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July is National Picnic Month

July 19th, 2024 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Pack these listens into your basket! Performed by the author Tim Blake Nelson’s debut novel is an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood, or the City of Blows. Performed by Justin Price John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing […]

The Myth of the Mustang

November 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Reviews

By Kaleigh Lawson Imagine standing in the open prairie, feeling the wind whip your hair into a mess of tangles and staring out onto a heard of wild mustangs. Imagine tumbleweeds blowing across the dry sage-covered earth and seeing for miles out to the horizon. Imagine what the Wild West must have looked, sounded and […]

Featured Audio Giveaway—November 2017—Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

November 1st, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Read by Peter Berkrot, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, and Piper Goodeve Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – September 2017 — A Sick Life

September 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the Supremes,” five-time Grammy Award winning supergroup TLC has seen phenomenal fame and success. But backstage, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins has lived a dual life. Read the full description. Watkins is the lead singer of the bestselling female group TLC, […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – July 2017 — Knots: Stories

July 6th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways

“Every story [is] a formal surprise, smart and droll.” —Lydia Davis, The Times Literary Supplement Cleverly balancing the sensuous, the surreal, and the comical, Øyehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories. Full of characters who can’t help tying knots in themselves and each other, these tales […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – June 2017 — Stephen Florida

June 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

“I’m pinned to the mat by this one.” —The Quivering Pen Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Read the full description. “Finely rendered, dark, and funny . . […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – May 2017 — The Radium Girls

May 1st, 2017 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways

Ordinary women in 1920s America. All they wanted was the chance to shine . . . Be careful what you wish for. 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, paintingwatches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – April 2017 — Sympathy

April 3rd, 2017 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

In its heady evocation of everything from Haruki Murakami to Patricia Highsmith to Edith Wharton, Sympathy is utterly original—a thrilling tale of obsession, doubling, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age. Read the full description. “The reason to read this novel, aside from the au courant topic, is the luscious, absorbing […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – November 2016 —Anatomy of a Song

November 1st, 2016 · 1 Comment · Featured Audio Giveaways

“The book’s strength lies in thoughtful, wry reflections from artists including Elvis Costello, Jimmy Cliff, Stevie Wonder, Booker T. Jones, Dr. John, and Debbie Harry. An entertaining record of the soundtrack of the baby boomer era.” —Kirkus Reviews Every great song has a story that needs to be told. In Anatomy of a Song, based […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – July 2016 – The Baseball Whisperer

July 1st, 2016 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

From an award winning journalist, a real Field of Dreams story about a legendary coach and the professional caliber baseball program he built in America’s heartland, where boys come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and men. Read the full description. The Baseball Whisperer By Michael Tackett Read by Mike Chamberlain “Tackett reminds readers […]

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