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NPR Driveway Moments Love Stories: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go Audiobook
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If you listen to NPR, you've had at least one “driveway moment.” You're sitting in your parked car, hooked by a story, needing to hear it all the way through. NPR celebrates the emotional bonds we share with this audio valentine that will warm hearts all year round. The story of an ex-monk and an ex-nun who form a family, as told by their son. The story of letters that continue to arrive from all over the world, addressed simply to Juliet, Verona, Italy. The softer side of Lyndon Johnson revealed in his letters to Lady Bird. A writer's true love for her beloved Volvo. The legend of Somalia's lovesick baker and the girl whose love he could not win. Lynda Barry on spring, thunderstorms, memories, and love. This heartfelt edition of Driveway Moments explores the surprising places we find love and the inspiring ways in which our most important relationships flourish. Featuring:
- The Love Story Deconstructed
- Happily Married Couples Tell Tales
- Father's Cufflinks Spark Thoughts About Love
- Online Dating's Siren Song
- Late-Blooming Aunt Ruth and Her Haphazard Romances
- Adopted Son from China Transformed and Healed by Love
- Finding Love at the Hebrew Home for the Aged
- Alzheimer's Disease Releases Couple to Love Again
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“In this latest installment of the popular Driveway Moments series, correspondent Kelly McEvers exudes delight as she introduces a variety of stories drawn from the NPR archives. Why does it sound like she’s smiling? That’s the power of love, listeners soon learn, in all its variations and outcomes. Most stories are less than five minutes long but deliver a resonant emotional punch, alternately balancing humor and sentiment. Though familiar voices of journalists and essayists are peppered throughout, the highlight of a compilation like this is the wide array of voices from throughout the United States and the world. What better way to remind listeners of the power of love to ‘heal and transform’ anyone, anywhere?”
— AudioFile
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NPR is a mission-driven, multimedia news organization and radio program producer of news, talk, music, and entertainment programs with a strong base of member stations and supporters nationwide. Since 1971, NPR and its journalists and programs have won hundreds of awards, including some of the most prestigious honors in journalism.
About Kelly McEvers
Kelly McEvers is a national NPR correspondent. She previously ran NPR’s Beirut bureau, where she earned a George Foster Peabody, an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia award, a Gracie award, and an Overseas Press Club mention for her 2012 coverage of the Syrian conflict. She started her journalism career in 1997 at the Chicago Tribune, where she worked as a metro reporter and documented the lives of female gang members for the Sunday magazine. Her writing also has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Foreign Policy, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Monthly, Slate, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has aired on This American Life, The World, and the BBC. She’s taught radio and journalism in the United States and abroad. She lives with her family in California, where she’s still very bad at surfing.