In a 2002 article on "The Soundproof Book," George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman explored the exclusionary impact of books with text-to-speech disabled.* In 2008, Amazon began to disable text-to-speech in thousands of Kindle editions of ebooks. Below are examples of the new Amazon soundproof books.
[*George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman, "The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial EBooks for People with Disabilities," First Monday, Volume. 7, Number 6 – 3 June 2002.]
Anchor
The Wisdom of Crowds (Kindle Edition)
by James Surowiecki (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Anchor (August 16, 2005)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $13.63, Audio CD (abridged)
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Kindle Edition)
by Jeffrey Toobin (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (September 30, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $16.78, Audio CD (abridged) $21.09
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Kindle Edition)
by Tim Weiner (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Anchor (May 20, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.60, Audio CD (unabridged) $23.07
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kindle Edition)
by Harold S. Kushner (Author)
Kindle Price: $8.58
Publisher: Anchor; Anu edition (December 18, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $6.83, Audio CD (abridged) $19.80
The Da Vinci Code: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
by Dan Brown (Author)
Kindle Price: $7.19
Publisher: Anchor; 1st edition (March 18, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $26.20, Audio CD (Abridged) $19.77
Ballantine Books
True Detectives: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
by Jonathan Kellerman (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 24, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $18.38, Audio CD (abridged) $24.28, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.67
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies (Kindle Edition)
by M.D., and Cameron Stauth Kenneth Bock (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Ballantine Books (April 29, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 (Kindle Edition)
by John Updike (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Ballantine Books (December 18, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
How to Really Stink at Golf (Kindle Edition)
by Jeff Foxworthy (Author), Brian Hartt (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (July 1, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
His Majesty's Dragon (Kindle Edition)
by Naomi Novik (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 28, 2006)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.62, Audio CD (abridged) $19.77
Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Kindle Edition)
by Michael Moorcock (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (February 19, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
Settling Accounts Return Engagement: Book One of the Settling Accounts Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
by Harry Turtledove (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 3, 2004)
Audio Versions Available: None
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, Book 1) (Kindle Edition)
by John Birmingham (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 1, 2004)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.71
For Love of Mother Not (Kindle Edition)
by Alan Dean Foster (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 26, 2002)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.71, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.99
Broadway
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by Bill O'Reilly (Author)
Kindle Price: $11.99
Publisher: Broadway (September 23, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.38, Audio CD (unabridged) $21.09
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Kindle Edition)
by Bill Bryson (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (October 26, 2006)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $28.85, Audio CD (abridged) $19.77
A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America (Kindle Edition)
by Jim Webb (Author, and US Senator)
Kindle Price: $9.15
Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (May 19, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download $14.67 (abridged), Audio CD (abridged) $21.24
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (Kindle Edition)
by James Webb (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Broadway; 1st edition (October 11, 2005)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World (Kindle Edition)
by Peter M. Senge (Author), Joe Laur (Author), Sara Schley (Author), Bryan Smith (Author), Nina Kruschwitz (Author)
Kindle Price: $16.47
Publisher: Broadway Business; 1 edition (June 10, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $26.25, Audio CD (abridged) $22.76
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (Kindle Edition)
by Michael Wolff (Author)
