Author of the New York Times best seller White Girl Problems and Psychos, Babe Walker faces her most daunting challenge yet – suburbia – in the third caustically witty White Girl Problems book. Babe Walker thought she had done it all. After all, she’s survived the highly exclusive social hierarchies of Bel Air, traipsed…
A wickedly funny sendup of the trendy, pretentious celebrity website GOOP. What is Glop? Glop is a business and a website. But Glop is also a feeling. It’s about picking the right expensive organic eye cream that will make you a tall, thin, wealthy blonde WASP who fits seamlessly into the top tiers…
Taking place 10 years after Little Men, Louisa May Alcott’s Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out is the third and final book in the Little Women trilogy. Originally published in 1886, two years before the author’s death, Jo’s Boys follows the lives of the young men readers came to love and cherish in its…
Be prepared to put your life on hold once you start this audiobook about the relationships among a reclusive author, Mimi; her 9-year-old son, Frank; and her newly hired personal assistant, Alice. The story revolves around young Frank, who has Asperger’s. His personal quirks both delight and frustrate Alice, who becomes the boy’s principal companion…
Wilson’s debut novel is a lush look at the rarefied world of professional ballet in 1970s New York City as seen through the eyes of Mira Able, a formidable talent with her eyes firmly set on gaining a spot in George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet—and the effect of that world on Kate Randell, a…
In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a longtime sheriff just three weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town.…
The power of the written word resonates in Tavia Gilbert’s and Kate Rudd’s compelling portrayals of war wives. Glory Whitehall, of Massachusetts, sends her first letter to Rita Vincenzo, of Iowa, in January 1943. Rudd voices 23-year-old Glory, who is expecting her second child while her husband is fighting in the war. Rudd instills a…
Although Emily Dickinson’s poems make for wonderful reading, the story of her life is less than enthralling listening. Narrators Tavia Gilbert and Alana Kerr do an admirable job and are well cast, but O’Connor’s story itself is slow. Because of Dickinson’s homebound ways, the story remains necessarily very domestic, and without much character development, there…
A fiercely inspired fiction debut in which two young women – an actress and an academic – face what really happened the summer they were 12, when a handsome stranger abducted them. “Everyone thought we were dead. We were missing for nearly two months; we were 12. What else could they think?” (Lois) …
As she skillfully juggles the voices of three central characters, Tavia Gilbert adds this title to her long list of excellent performances. She creates a bold Anna, a childlike Kate, and a languid George and then leads the listener through their experiences together at a headlong pace. The women meet in college and remain friends…