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Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating, laugh-out-loud funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concerns about our ability to win hearts and minds in the region. In The Taliban Shuffle, Barker offers an insider’s account of the “forgotten war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan, chronicling the years after America’s initial routing of the Taliban, when we failed to finish the job.

Kim Stanley Robinson joins Nick Glynn in the Audible Studios to talk about his new novel, New York 2140.

Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next days headline, she'd become one. As the bizarre events of Kim's murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim's distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by grueling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial.

In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris Lessing and the subsequent 50 years of their complex relationship.

Peter Henniker-Heaton was a classics scholar, a spiritual thinker, a civil servant, a Punch magazine humorist, a member of astronautical societies, a student of Christian Science who experienced a complete healing of paralysis, and an Englishman who lived in America. He embraced all his identities. He wrote about these things for decades in his poetry and other writings. The smallest things, as well as the largest, seemed to amuse and astonish and delight him.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

Designer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller is legendary for her decades of scholarship and advocacy, and as a touchstone and conscience for the design profession. In HERE: Where the Black Designers Are, Holmes-Miller documents the history of—and answers to—the question she has been asking for decades: “Where are the Black designers?” Holmes-Miller explores this essential question through the lens of her own development as a designer and leader, beginning with her own family and its rich multiethnic history.

There is no doubt that Kim Kardashian is one of the most successful American models and actresses of this generation. Who could not have heard about the Kardashian's appearance in the famous TV series entitled Keeping up with the Kardashians. The success of this TV show has paved the way to more opportunities for Kim, such as Kourtney and Kim Take Miami and Kourtney and Kim Take New York.

This audiobook contains touching accounts of struggles and achievements of Korean Americans and serves an important primary source material for understanding the Korean teenage experience in the United States. This audiobook contains biographical accounts of a diverse group Korean Americans. Kenny Yoon, a junior at Horace Mann School in New York, is a part of the gifted music program at The Julliard School. Kenny describes how he came to play violin and how he hopes to bring joy to people through music.

PAPA HEMINGWAY er Hotchners meget personlige biografi om vennen Ernest Hemingway. Bogen beskriver de fjorten år, deres venskab varede frem til Hemingways død i 1961. Fortid og samtid væves sammen af de mange flashbacks til barndommen, til Paris i 1920‘erne og til personer og begiven- heder, som inspirerede til Hemingways romaner og noveller. Bogen tegner et helt unikt billede af en af verdens mest berømte og mytiske forfattere og hans relation til andre forfattere, venner og ikke mindst de fire hustruer.

Ted Hughes og Sylvia Platt er et af den moderne litteraturs mest berømte par. Efter hendes selvmord i 1963 er der blevet skrevet utallige biografier om hende, hvor hun fremstår som et offer og han som forræder og morder. Han er blevet dømt af fremmede og anklaget af mennesker, han anså for venner.

Det går inte en dag utan att jag tänker på Astrid. Varje gång jag ska försöka skriva min namnteckning får min man Lennart sätta fingret och pennan precis där jag ska skriva. Då ser jag för mig Astrid i motsvarande situation, minns hur vi skrattade varje gång hennes penna hamnade utanför arket. Nu är det min tur att få hjälp med pennan. Men hur började allt egentligen? Kerstin Kvint var bara 16 år när hon började sitt arbete på bokförlaget Rabén & Sjögren.