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ID: 433992

Title: Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Author: Vivian Gornick

Narrator: Vivian Gornick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:27:43

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Literary Criticism

Summary:

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.

I sometimes think I was born readingI cant remember the time when I didnt have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornicks celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of readingand re-readingas life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colettes The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Durass The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowens prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, a writer whose work has often made me love life more. After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessings Particularly Cats.

Guided by Gornicks trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literatures power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.

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ID: 434003

Title: Two Deserts: Stories

Author: Julie Brickman

Narrator: Alan Winter, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Holly Linneman, Jeff Gurner, Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Deserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts, the story collection Two Deserts follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a seventeen-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.

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ID: 433994

Title: Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman behind Hitchcock

Author: Christina Lane

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:00:36

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Phantom Lady chronicles the untold story of Hollywoods most powerful female writer-producer of the 1940s.

In 1933 Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-old former salesgirl with a dream of escaping her stodgy London suburb and the dreadful prospect of settling down with one of the local boys. A few short years later, she was Alfred Hitchcocks confidante and one of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters of his first American film, Rebecca.

Harrison had quickly grown from being the worst secretary Hitchcock ever had to one of his closest collaborators, critically shaping his brand as the master of suspense. Forging an image as the female Hitchcock, Harrison went on to produce numerous Hollywood features before becoming a television pioneer as the producer of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A respected powerhouse, she acquired a singular reputation for running amazingly smooth productionsand defying anyone who posed an obstacle.

Author Christina Lane shows how this stylish, stunning woman, with an adventurous romantic life, became an unconventional but impressive auteurone whom history has overlooked.

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ID: 497370

Title: Defiant: A Cinderella Retelling

Author: M.J. Haag

Narrator: Victoria Boulton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:07:33

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

A dark, twisted Cinderella retelling that fans of Sarah J. Maas and/or Melanie Dickerson are sure to enjoy.

Magic can have deadly consequences.

When the sudden and suspicious death of Eloises mother points to forbidden magic, Eloise is determined to bring her mothers murderer to justice. She will stop at nothing to find the killereven if the clues lead right to the palace gates and the princes manservant, Kaven. He is irrational, volatile, and prone to knocking women off horses. Given his personality, it should be easy to find the proof she needs to place him in irons.

However, when dark magic is used, nothing is as it seems, and Eloise is about to learn that nightmares often hide behind fairy tale lives.

Fans of the Beastly Tales will not want to miss this new addition to the same world. Filled with magic, unexpected foes, and brooding, impossible men, this Tale of Cinder is sure to leave you burning for more!

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ID: 433346

Title: King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats

Author: James Patrick Kelly

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:14:46

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

Rehearsals are now underway for the Antic Tour of Interspecies Marvels at Scofflaw Circus! Dogs and cats and humans as youve never seen them!

The circus is in town, and on the planet Boon, thats bigpotentially riotousnews. The delicate, decaying political balance maintained by the cloned human grands at the expense of the uplifted dog and cat populations is in danger of toppling under the influence of mysterious forces both outer and inner.

When Gio Barbaroclone descendant of one of Boons ancient leaders, junior Senator, known friend to dogs, and secret iconoclastis recruited by the ringmaster cat, Scratch, hes knowingly going against everything his family and class believes in. The question, though, is what Gio believes in.

Step right up to Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award winner James Patrick Kellys thrilling new novella King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats. Here is an amazing spectacle of action, politics, love, and adventure to thrill the senses. The tumblers, acrobats, daredevils, and clowns in the Scofflaw Circus do more than delight and entertainthey inform, question, and provoke. How will the crowds respond? How will Gio? Direct your attention to the center ring

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ID: 432863

Title: Homesick: A Memoir

Author: Jennifer Croft

Narrator: Boris Dralyuk, Emily Sutton-Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:12:42

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Women

Summary:

The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words, and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.

Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amys first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of fifteen her life changes drastically and with tragic results.

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ID: 432862

Title: Pat Buttram: Rocking-Chair Humorist

Author: Sandra Grabman

Narrator: John Buttram

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:45:56

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Millions of people laughed at and adored con man Mr. Haney on the 1960s television series, Green Acres. Who can forget his wily, cunning, and hilarious shenanigans at the expense of the eternally harassed Mr. Douglas?

Mr. Haney was played by Pat Buttram, an American actor also once known for playing Western star Gene Autrys sidekick in many memorable Hollywood movies. Pats distinctive voice, in his own words, never quite made it through puberty!

Todays youth also know his yodelly voice as Napoleon the hound dog in The Aristocats, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Luke the swamp inhabitant in The Rescuers, Chief the hunting dog in The Fox and the Hound, and one of the cartoon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.

Discover the man behind the myth in Sandy Grabmans richly researched book. Pats career reads like a true Hollywood success story from his humble beginnings to living the dream of making people laugh, winning the The Pacific Pioneers Broadcasters Award, and winning an Emmy. His was one of the most recognizable voices in movies and on television.

For the first time, his story is recalled by friends, family members, co-stars, and co-workers at Gene Autry Enterprises. Also interspersed throughout the book are many of Pats original, unforgettable one-liners. If they make you laugh, they will have earned their keep.

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ID: 432851

Title: Damnation of Theron Ware

Author: Harold Frederic

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:56:02

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Theron Ware is a promising young Methodist pastor recently assigned to a congregation in the Adirondack Mountains, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. His education and experiences have been limited to church society and his strict enforcement of its norms. Theron begins to question the Methodist religion, his role as a minister, and the existence of God. His illumination consists of his awakening to new intellectual and artistic experiences embodied by several of his new acquaintances. These figures include the towns Catholic priest, who introduces him to the latest Biblical scholarship; a local man of science; and a local Irish Catholic girl with musical talent and artistic pretensions, with whom Theron becomes infatuated.

But ultimately, these characters grow disappointed in Theron, who initially represented an interesting social specimen but whose emergence from naïveté and disparagement of his congregation disappoint them. Having lost his vocation and his new friends, Theron departs for Seattle, where he imagines he might use his oratorical skills to enter politics.

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ID: 432848

Title: Taboo: 10 Facts You Cant Talk About

Author: Wilfred Reilly

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:43:06

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

It has become virtually impossible to honestly discuss race, gender, and class issues in mainstream American society because if you dare repeat certain taboo truths, youll be ostracized as a bigot. Professor Wilfred Reilly (author of Hate Crime Hoax and The $50,000,000 Question) fearlessly presents ten of these truths here and investigates why the mainstream is so afraid to acknowledge that theyre true. Among these taboo truths are

men and women are different, although equal;there is no epidemic of police murdering black people;crime rates vary among ethnic groups; andthere are almost no pay gaps between big groups, when variables other than race and sex are adjusted for.

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ID: 432861

Title: Job: An American Novel

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:37:27

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women.

Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due to a family illness. But once there, Una discovers a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate.

However, while her company claims to value her work, Una struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. Her unique role as a working woman, doing a mans job, becomes a challenge in finding an appropriate suitor when Una decides it is time to marry after all, and an even greater challenge when she decides it may be time to end the marriage she eventually achieves.

First published in 1917 before Lewis achieved any significant fame, The Job is now seen as an early classic of a celebrated author, as well as a literary vanguard for its female lead character and its early declaration and examination of the rights of working women, issues still being grappled with a century later.

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