Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: To Jerusalem and Back Subtitle: A Personal Account Author: Saul Bellow Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 11-22-11 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary book is the result of Saul Bellows sojourn in Israel in 1975. A personal record of his stayhis experiences and impressionsas well as a meditation, it crackles with wit and controversy on Americas relationship with this embattled country. Using quick sketches and vignettes, Bellow captures the personal opinions, passions, and dreams of several Israelis, and he also adds to these his own reflections on being Jewish in the 20th century. The varying viewpoints of those he encounters and interviews offer a revealing look at the history and challenges of Israel, and Bellows passionate storytelling draws listeners in to share in his experience. Critic Reviews: "An impassioned and thoughtful book. Bellow delights in the liveliness, the gallantry of Israeli lifepeople on the edge of history, an inch from disaster, yet brimming with argument and words." (New York Times Book Review)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: J.K. Rowling Subtitle: A Biography Author: Anna Scott Narrator: Colin Robinson Format: Unabridged Length: 17 mins Language: English Release date: 07-06-16 Publisher: Anna Scott Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: J. K. Rowling is a British novelist, screenwriter, and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which is the second highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final installment. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty until she finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written four books for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy (2012) and-under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith - the crime fiction novels The Cuckoo's Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014), and Career of Evil (2015). Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years. She is the United Kingdom's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of 238m. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at 560 million, ranking her as the 12th richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the 48th most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Legends of The Enlightenment Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 07-02-15 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: "A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue." - Rousseau "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself." - Rousseau The grand narrative of the Enlightenment, usually recounted and understood in terms of progress and modernity, generally appears as a simplified evolution from the trappings of superstition, feudalism, and everything "irrational" to a world more similar to today's world. Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited for the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as individual and collective freedom and liberty. Of course, one of the towering figures of the age was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were essential to the ideological developments of the 18th century. The prestige of French literature in the 18th century resides especially in its revolutionary character; while the writers of the previous century used to support the social order through their works and showed sympathy and even attempted to explain the political order of the time, in the 18th century, art, literature, philosophy and science all contribute actively and fiercely to the fight against the absolutist monarch and his regime. While this was a current manifesting all throughout Europe, there were differences in practice, especially between close countries (as was the case of England and France). There are many books and articles published constantly on the life and works of Rousseau. What generated such an abundance of writings is the turbulent life he led and the courage and audacity he manifested while fighting the prejudices of the time and establishing his ideas firmly within the academic community.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Best of the Empty Nest Author: Becky Corwin-Adams Narrator: Jae Huff Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 04-13-15 Publisher: Becky Corwin- Adams Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: For more than 10 years, Becky Corwin-Adams has been a freelance writer and columnist for The Farmland News in Archbold, Ohio. Her columns have appeared under the title "The Empty Nest". These columns address topics such as humorous takes on life, heartfelt dog rescue pieces, and stories about major storms. The author reminisces about dealing with door-to-door salesmen and collection agencies. Becky's adventures included flying in a small plane to have breakfast in her hometown, and arriving at a minor league baseball game in a limousine. Readers have praised Becky's writing. "I have enjoyed reading your columns in the Farmland News", one reader wrote. "They brought back so many good memories for me. Thank you for taking me back to a happy time of life." Another reader wrote, "It is always great to see your column in the Farmland News. I have told so many people about your writing talents". This audiobook includes some of the best columns from the early years of "The Empty Nest". These are some of the author's favorite columns, and she hopes you will enjoy them, too.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend Author: Edward Waldo Emerson Narrator: Taylor Storey Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 12-11-13 Publisher: Taylor Storey Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An extraordinary personal testament to the life and times of one of America's great naturalists and literary figures, written by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's friend and mentor. It is perhaps the best short introduction to Thoreau's life and times. "To his lonely happiness the world will owe the best gifts he has left" - Edward Waldo Emerson Henry Thoreau left society at the age of 28 to live for two years and two months in the woods by his own means. He did this in order that when it came time for him to die he would not discover "that he had not lived".

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Selected Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson With Biography Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Kristina Fuller Yuen Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 09-10-13 Publisher: Zaafirah El-bey Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he, "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Unauthorized Guide to Georgette Heyer: The Author of Numerous Romance Novels Subtitle: 2nd Edition Author: Malcolm Stone Narrator: Scott Clem Format: Unabridged Length: 8 mins Language: English Release date: 10-20-15 Publisher: Malcolm Stone Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This audiobook profiles Georgette Heyer. The founding writer of both the historical romance and Regency romance genres, Heyer was a hardworking and versatile novelist. Find out how she became a writer and how her career has progressed.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: An Unauthorized Guide to Clive Cussler: A Short Biography of the Author of the Dirk Pitt Novels Subtitle: Second Edition Author: Malcolm Stone Narrator: Tom McElroy Format: Unabridged Length: 11 mins Language: English Release date: 09-01-15 Publisher: Malcolm Stone Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is a profile of Clive Cussler. The best-selling author has published more than 50 books, some of which have been adapted for the big screen. Find out how Cussler became a writer and how his career has developed.

Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://hotaudiobook.com Titolo: Vita di Michelangelo [Life of Michelangelo] Autore: Romain Rolland Narratore: Silvia Cecchini Formato: Unabridged Durata: 1 hr and 19 mins Lingua: Italiano Data di pubblicazione: 11-19-14 Editore: Collina d'oro Valutazioni: 4 su 5 su 4 voti Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Riepilogo Editore: Romain Rolland (1866-1944), premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1915, ha dedicato l'opera e la vita alla diffusione di un credo umanitario di pace e di fraternità. Compose numerose biografie esemplari, tra cui questa di Michelangelo, nel 1905. La vita dell'eroe della Sistina (come lo chiama l'autore) viene percorsa più volte analizzando vari aspetti della sua vita: la lotta, la sua ossessione artistica, gli amori idealizzati, e infine, lamore per Dio e il desiderio della liberazione dalla vita. Cornice musicale: l'Eroica di Ludwig van Beethoven. Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Play On Subtitle: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac Author: Mick Fleetwood Narrator: Martin Dew Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 10-30-14 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: 'After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you.' Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full and candid story of that life, and what it is to be part of the ever evolving Fleetwood Mac. His all-access autobiography spans the career of one of classic rock's greatest drummers and band leaders, the co-founder of the deeply loved super group that bears his name. In this intimate portrait of a life lived in music, Fleetwood vividly recalls his upbringing in Cornwall, Egypt, and Norway, tapping along to whatever song was playing on the radio; his experiences as a musician in Sixties London; the early days of the band featuring Peter Green, and his close friendship with George Harrison and seemingly all of music royalty. Play On sheds new light on Fleetwood Mac's raucous history, describing the highs and lows of being part of a band that he often single-handedly kept together. His love affair with Stevie Nicks, the creation of landmark albums like Rumours and Tusk, and the many incredible and outrageous moments of recording, touring, fighting, and loving with Fleetwood Mac: all are here. He describes his life's moments with the honesty and immediacy that his fans expect, taking us to the very heart of this multi-layered life. It's been a tumultuous journey with the excesses of the band's huge success at times threatening to destroy what they strived so hard to create. But through it all, it's been the drive to play on that has won out. Now, then, and always, it's Fleetwood Mac.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: After the Fire Subtitle: A Memoir in Poetry and Prose Author: J. A. Jance Narrator: J. A. Jance Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 49 mins Language: English Release date: 09-10-13 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: New York Times best-selling author J. A. Jance's heartrending collection of poetry and essays recounts a dark chapter of her own life, her first marriage to an alcoholic - a powerful look at the emotional cost of addiction and an inspiring story of courage and triumph in the wake of crushing defeat. Before she found fame as a best-selling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she channeled her pain into words, composing the poems in this moving volume, first published in 1984, a year before her debut novel. In searing and direct language, After the Fire chronicles the collapse of Jance's first marriage under the weight of her husband's addictionand her own unwitting denial and codependence while she struggled to find herself. "I will not be the price of your redemption," she wrote then. "I will not pay my life to ransom yours." An intimate, deeply personal look into a wrenching time in Jance's life, After the Fire is a portrait of addiction and its insidious effects on lives and love. It illuminates universal truths about unbearable loss and finding the courage to carry on, and offers inspiration and profound insight into the heart and work of a beloved best-selling author.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Letters to a Friend Author: Diana Athill, Edward Field Narrator: Jennifer Dixon Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 06-28-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This epistolary memoir - rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance, and honesty - describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times best seller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. For 30 years, Athill corresponded with the American poet Edward Field, freely sharing jokes, pleasures, and pains with her old friend. Letters to a Friend is an epistolary memoir that describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Written with intimacy and spontaneity, candor and grace, it is perhaps more revealing than any of her celebrated books. Edited, selected, and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collection - rich with Athills characteristic wit, humor, elegance, and honesty - reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase, and a wicked sense of humor. Covering her career as an editor, the adventure of her retirement, her immersion in her own writing, and her reactions to becoming unexpectedly famous in her old age - including gossip about legendary authors and mutual friends, sharp pen-portraits, and uninhibited accounts of her relationships - Letters to a Friend describes a flourishing friendship and offers a portrait of a woman growing older without ever losing her zest for life.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's Author: Marijane Meaker Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 06-07-12 Publisher: Biagi Rights Management Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Patricia Highsmith, author of classics such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a lesbian and a writer who defied simple categorization. Gore Vidal called her: "One of our greatest modernist writers." And The Cleveland Plain Dealer rightly commented: "Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman." Meaker and Highsmith met in New York City, became lovers, and embarked on a romance amidst the bohemian set of Greenwich Village and the literary crowd of Fire Island. Written with wit and brassy candor, this is a revealing look at a controversial icon of popular American fiction. Marijane Meaker is the author of more than 40 books and recipient of many awards; writing under the pen-name Vin Packer, she wrote the lesbian paperback best-seller Spring Fire (Cleis Press).

