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  • Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing - Andrea Warner

    Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing - Andrea Warner
    Apr 9 2024
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    Title: Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
    Author: Andrea Warner
    Narrator: Stephanie Németh Parker
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 3:31:43
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-09-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

    Summary:
    An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of feminism, activism, and reproductive rights When Dirty Dancing was released in 1987, it had already been rejected by producers and distributors several times over, and expectations for the summer romance were low. But then the film, written by former dancer Eleanor Bergstein and starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze as a couple from two different worlds, exploded. Since then, Dirty Dancing’s popularity has never waned. The truth has always been that Dirty Dancing was never just a teen romance or a dance movie — it also explored abortion rights, class, and political activism, with a smattering of light crime-solving. In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes — deeply feminist, sensitively written — that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.
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    3 hrs and 32 mins
  • Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America - Alex Hortis

    Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America - Alex Hortis
    Mar 5 2024
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    Title: Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America
    Author: Alex Hortis
    Narrator: Erin Bennett
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:53:16
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-05-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

    Summary:
    Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.
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    8 hrs and 53 mins
  • Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad

    Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
    Dec 5 2023
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    Title: Secret Agent
    Author: Joseph Conrad
    Narrator: Jason Smith (male Synthesized Voice)
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:00:17
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-05-2023
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics, General

    Summary:
    'The Secret Agent' is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in the late 19th century and revolves around the activities of a group of anarchists and a plot to strike a blow against the oppressive government. The central character, Mr. Verloc, is a secret agent tasked with infiltrating the anarchist circles, but his personal motivations and the complexities of the political landscape lead to tragic consequences.
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    9 hrs