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  Skirts - Fashioning Modern...

  Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

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  In a sparkling social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses.While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured skirts. Suffragists and soldiers marched in skirts; the heroines of the Civil Rights Movement took a stand in skirts. As women made strides towards equality in the vote, the workforce, and the world at large, their wardrobes evolved with them.Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell's Skirts looks at the history of twentieth-century womenswear through the lens of game-changing styles like the little black dress and the Bar Suit, as well as more obscure innovations like the Taxi dress or the Pop-Over dress, which came with a matching potholder. These influential garments illuminate the times in which they were first worn—and the women who wore them—while continuing to shape contemporary fashion and even opening the door for a genderfluid future of skirts. At once an authoritative work of history and a delightfully entertaining romp through decades of fashion, Skirts charts the changing fortunes, freedoms, and aspirations of women themselves.

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  Prairie Home Companion A: The...

  Garrison Keillor

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  Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all—the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon."Contents: Hello LoveLove's Old Sweet SongGarrison Talks of LeavingTell Me WhyJitterbug WaltzThe Storms Are on the Ocean Powdermilk Biscuit Spot How Can I Keep from Singing? Songs of PartingGreetings Roy Blount PoemI'll See You in My Dreams Brownie and PeteSpring Poem/Crow River Waltz Buster the Show Dog Oh SusannaAmerica the BeautifulAdventures in ParadiseAloha OeIntermission MedleyStars & Stripes ForeverPut on Your Old Grey Bonnet Meet Me in St. LouisThe Sons of Knute Fishing MarchNews From Lake WobegonSleep Walk, Eriskay Love LiltTill ThenThe Minstrel Show Hawaii Aloha Fool Such as I One More SpringTill We Meet AgainSong of the Exiles

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  National Velvet - Adapted from...

  Mr Punch

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  Mr Punch Presents: NATIONAL VELVET, telling the story of Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), the idealistic English farm girl with a passion for horses, who wins the spirited steed ‘Pie’ in the local town lottery. Her infectious enthusiasm encourages the embittered jockey Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) to train the horse ‘Pie’ for the Grand National - England's greatest racing event. Recreated for radio with the original stars. 
   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. 
    
  Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 
    
  "These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves." Hollywood Movie Memories 
    
  "This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners." Talking Business 
    
  "A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection." Audio World

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  Paranormal State - My Journey...

  Stefan Petrucha, Ryan Buell

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  Paranormal State: My Journey Into the Unknown is the official companion book to A&E’s hit series. 
   
  On every episode of Paranormal State, Ryan Buell and his team of investigators delve deep into the mysterious world of ghosts, demonic disturbances, and sixth-sense sightings that shadows our everyday reality. Now, in this guide to the series, Buell takes fans one step further, revealing the secrets of the show’s most intense cases—as well as some that were never broadcast—and the shocking, never-before-told story of his own brush with the supernatural—the otherworldly experience that first inspired him to found the Paranormal Research Society. 
   
  And with each case of unexplained phenomena, Ryan shares how the events forced him to confront his own beliefs, the workings of his rational mind, and the very nature of reality.

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  Whistler The: Brotherly Hate

  Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter

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  Visiting hours were over and the Jeffrey Long museum in San Francisco was quiet. In the private office of the owner Jeffrey sat at his desk staring at the note in his hand; a note that was damp with his own perspiration. The hands trembled, as there was a tight nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach, symptoms of terror. It had all started three months ago when Jeffrey Long had received the first envelope when in Cairo. Then followed days and weeks of mounting fear because each Saturday thereafter, like a gentle stabbing before the final thrust, came an identical note and the message was always the same, “If you’ve killed Estelle you will die on the anniversary of her death.” And tomorrow, Sunday the 17th, is the anniversary of Estelle’s death…

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  Gordon Jenkins

  Wink Martindale

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  Gordon Jenkins arranged for legendary musicians, recorded a dozen hit singles including “P.S. I Love You” and “Blue Prelude” and a host of other accomplishments in the world of music.  The arranger, composer and pianist was influential throughout the 40s and 50s. Despite his many musical talents, Jenkins discusses his desire but unfortunate inability to sing. In a conversation with host Wink Martindale, Jenkins talks about his expansive musical work, accomplished career and focusing on writing well versus writing to get rich.

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