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Bound to Last
- 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book
- By: Ray Bradbury - foreword, Sean Manning - editor
- Narrated by: Daniel May, Cynthia Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Lovers of the printed book, arise! Thirty of today’s top writers are here to tell you you’re not alone. In Bound to Last, an amazing array of authors comes to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback they hold most dear - not necessarily because of its contents, but because of its significance as a one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable object.
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Bound to Last
- 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book
- Narrated by: Daniel May, Cynthia Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Road to Monticello
- The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
- By: Kevin J. Hayes
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 25 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.
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The Road to Monticello
- The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 25 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2014
- Language: English
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No Joke
- Making Jewish Humor
- By: Ruth R. Wisse
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking - as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being - and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience.
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No Joke
- Making Jewish Humor
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2014
- Language: English
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- By: Leonard Kniffel
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives.
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2014
- Language: English
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Sacred Tears
- Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed scholar and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds were planted by the British moral philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians gained from them a theory of human nature, a belief in the innateness of benevolent moral instincts; sentiment, in turn, emerged as a set of shared moral feelings in opposition to both scientific realism and the more ego-driven energies of Romanticism.
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Sacred Tears
- Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-10-2013
- Language: English
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Declaring His Genius
- Oscar Wilde in North America
- By: Roy Morris Jr.
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
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Declaring His Genius
- Oscar Wilde in North America
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2013
- Language: English
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aka BpNichol
- A Preliminary Biography
- By: Frank Davey
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Penned by one of Nichol’s numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writer’s various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poet’s biographical self-awareness. The audiobook demonstrates how the subject’s main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and "unintended" meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species - both in high literature and comical prime time television.
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aka BpNichol
- A Preliminary Biography
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Long Embrace
- Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
- By: Judith Freeman
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Raymond Chandler was one of the most original and enduring crime novelists of the 20th century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture.
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The Long Embrace
- Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 04-09-2008
- Language: English
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The Velveteen Principles
- A Guide to Being Real
- By: Toni Raiten-D'Antonio
- Narrated by: Fran Tunno
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Velveteen Principles was a surprise best seller and is now an audiobook release to celebrate the land of real values, real emotions, and real self with the help of a the beloved Velveteen Rabbit.
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The Velveteen Principles
- A Guide to Being Real
- Narrated by: Fran Tunno
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2009
- Language: English
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Queer Beats
- How the Beats Turned America On to Sex
- By: Regina Marler - editor
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Alix Dale
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Among the unconventional attitudes of the Beat writers as they rebelled against the conformism of the late 1940s and 1950s was their relaxed stance on sexuality. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought, word, and action. They were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions.
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Queer Beats
- How the Beats Turned America On to Sex
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Alix Dale
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2012
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Twilight
- By: David E. Klonsky, Alexis Black
- Narrated by: Dan Lawson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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You’ve read the books. You’ve seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psychology of Twilight. Explore the minds and motives of Bella, Edward, Jacob, and more with a deeper look at the series that’s captured the hearts and psyches of millions. Find out: How Edward and Jacob match up in an evolutionary psychology smackdown for Bella’s and our affection. Whether Bella’s motorcycle-riding and cliff diving in New Moon are suicidal or her salvation. Why vampires and werewolves aren’t so different after all (at least psychologically)The emotional appeal of love stories like Bella and Edward’s. Why being a part of Twilight fandom is good for your psychological health. Snuggle up on the closest chaise, and get ready to revisit the Twilight Saga with some professional help.
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The Psychology of Twilight
- Narrated by: Dan Lawson
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes
- From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
- By: E. J. Wagner
- Narrated by: E. J. Wagner, Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Forensic expert Wagner has crafted a volume that stands out from the plethora of recent memoirs of contemporary scientific detectives. By using the immortal and well-known Sherlock Holmes stories as her starting point, Wagner blends familiar examples from Doyle's accounts into a history of the growth of forensic science, pointing out where fiction strayed from fact.
