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Audiobooks Narrated by Francois Battiste
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It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom Summer.
Meanwhile, Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life, giving her little room to breathe. And things get even trickier when Sunny and her brother are caught sneaking into the local swimming pool -- where they bump into a mystery boy whose life is going to become tangled up in theirs.
As she did in her groundbreaking documentary novel COUNTDOWN award-winning author Deborah Wiles uses stories and images to tell the riveting story of a certain time and place -- and of kids who, in a world where everyone is choosing sides, must figure out how to stand up for themselves and fight for what's right.
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Black-Eyed Susan
From their rowhouse south of Pimlico racetrack, middle-schooler Dontay Melville's family does everything they can to make extra money on Preakness Saturday. In this story, Dontay recalls a mysterious female customer that he won't soon forget.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)
In what appears at first to be typical Penthouse Forum fodder, a young man stranded at the airport meets a beautiful older businesswoman. But since this is a Laura Lippman story, nothing is quite what it seems.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Easy as A-B-C
A contractor gets hired to gentrify the house that had once been his grandparents'. After beginning an affair with the house's owner, he begins overspending on the job and must find a way to make up the difference.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
A Good Fuck Spoiled
They say golf is a jealous mistress. For two years, Charlie has told his wife, Marla, that he was playing golf while he was actually seeing his mistress, Sylvia. When Marla decides to take up golf as well, Charlie and she rekindle their marriage and Sylvia becomes a mistress more jealous than golf.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman turns her attention to short stories and reveals another level of mastery.
Lippman sets many of the stories in this sterling anthology, Hardly Knew Her, in familiar territory: her beloved Baltimore. But Lippman is also unafraid to travel to New Orleans, to an unnamed southwestern city, and even to Dublin. Tess Monaghan is here, in two stories and a profile, aligning herself with various underdogs. And in her extraordinary, never-before-published novella, "Scratch a Woman," Lippman takes us deep into the private world of a high-priced call girl/madam and devoted soccer mom, exploring the mystery of what may, in fact, be written in the blood.
Each of these ingenious tales is a gem sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, always filled with delightfully unanticipated twists and reversals. For people who have yet to read Lippman, get ready to experience the spellbinding power of "one of today's most pleasing storytellers," (San Diego Union-Tribune). As for longtime devotees of her multiple award-winning novels, you'll discover that you hardly know her.
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Pony Girl
In a part of New Orleans off the tourist path, two college-age women go looking for trouble, find it, and become part of local legend in the process.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
ARM and the Woman
Sally Holt has spent her life being the perfect Washington hostess and an excellent listener. When her husband divorces her unexpectedly, she must use the information she's gleaned in unexpected ways in order to maintain her lifestyle.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
The Babysitter's Code
When a babysitter on the job finds a gun hidden in the lingerie drawer of the woman who hired her, she finds it difficult to stay within the guidelines of the babysitter's code.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
The Crack Cocaine Diet
Two best friends in the Baltimore suburbs go into the city to buy cocaine to help them lose weight and the afternoon takes a turn that at least one of them never expected.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Femme Fatale
A chance encounter in a Starbucks introduces a 68-year-old widow to the world of fetish porn and to a way out of her money worries.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
Lippman shows herself to be a master of short fiction....read them fast, like a glutton, or slowly to savor each one. Either way, this is a treasure."
- Library Journal
Hardly Knew Her
In 1975 Baltimore, thirteen-year-old Sophia has a father with a gambling problem. When he pawns her most prized possession to cover his poker debts, Sophia takes matters into her own hands -- and learns to bluff in the process.
"Lippman fans won't be disappointed with these small treasures."
- Kirkus Reviews
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