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Voice From Old New York Subtitle: A Memoir of My Youth Author: Louis Auchincloss Narrator: John Gregory St. John Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 03-03-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss - enemy of bores, self-pity, and gossip less than fresh - had just finished taking on a subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirms that, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was the most entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his class but occasionally its critic, he returns us to his Society which was, he maintains, less interesting than its members admitted. You may differ as he unfurls his life with dignity, summoning his family (particularly his father who suffered from depression and forgave him for hating sports) and intimates. Brooke Astor and her circle are here, along with glimpses of Jacqueline Onassis. Most memorable, though, is his way with those outside the salon: the cranky maid; the maiden aunt, perpetually out of place; the less-than-well-born boy who threw himself from a window over a woman and a man. Here is Auchincloss, an American master, being Auchincloss, a rare eye, a generous and lively spirit to the end.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Travels with Penny Subtitle: True Travel Tales of a Gay Guy and His Mom Author: David Alan Morrison Narrator: David Alan Morrison Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 08-03-17 Publisher: David Alan Morrison Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Two things flashed through my mind when I opened the door to the sex shop to find my mother standing in front of the display case, talking to a tall salesman wearing a leather harness, jock strap and a dog collar. The first was, "Oh, crap!" The second was, "I hate it when Dad's right." Thus begins David Alan Morrison's hilarious memoir about the evolution of family dynamics. Following the sudden death of his father, a single, middle-aged gay guy struggles with his own mortality by reminiscing about the travels with his gregarious mother. Travels with Penny is a look at the transformation of the baffling, complex relationship between children and their parents.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Moose Subtitle: Chapters from My Life Author: Robert B. Sherman Narrator: Robert J. Sherman Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins Language: English Release date: 10-05-16 Publisher: Orchard Hill Press Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Robert B. Sherman has forged a phenomenal career as a songwriter, screenwriter and painter. Along with his brother, Richard, he is responsible for the iconic scores of Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Charlotte's Web and The Tigger Movie, to name just a few. But to fully appreciate the impact of his songs, one has to get to know the man behind them first. Finally, in his own words and inimitable writing style, comes his long awaited, definitive autobiography: Moose, the delightful and unconventional story of a creative giant who changed the fabric of the family musical forever.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Elizabeth and Michael Subtitle: The Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop - A Love Story Author: Donald Bogle Narrator: Michael Early Format: Unabridged Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins Language: English Release date: 09-16-16 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: From the moment Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson met, they were hooked on each other. Soon a deep friendship blossomed unexpectedly, unlike anything either had ever experienced. Through thick and thin, through their various emotional upheavals, through the peaks and valleys of their careers, through their personal traumas and heartaches, through the unending health issues and extreme physical pain that each experienced, and through the glare of the often merciless public spotlight, their bond held them together, and their love for each other endured. Donald Bogle skillfully re-creates the moving narrative of Taylor and Jackson's experiences together and their intense emotional connection, without shying away from the controversies that swirled around them. Through interviews with friends and acquaintances of the two stars as well as anonymous but credible sources, Elizabeth and Michael emerges as a tender, intimate look at this famous odd couple and a treasure to their millions of fans.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Alex Haley's Roots: An Author's Odyssey Author: Adam Henig Narrator: Mark Westfield Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 01-09-15 Publisher: Adam Henig Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In 1977, when the New York Times declared that the television mini-series Roots was the "most significant civil rights event since the Selma-to-Montgomery march of 1965," its author, Alex Haley became America's newest "folk hero". His book was on the New York Times best seller list for months and won the Pulitzer Prize. His story had captivated a nation and then the world. From Idaho to Israel, it seemed everyone was caught-up in "Rootsmania." Alex Haley was on his way to becoming the most successful author in the history of publishing. That's when his troubles began. Within a decade and a half following the publication of Roots, Haley managed to alienate most of his fellow writers and at the same time squander most of his wealth. When he died at the age of 70, his estate was auctioned off and his iconic book went out of print. What happened? Based on interviews of Haley's contemporaries, personal correspondence, legal documents and newspaper accounts, Adam Henig investigates the unraveling of one of America's most successful yet enigmatic authors.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Beethoven Author: Darren Henley Narrator: Marin Alsop Format: Unabridged Length: 22 mins Language: English Release date: 12-04-13 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is a story from the Famous Composers collection. Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music are told against the backdrop of some of their finest works, an ideal combination. Editorial Reviews: David Henley provides a delightful mix of biography and music lesson in this profile of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, a selection from the collection Famous Composers. A dramatization of Beethoven's difficult childhood, complete with a demanding father who forced his son to play the piano, shows how Beethoven developed his love and mastery of the piano. Throughout, Marin Alsop uses a relaxed style that proves amiable to neophytes of Beethoven's work, and her demeanor is educational even as it is informal. The inclusion of some of Beethoven's famous pieces, like "Moonlight Sonata" and "Fur Elise", makes this a complete experience. Critic Reviews: 2005 Audie Award Winner, Original Work

