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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Great White Fathers Author: John Taliaferro Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 09-23-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, hoped that ten thousand years from now, when archaeologists came upon the four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they would have a clear and graphic understanding of American civilization. Borglum, the child of Mormon polygamists, had an almost Ahab-like obsession with Colossalism - a scale that matched his ego and the era. He learned how to be a celebrity from Auguste Rodin; how to be a political bully from Teddy Roosevelt. He ran with the Ku Klux Klan and mingled with the rich and famous from Wall Street to Washington. Mount Rushmore was to be his crowning achievement, the newest wonder of the world, the greatest piece of public art since Phidias carved the Parthenon. But like so many episodes in the saga of the American West, what began as a personal dream had to be bailed out by the federal government, a compromise that nearly drove Borglum mad. Nor in the end could he control how his masterpiece would be received. Nor its devastating impact on the Lakota Sioux and the remote Black Hills of South Dakota. Great White Fathers is at once the biography of a man and the biography of a place, told through travelogue, interviews, and investigation of the unusual records that one odd American visionary left behind. It proves that the best American stories are not simple; they are complex and contradictory, at times humorous, at other times tragic.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10 Subtitle: The Travel Psychologist Travel Tales Series Author: Michael Brein Narrator: Gary B. Roelofs Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 07-26-13 Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc. Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration Publisher's Summary: Ever heard of a 'travel psychologist?' Michael Brein is the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist and has created a unique travel audiobook series on the psychology of travel as revealed through the fantastic travel stories of more than 1,600 world travelers and adventurers whom he has interviewed over the last three decades. The first audiobook in the series, Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Top 10, is a collection of Michael's best of the best of his own personal travel tales. Included are some harrowing tales of close calls and great escapes as well as some of his zaniest and funniest travel experiences. This audiobook is the 'Lite' edition of Michael's own, personal travel stories. The 'Full' edition - Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100 - containing more than 100 of Michael's best travel stories--will be available shortly. If you are a traveler, you'll surely want to read the personal accounts of Michael Brein as he goes behind some of his most interesting travel experiences, revealing a rare psychological look at what can and does happen to you when you travel in exotic, strange cultures. Is Michael for real? After reading these tales you might wonder whether Michael's travel experiences are real and revealing or a simply a figment of his own rich imagination, and, finally, whether he should maybe be locked up in a padded cell and not allowed to travel anywhere. Read and decide for yourself!

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Postcards from a Rock and Roll Tour Author: Gordy Marshall Narrator: Gordy Marshall Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 07-18-13 Publisher: Splendid Books Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Postcards From a Rock and Roll Tour is drummer Gordon Marshall's witty and wry take on life on the road touring with legendary rock band The Moody Blues. Part memoir, part travelogue, it is a candid, unexpected, and often hilarious account of just what it's like to travel around the world playing to sell-out audiences, living out of a suitcase, and spending days and days on a tour bus. If you thought being in a rock band was all sex, drugs, and rock and roll, then think again.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lucking Out Subtitle: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies Author: James Wolcott Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 07-16-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrayal of a legendary time and place. Wolcott was taken up by fabled film critic Pauline Kael as one of her "Paulettes" and witnessed the immensely vital film culture of the period. He became an early observer-participant in the nascent punk scene at CBGB, mixing with Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Tom Verlaine. As a Village Voice writer he got an eyeful of the literary scene when such giants as Mailer, Gore Vidal, and George Plimpton strode the earth, and writing really mattered. A beguiling mixture of Kafka Was the Rage and Please Kill Me, this memoir is a sharp-eyed rendering, at once intimate and shrewdly distanced, of a fabled milieu captured just before it slips into myth. