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Rhode Island Collection Books
By Alicia Waters | July 6, 2021
The first 2 titles have been added to BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) for the RI Collection. If you do not have a subscription to BARD and would like to download books, you will need to provide an email address. We will gladly sign you up for BARD. Please call the Talking Books Library at (401)574-9310.
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire DBC 24621
Barylick, John. Reading time: 12 hours, 48 minutes.
Read by Dan Sadoff. A production of Rhode Island Talking Books Library.
On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane “egg crate” foam sound insulation on the club’s walls. In less than 10 minutes, 96 people were dead and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. Adult. Unrated.
The Doctor Broad: A Mafia Love Story DBC 24620
Roberts, Barbara H. Reading time: 8 hours, 31 minutes.
Read by Karen Mateer. A production of Rhode Island Talking Books Library.
Biography
For decades, starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seventy-two years old, and suffering from diabetes and heart disease. One night in December of that year his life intersected with that of Dr. Barbara Roberts, a thirty-six-year old single mother of three, who was the first female cardiologist to practice in Rhode Island. Adult. Unrated.
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