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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Book of Souls Author: Jack Ketchum Narrator: Thomas M. Hatting Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 35 mins Language: English Release date: 12-07-11 Publisher: Crossroad Press Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: In this intimate glimpse into the heart of his own creative spirit, Jack Ketchum shares his early career, literary influences, and some of the characters that formed the man he has become. From his early respect and admiration for Henry Miller to the tortured lives of friends, and the aftermath of 9/11 - these are the stories that define a career. This is the kind of book that opens windows into the soul. Step up and take a look. Critic Reviews: "Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum" (Stephen King) Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: To Prussia with Love Subtitle: Misadventures in Rural East Germany Author: Roger Boyes Narrator: Brian Bowles Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins Language: English Release date: 11-18-11 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: 'We-have-a-house-in-the-country?'. Lena nodded solemnly. 'Where?'. I almost shouted, briefly rattling the table. 'No, wait, don't tell me - it's Todi in Umbria, right? The old manor house, the one with the lemon groves'! 'Alt-Globnitz'. 'Alt-Globnitz?'. Suddenly I felt cold. 'Alt-Globnitz. It's a really nice place. You will love it'. In a desperate attempt to save his relationship with girlfriend, Lena, and take a break from the world of journalism, Germany correspondent Roger Boyes agrees to make a great escape from the easy urban lifestyle of Berlin and decamp to the countryside. Roger h

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Trust Me, I'm Dr Ozzy Author: Ozzy Osbourne Narrator: Frank Skinner Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 10-06-11 Publisher: Hachette Audio UK Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: By rights, Ozzy Osbourne should not be alive. He spent 40 years on a hell-raising, bat-biting, ant-snorting*, drink and drug-fuelled bender. He broke his neck going two miles an hour on a quad bike and died twice in a chemically induced coma. And yet - at 62 years old - he is healthier and happier than ever. He is a walking medical miracle. So who better to offer the public medical advice and support? In May 2010 the Sunday Times invited 'Dr' Ozzy to be their new Agony Uncle. Since then he has answered questions ranging from dog depression to snoring to third nipples and has also tackled more serious questions with his trademark

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Is Shakespeare Dead? Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Richard Henzel Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 09-27-11 Publisher: Richard Henzel Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: As a cub river pilot, one of Mark Twains masters was a pilot named George Ealer, who recited Shakespeare by the hour - from memory - and who was a virulent opponent of the notion that the Shakespeare plays and poems were in truth written by Sir Francis Bacon. At first, young Sam Clemens agreed with his teacher and boss, but he soon realized that it was no fun for the pilot to argue with someone who agreed with him all of the time. And so, young Sam Clemens became quite skilled in defending this position: He said he was not a Shakespearite nor a Baconite, but that he was a "Brontosaurian": he didn't know who did write them, but he knew

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Audiobook Blunders Subtitle: The Books In Motion 'Gag Reel' Author: Books In Motion Narrator: Kris Faulkner, Cameron Beierle, Jerry Sciarrio, Gene Engene, Rebecca Cook, Reed McColm Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 59 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-11 Publisher: Books In Motion Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes during an audiobook recording session? Here is your opportunity to find out! Sometimes the words don't flow quite as easily as you would think, and when the performers run into a tongue twister, the results can be hilarious and bring out the true personalities of our readers. We will put you behind the microphone and in the booth with Kris Faulkner, Cameron Beierle, Jerry Sciarrio, Gene Engene, Rebecca Cook, Reed McColm, and many other popular Books In Motion readers a

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Necessary Aptitude Author: Pam Ayres Narrator: Pam Ayres Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 09-15-11 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: I never once attended a Sunday morning church service in Stanford. There was always the feeling that they werent aimed at families like ours. Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Then reaching her teens, Pam realised how few opportunities she had. At fifteen she started working for the civil service, and for a social life she had the local hop. Pam knew she had to reach out f

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Road to the Dales Subtitle: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad Author: Gervase Phinn Narrator: Gervase Phinn Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins Language: English Release date: 05-13-11 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Gervase Phinn tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This book is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s reminisce with Gervase, and share in his personal journey - of school days and holidays as well as his tentative steps into the adult world. Devour numerous uproarious stories including the incident involving a broken greenhouse, crashing his brothers newly restored bike as well as secrets about his first dates, adventures at summer camp, family trips to Blackpool and many other captivating tales. With a w

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Helluva High Note Subtitle: Surviving Life, Love, and American Idol Author: Kara DioGuardi Narrator: Kara DioGuardi Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins Language: English Release date: 04-26-11 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Kara DioGuardi is an award-winning hitmaker, a savvy record executive, and a successful music publisher whose songs have been recorded by such superstars as Pink, Carrie Underwood, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, Santana, Steven Tyler, CÉline Dion, and so many others. She was also the feisty fourth judge on American Idol. But success wouldnt have happened for this songwriter, artist, and producer without the dark times of defeat. Filled with the grace, raw honesty, and haunting emotion of her hit songs, A Helluva High Note is the soundtrack to Karas lif

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Al Jaffee's Mad Life Subtitle: A Biography Author: Mary-Lou Weisman Narrator: Allen Lewis Rickman Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 01-18-11 Publisher: HarperAudio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Jaffees inventive work has enlivened the pages of MAD magazine since 1955. To date, he has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire, and he continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isnt fair. Jaffees work for MAD has made him a cultural icon, but the compelling and at times bizarre story of his life has yet to be told. A synopsis of Jaffees formative years alone reads like a comic strip of traumatic cliff-hangers with cartoons by Jaffee and captions by Freud. Six-

