Robin Hemley

Robin Hemley

Robin Hemley is the author of over a dozen books of nonfiction and fiction and is the founder of NonfictioNOW, the world’s leading international conference in nonfiction. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation and has received an Editor’s Choice Award from the American Library Association, among many others.

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Oblivion
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Oblivion
  • By: Robin Hemley
  • Narrator: Peter Berkrot
  • Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2022
  • Language: English
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Where do writers go when they die? The forgotten ones, at least, go to the Cafe of Minor Authors where they drink endless cups of cappuccino, self-obsess, and nurse their shattered dreams. Some authors, it’s rumored, can escape Oblivion if... Read more

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It Had to Be You The Windy City isn’t quite ready for Phoebe Somerville — the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars’ head coach Dan Celebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Celebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises — a meddling bimbo who ... Read Book
Finding Faith—A Search for What Is Real There have been times when you’ve felt that if there isn’t a God, there ought to be. Swept up in the mystery of the night sky, you’ve felt the closeness of its designer. Nature’s extravagant diversity, unfolding in living color, has made you long to know the artist who dreamed it all up. Imagine what that might be like–to actually know God in a way that fills your heart and whispers ... Read Book
The Mindspan Diet From an esteemed geneticist and the director of gerontology at the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School comes a revolutionary plan for curbing memory loss and improving cognitive longevity that will forever change how you think about diet and aging. All around the world people are living longer than ever, but record numbers of us are experiencing cognitive decline and other brain ... Read Book
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Worked Over An award-winning sociologist reveals the unexpected link between overwork and inequality.Most Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules. Work hours declined for a century through hard-fought labor-movement victories, but they’ve increased significantly since the seventies. Worked Over traces the varied reasons why our lives became tethered ... Read Book
Nothing Stays Put An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm. With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as ... Read Book
A Christmas Bride A charming small-town Christmas romance filled with family, love, and hope from the USA Today bestselling author of the Last Chance series. Tis the season in Shenandoah Falls and the first time Willow Peterson has been home in years. But she’s determined to fulfill the wishes of her recently deceased best friend and restore Eagle Hill Manor to its former glory-all in time to host the perfect ... Read Book
The Cossack As Maxim and Lizaveta, a young married couple, drive home from church on Easter, Maxim finds the joy and beauty in everything. As the newly married couple drives home on their first Easter together, carrying a blessed Easter cake, they see a Cossack at the side of the road. They soon learn that he is sick and too weak to make it home, and he asks for some food if they have any. Maxim immediately ... Read Book
Murder at Queen’s Landing When Lady Cordelia, a brilliant mathematician, and her brother, Lord Woodbridge, disappear from London, rumors swirl concerning fraudulent bank loans and a secret consortium engaged in an illicit-and highly profitable-trading scheme that threatens the entire British economy. The incriminating evidence mounts, but for Charlotte and Wrexford, it’s a question of loyalty and friendship. And so they ... Read Book
Riders to Moon Rock Accomplished film and television writer Andrew J. Fenady has been honored with the Golden Boot Award for his contributions to the Western genre. Also a popular novelist, Fenady shines when telling this story of a cowboy who just doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the world. Raised by Kiowa Indians before being taken in by a wealthy rancher, Shannon has never been able to claim what is ... Read Book
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