Narrator Tavia Gilbert showcases her vocal talents by mastering a wealth of character accents and flawlessly speaking actual German as well as by singing the musical passages in this production. In the artistic world of fin-de-siècle Vienna, beautiful and creative Anna Schindler longs to become a renowned composer even more than she longs for love.…
Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her…
As a Tennessean, I’m going to argue that the most important single contribution Tennessee has made in its history is the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote not only in Tennessee but across the United States. Yet, despite taking a Tennessee history class and minoring in history in college,…
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often…
Tavia Gilbert narrates this disturbing audiobook rapidly, her voice fraught with tension and foreboding. The story focuses on the abduction of two young sisters after a freak blizzard in Albany and what happens when they suddenly reappear during a devastating rain- storm six weeks later. Gilbert animates and enhances characters who, with a less skilled…
After the oracle’s prediction of Ben’s fate, what options does the Novak have left? Will he attempt to fight his destiny? Can such a battle even be won Jeramiah still lurks in The Shade like a shadow. Why is he still on the island? Why did he even come in the first place?…
From New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly best-selling author Katie MacAlister comes a mystery with a paranormal twist. There are other worlds with mysteries to solve. Worlds where not all of the suspects are technically alive. That’s when Karma kicks in. For all those transmortis anomalies that need to be…
The United States’ secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the mid-20th century is revealed in this “blistering exposé”, with a new introduction by the authors (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard…
The Nameless World Goes to War! The necromancers have finally resumed their assault on the Allied Lands, sending a mighty army across the Desert of Death and into the Kingdom of Tarsier. Countless farms, villages, and towns have already been destroyed as the host makes its way northwards, striking deep into the kingdom’s most…
Narrator Tavia Gilbert candidly delivers the story of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters, Martha, Maria, and Harriet, in this meticulously researched profile. Gilbert’s thoughtful delivery movingly recounts their lives in Paris and early America. His white daughters, Martha and Maria, lived privileged lives yet were undervalued due to their gender. Harriet, his black daughter, was born into…