Be Frank With Me
A Novel
By Julia Claiborne Johnson
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Be Frank With Me
“When reclusive novelist Mimi Banning loses her fortune and must quickly write a second novel, her publisher sends a young publicist to oversee the efforts and make sure their huge investment is secure. Alice Whitley arrives and is put to work as a caregiver to Mimi's eccentric nine-year-old son, Frank. Frank is a diamond in the rough, and as Alice gets to know him and the mysterious characters in his life, she becomes all-consumed with discovering his paternity. Be Frank With Me is captivating, irresistible, moving, heartbreaking, and utterly unputdownable.”
Bess Bleyaert, McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By J. D. Vance
Narrated by: J. D. Vance
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a... Read more »