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  NPR Road Trips: Postcards from...

  NPR

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  With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you’ve come to expect from NPR.Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s demolished for high-rise development. NPR has correspondents all over the world. As listeners learn, most meet with friendliness and hospitality, even in the most out-of-the-way places.Includes “Adventurers Cross the Globe by Foot and Hand ”  “1970s Nostalgia Thrives in Katmandu” “Robot Jockeys Give Camel Racing a Modern Twist”  “Listener Sends ‘Postcard’ from Rio’s Carnival”  “A Walk Through Beijing’s Vanishing Hutongs” And more.

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  Loon - A Marine Story

  Jack McLean

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  "Kids like me didn't go to Vietnam", writes Jack McLean in his must-listen memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. "Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war", he writes. It didn't remain that way for long.A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean's story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service.Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.

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  Somewhat About Wine

  David Girard

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  Somewhat About Wine is a collection of newsletter entries and blogs composed for members of the David Girard Vineyard Wine Club.  Through these blogs the reader will learn about the trials and tribulations surrounding the owning, running, developing, and farming of a Northern California vineyard, thoughts and musings related to wine and vineyard cultivation, a little history, a little friendship, and a lot of fun.  Speckled with humor and written with Mr. Girard's singular wit, listeners will truly enjoy this collection and may just learn a little about wine in the process.

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  My Secret Life Vol 4 Chapter 13

  Dominic Crawford Collins

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  My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as 'the strangest book ever written'. Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.Now for the first time in the history of this infamous erotic masterpiece, film composer Dominic Crawford Collins is producing a fully scored narration of the complete unabridged text. More 'audiofilm' than audiobook, each chapter and scene has its own unique musical accompaniment, reflecting the author's changing emotional landscape and offering the listener a truly immersive erotic audio experience.Vol. 4 Chapter XIIIMany miscellaneous whorings. • Mr. McCabe. • The warehouse in the City • Tenants paying rent. • McCabe's jocosity. • Suggestions for getting bairns. • Mrs. ***. • The Scotch wife. • The four-roomed cottages. • Repairs needed. • At her cottage. • Easy conversation. • The steep staircase. • The bed stood upon. • The hole in the roof. • The hole in the flesh. • Carnal wants and weakness. • Against the bed, and on it. • Against the dresser. • An alarm. • The amour terminates. • Reflexions, regrets, and weakness. • On the sin of adultery. • On the power of lust.

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  An Amish Christmas and Family...

  Anna Schmidt, Patricia Davids

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  Two Amish stories of faith and second chances An Amish Christmas by Patricia DavidsWhen Karen Imhoff finds an unconscious man by the road, she doesn't hesitate to help. “John Doe” needs a place to stay, and soon thehandsome Englisher proves invaluable around the family farm. But as his presence begins towreak havoc with her emotions, can Karen remain true to her Amish upbringing while givingher heart to an outsider?Family Blessings by Anna SchmidtWhile her four stepchildren are thrilled with Jeremiah Troyer and his new ice creamshop, Pleasant Obermeier isn't so pleased. The handsome man is too much for a woman who'sbeen wounded by love. Jeremiah was convinced that family life wasn't for him. Yetsomething about the Obermeiers moves his heart. If he can win Pleasant's trust, then hemay gain the ultimate blessing: a lifetime of love.

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  In My DNA - My Career...

  Lindsey Wade

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  In 1986, a young girl in Tacoma, Washington, Jennifer Bastian, went out for a bike ride in a local park and never came home. Later her body was found, mutilated and lifeless, but the case went cold, and Jennifer's killer was free.The senseless killing of an innocent girl left an indelible black cloud over Tacoma for three decades and was seared into the memory of young Lindsey Wade, also from Tacoma, who went on to become the detective who would crack the case.Horrifying crimes against women and girls motivated Wade's twenty-one-year law enforcement career and ignited her relentless pursuit of justice for victims.Journey with Detective Wade as she investigates shocking sex crimes and homicides in the Tacoma area, where she has been crucial in bringing new DNA evidence into each cold case. From serial rapists to cold-blooded killers, Wade never backs down from the challenges these investigations present—even adding Ted Bundy's DNA to the national database. At the heart of every lead and DNA test throughout the book, Lindsey's desire to find Jennifer Bastian's murderer never relents.

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