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Life with Picasso
- By: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake, Lisa Alther - introduction
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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Françoise Gilot was in her early 20s when she met the 61-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do, upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes....
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Didn’t like the narrator
- By Neil Jackson on 24-12-2022
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
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Boy in a China Shop
- Life, Clay and Everything
- By: Keith Brymer Jones
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down looks back on his life and career - and the passion for ceramics that started it all....
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loved listening to Keith’s voice.
- By Angie on 27-12-2023
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Inventor of the Future
- The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
- By: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....
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Frida
- A Biography of Frida Kahlo
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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Hailed by listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences....
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Loved learning about the women behind the portrait
- By Jemma on 12-07-2023
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Life with Picasso
- By: Francoise Gilot, Carlton Lake, Lisa Alther - introduction
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Françoise Gilot was in her early 20s when she met the 61-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do, upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes....
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Didn’t like the narrator
- By Neil Jackson on 24-12-2022
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
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Boy in a China Shop
- Life, Clay and Everything
- By: Keith Brymer Jones
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down looks back on his life and career - and the passion for ceramics that started it all....
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loved listening to Keith’s voice.
- By Angie on 27-12-2023
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Inventor of the Future
- The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
- By: Alec Nevala-Lee
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century....
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Frida
- A Biography of Frida Kahlo
- By: Hayden Herrera
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Hailed by listeners and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences....
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Loved learning about the women behind the portrait
- By Jemma on 12-07-2023
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art....
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Vincent Van Gogh: A Tortured Artist. Full Biography
- By: The History Hour
- Narrated by: Jerry Beebe
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Unlike most artists, Van Gogh developed very slowly, beginning with work as an art dealer that exposed him to many great works. He undertook this work for several years, after which he spent time as a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church....
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Tracey Emin in Her Own Words
- By: Tracey Emin
- Narrated by: Tracey Emin
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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Tracey Emin is an internationally renowned artist. Here she discusses her life and achievements in a series of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archives....
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces....
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Nonbinary
- A Memoir
- By: Genesis P-Orridge, Tim Mohr - contributor
- Narrated by: Paul Bee Hampshire
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge....
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Lives in Architecture: Peter Cook
- By: Peter Cook
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. Suffused with Peter’s infectious energy, enthusiasm, and charm, this intriguing memoir explores major themes in architecture through the lens of his life and work....
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before....
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Becoming Dr. Seuss
- Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
- By: Brian Jay Jones
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss....
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At the Center of All Beauty
- Solitude and the Creative Life
- By: Fenton Johnson
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude....
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Leonardo's Brain
- Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius
- By: Leonard Shlain
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Leonardo's Brain uses Da Vinci as a starting point for an exploration of human creativity....
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Don’t bother, gets weird
- By f e smith on 27-07-2022
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Camille Pissarro
- The Audacity of Impressionism
- By: Anka Muhlstein, Adriana Hunter - translator
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette comes an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity....
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Very good
- By Hiro on 30-01-2024
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings....
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Great listen
- By Hiro on 07-04-2017
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The Lives of Lee Miller
- By: Antony Penrose
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived....
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Leonardo da Vinci (Spanish Edition)
- La biografía
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Luis Solís
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía....
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Life on the Stand
- Memoir of an Artist Model
- By: Helene Simkin Jara
- Narrated by: Helene Simkin Jara
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What do artist models think about while posing nude on the stand? Do they watch you as you watch them? Are they musing about their misadventures or what they want to do when they put their clothes back on and go home? The answers to all these questions are in this memoir....
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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- By: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A dazzling biography of one of the 20th century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, Fierce Poise is an exhilarating ride through New York's 1950s art scene and a brilliant portrait of a young artist through the moments that shaped her....
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Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 19th century, a nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon took Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary out-of-the-box ideas....
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A great summary of Antoni Gaudi’s life and work!
- By Anonymous User on 26-03-2022
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Picasso's War
- How Modern Art Came to America
- By: Hugh Eakin
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II....
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Lettera aperta
- By: Goliarda Sapienza
- Narrated by: Paola Pace
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Goliarda Sapienza anche da bambina è una bambina che vive un suo mondo violento, senza nessuna concessione, che piange con lacrime di rabbia, che...
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Murray Ball
- A Cartoonist's Life
- By: Mason Ball
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The long-awaited biography of cartoonist Murray Ball, creator of Footrot Flats.
