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With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together: Part II Hookin' Up (Unabridged) Written By - Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Narrated By - Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Published By : Hachette Audio Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Autobiography TV & Film Biographical Price : $19.98 $14.98 Buy Now... Read by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, cherished not merely for their gifts as actors but also for their lifelong commitment to human rights, family values, and community. Now, in a joint memoir that celebrates half a century of successful marriage, they look back on the extraordinary careers that earned each a Presidential Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. With Ossie and Ruby overflows with consummate storytelling skill, but it's much more than a wonderfully engaging self-portrait. For as they reminisce in alternating chapters, Ossie and Ruby offer a vivid picture of the twentieth-century African-American experience, both in the rural South and the urban North. For Ossie and Ruby, stardom and social responsibility were inseparable, so along with their theatrical stories of Broadway and Hollywood, where black actors fought to escape racial stereotypes, they offer an insider's chronicle of political commitment that drew the wrath of Senator Joe McCarthy and, later, the friendship of both Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. And, perhaps most important to them, here is the story of their private lives and the family whose love and security more than repaid the sacrifices they made. Often funny, occasionally heartbreaking, and always clear-eyed and candid about themselves and the world they helped to shape, Ossie and Ruby have recorded a book sure to win the heart of anyone who cares about American theater, the struggle for civil rights, and the deep, inspiring values that have guided the lives of two great artists who blazed a triumphant trail. For the first time ever, experience this archival tour de force recording. Other titles you may be interested in Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The: A Memoir Written By - Bill Bryson Narrated By - Bill Bryson Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Runtime : 7 hours 30 minutes Categories : Autobiography Historical Biographical Biographical 20th Century Price : $26.49 Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author More info... Lucky - Unabridged Written By - Alice Sebold Narrated By - Alice Sebold Published By : Simon & Schuster Runtime : 9 hours 30 minutes Categories : True Crime True Crime Arts & Drama Autobiography Price : $39.95 $19.95 The critically acclaimed memoir from the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the Lovely Bones. In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life... More info... DC Confidential Written By - Christopher Meyer Narrated By - Christopher Meyer Published By : Orion Publishing Group Runtime : 6 hours 15 minutes Categories : True Crime Military Politics Autobiography Price : $14.25 KGB honey traps in Russia; inside stories on Number 10 and the Foreign Office; and of course life behind the scenes with Blair and George W. Bush ... More info... Quite Early One Morning (And Other Memories) Written By - Dylan Thomas Narrated By - Dylan Thomas Published By : Harper Collins UK Runtime : 55 minutes Categories : Autobiography Price : $10.25 Dylan Thomas tells stories of his childhood in Wales, piling on the sights and smells and sounds experienced by one rough-and-tumble Welsh lad with a miraculous sense of wonder. More info... Truth & Beauty Written By - Ann Patchett Narrated By - Ann Patchett Published By : Harper Collins US Runtime : 8 hours 30 minutes Categories : Women Autobiography Price : $34.95 $18.95 The author of Bel Canto -- winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize and long-running New York Times bestseller -- turns to nonfiction in a moving chronicle of her decades-long friendship... More info...