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Cynthia Ozick & Marcella Hazan | Audio in Advance July 2016 | Nonfiction
Nonfiction audiobooks releasing in July 2016
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything. Tantor. ISBN 9781515953982. Read by Christina Delaine. Comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld never thought anyone would watch their silly little sitcom about a New York comedian sitting around talking to his friends. But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly 40 million Americans were tuning in weekly. Here Armstrong celebrates the creators and fans of this television phenomenon. She brings listeners behind the scenes of the show while it was on the air and into the world of devotees for whom it never stopped being relevant. Delpit, Lisa. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. Tantor. ISBN 9781515907916. Read by Lisa Rene Pitts. Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system. This edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne. Fitz, Caitlin. Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions. Tantor. ISBN 9781515955894. Read by Emily Durante. In the early 19th century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere and hailing Latin America's independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny. But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation's fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Foster, Nick. The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise. Blackstone. ISBN 9781504730402. Reader TBA. In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert awaits trial for the murder of five fellow American expatriates, including the Brown family, who lived on a remote island in the area’s Darklands. There, Holbert turned their home into the “Jolly Roger Social Club,” using drink- and drug-fueled parties to get to know other expats. Here Foster addresses not just what Holbert did or the complex financial and real estate motives behind the killings, he looks at why Bocas del Toro turned out to be his perfect hunting ground, and why the community tolerated—even accepted him—for a time. Gross, Michael. Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers. Tantor. ISBN 9781515908043. Read by Kirby Heybourne. From the postwar covers of Vogue until the triumph of the digital image, fashion photographers sold not only clothes but ideals of beauty and fantasies of perfect lives. Gross probes the lives, hang-ups, and artistic triumphs of more than a dozen of fashion photography's greatest visionaries, including Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, David Bailey, Bill King, Gilles Bensimon, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Corinne Day, and Bob and Terry Richardson. From Avedon's haute couture fantasies and telling portraits to Weber's sensual, intimate, and heroic slices of life, and from Bob Richardson's provocations to his son Terry's transgressions, Gross takes listeners behind the scenes and reveals the revolutionary creative processes and fraught private passions of these visionary imagicians. 
Hazan, Marcella & Victor Hazan. Ingredienti: Marcella's Guide to the Market. Tantor. ISBN 9781515907879. Read by Elizabeth Wiley. Though Marcella Hazan died in 2013, her legacy lives on through her cookbooks and recipes, and in the handwritten notebooks filled with her thoughts on how to select the best ingredients. Her husband and longtime collaborator, Victor, has translated and transcribed these vignettes on how to buy and what to do with the fresh produce used in Italian cooking, the elements of an essential pantry, and salumi. From artichokes to zucchini, anchovies to ziti, this work offers succinct and compelling advice on how to choose vegetables, pasta, olive oil, cheese, prosciutto, and all of the key elements of Marcella's classic meals. Kealing, Bob. Life of the Party: The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire. Books on Tape. ISBN 9780451483386. Read by Kimberly Farr. Brownie Wise was a plucky businesswoman who divorced her alcoholic husband, started her own successful business, and eventually caught the eye of Tupperware inventor Earl Tupper, whose plastic containers were collecting dust on store shelves. The Tupperware Party that Wise popularized, a master class in the soft sell, drove Tupperware's sales to soaring heights. It also gave minimally educated and economically invisible postwar women an acceptable outlet for making their own money for their families—and for being rewarded for their efforts. Wise was as popular among her many devoted followers as she was among the press, and she become the first woman to appear on the cover of BusinessWeek in 1954. Then, at the height of her success, Earl Tupper fired her under mysterious circumstances and left her with a pittance. He walked away with a fortune and she disappeared—until now. Kelly, Jack. Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal. Blackstone. ISBN 978-1-5047-2937-6. Reader TBA. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal is a 360-mile waterway built entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. Heaven’s Ditch illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this “psychic highway,” from its opening in 1825 through 1844. “Wage slave” Sam Patch became America’s first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, one encounters America’s very first “crime of the century,” a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers. Klein, Jessi. You'll Grow Out of It. Brilliance. ISBN 9781478936619. Reader TBA. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. Here she offers—through an incisive collection of real-life stories—a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on her strange journey to womanhood and beyond. These include her "transformation from Pippi Longstocking-esque tomboy to are-you-a-lesbian-or-what tom man," attempting to find watchable porn, and identifying the difference between being called "ma'am" and "miss" ("Miss sounds like you weigh ninety-nine pounds"). 
Montgomery, Sy. The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood. ISBN 9781515905912. Read by Xe Sands. A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire. Ozick, Cynthia. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays. HighBridge. ISBN 9781681680484. Read by Donna Postel. In a gauntlet-throwing essay, Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-twentieth century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups: Fanatics, Monsters, Figures, and others. Russo, Charles. Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America. Blackstone. ISBN 978-1-5047-4829-2. Reader TBA. In the spring of 1959, 18-year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth, and quickly inserted himself into the West Coast’s fledgling martial arts culture. Even though Asian fighting styles were widely unknown to mainstream America, Lee encountered a robust fight culture in an area that was populated with talented and trailblazing practitioners such as Lau Bun, Chinatown’s aging kung fu patriarch; Wally Jay, the innovative Hawaiian jujitsu master; and James Lee, the no-nonsense Oakland street fighter. Regarded by some as a brash loudmouth and by others as a dynamic visionary, Bruce spent his first few years back in America advocating a more modern approach to the martial arts and showing little regard for the damaged egos left in his wake. Tackett, Michael. The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams. HighBridge. ISBN. Read by Mickey Chamberlain. Clarinda, IA, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. Eberly tended his Clarinda A’s baseball team for five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Eberly developed scores of major league players (six of whom are currently playing). In the process, Eberly taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. Tye, Larry. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. Books on Tape. ISBN 9780735208087. Read by Marc Cashman. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that had its beginnings in the conservative 1950s. Here Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to paint a complete portrait of this singularly fascinating figure. To capture the full arc of his subject’s life, Tye draws on rare access granted to him by the Kennedy family, including unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and 58 boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for the past 40 years. Vanderkam, Laura. 168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think. Dreamscape. ISBN 9781520020099. Read by Elizabeth London. It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. With the rise of two-income families, time-consuming jobs, and 24/7 connectivity, life is so frenzied many people can barely find time to breathe. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or else, if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices. To get ahead at work we spend less time with our spouses. To carve out more family time, we put off getting in shape. There has to be a better way—and Vanderkam has found one. 
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