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ID: 176014

Title: It's Fine By Me

Author: Per Petterson

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

Fans of Per Petterson will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. In It's Fine By Me, Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun's first day of school, he refuses to talk or take off his sunglasses; there are stories he would prefer to keep to himself. Audun lives with his mother in a working-class district of Oslo. He delivers newspapers and talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with Arvid. But he's not sure that school is the right path for him and feels that life holds other possibilities. Sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, It's Fine By Me is a brilliant novel from an acclaimed author.

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ID: 435928

Title: Prophet's Freedom

Author: Thomas Merton

Narrator: Thomas Merton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:27:52

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-12

Publisher: Learn25

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Christianity, Literary Criticism

Summary:

These are some of the most fascinating Thomas Merton lectures ever recorded.

Recorded in the last year of his life, these talks capture Merton as he ponders profound questions in an accessible, down-to-earth way. You will glean insight from Merton on a wide range of subjects, all held together by his conviction in our call to live in freeing obedience to the Holy Spirit.

As Merton critiques the culture of his day, he speaks frankly about the way it creates alienated individuals who chase after superficial goals. He points to the contemplative life as a way to refute such a worldview. He guides us to seek out our deepest vocation. For him, the most mundane task done to glorify God is a prayer, and we can attain union with God through our daily work.

Among the interreligious topics Merton covers, his commentary on the relationship of Buddhism to Christianity is especially noteworthy, given that the Dalai Lama himself praised Merton as having a more profound understanding of Buddhism than any other Christian he had ever known.

This course is truly remarkable. These talks will deliver you to the depth of Merton's great mind.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

Photograph of Thomas Merton by Sibylle Akers. Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.

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ID: 448018

Title: Finding True Meaning and Beauty

Author: Thomas Merton

Narrator: Thomas Merton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:04:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-12

Publisher: Learn25

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, World Religions

Summary:

Join Thomas Merton in spellbinding lectures on two essential philosophical topics.

In this audio program, you will learn about the meaning of life and the essence of beauty with Thomas Merton, one of the twentieth centurys great thinkers. Delivered with unrivaled brilliance and insight, these remastered recordings of Merton himself will transport you into the abbey where he taught and imparted his spiritual wisdom.

In the first part, you will explore mans search for meaning. Merton draws from such diverse wisdom as the psychoanalysis of Viktor Frankl, the mysticism of Sufism, Hasidic lore, and the poetry of William Wordsworth to demonstrate how the search for meaning is essential to our existence. Meaning, he says, dwells deep within all of us, and we only need to root ourselves in spirituality to discover this.

Next, you will look at the philosophical concept of beauty. As humans, we are naturally drawn to the beautiful, whether in art or in nature. True beauty is transcendent, extending beyond the merely aesthetic, and it is essential to the spiritual life. Art and contemplation bring us to the highest form of pleasure, that is, the beauty of God. By understanding beauty, then, we thus move towards spiritual perfection and fulfillment.

These moving conferences delivered by Merton challenge the intellect and move the spirit. Listen to his timeless words today. (Photograph of Thomas Merton by Sibylle Akers. Used with Permission of the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.)

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ID: 176016

Title: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Author: Timothy Egan

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:56:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise - his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements. Bonus disc features Edward Curtis photographs.

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ID: 176018

Title: Have You Seen Marie?

Author: Sandra Cisneros

Narrator: Sandra Cisneros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Contemporary Women

Summary:

The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing. The word 'orphan' might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like 'a glove left behind at the bus station.' What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, 'Have you seen Marie?' the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. Also includes a bonus disc with illustrations.

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ID: 175951

Title: Outlaw Derek

Author: Kay Hooper

Narrator: Lyssa Browne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General, Detective Stories

Summary:

After asking the wrong people the wrong questions, Shannon Brown barely escapes with her life - and crosses paths with a handsome outlaw who cannot resist a lady in distress. Moved by the troubled stranger, Derek Ross agrees to help Shannon elude her pursuers. But the ferocity of his desire for Shannon stuns him, and mystifies her. She's known so much hurt in matters of the heart - how can Derek be any different? Drawn into a shadowy world of danger and deception, Shannon is reborn in the arms of a man who lives by no one's rules. Derek's voice calms her fears and lowers her guard, making Shannon long to hear another heartbeat beside her own. But trusting Derek might cost Shannon deeply, as she wonders whether this outlaw is hers to keep or merely an intoxicating illusion.

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ID: 452352

Title: My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78

Author: Robert Sullivan

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: History, North America, Military

Summary:

In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and - toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost 'mountains,' and eventually some physical therapy - he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan by handmade boat. He recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment; a tattoo artist's more successful use of a colonial submarine, which resulted in his 2007 arrest by the New York City police and the FBI; and last but not least, along New York harbor, Sullivan re-creates an ancient signal beacon.

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ID: 645383

Title: Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama

Author: Ann Coulter

Narrator: Ann Coulter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:18:28

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that liberals were black America's only protectors. It took the O. J. Simpson verdict to shut down the white guilt bank. But now, fewer than two decades later, our 'postracial' president has returned us to the pre-OJ era of nonstop racial posturing. Going where few authors dare, Coulter shines the light of truth on cases ranging from Tawana Brawley to the LA riots and the Duke lacrosse scandal. And she shows how the 2012 Obama campaign is going to inspire the greatest racial guilt mongering of all time.

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ID: 176021

Title: Beautiful Lies

Author: Clare Clark

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel's choices are not so simple. As her husband's career hangs by a thread, her real past, and the family she abandoned, come back to haunt them both. When the notorious newspaper editor Alfred Webster begins to take an uncommon interest in Maribel, she fears he will not only destroy Edward's career but both of their reputations.

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ID: 176022

Title: I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know

Author: Kate White

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the #1 young women's magazine in the world, and a hugely successful businesswoman. In I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, she shares her secrets to success. A witty, wise, straight-talking career guide for women, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This is the perfect book for the current economic climate, whether you're just starting out, re-entering the workforce after maternity leave, or simply looking for a career change; essential tips and bold strategies from a gutsy innovator who helped increase Cosmo's circulation by half a million copies per month.

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