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ID: 129665

Title: Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

Author: Jeff Shesol

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, North America, American Politics

Summary:

Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices-and to 'pack' the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a 'living' Constitution.

The ensuing fight was a firestorm that engulfed the White House, the Court, Congress, and the nation. The final verdict was a shock. It dealt FDR the biggest setback of his political life, split the Democratic party, and set the stage for a future era of Republican dominance. Yet the battle also transformed America's political and constitutional landscape, hastening the nation's march into the modern world.

This brilliant work of history unfolds like a thriller, with vivid characters and unexpected twists. Providing new evidence and fresh insight, Jeff Shesol shows why understanding the Court fight is essential to understanding the presidency, personality, and legacy of FDR-and to understanding America at a crossroads in its history.

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ID: 118051

Title: Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival

Author: Dean King

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World, Asia, Military, General

Summary:

In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland swamps, climbed Tibetan peaks, scrambled over chain bridges, and trudged through the sands of the western deserts. Fewer than 10,000 of them survived, but remarkably all of the women lived to tell the tale.

Unbound is an amazing story of love, friendship, and survival written by a new master of adventure narrative.

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ID: 117684

Title: Republic

Author: Plato

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

'What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one's life.'

Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: What is goodness? What is reality? What is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the roles of both women and men as 'guardians' of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by 'philosopher kings.'

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ID: 117695

Title: Sex, Love, and Money: Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce

Author: Gerald Nissenbaum, Jd., John Sedgwick

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients-how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn.

From a C-note hooker-turned-trophy-wife who put her dying husband into a nursing home and drained his bank accounts, to the dad who spent millions to recover the kids his wife kidnapped, this memoir is by turns dark, cathartic, vengeful, and hilarious as it describes the high-end, high-conflict divorces that ruin the lives of everyone involved.

Currently commanding $700 per hour, Nissenbaum sees firsthand how neurotic, unrealistic, status-hungry, manipulative, and sex-crazed his multimillion-dollar clients can be. In the style of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Nissenbaum and John Sedgwick blow the doors off the dark side of marriage, making this outrageous and compelling memoir a truly guilty pleasure.

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ID: 132246

Title: Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne

Author: David Gaider

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

After his mother, the beloved Rebel Queen, is betrayed and murdered by her own faithless lords, young Maric becomes the leader of a rebel army attempting to free his nation from the control of a foreign tyrant.

His countrymen live in fear; his commanders consider him untested; and his only allies are Loghain, a brash young outlaw who saved his life, and Rowan, the beautiful warrior maiden promised to him since birth. Surrounded by spies and traitors, Maric must find a way to not only survive but achieve his ultimate destiny: Ferelden's freedom and the return of his line to the stolen throne.

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ID: 119462

Title: Fade Out

Author: Rachel Caine

Narrator: Cynthia Holloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again.

Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theater company. But when one of Eve's castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger-and way more dangerous-than anyone suspected.

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ID: 293774

Title: Long for This World: A Novel

Author: Sonya Chung

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:49:57

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life

Summary:

In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and sister-in-law to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane back to Korea, leaving behind his wife and grown children in America. It is his daughter, Jane-a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York-who journeys to find him in the South Korean town where his brothers have settled. Here, father and daughter take refuge from their demons, unearth passions, and, in the wake of tragedy, discover something deeper and more enduring than they'd imagined possible.

Long for This World is a pointillist triumph-depicting whole worlds through the details of a carefully prepared meal or a dark childhood memory. But author Sonya Chung is also working on a massive scale, effortlessly moving between domestic intimacies and the global stage-Iraq, Paris, Darfur, Syria-to illuminate the relationship between troubled world affairs and personal devastation. The result is a profound portrayal of the human experience, both large and small. Long for This World establishes Chung as a thrilling new voice in fiction.

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ID: 237825

Title: Princess Poppy: Ballet Shoes

Author: Janey Louise Jones

Narrator: Tamzin Outhwaite

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:21:17

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-10

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

Poppy loves ballet and is sure she'll be picked to play Coppelia in the Big Show. But when her best friend Honey gets the part, Poppy is so cross that she doesn't even want to be friends anymore!

Will Poppy realize how important friendship is in time to be a true ballerina princess on the night of the show?

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ID: 759633

Title: Daisy and the Trouble with Life

Author: Kes Gray

Narrator: Jadie-Rose Hobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:30:47

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-10

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Kids, Humor

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The trouble with life is it's sooooooo not fair. And the trouble with being grounded is it's sooooooo boring. You absolutely can't go anywhere at all. No hopping jumping, flying or parachuting . . . Daisy's got ever so much time to think about what she's done. Really, if her pocket money hadn't run out and if someone hadn't dropped a strawberry dib-dab on the pavement and if strawberry dib-dabs weren't Daisy's absolutely favourite sweet . . .

Who knew that it had invisible red germs that are so totally teensy and that Auntie Sue says give you tummy trouble? Daisy's trips to the loo are interspersed with hilarious musings about the trouble with everything, from her goldfish Freddie who thinks it's a dolphin, to the school name-caller Jack Beechwhistle, and hosepipes that don't do as they're told. Now, if only Daisy can find a word to rhyme with hippopotamus, she and Gabby can magic next door's cat into a hippo. When she's un-grounded and off the loo, of course . . .

©2007 Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks

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ID: 359151

Title: Solar

Author: Ian McEwan

Narrator: Roger Allam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-10

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Comedy, Satire & Parody, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.

When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, SOLAR is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time.A story of one man's greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world's great writers.

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