Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder

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A Truck Full of Money
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A Truck Full of Money
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Paul Michael
  • Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us... Read more
Among Schoolchildren
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Among Schoolchildren
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: November 11, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2303 ratings)
(2303 ratings)
We all know what is wrong with today’s schools-or do we? Tracy Kidder spent a year in a fifth grade class in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The teacher is excellent, but something else is very wrong. Kidder skillfully presents the problems and leaves... Read more
Good Prose
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Good Prose
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
  • Publish date: December 05, 2017
  • Language: English
  • (1387 ratings)
(1387 ratings)
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing-about the creation of good prose-and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer... Read more
House
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House
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: December 09, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2042 ratings)
(2042 ratings)
Why on earth should the nail-by-nail building of a house hold any fascination for anyone? Because when you put a lawyer, an architect, and a hippie builder together, that spells trouble. Kidder tells his story so well that you can’t help but... Read more
Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Paul Michael
  • Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s... Read more
Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2003
  • Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s... Read more
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People)
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe
  • Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s... Read more
Rough Sleepers
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Rough Sleepers
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2023
  • Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains... Read more
Strength in What Remains
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Strength in What Remains
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Tracy Kidder
  • Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.”... Read more
The Soul of A New Machine
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The Soul of A New Machine
  • By: Tracy Kidder
  • Narrator: Ben Sullivan
  • Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: May 17, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (6772 ratings)
(6772 ratings)
Tracy Kidder’s “riveting” (Washington Post) story of one company’s efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the... Read more

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Blightmare Reeling from her losses and trying to regroup, the Great White Shark of psychic investigation turns her focus on self-improvement, though her remaining friends call it self-flagellation. Marnie is determined to move forward at maximum warp, trauma be damned. A prospective client named Beau Boudreaux shows up in her office with a peanut butter addiction and a plea for Marnie to protect him from ... Read Book
Witches’ Brew An acorn falls far from the treeFormer Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was very proud and quite happy. And why shouldn’t he be? The Magic Kingdom which he ruled as High Lord was finally at peace. He was free to lie back and watch as his new daughter grew.And grow she did—by leaps and bournds, shooting through infancy in a matter of months. She took her first steps and learned to swim in the same ... Read Book
More Brains Than Bullets/The Road to Casas Piedras/West of Dodge The Road to Casas PiedrasIn the midst of a lively country dance, gunshots ring out at the stagecoach station and Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the station’s master sprawled in a pool of his own blood. Twelve thousand dollars are missing. And an innocent man has been murdered. And it’s up to Chick to bring the killer to justice. With the unerring instincts that make him one of the best ... Read Book
Assembling the Dinosaur Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and ... Read Book
The Watchful Woods Bundle “This bundle includes two books in The Watchful Woods series. In the first book, Celia and the Fairies, when ten-year-old Celia is visited by a fairy who needs a favor, she finds herself on a danger-filled quest to save the forest and her home from being demolished. In the second book, Secrets of the Magic Ring, nine-year-old Paul finds a box with a grant-wishing ring in a hole in his backyard ... Read Book
El Caligrafo de Voltaire (Voltaire’s Caligraphist) Un forastero llamado Dalessius llega a un puerto con el corazon de Voltaire en un frasco y la obsesion no menos terrible por una mujer. Con estos elementos iniciales y el trasfondo de las ruinas del Antiguo Regimen, ocasionadas por la Revolucion Francesa, la novela consigue colocar a Voltaire y al arte de la caligrafia en un clima mas misterioso, qu real. En la busqueda de la renovacion de ese ... Read Book
The Bridesmaid Senta Pelham is a mirror image of Flora, the lovely marble bust Philip fanaticized about for so long. But life, like art, is not always what its mere surface suggests. And Senta’s strange world of make-believe, where truth and falsehood are eerily interchangeable, soon draws Philip into a shadowy cloister of vague and uncertain terror. Read Book
Over It Read by the author. Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones delivers a tough yet inspiring look into the strategies she has used to overcome immense obstacles on her way to becoming the number-one women’s hurdler in the world. Lolo Jones’s path to becoming a world champion and an Olympian began in childhood with a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support a family of six and a father who was ... Read Book
New Waves A wry and poignant debut novel about a man’s search for true connection that is “both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being” (Los Angeles Times). “A knowing and thought-provoking exploration of love, modern isolation, and what it means to exist—especially as a person of color—in our increasingly digital ... Read Book
Rockonomics Alan Krueger, a former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain key principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. The music industry is a leading indicator of today’s economy; it is among the first to be disrupted by the latest wave of ... Read Book
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