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A Daily Rate by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance Celia Murray is a lonely young woman trying to make an honest life for herself in Philadelphia, earning a modest wage and renting a room in a bleak boardinghouse where the food is poor and the atmosphere is worse. Se ...  Show more

The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson audiobook. Genre: philosophy In The Greek View of Life, classicist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson offers a lucid, wide-ranging portrait of how the ancient Greeks understood the world and their place within it. Rather than a chron ...  Show more

Great Britain’s Regency Era (1811–1820) has long been wildly popular as a subject of historical fiction yet overly focused on the romance genre. The towering figures of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer have tended to dominate the field to the point where even novels that are not p ...  Show more

Harold Bloom called Persuasion "the perfect novel." Virginia Woolf said "In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she supposed." In this episode, the first of three parts, Jacke takes a look at Jane Aust ...  Show more

In the world of fantasy fiction, Leigh Bardugo is royalty: Her Grishaverse novels are mainstays on the young adult best-seller list, her “Shadow and Bone” trilogy has been adapted for a Netflix series and her adult novels “Ninth House” and “Hell Bent” established her as a forc ...

Charmian Kittredge London (1871-1955) may be best known as the wife of the famous American writer Jack London, but she was herself a literary trailblazer - and the epitome of a modern woman. In this episode, Jacke talks to biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle (Charmian Kittredge London ...  Show more