Title: Love Is the Cure: On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS Author/Narrator: Elton John Publication Year: 2012 Pages: 256 (audio length: 5 hours 6 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from [...]

Title: The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food Author/Narrator: Adam Gopnik Publication Year: 2011 Pages: 336 (audio length: 11 hours 4 minutes) Genre: Non-Fiction Source: Audiobook purchased from Audible.com From the cover: In this work, Gopnik charts America’s transformation from being simply aware of what they eat to being obsessive about [...]

Title: The Handmaid’s Tale Author: Margaret Atwood Narrator: Claire Danes Publication Year: 1998 (this audio version: 2012) Pages: 311 (audio length: 11 hours) Genre: Fiction, Dystopia Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by [...]

Title: Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands Editors: Holly Black and Ellen Kushner Narrators: Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Holly Black, and Ellen Kushner Publication Year: 2012 Pages: 544 (audio length: 18 hours 8 minutes) Genre: Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry, Fantasy Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Bordertown: a [...]

Title: Memory Mambo Author: Achy Obejas Narrator: Ruth Oakes Publication Year: 1996 Pages: 200 (audio length: 8 hours 39 minutes) Genre: Fiction Source: Audiobook purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family’s laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with [...]