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Threepenny Memoir Subtitle: The Lives of a Libertine Author: Carl Barat Narrator: Carl Barat Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins Language: English Release date: 10-26-10 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine. From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of one of Britain's most revered bands, Carl Barat has gone through the glass darkly as bands fell apart around him, friendships faltered and egos and hedonism threatened to pull his life apart. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Outside Looking In Subtitle: Adventures of an Observer Author: Garry Wills Narrator: Garry Wills Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 10-14-10 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism, even in his church. Yet these qualities have, paradoxically, prompted people to share intimate insights with him - perhaps because he is not a rival, a competitor, or a threat. Sometimes this made him the prey of con men, like conspiratorialist Mark Lane or civil rights leader James Bevel. At other times it led to close friendship with such people as William F. Buckley, Jr., or singer Beverly Sills. The result is the most personal book Wills has ever written. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills b

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Conversations with Mozart Subtitle: In His Own Words Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Narrator: Andrew Havill Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins Language: English Release date: 10-12-10 Publisher: White Crow Productions Ltd Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a child prodigy who became an adult genius, died in debt and was buried in an unmarked grave in his adopted home of Vienna. Mozart needed no formal lessons in composition. Hed been composing since the age of five, and possessed astonishing musical memory, able to re-create whatever he heard or saw. He could mimic different styles and his travels, which were endless, gave him plenty to imitate whether sacred, dramatic or instrumental. As he said, I can pretty well adapt or conform myself to any style or composition. He was not the tortured artist but could compose whilst playing billiards

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Fury Author: Koren Zailckas Narrator: Koren Zailckas Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 09-08-10 Publisher: Penguin Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The author of the iconic New York Times best seller Smashed undertakes a quest to confront her own anger. In the years following the publication of her landmark memoir, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Koren Zailckas stays sober and relegates binge drinking to her past. But a psychological legacy of repression lingers - her sobriety is a loose surface layer atop a hard- packed, unacknowledged rage that wreaks havoc on Koren emotionally and professionally. When a failed relationship leads Koren back to her childhood home, she sinks into emotional crisis - writer's block, depression, anxiety. Only when she begins to apply her research on a book

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Risotto with Nettles Subtitle: A Memoir with Food Author: Anna Del Conte Narrator: Rula Lenska Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins Language: English Release date: 07-02-10 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culinary revolution. She arrived in England in 1949 when much of Britain was a culinary wasteland, married an Englishman, and stayed on. Her memories of the time are vividly, hilarious preserved - from the joys of un-rationed horse meat to tomato soup at Lyons Corner House. While bringing up her children, she wrot

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Letters to My Grandchildren Author: Tony Benn Narrator: Tony Benn Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 06-03-10 Publisher: Random House AudioBooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: 'As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail - but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. 'The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. 'Certainly at my age I have learned an enormous amount from the study of history not so much from the political leaders of the time but from those who struggled for justice and explained the world in a way that shows the continuity of history and has inspired me to do my work. 'Normality for any i

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Mark Twain: Wild Humorist of the West Author: Mark Twain Narrator: McAvoy Layne Format: Original Recording Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 05-11-10 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one-man performance based on Twain's writings. The early years of Samuel Clemens, the Mississippi River experiences, and his move to the silver mining area of Nevada are portrayed by exuberant actor McAvoy Layne; some of the most famous tales, from "The Blue Jay Yarn" to "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" are woven into the history of this most colorful author. Amusing stories from "Letters from the Sandwich Islands" and questions from the live audience conclude this delightful performance. Critic Reviews: "Twain

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Dining with al-Qaeda Subtitle: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East Author: Hugh Pope Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins Language: English Release date: 03-26-10 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations shows there is no such thing as a monolithic "Muslim World". His probing and often perilous journeys - at one point he is forced to quote Koranic verse to argue against his being murdered by a top al-Qaeda leader - provide an eye-

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Lonelyhearts Subtitle: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney Author: Marion Meade Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 03-10-10 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Nathanael West: novelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsman, was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939). Seventy years later, The Day of the Locust remains the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. Eileen McKenney: accidental muse, literary heroine was the inspiration for her sister Ruth's humorous stories, My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Ricky Gervais Subtitle: The Story So Far Author: Michael Heatley Narrator: Nick Wilton Format: Abridged Length: 1 hr and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 02-24-10 Publisher: Sound Entertainment Ltd Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Stand-up comedian, comedy writer, radio presenter, and childrens author, Ricky Gervais's talent have brought him extraordinary success over the last few years. Best-selling author Michael Heatley reveals how Gervais journeyed from his childhood in Reading to international stardom with his groundbreaking TV series The Office and the critically acclaimed Extras. Contact me for any questions: inforeq17@gmail.com

Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Julia Child: A Life Author: Laura Shapiro Narrator: Julia Prud'homme Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 02-09-10 Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Here is the delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in 20th-century American culture. With a swooping voice, an incredible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia Child: A Life, award-winning food writer Laura Shapiro tells the story of Child's unlikely career path, from California party girl to the coolheaded chief clerk in a World War II spy station, to a bewildered amateur cook, and, finally, to the Cordon Bleu in Paris, the school that inspired her calling. A food lover who was quintessentially American, right down to her little-known rec