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Title: Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss

Author: Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt

Narrator: Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-04-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives

Though Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she suffers a brief but serious illness at the age of ninety-one, they resolve to change their relationship by beginning a year-long conversation unlike any they had ever had before. The result is a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discuss their lives, the things that matter to them, and what they still want to learn about each other.

Both a son’s love letter to his mother and an unconventional mom’s life lessons for her grown son, The Rainbow Comes and Goes offers a rare window into their close relationship and fascinating life stories, including their tragedies and triumphs. In these often humorous and moving exchanges, they share their most private thoughts and the hard-earned truths they’ve learned along the way. In their words their distinctive personalities shine through—Anderson’s journalistic outlook on the world is a sharp contrast to his mother’s idealism and unwavering optimism.

 An appealing memoir with inspirational advice, The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a beautiful and affectionate celebration of the universal bond between a parent and a child, and a thoughtful reflection on life, reminding us of the precious insight that remains to be shared, no matter our age.

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Title: Dreamland: Fruits and Veggies

Author: Christel Bresko

Narrator: Maxwell Glick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-04-01

Publisher: Big Happy Family Audio

Genres: Kids, General

Publisher's Summary:

A long time ago, when everything was still perfect....

Adam and Eve lived harmoniously with the fruits and vegetables in the Garden of Eden. Until one day, a serpent tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit, which made God angry. As a punishment for their sin, they were banished from the magnificent garden. And they brought along some seeds of the fruits and vegetables from God's paradise.

That's when all the adventures began.

In 1937, Christel Decker Bresko was born in Germany. She's the eldest among three children. Her father served in the German Army until 1945, the year he became a prisoner of war after being captured in Moscow, Russia. Her mother took care of the family as they experience sickness, hunger, and growing pains.

Christel came to England in 1957. She studied the English language by herself while working as a nursemaid for an old lady with MS. After a year, she enrolled in a nursing program and received her degree in 1962.

After everything she's been through, her passion to see the world never ceased. And that's one of the reasons why she came to the USA in 1968. When she found a home in the states, she created her own family with her husband, Bill.

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Title: Secret 6 #1: The Red Shadow

Author: Robert J. Hogan

Narrator: Michael C. Gwynne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-04-01

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Publisher's Summary:

Escaping certain death in the electric chair, the enigmatic adventurer known only as King welds a disparate group of trained professionals into the crime-fighting force called The Secret 6! Their sacred mission: To destroy super-criminals whenever they surface! For their first assignment, these fighting fugitives from justice track down the sinister strangler known only as The Red Shadow. Who is he? How does he commit his scarlet slayings? Hunted by the Law for The Red Shadow's crimes, King struggles to unmask the towering terrorist, not knowing that the fiend belongs to the very organization created to destroy him! For if the ranks of The Secret 6 harbor a traitor, can it survive its first test? The Red Shadow first appeared in the October 1934 issue of The Secret 6 magazine.

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Title: Noonday

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Various Narrators

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-03-08

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A new novel from the Booker Prizewinning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz and reaffirms her place as a top-ranked British novelist

London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals in order to save the lives of injured survivors. She works alongside former friend Kit Neville while her husband, Paul Tarrant, works as an air-raid warden.

Once fellow students at the Slade School of Fine Art before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three reach out for quick consolation. And into their midst comes the spirit medium Bertha Mason, grotesque and unforgettable, whose ability to make contact with the deceased finds vastly increased demand as death rains down from the skies. Old loves and obsessions resurface until Elinor is brought face-to-face with an almost impossible choice.

Completing the story that began with Life Class and continued with Tobys Room, Noonday is both a stand-alone novel and the climax of a trilogy. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration trilogy.

Barker is as subtle and tough-minded here about human nature as in all her work. Yet the closing pages suggest the possibility of new beginnings even as they acknowledge the permanence of old woundsA strong example of this gifted British writers intelligent, uncompromising way with fiction.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Title: Iliad by Homer

Author: Homer

Narrator: Katie Haigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-03-01

Publisher: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

Two major epic poems came from ancient Greece and had the power to shape our culture for centuries. They are both attributed to the blind poet Homer, and are called Iliad and Odyssey.

The Iliad tells the epic story of the war of Troy and its ten-year siege, bloody battles and great heroes. The mighty warrior Achilles, whose mother held him by the heel while immerging him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable, his brave companion Patroclus, kings and gods compete alike for the glory of ancient Greece, which is still resonating today.

