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  Loved and Wanted - A Memoir of...

  Christa Parravani

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  This program is read by the author.“Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in all its gothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.” —Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Three WomenA stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir HerChrista Parravani was forty years old, in a troubled marriage, and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. She and her family were living in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she had taken a professorial position at the local university.Haunted by a childhood steeped in poverty and violence and by young adult years rocked by the tragic death of her identical twin sister, Christa hoped her professor’s salary and healthcare might set her and her young family on a safe and steady path. Instead, one year after the birth of her second child, Christa found herself pregnant again. Six weeks into the pregnancy, she requested an abortion. And in the weeks, then months, that followed, nurses obfuscated and doctors refused outright or feared being found out to the point of, ultimately, becoming unavailable to provide Christa with reproductive choice.By the time Christa understood that she would need to leave West Virginia to obtain a safe, legal abortion, she’d run out of time. She had failed to imagine that she might not have access to reproductive choice in the United States until it was too late for her, her pregnancy too far along.So she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Keats. And another frightening education began: available healthcare was dangerously inadequate to her newborn son’s needs; indeed, environmental degradations and poor healthcare endangered Christa’s older children as well.Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman’s love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children’s lives.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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  Whose Story Is This? - Old...

  Rebecca Solnit

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  Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from “the voice of the resistance,” the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me (The New York Times Magazine).   Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what’s emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.  Praise for Rebecca Solnit and her essays   “Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic   “In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit’s writing is a forceful corrective. Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age.” —The Guardian   “Solnit’s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change.” —Kirkus Reviews   “Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle   “Rebecca Solnit reasserts herself here as one of the most astute cultural critics in progressive discourse.” —Publishers Weekly   “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org

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  Albert Einstein: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  ALBERT EINSTEIN: BOOK OF QUOTES-ALBERT EINSTEIN: BOOK OF QUOTES Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together the two pillars of modern physics. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. His intellectual achievements and originality resulted in "Einstein" becoming synonymous with "genius".-QUOTES SAMPLES“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”—“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”—“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”—“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”—“Never memorize something that you can look up.”—“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”—“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

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  Finn Studies Spanish

  Finn Briscoe

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  Finn just wants to communicate with the señoritas but gets a lot more in the bargain. In small towns set in splendor, whether in the mountains or by the sea, he is blessed with the friendship and hospitality of the Mexican people: honest, simple, and decent.

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  Billie Bonnie: Bloodletter

  Morton Fine, David Friedkin

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  The story of the Wild West's quickest, and youngest, sharpshooter.Hosted by: William Windom.

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  After Party - Finding the Path...

  Drew Charles

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  A memoir of a husband and father’s recovery from alcohol and drugs reveals how being alcohol-free has made his life richer.  Many people struggle with substance abuse in the shadows feeling ashamed, alone, and inadequate. You are not alone. Many of us keep up appearances while at the same time kicking ourselves every time we stumble into bed drunk out of our minds. Many of us say, “never again,” only to drink again at 5:00pm. You are not alone. There is a way out of this. After Party is the story of how one person, Drew Charles, dug his way out of the spiral of drug and alcohol excess. While doing so, he discovered that sobriety is not the impossibly boring state of living so many of us fear but is filled with joy and excitement in ways we can’t predict when we are stuck in the loop of drinking and drug taking. After Party is the honest account of Drew’s first year of sobriety, how he did it, and more importantly, why he did it. Drew’s hope is that anyone who battles with alcohol and drugs, or just feels curious about sobriety, can take solace in knowing that life not only exists beyond alcohol, but that it sings with a clarity and depth of emotion many of us would never have thought possible.

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