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  • Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams - Darcy Frey

    Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams - Darcy Frey
    Jun 18 2024
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    Title: Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams
    Author: Darcy Frey
    Narrator: Darcy Frey, Jd Jackson
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:11:50
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-18-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other, Basketball

    Summary:
    One of Sports Illustrated’s “Top 100 Sports Books of All Time” The 2023 “BEST BASKETBALL GIFT” from The Strategist A classic of narrative journalism about four inner-city high school basketball prospects trying to make it to the pros, with a new introduction by the author, now in audio for the first time. The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams is the “revelatory” (New York Times), “deeply empathetic” (New Yorker) true story of four teenagers attempting to escape the cycles of poverty, crime, and despair in 1990s Brooklyn by getting recruited to play college basketball. With poignant intimacy, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of these young men, including the future superstar Stephon Marbury, who are among the most promising players in Coney Island. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, this is Frey’s award-winning masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a startling exposé of inner-city life and the big business of college sports. Narrated by JD Jackson (The Nickel Boys). “[A] revelatory description of how the basketball myth plays out in the public housing projects of New York’s Coney Island, an isolated and impoverished spit of land at the seaward end of Brooklyn…. Vividly describes how the zealous pursuit of hoop glory serves as an inner-city version of the American Dream… [C]ompellingly written, with elegance, economy and just the right amount of outrage.” —Brent Staples, New York Times “Elegiac.” — Sports Illustrated
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    8 ore e 12 min
  • Any Person is the Only Self: Essays - Elisa Gabbert

    Any Person is the Only Self: Essays - Elisa Gabbert
    Jun 11 2024
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    Title: Any Person is the Only Self: Essays
    Author: Elisa Gabbert
    Narrator: Elisa Gabbert
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:34:41
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-11-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism

    Summary:
    Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.
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    7 ore e 35 min
  • Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing - Andrea Warner

    Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing - Andrea Warner
    Apr 9 2024
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    Title: Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
    Author: Andrea Warner
    Narrator: Stephanie Németh Parker
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 3:31:43
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-09-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

    Summary:
    An engaging exploration into the enduring popularity of Dirty Dancing and its lasting themes of feminism, activism, and reproductive rights When Dirty Dancing was released in 1987, it had already been rejected by producers and distributors several times over, and expectations for the summer romance were low. But then the film, written by former dancer Eleanor Bergstein and starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze as a couple from two different worlds, exploded. Since then, Dirty Dancing’s popularity has never waned. The truth has always been that Dirty Dancing was never just a teen romance or a dance movie — it also explored abortion rights, class, and political activism, with a smattering of light crime-solving. In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes — deeply feminist, sensitively written — that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.
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    3 ore e 32 min
  • Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America - Alex Hortis

    Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America - Alex Hortis
    Mar 5 2024
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    Title: Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Creation of Tabloid Justice in America
    Author: Alex Hortis
    Narrator: Erin Bennett
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:53:16
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-05-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

    Summary:
    Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.
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    8 ore e 53 min
  • Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife - Ben Katt

    Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife - Ben Katt
    Feb 20 2024
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    Title: Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife
    Author: Ben Katt
    Narrator: Ben Katt
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:34:40
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-20-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Naturopathy & New Age

    Summary:
    A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, applying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to the modern reader’s quest for wholeness. Those reaching midlife often discover that they have been bombarded with messages from society telling them who they should be and what their life should look like. While chasing the three-headed monster (achievement, perfection, and the approval of others), author Ben Katt realized that he had lost himself along the way. The Way Home is a book for those struggling to find their way back to themselves, especially at midlife. Katt distills Joseph Campell’s Hero’s Journey into an accessible, ten-step program to help readers move beyond their limitations, find fulfillment, and make the greatest possible contribution to their community and world. Anyone – ordinary, extraordinary, or somewhere in between – can embark upon the Hero’s Journey, leaving the familiar, falling into the unknown, and ultimately rising to wholeness. Bringing together personal experience, spiritual wisdom, and well-known mythologies, The Way Home serves as a practical guidebook to inspire and equip people in the second half of life, helping them move from isolation to belonging, from security to surrender, from conformity to wildness. Katt employs a number of tools and rituals to guide readers along the path back to themselves, including solitude, dreamwork, fasting, and meditation. This book serves as a reminder to those at a transition point in their life that the most important task is to stay connected with their own heart.
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    7 ore e 35 min
  • Even if It Breaks Your Heart - Erin Hahn

