Ken Edwards is a divorced lawyer and avid golfer. When Ten Armbruster, fellow golfer, calls in the early hours, telling him his wife Amanda is dead and the house is full of cops, Edwards heads out, but the trouble is Amanda’’s death is from vicious swings of a golf club and Ted is covered in blood. As Ken prepares for trial, but soon learns the judge is none other than the ex love of his life.

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Ken Edwards it the flawed and heroic character that is fun and interesting to follow. In the genre of interesting characters, it would be great to follow Ken Edwards’ legal (and maybe romantic??) career. Hopefully, Mr. Kennedy will bring Edwards back in his next novel.

I could not put the book down. Loved the characters and the humor throughout the book. The ending was a complete surprise! I don’t remember reading anything that I enjoyed so much.

For all her offended sniffs and humphs, Mary Poppins is likely the most exciting nanny England-and the world-has ever seen. Young Jane and Michael Banks have no idea what’s in store for them when Mary Poppins blows in on the east wind one autumn evening. Soon, though, the children are having tea on the ceiling, flying around the world in a minute (visiting polar bears and hyacinth macaws on the way), and secretly watching as their unusual nanny pastes gold paper stars to the sky. Mary’s stern and haughty exterior belies the delightful nonsense she harbors; her charges, as well as her literary fans, respect and adore her.
Grownups who have forgotten Mary Poppins’s true charms will be tickled pink to rediscover this uniquely unsentimental fantasy. Younger readers will walk into Mary’s world without batting an eye-of course the animals in the zoo exchange places with people on the night of the full moon. Certainly a falling star landing on a cow’s horn will make her dance ceaselessly. Why wouldn’t one be able to enter into a chalk picture? The only disappointing aspect of this classic is that it doesn’t go on forever! (Ages 9 to 12) -Emilie Coulter -This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6-P.L. Travers’ story of the Banks children and their unconventional nanny (Harcourt, 1934) has long been popular with adults and children. This version is read by English actress Sophie Thompson, who does a wonderful job providing voices for a multitude of characters. Through her characterization, we can actually see the proper Mary, Cockney Bert, innocent Jane and Michael Banks, the exuberant Uncle Albert, and the shrill pigeon lady. Listeners are afforded a glimpse of turn-of-the-century London. Although the story’s primary emphasis is on plot and the characterization of the Banks’ children’s’ relationship with their nanny, some thumbnail socio-economic insights are available. Although written over 60 years ago, the message still rings true. Disappointingly, in this version, the Mary Poppins who delighted audiences with her antics and love for her charges has become a rigid disciplinarian who gives affection to these neglected children grudgingly. The aural quality is very good, and the narration is true to the printed word. This solid production would be a strong purchase for libraries seeking to meet requests for various formats of this title, or for those libraries with large audiotape collections.
Tricia Finch, North Port Public Library, North Port, FL
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Title - Brave New World
Author - Aldous Huxley
Narrator - Peter Firth
Runtime - approx 7 hours over 6 CD’s
Unabridged

Book Description
In the end, it was Aldous Huxley, not George Orwell (whom Huxley taught at Eton), whose vision of the future had the touch of prophecy. The modern world did not collapse into the cold, damp totalitarian hell Orwell described in his 1948 novel 1984. What has happened is closer to Huxley’s vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World — a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class.

As scathingly satirical as it is disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years in the future, in “this year of stability, A.F. 632″ — the A.F. stands for After Ford, meaning the godlike Henry Ford — when mankind exists in an institutional form of happiness, managed by the World State. “Community, Identity, Stability” is its motto. Reproduction is totally controlled through genetic engineering. People are literally bred into a rigid class system and designed for specific purposes. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles for which society created them, working without complaint or incident. The rest of their lives are devoted to the pursuit of pleasure through meaningless sex, elaborate recreational sports, the getting and having of material possessions and the taking of a pleasure drug called soma. Concepts such as family, freedom, love and culture are considered grotesque.

Against this backdrop, a young man known as John the Savage is brought to London from the remote desert of New Mexico. What he sees in the new civilization he naively calls a “brave new world,” quoting the Shakespeare (The Tempest) on which he was raised in the wild. But John soon challenges the very premise of this modern society, an act that threatens and fascinates its citizens, leading to a shocking but inevitable conclusion.

Huxley throws the idea of utopia into reverse in Brave New World, and the result is what became known as a “dystopian” novel. In 1931, when Brave New World was written, neither Hitler nor Stalin had risen to power. Huxley saw the enduring threat to civilization coming from the dark side of scientific and social progress and mankind’s increasingly insatiable appetite for simple amusement. While it seemed, after the publication of Orwell’s 1984 and the onset of the Cold War, that Huxley’s vision was dated and even a bit naive, time has proved the opposite. Brave New World retains its power as it continues to indict the idea of progress for the sake of progress — breathtaking in its precise and gripping imagination, its cauterizing irony and its bold exploration of ideas.

From Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic science fiction work that continues to be a significant warning to our society today. Tony Britton, the reader, does an excellent job of portraying clinical detachment as the true nature of the human incubators is revealed. The tone lightens during the vacation to the wilderness and the contrast is even more striking. Each character is given a separate personality by Britton’s voices. As the story moves from clinical detachment to the human interest of Bernard, the nonconformist, and John, the “Savage,” listeners are drawn more deeply into the plot. Finally, the reasoned tones of the Controller explain away all of John’s arguments against the civilization, leading to John’s death as he cannot reconcile his beliefs to theirs.The abridgement is very well done, and the overall message of the novel is clearly presented. The advanced vocabulary and complex themes lend themselves to class discussion and further research. There is sure to be demand for this classic in schools and public libraries.
Pat Griffith, Schlow Memorial Library, State College, PA

Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Read By: Frank Muller
Run Time: 9 hour 20 minute
1984 by George Orwell, is an English novel about life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania, the state in which he lives in the year that he presumes is 1984.

About the book:

Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949 and has been translated to sixty-two languages. The novel’s title, its terms and its language (Newspeak), and its author’s surname are bywords for personal privacy lost to national state security. The adjective “Orwellian” denotes totalitarian action and organisation; the phrase: Big Brother is Watching You connotes pervasive, invasive surveillance. The following quotation from the novel has become famous:

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Although the novel has been banned or challenged in some countries, it, along with Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is among literature’s most famous dystopia. In 2005, Time magazine listed it among the hundred best English-language novels published since 1923.

Platon (427 v. Chr.-348 v. Chr.) läßt Sokrates sein Leben darstellen und beurteilen sowie seine Einstellung zum Tod. Übersetzung durch Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834) von 1805. (Summary by redaer)

This reading is in German.

An English version is available: The Apology of Socrates.
A French version is available: L’apologie de Socrate.

• e-text
• Wikipedia - Platon (Deutsch)
• Wikipedia - Plato (English)
• Wikipedia - Friedrich Schleiermacher (Deutsch)
• Wikipedia - Friedrich Schleiermacher (English)
• Wikipedia - Des Sokrates Verteidigung
• LibriVox’s Des Sokrates Verteidigung Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (57 MB)

Die ‘Nachtwachen’ ist romantisches Werk von Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann, das dieser unter dem Pseudonym ‘Bonaventura’ veröffentlicht hat. Es geht um einen Nachtwächter, der während seiner Rundgänge Betrachtungen und Spekulationen über die Einwohner seiner Stadt anstellt, über das Leben und den Tod sinniert und seine eigene Lebensgeschichte erzählt. (Zusammenfassung von Rainer)

• zeno.org e-text
• Wikipedia - Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
• Wikipedia (engl.) - Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
• LibriVox’s Die Nachtwachen des Bonaventura Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (143.7MB)

‘I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.’

Bob Dylan’s Chronicle: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities - smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

Revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Dylan - Bob Dylan’s music has had a tremendous impact on my life, both as a musician and in shaping my general outlook on the world. He is a musician’s musician, a man who has worked diligently to keep his personal life private - he :

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Appreciating the Small Pleasures In Life - We LOVE ‘Wierd Al’ Yankovich’s palindromic rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues,’ available on YouTube, simply titled ‘Bob.’ So I cannot express how delighted I was when my charming and talented office manager/legal :

is it rolling - Well, I might be a lousy old uncle by forgetting all the other birthdays : but there’s one (among others) that I rarely forget : except he ain’t a blood relative. Bob Dylan’s 67 today. So I rev up Pandora’s Bob Dylan Radio & the :

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Happy Birthday to America’s Bard for the Ages, Bob Dylan - With : - If you’ve been living east of Neptune and haven’t heard of Bob Dylan or what he’s written over the decades, he was THE antiwar voice of the 60s, folk singer extraordinaire who wrote scathing social commentaries as well as some of the :

Marie Arana, longtime NBCC member and editor of the Washington Post Book World, has accepted a buyout and will be stepping down. Journal-isms quotes Arana saying, “The Post has asked me to accept a contract to write for them after I leave my position on Dec. 31, which I will do. I’ll be looking for a fellowship position (or some such like) at a university and writing a book about Simon Bolivar … My second novel (4th book) comes out in January. I’ll be writing, rather than editing, in the future.” We wish her all the best — the world of criticism will miss her. For a thumbnail account of her career click here (and scroll down).

As I write, the most emailed article on The New York Times offers a few reflections on Peter Boxall’s book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The Times piece makes a couple of logical points: First, there’s no time to waste if you hope to read every book on the list. Reading a book per month, you’ll get through 1000 books in a mere 83 years. So you had better get started now. Second, this ‘best of’ list is bound to be controversial. (Do you really need to read Anne Rice’s ‘Interview With the Vampire’ before it’s lights out?) The 1001 books on Boxall’s list can be previewed here. The book itself, which runs 960 pages, is obviously more than a raw list. Each entry is accompanied by an ‘authoritative yet opinionated critical essay describing the importance and influence of the work in question.’ And also there’s apparently some nice illustrations. If you’re a bibliophile, it’s worth a look.

Here’s Chapter Two.
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