the way to the kingdom of the dead. Oleg Pavlov's kaleidoscope of a tale is peopled with soldiers
... Read more

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Seapower States

Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

by Andrew Lambert ...

Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 43 min

Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge—winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal—turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size.Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge—winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal—turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities as "seapowers" informed their actions and enabled them to achieve success disproportionate to their size.Lambert demonstrates how creating maritime identities made these states more dynamic, open, and
... Read more

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Palimpsest

A History of the Written Word

by Matthew Battles ...

Narrated by Matthew Battles ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
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Greece Against Rome

The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC

by Philip Matyszak ...

Narrated by Gareth Richards ...

Unabridged

8 hours 25 min

The acclaimed ancient world historian examines the centuries-long decline of Greek powers in the face of the growing Roman threat.Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms were near their peak. In terms of population, economy, and military power, each was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy, and literature ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

The acclaimed ancient world historian examines the centuries-long decline of Greek powers in the face of the growing Roman threat.Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms were near their peak. In terms of population, economy, and military power, each was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy, and literature
... Read more

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