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Unemployable
- The Odyssey of an Artist
- By: Elli Milan
- Narrated by: Cloud Road Publishing
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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You have a unique destiny, an unquenchable dream inside you that’s waiting for you to take action. Maybe you are an artist. But chances are you’ve been told that you’ll starve on the streets if you pursue your art. That’s what Elli Milan was told, too....
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An Amazingly spiritual & inspirational journey
- By Juliette on 09-11-2023
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Fame 1968-2011
- By: William Feaver
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
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The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography: the definitive story of the epic life of one of the 20th century's most important artists....
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- By: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings....
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The See-Through House
- My Father in Full Colour
- By: Shelley Klein
- Narrated by: Shelley Klein
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A moving memoir of one man's distinctive way of looking at the world, told with tenderness and humour and a daughter’s love....
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Betting on Bernie
- A Memoir of a Marriage
- By: Martha Marks
- Narrated by: Martha Marks, Max Highstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series of fluky coincidences. The odds were long that they would hit it off. That wasn’t in the cards they’d been dealt at birth. “It’ll never last,” people whispered after they got engaged. “Poor probability of success” was the general consensus when they married. But Bernie and Martha ignored the naysayers. Gamblers in love, they rolled the dice.
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Fables of a Paid Piper
- By: Skip Martin
- Narrated by: Skip Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Get ready to embark on a rollercoaster ride, with Grammy & Emmy-winning artist, songwriter, producer and author, Skip Martin. He is best known for his tenure as a lead singer and trumpeter for two legendary groups, Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band. Skip Martin unveils his life's journey through a captivating audio adventure: 'Fables of a Paid Piper.' This collection of short stories takes you on a thrilling ride through life's twists and turns, revealing the moments that shaped him and his iconic career.
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Ink, Paint and Bronze: A Path to Creative Freedom
- By: Mike Major
- Narrated by: Mike Major
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ink, Paint and Bronze is an inspiring and informative book by the award-winning visual artist, Mike Major. Infused with a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning four decades, this book is for artists or art enthusiasts at any stage of their career.
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Dancing on the Edge
- A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood
- By: Russ Tamblyn, Sarah Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Russ Tamblyn
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.
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Betting on Bernie
- A Memoir of a Marriage
- By: Martha Marks
- Narrated by: Martha Marks, Max Highstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Bernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series of fluky coincidences. The odds were long that they would hit it off. That wasn’t in the cards they’d been dealt at birth. “It’ll never last,” people whispered after they got engaged. “Poor probability of success” was the general consensus when they married. But Bernie and Martha ignored the naysayers. Gamblers in love, they rolled the dice.
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Fables of a Paid Piper
- By: Skip Martin
- Narrated by: Skip Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Get ready to embark on a rollercoaster ride, with Grammy & Emmy-winning artist, songwriter, producer and author, Skip Martin. He is best known for his tenure as a lead singer and trumpeter for two legendary groups, Kool & the Gang and The Dazz Band. Skip Martin unveils his life's journey through a captivating audio adventure: 'Fables of a Paid Piper.' This collection of short stories takes you on a thrilling ride through life's twists and turns, revealing the moments that shaped him and his iconic career.
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Ink, Paint and Bronze: A Path to Creative Freedom
- By: Mike Major
- Narrated by: Mike Major
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ink, Paint and Bronze is an inspiring and informative book by the award-winning visual artist, Mike Major. Infused with a wealth of knowledge and experience spanning four decades, this book is for artists or art enthusiasts at any stage of their career.
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Dancing on the Edge
- A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling Through Hollywood
- By: Russ Tamblyn, Sarah Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Russ Tamblyn
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for old and new fans alike, Dancing on the Edge is an intimate and powerful story about the singular life of one of our most gifted storytellers, artists, and stars of the silver screen.
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Truckload of Art
- The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography
- By: Brendan Greaves
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Brendan Greaves
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music.
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Radiant
- The Life and Line of Keith Haring
- By: Brad Gooch
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1980s, the subways of New York City were covered with art. In the stations, black matte sheets were pasted over outdated ads, and unsigned chalk drawings often popped up on these blank spaces. These temporary chalk drawings numbered in the thousands and became synonymous with a city as diverse as it was at war with itself, beset with poverty and crime but alive with art and creative energy. And every single one of these drawings was done by Keith Haring.