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  Radio: One Woman's Family in War...

  Alice H. Green, Peter H. Green

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  This eyewitness account of World War II social history, women's progress, and the Golden Years of Radio are woven into one woman's humorous and poignant autobiography of her family struggles and her attempts to fulfill her creative dreams.
  
  "He loved me, he treasured me, and he pampered me - and then he left me for the Marines." "He finally had to admit.... that I was his equal." -Alice Green
  
  World War II was a tipping point for social change in America. With their men at war, 19 million women joined the work force. Radio, the first instantaneous mass medium, provided daytime serial drama, entertainment and news, including pronouncements of world leaders and terrifying war reports, as President Roosevelt used the new medium to rally the nation to arms and win the war.
  
  Alice Green's lost and recently found eyewitness accounts of her childhood, her own war, the Golden Years of Radio, and the postwar housing shortage, are told from the light-hearted viewpoint of the shy, youngest child, who learns she can make even the stormy and outrageous characters in her own family laugh. With a little help from her son, who (just barely) lived to finish it, her story stands for unsung American women in war and survives as Alice's triumph.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Fun Stories For Your Drive To Work

  R. Scott Murphy

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  Your commute stinks. Your job's a mess. You didn't win Powerball. Here's help!
  
  Get the first audio-book in the humorous Fun Stories series from award-winning writer R. Scott Murphy. Inspired by Friends, Seinfeld, The Office, Saturday Night Live, and The Far Side, the Fun Stories series offers amusing audiobooks to help lighten your day.
  
  Part storyteller, part game show host, part DJ, part madcap tour guide, Murphy shares embarrassing work stories, conducts crazy countdowns, sets out on silly Google safaris, and invites your participation through his interactive storytelling game called mental kickball. An accomplished radio and TV personality, game show producer, author, and four-time winner of the Late Show with David Letterman Top 10 List contest, Murphy takes random fun to the next level.
  
  Sample fun:
  
  Top-five theater: Count down the top five shamefully suggestive city names.
  Mental kickball survey: Is Starbucks more popular than deodorant in your office?
  Fun school: Turn an uneasy meeting with a man peeing in the alley into a valuable life lesson.
  Commuter empowerment: Learn the best ways to make fun of other motorists and give clown commuter awards.
  Uplifting adventure: How Chick-fil-A makes Scott feel like Leonardo DiCaprio.
  In a world of superheroes: Proof positive that Scott is the freakin' Michael Phelps of Googling.
  Secret office tips: How to successfully plant decoy food in your work refrigerator.
  
  Your average daily commute now clocks in at a record 52 minutes (Census Bureau). Your total yearly commute time is now more than nine days. Scott says that’s longer than some celebrity marriages. You deserve more smiles. Pick up Fun Stories for Your Drive to Work.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Dead Catch

  L. D. Knorr

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  Retirement is the perfect time to travel the country, enjoy the grandkids—and solve some murders . . .   Retired robbery/homicide detective Hank Moran and his wife, Helen, are off on another adventure darting around the country in their motorhome. They’d like to make a stop in Amish country—just a little detour on their way to the White House, where they’ve been invited for dinner with the president as well as the senator whose life Hank recently saved.   But most of all they look forward to spending time with their grandson Chip, and taking him on a pleasant weekend fishing trip to a Louisiana state park. But Chip hooks into something a bit more interesting than a five-pound bass . . .

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  Comrades

  Charlie Weaver Rolfe

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  Seven stories or not-quite stories to brighten up your day, covering the themes of failure at work, failure in love, failure of self, catastrophic failure of society, and death by alcohol abuse.

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  Tiffany Street - A Novel

  Jerome Weidman

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  Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer’s sonThough his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous—not with a mistress, but with one of the city’s finest doctors. Kramer plans to enlist him in a noble purpose: keeping his son out of Vietnam. The doctor won’t provide this service to just anyone, but he and Benny have a mutual friend in the incomparable Sebastian Roon. Benny and Seb have been friends since the Depression, when they shared countless adventures across New York’s Lower East Side. Now Benny’s counting on that friendship to ensure the same life of endless possibilities for his son.This ebook features a foreword by Alistair Cooke.

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  Broken (in the best possible way)

  Jenny Lawson

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  "Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel...Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful message: Depression and anxiety suck, but we can rise above them." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable audiobook filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.*This program includes an audio-exclusive bonus chapter*As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the bests possible way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it. From the business ideas that she wants to pitch to Shark Tank to the reason why Jenny can never go back to the post office, Broken leaves nothing to the imagination in the most satisfying way. And of course, Jenny’s long-suffering husband Victor—the Ricky to Jenny’s Lucille Ball—is present throughout.A treat for Jenny Lawson’s already existing fans, and destined to convert new ones, Broken is a beacon of hope and a wellspring of laughter when we all need it most.  A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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