American Wife

American WifeThe acclaimed word of mouth bestseller from Curtis Sittenfeld about the marriage of an American First Lady A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of how an ordinary girl from an unremarkable town grows up to become First Lady of the United States. A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues

Starting with the elegant instrumental "Introduction

Changing Landscapes

purity represented by the white lily or spiritual awakening by the bloom of the lotus

with new preface and updated with a discography

DISC TWO – THE NAKED CITY

bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years

Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system – Communism

Bridgers is the rare artist with enough humor to deconstruct her own meteoric rise

cured disease and healed the world

Ruth Park's Australian classics take you from the barren landscapes of the outback to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth

West Coast feel

and the uncertainties of carving an identity as a writer