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  Extended interview with Elvis...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Jeffrey Brown speaks with musician Elvis Costello about how his approach to recording albums has evolved over three decades.

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  Yield of Dreams - The Keys to...

  Charlie Epstein

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  In his latest book bestselling author, experienced financial services consultant, and actor Charlie Epstein tells his story from the beginning. From his earliest days as a class clown all the way to his 2022 performance of his one-man show, Yield of Dreams, Charlie gives readers a peak behind the curtain and inspires them to make their wishes come true. Through his triumphs, stumbles, and recoveries, Charlie presents a life story that will encourage anyone to face one hurdle at a time and push through to follow their dreams. With humor and wit Charlie reflects on the past while dispensing advice to anyone hoping to take control of their financial future.

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  Babes Booze & Biceps

  Paul C Slayback

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  An impressive follow-up to Slayback’s (Boys, Bumps & Blood, 2013) debut memoir. 
  The author picks up right where his first autobiography left off, in the fall of 1952. At the age of 14, he was shuttled from Duluth, Minnesota, to Lansing, Michigan, while his father headed to Florida. Such trips had been part of their regular routine ever since the author’s mother died; this time, he was left in the care of his married older sister, Lorna. Yet as heartbreaking as it was for the author to hear his father abruptly tell him to “learn to be happy on your own,” it hardly sets the tone for the remainder of the memoir. Instead, the author was resilient, throwing himself into a quest for happiness and contentment; he immersed himself in archery, bodybuilding, and bow-hunting, among other things. His diligence with schoolwork eventually allowed him to go to college. There, he enjoyed, for a short time, pole vaulting, spent productive time on a horse ranch, and met a steady procession of women. 
   This improved effort is sure to delight listeners of heartfelt, folksy autobiographies. Slayback writes with sincerity, imparting vignettes from his life with urgency, as if committing them to paper might relieve the pain or sorrow he encountered in his early youth. His love of Michigan particularly shines through (“Fall in Michigan is football season... In every city, town, or village, it’s in the air, the fresh, brisk, warm, sunny air of day, coupled with the slight bite of cool air in the evening.”). He just as clearly describes his time spent learning to rope calves in a rodeo as he does a spicy boat trip to Cuba. The memoir’s cheeky title, though, belies the emotional, introspective landscape of the author’s life. Overall, Slayback relates his adventuresome life with gusto and reflection. 
  A delightful second memoir that’s more engaging and contemplative than the first.

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  Great Women Fiction Writers

  Edith Nesbit, Katherine...

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  An intriguing collection of short stories by some of the greatest women fiction writers of the last century.•The Lifted Veil – George Eliot •Miss Brill – Katherine Mansfield •The Fly – Katherine Mansfield •The Jew’s Beech Tree – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff •The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman •Mansize in Marble – Edith Nesbit

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  The Fame of CS Lewis - A...

  Stephanie L. Derrick

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  C. S. Lewis, long renowned for his children's books as well as his Christian apologetics, has been the subject of wide interest since he first stepped-up to the BBC's microphone during the Second World War.Until now, however, the reasons why this medievalist began writing books for a popular audience, and why these books have continued to be so popular, had not been fully explored. In fact Lewis, who once described himself as by nature an 'extreme anarchist', was a critical controversialist in his time-and not to everyone's liking. Yet, somehow, Lewis's books directed at children and middlebrow Christians have continued to resonate in the decades since his death in 1963. Stephanie L. Derrick considers why this is the case, and why it is more true in America than in Lewis's home-country of Britain.The story of C. S. Lewis's fame is one that takes us from his childhood in Edwardian Belfast, to the height of international conflict during the 1940s, to the rapid expansion of the paperback market, and on to readers' experiences in the 1980s and 1990s, and, finally, to London in November 2013, where Lewis was honoured with a stone in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Derrick shows that, in fact, the author himself was only one actor among many shaping a multi-faceted image.The Fame of C. S. Lewis is the most comprehensive account of Lewis's popularity to date, drawing on a wealth of fresh material and with much to interest scholars and C. S. Lewis admirers alike.

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  Why Marry?

  Jesse Lynch Williams

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  Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage is the ultimate sacredness of a relationship or will she hold to her perception that marriage is the basis of separating two lovers."Why Marry?" won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast:Narrator- Elizabeth KlettJesse Lynch Williams - Elizabeth KlettA most estimable lady - EzwaBachelor's niece - Diana MajlingerJEAN, the host's younger sister, who has been brought up to be married and nothing else - Arielle LipshawREX, an unmarried neighbor, who has not been brought up to be anything but rich - John FrickerLUCY, the hostess, who is trying her best to be "just an old-fashioned wife" in a new-fashioned home - KatineUNCLE EVERETT, a Judge, who belongs to the older generation and yet understands the new—and believes in divorce - Algy PugCOUSIN THEODORE, a clergyman and yet a human being, who believes in everything—except divorce - SamanemJOHN, who owns the house and almost every one in it—and does not believe in divorce - Marty KrisHELEN, the host's other sister, whom every one wants to marry, but who doesn't want to marry any one - AvailleERNEST, a scientist, who believes in neither divorce nor marriage but makes a great discovery - Matthew ReeceTHE BUTLER - David LawrenceAudio edited by Linette Geisel

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