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  Rodgers and Hammerstein - Part 2

  Wink Martindale

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  The second part of our Hall of Fame spotlight on Rodgers and Hammerstein details the phenomenal success Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had as partners after joining forces in 1943.  Throughout their long career in theater, the pair helped to start the careers of many now famous singers, dancers and musicians.Narrator Wink Martindale interviewed the duo, who shared many details of their professional life. Hammerstein reveals his approach to writing and discusses his work on South Pacific, which broke new ground in musical theater. Rodgers explains how he uses the characters to understand what the mood of the music should sound like.

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  When Ordinary People Achieve...

  Jody Williams

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  Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams reflects that average people can unite to create a better world, in "When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things," her contribution to NPR's This I Believe series.  
  This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the thought that begins with the series title. The pieces that make up the program compel listeners to re-think not only what and how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others. 
  Featuring a star-studded list of contributors that includes John McCain, Isabel Allende, and Colin Powell, as well as pieces from the original 1950's series including Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson, the This I Believe collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer, a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island's parole board. The result is a stirring, funny and always provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of Americans whose beliefs, and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them, reveal the American spirit at its best.

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  Girl - My Childhood and the...

  Alona Frankel

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  “An impressionistic memoir of a Polish Jewish girl’s survival hiding as a Gentile in Nazi-occupied Poland . . . truly moving and bravely rendered.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review   Alona Frankel was just two years old when Germany invaded Poland. After a Polish carpenter agreed to hide her parents but not her, Alona’s parents desperately handed her over to a greedy woman who agreed to hide her only as long as they continued to send money. Isolated from her parents and living among pigs, horses, mice, and lice, Alona taught herself to read and drew on scraps of paper. The woman would send these drawings to Alona’s parents as proof that Alona was still alive. In time, the money ran out and Alona was tossed into her parents’ hiding place, at this point barely recognizing them.   After Poland’s liberation, Alona’s mother was admitted to a terminal hospital and Alona handed over to a wealthy, arrogant family of Jewish survivors who eventually cast her off to an orphanage. Despite these daily horrors and dangers surrounding her, Alona’s imagination could not be restrained. Faithful to the perspective of the heroine herself, Frankel, now a world-renowned children’s author and illustrator, reveals a little girl full of life in a terrible, evil world.   “A wonderful contribution to the canon of Holocaust literature—the story of a hidden child that is told with indelible images and tender words.” —Thane Rosenbaum, author of How Sweet It Is!

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  Coleridge Poems

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism. (Ack.Wikipedia) This audiobook has the following poems rendered by Dr.N.Ramani, a Professor in English and a well known academician from India. 
  Christabel	Constancy to an Ideal Object	Dejection: An Ode	The Eolian Harp	Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends	Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud	Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish	Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind	Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood	Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?	Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!	Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt	Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn	Fragment 9: The Netherlands	France: An Ode	Frost at Midnight	Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni	Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath	Kubla Khan	Love	Love's Apparition and	Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance	Lyrical Ballads (1798)	On Donne's Poem "To a Flea"	On Donne's Poetry	Something Childish, but Very Natural	The Good, Great Man	The Knight's Tomb	The Nightingale	The Pains of Sleep	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)	This Lime-tree Bower my Prison	To Asra	Work without Hope	Youth and Age

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  Trippin' Through the Oil Patch:...

  Gayle Raymond Lain

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  Each chapter of "Trippin' through the Oil Patch" is a story all by itself. But each story links with the next, as the book reveals the life of transient laborers in the Rocky Mountain oil fields during the 1940s and 50s. While war mounted and raged in Europe and the Pacific, oil field kids moved with their dads and moms to one oil patch and trailer camp after another, chasing black gold to fuel a nation at war. With each story, the narrator, Raymond, moves closer to the end of his oil field days, when, at the age of twelve, his dad is killed in an oil rig explosion. In Trippin', Gayle, whose childhood is the basis of this memoir, says, "I was afraid that I would forget my father. I would never speak with him again. I would never hear his voice. With these stories, I could keep talking with my dad. I could hold on to his presence until I could walk on alone. His stories saved me."

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  Two Crows Sorrow - Love and...

  Laura Churchill Duke

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  Two Crows Sorrow is about the life of Theresa McAuley Robinson, a woman who lived on Nova Scotia’s North Mountain at the turn of the century. This is the true story of Theresa’s love and devotion to her children and her farmland, which ultimately led to her demise. In May 1904, Theresa was found murdered and her farm burnt to the ground. Her second husband William Robinson was accused of the murder. Two Crows Sorrow follows Theresa’s life to her death, then William’s court trial to its dramatic conclusion. 

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