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Audible RSS Feeds - Arts and Entertainment. Arts and Entertainment Audio Programs. Arts and Entertainment Audio Programs-Sharon Osbourne has lived, in her own words, 50 lives in 50 years. As the daughter of notorious rock manager Don Arden, Sharons childhood was a chaotic mix of glamour and violence, one week touring with Little Richard and Jayne Mansfield, the next meeting the Animals and Electric Light Orchestra. In her late 20s, after years of fierce loyalty to her ruthless father, who had betrayed her many times, Sharon finally made the painful decision to break with her family.p She found her soul mate in rock star Ozzy Osbourne, turning his career around and becoming a legendary manager and rock promoter in her own right. But Ozzys drug-taking and drinking fuelled excesses, which culminated in an attempt to strangle her, making their marriage a white-knuckle ride from the start. Only her devotion to their three children gave her the will to survive.
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Audible RSS Feeds - Arts and Entertainment. Arts and Entertainment Audio Programs. Arts and Entertainment Audio Programs-pThe author of the national best seller iLove Is a Mix Tapei returns, with a different - but equally personal and equally universal - spin on music as memory. Now, in iTalking to Girls About Duran Durani, Sheffield shares the soundtrack to his 80s adolescence. ppWhen he turned 13 in 1980, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music, and himself, and in iTalking to Girls About Duran Durani we get a glimpse into his transformation from pasty, geeky hermit boy into a young man with his first girlfriend, his first apartment, and a sense of the world. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies; the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads; and, like any all-American boy, this one was searching for true love and maybe a cooler haircut.ppIts all here: Inept flirtations. Dumb crushes. Deplorable fashion choices. Members Only jackets. Girls, every last one of whom seems to be madly in love with the bassist of Duran Duran. ppSheffields coming-of-age story is one that we all know, with a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. These songs - and Sheffields writing - will remind readers of that first kiss, that first car, and the moments that shaped their lives.p
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-pFrom the number-one INew York Times i best-selling author, a novel about three very different women who become friends while seeking refuge in an old beach house.pSometimes all you can do is fly away home....ppWhen Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politicians wife - her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At 57, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator.ppLizzie, the Woodruffs younger daughter, is at 24 a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry Angry Lonely Tired) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve - a husband, a young son, the perfect home - and yet shes trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ERs exam rooms, she finds herself craving more.ppAfter Richards extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be.p
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-pIts 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate lives - lives very different from the people they once dreamed theyd become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two.ppOver 20 years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day - July 15th - of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself.p
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-Based on a a novella from iDifferent Seasonsi, this unabridged tale focuses on a man convicted of murder, who finds himself in a prison ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly operated by a clever convict.
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-Stephen King returns to IThe Dark TowerIin this second, mesmerizing volume in his epic series. After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of IThe GunslingerI, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-Worlds Western Sea, each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must draw three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack Mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the Ika-tetI of his quest Or has he unleashed something else entirely A savage struggle has begun in which underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Rolands search for the Dark Tower.
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, IThe GunslingerI introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea in the first volume of IThe Dark TowerI series. Roland, the last gunslinger, is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange single-mindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape of good and evil. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse, left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joined, IkhefI, IkaI, and Ika-tetI. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-pThe first book of iDay by Day Armageddoni took us deep into the mind of a military officer and survivor as he made a New Years resolution to start keeping a journal. The man kept his resolution and brought to us the fall of humanity, day by day. We see the man transition from the life that you and I live to the prospect of fighting for his very survival against the overwhelming hordes of the dead. We see him bleed, we see him make mistakes, we witness him evolve. The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling underground cult classic, iDay by Day Armageddoni, begins where the first novel left off.ppBEGIN INTERCEPTppArmies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe; there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to counter the millions closing in around them.ppINTERCEPT COMPLETEDppDay by day, the handwritten journal entries of one man caught in a worldwide cataclysm capture the desperation--and the will to survive--as he joins forces with a handful of refugees to battle soulless enemies both human and inhuman from inside an abandoned strategic missile facility. But in the world of the undead, is mere survival enoughp
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Audible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-PStart intercept: Sporadic reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through U.S. cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. Intercept complete.ppIn your hands is the handwritten journal depicting one mans struggle for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them. Enter, if you will, into the world of the undead.p
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Audible RSS Feeds - Poetry Drama. Poetry Drama Audio Programs. Poetry Drama Audio Programs-pPoetry can sometimes be elusive, the real meaning layered beneath another. In this volume American poets give voice to their nation, their hopes, and their aspirations. Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson are joined by Poe, Holmes, Dunbar, and others to pleasure our ears and minds with a rambling stroll through their works. It doesnt define America, but it captures her mood and the flavours of her soul in the early days of the American dream. The selections are:ulliAmerican Poetry - An IntroductionliliTo My Dear and Loving Husband - Anne BradstreetliliThe Wild Honey Suckle - Phillip FreneauliliThe Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott KeyliliHymn To the North Star - William Cullen BryantliliSummer Wind - William Cullen BryantliliThe Snow Storm - Ralph Waldo EmersonliliGoodbye - Ralph Waldo EmersonliliA Psalm of Life - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowliliExtract from Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowliliWoods in Winter - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowliliThe Raven - Edgar Allan PoeliliAnnabel Lee - Edgar Allan PoeliliA Dream Within a Dream - Edgar Allan PoeliliPrologue - Oliver Wendell HolmesliliPray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong - Henry David ThoreauliliFrom Song of Myself - Walt WhitmanliliWarble of Lilac Time - Walt WhitmanliliA Carol of Harvest for 1867 - Walt WhitmanliliA July Afternoon by the Pond - Walt WhitmanliliNight on the Prairies - Walt WhitmanliliBattle Hymn of the Republic - Julia Ward HoweliliBecause I Could Not Stop for Death - Emily DickinsonliliThe Only Ghost I Ever Saw - Emily DickinsonliliLullaby - Louisa May Alcottliliand moreulp
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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In the ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, iThe Cruciblei mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s.
