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  • Basquiat

    A Quick Killing in Art

    by Phoebe Hoban ...
    New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

    by Phoebe Hoban, Alice Neel ...
    “Neel emerges as a resolute survivor who lived by her convictions, both aesthetically and politically.” —Publisher’s WeeklyPhoebe Hoban’s definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women’s suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Basquiat

    A Quick Killing in Art

    by Phoebe Hoban ...
    Narrated by Ron Butler ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 6 min

    New York Times Notable Book“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”— Village VoiceA bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzling rise and tragic death of Neo-expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.In less than a decade, Jean-Michel Basquiat went from being a teenage graffiti artist to an international art star. His meteoric ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Lucian Freud

    Eyes Wide Open

    by Phoebe Hoban ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...
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    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    Phoebe Hoban, author of definitive biographies of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alice Neel, now turns her attention to Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund and one of the greatest painters England has produced. Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open is the first biography to assess Freud’s work and life, showing how the two converge.In Hoban’s dramatic and fast-paced narrative, we follow Freud from his ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    My Seditious Heart

    Collected Nonfiction

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Narrated by Tania Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 17 min

    Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment.Radical and superbly readable, the essays speak in a voice of ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Just a Couple of Days

    by Tony Vigorito ...
    Narrated by Bernard Clark ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Blip Korterly kicks off a game of graffiti tag on a local overpass by painting a simple phrase: "Uh-oh." An anonymous interlocutor writes back: "When?" Blip slyly answers: "Just a couple of days." But what happens in just a couple of days? Blip is arrested; his friend, Dr. Flake Fountain—a molecular biologist—is drafted into a shadow-government research project conducting experiments on humans. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Forbidden Journeys

    Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

    by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Black Detroit

    A People's History of Self-Determination

    by Herb Boyd ...
    Narrated by James Shippy ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores the city’s past, present, and future and its significance to the African American legacy and the nation’s fabric.Herb Boyd moved to Detroit in 1943, as race riots were engulfing the city. Though he did not ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Greater Trumps, The

    by Charles Williams ...
    Narrated by David Pickering ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    Would someone really kill for a pack of cards?But these are no ordinary cards. This is the original tarot deck, from which all other tarot decks have sprung. Their fate is entwined with a set of gold figurines representing the Major Arcana, which continually dance around a tabletop much like a chess board—the archetypal forces of the universe in miniature. Whoever can bring the deck and the ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

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    Falling Torch

    by Algis Budrys ...
    Narrated by Jerry Sciarrio ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    How could he save Earth, when Earth no longer cared? In this sci-fi classic, distant archaic Earth has been occupied by aliens for several decades, while Earth's government-in-exile has resided in the advanced Centaurian system. Finally, this aging, tired group find they are about to receive help - financial aid and weaponry to recover their lost planet. But do they want to give up their lives for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Smoketown

    The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

    by Mark Whitaker ...
    Narrated by Prentice Onayemi ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 31 min

    The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place—Pittsburgh, PA—from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of ... Read more

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    The Motion of Light in Water

    Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 29 min

    Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961.Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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