Audiobooks Narrated by Finlay Stevenson

Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

"'Beautiful and razor-sharp…cannot recommend highly enough.' -Ann Helen Petersen, Culture Study 'Cuts boldly and beautifully through that silence, inviting readers to imagine what our world might look like if we met every family where they are.' -Vogue "A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent in a world that rejects frailty and weakness."-Rachel Aviv, staff writer at the New Yorker A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting-the joys, stigma, and discrimination-and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids In Unfit Parent, Slice debunks the exclusionary myths that deem disabled people "unfit" to care for their children, instead showing how disabled parents and disability culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that encourage perfectionism and lead to isolation. Combining her personal experiences with interviews, research-backed evidence, and disability studies, Slice shares insight into what the landscape is like for disabled parents-one that is scattered with unpredictable obstacles and inaccessible barriers, including: - How do you find adaptive baby equipment? - How do two disabled parents creatively keep their children safe? - How do you get reproductive care when the medical system assumes you aren't able to have kids? - What is it like to be in public knowing that someone might call child protective services simply because a parent is disabled? In overcoming these challenges, she describes how disabled parents are oftentimes more prepared to adapt to the demanding nature of parenthood, including the uncertainty of losing control over bodily autonomy. Uplifting and powerful, Unfit Parent illuminates how disabled bodies and minds give us the hopeful perspectives and solutions we need for transforming a societal system that has left parents exhausted, stuck, and alone."

Jessica Slice (Author), Finlay Stevenson (Narrator)

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Broke Heart Blues: A Novel

"The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates's personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy-already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley-who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville's teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town's soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart's bedroom-and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville's rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth. Over the course of thirty years, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall-and the ultimate call to reckoning- of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing, the novel explores loneliness, and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams."

Joyce Carol Oates (Author), Barton Caplan, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Finlay Stevenson, Fred Berman, Joyce Carol Oates, Linda Jones, Vas Eli (Narrator)

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The Donut Legion: A Novel

"Edgar award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale beams a light on an East Texas town held in the grip of conspiracy. Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound to be the site of an extraterrestrial Second Coming.   Along with his brother, Felix, and beautiful, randy journalist Amelia "Scrappy" Moon, Charlie uncovers strange and frightening details about the compound (read: a massive, doomsday storehouse of weapons, a leashed chimpanzee!) When the body of their key informer is found dead with his arms ripped out of their sockets, Charlie knows he's in danger but remains dogged in his quest to rescue Meg.   Brimming with colorful characters and Lansdale's characteristic bounce, this rollicking crime novel examines the insidious rise of fringe groups and those under their sway with black comedy and glints of pathos."

Joe R. Lansdale (Author), Brad Sanders, Finlay Stevenson, Greg Littlefield, January LaVoy, Joe R. Lansdale, Kasey Lansdale, Marc Vietor (Narrator)

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