Kindle Price: $16.47
Publisher: Broadway (December 2, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $15.75, Audio CD (abridged) $19.77
The Influence of Affluence: How the New Rich Are Changing America (Kindle Edition)
by Russ Alan Prince (Author), Lewis Schiff (Author)
Kindle Price: $10.09 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Broadway Business (February 26, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $10.49, Audio CD (unabridged) $22.79, MP3 CD (unabridged) $15.59
Bantam
Your Heart Belongs to Me (Kindle Edition)
by Dean Koontz (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Bantam (November 25, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.62, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.69, Audio Cassette (unabridged) $44.95
Odd Hours (Kindle Edition)
by Dean Koontz (Author)
Kindle Price: $7.99
Publisher: Bantam (May 20, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.60, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.67, MP3 CD (unabridged) $18.96
Forever Odd (Kindle Edition)
by Dean Koontz (Author)
Kindle Price: $6.39
Publisher: Bantam (June 29, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.60, Audio CD (unabridged) $13.59, Audio Cassette (unabridged) $30.36
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Kindle Edition)
by Alice Schroeder (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Bantam (September 29, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $39.38, Audio CD (abridged) $26.40
The Communist Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
by Karl Marx (Author), Friedrich Engels (Author)
Kindle Price: $1.95
Publisher: Bantam Classics (August 31, 2004)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
Anna Karenina (Kindle Edition)
by Leo Tolstoy (Author)
Kindle Price: $5.56 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (January 31, 2006)
Audio Versions Available: Audio CD (unabridged) $31.49
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Kindle Edition)
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)
Kindle Price: $3.16 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (March 30, 2004)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $12.05
Walden and Other Writings (Kindle Edition)
by Henry David Thoreau (Author)
Kindle Price: $3.96 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (October 26, 2004)
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
Death in Venice and Other Stories (Kindle Edition)
by Thomas Mann (Author)
Kindle Price: $4.76 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (October 28, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: Audio CD (unabridged) $22.00
Oliver Twist (Kindle Edition)
by Charles Dickens (Author)
Kindle Price: $2.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (May 31, 2005)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $10.48
Call of the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by Jack London (Author)
Kindle Price: $4.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (December 2, 2003)
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
Pygmalion and Major Barbara (Kindle Edition)
by George Bernard Shaw (Author)
Kindle Price: $4.76 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (July 29, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
Sherlock Holmes Volumes I and II (Kindle Edition)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)
Kindle Price: $5.56 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (August 26, 2003)
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
Life on the Mississippi (Kindle Edition)
by Mark Twain (Author)
Kindle Price: $1.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (May 29, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $52.37
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Kindle Edition)
by Pauline Maier (Author)
Kindle Price: $2.36 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (April 29, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: Not available from publisher.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Kindle Edition)
by Mark Twain (Author)
Kindle Price: $2.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam Classics (May 31, 2005)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $22.55
Another Roadside Attraction (Kindle Edition)
by Tom Robbins (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Bantam (June 17, 2003)
Audio Versions Available: None
Getting Past No (Kindle Edition)
by William Ury (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Bantam; Revised edition (April 17, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
Clarkson Potter
The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics (Kindle Edition)
by Martha Stewart Living (Author)
Kindle Price: $19.25 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Clarkson Potter; Rev Upd edition (May 4, 2008)
Audio Version Available: None
Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life (Kindle Edition)
by Ed Jr Begley (Author)
Optimized for Kindle DX
This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on Kindle DX's larger screen, but can still be viewed on other Kindle devices.
