Channel: Entertainment

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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