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: New Ways to Kill Your Mother Subtitle: Writers and Their Families Author: Colm Toibin Narrator: Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-12 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the best-selling and award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Empty Family offers a fascinating exploration of famous writers relationships to their families and their work. From Jane Austens aunts to Tennessee Williamss mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literatures greatest works. In New Ways to Kill Your Mother, Colm Tóibín - celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays, and currently the prestigious Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia - traces and interprets those intriguing, eccentric, often twisted family ties. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, and J.M. Synge and his mother, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyles writing on his parents, Tóibín perceives an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheevers journals, Tóibín illuminates this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and his children. Educating an intellectual woman, Cheever remarked, is like letting a rattlesnake into the house. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a thought-provoking look at writers most influential bonds and a secret key to reading and enjoying their work. Critic Reviews: Tóibín is an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires. (The Evening Standard) "A consistently revealing look at how writers relationships with their families have influenced their workDelicacy is one of Tóibíns great strengths as a novelist, and its here in abundance, too. Parallels are adroitly, teasingly drawn out, then knotted together with the lightest of touches. The result is a book that illuminates, startles and delights. (The Telegraph) "Unfailingly warm and compassionate. (The Irish Times)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Father's Day Subtitle: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son Author: Buzz Bissinger Narrator: Buzz Bissinger Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 05-15-12 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A remarkable memoir from the best-selling author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August. Buzz Bissingers twins were born three minutesand a worldapart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student at Penn, preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has spent his life attending special schools. Hell never drive a car, or kiss a girl, or live by himself. He is a savant, challenged by serious intellectual deficits but also blessed with rare talents: an astonishing memory, a dazzling knack for navigation, and a reflexive honesty that can make him both socially awkward and surprisingly wise. Buzz realized that while he had always been an attentive father, he didnt really understand what it was like to be Zach. So one summer night Buzz and Zach hit the road to revisit all the places they have lived together during Zachs twenty-four years. Zach revels in his memories, and Buzz hopes this journey into their shared past will bring them closer and reveal to him the mysterious workings of his sons mind and heart. The trip also becomes Buzz's personal journey, yielding revelations about his own parents, the price of ambition, and its effect on his twins. As father and son journey from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, they see the best and worst of America and each other. Ultimately, Buzz gains a new and uplifting wisdom, realizing that Zachs worldview has a sturdy logic of its own: a logic that deserves the greatest respect. And with the help of Zachs twin, Gerry, Buzz learns an even more vital lesson about Zach: character transcends intellect. We come to see Zach as he truly is: patient, fearless, perceptive, kinda man of excellent character.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Isabel Allende Author: Tim McNeese Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 11-15-10 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Isabel Allende is an informative introduction to the distinguished author. Isabel Allende, one of the world's most widely read Latin American writers, is a Chilean novelest who, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was strongly influenced by her grandparents. Her vivid fiction, such as The House of the Spirits, blends realism with magical elements and spotlights political and often feminist concerns. Here is a wonderful introduction to Isabel Allende that will help students understand how her family and upbringing set the stage for her life's work and success. The book is published by Chelsea House Publishers, a leading publisher of educational material.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Picasso Subtitle: Creator and Destroyer Author: Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington Narrator: Natascha McElhone Format: Abridged Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 12-15-99 Publisher: Phoenix Books Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Discover the many sides of Pablo Picasso - a brilliant painter and sculptor, a bohemian, a sexual sadist, a betrayer, a loyal Communist, a seducer, a father, and, ultimately, a tragic figure. In preparing this in-depth biography, author Arianna Huffington conducted extensive research into the renowned artist's life and character. Through interviews with Picasso's daughter Maya and his former lover Françoise Gilot, she received intimate insights into the artist's personality. Later adapted into the film Surviving Picasso, this compelling biography paints a fascinating, complex portrait of the artist and his life. Recording (P)1996 by Audio Literature; ©1988 by Arianna Stassinopoulous Huffington

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Lodger Shakespeare Subtitle: His Life on Silver Street Author: Charles Nicholl Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 02-19-08 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster; it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life. Using the court testimony as a springboard, acclaimed nonfiction writer Charles Nicholl examines this fascinating period in Shakespeare's life. With evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compelling, detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked during the time in which he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear. The case also throws new light on the puzzling story of Shakespeare's collaboration with the hack author and violent brothel owner George Wilkins. In The Lodger Shakespeare we see the playwright in the daily context of a street in Jacobean London: "one Mr. Shakespeare", lodging in the room upstairs. Nicholl is one of the great historical detectives of our time and in this atmospheric and exciting book he has created a considerable rarity - something new and original about Shakespeare. Editorial Reviews: More effectively than a time machine, this extraordinary nonfiction, expertly narrated by Simon Vance, transports listeners to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London and the life of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is 40, writing his great plays, and living in rented London lodging during the theater season. When he gives evidence in a court case, his actual words are taken down and stored away for hundreds of years. Enter historian Charles Nicholl, who uses them, along with countless other dusty documents, to re-create the era and Shakespeare's milieu. Vance gives verve to the excellent writing. Occasional touches of foreign and regional accents add color. And he paces the text and copious historical and literary quotations perfectly. This is an audiobook that one wants never to end. Critic Reviews: "The detail is delicious. It is almost prodigal. The Lodger Shakespeare is a triumph of reconstruction." (The Times) "This modest, enchantng book brings us as close to the elusive lodger as we are ever likely to get." ( Sunday Times)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Report from the Interior Author: Paul Auster Narrator: Paul Auster Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins Language: English Release date: 11-19-13 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date. In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the interior charts Auster's moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life - and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the audiobook breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts. At