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ID: 117691

Title: Woods Out Back

Author: R. A. Salvatore

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Gary Leger thought life after college would bring great things. Instead, he's stuck in a dead-end job and finding that the real world isn't all it's cracked up to be.

But when he walks into the woods behind his house one day, Gary finds a world beyond the 'real world'-a realm of elves and dwarfs and witches and dragons. There he discovers that he is the only one who can wear the armor of the land's lost hero-and wield a magical spear.

And if he doesn't, he can never go home again.

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ID: 237394

Title: Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Jason Isaacs

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:43:45

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-10

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance.

Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...

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ID: 117916

Title: Trust the Dog: Rebuilding Lives Through Teamwork with Man's Best Friend

Author: Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation , Gerri Hirshey

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Politics, Public Policy

Summary:

From a pioneering guide dog organization comes the first book to explore one of the most profound and inspiring relationships between humans and animals.

In Trust the Dog, the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation introduces listeners to a group of extraordinary people who, thanks to their guide dogs, flourish in a world that assumes the ability to see. Among them are a brother and sister who lost their sight at a very young age and whose dogs essentially helped them grow up, a Serbian girl who fled civil war to find new hope in America, and a newly blind single father determined to keep his family together against all odds. Through their experiences we discover the astonishing teamwork and devotion between people who are blind and their guide dogs, the intelligence and discipline that these animals unfailingly display, and the noble work of the nonprofit organization that for fifty years has been making it all possible. A heartwarming tribute to this unique relationship, Trust the Dog is sure to change how we think about man's best friend and the possibilities of life without sight.

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ID: 237094

Title: My Family and Other Strangers: Adventures in Family History

Author: Jeremy Hardy

Narrator: Jeremy Hardy

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:53:47

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-10

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Reference & Study Guides

Summary:

Exploring family history is an urge that has gripped the nation, and it has gripped Jeremy Hardy too. In My Family and Other Strangers he sets out on the road and on the world wide web to find out all he can about the Hardy clan.

His aim is to prove - or more likely disprove - his grandmother Becky's dubious claims that they are descended from Sir Christopher Wren and that Jeremy's great grandfather was personal bodyguard and confident to the King. Wild stories apart, Jeremy travels as far a field as his local library and the hostile waters around Malta in order to find family traits that go beyond a big nose and IBS.

Whatever he finds, how will he know how much is in the blood and how much is coincidence? Might he discover a comedy gene? But perhaps what he will find is more important is to build up a picture of those relatives he knew too fleetingly as a small child, and the people who filled their world.

Negotiating the living and the dead, the familiar and the distant, in My Family and Other Strangers Jeremy Hardy takes us on a fascinating and often hilarious journey into the world of family ancestry.

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ID: 118295

Title: Colonization: Second Contact

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Sagas, War & Military

Summary:

In the extraordinary Worldwar tetralogy, set against the backdrop of World War II, Harry Turtledove, whom Publishers Weekly has called the 'Hugo-winning master of alternate SF,' wove an explosive saga of world powers locked in conflict against an enemy from the stars. Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth.

Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany are unable to relinquish their hostilities and unite against a massive new wave of extraterrestrials. For all the countries of the world, this is the greatest threat of all. This time, the terrible price of defeat will be the conquest of our world and perhaps the extinction of the human race itself.

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ID: 117690

Title: This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Author: Marilyn Johnson

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

Buried in information? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession.

This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the cliches and stereotyping of librarians. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in this book, as do a tattooed, hard-partying children's librarian; a fresh-scrubbed Catholic couple who teach missionaries to use computers; a blue-haired radical who uses her smartphone to help guide street protestors; a plethora of voluptuous avatars and cybrarians; the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI; and a boxing archivist. These are just a few of the visionaries Johnson captures here-pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.

Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us-neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled-can get along without human help. And not just any help; we need librarians who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age?

