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"About Alice" by Calvin Trillin Length: 1 hour and 18 min. ISBN: 0-7393-4216-9 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child”. Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page.

Though it deals with devastating loss, About Alice is also a love story, chronicling a romance that began at a Manhattan party in December of 1963.

In Calvin’s writing, Alice was sometimes his subject and always his muse. The dedication of the first book he published after her death read, “I wrote this for Alice. Actually, I wrote everything for Alice.”

In that spirit, Calvin Trillin has, with About Alice, created a gift for the wife he adored and for his listeners.

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"I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman" by Nora Ephron Length: 3 hours and 53 min. ISBN: 0-7393-4292-4 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.

The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything, from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can’t stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there’s no quick fix for that.

Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton…from a distance, of course. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age.

Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat.

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"Possible Side Effects" by Augusten Burroughs Length: 10 hours and 1 min. ISBN: 1-59397-892-8 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

From the million-copy best-selling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burrough’s most provocative collection yet.

• Running with Scissors: A Memoir
• Running with Scissors
• Magical Thinking: True Stories