Audiobooks narrated by Lorna Raver

Who Do You Think You Are?: A Memoir Audiobook

Growing up in Queens in the 1960s, Alyse Myers always yearned for more in life, as she watched her mother settle for an unhappy marriage, an unsatisfying job, and a joyless existence. Alyse rejects everything about her mother's life, but after her death she inherits a small wooden box with contents that reveal a poignant and deeply moving truth. The dysfunctional relationship between Myers and her mother is poignant and heartbreaking at times. This is an honest look at how two very different and conflicting personalities inhabit the mother-daughter relationship and how Myers reconciles her relationship with her mother after her death. "The greatest gift Myers' mother gave her daughter was the determination to create a different sort of life for herself."-Publishers Weekly

Alyse Myers (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Three

What if timid Baby Lincoln broke free of her bossy sister and set off on an unexpected journey? Kate DiCamillo presents a touching new adventure set in Mercy Watson's world. Baby Lincoln's older sister, Eugenia, is very fond of telling Baby what to do, and Baby usually responds by saying "Yes, Sister." But one day Baby has had enough. She decides to depart on a Necessary Journey, even though she has never gone anywhere without Eugenia telling her what to take and where to go. And in fact Baby doesn't knowwhere she is headed - only that she was entirely happy in the previous night's dream, sitting aboard a train with a view of shooting stars. Who might Baby meet as she strikes out on her own, and what could she discover about herself? Will her impulsive adventure take her away from Eugenia for good?

Kate DiCamillo (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

What Would You Do If You Had No Fear: Living Your Dreams While Quakin' in Your Boots

For this book, author Diane Conway approached a police officer, a waitress, a politician, a lawyer, a cab driver, and many others, and asked them each the same question: "What would you do if you had no fear?" The results, chronicled in this book, were both surprising and enlightening. Her respondents told her their secrets, their long-hidden dreams, and their fears. Their dreams included quitting mind-numbing jobs, applying to medical school, buying tickets to South America, finding true love, quitting drinking, or having an affair. The distance between dreaming and doing, according to Conway, is surprisingly short. In What Would You Do If You Had No Fear? her fresh voice and "Studs Terkel in drag persona" challenge readers to stop, open their hearts, and truly live. Included are self-tests, quizzes, growth exercises, and inspiring quotes for realizing one's fear-free potential. "These are stories of women and men who have moved beyond their fears in order to change, to soar, even to fail, whose adventures and humanity can't help but inspire the rest of us."-Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies

Diane Conway (Author), Lorna Raver, Pam Ward (Narrator)

Audiobook

What Maisie Knew

In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent wonder, James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. In the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled back and forth between her father and mother and their new spouses, all of whom are monstrously self-involved. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie herself becomes a pretext for sexual intrigue when her stepparents become attracted to each other. As Maisie opens her young eyes on this distinctly modern world, the death of her childhood provides Henry James with a vehicle for scathing social satire. "Reading Henry James is like putting a new faculty to the test. This is the true morality."-Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning novelist

Henry James (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

Washington Square

James is the acknowledged master of the psychological novel, which profoundly influenced the 20th-century literary world. The power of his prose and the skill with which he marshals seemingly insignificant details to accomplish his purpose sustains the listener's interest and compels continued contemplation.

Henry Jr. James (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

Up from Orchard Street

Three generations of Roths live together in a crowded tenement flat. We live through the bittersweet world of these blunt, earthy, feisty people for whom poverty was endemic, illness common, crises frequent, and zest for living intense. In this riveting story lies the heart of the American immigrant experience.

Eleanor Widmer (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

Trouble Chaser: Black Mask Audio Magazine

Paul Cain (Author), Anthony Heald, Bill Hughes, Burt Ross, Christine Williams, Grover Gardner, Lorna Raver, Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator)

Audiobook

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

During the Civil War 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. The equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This Republic of Suffering explores the impact of the enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Drew Gilpin Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture reconciled the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, and nurses, of Northerners and Southerners, slaveholders and freed people, of the most exalted and the most humble are brought together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. "Beautifully written, honest, and penetrating, Faust's book about 'the work of death' in fact brings death to life. Anyone wanting to understand the 'real war' and its transcendent meaning must face the facts Faust arrays before us....Essential."-Library Journal

Drew Gilpin Faust (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon Our Public Schools

A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in a vibrant democracy In These Schools Belong to You and Me, MacArthur award-winning educator, reformer, and author Deborah Meier draws on her fifty-plus years of experience to argue that the purpose of universal education is to provide young people with an "apprenticeship for citizenship in a democracy." Through an intergenerational exchange with her former colleague and fellow educator Emily Gasoi, the coauthors analyze the last several decades of education reform, challenging narrow profit-driven conceptions of school success. Reflecting on the trajectory of education and social policies that are leading our country further from rule "of, for, and by the people," the authors apply their extensive knowledge and years of research to address the question of how public education must change in order to counter the erosion of democratic spirit and practice in schools and in the nation as a whole. Meier and Gasoi candidly reflect on the successes, missteps, and challenges they experienced working in democratically governed schools, demonstrating that it is possible to provide an enriched education to all students, not just the privileged few. Arguing that public education and democracy are inextricably bound, and pushing against the tide of privatization, These Schools Belong to You and Me is a rousing call to both save and improve public schools to ensure that all students are empowered to help shape our future democracy.

Deborah Meier, Emily Gasoi (Author), Emily Zeller, Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Unravelling of Violeta Bell: A Morgue Mama Mystery

Maddy Sprowls, newspaper librarian for the Hannawa Herald-Union, prefers to stay in the newspaper morgue and do her job. But one Saturday, she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire that cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage sale, and wouldn't that make a great feature story for the paper? Shortly after the story runs, one of the four women, retired antiques dealer Violeta Bell, is murdered. Maddy wants no part of the investigation, but before she knows it, she's on another of her infamous snoopathons. Was it bargains they were hunting or something else?

C.R. Corwin (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Sibyl

The Sibyl is a profound exploration of divine and human love in the form of a conversation between the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend and a sibyl of Delphi, written by a Nobel Prize-winning author. "This is a remarkable book...Lagerkvist has written a disturbing and fearful fable about human and divine love, and about the glories and disasters of both."-Paul Engle, ChicagoTribune

PÃ¤r Lagerkvist (Author), Kristoffer Tabori, Lorna Raver, Yuri Rasovsky (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Planets

THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's sweeping look at our heavenly galaxy. In the spirit of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Sobel once again brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds. After the huge national and international success of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. THE PLANETS tells the story of each member of our solar family, from their discovery, both mythic and historic, to the latest data from the modern era's robotic space probes and images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Whether revealing what hides behind Venus' cocoon of acid clouds, describing Jupiter's 'Technicolor lightning bolts and shimmering sheets of auroras,' or capturing first-hand the excitement at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the first pictures from Voyager were beamed to earth, Dava Sobel's unique tour of the solar family is filled with fascination and poetry. In lyrical prose THE PLANETS gives a breathtaking, close-up perspective on those heavenly bodies that have captured the imagination of humanity since that first glimpse at the glittering night skies. This is an extraordinary book of science, history, biography and storytelling. Timely and timeless, THE PLANETS will engage and delight as it unravels the mysteries of the cosmos.

Dava Sobel (Author), Lorna Raver (Narrator)

Audiobook

Audiobooks Narrated by Lorna Raver