Living Biographies of Famous Women

Passion: Women on Women: Provocative Excerpts on the Passions of Women

• HIGHLIGHTS (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Blanche Wiesen Cook, Carrie Fisher, Erica Jong
• Narrated By Amy Tan, Meryl Streep, Gloria Steinem

Work, love, family, sex, and politics - all of these topics have been grist for the mills of some of this century's finest women writers. On this recording a remarkable company of women deliver individual perspectives on feminine passions.

Sterling Biographies: Thomas Edison: The Man Who Lit Up the World

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Martin Woodside
• Narrated By Kevin Pariseau

Meet the Wizard of Menlo Park, and see how he grew from a lonely, inquisitive boy who carried out experiments in his basement to the smart, enterprising, and imaginative inventor who gave us the stock-market ticker, helped develop the phonograph and cinema, and even came up with the first storage battery and electric car.

Sterling Biographies: Abraham Lincoln: From Pioneer to President

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ellen Blue Phillips
• Narrated By Roscoe Orman

"Honest Abe", "The Great Emancipator", "The Martyr": Abraham Lincoln was perhaps America's greatest president. He is also deeply beloved by many, who are inspired by Lincoln's unwavering sense of justice and willingness to fight for his beliefs.

Young listeners will marvel at Lincoln's path to greatness, from his humble beginnings as a poor Illinois rail splitter up through his election as America's 16th president, and into the dark days of the Civil War - leading to his tragic assassination.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Benjamin Franklin
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

From printer's apprentice to internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin led a most remarkable life. Seldom is history so well articulated by someone who was there.

Sterling Biographies: Eleanor Roosevelt

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Victoria Garrett Jones
• Narrated By Suzy Myers

Tireless worker, skillful negotiator, bold spokesperson for the rights of all mankind: more than a century after her birth, Eleanor Roosevelt remains one of the most admired women the world has ever known. Her development from timid and uncertain young woman to confident, courageous adult capable of dealing with both personal tragedy and public notoriety makes an inspiring story - especially for female listeners.