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  NPR Favorite Driveway Moments -...

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  Hosts and listeners select their favorite stories from the National Public Radio archives, celebrating life, love, hope—and cookies.This eclectic collection gathers all-time “driveway moment” favorites, including some suggested by listeners themselves.These literate, intelligent, profoundly touching stories are worth hearing over and over again, and now you don’t have to stay in your car. What is a Driveway MomentSM? Maybe it’s happened to you as it has to countless others. . . . You’re driving home, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself in your driveway (or parking space or parking garage). Rather than turn the radio off, you stay in your car to hear the piece to the end. It’s a Driveway Moment. The NPR Driveway Moments Series collects these “best of” stories so that you are never more than a “play” away from a Driveway Moment.Contents:Introduction by Renée MontagneA Daughter’s Dance Brings Dad JoyRobert Krulwich and the 5-Dollar BillComplexities of Modern Love in the Digital AgeKathy Griffin’s Life: All D-List, Even This InterviewMurals Depict Power of Law and JusticeFormer KKK Member Converts to JudaismGrowing Up, Aging Out: The End of Foster CareThis I Believe: Stray Cat Interrupts Tough Prison CultureSarajevo PetsOn September 11, Paper Memories Fell From SkyBreaking the Color BarrierStoryCorps: Launching a Life with $10 and a DreamCookie Monster Visits NPRA ‘Great Rescue’ in Heavy TrafficStoryCorps: Andes Or Bust: An In-Flight Wardrobe MalfunctionWilliam Wegman’s WeimaranersA Big Ballgame for a Small TownHeartbreaking Reports from a Devastated CityRe-creating Afghanistan: Returning to Istalif

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  The Essential HBO Reader

  Jeffrey P. Jones, Gary R. Edgerton

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  Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: “Recommended.” —Choice 
   
  The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television—and the leading force in cable programming. 
   
  Over decades, it’s grown from a domestic movie channel to an international powerhouse with a presence in over seventy countries. It is now a full-service content provider with a distinctive brand of original programming, famed for such landmark shows as The Sopranos and Sex and the City. It’s brought us Six Feet Under and The Wire, Band of Brothers and Angels in America, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Def Comedy Jam, Inside the NFL and Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Taxicab Confessions and Autopsy, and multiple Oscar-winning documentaries. 
   
  The Essential HBO Reader brings together an accomplished group of scholars to explain how HBO’s programming transformed the world of television and popular culture, and provides a comprehensive and compelling examination of HBO’s development into the prototypical entertainment corporation of the twenty-first century. 
   
  “An important assessment of the original programming HBO has created in the past few decades?how these programs are derived and what impact they have had.” —Choice 
   
  “A thorough treatment of HBO’s programming . . . a useful addition to a growing number of books about American television in the ‘post-network’ era.” —American Studies

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  The Great Movies IV

  Roger Ebert

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  Essays from the influential and beloved film critic: “No one has done as much as Ebert to connect the creators of movies with their consumers.”—Richard Corliss, Time   Over more than four decades, Roger Ebert built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel, and later Richard Roeper, about the movies they loved and loathed. But Ebert’s wisdom went well beyond a mere thumbs up or thumbs down.  The Great Movies IV is the fourth and final collection of Roger Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the silent era to the recent past. From films like The Cabinet of Caligari and Viridiana that have been considered canonical for decades, to movies only recently recognized as masterpieces, to Superman, The Big Lebowski, and Pink Floyd: The Wall, the pieces gathered here demonstrate the critical acumen seen in Ebert’s daily reviews and the more reflective and wide-ranging considerations that the longer format allowed him to offer.   Also included are an insightful foreword by film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, editor-in-chief of the official Roger Ebert website, and a touching introduction by Chaz Ebert. A fitting capstone to a truly remarkable career, The Great Movies IV will introduce newcomers to some of the most exceptional movies ever made, while revealing new insights to connoisseurs.

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  Monet's Palate Cookbook - The...

  Aileen Bordman, Derek Fell

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  Take a culinary journey in Monet’s footsteps with this book featuring recipes and photographs from his bucolic Normandy home—forward by Meryl Streep.  Monet's Palate Cookbook brings to life Claude Monet's beloved kitchen garden at his exquisite home in Giverny, France. With sixty recipes drawn from Giverny’s farm-to-table tradition and the artist’s own cooking journals, the book explores Monet’s passion for gardening and includes detailed information about the herbs and vegetables he grew.   On his two-acre vegetable garden, Monet grew zucchini, cherry tomatoes, radishes, pearl onions, brussels sprouts, asparagus, rosemary and mint. A few of the recipes are of French origin, such as the famous Normandy apple tart. Others are from locations abroad where he traveled, such as the Savoy Hotel in London where Monet acquired their recipe for Yorkshire pudding.   Capturing Monet's lifestyle, Monet’s Palate Cookbook includes beautiful photographs by Steven Rothfeld, descriptions of the house interiors and gardens, French entertaining tips, and more.

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  101 Amazing Facts about Squid Game

  Merlin Mill

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  Are you a fan of the Netflix smash hit series Squid Game? Do you want to find out more about the show, its creator, the actors, sets and much more? If, like many others, the show has captivated your attention and you want to indulge yourself even more, this awesome guide is the perfect audiobook to add to your collection.With chapters covering everything from the participants and the guards to the costumes, production information and even some foreshadowing secrets, you’re sure to learn loads about the series that has already become Netflix’s most viewed show of all time. Whether you’d like to amaze your friends with information they didn’t know, or you simply want all that knowledge for yourself, 101 Amazing Facts about Squid Game is an awesome listen for fans and newbies alike!

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  Motorcycles Minotaurs & Banjos -...

  Steven Sherrill

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  This book is about twenty-one days, and sixty years. A motorcycle ride down the spine of Appalachia, with a little banjo  and big myth for company, to play and sing at the graves of dead banjo heroes. About making a life about making work. This book is about outsiders. Interlopers. Class migrants. Death. Awakening. Creative Process. Growth through risk-taking. It’s a book about ghosts. Music. Writing. Not writing. What’s this book not about? “Finding myself.” I know who I am.  
  Steven Sherrill is a high school dropout, a nearly retired professor, a family man, a ne'er-do-well banjo player, a motorcyclist, an aquarist, a sonic/video muckraker, and a novelist with five books in the world, one of which (The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break) is a cult classic. 

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