The Long Walk

The Long Walk

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Kirby Heyborne
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On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for a race known as The Long Walk. If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Nelson Mandela
• Narrated By Michael Boatman

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ben Fountain
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman
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ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal" - three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew - has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys....

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs)
• By Nelson Mandela
• Narrated By Danny Glover

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling, and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience, and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Slavomir Rawicz
• Narrated By John Lee
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Twenty-six-year-old cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and sent to the Siberian Gulag. In the spring of 1941, he escaped with six of his fellow prisoners, including one American. Thus began their astonishing trek to freedom.

A Long Walk up the Water Slide: The Neal Carey Mysteries, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Don Winslow
• Narrated By Joe Barrett

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client—but he’s tempted to do the job himself.

Looking for Mr. Smith: The Quest for the Truth Behind The Long Walk, the Greatest Survival Story Ever Told

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Linda Willis
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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For the first time, the truth behind the best-selling adventure narrative The Long Walk.

Since 1956, The Long Walk has been, for many, the symbol of an immense love of freedom and has become one of the greatest true-life adventure stories of all time. The harrowing story about a group of POWs who escaped a labor camp in Siberia and walked to freedom in India during WWII deeply affected thousands of its readers, and Linda Willis was one of those moved by the story. But she had questions about its authenticity.

The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Brian Castner
• Narrated By Brian Castner
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Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team - his brothers - would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late.

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 53 mins)
• By Bill McKibben
• Narrated By Bill McKibben

The acclaimed author of The End of Nature takes a three-week walk from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the deep hope he finds in the two landscapes.

Maratonmarschen [The Long Walk]

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Hamid Khemiri

Amerika i en mörk, alternativ framtid. Varje år ansöker ett stort antal pojkar, varav hundra antas, till Maratonmarschen. Ray Garraty, 17 år, har lyckats bli antagen. Hans mamma är skräckslagen, för hon vet villkoren - och oddsen. Väl på startplatsen är det för sent att dra sig ur. Här möter Majoren dem. Majoren i de mörka glasögonen som ingen säger emot. Det är han som står bakom denna exempellösa framgång, detta spel med 99 förlorare och en vinnare.

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ben Fountain
• Narrated By Oliver Wyman

Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from war. Back in Texas, he has become a national celebrity. A Fox News crew filmed Billy and the rest of Bravo squad defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious fire fight. Now Billy is a decorated soldier and Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery under fire is a YouTube sensation. Seizing on this PR gift, the Bush administration has sent the surviving members of Bravo on a nationwide 'Victory Tour' to reassure the folks at home. Tomorrow, they must go back to war.