    Even if It Breaks Your Heart - Erin Hahn
    Feb 13 2024
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    Title: Even if It Breaks Your Heart
    Author: Erin Hahn
    Narrator: Rachel Jacobs, Tristan Wright
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:02:10
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-13-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

    Summary:
    A heart-buckling ride of a romance by beloved author Erin Hahn, Even If It Breaks Your Heart is about two teens finding out that sometimes, the hardest part of discovering what you want is getting the courage to pursue it. The only thing keeping nineteen-year-old Case Michaels together after the death of his best friend, Walker, is a list Walker left behind of things he wants Case to accomplish in his absence. So far, though, Case hasn’t even been able to continue riding bulls in the rodeo circuit, something he’s done his entire life, balking at the thought of competing without Walker by his side. But the list? Case is determined to follow it to the letter– and he follows it all the way to Winnie Sutton. Eighteen-year-old Winnie Sutton just wants to keep her family together. She graduated high school early to work long shifts at the Michaels family ranch so she can support her younger siblings and a father who’s more than happy to let Winnie fill the responsible parent role. If she sometimes sneaks out to ride the horses herself and forget about life for a while– well, that’s no one else’s business– until the day she crashes headfirst into Case Michaels. Case sees her riding skills and immediately ropes her into competing for the ranch and becoming his friend. Winnie and Case couldn’t be more different, but Case can’t help but be inspired by Winnie’s badly-hidden passion for riding and competition. And there’s something about Case that makes Winnie want to try grasping onto a dream for herself, whether that’s a shot at a rodeo trophy, the annoyingly handsome rancher’s son who won’t leave her alone, or maybe both.
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    9 ore e 2 min
  • This Day Changes Everything - Edward Underhill

    This Day Changes Everything - Edward Underhill
    Feb 13 2024
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    Title: This Day Changes Everything
    Author: Edward Underhill
    Narrator: Caitlin Kinnunen, Logan Rozos
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:42:28
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-13-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Teen, Romance

    Summary:
    Dash & Lily meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in Edward Underhill's new whirlwind rom-com about two queer teens who spend one life-changing day together in New York City. Abby Akerman believes in the Universe. After all, her Midwest high school marching band is about to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City―if that’s not proof that magical things can happen, what is? New York also happens to be the setting of her favorite romance novel, making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she’s in love with her (and, um, gay). She’s carefully annotated a copy of the book as a gift for Kat, and she’s counting on the Universe to provide an Epic Scene worthy of her own rom-com. Leo Brewer, on the other hand, just wants to get through this trip without falling apart. He doesn’t believe the Universe is magical at all, mostly because he’s about to be outed to his very Southern extended family on national TV as the trans boy he really is. He’s not excited for the parade, and he’s even less excited for an entire day of sightseeing with his band. But the Universe has other ideas. When fate throws Abby and Leo together on the wrong subway train, they soon find themselves lost in the middle of Manhattan. Even worse, Leo accidentally causes Abby to lose her Epic Gift for Kat. So to salvage the day, they come up with a new mission: find a souvenir from every location mentioned in the book for Abby to give Kat instead. But as Leo and Abby traverse the city, from the streets of Chinatown to the halls of Grand Central Station and the top of the Empire State Building, their initial expectations for the trip―and of each other―begin to shift. Maybe, if they let it, this could be the day that changes everything, for both of them.
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    8 ore e 42 min
  • Reef - Edith Wharton

    Reef - Edith Wharton
    Jan 3 2024
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    Title: Reef
    Author: Edith Wharton
    Narrator: Jason Smith (male Synthesized Voice)
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:52:25
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-03-2024
    Publisher: Findaway Voices
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

    Summary:
    “The Reef” is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. The story primarily follows George Darrow and Anna Leath, a young gentleman and a widowed lady who plan to marry. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. The narrative explores complex morality and its intricately woven place in society.
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    8 ore e 52 min