Audiobooks by Monica Hall

Practically Still a Virgin: An Adoption Memoir

During Alaska’s rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom, a time when prostitution, violence, and lawlessness reigned, Monica Hall rebels against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame when the unthinkable happens, Hall is forced to make impossible choices. Will she keep her rapist’s identity a secret and defy her parents when they demand to know who fathered her baby? Will Hall, an adoptee herself, crumble under pressure and relinquish her only known blood relative for adoption? Will she ever feel the sense of belonging she craves by reuniting with the mother who gave her away?  Adopted during infancy, Hall’s childhood is marked by trauma and dysfunction. As a teenager, she dulls her pain with risky behavior and petty crime. In adulthood, she turns to drugs and alcohol. This gutsy memoir chronicles her decades-long quest for identity, healing, and redemption. As she uncovers secrets and searches for her roots, she makes a shocking discovery about her baby’s father, smashing the narrative that shaped her reality for decades. Hall tells of her troubled youth with candor and compassion for herself and everyone around her. Her story will resonate with anyone who knows loss, secrets, and family dysfunction. Practically Still a Virgin is both harrowing and heart-warming—a must-read for any reader who enjoys honest and vulnerable stories of survival, courage, wisdom, and love.

Monica Hall (Author), Monica Hall (Narrator)

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A Visitor's Guide to Georgian England

'The author has done an outstanding job of making the colorful Georgian world come alive in all its contradictory, bawdy, and utterly fascinating glory.' -Britain Express Could you successfully be a Georgian? Find yourself immersed in the pivotal world of Georgian England, exciting times to live in. Everything was booming-the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the nascent Empire-in an era inhabited by Mary Shelley, the Romantic poets, and their contemporaries. Find everything you need to know in order to survive as a time traveler from today, undetected among the ordinary people: how to dress, behave yourself in public, earn a living, and find somewhere to live. Just as importantly, you will be given advice on how to stay on the right side of the law, and how to avoid getting seriously ill. Monica Hall creatively evokes this bygone era, filling this book with all aspects of daily life within the period, calling upon diaries, illustrations, letters, poetry, prose, eighteenth century laws, and archives. This detailed account intimately explores the ever-changing lives of those who lived through Britain's imperial prowess, the birth of modern capitalism, and the upheaval of the industrial revolution, major political reform, and class division.

Monica Hall (Author), Anne Flosnik (Narrator)

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Scream from Gustloff

Deep in the muddy trunk laid a suitcase they both recognized. "Ladies first," Johan waved Klara elegantly into the car. Klara smiled and climbed in. She opened the suitcase ceremoniously. There it was, in all its glory, Munch's Scream. Klara turned around to say something to Johan, but the words were stuck in her throat. Johan wasn't alone. Klara and Johan witness a theft when their school class visits the Munch Museum, and all alone, they have to hunt for the thieves and the painting. A dangerous chase that leads them close to the syndicate Sorero Mortis. In a strange way, the chase also leads the readers back to the Second World War, and the world's largest ship disaster, where thousands of innocent people lost their lives at the end of World War II; the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff.

Frode Hall, Monica Hall (Author), David C. Smith (Narrator)

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