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ID: 117780

Title: Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America

Author: Peter Biskind

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Famously a playboy, Warren Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde (which confirmed for him the importance of controlling the projects he was involved in) to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar), Bugsy, and Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles, Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film-and unlike Welles, Beatty did it twice, with Heaven Can Wait and Reds. Peter Biskind shows how Beatty used star power, commercial success, savvy, and charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will, establishing an unprecedented level of independence while still working within the studio system.

Beatty's private life has been the subject of gossip for decades, and Star confirms his status as Hollywood's leading man in the bedroom, describing his affairs with Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Michelle Phillips, Diane Keaton, and Madonna, among many others.

Throughout his career, Beatty has demonstrated a fascination for politics. He was influential in the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns of Gary Hart. It was said of Hart and Beatty that each wanted to be the other, and Biskind shows that there was considerable truth in that wry observation. As recently as a few years ago, Beatty was speaking out about California politics and contemplating a run for governor.

Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control, often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket (and frequently collaborating with them), producing, directing, and acting in his own films, becoming an auteur before anyone in Hollywood knew what the word meant. He was arguably one of the most successful and creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century, and in this fascinating biography, Warren Beatty comes to life-complete with excesses and achievements-as never before.

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ID: 117783

Title: Little Men

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Little Men brilliantly extends the March family saga begun in Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women. Jo-now married to the good-natured Professor Bhaer and with sons of her own-has become the unflappable matron of an extended family at Plumfield, a school that the Bhaers have founded with Aunt March's legacy. Jo's rambunctious youngsters grow up in an atmosphere full of high spirits and misadventure-a world enlivened by Alcott's unique powers of observation and sympathy.

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ID: 118289

Title: Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: John Allen Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. With American military forces subjugated and civilians living in fear of their conquerors, there is no one to stop the Japanese from using the islands' resources to launch an offensive against America's western coast.

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ID: 117786

Title: Swiss Family Robinson

Author: Johann David Wyss

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. With optimism and boundless enthusiasm, the Robinson family undertakes the extraordinary task of constructing a home for themselves and exploring the primitive island filled with strange and beautiful creatures and exotic fruits and plants.

Rich in action and suspense, this exhilarating novel takes us to a faraway place of danger and beauty, where the courageous Robinson family embarks on a thrilling new life of adventure and discovery.

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ID: 119459

Title: Feast of Fools

Author: Rachel Caine

Narrator: Cynthia Holloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have learned to live in relative peace. Still, students like Claire Danvers know that after dark, studying can take a backseat to staying alive. But the tenuous good-neighbor policy is really turned on its head with the arrival of Mr. Bishop.

Bad to the bone, the ancient old-school vampire cares nothing about harmony. Staying at the top of the food chain isn't enough. What he wants from the town's living and dead is unthinkably sinister. It's only at a formal ball attended by vampires and their human dates that Claire realizes Bishop's plan-and the elaborately evil trap he's set for the warm-blooded souls of Morganville.

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ID: 293798

Title: Witches Incorporated

Author: K. E. Mills

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:41:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

It's Gerald Dunwoody's first official government assignment. He's hunting down a deadly saboteur, and time is quickly running out. Old and new enemies combine forces to thwart him. Once again, innocent lives are on the line. He needs his friends. He can't do this alone.

But Princess Melissande and Reg have troubles of their own. With the help of Monk Markham's brilliant, beautiful sister, they've opened a one-stop-shop witching locum agency, where magical problems are solved for a price. Problem is, the girls are struggling to keep the business afloat. Things are looking grim for Witches Incorporated-and that's before they accidentally cross paths with Gerald's saboteur.

Suddenly everybody's lives are on the line and Gerald realizes, too late, that there's a reason government agents aren't supposed to have friends.

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ID: 122362

Title: Gone 'til November: A Novel

Author: Wallace Stroby

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

When Deputy Sara Cross arrives at the late-night scene of a shooting by the side of a deserted highway, she learns that her former partner-also her former lover-fatally shot a twenty-four-year-old man, claiming that the man pulled a gun during what should have been a routine traffic stop. But the details soon point to another scenario, and in order to protect herself and her son, she must follow the truth no matter where it leads.

Wallace Stroby delivers a gripping novel that is part modern noir, part intense character study-and totally compelling from start to finish.

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ID: 117936

Title: Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

Author: Gary Greenberg

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Psychology

Summary:

'Am I happy enough?' This has been a pivotal question since America's inception. 'Am I not happy enough because I am depressed?' is a more recent version. Psychotherapist Gary Greenberg shows how depression has been manufactured-not as an illness but as an idea about our suffering, its source, and its relief. He challenges us to look at depression in a new way.

In the twenty years since their introduction, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests. Upwards of 30 million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than $10 billion. Even more important, Greenberg argues, it has become common, if not mandatory, to think of our unhappiness as a disease that can-and should-be treated by medication. Manufacturing Depression tells the story of how we got to this peculiar point in our history.

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ID: 237396

Title: Emotionally Weird

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Frances Tomelty

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-10

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Satire

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.

Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and the Germans (more real than the Luxemburgers).

But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Why is everyone writing novels? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

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ID: 218659

Title: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Author: Beth Moore

Narrator: Beth Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-10

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

2011 Retailers Choice Award winner!

Perhaps one of the biggest issues all women face is their own insecurity. Beth Moore, one of todays most admired and trusted Christian writers, wants women to be free from the insecurity trap. So Long, Insecurity will strike a chord with women everywhere, as Beth speaks truth into the lives of readers, showing them how to deal with their innermost fears, rediscover their God-given dignity, and develop a whole new perspectivea stronger sense of self. Women of all ages and backgrounds will resonate with this message of security and discover truths that will free them emotionally and spiritually and lead them to a better life as they walk with God.

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