Donada peters biography of barack

Wanda McCaddon passed away in November

When Wanda McCaddon began narrating audiobooks in the early s, the famous publisher for which she worked paid female narrators less than men--$15 per recorded hour versus $ "I just accepted it! Can you believe that? Times do change, thank heavens."

English-born McCaddon, who also narrates under the names Donada Peters and Nadia May, has an unerring ear for British and colonial accents, and most European ones. Occasionally, though, she has to go in search of the right sound. When she needed an accent from Sligo, a small northwestern pocket of Ireland, for Sebastian Barry's new novel, THE SECRET SCRIPTURE , she found help in an audio archive of international English dialects. It yielded 90 seconds of a Sligo voice, which, she says, "I played every half hour or so as I was recording to remind me of the right sound."

The miracle about McCaddon's famously smooth narrations, full of individual characterization, is that, except for the classics, which she has narrated "umpteen" times, she doesn't read the books ahead of time. "I may skim through and make lists of foreign place names, but I studiously avoid noticing anything about the plot or

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  • Northanger Abbey

  • By: Jane Austen
  • Narrated by: Donada Peters
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Northanger Abbey is the coming-of-age story of Catherine Morland, who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends, the Allens. While in Bath, she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. The Tilneys invite Catherine to Northanger Abbey, their family estate. Catherine, an avid reader of Gothic novels, soon becomes obsessed with the thought that possible atrocities are going on at the abbey.

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A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama

December 31,
Highly readable "work of creative nonfiction told in five story-poems - flash lines of verse, prose, and quotes - anchored in historical facts" following the "significant events" in 5 Black historical figures' lives from "that show how they tilted the country's moral arc toward liberty, freedom, and justice" (quotes from the preface by the author). While the stories contain snippets of hard history, they focus on the resistance and perseverance of the people to continue working "toward a more perfect union" where there is social and racial justice.

All chapters/story-poems are made up of many individual poems, most labeled with a place and date, and all titled. The individual poems are impressionistic, and many have a rhythm that would work well when read aloud. They are peppered with italicized quotes from primary sources. The five chapters are bookended by poems "Did You Even Wonder?" and "The Long Time" (labeled as an Epilogue). Back matter includes a timeline from , "History Clips" listing internet resources to primary sources, and "Further Reading" providing age-appropri

Barack Obama Book: The Biography of Barack Obama

December 26,
This is a quick 40 minute read about the 44th President of the United States. It is not an in-depth read, more like a synopsis of the president’s beginnings and rise to the White House. It is a balanced writing pointing out the failures and successes of the president. The writer accurately points out that Obama like all presidents have their successes and their failures and work left undone. History is a judge of us all and no less for the person who holds the highest office of the land and the most powerful position on the planet.

If you want some quick insights into President Obama, his early life, the relationship with his mother, grandparents, and the absent father, this short book will serve that purpose. For more in-depth view, pick up his first book or those by other authors.

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