Audio Books by Nobel Prize Winners

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Author: Paul Krugman, Reader: Don Leslie

The Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression, and lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis. Learn how we can turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Updated edition of his cautionary 2000 book, The Return of Depression Economics. "Krugman's terrific writing is oh-so beautifully complemented by this superb narrator's sense of timing and proportion."—AuidoFile

Unabridged, 6 CDs, Business, Economics, K6R472, 9780739384725, $31.95
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Royal Highness
Author: Thomas Mann, Reader: Robert Whitfield

Set in a stuffy European country before WWI, this tale focuses on the unnerving changes wrought in its bored prince's life by the arrival of a woman. Rich, exotic, liberal-minded, and American, she forces Prince Klaus to reach into unknowndepths of his personality, and find a truer existence and the real meaning of duty. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice.

Unabridged, 8 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F8B191, 9780786111916, Now $56.95 $51.25
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The Sound and the Fury
Author: William Faulkner, Reader: Grover Gardner

An Oprah pick! First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson. Hear the story of this unique character and her tragic Mississippi family, told through separate monologues by her three brothers – the developmentally disabled Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.

Unabridged, 7 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F7R535, 9780739325353, $19.95
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The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway, Reader: William Hurt

The story of American and British expatriates in Paris between the World Wars. Jake Barnes, damaged beyond repair in the war, has the bad luck to fall in love with a beautiful young Englishwoman. Their hopeless and compelling story is toldwithout sentiment by a young author just reaching his peak. Audie Award finalist. "Fine narration... [Savor] Hurt's thoughtful interpretation."—Entertainment Weekly

Unabridged, 7 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F6P441, 9780743564410, $34.95
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The Unnamable
Author: Samuel Beckett, Reader: Sean Barrett

First he wrote of the aimless characters in Waiting For Godot. Now he gives us another eerie, stream of consciousness tale of a man who exists – or does he live? – without arms or legs in a large jar outside a restaurant.Is he like us? Are we like him, living an aimless and pointless existence? The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. "Brilliant."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 5 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F5E337, 9789626343371, $34.99
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We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land
A Plan That Will Work
Author/Reader: Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter

The Nobel laureate and former President lays out his ideas for a plan for peace between the Jews and the Muslims inthe Middle East. His thoughtful consideration can result in friendship, not conflict, in an area that sorely needs peace. Hedescribes his efforts both as President and as head of the Carter Center to find a peaceful outcome between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries. Includes bonus CD from Sunday Morning in Plains.

Unabridged, 5 CDs, History, Current Affairs, E4P3459, 9780743583459, Now $29.99 $23.99
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