About Alice

Piece by Piece (Unabridged Selections)

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Calvin Trillin
• Narrated By Calvin Trillin

This original recording - his first - features Trillin at his most uproarious, reading from his own articles and books. Wonderfully funny and full of surprises, this is a thoroughly satisfying, eminently entertaining, and beautifully crafted collection.

Tepper Isn't Going Out

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Calvin Trillin
• Narrated By Calvin Trillin
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Tepper enjoys sitting in his car, reading his newspaper in peace. His car always seems to be parked in a prime spot and other drivers want to know if Tepper is going out. He isn't. This drives some people crazy - including the mayor - but leads others to think Tepper harbors some hidden wisdom. The tale that emerges is "refreshing and completely likable."

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler
• Narrated By Alyssa Mastromonaco
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If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would sound something like this. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? is an intimate and admiring portrait of a president, a candid book of advice for young women, and a promising debut from a savvy political star.

A Colony in a Nation

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs)
• By Chris Hayes
• Narrated By Chris Hayes
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Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968.

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
• By George Saunders
• Narrated By Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
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The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill.

The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 13 mins)
• By David McCullough
• Narrated By David McCullough
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Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American.

Edgar and Lucy: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Victor Lodato
• Narrated By Victor Lodato
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Eight-year-old Edgar Fini's loyalty is torn between the two women in his life. There's his mother, Lucy, who, though she has moments where she loves him, mostly disappears at night with her various "suitors". And then there's his grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him to the point where she is at a loss when he isn't around. Since his father's suicide, Florence and Edgar's relationship has become obsessive, each fully dependent on the other.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Richard P. Feynman
• Narrated By Raymond Todd
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Matt Bird
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer
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The Secrets of Story is a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st century, focused on clever ways to get an audience to fully identify with an all-too-human hero. Authors will learn to how to cut through pop culture noise and win over a jaded modern audience by rediscovering the heart of writing: shaping stories that ring true to our shared understanding of human nature.

The Candymakers

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Wendy Mass
• Narrated By Mark Turetsky
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ALA Schneider Family Book Award-winning author Wendy Mass offers this tasty treat of a tale sure to appeal to any listener’s sweet tooth. The Candymakers follows 12-year-olds Logan, Philip, Daisy, and Miles as each tries to invent a candy even better than the Oozing Crunchorama. But with these contestants—who can detect chocolate by touch and lift 50 lbs. of taffy as if it weighed no more than a loaf of bread—it’s going to be a close race.

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Judy Melinek, MD, T. J. Mitchell
• Narrated By Tanya Eby
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Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple.

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
• Narrated By Allyson Johnson

There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day. That figure, the World Bank measure of poverty, is hard to imagine in this country - most of us spend more than that before we get to work or school in the morning.

A Fall of Marigolds

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Susan Meissner
• Narrated By Tavia Gilbert
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September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries...and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she's made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her?

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Bernd Heinrich
• Narrated By Rick Adamson
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.

The Sellout: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Paul Beatty
• Narrated By Prentice Onayemi
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality: the black Chinese restaurant.

Unfamiliar Fishes

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Sarah Vowell
• Narrated By Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, and others
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In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as crucial to our nation's identity, a year when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded Cuba and then the Philippines, becoming a meddling, self-serving, militaristic international superpower practically overnight. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing.

Our Souls at Night: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Kent Haruf
• Narrated By Mark Bramhall
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In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife.

1Q84

• UNABRIDGED (46 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)
• Narrated By Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....