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 25, 2008)
Audio Version Available: None
Crown
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Kindle Edition)
by Barack Obama (Author)
Publisher: Crown (October 17, 2006)
Kindle Edition (Kindle Book): $7.99
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $15.74, Audio CD (abridged) $13.59
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Kindle Edition)
by Barack Obama (Author)
Publisher: Crown; Reprint edition (January 9, 2007)
Kindle Edition (Kindle Book): $9.99
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $13.63, Audio CD $17.13
Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (Kindle Edition)
by Ann Coulter (Author)
Publisher: Crown Forum (January 6, 2009)
Kindle Edition (Kindle Book): $9.99
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $21.00, Audio CD (Abridged) $19.77
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future (Kindle Edition)
by T. Boone Pickens (Author)
Publisher: Crown Business; 1 edition (September 2, 2008)
Kindle Edition (Kindle Book): $14.82
Text-to-Speech: Not enable
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.35, Audio CD (Abridged) 22.76
One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation (Kindle Edition)
by George Will (Author)
Publisher: Crown Forum; 1 edition (June 3, 2008)
Kindle Edition (Kindle Book): $9.99
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
The Architect: Karl Rove and the End of the Democratic Party (Kindle Edition)
by James Moore (Author), Wayne Slater (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown; Airside ed edition (September 5, 2006)
Audio Versions Available: None
Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint: How to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas (Kindle Edition)
by Christopher Witt (Author), Dale Fetherling (Author)
Kindle Price: $13.17 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown Business (February 3, 2009)
Audio Versions Available: None
Letters to a Young Teacher (Kindle Edition)
by Jonathan Kozol (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown (August 21, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged), $10.49, Audio CD (unabridged) $22.70
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (Kindle Edition)
by Michael Isikoff (Author), David Corn (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown (September 8, 2006)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $23.60, Audio CD (unabridged) $21.86
ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy (Kindle Edition)
by John La Puma (Author), Rebecca Powell Marx (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown; 1 edition (April 29, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business (Kindle Edition)
by Jeff Howe (Author)
Kindle Price: $14.82 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown Business; 1 edition (August 26, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $21.00, Audio CD (unabridged) $26.56
One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by Jacob Laksin (Author), David Horowitz (Author)
Kindle Price: $14.82 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Crown Forum (March 10, 2009)
Audio Versions Available: None
Del Rey
Magic Kingdom for Sale–Sold! (Kindle Edition)
by Terry Brooks (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Del Rey (December 17, 2008)
Audio Version Available: Audio CD (unabridged) $22.76, Audio CD (abridged) $11.69
Dell
Outlander (Kindle Edition)
by Diana Gabaldon (Author)
Kindle Price: $6.39
Publisher: Dell (October 26, 2004)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $26.24, Audio CD (unabridged) $31.49
Rogue (Kindle Edition)
by Danielle Steel (Author)
Kindle Price: $11.99
Publisher: Dell (February 24, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
Kiss of Midnight (Kindle Edition)
by Lara Adrian (Author)
Kindle Price: $0.00
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Dell (May 1, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: None
Delacorte
The Magician (Kindle Edition)
by Michael Scott (Author)
Kindle Price: $7.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (June 24, 2008)
Audio Version Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $21.00, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.04
Doubleday
The Stand (Kindle Edition)
by Stephen King (Author)
Kindle Price: $8.09
Publisher: Doubleday (June 2, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Kindle Edition)
by Jonah Goldberg (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (January 8, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $15.74, Audio CD (unabridged) $26.39, MP3 CD (unabridged) $19.79
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Kindle Edition)
by Ori Brafman (Author), Rom Brafman (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.10
Publisher: Doubleday Business; 1 edition (June 3, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio CD (unabridged) $17.79
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Kindle Edition)
by Mother Teresa (Author), Brian Kolodiejchuk (Author)
Kindle Price: $5.59
Publisher: Doubleday Religion (September 4, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio CD $34.16
Jesus of Nazareth (Kindle Edition)
by Joseph Ratzinger (Author, aka Pope Benedict XVI)
Kindle Price: $9.15
Publisher: Doubleday Religion (May 15, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $15.73, Audio CD (unabridged) $23.07
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street (Kindle Edition)
by William D. Cohan (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Doubleday (March 10, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.37, Audio CD (unabridged) $31.49, MP3 CD (unabridged) $23.09
The Devil Wears Prada (Kindle Edition)
by Lauren Weisberger (Author)
Kindle Edition: $7.99
Publisher: Doubleday (April 15, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $13.63, Audio CD (unabridged) $11.69
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama (Kindle Edition)
by Gwen Ifill (Author)
Kindle Edition: $11.99
