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  Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his "blunt, brilliantly crafted prose" (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the United States and France. 
   
   
   
  With Big Red, Charyn reimagines the life of one of America's most enduring icons, "Gilda" herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red tresses and hypnotic dancing graced the silver screen over sixty times in her nearly forty-year career. The quintessential movie star of the 1940s, Hayworth has long been objectified as a sex symbol, pin-up girl, and so-called Love Goddess. Here Charyn, channeling the ghosts of a buried past, finally lifts the veils that have long enshrouded Hayworth, evoking her emotional complexity—her passions, her pain, and her inner turmoil. 
   
   
   
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  Golden Hell

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  American mining engineer Captain Humbert Reynolds has got a bad case of gold fever. His search has brought him halfway around the world, to the Gobi desert, where he lands in a Golden Hell— a mountain of horrors run by an unspeakably evil gang. Now he may find that instead of snatching the ultimate prize he will have to pay the ultimate price. Join the race and feel the heat of gold fever as the audio version of Golden Hell leads you into a mountain of unimaginable danger and unexpected twists and turns.

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  The Street of the First Shell

  Robert W. Chambers

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris is starving. Through the bitter winter of 1870, as Prussian guns ring the besieged city and bohemian artists share what little they have, the American painter Jack Trent clings to one warmth the cold cannot reach — his young wife Sylvia. Then a secret from her past surfaces, and jealousy drives him from their garret into the chaos of a desperate sortie, where fog-shrouded battlefields swallow men whole. But it is only when the first shell screams down into the Latin Quarter that Trent learns what he truly stands to lose — and whether he can reach her before the war reaches their door.

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  Time Travels of Arabella and Tom...

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  Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in a peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her as she travels, sometimes with her younger brother, back through time and history. 
  When visiting a public house in the English village of Ombersley with her parents and brother, she suddenly finds herself transported back in time to 1651 during the reign of King Charles II and his escape after the battle of Worcester. 
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  A Quilt for Christmas

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  It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Conferedates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war, and she finds solace and camaraderie amongst the women of her quilting group. And when she is asked to help hide an escaped slave, she must decide for herself what is right, and who can she can count on to help her.

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  Anne of the Island

  L M Montgomery

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  As her childhood friends get married and move away, Anne Shirley leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. Priscilla Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there, too. But she feels lonely and out of place. It isn't long before she makes new friends though, one of whom is rich, handsome Roy Gardner, whose attentions to Anne make Gilbert very jealous... 
   
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