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Audiobooks Narrated by Celeste Lawson
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When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage—learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man’s Family on the radio—and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska, where she had leased a roadhouse in the tiny settlement of Taylor. Julia had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but to her surprise she found a healing power in the stark beauty of the vast tundra—the summer wildflowers and berries, the reindeer, foxes, and wolves. Later she reveled in the boisterous, chaotic boomtown atmosphere that prevailed when thousands of American troops descended on Nome at the outbreak of World War II.
A lyrical and affecting memoir of those years, Outside Passage is simultaneously an emotional account of a young girl’s first steps into adulthood and a unique portrait of a vanished frontier life.
“The physical and emotional landscapes of this memoir stay in the mind. Julia Scully makes you feel that you’ve been to Alaska and heard the waves from the Bering Sea crash on its shores.”—Jill Ker Conway, New York Times bestselling author
In December 1941, America is reeling from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war. Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged when the FBI, in a midnight sweep of prominent Japanese residents, storms in to arrest her patient's wife. The desperately ill Professor Oakley is married to artist Masako Fumi. The nurse vows to help the professor free Masako. But when the murdered body of Masako's art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he'd been closing down her controversial show, Masako's troubles multiply. Homicide detective Michael McKenna doubts her guilt, but an ambitious government man schemes to lever the homicide and ensuing espionage accusations into a political cause célèbre.
Struggling to focus on one man's murder while America plunges into a worldwide war, Louise and McKenna defy both racism and ham-fisted government agents in order to expose the real killer.
"This winning collaborative debut by Dobson, author of the Professor Karen Pelletier mysteries, and Myers, author of the Baroque series, introduces two determined female amateur sleuths operating just as the United States enters World War II...Recommend for fans of Rhys Bowen's Molly Murphy series and Sarah Shaber's Louise Pearlie mysteries."-Library Journal
Artistic profile of one of the 20th century's great choreographers. The literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descriptions of what the dancers actually do.
Beginning with Apollo (1928), Balanchine's first extant work, and ending with one of his last ballets, Ballo della Regina (1978), Nancy Goldner offers detailed insights into more than 20 individual ballets. Based on lectures given across the United States, under the auspices of the Balanchine Foundation, they are intended to illuminate his art.
Goldner discusses the history of each ballet, places each in the context of Balanchine's life and sensibility. She also addresses his taste in music and whether his style can be considered particularly American.
The ballets Balanchine choreographed for the New York City Ballet are danced by companies around the world, and this innovative audiobook is sure to become an indispensable guide to dancers and spectators alike.
Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough offer a lighthearted, hilarious memoir of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Some of the more amusing anecdotes involve a pair of rabbit-skin capes that begin shedding at the most inopportune moments and an episode in which the girls are stranded atop Notre Dame cathedral at midnight. And, of course, there's romance, in the form of handsome young doctor Tom Newhall and college "Lothario" Avery Moore.
Published in 1942, the book spent five weeks at the top of the New York Times best-seller list in the winter of 1943 and was made into a motion picture in 1944.
“Celeste Lawson does a fine reading of this classic memoir…the young women experience one madcap adventure after another. Without excessive ingenuousness, Lawson keeps her reading on an even keel, allowing clever dialogue, comical situations, and witty repartee to carry the story forward. Nostalgia for a time when the most expensive item on a chic restaurant’s menu was $2.95 will keep listeners engaged. “—AudioFile
Getting killed off is a soap star's worst nightmare, especially when it happens off camera. For soaps writer Morgan Tyler, a real-life killer is after her, and her time-like sands through the hourglass-is running out.
"Lawson makes the repartee between the characters snap and crackle....Together Palmer and Lawson bring the world of daytime drama to life."-AudioFile
It was 1895, and time for a change, thought Rebecca Rice. For thirteen years, Rebecca had suffocated under the social restraints of widowhood. She couldn't remember a time in her life when she hadn't done exactly what was expected of her. Until now.
Armed with a knowledge of nursing and faith healing that she had learned from a visiting missionary group, Rebecca headed for the hill country of southeastern Oklahoma, Indian Territory, to share her new vocation. But the clannish folk of the hill country, reared and groomed in suspicion and superstition, resent Rebecca's presence in their midst. Faced with such human conflicts as hate and ignorance, Rebecca must also struggle with tornados and floods. But her greatest adversary is the circuit-riding preacher, Zake Daniels, who fears Rebecca's teachings will threaten his hold on his flock.
"This story is one that will warm your heart, tickle your funny bone, and make you cry. 5 stars."-Romancing the Web Reviews
Whatever you have -- or haven't -- put away, if you are getting serious about retirement, this book can show you the right moves to make and the pitfalls to avoid. Malaspina's tips will guide you to a worry free, financially well-organized retirement.
Soap writer and producer Morgan Tyler is facing a sizzling summer. When Morgan's best friend, Nancy, is arrested for the murder of her boyfriend's evil ex, it isn't long before Morgan's efforts to exonerate Nancy get her into hot water-and more-with homicide detective Matt Phoenix.
As head writer of the soap opera Love of My Life, Morgan specializes in imperiling her characters. As co-executive producer on the show, she must protect the actors playing them. But when leading man Link Ramsey finds himself stalked by a woman who can't separate fact from fiction, Morgan's job is about to get more complicated.
In the Shadow of Fame, by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst and theorist Erik Erikson, is the intimate story of her struggle to come to terms with her father's fame and to develop a sense of self in a family-and world-in which being famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being. And, while her story is unique in its personal details, it is also a description of the struggle faced by all of us in a modern world.
Let the women who established the popular Simple Steps program tell you how to soothe your soul and simplify your life in just ten weeks. Each week, learn a new simple step for addressing the key areas in your life: your health, weight, living space, and spirit.
Whatever you have-or haven't-put away, if you are getting serious about retirement, this book can show you the right moves to make and the pitfalls to avoid.You may not be sure where to allocate your investments or how to structure a comfortable income that won't run out. You may never have heard of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that can make retirement savings-capital gains and income-tax free, if you can control what you earn in your last year before retiring. By understanding what you have to decide and when, you can move into retirement on solid financial ground. The cost of not knowing the rules and of missing key deadlines is too high.
"A vital resource for people structuring their retirement incomes, this audio overlooks nothing...the writing is fresh as it encourages people to be as proactive and open-minded as possible regarding their retirement planning."-AudioFile
