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Linthead Stomp

The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South

by Patrick Huber ...

Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the ... Read more

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Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the
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Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him

by Patricia Marx, Hillary Huber, Patrick Fraley, Martin Lund ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

7 hours 40 min

Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings her clever, deadpan humor to this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. The obsession continues even after he has dumped her for someone even ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings her clever, deadpan humor to this addictively readable novel about one woman's comic obsession with her first boyfriend.A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. The obsession continues even after he has dumped her for someone even
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The Next Money Crash—And a Reconstruction Blueprint

by Uli Kortsch ...

This book lays out an action plan with some room for improvisation. Will we have the courage to act? Kicking the proverbial can down the road feels easy in the moment but can lead to devastating consequences. The point of a system redesign is to acknowledge we have a broken monetary system, that has drifted far away from serving “We the People” . There is a growing recognition, even within the ... Read more

$8.99 USD

This book lays out an action plan with some room for improvisation. Will we have the courage to act? Kicking the proverbial can down the road feels easy in the moment but can lead to devastating consequences. The point of a system redesign is to acknowledge we have a broken monetary system, that has drifted far away from serving “We the People” . There is a growing recognition, even within the
... Read more
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The Legend of the Wandering King

by Patrick Fraley, Hillary Huber, Hillary Huber, Gavin Hammon, Laura Gallego García ...

Narrated by Patrick Fraley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 42 min

The most dangerous magical object in the history of the world waits quietly in the treasury of a decaying Arabian palace. It knows your name and home and history and fate: it knows the past and future of the entire human race. It is a carpet, an impossible, dazzling carpet, and though a glance at it can drive a man mad, many will risk their lives to look into its pattern and discover their ... Read more

$16.99 USD

The most dangerous magical object in the history of the world waits quietly in the treasury of a decaying Arabian palace. It knows your name and home and history and fate: it knows the past and future of the entire human race. It is a carpet, an impossible, dazzling carpet, and though a glance at it can drive a man mad, many will risk their lives to look into its pattern and discover their
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The Hank Williams Reader

Edited by Patrick Huber, Steve Goodson, David Anderson ...

Series series Readers on American Musicians
When Hank Williams died on New Year's Day 1953 at the age of twenty-nine, his passing appeared to bring an abrupt end to a saga of rags-to-riches success and anguished self-destruction. As it turned out, however, an equally gripping story was only just beginning, as Williams's meteoric rise to stardom, extraordinary musical achievements, turbulent personal life, and mysterious death all combined ... Read more

$53.99 USD

When Hank Williams died on New Year's Day 1953 at the age of twenty-nine, his passing appeared to bring an abrupt end to a saga of rags-to-riches success and anguished self-destruction. As it turned out, however, an equally gripping story was only just beginning, as Williams's meteoric rise to stardom, extraordinary musical achievements, turbulent personal life, and mysterious death all combined
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A Field of Darkness

by Hillary Huber, Cornelia Read, Patrick Fraley, Martin Lund, Martin Lund ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Madeline Dare Mysteries
Unabridged

10 hours 59 min

Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what she expected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food-chain job writing puff pieces for the local newspaper. Her emotional barometer these days ranges from dry irony to whining exasperation.Then ... Read more

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Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what she expected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food-chain job writing puff pieces for the local newspaper. Her emotional barometer these days ranges from dry irony to whining exasperation.Then
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Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

by Daniel Mason ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews, Jason Culp, Maggi-Meg Reed, Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, Mark Deakins, Kaleo Griffith, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Hillary Huber, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter ...

Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)—a “witty and gorgeous” (The Guardian) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods“Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)—a “witty and gorgeous” (The Guardian) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods“Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There’s so much fine, freewheeling
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Atavists: Stories

by Lydia Millet ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber, Devon Sorvari, Patrick Zeller, Pete Cross ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions,
... Read more
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Season of the Snake

by Claire Davis, Hillary Huber, Hillary Huber, Patrick Fraley, Patrick Fraley ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

11 hours 15 min

From the author of Winter Range comes a powerful and frightening literary thriller of love, loyalty, and menacing secrets.Nance Able has finally recovered from the violent death of her first husband and is living a new life in the West with her second husband, Ned. When Meredith, her younger, errant sister, decides to move to the same town, Nance’s long-sought happiness is threatened.As a snake ... Read more

$20.99 USD

From the author of Winter Range comes a powerful and frightening literary thriller of love, loyalty, and menacing secrets.Nance Able has finally recovered from the violent death of her first husband and is living a new life in the West with her second husband, Ned. When Meredith, her younger, errant sister, decides to move to the same town, Nance’s long-sought happiness is threatened.As a snake
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Better Than I Know Myself

by Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant, Patrick Fraley, Patrick Fraley, Hillary Huber, Hillary Huber ...

Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

Unabridged

19 hours 31 min

The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters.Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they are at a crossroad, and each is pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards. Jewel is Hollywood royalty. As ... Read more

$31.99 USD

The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters.Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they are at a crossroad, and each is pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards. Jewel is Hollywood royalty. As
... Read more
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Hotel California

An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories

by Don Bruns, Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Rick Bleiweiss, John Gilstrap, Andrew Child, Reed Farrel Coleman, Amanda Flower, Jennifer Dornbush8 ...

Narrated by Richard Ferrone, James Patrick Cronin0, Hillary Huber1, January LaVoy2, Sophie Amoss3, Joe Barrett4, various narrators5, Joe Hempel6, Scott Brick7 ...

Series series The Music and Murder Mystery Series
Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

Featuring a new Jack Reacher story by Andrew Child!A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California.Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Featuring a new Jack Reacher story by Andrew Child!A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California.Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
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A Very Easy Death

by Simone de Beauvoir ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

3 hours 5 min

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother’s early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people, they believed that it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter. ... Read more

$13.99 USD

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother’s early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people, they believed that it would be better to die than to continue to suffer, but their mother had a very different view of the matter.
... Read more

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The Next Money Crash—And a Reconstruction Blueprint

The Legend of the Wandering King

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Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick

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Better Than I Know Myself

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