Episodes

  • The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "The Guest '' by Emma Cline, DB114407. 02/02/2024

    The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "The Guest '' by Emma Cline, DB114407. 02/02/2024
    Feb 4 2024
    We hope that you can join us to discuss this psychological novel from acclaimed author Emma Cline. Here is the NLS annotation: The guest: a novel DB 114407 Cline, Emma. Reading time 8 hours, 39 minutes. Read by Carlotta Brentan. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Psychological Fiction Description: "Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarefied world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein, (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book is honored to welcome guest host Jana Littrell to discuss "We are the Brennans" by Tracey Lange, D B 1 0 4 7 9 5. We hope that you can join us to discuss this best-selling family story. 01/05/2024

    The Fiction Old and New book is honored to welcome guest host Jana Littrell to discuss "We are the Brennans" by Tracey Lange, D B 1 0 4 7 9 5. We hope that you can join us to discuss this best-selling family story. 01/05/2024
    Jan 11 2024
    Here is the NLS annotation: We are the Brennans DB 104795 Lange, Tracey. Reading time 9 hours, 41 minutes. Read by Barrie Kreinik. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: General; Psychological Fiction Description: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. She deserted them all--and her high school sweetheart--five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021. Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein, (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center, DBC 11939. 12/01/2023

    The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center, DBC 11939. 12/01/2023
    Dec 4 2023
    The Fiction Old and New book group is meeting on Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. to discuss "Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center, D B C 1 1 9 3 9. We hope that you can join us to discuss this latest novel from one of our favorite authors. Here is the NLS annotation: Happiness for beginners DBC 11939 Center, Katherine. Reading time 9 hours, 49 minutes. Read by Leslie Rogers. A production of Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program. Subjects: General Description: A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming. Some strong language. Your facilitator is Michelle Bernstein, (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    59 mins
  • Fiction Old and New with Guest Host LeDon to discuss Small mercies: a novel DB 114456 by Dennis Lehane. 11/03/2023

    Fiction Old and New with Guest Host LeDon to discuss Small mercies: a novel DB 114456 by Dennis Lehane. 11/03/2023
    Nov 6 2023
    The Fiction Old and New book group is honored to have guest host LeDon lead the discussion of Dennis Lehane's latest book, "Small Mercies'', DB 1 1 4 4 5 6 on Friday, November 3, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. We hope that you can join us to discuss this compelling suspense audiobook. Here is the NLS annotation: Small mercies: a novel DB 114456 Lehane, Dennis. Reading time 10 hours, 27 minutes. Read by Robin Miles. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Historical Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories Description: "In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of "Southie," the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don't take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city's desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    59 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "Warrior Girls on Earth" by Angeline Boulley, DB114761. 10/06/2023

    The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss "Warrior Girls on Earth" by Angeline Boulley, DB114761. 10/06/2023
    Oct 8 2023
    We hope that you can join us to discuss this entertaining audiobook. Here is the NLS annotation: Warrior girl unearthed DB 114761 Boulley, Angeline. Reading time 11 hours, 34 minutes. Read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Mystery and Detective Stories; Young Adult Description: "With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high and older readers. Your facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    57 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss the novel "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water" by Angie Cruz, D B 110919. 09/01/2023

    The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss the novel "How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water" by Angie Cruz, D B 110919. 09/01/2023
    Sep 5 2023
    Here is the NLS annotation: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: a novel DB 110919 Cruz, Angie. Reading time 6 hours, 19 minutes. Read by Kimberly M. Wetherell Rossmery Almonte. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Family Description: "Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    50 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing "The Lehman Trilogy" by Stefano Massini, DB 101774. 08/04/2023

    The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing "The Lehman Trilogy" by Stefano Massini, DB 101774. 08/04/2023
    Aug 7 2023
    Here is the NLS annotation: The Lehman trilogy: a novel DB 101774 Massini, Stefano Dixon, Richard. Reading time 13 hours, 43 minutes. Read by Edoardo Ballerini. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Historical Fiction; Family Description: Henry Lehman leaves Bavaria for the United States to make a better life. He builds a textile dynasty in Alabama. Brothers Emanuel and Mayer expand the family's holdings. The generations of the Lehman family span one hundred fifty years. Translated from the original 2016 Italian edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020. Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    56 mins
  • The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing "We All Want Impossible Things" by Catherine Newman, DB 111246. 06/02/2023

    The Fiction Old and New book group will be discussing "We All Want Impossible Things" by Catherine Newman, DB 111246. 06/02/2023
    Jun 5 2023
    Here is the NLS annotation: We all want impossible things: a novel DB 111246 Newman, Catherine. Reading time 6 hours, 58 minutes. Read by Jane Oppenheimer. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Friendship Fiction Description: "Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, "Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine." But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters. As The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door, Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. Meanwhile, Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parent--with life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence." -- Provided by publisher. Unra Our facilitator for this group is Michelle Bernstein (hamletsweetlady@gmail.com).
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    1 hr and 8 mins