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  Gene Hackman: The Untold Story...

  Vines Graener

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  In this gripping audiobook, we dive deep into the life and career of Gene Hackman, one of Hollywood's most iconic and versatile actors. From his early years to becoming an Oscar-winning legend, Hackman’s journey is filled with incredible stories, breakthrough roles, and unforgettable moments that defined a generation of cinema. 
  Explore the untold stories behind his most famous roles, including his portrayal of unforgettable characters in classic films like The French Connection, Unforgiven, and The Conversation. Discover how Hackman revolutionized the Hollywood landscape with his gritty, authentic style, earning him multiple awards and a lasting place in film history. 
  This audiobook uncovers the highs and lows of Hackman’s legendary career, offering an exclusive look into the life of one of the most respected actors in the industry. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his work, Gene Hackman: The Untold Story is the ultimate celebration of his impact on film and his enduring legacy as an Oscar-winning legend. 
  Packed with insights, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and reflections on Hackman’s craft, this audiobook brings the fascinating world of Hollywood to life, providing listeners with a powerful tribute to a true cinematic legend.

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  The Purity of the Turf

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  Some people inherit money. Bertie Wooster inherits other people's trouble, neatly dressed in a perfectly tailored evening suit.
  In The Purity of the Turf, P. G. Wodehouse reminds us that true gentlemen with excellent manners and questionable judgment are uniquely capable of transforming a sleepy village holiday into a chaotic battlefield. When a rural school-treat becomes the backdrop for an amateur betting ring, Bertie willingly assumes the role of a master strategist. Predictably, the local bookmaker is three steps ahead, and the grand plans rapidly unravel. Fortunately, right when the situation threatens to become unmanageable, Jeeves drifts into the room to quietly steer the madness toward a highly satisfactory conclusion. 
  This is Wodehouse at his most playful. You come for the absurd premise, but you stay for the dry wit, the snappy banter, and the sheer joy of watching high-society optimism collapse under its own weight. It's sophisticated comedy that effortlessly hides its brilliance behind apparent nonsense.

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  Montaigne in Barn Boots - An...

  Michael Perry

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  The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne 
  “The journey began on a gurney,” writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scraps—including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow—Perry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two, went to college instead of kindergarten, worked for kings, and once had an audience with the pope. Perry “matriculated as a barn-booted bumpkin who still marks a second-place finish in the sixth-grade spelling bee as an intellectual pinnacle … and once said hello to Merle Haggard on a golf cart.” 
  Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher “ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard,” channeled by a Midwestern American writing “in a room above the garage overlooking a defunct pig pen.” Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen.

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  The Heartstrings of Harry

  Robin Knight

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  HARRY: Me, I'm just a simple guy living the simple life in Mulligan's Mill. I run the hardware store. No one here suspects I'm gay—least of all that I've been quietly in love with Dean Reeves for years. He's my best friend's son. I watched him grow up gentle and gifted, always strumming something on his guitar, lost in his music. But when he turned eighteen—when he stepped out of his backyard music studio, taller, broader, with something magnetic about him— I haven't been able to unsee it since. Now he's a real-life rock star, and he's coming back to town for a break. Just for a while, he says. 
   
   
   
  DEAN: I tell everyone I just need a break from LA—the noise, the pressure, the weird messages from that stalker. But the real reason I'm going back? Harry Dalton . . . my dad's best friend. He was always there when I was growing up, but after I turned eighteen, something shifted. I started noticing the way his forearms flexed when he lifted lumber, the way his laugh rumbled low in his chest. I've been trying to convince myself it's just a crush. That he'd never look twice at a kid like me, especially now that fame and fortune have left their dirty marks on me. But I still can't stop thinking about him. Coming home is supposed to be temporary. But if Harry looks at me like I'm not just some kid with a guitar . . . I don't think I'll ever want to leave again.

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  Bark to the Future

  Spencer Quinn

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  Spencer Quinn's Bark to the Future continues the adventurous New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls “without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available.” 
   
  When Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by a down-andout older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover  
  the man is a former teammate from his high school baseball team. Chet and Bernie take Rocket out for a good meal, and later, Bernie investigates Rocket’s past, trying to figure out what exactly went wrong. 
   
  Then, Rocket goes suspiciously missing. With his former teammate likely in danger, Bernie goes back to his old high school for answers, where much that he remembers turns out not to be true—and there are powerful and dangerous  
  people not happy with the questions Bernie is asking. 
   
  Bernie soon learns that he misunderstood much about his high school years—and now, Chet and Bernie are plunged into a dangerous case where the past isn’t dead and the future could be fatal.

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  The Award - A Novel

  Matthew Pearl

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  ""The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.""—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Tracy Flick Can't Win and Mrs. Fletcher 
  ""A propulsive and gripping novel about the literary world, ambition, deception and murder and the twisted corner where they all intersect. Matthew Pearl grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go.""—Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Lost Him 
  The author of Save Our Souls and The Dante Club makes his eagerly awaited return to fiction with this irreverent and propulsive novel about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene that turns deadly. 
  David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. 
  He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him. 
  Until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book. 
  Suddenly Silas is interested—if intensely spiteful. 
  But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices. 
  Fate intervenes—with shocking consequences. . . . 
  With the wit and psychological wisdom of The Plot and The Winner, The Award is a timely, razor-sharp, and unputdownable novel about writing groups, publishing, ambition, human foibles, and the dangerous things we will do to get ahead.

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