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes
- From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
- Narrated by: E. J. Wagner, Simon Prebble
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2010
- Language: English
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A Chip Off the Old Black
- By: Arthur Black
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Arthur Black's voice is unmistakable on the radio and on the page. His is the voice of reason, with a generous helping of funny; the voice that scolds us for our universal human quirks, but who says it with the tone and words that make us laugh out loud at ourselves and our neighbors. A Chip Off the Old Black, Black's latest collection of stories, will knock a sense of humor into any reader, boasting nearly 100 tales featuring everything from yarnbombing to Bambi.
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A Chip Off the Old Black
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2013
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
- By: Michael Reynolds
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky - the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.
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The Young Hemingway
- Narrated by: Allen O'Reilly
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2013
- Language: English
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
- By: Jennifer O'Connell - editor
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco, Allison McLemore, Therese Plummer, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Whether laughing to tears reading Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, 24 notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing into Smart Women, these writers pay tribute to one of the most beloved authors of all time.
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco, Allison McLemore, Therese Plummer, Julia Motyka, Daniella Rabbani, Alicia Harding, Carol Monda, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2013
- Language: English
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Dive Deeper
- Journeys with Moby-Dick
- By: George Cotkin
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 10 hrs
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Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama - fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death - and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid listener. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling cultural train. It supplies easy-to-follow plot points for each of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient phrase, image, or idea in each for further exploration.
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Dive Deeper
- Journeys with Moby-Dick
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-05-2013
- Language: English
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Becoming Faulkner
- The Art and Life of William Faulker
- By: Philip Weinstein
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. Throughout his career, he remained haunted by his inability to master a series of personal and professional challenges: his less-than-heroic military career; the loss of his brother in an airplane crash; a disappointing stint as a Hollywood screenwriter; and a destructive bout with alcoholism.
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Becoming Faulkner
- The Art and Life of William Faulker
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Candy Men
- The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
- By: Nile Southern
- Narrated by: Richard Topol
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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In the spirit of VH1’s Behind the Music comes this revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating, filming and legal wrangling of the ‘60s cult phenomenon Candy. An erotic satire vaguely inspired by Voltaire’s Candide and penned under the name Maxwell Kenton (the nom de plume of its ex-pat coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg), Candy was first published in 1958 by the notorious French publisher Maurice Giordias. The book was immediately banned, then reissued under the title Lollipop, banned again, then reissued again, sanitized in England and eventually shipped stateside, where thanks to Putnam and a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned "the world’s most talked about book." Southern’s own son, Nile, has recounted the novel’s bumpy and adventurous journey in a magnificent epistolary style, reprinting the correspondence between Candy’s authors, its publisher and its increasingly complicated web of involved parties. The compilation perfectly captures the "growing misunderstandings, temper tantrums, paranoid fixations, jealousies, dreams and utter despair that each of these men went through as they tried to regain control over their book lost in a miasma of cloudy copyright." (Miasma is an apt term: by the second half of the book the legal fog is so thick that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of who’s suing whom.)
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The Candy Men
- The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
- Narrated by: Richard Topol
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2013
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- Narrated by: Kristin Kalbli
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2012
- Language: English
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Letters of a Nation
- By: Andrew Carroll
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Justine Eyre, Gabrielle De Cuir, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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Letters of a Nation is a unique and timeless collection of extraordinary letters spanning more than 350 years of American history, from the arrival of the Pilgrims to the present day. Many of the more than 200 letters are published here for the first time, and the correspondents are the celebrated and obscure, the powerful and powerless, including presidents, slaves, soldiers, prisoners, explorers, writers, revolutionaries, Native Americans, artists, religious and civil rights leaders, and people from all walks of life.
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Letters of a Nation
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Justine Eyre, Gabrielle De Cuir, Susan Hanfield, Stefan Rudnicki, Alex Hyde-White, Vikas Adam
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2013
- Language: English
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