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make listeners long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 50 Licks Subtitle: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones Author: Peter M. Fornatale Narrator: Bernard Corbett, Dan Woren, Napoleon Ryan, Bob Deyan, Frazer Douglas, P.J. Ochlan, JD Jackson, Heather Wilds, Paula J Parker-Martin Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins Language: English Release date: 06-03-13 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins. On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song-the Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic, styling themselves as the devil's answer to the sainted Beatles. A young, inexperienced producer named Andrew Loog Oldham first heard the band at a session he remembers with four words: "I fell in love." Though unfamiliar with such basic industry practices as mixing a recording, he made a brilliant decision-he pitched the band to a studio that had passed on the Beatles. Afraid to make the same mistake twice, they signed the Stones, and began a history-making career. This is just one of the fifty classic stories that make up 50 Licks, each named for a different Stones song. Many are never before told, some are from exclusive interviews-including with elusive bassist Bill Wyman-and all are told by the people who lived them. Part oral history, part memorabilia, this fiftieth anniversary audiobook is the Stones album every collector will need to have.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Hike Author: Don Shaw Narrator: Terry Molloy Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 05-30-13 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Travel & Adventure, Adventure & Exploration Publisher's Summary: Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them. Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and eccentric locals, but their real passion is bickering among themselves. Not only about the right path to take, but also about where they're all going at the fag end of life. Phil likes to dash up hills trying to beat his personal best, while Freddy plots how to sabotage him - teasing him at leisure and asking deep and difficult questions. Stuck in the middle, Don's only ambition is to stop the squabbling getting out of hand long enough to find a nice pub for lunch. As warm as the wind is cold, as dry as the lashing rain is wet, The Hike is a hilarious tale of bum-warmers, crayfish-fanciers, East German Trabant enthusiasts, bodger philosophers, sticky ginger cake, gorgeous countryside and the subtle art of 'onedownmanship'.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Chekhov Author: V. S. Pritchett Narrator: Antony Ferguson Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 05-02-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: V.S. Pritchett explores the connections between Chekhovs life and art, showing how Chekhov (1860-1904) often based his fiction on experiences of his difficult early years where he was responsible for his impoverished family, and as a young doctor, reported on the conditions of the Russian penal colony at Sakhalin. Later he continued his medical career, even when he became a well-known writer and playwright. This audiobook focuses on the short stories of Chekhov often neglected in favour of his plays and discusses why Chekhov was a success in both mediums. The author has previously written Collected Stories, a Selection of Short Stories Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was born over a toyshop in 1900 and, much to his everlasting distaste, was named after Queen Victoria. A writer and critic, his is widely reputed to be one of the best short story writers of all time, with the rare ability to capture the extraordinary strangeness of everyday life. He died in 1997.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: White Notebook Author: Andre Gide Narrator: Henri Lubatti Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 03-07-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This first published work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature. Nobel Prize-winning writer André Gide lays bare his adolescent psyche in this early work, first conceived and published as part of his novel The Notebooks of André Walter, completed when he was just 20 years old. This profoundly personal work draws heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals to tell the story of a young man who, like the author, pines for his forbidden love, Cousin Emmanuelle. This unique portrait of Gide as a young man presents the passions and conflicts, temptations and anguish he would explore in maturity.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: E.M. Forster Subtitle: A New Life Author: Wendy Moffat Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 03-04-13 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ALA Stonewall Honor Book Finalist for James Tait Black Memorial Prize E. M. Forsters homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wildes imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life - a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. Seeing Forsters life through the lens of his sexuality, Wendy Moffats biography offers us a dramatic new view - revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. E.M. Forster: A New Life casts fresh light on one of the most beloved writers of the 20th century.

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1639 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Now the Drum of War Subtitle: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War Author: Robert Roper Narrator: David Deboy Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 03-01-13 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family is brought to life, in Robert Ropers brilliant evocation of the family Whitman. Walt Whitmans work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother George Washington Whitman, who led his men in 21 major battles almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers wrote to each other during the conflict, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation. Robert Roper has constructed a powerful narrative about Americas greatest crucible, and a compelling, braided story of our most original poet and one of our bravest soldiers.