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  Combat Love - A Story of Leaving...

  Alisyn Camerota

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  CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota's memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves courtesy of a local punk rock band named Shrapnel and their diehard fans. Combat Love chronicles her near-misses and misadventures at clubs like CBGB and Max's Kansas City, coupled with the sex, drugs, and punk rock of 1980s New Jersey. By the time she leaves home at sixteen, it feels like home had left her long ago. 
   
    
   
  Combat Love is also the story of two women, mother and daughter, trying to forge their own paths and independence, and find their own happiness, success, and wholeness. Camerota's story searches for the line between shelter and risk, nurture and neglect, parenting and personal freedom. What are we willing to sacrifice for self-actualization and happiness? What if the answer is your mother, or your daughter? 
   
    
   
  The two-time Emmy-award-winning Camerota retraces her steps down an often gritty path toward her dream of becoming a journalist. At times heartbreaking and pulse-pounding, Combat Love is an inspiration for anyone who's ever searched for that elusive place called home.

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  La La Land - Oxford Guides to...

  Hannah Lewis

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  In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives listeners fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the 2016 film musical La La Land. Directed by Damien Chazelle with music by Justin Hurwitz, the film tells the story of a romance between an aspiring actress and jazz pianist as the two pursue their dreams in Los Angeles. It uses a vintage form to tell a modern story and its blend of nostalgia and realism made it an instant classic even as it prompted a range of critical and audience responses. Drawing on extensive personal interviews with director Damien Chazelle, composer Justin Hurwitz, choreographer Mandy Moore, and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the book explores La La Land's aesthetic approach to the film musical genre, particularly its engagement with and subversion of the classic Hollywood musical's stylistic and narrative expectations. 
   
   
   
  Lewis offers audiences ways of listening to the film's depiction of jazz, focusing especially on how race and genre intersect in its narrative. She also reveals new insights into the film's reception, showing how the critical response from its premiere to its place at the Academy Awards reflected broader cultural expectations and understandings of the film musical and its continued appeal for twenty-first century audiences.

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  Cratchit Christmas A (Dramatized)

  Jason Markiewitz

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  Markiewitz Audioworks is proud to present "A Cratchit Christmas," a full cast audio dramatization based upon the 1843 story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.  In this original script, an international cast of voice actors, a Victorian soundscape and sound effects, and a beautiful Christmassy score, serve to bring you a rendition of this tale you've never heard before! 
  The popularity of "A Christmas Carol" has induced more than 200 movies and scores of other productions across the media spectrum.  In this full-cast audio drama, we take the framework from the original story and follow the Cratchits through the same timeframe where Scrooge is changed by the spirits.  With a careful and intentional blending of the original story with new dialogue the listeners will be given a fresh look at the Cratchit family during a difficult, but hopeful Christmas season.   
  Cast: 
  Marc Zakian as Bob Cratchit 
  Rachel Esposti as Emily Cratchit 
  Marc Biagi as Ebenezer Scrooge 
  Rigby Dehnart as Tiny Tim 
  Gabi King as Martha Cratchit 
  David Hilder as Peter Cratchit 
  Bethany Baldwin as Belinda Cratchit 
  Rainey Mangan as Lucy Cratchit 
  Rose Beasley as Matthew Cratchit 
  Brian Jeffords as the Poulterer 
  Ian Lahlum as the Pastor 
  Jonathan Cooke as the Gentlemen 
  Townspeople: 
  Bethany Baldwin, Rachel Esposti, Sharon Grunwald, David Hilder, & Jason Markiewitz 
  Carolers: 
  Bethany Baldwin, Alicia Hansen, David Hilder, Gabi King, Tanya Rich, & Dominic Treis 
  Crew: 
  Cover Artist: Jon Markiewitz 
  Composer: Ross Bernhardt 
  Additional Music: Douglas Grunwald 
  Script Consultant: Alicia Hansen 
  Sound Design Consultant: Jonathan Cooke 
  Asst. Casting Director: Rachel Pulliam 
  Director/Producer/Sound Design/Script: Jason Markiewitz 
  A Cratchit Christmas is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production. 
  (C) 2024 Jason Markiewitz (P) 2024 Markiewitz Audioworks 
  (C) 2024 Jason Markiewitz (P) 2024 Markiewitz Audioworks

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  Your Thought

  Mitansh

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  “Believe you can and you're halfway there. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” “Opportunities don't happen

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  Raw Black & Blue

  Shantre Pinkney

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  Raw, Black and Blue is a fictional love story told through the lens and journals of Tamia, a photographer navigating her relationships and mental health when she returns to her childhood home.

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  Fantasies of Nina Simone

  Jordan Alexander Stein

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  Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries. With her covers of George Harrison, the Bee Gees, Bob Dylan, and others, Simone explored and claimed the power and perspective that come with race and gender privilege. Looking at examples from Simone's four-decade genre-bending career—from songbook standards, jazz, and pop to folk, junkanoo, and reggae—and at her work's many uptakes and afterlives, Stein mobilizes the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to build a black feminist history with and for this multifaceted performing artist.

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