Die a Little.Die A Little Megan Abbott; Ellen Archer, narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. Tantor Media, Inc. 114 Mill Rock Road East, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 1400101514, $29.99 1-877-782-6867 www.tantor.com Die A Little is Megan Abbott's debut novel and set in 1950s Hollywood. Lora King is a school teacher and her brother Bill is a junior investigator with the district attorney's office. Lora's comfortable suburban life is suddenly disrupted when her brother falls in love with Alice Steele, a mysterious young woman with a murky past who now works as a Hollywood wardrobe assistant. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, envy and mistrust are the hallmarks of the relationship between Lora and Alice. Lora finds herself walking the alleys and streets of the seamy seam·y adj. seam·i·er, seam·i·est 1. Sordid; base: "seamy tales of aberrant sexual practices, messy divorces, drug addiction, mental instability, and suicide attempts" sections of Los Angles as she uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. , and murder in her attempt to uncover Alice's sinister past--and present intentions. With flawless technical production values Production values is a media term for "production cost." It refers to the professional look, or "polish," of a production. Factors that affect perceived production value may include video and audio quality, lighting, number of errors, and amount and quality of special effects. , "Die A Little" is expertly narrated by Ellen Archer in this complete and unabridged, 6 CD audiobook with a total running time of 7 hours, 30 minutes. Also available in an MP3 CD A CD-ROM that contains audio files in the MP3 format. Starting in the early 2000s, auto and home CD players began to support the MP3 format along with regular music CD tracks (CD-DA format). MP3 CD players let users burn a CD-R that holds about 10 times as many titles as the CD-DA format. format (1400151511, 1 CD, $19.99), "Die A Little" is especially recommended for community library audiobook collections in the Library Edition format (1400131510, 6 CDs, $59.99). |
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