uploadedIn Sophocles tragedy, Oedipus discovers that he has been caught in his terrible destiny, unknowingly murdering his father and marrying his mother.brbr This perfomance features a new translation from the original Greek by director Nicholas Rudall.brbr Starring (in alphabetical order):brbr Spencer Garrett as Shepard, Chorusbr Francis Guinan as Messenger, Chorusbr Gregory Itzin as Creonbr Charles Kimbrough as Priest of Zeus, Chorusbr Harry J. Lennis as Oedipusbr Rod McLachlan as Second Messenger, Chorusbr Carolyn Seymour as Jocastabr W. Morgan Sheppard as Teiresias, Chorus
uploadedIStudio 360I looks at the places where art and real life collide, exploring the creative influence and transformative power of art in modern life through richly textured stories and insightful conversation. Hosted by novelist and journalist Kurt Andersen, IStudio 360I touches listeners feelings and challenges their perceptions of the world by presenting a weekly collection of ideas that are provocative and moving, from comic books to Wagner, Swiss Army knives to the legacy of Woody Guthrie. Program segments include:p liCommentary - Kurt Andersens weekly musings on culture, from the new TV season to politics as entertainment.br liCover Story - a weekly collection of features exploring a central idea, from Shakespeares enduring influence on popular culture to our urge to ornament everything from Christmas trees to architecture and music.br liDesign for the Real World - designers and artists talk about everyday items, from the stop sign to the Post-it note.br liPortraits - profiles of famous artists and people behind the scenes.br liHow Art Works - an exploration of how we perceive the world and how artists play with those perceptions, from why certain songs stick in your head to how color affects your emotions.
uploadedHere is the full-cast production of Shakespeares classic love story, fully dramatized from the complete text, and starring Michael Sheen as Romeo and Kate Beckinsale as Juliet.
uploadedTaking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, IThe Kite RunnerI is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amirs fathers servant, is a Hazara - a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.P IThe Kite RunnerI is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons - their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, IThe Kite RunnerI describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope for redemption.
uploadedbTranslated and read by Seamus Heaney.bP INew York Timesi best seller and Whitebread Book of the Year, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaneys new translation of IBeowulfI comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaneys performance reminds us that IBeowulfi, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.P Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, IBeowulfi is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendels mother. He then returns to his own country and lives to old age before dying in a vivid fight against a dragon.P The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
uploadedBBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.p In IMuch AdoI, the clarity of radio allows the wonderful verbal sparring between Beatrice and Benedick to sparkle as high comedy and melodrama mix magically in a combination of prose and verse.p Revitalised, original, and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
uploadedIn this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.p Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of self-worth that he has never surrendered and that have dramatically shaped his world. Without television, radio, and material distractions to obscure what matters most, he could enjoy the simple things, endure the long commitments, and find true meaning in his life.p Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his upbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents. Just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile, Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career. Committed to the notion that what one does for a living articulates who one is, Poitier played only forceful and affecting characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition.p Here is Poitiers own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, price and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the price for artistic integrity. What emerges is a picture of a man in the face of limits - his own and the worlds. A triumph of the spirit, iThe Measure of a Mani captures the essential Poitier.
uploadedBBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard.p Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote vibrate with powerful resonance in this grippingly dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil, and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic conclusion.p Revitalised, original, and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the new millennium.
uploadedAudible RSS Feeds - Fiction. Fiction Audio Programs. Fiction Audio Programs-In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything - written best-selling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures, from Jane Austen to Tolstoy, who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist - and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.pIn the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills his Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matts intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening - for once. Jennys alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maids room, angry at being rebuffed - again. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks house for a real game of Killer - Arthurs embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks yard.pIn a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. pWith a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph.
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