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Title: Bradley Beal: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Prolific Shooting Guards

Subtitle: Basketball Biography Books

Author: Clayton Geoffreys

Narrator: Trevor Clinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-17

Publisher: Calvintir Books, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

Learn the inspiring story of the Washington Wizards' star shooting guard Bradley Beal!

In Bradley Beal: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Prolific Shooting Guards, you will learn the inspirational story of one of basketball's most promising young stars, Bradley Beal. Since being drafted with the third overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Bradley Beal has played an instrumental role in the resurgence of the Washington Wizards in the Eastern Conference. Paired with fellow star John Wall, Beal and Wall have taken a once forgotten franchise back to the playoffs in recent years.

There is still much to be unveiled in the career of Bradley Beal. At the time of this writing, Beal is just twenty-four years old. In this book, we'll learn more about Beal's journey into the NBA, his impact on the game, and his growing legacy as one of the best up and coming stars to make his presence known in basketball.

Here is a preview of what is inside this book:

Members Reviews:

One of the best athletes ever!

This guide was truly in i inspirational. As a former basketball player, I must say this guide is amazing in making sure the listener that setting and achieving goals are very important for success. Highly recommend for avid basketball fans!

Such an inspirational athlete..inspiring audiobook

I found this audiobook to be a great inspirational piece in my audiobook collection. As a basketball fan, I always love audiobooks like this that use athletes, their problems and successes, to motivate others.

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Title: Gene Smith's Sink

Subtitle: A Wide-Angle View

Author: Sam Stephenson

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-17

Publisher: HighBridge, A Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and 1950s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of jazz musicians, disasters, doctors, and midwives revolutionized the role that image making played in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come. In 1997, lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith's stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson set out to research those who knew him from various angles.

In Gene Smith's Sink, Stephenson revives Smith's life and legacy, merging traditional biography with highly untraditional digressions. Traveling across 29 states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson tracks down a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; and Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whom Smith recorded on surreptitious tapes.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Tony Curtis

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

"If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time." - Tony Curtis

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, readers 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.

At the height of Hollywood's golden age; of the 1940s through the early 60s, many of the industry's brightest stars could boast of unique stories describing how they were discovered. Their distinctiveness as on-screen personalities was an important part of that stardom, but one unlikely actor, a mismatch of contrasts, dialects, looks, and personal behavior, was to become an icon of the age, revered and disdained, but in the end, fondly remembered by the movie industry and fan base. Tony Curtis was, in the beginning, considered by most of his colleagues as a hack actor, but in time, one who took it upon himself to develop into a true screen artist. At his height as a matinee idol, Curtis was blessed with piercing blue eyes and good looks, a physicality described as classically handsome. He was to set a new criteria in place for male beauty in his era, a feminized but rugged heroism, able to portray grisly scenes with a pretty boy appearance, then immediately turn cute and excel in light comedy. Off-screen, Curtis was one of Hollywood's most prodigious womanizers, with a predatory sexual magnetism that was both alluring and feared.

Members Reviews:

Good Rehash of a Hollywood Legend Who Deserved Oscar Nomnation

Length: 56 pages.

For a couple of reasons, this booklet is not up to the usually excellent editing attained by CRE.

At about 16 to 17 percent mark, a page or two is a copy of the previous page or two. Not a critical error, but a definite slip.

Otherwise, at times, the book slips into a mere rehash of his career with little real research.

Having said that, I still enjoyed reading about one of Hollywood's great actors who never truly got the acclaim he deserved professionally.

Five Stars

good writing

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Kirk Douglas

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

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.

In 1996, Kirk Douglas was given an Honorary Academy Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community", and a few years later, the American Film Institute ranked him the 17th greatest actor of the 20th century. About 15 years after the AFI compiled that list, Kirk Douglas is the only screen legend on the list who is still alive, the patriarch of an acting family that includes popular actor Michael Douglas as well.

Of course, Douglas didn't earn such honorary achievements merely because of the longevity that has seen him appear in movies over the course of seven different decades. From the 1950s up until the end of the 1980s, Douglas starred in several classic movies, including perhaps his most iconic role as history's most famous gladiator in Spartacus (1960). He also appeared in critically acclaimed movies like Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Vikings (1958), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Saturn 3 (1980) and Tough Guys (1986). And in addition to playing strong lead characters, Douglas was also outspoken and not afraid to share his views when he thought something was wrong in the industry, including the notorious blacklisting done as a result of the Red Scare in the 1950s.

American Legends: The Life of Kirk Douglas profiles the life and career of one of America's greatest actors. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Douglas like never before, in no time at all.

Members Reviews:

Movie stars

I enjoyed reading about Kirk. the book moves at a good pace. I feel I know about Kirk both the good and bad without being mired down with unnecessary details.