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ID: 117685

Title: Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status

Author: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics

Summary:

When Arthur B. Laffer spearheaded the theory of supply-side economics and became a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, he took his place as an economic icon. More recently, he joined with Stephen Moore and Peter J. Tanous to write The End of Prosperity-a clarion call delineating what is wrong with current political approaches to America's present economic challenges. Steve Forbes himself described The End of Prosperity as 'brilliantly insightful,' saying 'READ IT-AND ACT!'

Now Laffer and Moore follow the rousing success of The End of Prosperity with a book even more vital to America and Americans, delivering a plan that shows how our country can regain its lost prosperity. With the economy flat on its back, unemployment at a twenty-five-year high, and the housing default crisis still worsening, is this even possible? But America can once again become the land of economic opportunity, and this brilliant new book tells us exactly how.

While President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama may hail from different parties, their responses to the crisis have been strikingly similar. The Bush and Obama plans have failed, producing nothing except a cascade of trillions of dollars of debt. Is the situation hopeless?

No, say Laffer and Moore resoundingly, the situation is not hopeless. A return to prosperity is still entirely possible...if the correct strategies are followed. In The End of Prosperity, the authors primarily discussed how lower taxes are essential to economic growth. Now, in Return to Prosperity, they detail the other essential components: putting government at all levels on a low-fat diet; emphasizing debt reduction and retirement; and bringing back the investor class in America, where every American can 'own a piece of the rock.'

In a time where most of the proposed solutions are fraught with peril, the argument provides a refreshing counterbalance. Return to Prosperity is a prescription that gives America the fundamental tools it needs in order to set about recovering. This book is an urgently needed road map to renewed prosperity, and it is vital for anyone who worries that the current economy is faltering, with no clear plan for recovery.

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ID: 132249

Title: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

Author: David Aaronovitch

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Politics, World

Summary:

Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere-from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana. In this age of terrorism we live in, the role of conspiracy is a serious one-one that can fuel radical or fringe elements to violence.

For award-winning journalist David Aaronovitch, there came a time when he started to see a pattern among these inflammatory theories. He found that these theories used similarly murky methods with which to insinuate their claims: they linked themselves to the supposed conspiracies of the past ('it happened then so it can happen now'); they carefully manipulated their evidence to hide its holes; and they relied on the authority of dubious academic sources. Most important, they elevated their believers to membership of an elite-a group of people able to see beyond lies to a higher reality. But why believe something that entails stretching the bounds of probability so far? Surely it is more likely that men did actually land on the moon in 1969 than that thousands of people were enlisted to fabricate an elaborate hoax.

In this entertaining and enlightening book-aimed at providing ammunition for those who have found themselves at the wrong end of a conversation about moon landings or the twin towers-Aaronovitch carefully probes and explodes a dozen of the major conspiracy theories. In doing so, he examines why people believe them and makes an argument for a true skepticism-one based on a thorough knowledge of history and a strong dose of common sense.

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ID: 117776

Title: Kim

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

'In all India is no one so alone as I!'

Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through India, enthralled by the 'roaring whirl' of the landscape and cities of richly colored bazaars and immense diversity of people.

The novel is a masterpiece of careful organization and skillfully manipulated narrative techniques. By portraying Kim's utter devotion to the lama and his ability to share the life of the common people intimately and unself-consciously, Kipling creates a vision of harmony-and of India-that unites the secular and the spiritual, the life of action with that of contemplation.

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ID: 117926

Title: Return of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'

Sherlock Holmes did not lose his life at the Reichenbach Falls. Nor has three years of absence taken away his power to startle the faithful Dr. Watson. But it is the Park Lane mystery-the murder of the Honorable Ronald Adair-that brings Holmes back to life and the search for the second most dangerous man in London.

And when that case is satisfactorily concluded, Holmes is once again free to devote himself to examining twelve more of those interesting little problems that the complex life of London so plentifully presents.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes contains the following tales: 'The Adventure of the Empty House,' 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,' 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men,' 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist,' 'The Adventure of the Priory School,' 'The Adventure of Black Peter,' 'The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton,' 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,' 'The Adventure of the Three Students,' 'The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez,' 'The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter,' 'The Adventure of the Abbey Grange,' and 'The Adventure of the Second Stain.'

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