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Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Joan Fontaine

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Diane Lehman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things." - Joan Fontaine

In 1939, Olivia de Havilland had her most memorable role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history, but Hollywood legend has it that she only got the role because her own younger sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead so that she could audition for Scarlett O'Hara. Although Fontaine and de Havilland would make history by becoming the only sisters to both win an Academy Award for Best Actress, that anecdote was just one of the various stories about the siblings that has shed light on their notoriously contentious and complicated relationship. As Fontaine once put it, "I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!" De Havilland herself once said, "Joan is very bright and sharp and can be cutting."

Of course, one of the reasons people have remained interested in the sisters is that both of them had such long acting careers, and Fontaine became best remembered both for a career that spanned 60 years and several high profile marriages. With typical humor, Fontaine joked about the fact she had so many husbands, commenting in jest, "If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby." But that attention has only served to obscure her very serious professional career, which saw her won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941).

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Title: Federer and Me

Author: William Skidelsky

Narrator: Gunnar Cauthery

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-15

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

For much of the past decade, William Skidelsky has not been able to stop thinking about Roger Federer, the greatest and most graceful tennis player of all time. It's a devotion that has been all-consuming.

In Federer and Me, Skidelsky asks what it is about the Swiss star that transfixes him, and countless others. He dissects the wonders of his forehand, reflects on his rivalry with Nadal, revels in his victories and relives his most crushing defeats.

But this is more than just a book about Federer. In charting his obsession, Skidelsky explores the evolution of modern tennis, the role of beauty in sport and the psychology of fandom, weaving his own past into the story.

Thought-provoking and beautifully written, Federer and Me is a frank, funny and touching account of one fan's life.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Kitty Carlisle

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Lavina Jadhwani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent at the same time." - Kitty Carlisle

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

Kitty Carlisle surely stands as one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century, but unlike major actors, actresses, and other artistic luminaries, however, Carlisle was not decorated so much for any specific performances. Instead, she came to embody the very face of art in the United States. To be sure, Carlisle maintained a successful singing and acting career, appearing in movies, television programs, quiz shows, and concerts (she continued to perform until the year before her death), but more than anything, Carlisle was a public intellectual, socialite, and supporter of the arts. Her reputation would further crystallize in 1976 after she was approached by Nelson Rockefeller to serve as the chair for the New York Council for the Arts. In other words, more than promoting her own career, Carlisle was invested in making sure that the arts were well-supported in American culture.

With a career that spanned from her 20s well into her 90s, Kitty Carlisle remained in the public sphere for over 70 years, but there is still much about her life that people are not aware of, especially when it comes to her youth, family background, and education.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Betty Grable

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Kelly Rhodes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them." - Betty Grable

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

No history of American pop culture in the 1940s would be complete without mention of Betty Grable, the most popular pin-up girl of the World War II era. Grable possessed the outstanding fortune of not only having an ideal body but arriving at the most fortuitous time imaginable; the famous pin-up photo of her, taken by Frank Powolny, made her the highest-earning actress in Hollywood from 1943 to 1951. Indeed, it was not hyperbole that earned Grable the nickname of "the girl with the million dollar legs" - not only were her legs famously adored by American soldiers fighting overseas, they were actually insured to the tune of one million dollars (Suddath). Grable was the banner actress for the era before the advent of Playboy and other publications designed to satisfy the lust of the heterosexual male, an era that objectified women but in a more wholesome, less pornographic way that was designed to reinforce all-American values.

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Title: Tony Parker

Subtitle: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Point Guards

Author: Clayton Geoffreys

Narrator: John St Denis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-15

Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the Incredible Story of Basketball Superstar Tony Parker!

In Tony Parker: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Point Guards, you'll hear about the inspirational story of basketball's premier point guard, Tony Parker. Tony Parker became one of the first international players to create a lasting impact in the NBA at the point guard position. In an age filled with greats like Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, and Tim Duncan, Parker played in one of the most exciting eras of modern basketball. In Tony Parker's duration as a San Antonio Spur, the Spurs have won six NBA championships and created a perennial contender. While he may have been considered raw upon first entering the league, Tony Parker worked tirelessly throughout his first few seasons in the league to ensure his sustainable success in the NBA. Whenever he decides to retire, he will be remembered as one of the key pieces of the San Antonio Spurs Big Three.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Rich Germaine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions." -Elizabeth Taylor

