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Have travel plans for Thanksgiving?

Ford Library has recently added a number of new audiobook titles. Check out a few to listen to during your trip. Click on a title to see if the audiobook is available. There are many more choices in our extensive audiobook section and in our special feature areas.

• When Markets Collide by Mohamed A. El-Erian
• The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution
• The First Billion is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America’s Energy Future by David Bach
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism  by Kevin Phillips
• The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David M. Smick

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations… One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Penguin (2007).

After author Greg Mortenson failed in his attempt to climb to the summit of K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, he began his descent. He became lost, disoriented and dangerously ill but stumbled upon an impoverished Pakistani village named Korphe, where he stayed for seven weeks among the Balti people who looked after him. As he left, he promised to return and build a school for them. This is the story of his work to fulfill that promise, and of his success in building 50 other schools for girls in Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s poorest communities.

In this personal story about globalism, Mortenson portrays the lives of village elders, mujahideen and Taliban officials in this remote area of the world. He argues that the US must fight Islamic extremism in the region by collaborating to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, particularly for girls. It is also a story about a meaningful life created by one committed person, a mountain climber who became a humanitarian.

Also available in audiobook format at Ford Library.

© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business. All rights reserved.

Ford Library has recently added over 30 new audiobook titles.

Some of the new titles are listed below, and you can click to see if the audiobook is available…

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space by W. Chan Kim
• Bull in China: Investing Profitably by Jim Rogers
• Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright
• End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways by David Bach
• Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps by Marcus Buckingham
• and more ….

To browse all of our audiobooks or to search for a specific title, you can visit our audiobook search page.

Please feel free to send any comments or questions about our audiobooks to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.

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More new Audiobook titles have been added. Come browse our audiobook section for more choices.

• The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn Siler
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
• State of Denial: Bush at War, Part 2 by Bob Woodward
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
• Living the Truth by Keith R. Ablow
• Banker to the Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
• From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By Robin Roberts
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis
• Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda
• How Doctors Think by Jerome E. Groopman

To browse all of our audiobooks or to search for a specific title, you can visit our audiobook search page.

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Check out these great new Audiobook titles:

• The China Road by Rob Gifford
• The Assault on Reason by Albert Gore
• The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poiter
• Blessed Unrest (Unabridged) by Paul Hawken
• The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11 by Lawrence Wright

To browse all of our audiobooks or to search for a specific title, you can visit our audiobook search page.

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