once a story of the times - which makes it everyone's story - and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Reading Susan Sontag Subtitle: A Critical Introduction to Her Work Author: Carl Rollyson Narrator: Paul Bloede Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 04-04-16 Publisher: Carl Rollyson Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Rod Subtitle: The Autobiography Author: Rod Stewart Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 10-11-12 Publisher: Random House Audiobooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited autobiography of one of rock's true megastars. Rod Stewart (aka Rod The Mod and to a very select few, Dad) was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. He was never, as some stories later had it, a professional footballer or a gravedigger, though he did become a bit of a singer - and a fairly good one at that. Rod started out in the early 1960s, playing alongside acts like The Rolling Stones, before his distinctively raspy voice and natural onstage presence caught the eye of the iconic guitarist, Jeff Beck. An often-interesting two year stint with Becks group paved the way into the angst-inducing (for the world's hoteliers) five years with the Faces, whose offstage antics with alcohol, hotel rooms, and groupies have become the stuff of legend. And during all this, he found a spare moment to write "Maggie May", among a few others, and launch a solo career that has seen him sell in excess of 200 million records, be inducted into the Hall of Fame twice, and play the worlds largest ever concert. Not bad, as he says, for a bloke with a frog in his throat. And then, there is his not so private life: marriages, divorces and affairs with some of the worlds most beautiful women - Bond girls, movie stars and supermodels - a struggle with steroid dependency, and a brush with cancer which very nearly saw it all slip away. Rods is an incredible life, and here, thrillingly and for the first time, he tells the whole thing, leaving no knickers under the bed. Joyously entertaining and at times deeply moving, this is the remarkable story of a guy with one hell of a voice - and one hell of a head of hair.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Jack Kerouac Subtitle: A Few Nights on the Road with Jack Author: Deaver Brown Narrator: Deaver Brown Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 06-03-11 Publisher: Simply Media Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Before McDonald's and Holiday Inn, Jack was on the road with his friends, when interstate highways were a novelty and going coast to coast was just for fun. Jack was pre-Vietnam, more 1950s edgy than 1960s politically correct. He loved Keats and Eliot as he sang the praises of the Odes and "The Wasteland", bars and saloons, writers and barkeeps - all about equally, according to the author, who narrates about his short time with Jack on the road. Jack was open to all subjects, more a fan than critic, and didn't see the point in being critical. "If you don't like it, why bother?" Said Jack. The few nights detailed here relate to a Harvard College event honoring Jack. He went to high table at Lowell House, at Harvard, but clearly felt more comfortable in a South Boston style old hangout like Cronin's across the tracks... the MBTA tracks from Harvard, a 100 yards and a thousand miles. Jack takes a trip with his young rider, and the author, up to New York to see some of Dreiser's landmarks from An American Tragedy. They get to the Adirondack area, where the actual crime happened, and Jack talks about the little glove factory still abandoned on Lake Cayuga. True? The author doesn't know, but he did know there was a glove factory and years later he went to visit it. The author comments that many people doubted what Jack said. But upon closer inspection, found him to be truthful. Jack just had a way of saying things that made the conventional nervous. Good listening for readers and listeners, not academics.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Short Walk from Harrods Author: Dirk Bogarde Narrator: Dirk Bogarde Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 04-12-10 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 13 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: A Short Walk from Harrods is the sixth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography. In it, he pays tribute to the corner of Provence that was his home for over two decades, analyzes his sense of loss at 67 after the death of his life partner, and discusses coming to terms with living alone in London.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Collection of Letters Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Helen Johns Format: Unabridged Length: 47 mins Language: English Release date: 09-28-09 Publisher: CSA Word Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Helen Johns reads some fascinating early writings by Jane Austen from the fictionalised A Collection of Letters. A prolific letter writer herself, in this collection we see how the budding writer is experimenting, and starting to explore the medium as a literary convention. ©2009 CSA Word; (P)2009 CSA Word

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Joseph Haydn Subtitle: His Life and Works Author: Jeremy Siepmann Narrator: Jeremy Siepmann Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 03-19-09 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Symphonies, quartets, concertos and keyboard works poured from the pen of Joseph Haydn, making him one of the most important figures in classical music. Jeremy Siepmann tells the story of the man and his work in this lively autobiography, enhanced by numerous examples of the music itself, taken from the Naxos catalogue. There is no better programme with which to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's death. ©2009 Naxos Audiobooks; (P)2009 Naxos Audiobooks Editorial Reviews: Jeremy Siepmann leads a talented cast of narrators in this behind-the-scenes look at the great composer. Infusing Hayden's story with knowledge and affection, he recounts the musician's maturation from struggling artist to celebrated composer. Siepmann's sonorous delivery and perfect pacing create a picture-perfect portrait. He adopts a steady rhythm that draws the listener into this world of genius and creativity. As Siepmann uses his well-trained voice to weave the facts and anecdotes of Haydn's life, listeners will be entertained and educated by his and the other narrators' thoughtful rendering.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Finding Iris Chang Subtitle: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind Author: Paula Kamen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 11-02-07 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Long-time friend and confidante Paula Kamen reveals for the first time the private Iris behind the bold, international celebrity. She offers a tribute to the lost heroine while attempting to explain Iris' tragic psychological decline. Through letters, diaries, and her own memories and investigative journalism, Kamen fills in the surprising gaps in Chang's personal transformation, from awkward teen to world-class writer and lecturer, and, finally, into mental illness and paranoia. Finding Iris Chang is a portrait of a vulnerable woman who changed the world. Critic Reviews: "A rewardingly complex portrait of a driven and troubled woman." (Kirkus Reviews) "Expose[s] the unique genius and creativity of Chang [and] the far-reaching effects of her persistent social activism and compassion." (BookPage)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Dearest Jane Author: Roger Mortimer, Jane Torday Narrator: Joan Walker Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 10-09-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years. From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, Roger