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

Hollywood is full of cautionary tales for child actors like Judy Garland, Jackie Coogan, and Macaulay Caulkin, who all soared to fame in their youth only to suffer family feuds, drug addiction, or other ill effects of becoming famous so early in life. Even those child actors for whom stardom was not traumatic, such as Shirley Temple, had great difficulty succeeding in Hollywood as an adult, with their careers effectively over by the time they reached adulthood. Child actors may or may not enjoy the fame bestowed upon them so early in life, but their fame has almost always come at a cost, especially since it has traditionally been difficult for audiences to disassociate them from their early roles.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Muhammad Ali

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Bret Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"To prove I am great, he will fall in eight." - Muhammad Ali

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

The sports world has never suffered from a shortage of self-promoters, but none have ever walked the walk and backed up the talk like Muhammad Ali, boxing's greatest icon and possibly history's most famous athlete. Indeed, even referring to Ali just as a boxer does a disservice to the transcendent figure he has become around the world as a living legend.

Of course, the legend of Ali begins in the squared circle, where a young, brash kid named Cassius Clay rose to the top of the boxing world with a style so unorthodox that anyone else attempting it would all but assure he'd get knocked out. But Ali became the heavyweight champ by keeping his hands low, "floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee", and outboxing heavyweight champions like Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Floyd Patterson. In his early years, Muhammad Ali truly was the Greatest, and he could only be stopped by the Vietnam War, when his refusal to enter the armed forces resulted in his arrest and the stripping of his title.

Ali also lost three years of his fighting prime before returning to the ring, but his most iconic fights were still ahead of him, including the "The Thrilla in Manilla" and "The Rumble in the Jungle".

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Title: Rula: My Colourful Life

Author: Rula Lenska

Narrator: Rula Lenska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Rula Lenska's is an extraordinary life. Born in Britain to Polish aristocrats, refugees from the Nazis and then the Soviets, Rula found fame in the 1970s as Q in the TV series Rock Follies. Shortly afterwards she accidentally conquered America with the infamous VO5 hair advert, prompting Johnny Carson to ask, 'Who the hell is Rula Lenska?'

The world soon found out exactly who she was, as her career went on a roller-oaster ride through classic British television series such as Minder, To the Manor Born, The Detectives, Doctor Who, Casualty, Space: 1999 and, of course, Coronation Street. This came alongside a distinguished stage career, with stellar performances in The Vagina Monologues and Calendar Girls.

But her success has often been tempered with heartache. The fanfare surrounding her celebrity marriage to Dennis Waterman quickly faded amid accusations of alcoholism and spousal abuse. And then there was her surreal stint on Celebrity Big Brother, which she calls 'sixteen days of madness'.

Now older and wiser, and elevated to the status of national treasure, Rula Lenska is ready to share her unbelievable story in full. And while we've all watched her life from the outside, no one has heard or seen Rula like this - unabashed, honest, and thrilling.

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Título: Cristobal Colón

Subtitular: El almirante visionario [Christopher Columbus: The Visionary Admiral]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 45 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 02-18-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Resumen del editor:

Un hombre cuyo descubrimiento más grande, el de América, constituye una de las proezas más significativas de la historia mundial. Navegante, cartógrafo, almirante, virrey y gobernador general de las Indias al servicio de la Corona de Castilla, su hazaña cambió para siempre el conocimiento de la geografía de la época y dio paso a una nueva época: La del mundo colonial.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: The End of an Earring

Author: Pam St Clement

Narrator: Pam St Clement

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-15

Publisher: Headline Digital

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Actress Pam St Clement, best known as EastEnders' Pat Butcher, shares her life story.

In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to cancer. Her departure from the show gave actress Pam St Clement time to reflect, not only on almost 26 years playing a role that she loved, but also on her whole life.

Pam's mother died when she was a baby, leaving her with a father whose life didn't really have space for a child. What followed was an itinerant childhood, with various stepmothers and foster families, before an advertisement in The Lady took 11-year-old Pamela to the farm in Devon that was to become her true home, with the 'aunts' who became her surrogate parents.

Time on the farm at Dartmoor, where she discovered her love of animals, alternated with life at The Warren boarding school in West Sussex, where she discovered her passion for acting.

On leaving school, Pam was unsure of what direction to take but gradually realised that acting was what she wanted to do with her life. So, in 1966, Pam took up a place at drama school. Pam settled in London and worked on stage and television throughout the sixties and seventies, before her first appearance on EastEnders in 1986 and the offer of a permanent role a few months later.

This incredibly warm memoir reveals the woman behind the popular EastEnders' character, a woman who, apart perhaps from her earrings, couldn't be more different from Pat.

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