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ID: 445745

Title: Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage

Author: Audrey Sutherland

Narrator: Mapuana Makia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:31:20

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports, Essays & Travelogues, History & Culture

Summary:

An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now'

In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland's first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. In 22 years she encountered over 30 bears, four wolves, and hundreds of whales. Her lifelong philosophy, 'Go simple, go solo, go now,' is illustrated in this reflection-filled story of kayaking adventure.

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ID: 487953

Title: Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Author: Max Hastings

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Military, Global Politics

Summary:

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.

In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear why Germany and Austria-Hungary were primarily to blame, and describes the gripping first clashes in the West, where the French army marched into action in uniforms of red and blue with flags flying and bands playing. In August, four days after the French suffered 27,000 men dead in a single day, the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans, one of the last of its kind in history. In October, at terrible cost the British held the allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres. Hastings also re-creates the lesser-known battles on the Eastern Front, brutal struggles in Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia, where the Germans, Austrians, Russians and Serbs inflicted three million casualties upon one another by Christmas. 

As he has done in his celebrated, award-winning works on World War II, Hastings gives us frank assessments of generals and political leaders and masterly analyses of the political currents that led the continent to war. He argues passionately against the contention that the war was not worth the cost, maintaining that Germany’s defeat was vital to the freedom of Europe. Throughout we encounter statesmen, generals, peasants, housewives and private soldiers of seven nations in Hastings’s accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts: generals dismounting to lead troops in bayonet charges over 1,500 feet of open ground; farmers who at first decried the requisition of their horses; infantry men engaged in a haggard retreat, sleeping four hours a night in their haste. This is a vivid new portrait of how a continent became embroiled in war and what befell millions of men and women in a conflict that would change everything.

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ID: 445744

Title: Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure On the Coast of Molokai

Author: Audrey Sutherland

Narrator: Mapuana Makia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:59:28

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports, Essays & Travelogues, History & Culture

Summary:

A Book for Connoisseurs of Wild Places of the EarthAn Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now'

Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now

In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find a way to explore this then inaccessible area. After much study, she determines that the best way for her to navigate these treacherous sea walls is to swim while towing an inflatable kayak. This is the story of fulfilling her dream, of planning then implementing, of launching and advancing, of retreating and reconnoitering, of challenge and success. This is the story of the trip that convinced her that personal growth comes when one goes simple, goes solo, goes now.

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ID: 624642

Title: How to Belong

Author: Sarah Franklin

Narrator: Lissa Berry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:38:40

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Jo grew up in the Forest of Dean, but she was always the one destined to leave for a bigger future. When her parents retire from their butcher's shop, she returns to her beloved community to save the family legacy and herself. Tessa is a farrier, shoeing horses two miles and half a generation away from Jo, further into the forest. Tessa's experience of the community couldn't be more different. Now she too has returned, in flight from a life she could have led, nursing a secret and a past filled with guilt and shame. Compelled through circumstance to live together, these two women will be forced to confront their sense of identity, and reconsider the meaning of home.

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ID: 600927

Title: Feet in the Clouds: The Classic Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession

Author: Richard Askwith

Narrator: Richard Askwith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:02:41

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Other

Summary:

An inspiring insight into one of the oldest extreme sports, this is the definitive story of fell-running. This is a complete portrait of one of the few sports to have remained utterly true to its roots. Richard Askwith's journey takes him into a world of forbidding rockscapes, horizontal rain, fear, exhaustion and stunning natural beauty, as well as his own attempt at one of the toughest challenges imaginable: the Bob Graham Round, the sport's traditional test of 42 Lake District peaks in 24 hours. Gripping, funny and moving, this is a story that any aspiring runner, endurance athlete or mountain-lover will understand well: of extremity, heroism and the experience of a lifetime.