Mortimers missives are a touching and witty portrait of his life and relationships over the years. Dearest Jane begins with Rogers time as a young army officer in Egypt, and then as a POW in the Second World War, where his sense of humour endured despite the conditions. Jane accompanies her fathers letters with her own memories and anecdotes, as we meet familiar characters such as Nidnod, Lupin and Lumpy, and learn more about the extended family, friends and pets who leap from the pages of his letters.This is an arresting and extraordinary record, not only of Roger Mortimers life but also of the history of an entire family between 1960 and 1991. Sparkling with the dry wit for which Mortimers letters are famous, and accompanied by an affectionate personal portrait, this book will delight both old and new readers. Critic Reviews: "Jane Torday and her father are perfect companions, and this is a life in letters as never before - often hilarious, occasionally objectionable, ever engaging, original and always honest. This book is like an old-fashioned Fleet Street lunch, and you will rise from the table both light-headed and wonderfully indulged" (Simon Garfield, author of On The Map)"Jane Torday, though her book depends on the wit and wisdom of letters from her Dad, is a natural writer with a strong sense of narrative drive. As a portrait of a family - mother Nidnod, father Roger, siblings Lupin and Lumpy, it is sharply observed as well as memorably affectionate. Above all, it is Roger Mortimer who is the star of the show. His final request: 'I don't want a memorial service, just a quick fry up. Fabulous stuff." (Elisabeth Luard)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Matt Groening: From Spitballs to Springfield (Legends of Animation) Author: Jeff Lenburg Narrator: Charlie James Format: Unabridged Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 08-29-13 Publisher: Jeff Lenburg Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating The Simpsons, television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, The Simpsons launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight. At the time, Groening was already a successful cartoonist, whose Life in Hell comic strip appeared in underground newspapers and book collections. The Simpsons became a cultural phenomenon, and Groening's characters soon appeared in a wide range of products and venues. Groening went on to create the animated science-fiction series Futurama, launched a Simpsons-based publishing company called Bongo Comics, and produced The Simpsons Movie. Matt Groening: From Spitballs to Springfield describes the life and career of one of animation's most successful artists, known for his unique drawing style and quirky sense of humor. Check out all of the titles in the series.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Education of a British-Protected Child Subtitle: Essays Author: Chinua Achebe Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 11-10-09 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 17 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in the 17 beautifully written pieces contained in this collection. In "The Education of a British-Protected Child," Achebe gives us a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its "middle ground", recalling both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of colonial rule. In "African-American Visitations", we witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know "from whence he came". Politics and history figure in "What Is Nigeria to Me?" "Africa's Tarnished Name", and "Politics of the Politicians of Language." And Achebe's extraordinary family comes into view in "My Dad and Me" and "My Daughters." Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre. ©2009 Chinua Achebe; (P)2009 Tantor Critic Reviews: "Humane and carefully argued responses to events of recent years, coupled with a long look back at the African past." (Kirkus)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Johnny Cash Author: Robert Hilburn Narrator: Charles Pittard Format: Unabridged Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins Language: English Release date: 11-01-13 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: People don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. But no one has told the Man in Black's full story, until now. In Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical icon, whose colourful career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to his remarkable, brave and deeply moving 'Hurt' video, aged sixty-nine. As music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Hilburn knew Cash well throughout his life: he was the only music journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in 1968, and he interviewed Cash and his wife June Carter for the final time just months before their deaths in 2003. Hilburn's rich reporting shows the remarkable highs and deep lows that followed and haunted Cash in equal measure. A man of great faith and humbling addiction, Cash aimed for more than another hit for the jukebox; he wanted his music to lift people's spirits. Drawing upon his personal experience with Cash and a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer's inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of one of the most iconic figures in modern popular culture - not only a towering figure in country music, but also a seminal influence in rock, whose personal life was far more troubled, and whose musical and lyrical artistry much more profound, than even his most devoted fans ever realised.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Step Across This Line Subtitle: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002 Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Bamji Firdous Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs Language: English Release date: 05-22-07 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie offers incisive, often humorous takes on literature, culture, and world events in this New York Times Notable Book. In these stimulating pieces, Rushdie addresses a variety of subjects, including the death of the novel, India, soccer, and the Rolling Stones. ©2006 Salman Rushdie; (P)2007 Recorded Books Critic Reviews: Sometimes pensive, sometimes marvelously funny, always lucid essays, reviews, and occasional pieces by the renowned Anglo-Indian novelist. (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review) This book is full of so much that is relevant that the very word seems inadequate. (Los Angeles Times) The essays crackle with [Rushdies] enthusiasm, humor, and intelligence. (The Miami Herald)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Leonardo da Vinci Author: Sherwin Nuland Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 01-06-05 Publisher: Books on Tape Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 65 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren voice that so often lured the great artist into the arms of science, Leonardo's fascination with anatomy, first as the basis for his paintings and then as the crucial component in his aim to systematize all knowledge of nature. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland's Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time. Can't get enough of Leonardo's legacy? Check out our store devoted to all things . ©2000 Sherwin B. Nuland; (P)2001 Books on Tape, Inc. Critic Reviews: "Nuland's enthusiasm and knowledge make his story interesting and easy to read." (Seattle Times)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Mozart Author: Marcia Davenport Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 11-09-11 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had ever lived, every theatre where his works were first performed, and every library and museum where his manuscripts were then to be seen. In this eloquent work of historical reconstruction, Davenport lets her characters tell their own stories. She builds from Mozarts infancy toward the climactic meeting in 1787 of Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Casanova in Prague, when Don Giovanni was being written, to Mozarts tragically early death. The result is a biography of such commanding stature that it has remained unassailable since its publication in 1932. Critic Reviews: "Brings a great man to life again. (New York Times)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery Subtitle: Oxford Bookworms Library, True Stories, Stage 2 Author: John Escott Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr Language: English Release date: 12-14-10 Publisher: Oxford University Press Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 27 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: What does the name "Agatha Christie" mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a "whodunnit". "I'm reading an Agatha Christie," people say. "I'm not sure who the murderer is. I think it's." But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure?Was there a mystery in her life, too? Critic Reviews: "The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of storytelling." (David R. Hill, ELT Journal Review)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Natural Woman Author: Carole King Narrator: Carole King Format: Unabridged Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 04-10-12 Publisher: Hachette Audio UK Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Read by Carole King Includes exclusive bonus material: - a specially composed piano track - original instrumental pieces - a capella performances throughout A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist. From her marriage to Gerry Goffin, with whom she wrote dozens of songs that hit the charts, to her own achievements, notably with "Tapestry," which remained on the charts for more than six years, to her experiences as a mother, this memoir chronicles one of music's most successful and fascinating stars.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 'There Are Things I Want You to Know' about Stieg Larsson and Me Author: Eva Gabrielsson, Marie-Francoise Colombani, Linda Coverdale (translator) Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins Language: English Release date: 06-21-11 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 36 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story better than he can, and that is his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. This is her book. The keys to the "Stieg Larsson phenomenon" all lie with Stieg Larsson the man. No one knew him like Gabrielsson. Here, she tells the story of their 30-year romance; of Stieg's lifelong struggle to expose Sweden's neo-Nazis; of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, Expo, alive; of his difficult relationships with his immediate family; and of the joy and the relief he discovered writing the Millennium trilogy. Above all, this is a love story, and we come to understand, while listening to "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me, that if there was another secret besides Larsson's own imagination and convictions, it was his absolute love for his companion and her nurturing of their privacy and shared passions. The book is narrated as a series of short vignettes, with titles ranging from "Speaking of Coffee" and "Stieg's Journalistic Credo" to "Goodbyes" and "The Fourth Volume". Gabrielsson speaks with rare candor and dignity, inspired only by the truth as she knows it. "There Are Things I Want You to Know" about Stieg Larsson and Me is thus short and to the point, poignant in its account of two soulmates and the life they shared, and deeply insightful about the man everyone wants to know better and about whom so little is known. "I would have preferred to have never written this book. It speaks of Stieg, of our life together, and of my life after his death," writes Gabrielsson early in her book. It was written because she alone can tell his story. Critic Reviews: Ms. Gabrielsson puts Larssons often chaotic life into context. (The Independent, London)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The English Daughter Author: Maggie Wadey Narrator: Maureen O'Brien Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 02-24-17 Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: As a child, writer Maggie Wadey was aware her mother was different from her father and his family, and that the difference was do with her Irishness, but she knew nothing of her Tipperary background. Then, before she died, Agnes Kavanagh began to talk about the past. Gradually, Maggie began to piece together her mothers early life. But it was only after Agnes's death that she discovered another story - a life and a secret hidden in layers of silence. Critic Reviews: "A luminous act of love and memory". (Marina Warner) "So perceptively drawn we are taken immediately into the vivid reality of their lives." (Edward Fox) "A historical memoir that unfolds like a mystery -personal, universal and beautifully told." (Sadie Jones)

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: I Am Brian Wilson Subtitle: The genius behind the Beach Boys Author: Brian Wilson, Ben Greenman - contributor Narrator: Fred Berman Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 11-11-16 Publisher: Coronet Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing. As cofounder of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like 'In My Room', 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations' forever expanded the possibilities of pop songwriting. Derailed in the 1970s by mental illness, drug use, and the shifting fortunes of the band, Wilson came back again and again over the next few decades, surviving and - finally - thriving. Now, for the first time, he weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows. I Am Brian Wilson reveals as never before the man who fought his way back to stability and creative relevance, who became a mesmerizing live artist, who forced himself to reckon with his own complex legacy and completed 'Smile', the legendary unfinished Beach Boys record that had become synonymous with both his genius and its destabilization. Today Brian Wilson is older, calmer, filled with perspective and forgiveness. Whether he's talking about his childhood, his bandmates, or his own inner demons, Wilson's story, told in his own voice and in his own way, unforgettably illuminates the man behind the music, working through the turbulence and discord to achieve, at last, a new harmony.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lillian Hellman Subtitle: Her Life and Legend Author: Carl Rollyson Narrator: Colleen Patrick Format: Unabridged Length: 18 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 08-31-15 Publisher: Carl Rollyson Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Through diaries, letters, government files, and interviews, Carl Rollyson draws a vital and vibrant portrait of the life, the work, and the legend of Lillian Hellman: America's most controversial radical playwright. Rollyson explores the sources and backgrounds of her best-selling memoirs, the development of her politics, her successful screenwriting career, and her famous appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He provides entertaining and informative accounts of her feud with Mary McCarthy, and her many love affairs and surprising friendships. He also provides a provocative and compelling portrayal of this complex and brilliant woman, who was called everything from a "viper" and "a goddam liar" to "an empathetic genius with a highly original and penetrating mind." Near death, Hellman spoke of being blocked; this biography will show what got in her way.