Superficial and possibly inaccurate

This was more an extended "fan article" than a biography. One of the photographs was of another film star entirely, and it got the name of Kirk Douglas's autobiography wrong. In short, anything new it told me I didn't trust. I won't be bothering with any more of these Charles River Editors biographies.

not worth it

This book is just a clip job. You would get more from Wikipedia. I was hoping for a biography but this is just a list of movies.

Kirk Douglas

This was an interesting book but I would have liked to have read a little more about his children and life outside of acting.

Five Stars

Very interesting and well written.

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Title: Speeches by Great Entertainment Celebrities

Author: SpeechWorks

Narrator: full cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-17

Publisher: SoundWorks

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Speeches by Great Entertainment Celebrities is a compilation of contributors to the entertainment industry. From filmmakers, producers, and stars to music icons, book writers, and comedians, this collection features words, talks, addresses, reflections, tips, and speeches about their lives and accomplishments.

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Title: The Magnolia Story

Subtitle: How Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines Created the Fixer Upper Empire

Author: World Watch Media

Narrator: Janis McCubbrey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: World Watch Media

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

Fixer Upper is a popular reality television series on HGTV, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines and based in Waco, Texas. The pilot episode first aired in May of 2013. Season one began nearly one year later, in April of 2014, followed by the second season in January of 2015, the third season in December of 2015, and the fourth season in November of 2016. Before starring in Fixer Upper, Chip and Joanna Gaines consulted with clients on purchasing and remodeling homes. The couple had worked on over 100 homes in total. The show begins with Chip and Joanna showing three potential homes to a couple, with each home requiring varying amounts of renovation or repair. The couple chooses a home and Joanna takes care of the design, while Chip handles any renovations or repairs. Homebuyers featured on the show usually keep a budget of $200,000 and at least $30,000 for renovations.

Members Reviews:

horrible narrator

this was the worse narrator I have ever heard! monotone and schreechy voice. I love the story just hated narration.

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Title: Frank Sinatra (Part 3)

Author: Wink Martindale

Narrator: Wink Martindale

Format: Original Recording

Length: 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-17

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

The third part of our Hall of Fame spotlight on Frank Sinatra's legendary career with host Wink Martindale continues the story of the artist who remains an internationally known icon. We dig deeper into the songs and soundtrack of Frank's career as told by friends and family, those who knew him best, including Nelson Riddle, Gordon McRae, and a large selection of songwriters who collaborated with Sinatra. Bandleader Riddle remembers his arrangements for Sinatra classics like "I've Got You Under My Skin". Don Costa looks back on "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back", Frank coming out of retirement, and the genesis of "My Way". There were autobiographical songs like "It Was a Very Good Year", which, surprisingly, weren't written with Frank in mind - but he quickly made them his own.

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Title: Every Moment She Is What She Feels

Author: Michael Lydon

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-13-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

"She sings jumping and dancing, her fists alternately clenching and breaking open to clap; the corners of her marvelous mouth turning down in the fierceness of joy breaking through anguish; her hair covering her eyes until swept back with a meaty hand. In great shouts that send her strings of beads flying and knot her face into grimaces, the energy explodes and explodes again, sending out waves of electrical excitement. Some say she can sing more than one note at a time; maybe, but does it matter? In her every note there are infinite meanings."

As the sixties come to a close, Michael Lydon follows Janis Joplin - a year before her death - illuminating the icon's unapologetic, all-out approach to life, her absolute vitality and, above all, her intoxicating, shape-shifting devotion to feeling. Every Moment She Is What She Feels was originally published in the New York Times Magazine, February 23, 1969.

Members Reviews:

Every one who wants to understand the 1960s, and ...

Every one who wants to understand the 1960s, and yeah, the 70s, socio-politico-cultural revolution should read Michael Lydon's stuff that has the vibe, by a guy who was there at the creation.

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Title: Marilyn Monroe: A Biography

Author: Kate Williams

Narrator: Shelley Gates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-16

Publisher: Kate Williams

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million by the time of her unexpected death in 1962. She continues to be considered a major popular culture icon.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married for the first time at the age of 16. While working in a factory as part of the war effort in 1944, she met a photographer and began a successful pin-up modeling career. The work led to short-lived film contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox (1946-47) and Columbia Pictures (1948). After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in 1951. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photos before becoming a star, but rather than damaging her career, the story increased interest in her films.

By 1953, Monroe was one of the most bankable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, which established her star image as a "dumb blonde". Although she played a significant role in the creation and management of her public image throughout her career, she was disappointed at being typecast and underpaid by the studio.

Members Reviews:

Forget it

What a waste of time and money. Spelling errors, grammar errors, read the whole book in half an hour. Disappointed

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Title: Vanity Fair: October 2016 Issue

Author: Vanity Fair

Narrator: various narrators

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: Vanity Fair

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

Exclusive! Bruce Springsteen bares his soul and art in an astonishing new memoir.

Plus:

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice - often the only choice - for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the smartphone and now on audio, Vanity Fair is the arbiter of our era.

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