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ID: 629978

Title: Necessary Death

Author: Anne Holt

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:06:37

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain, Selma Falck has no idea where she is or how she got there. She barely makes it out in time as the flames engulf the cabin. With no signs of human habitation nearby, the temperature rapidly dropping, and a blizzard approaching, how will she survive? As Selma fights the cold, the hunger and her own wounds, she eventually forms a frightening picture of the past six months. Not only does she have to find a way to stay alive, she needs to make it back to civilization. Murder has been committed, and a great injustice must be stopped. The very future of the nation itself is at stake

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ID: 447326

Title: Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrator: Edith Vonnegut, Lucas Hedges

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:25:46

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter

“If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.”

Kurt Vonnegut’s eldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty, aged box. Inside, she discovered an unexpected treasure: more than two hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship.

The letters begin in 1941, after the former schoolmates reunited at age nineteen, sparked a passionate summer romance, and promised to keep in touch when they headed off to their respective colleges. And they did, through Jane’s conscientious studying and Kurt’s struggle to pass chemistry. The letters continue after Kurt dropped out and enlisted in the army in 1943, while Jane in turn graduated and worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. They also detail Kurt’s deployment to Europe in 1944, where he was taken prisoner of war and declared missing in action, and his eventual safe return home and the couple’s marriage in 1945.

Full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut, the letters also reveal little-known private corners of his mind. Passionate and tender, they form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier’s life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they bring to light the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in and supported him supported him, the young couple having no idea how celebrated he would become.

A beautiful collection, adapted for audio and interspersed with Edith’s insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love.

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ID: 449895

Title: What You Think of Me Is None of My Business

Author: Terry Cole-Whittaker

Narrator: Caroline Cole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:03:07

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

You have a God-given right to happiness, wealth, and success. In this dynamic book by Reverend Terry Cole-Whittaker, you’ll learn how to cast off the shackles of fear and false beliefs to discover your own inner path—the route to your inborn talents and limitless potential!

 

Explore your deepest feelings with self-awareness strategies and consciousness-raising exercises. Learn how to cope with physical, mental, and spiritual problems, involving love, money, risk-taking, relationships, guilt, self-reliance, self-image, sexuality, and more. It’s all here in one astonishing audiobook: the motivation, tools, and tactics to resolve personal conflicts—and change your life forever!

*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains the Self-Awareness Strategies and Exercises and Marriage Vows from the book.

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ID: 439484

Title: Girl Giant and the Monkey King

Author: Van Hoang

Narrator: Kim Mai Guest

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:19

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

From debut author Van Hoang comes Girl Giant and the Monkey King, a tale packed with magic, adventure, and middle-school woes-perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Roshani Chokshi.

Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she's strong. Like suuuuper strong. Freakishly strong. And it's making it impossible for her to fit in at her new middle school.

In a desperate bid to get rid of her super strength, Thom makes a deal with the Monkey King, a powerful deity and legendary trickster she accidentally released from his 500-year prison sentence. Thom agrees to help the Monkey King get back his magical staff if he'll take away her strength.

Soon Thom is swept up in an ancient and fantastical world in where demons, dragons, and Jade princesses actually exist. But she quickly discovers that magic can't cure everything, and dealing with the trickster god might be more trouble than it's worth.

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ID: 443066

Title: Heiress Apparently

Author: Diana Ma

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Romance

Summary:

The first book in an epic and romantic YA series following the fictionalized descendants of the only officially recognized empress regent of China.

Gemma Huang is a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Illinois, having abandoned plans for college to pursue a career in acting, much to the dismay of her parents. Now she's living with three roommates in a two-bedroom hovel, auditioning for bit roles that hardly cover rent. Gemma's big break comes when she's asked to play a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly filming for the summer in Beijing. When she arrives, she's stopped by paparazzi at the airport. She quickly realizes she may as well be the twin of one of the most notorious young socialites in Beijing. Thus kicks off a summer of revelations, in which Gemma uncovers a legacy her parents have spent their lives protecting her from--one her mother would conceal from her daughter at any cost.

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