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Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, May 17, 2013
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Brandon Baltzley on Nine Lives: A Chef’s Journey from Chaos to Control | Tantorious
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Tantorious is a semi-monthly podcast series featuring interviews with well-known authors, hosted by Allan Hoving and presented by Tantor Audio. Brandon Baltzley was born in Louisiana and started working in the kitchens of gay bars and bistros as a kid. He was a musician and traveled widely before becoming a rising young chef in Chicago. In [...]
Q&A: Jennifer Conner, Armchair Audies | May 15, 2013
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Audio Reviews | May 15, 2013
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Reviews of Rita Moreno, Beautiful Ruins, and The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, plus a full list of audiobook titles from the May 15 issue.
Audio Reviews | May 1, 2013
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Reviews of The Cold Cold Ground, The Soundtrack of My Life, and Dinner with Churchill, plus a full list of audio titles from the May 1 issue.
Xpress Reviews: Audiobooks | First Look at New Books, May 3, 2013
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The final installment in Dobbs’s important “Cold War Trilogy,” a program on Nixon’s famous speech will appeal to political junkies, novellas from Mosley, literary fiction from Orhan Pamuk, fun for sf fans, Virginia Woolf’s The Years, for fans of Downton Abbey.
Scott Thorson on Behind the Candelabra | Tantorious
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Tantorious is a semi-monthly podcast series featuring interviews with well-known authors, hosted by Allan Hoving and presented by Tantor Audio. Scott Thorson was the longtime companion of celebrity entertainer Liberace, who had plastic surgeons change the young man’s appearance to match his own. After their breakup, Thorson filed a palimony suit, then settled, and the two [...]
Beta Testers Weigh In On Hoopla
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Hoopla, Midwest Tape’s pay-per-circulation media streaming service for public libraries, has been in beta-testing mode for close to two months, and early reports of both the service overall and its mobile applications have been positive.
Audio Reviews | April 15, 2013
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Cussler, Clive & Thomas Perry. The Tombs. 9 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 11 hrs. Penguin Audio. 2012. ISBN 9781611761375. $39.95; digital download. F Cussler’s globe-trotting archaeologists, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, are off on another fantastic adventure, one that will both educate and entertain Cussler’s legion of readers. While working on their latest dig, the Fargos become [...]
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