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December 25, 2014 – 08:08 am

Reader: Jim Dale
Short Review: The Locus Award winning novel is an enthralling story of magic, love, and struggle beautifully read by Jim Dale.

Readers: Dina Pearlman and Victor Bevine

Short Review: This sequel to Boneshaker follows Captain Croggon Hainey as he tracks and attempts to recover his airship, The Free Crow, from its captors. It also introduces Maria Isabella Boyd, a former Confederate spy turned Pinkerton, on her first assignment. It’s good, but not quite as good as Boneshaker.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Readers: Kate Reading and Will Wheaton

Short Review: A steampunk adventure set in an alternate-history Seattle where the Civil War just won’t end, airships abound, mad scientists run amok, volcanoes make zombies, and intricate questions about liberty and rights continually rear their heads.

Reader: Suzanne Bertish

Short Review: A beautiful book, poorly served by bad audio quality and frequent mispronunciations.

Reader: Simon Vance

Short Review: An intriguing, unusual gothic novel set in post-war England, read beautifully by Simon Vance. It’s intriguing and gorgeously written, and it asks more questions than it answers.

Reader: Anton Lesser
Short Review: The third Sally Lockhart mystery continues Pullman’s engrossing story of a young Victorian woman, expertly read by Anton Lesser. This book delves further into questions of women’s and children’s rights in Victorian Britain and also examines worker’s and immigrant’s rights and anti-semitism.

Warning! If you have not yet read The Shadow in the North, stop reading this review. There’s no way to review this book without giving spoilers for the previous book in the series.

Reader: Anton Lesser

Short Review: The slightly-less brilliant sequel to The Ruby in the Smoke, read just as brilliantly by Anton Lesser.

Reader: Anton Lesser
Short Review: A beautifully read story about a resourceful young woman who finds herself orphaned and embroiled in a deadly mystery.

Readers: Jill Tanner and Bianca Amato

Short Review: A gothic novel of intrigue about family history, fame, women, writing, truth, and secrets. It is read gorgeously by two readers who both have velvety, rich voices and lovely diction.

Reader: Virginia Leishman
Short Review: An intricate, beautiful, arguably overlong book beautifully read by a very talented narrator. This isn’t a book for everyone, but it was definitely a book for me.

Reader: Toni Morrison

Short Review: A beautiful book, but difficult to listen to at times. Dr. Morrison is a wonderful reader in small doses, but perhaps should have handed this book over to a pro to read in its entirety.

Source: booksforears.com

Author Steve Stylianos - Alexander the Great

2006-05-04 11:30:07 by gramercycomm

Media Contact: Mike Canu, The Empty Canoe, (360) 679-6765
Author Steve Stylianos Delivers the Unabridged Story of Alexander the Great
The Lost Chronicles of Alexander the Great: The Unabridged Edition gives readers the complete story of historical figure who is more legend than history
Oak Harbor, WA, May 4, 2006 -- An ancient scroll scribed by Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Greats famed generals, survived the wreckage of the library at Alexandria. Author Steve E. Stylianos has adapted that scroll into new text to tell the complete story of Alexander.

Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid: Reparations

2001-12-20 09:25:30 by justyouraveragecitizen

Slavery, Racist Violence, American Apartheid:
The Case for Reparations
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
[from New Politics, vol. 8, no. 3 (new series),
whole no. 31, Summer 2001]
Beginning in July 2001, SUNDIATA KEITA CHA-JUA will direct the Afro-American Studies and Research Program and teach in the history department at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Cha-Jua has worked in many local and national organizations in the Black Liberation Movement. Currently he is a member of the National Council of the Black Radical Congress (BRC).
I may state to all our friends, and to all our enemies, that we has a right to the land where we are located. For why? I tell you. Our wives, our children, our husbands, has been sold over and over again to purchase the lands we...