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Title: Down Under

Author: Trevor Conomy

Narrator: John Derum

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-18

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

This is the biography not of a person but of one of the most loved and controversial songs in the history of Australian music.

Originally released as a B-side in 1980, 'Down Under' made Men at Work the biggest band on the planet. The song became an alternative Australian anthem, and its video (recorded on the sand dunes of Cronulla) became an image of Australia recognised the world over. Even when Men at Work suddenly disappeared, 'Down Under' remained in the national psyche.

Nearly three decades later, Spicks and Specks innocently revealed a link between the song and the tune of the old Kookaburra nursery rhyme, and the American owners of the lullaby decided to sue for plagiarism. After the legal battle raged, the flautist forever linked with that unforgettable and contentious flute riff, Greg Ham, died due to ill health caused by stress and anxiety brought on by the court case.

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Title: Barbra Streisand: On the Couch

Author: Alma H. Bond

Narrator: Kimberly Bourgoyne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-17

Publisher: Bancroft Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Barbra Streisand has been a show business staple for decades, from Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly! to The Way We Were and, more recently, the Fockers franchise. Whether gracing a stage, screen, or album cover, Barbra's iconic silhouette is a globally-familiar image. We know Barbra the star, but how well do we know Barbra the woman?

In Dr. Alma H. Bond's latest installment of her On the Couch series, Dr. Darcy Dale - a renowned New York City psychiatrist whose expertise has been sought by such larger-than-life women as Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Hillary Clinton - is confronted by Barbra, dismayed after 30 years of minimally successful therapy. Over the course of a year, Dr. Dale conducts an intimate psychoanalysis, breaking through ego, defense mechanisms, and repressions to go deep into the heart and mind of one of America's last remaining superstars.

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Title: Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator." (Antoni Gaudí)

Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras - the Renaixença and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas. Salvador Dalí, the celebrated surrealist, was one of many who would find a fount of inspiration in him, even once raving about the Sagrada Familia, the highlight of this icon's career: "Those who have not heard about the chromatic and shining essence of its color, the astonishing polyphony of its towers as organ pipes and shocked by its mutant naturalism, are traitors." This icon in question, of course, is none other than what many now consider to be the patriarch of the Catalan Modernism movement: Antoni Gaudí.

Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism examines his life and career highlights, how his religiosity and love for nature shaped his art, and how a dangerous obsession eventually led to a genius' tragic end. You will learn about Gaudí like never before.

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Title: A Life of My Own

Author: Claire Tomalin

Narrator: Dame Penelope Wilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin, read by Dame Penelope Wilton.

As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success. Now she turns to look at her own life.

This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often difficult wartime childhood that followed to her own marriage to the brilliant young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. When he was killed on assignment as a war correspondent, she was left to bring up their four children - and at the same time make her own career.

She writes of the intense joys of a fascinating progression as she became one of the most successful literary editors in London before discovering her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child.

Writing with the élan and insight which characterize her biographies, Claire Tomalin sets her own life in a wider cultural and political context, vividly and frankly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the '50s and '60s and showing 'how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-20th-century England...carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life.'

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Title: The Shadow in the Garden

Subtitle: A Biographer's Tale

Author: James Atlas

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - comes to the stage in this funny, poignant, endearing tale of how writers' lives get documented. James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back to his own childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers' lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas's professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know Atlas's first subject, the "self-doomed" poet Delmore Schwartz. And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the "tall pines", as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the "merciless pruning of mortality") and, of course, the elusive Bellow, "a metaphysician of the ordinary".

Atlas revisits the lives and works of the classical biographers, the Renaissance writers of what were then called "lives", Samuel Johnson and the obsessive Boswell, and the Victorian masters Mrs. Gaskell and Thomas Carlyle. And in what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the biographers who hoped to glimpse an image of them - "as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd".

Critic Reviews:

"A work of both depth and radiance.... Expert, provocative, and enlightening.... Atlas relays all with wry hilarity, bighearted candor, and effervescent passion for the art of literary biography." (Booklist)

"In recounting a life largely subsumed by the lives of others, James Atlas reveals, with sincerity, humor, and incisiveness, the value and the difficulty of looking outside oneself for meaning. The Shadow in the Garden is a brutally honest look at the ways in which our lives are shaped - both with and without our knowledge - by the lives of others." (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire)

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Title: The Well-Dressed Hobo

Subtitle: The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains

Author: Rush Loving Jr.