The Iliad and its sequel, the Odyssey, are the oldest extant works of Western literature. They are of tremendous cultural importance, and their magic is still strongly alive.

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Title: Philosophy Talk, Vol. 2

Author: John Perry, Ken Taylor

Narrator: John Perry, Ken Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-02-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science & Technology, History

Publisher's Summary:

Host philosophers Ken Taylor and John Perry invite you to join them in conversation on a wide variety of issues, ranging from popular culture to our most deeply held beliefs about science, morality, and the human condition. Philosophy Talk challenges listeners to identify and question their assumptions and to think about things in new ways. Fun, accessible, and intellectually stimulating, Philosophy Talk is dedicated to reasoned conversation driven by human curiosity and celebrates the value of the examined life.

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Title: Dirt on Ninth Grave: A Novel

Author: Darynda Jones

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook includes a wonderful dedication to the long-time narrator of the series, Lorelei King, read by the author.

In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she is sure of it. Her saving grace comes in the form of a new friend she feels she can confide in and the fry cook, a devastatingly handsome man whose smile is breathtaking and touch is scalding. He stays close, and she almost feels safe with him around.

But no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her-even from her new and trusted friends-the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man who claims to have been sent to kill her. Sent by the darkest force in the universe. A force that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. Thankfully, she has a Rottweiler. But that doesn't help in her quest to find her identity and recover what she's lost. That will take all her courage and a touch of the power she feels flowing like electricity through her veins. She almost feels sorry for him. The devil in blue jeans. The disarming fry cook who lies with every breath he takes. She will get to the bottom of what he knows if it kills her. Or him. Either way.

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Title: Fábulas, volume 1

Author: Aesop

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Foreign Language Titles, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Other

Publisher's Summary:

Esopo é um lendário autor grego, que teria vivido na Antigüidade, ao qual se atribui a paternidade da fábula como gênero literário. As Fábulas de Esopo serviram como base para recriaçes de outros escritores ao longo dos séculos, como Fedro e La Fontaine. O local de seu nascimento é incerto - Trácia, Frígia, Etiópia, Samos, e Sardes todas clamam a honra. Eventualmente morreu em Delfos. Na verdade, todos os dados referentes a Esopo so discutíveis e trata-se mais de um personagem lendário do que histórico. A única certeza é que as fábulas a ele atribuídas foram reunidas pela primeira vez por Demétrio de Falero, em 325 a.C..

Esopo teria sido um escravo, que foi libertado pelo seu dono, que ficou encantado com suas fábulas. Ao que tudo indica, viajou pelo mundo antigo e conheceu o Egito, a Babilónia e o Oriente. Concretamente, no há indícios seguros de que tenha escrito qualquer coisa. Entretanto, foi-lhe atribuído um conjunto de pequenas histórias, de carácter moral e alegórico, cujos papéis principais eram desenvolvidos por animais. Na Atenas do século V a.C., essas fábulas eram conhecidas e apreciadas.

As fábulas que lhe so atribuídas sugerem normas de conduta que so exemplificadas pela aço dos animais (mas também de homens, deuses e mesmo coisas inanimadas). Esopo partia da cultura popular para compor seus escritos. Os seus animais falam, cometem erros, so sábios ou tolos, maus ou bons, exatamente como os homens. A intenço de Esopo, em suas fábulas, era mostrar como os seres humanos podiam agir, para bem ou para mal. Assim como Homero, as fábulas de Esopo faziam parte da tradiço oral dos gregos, por isso no foram escritas pelo seu suposto autor. Mais de duzentos anos depois da suposta morte de Esopo é que as fábulas foram reunidas e escritas.

(Adaptado da wikipedia por Vicente)

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Title: Early Rising

Author: John Godfrey Saxe

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 31, 2010.

The words dutiful and pious never applied to the aspiring satirist. Bored by his legal work, Saxe began publishing poems for The Knickerbocker, of which The Rhyme of the Rail is his most famous early work. He soon caught the attention of the prominent Boston publishing house, Ticknor and Fields. Though he received no royalties for his first volume, it ran to ten reprintings and eventually outsold works by Hawthorne and Tennyson.

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Title: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

Author: Various Contributors

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, slavery, science, education, humor, philosophy, nature and baseball. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)