City Arts

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    • A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
    • By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering.

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    • Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
    • By: John Mark Comer
    • Narrated by: John Mark Comer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 408 ratings
    • In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a surprisingly countercultural take on the typical "spiritual" answer of the church. Comer explores Scripture to discover God's original intent for how we are meant to spend our time....

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    • How Zoning Shapes Our World
    • By: Sara C. Bronin
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good.

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    • Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings
    • An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir, and biography on the subject of loneliness told through the lives of six iconic artists....

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    • My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
    • By: Edmund White
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party....

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    • The Lost World of Film Noir
    • By: Eddie Muller
    • Narrated by: Eddie Muller, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, listeners on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive volume....

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    • Peril and Power in the City of Angels
    • By: Paul Pringle
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist....

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    • The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
    • By: Prudence Peiffer
    • Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world.

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    • The Triumph of the American Imagination
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 33 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,382 ratings
    • Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination, and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Vivian Gornick
    • Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same....

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    • My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules
    • By: Patricia Field
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture—bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream—comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions....

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    • Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Zara Ramm
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Humane and deeply moving, The Lonely City is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art....

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    • By: Saint Augustine
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 47 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Written between A.D. 413 and 426, The City of God is one of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian thought....

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    • Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
    • By: Lizzy Goodman
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 636 ratings
    • In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene....

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    • An Archaeological Thriller
    • By: Dave Bartell
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A mysterious forger. A plot to empty the world’s museums. Can this champion of culture stop it before all our history is fake? A forensic audit ...

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    • The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
    • By: David Browne
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers.

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    • Memories and the City
    • By: Orhan Pamuk
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms....

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    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Robert A. Caro
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and the Years of Lyndon Johnson series: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books....

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