Ascolta questo libro audio completo gratuitamente su https://hotaudiobook.com Titolo: John Lennon. Bio Rock Autore: Tommaso Labranca Narratore: div. Formato: Unabridged Durata: 59 mins Lingua: Italiano Data di pubblicazione: 12-01-10 Editore: GoodMood Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Riepilogo Editore: John Lennon è stato uno dei protagonisti di una delle più grandi rivoluzioni culturali di tutti i tempi: quella del rock & roll. Insieme a Paul, George e Ringo partì da Liverpool per conquistare il mondo. Dopo l'avvento dei Beatles niente fu più come prima, e non solo nel mondo della musica. Ma più di ogni altro Lennon ha affascinato intere generazioni per le sue scelte controcorrente, per il suo essere artista a dispetto di tutto e tutti, per la sua discussa relazione con Yoko Ono, per la cristallina ed indiscussa bellezza della sua musica. Tutto si è fermato troppo presto però: l'8 dicembre 1980 Mark David Chapman metteva fine alla vita di Lennon con cinque colpi di pistola a bruciapelo. Tommaso Labranca, in occasione del trentennale della morte del genio di Liverpool, ha voluto ripercorrere le tracce di un percorso artistico ed umano straordinario e, forse, irripetibile. ©2010 Good Mood; (P)2010 Tommaso Labranca

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes Subtitle: A Newspaper Editor's Journey through the World of Comics Author: George Lockwood Narrator: Bob Neufeld Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-14 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In this memoir, Lockwood draws upon his forty years in the newspaper industry as a reporter and editor, offering a unique glimpse into the world of newspaper cartoon strips. He details the production and promotion of countless comic strips, while also providing his own assessments of the most iconic cartoonists of the last half-century. The book is filled with fascinating anecdotes about his relationships with some of America's greatest cartoonists and the syndicate reps who sold their cartoon strips. Peanuts, Pogo, and Hobbes uses the story of one man's obsession with comic book heroes to give voice to a larger narrative about comic strips, their creators, the newspaper industry, and the era of American history that encompassed them all.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Bach Author: Darren Henley Narrator: Marin Alsop Format: Unabridged Length: 21 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-13 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: This is a story from the Famous Composers collection. Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music are told against the backdrop of some of their finest works, an ideal combination. Editorial Reviews: David Henley profiles the life and career of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach in this selection from his Famous Composers collection. Aimed at young listeners and novices alike, Henley crafts a gripping narrative of interesting tidbits from Bach's life that segues nicely into examples of Bach's work. The backstories behind certain pieces will be particularly illuminating. Marin Alsop keeps with Henley's easygoing tone with a casually informative tone that seems to revel in Bach's work. Her genial attitude is infectious, making this biography both fun and educational. Critic Reviews: 2005 Audie Award Winner, Original Work

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Laughter Is Sacred Space: The Not-so-Typical Journey of a Mennonite Actor Author: Ted Swartz Narrator: Ted Swartz Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins Language: English Release date: 02-26-13 Publisher: Herald Press Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Ted Swartz and his Ted & Company TheaterWorks team are known for blending Bible stories with comedy and poignancy, and pushing the envelope on issues of faith and social justice. But who is Ted Swartz? Follow along in this engaging memoir as Swartz finds his way as a middle child in an eastern Pennsylvania traditional Mennonite home to his early work in the family butcher shop. Journey with Ted through the decision of uprooting his young family to attend seminary and then embracing life as a writer and actor. Get a glimpse into the friendship that led to the formation of the popular acting duo Ted & Lee. This uniquely honest backstage tour of an artist's life and mind combines side-splitting reminiscences, heart-rending accounts of loss, and touching stories of restored faith and love. Swartz's engaging humor blends with his own stories of triumph and tragedy, and helps readers understand their own sense of place and how they're shaped by those around them.

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Noah Feldman with Jeffrey Toobin Subtitle: The Supreme Court Then and Now Author: Noah Feldman Narrator: Jeffrey Toobin Format: Original Recording Length: 1 hr and 22 mins Language: English Release date: 11-21-11 Publisher: The 92nd Street Y Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 16 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Noah Feldman discusses the the Supreme Courts record on individual rights, particularly Justice Anthony Kennedys, and asks: Can the health care bill be described as a violation of individual rights? Editorial Reviews: The most recent Obama Health Care Law has long been a topic of conversation. In this Live from the 92nd Street Y, Noah Telbin and Jeffrey Toobin discuss the Supreme Court's interpretation of that controversial and historic piece of legislation. Feldman is particularly concerned with the Supreme Court's interest in individual liberties. Toobin serves as a wonderful host, helping listeners relate to and understand difficult legal matters. Feldman's expertise is apparent, especially his thoughts about Justice Anthony Kennedy's position on the Court.