Publisher: Doubleday (January 20, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.35, Audio CD (unabridged) $23.07, MP3 CD (unabridged) $49.99
A Patent Lie (Kindle Edition)
by Paul Goldstein (Author)
Kindle Edition: $9.18
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (June 17, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Not-in-stock
The Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (Kindle Edition)
by Sidney L. Landau (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Doubleday; Rev Sub edition (February 25, 2009)
Audio Versions Available: None
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (Kindle Edition)
by Hooman Majd (Author)
Kindle Price: $14.82 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (September 23, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
The Al Qaeda Reader (Kindle Edition)
by Raymond Ibrahim (Author)
Print List Price: $15.95
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (August 7, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: None
Fodor's
Fodor's 1001 Smart Travel Tips (Kindle Edition)
by Anonymous (Author)
Kindle Price: $7.96 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Fodor's (November 14, 2006)
Audio Version Available: None
Image
No Future Without Forgiveness (Kindle Edition)
by Desmond Tutu (Author)
Kindle Price: 9.99
Publisher: Image (February 11, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
Knopf
A Mercy (Kindle Edition)
by Toni Morrison (Author)
Kindle Price: $13.96
Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition (November 11, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $15.75, Audio CD (Unabridged) $19.77
The Road (Kindle Edition)
by Cormac Mccarthy (Author)
Kindle Price: $7.99
Publisher: Knopf (March 20, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $15.74, Audio CD (Unabridged) $19.79
The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Kindle Edition)
by Robert Kagan (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Knopf (April 29, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $10.48, Audio CD (unabridged) $15.56
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Kindle Edition)
by Stieg Larsson (Author)
Kindle Price: $11.99
Publisher: Knopf (September 16, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (abridged) $17.56, Audio CD (unabridged) $23.10
The Private Patient (Kindle Edition)
by P.D. James (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (November 18, 2008)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $26.25, Audio CD (unabridged) $29.67
His Excellency: George Washington (Kindle Edition)
by Joseph J. Ellis (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
Publisher: Knopf (October 26, 2004)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $18.37, Audio CD (unabridged) $26.59
Giving (Kindle Edition)
by Bill Clinton (Author)
Kindle Price: $14.82
Publisher: Knopf (September 4, 2007)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $15.73, Audio CD (unabridged) $22.76
A Jury of Her Peers (Kindle Edition)
by Elaine Showalter (Author)
Kindle Price: 11.96
Publisher: Knopf (February 24, 2009)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: None
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 (Kindle Edition)
by Piers Brendon (Author)
Kindle Price: $17.02 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (October 28, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Vol 3) (Kindle Edition)
by John Richardson (Author)
Kindle Price: $16.50 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition (December 24, 2008)
Audio Versions Available: None
Modern Library
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Kindle Edition)
by Jules Verne (Author)
Kindle Price: $2.94
Publisher: Modern Library (December 9, 2003)
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Audio Versions Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $13.10, Audio CD (unabridged) $24.05
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Kindle Edition)
by Mark Kurlansky (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library (January 21, 2009)
Audio Versions Available: None
My Bondage and My Freedom (Kindle Edition)
by Frederick Douglass (Author)
Kindle Price: $6.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library (December 18, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: None
The Confidence-Man (Kindle Edition)
by Herman Melville (Author)
Kindle Price: $1.95 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library; Modern Library edition (December 18, 2007)
Audio Versions Available: None
Islam: A Short History (Kindle Edition)
by Karen Armstrong (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library; Rev Upd Su edition (December 18, 2007)
Audio Version Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $10.46
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (Kindle Edition)
by Bernard Lewis (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library; 1 edition (March 25, 2003)
Audio Version Available: Audio Download (unabridged) $14.44
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Kindle Edition)
by D.H. Lawrence (Author)
Kindle Price: $3.96 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: Modern Library; The Historic, Unexpurgated Grove Press Ed edition (October 31, 2000)
Audio Version Available: Audio Download (abridged) $13.82
National Geographic
The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life (Kindle Edition)
by Pam Grout (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Publisher: National Geographic (May 20, 2008)
Audio Version Available: None
Pantheon
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Novel (Kindle Edition)
by Alexander Mccall Smith (Author)
Kindle Price: $9.99
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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist (Kindle Edition)
by John Brockman (Author)
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Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs (Kindle Edition)
by Jill Werman Harris (Author)
