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Headlined by New York Times best-seller Carl Weber, three authors bring listeners tales of power, greed, and ambition set in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods.

Cindy Rivka Marshall's eagerly awaited first recording celebrates Jewish rituals, miracles, and delicacies. During Shabbat, freshly baked challah provides sweet accompaniment to tales of faith. And at Hanukkah, crisp fried latkes remind us of the oil that gave Jews light and hope many centuries ago. Includes "Hannah the Joyful", "The Taste of Shabbat", "Gift of Challah", "The Latke Miracle", and more.

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...

From the author of such classics as Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle comes this collection of unabridged short fiction originally published in some of America's most popular magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Vonnegut himself selected his best early works for this collection, and he reads the preface and afterword to boot!

The astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the listener, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid 19-year-old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes.

This second volume of How the West Was Read, features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio and delivers more of the best of contemporary Western writing.