Books On iPod:
The library has available for checkout 5 IPods, loaded with 20 audiobook titles, available for students, faculty, and staff to checkout for a one week loan period (7 days). To check out an iPod, visit the library's circulation desk.
If you have questions about this new service, please contact Kerrie Wilkes at: kerrie.wilkes@fredonia.edu.
The titles include:
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream (Unabridged) Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the Pyramids -- from iTunes website. |
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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (Abridged) Through meditation, stories, and the meeting of Buddhism and psychology, the Dali Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, or just an ordinary bad mood. He discusses relationships, health, family, work, and spirituality to show us how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep, abiding source of inner peace. Based on 2,500 years of Buddhist meditations and with a healthy dose of common sense -- from iTunes website. |
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Assassination Vacation (Abridged) Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. with Assassination vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other, a journey to the pit stops of America political murder and through the mhriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage -- from iTunes website. |
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Abridged) In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. Now, in The Audacity of Hope, Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics; a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the 'endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart ... about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment -- from iTunes website. |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Unabridged) The author offers his view of how economy works, examining issues from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what drives the economy -- from iTunes website. |
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Abridged) In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gathers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that reality is a history of the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life -- from iTunes website. |
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Unabridged) The author weaves his experience of the Persian Gulf War with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battle with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man -- from iTunes website. |
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Life After Death: The Burden of Proof (Abridged) Chopra turns to the most profound mystery: what happens after we die? Is this one question we were not meant to answer, a riddle whose solution the universe keeps to itself? Chopra tells us there is abundant evidence that "the world beyond" is not separated from this world by an impassable wall; in fact, a single reality embraces all worlds, all times and places. At the end of our lives we "cross over" into a new phase of the same soul journey we are on right this minute. Chopra draws on cutting-edge scientific discoveries and the great wisdom traditions to provide a map of the afterlife. It's a journey into many levels of consciousness. But more important is his urgent message: Who you meet in the afterlife and what you experience there reflect your present beliefs, expectations, and level of awareness. Here and now, you shape what happens after you die.--From book publisher description. |
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Unabridged) This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor... Often humorous and always illuminating, Nickel and Dimed is a remarkable expose of the ugly flip side of the American dream -- from iTunes website. |
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On the Road (Unabridged) On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West". As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty", the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience -- from iTunes website. |
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Possible Side Effects (Unabridged) From the million-copy best-seller author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs' most provocative collection yet. This audio book is approved for those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. It is not approved to treat disorders such as eBay addiction or incessant blind dating. In some studies, people reported inappropriate, convulsive laughter, a tingling sensation in the limbs, and sudden gasping. -- from iTunes website. |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Unabridged) For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families; others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began open up and to speak more freely, not only about novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading, Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller, and Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. -- from iTunes website. |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Abridged) In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge -- from iTunes website. |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Unabridged) An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way -- from iTunes website. |
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (Unabridged Selections) Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big-budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents -- from iTunes website. |
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Thirteen Moons At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians, including a Cherokee Chief named Bear, he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that only desire trumps time -- from iTunes website. |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Abridged) This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man's quest for truth - and for himself - has touched and changed an entire generation, and is ready to reach out to a new one. At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a motorcycle trip across America. But this is not a simple trip at all, for around every corner, through mountain and desert, wind and rain, and searing heat and biting cold, their pilgrimage leads them to new vistas of self-discovery and renewal -- from iTunes website. |
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Biography: Abraham Lincoln This episode of Biography offers a rare glimpse of Lincoln's personal life including his "living hell" of a marriage and his abusive father -- from iTunes website. |
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Biography: Benjamin Franklin Revealing portrait of the Revolutionary War leader and self-educated Renaissance man, renowned as a scientist, inventor, philosopher, statesman, and diplomat. Follows his life from youthful printer's apprentice to member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence -- from iTunes website. |
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Biography: Cleopatra She was Egypt's greatest queen, but not a drop of Egyptian blood flowed through her veins. The Romans regarded her as a dangerous seductress, but for almost half of her adult life she remained celibate. A profile of this exceptional woman who used all her talent to become one of the most feared rulers of her time -- from iTunes website. |