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Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz (Kindle Edition)
by Charles M. Schulz (Author)
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Random House
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Kindle Edition)
by Joe Biden (Author)
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Letter to My Daughter (Kindle Edition)
by Maya Angelou (Author)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Kindle Edition)
by Maya Angelou (Author)
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons (Kindle Edition)
by Tim Russert (Author)
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the 60s and Today (Kindle Edition)
by Tom Brokaw (Author)
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Kindle Edition)
by Kristin Ohlson (Author)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kindle Edition)
by Tracy Kidder (Author)
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A Short Guide to a Happy Life (Kindle Edition)
by Anna Quindlen (Author)
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Good Dog. Stay. (Kindle Edition)
by Anna Quindlen (Author)
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Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (Kindle Edition)
by Wynton Marsalis (Author), Geoffrey Ward (Author)
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Kindle Edition)
by Elizabeth Strout (Author)
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The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (Kindle Edition)
by David Frum (Author)
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Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (Kindle Edition)
by Calvin Trillin (Author)
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Kindle Edition)
by David Remnick (Author)
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Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions (Kindle Edition)
by Christian Lander (Author)
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The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law: The One-Stop Legal Resource for Conducting Business Online (Kindle Edition)
by Doug Isenberg (Author)
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Kindle Edition)
by Thomas J. Sugrue (Author)
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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World (Kindle Edition)
by Roger Crowley (Author)
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Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran (Kindle Edition)
by Azadeh Moaveni (Author)
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (Kindle Edition)
by Reza Aslan (Author)
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Spectra
Snow Crash (Kindle Edition)
by Neal Stephenson (Author)
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Foundation (Kindle Edition)
by Isaac Asimov (Author)
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I, Robot (Kindle Edition)
by Isaac Asimov (Author)
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Assassin's Apprentice (Kindle Edition)
by Robin Hobb (Author)
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Red Mars (Kindle Edition)
by Kim Stanley Robinson (Author)
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Blood Engines (Kindle Edition)
by T.A. Pratt (Author)
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Three Rivers Press
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (Kindle Edition)
by Barack Obama (Author)
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (September 8, 2008)
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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper (Kindle Edition)
by William Connolly (Author), Allan M. Siegal (Author)
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Vintage
Supercapitalism (Kindle Edition)
by Robert B. Reich (Author)
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Publisher: Vintage (September 4, 2007)
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Beloved (Kindle Edition)
by Toni Morrison (Author)
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Letter to a Christian Nation (Kindle Edition)
by Sam Harris (Author)
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Song of Solomon (Kindle Edition)
by Toni Morrison (Author)
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Kindle Edition)
by Joseph J. Ellis (Author)
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The Future of Life (Kindle Edition)
by Edward O. Wilson (Author)
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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level (Kindle Edition)
by Sally Md Shaywitz (Author)
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The Simple Art of Murder (Kindle Edition)
by Raymond Chandler (Author)
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Vintage Hammett (Kindle Edition)
by Dashiell Hammett (Author)
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Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Kindle Edition)
by Robert D. Kaplan (Author)
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My Name Is Red (Kindle Edition)
by Orhan Pamuk (Author)
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Villard
Boyfriend 101: A Gay Guy's Guide to Dating, Romance, and Finding True Love (Kindle Edition)
by Jim Sullivan (Author)
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Publisher: Villard; 1st edition (May 13, 2003)
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WaterBrook
The Greatest Words Ever Spoken: Everything Jesus Said About You, Your Life, and Everything Else (Kindle Edition)
by Steven K. Scott (Author)
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Publisher: WaterBrook Press (September 16, 2008)
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Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them (Kindle Edition)
by Liz Curtis Higgs (Author)
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Publisher: WaterBrook Press; 1st edition (January 20, 2004)
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