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"Zika Upends Plans for Destination Weddings" is from the June 26, 2016 Lifestyle section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Leigh Cowan and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Austrians Appear to Reject Far-Right Candidate for President" is from the December 04, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Austrian Far-Right Candidate Narrowly Loses Presidential Vote" is from the May 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"For Perspective on Clinton, Step Back 32 Long Years" is from the June 11, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Mitchell and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Merkel Vows to Keep Europe Together after 'Brexit'" is from the June 28, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and Sewell Chan and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Despite Skeptical Allies, Kerry Insists Syrian Cease-Fire Will Work" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and Alison Smale and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Without Britain, European Leaders Chart a Rocky New Course" is from the August 22, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Austria and 9 Balkan States Agree on Steps to Address Refugee Crisis
" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"At Least 18 Asylum Seekers Are Tied to New Year's Eve Assault in Cologne" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

After the gamut of emotions engendered by Hillary Clinton’s surprising loss to Donald Trump, women are once more confronting the big questions that have long enveloped the feminist quest. Put bluntly, is it sexism or the system that has so far prevented a woman from becoming president of the United States? And what lessons might be drawn from Europe, or places further afield, that could help an American woman get to the top one day?

"Putting More Women on a Path to Political Power" is from the January 16, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Alison Smale and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

How can you choose which dream to follow? Newlyweds Amelia and Marcus are recent college graduates, working hard to stay afloat in Los Angeles while they search for their dream jobs. Marcus, with an MDiv, seeks a pastoral position at a large multicultural city church Amelia has a music degree...

Mire House is dreary, dark, cold, and infested with midges. But when Emma Dean inherits it from a distant relation, she immediately feels a sense of belonging. It isn't long before Charlie Mitchell, grandson of the original owner, appears claiming that he wants to seek out his family. But Emma suspects he's more interested in the house than his long-lost relations. And when she starts seeing ghostly figures, Emma begins to wonder: Is Charlie trying to scare her away? Or are there darker secrets lurking in the corners of Mire House?

Tom McCann, a professor of sociology, and his young assistant, Roger, infiltrate a religious cult group based in New York State, deciding it will make excellent study material. But they find it hard to maintain their deception, especially as Verena, the cult's leader, is an attractive woman.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets middle school with a prank twist in this hilarious and heartwarming story about six very different seventh graders who are forced to band together after a vandalism incident. When Theo's photography project is mysteriously vandalized at school there are five suspected...

Anna hasn’t been back to Oxford since her last summer at university. She tries not to think about her time there or the tightly knit group of friends she once thought would be hers forever. She has almost forgotten the sting of betrayal, the secret she carries around, the last night she spent with them all. Then a chance meeting on a rainy day in London brings her past tumbling back into her present.... Can Anna finally face up to the memories of that summer and the people she left behind?

Kelly Maxwell has finally landed her dream job as publicist for the San Francisco Blaze. But the team's newest member, handsome bad boy catcher Matt Scanlon, is refusing every interview. She's got to get him to open up before the season ends, or she may not be back next year. And after everything she overcame to achieve her dream, Kelly's not about to let that happen. Matt Scanlon just wants to be left alone to rebuild his life and his career. After a year of masking the pain of a recent loss with hard partying and fast women, he finally hit rock bottom and was traded to a team he's loathed his entire life - a team with little to no chance at the post-season.

Dozing in the backseat of her father's car, Mary Ann Hubbard is the happiest eight-year-old in the country. It's 1935, and she and her parents are going to spend Fourth of July weekend with her headmistress and the Zimmerns, whose daughter, Lolly, is Mary Ann's best friend from school. While the two little girls frolic in the attic, endowing the rambling old house with wonder, creativity, and imagination, their parents are downstairs, mired in all the pleasure, pain, and occasional childishness of adulthood.

Life has taught Angie DeMarco that all baseball players are womanizers, and her incredible one-night stand with sexy San Francisco Blaze back-up catcher J.T. Sawyer seemed to prove it. Determined not to give in to their sizzling chemistry a second time, she's kept her distance ever since, focusing on her accounting job with the team. But now she's laid off...and pregnant.

What do you want? Ben Cassidy has strict instructions from his mother Cass: he must never go back to Darnshaw, his childhood home. Then an old friend dies unexpectedly, and he breaks this promise to attend her funeral. But Jessica died because of a game, Acheron. It promises to grant your deepest desire - for a price. Friendship. A finger. A murder. Your Soul. Acheron; Would you?

In Feral City poet and essayist Alison Luterman combines her talents to explore a topic near and dear to her heart: love partnerships. These five chapters explore her own experience going through an early and exciting marriage, divorcing, spending many years alone, and then opening up to a new partner and marrying again at age 50.