Narrator: Pete Ferrand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up in the bustling railroad town of Norfolk, Virginia, and joining his conductor grandfather on overnight runs, future Fortune journalist Rush Loving was enchanted with railroads at an early age. In this extraordinary inside look at eight decades of the railroad industry and some of its greatest leaders, Loving reminisces about his colorful people, and fascinating anecdotes. Chatting with brakemen, engineers, and executives, Loving shares stories he collected in locomotive cabs, business cars, executive suites, and even the White House. They paint a compelling, intimate portrait of the railroad industry and its leaders, both inept and visionary. Above all, Loving tells stories of the dedicated men and women who truly love trains, and know the industry from the rails up.

The audiobook is published by Indiana University Press.

"A rail fan's dream book... Highly recommended." (Choice).

"Should be on the bookshelf of anyone who loves railroading as much as its author." (The Baltimore Sun).

"Only a journalist of Loving's stature could pull off this tour de force so well." (Fred W. Frailey, author of Twilight of the Great Trains).

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Title: 101 Amazing Facts About Ariana Grande

Author: Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor

Narrator: Kent Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-17

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Are you the world's biggest Ariana Grande fan? Or do you want to find out everything there is to know about the actress, singer, and songwriter? If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are over 100 facts about Ariana, from her childhood and first acting roles through to her emergence as a world-renowned singer with a vocal range to rival Mariah Carey. Narrated by Kent Harris, this is the perfect audiobook for everyone from new fans all the way through to die-hard Arianators!

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Title: American Legends: The Life of William Faulkner

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

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.

With the notable exception of Mark Twain, whose roots along the Mississippi River factored so thoroughly into his life story and his literature, America's greatest writers have rarely been categorized by or associated with a specific region of the country. And among America's greatest 20th century writers, many have been identified with a specific era, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920s, or even as part of a community of expatriates, like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.

William Faulkner is an exception to that rule, and a prolific and influential one at that. The reclusive Southerner, who died about 40 miles away from his birthplace in New Albany, Mississippi, was associated with the South as a region and Southern literature in particular throughout his career, at least when he was associated with anything at all. Faulkner toiled in relative obscurity for much of his life, and it was only after he earned a Nobel Prize in 1949 that he truly entered the national radar. He later joked about his own neighbors, "Some folks wouldn't even speak when they passed me on the street...it wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out

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Título: Borges, Pinochet y el Premio Nobel [Borges, Pinochet, and the Nobel Prize]

Autor: Alejandro Droznes

Narrador: Edgar Garcia

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 47 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-09-17

Editor: ALEX PUBLISHING

Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Resumen del editor:

El hecho de que Borges no haya recibido el Premio Nobel puede interpretarse como una mera circunstancia histórica en la que primó la injusticia.

Este libro sostiene una idea opuesta: Borges rechazó el Premio Nobel, y ese rechazo representa un eslabón más dentro de la obra borgiana.

Según Alejandro Droznes, la estrategia de Borges para que no le dieran el Nobel es la coronación de su actitud fundamental ante la vida: la defensa de la individualidad.

Borges, desde este punto de vista, se transformó, en ese momento, en un personaje de Borges. ¿O no son los héroes borgianos, siempre y en todos los casos, férreos defensores de la individualidad?

¡Descargue ahora este libro y acceda a la información que quizás resuelva este enigma!

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Title: Dont Think It Hasnt Been Fun

Subtitle: The Story of the Burke Family Singers

Author: Sarah Jo Burke

Narrator: Sarah Jo Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-17

Publisher: Sarah Jo Burke

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Back in the 1960s, the Burke Family Singers were America's answer to Austria's von Trapp Family.

Throughout that tumultuous decade, the fabric of the nation's life was of course torn by the war in Vietnam and the impassioned drive of the civil rights movement. It was against this churning backdrop that a large Rhode Island family - mother, father, and 10 children - set out on the first of what would prove a long series of coast-to-coast tours whose only purpose was to bring the glorious sound of their music to audiences everywhere.

They performed in major cities and remote small towns, and during their travels they met the von Trapp Family and recorded an album of Christmas carols with them. Sarah Jo Burke, the youngest of the five daughters, has written a book that celebrates American values in the best sense and, if nothing else, proves that the family that sings together stays together.

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