Episodes

  • Extinctions - Josephine Wilson

    Extinctions - Josephine Wilson
    Oct 26 2017
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    Title: Extinctions
    Author: Josephine Wilson
    Narrator: William McInnes
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-26-17
    Publisher: Audible Studios
    Genres: Fiction, Literary

    Summary:
    Winner of the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award He hated the word retirement, but not as much as he hated the word village, as if ageing made you a peasant or a fool. Herein lives the village idiot. Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. His wife, Martha, is dead, and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life - objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter - he is determined to be miserable but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen. When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime's secrets and lies and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves. Humorous, poignant and galvanising by turns, Extinctions is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.
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    10 hrs and 22 mins
  • The Talk-Funny Girl - Roland Merullo

    The Talk-Funny Girl - Roland Merullo
    Oct 24 2017
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    Title: The Talk-Funny Girl
    Author: Roland Merullo
    Narrator: Em Eldridge
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-24-17
    Publisher: Tantor Audio
    Genres: Fiction, Literary

    Summary:
    In one of the poorest parts of rural New Hampshire, teenage girls have been disappearing, snatched from back country roads, never to be seen alive again. For 17-year-old Marjorie Richards, the fear raised by these abductions is the backdrop to what she lives with in her own home, every day. Marjorie has been raised by parents so intentionally isolated from normal society that they have developed their own dialect, a kind of mountain hybrid of English that displays both their ignorance of and disdain for the wider world. Marjorie is tormented by her classmates, who call her "The Talk-Funny Girl," but as the nearby factory town sinks deeper into economic ruin and as her parents fall more completely under the influence of a sadistic cult leader, her options for escape dwindle. But then, thanks to a loving aunt, Marjorie is hired by a man, himself a victim of abuse, who is building what he calls "a cathedral", right in the center of town. Day by day, Marjorie's skills as a stoneworker increase, and so too does her intolerance for the bitter rules of her family life. Gradually, through exposure to the world beyond her parents' wood cabin thanks to the kindness of her aunt and her boss, and an almost superhuman determination, she discovers what is loveable within herself.
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    9 hrs and 52 mins
  • A Land of Slaves: A Novel - Barry Powell

    A Land of Slaves: A Novel - Barry Powell
    Oct 19 2017
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    Title: A Land of Slaves: A Novel
    Author: Barry Powell
    Narrator: Ed Waldorph
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-19-17
    Publisher: Barry B. Powell
    Genres: Fiction, Literary

    Summary:
    Fat Wally Wills, wealthy gay professor of Art History, is dead at the bottom of his stairs in his lakefront home. Who did it? The lurid facts emerge as his friend Professor Raymond Birch, himself under university scrutiny, delves into Wally's sordid life. Set against an academic backdrop, there is university intrigue, friendship, betrayal, drugs, and some sex. We meet Wills' old friend Harvey Vanderpool, a potter; his former live-in lover, Eddy, and Eddy's new wife, Evelyn; and a 100-year old matriarch, intimate friend of Wally Wills. Something is going on between Birch and Evelyn. There were unknown people at the house the night Wally Wills died. In all this stew, something boiled over.
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    10 hrs and 23 mins