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ID: 117775

Title: Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging

Author: Greg Critser

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires-the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiaging movement, and what do they expect from the vast and growing antiaging apothecary? Who is simply manufacturing money from spurious claims and dubious products, and who is performing legitimate scientific research? One thing is clear: by the mid-twenty-first century, America will have one million centenarians. How much older, then, can (and should) we get?

Sharp, funny, fast-paced, and deeply informed, Eternity Soup is a full-course meal about our quest for immortality, spiced with human vanity, chicanery, and cutting-edge science.

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ID: 122373

Title: Wife of the Gods: A Novel

Author: Kwei Quartey

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu-the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago-to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker.

While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu. It soon becomes clear that in addition to solving a recent murder, he is about to unravel the shocking truth about his mother's disappearance.

Kwei Quartey's sparkling debut novel introduces readers to a rich cast of characters, including the Trokosi-young women called Wives of the Gods-who, in order to bring good fortune to their families, are sent to live with fetish priests. Set in Ghana, with the action moving back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a small village in the Volta Region, Wife of the Gods brings the culture and beauty of its setting brilliantly to life.

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ID: 293781

Title: Small Wars: A Novel

Author: Sadie Jones

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:24:44

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, War & Military

Summary:

Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece in Small Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this 'small war' on him, his wife, Clara, and their family. Reminiscent of classic tales of love and war such as The English Patient and Atonement, Jones's gripping novel also calls to mind the master works of Virginia Woolf and their portrayal of the quiet desperation of a marriage in crisis. Small Wars is at once a deeply emotional, meticulously researched work of historical fiction and a profound meditation on war-time atrocities committed both on and off the battlefield.

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ID: 122368

Title: Time Travelers Never Die

Author: Jack McDevitt

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time-or worse-Shel enlists Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission.

Their journey through history takes them from the Enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil rights upheavals of the twentieth century. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of historical greats, sometimes in unexpected situations. Yet the elder Shelborne remains elusive.

And then Shel violates his agreement with Dave not to visit the future. There he makes a devastating discovery that sends him fleeing back through the ages and changes his life forever.

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ID: 118199

Title: Blood Money

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, General

Summary:

Jane Whitefield, the fearless 'guide' who helps people in trouble disappear, has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs. Carey McKinnon when she is called upon again to face her toughest opponents yet. Jane must try to save a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso. The deceptively simple task of hiding the girl propels Jane into the center of horrific events and pairs her with Bernie the Elephant, the Mafia's moneyman. Bernie has a photographic memory, and in order to undo an evil that has been growing for half a century, he and Jane engineer the biggest theft of all time-stealing billions from hidden Mafia accounts-only to face the unprecedented problem of what to do with that much money.

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ID: 118501

Title: Hammer of God

Author: Karen Miller

Narrator: Josephine Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

In Ethrea, Rhian sits upon a precarious throne. Defiant dukes who won't accept her rule threaten the stability of her kingdom. Dexterity has been banished from her court in disgrace. The blue-haired slave Zandakar, the man she thought was her friend, has been revealed as the son of a woman sworn to destroy her world. And Rhian's husband, King Alasdair, is unsure of her love.

The trading nations refuse to believe Mijak is a threat and promise reprisals if she dares protect her realm. Only Emperor Han of mysterious Tzhung-tzhungchai knows that the danger from Mijak is real.

But is he an ally or an enemy in disguise? As she struggles to learn the truth, and keep her embattled crown, the murderous warhost of Mijak advances.

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ID: 237499

Title: Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel

Author: Maaza Mengiste

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Sagas

Summary:

This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.

Beneath the Lion's Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction before. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut.

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ID: 122365

Title: Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Author: Garry Wills

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military, American Politics, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots-by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state-in ways still felt today. A masterful reckoning from one of America's preeminent historians, Bomb Power draws a direct line from the Manhattan Project to the usurpations of George W. Bush.

The invention of the atomic bomb was a triumph of official secrecy and military discipline-the project was covertly funded at the behest of the president and, despite its massive scale, never discovered by Congress or the press. This concealment was perhaps to be expected in wartime, but Wills persuasively argues that the Manhattan Project then became a model for the covert operations and overt authority that have defined American government in the nuclear era. The wartime emergency put in place during World War II extended into the Cold War and finally the war on terror, leaving us in a state of continuous war alert for sixty-eight years and counting.

The bomb forever changed the institution of the presidency since only the president controls 'the button' and, by extension, the fate of the world. Wills underscores how radical a break this was from the division of powers established by our founding fathers and how it, in turn, has enfeebled Congress and the courts. The bomb also placed new emphasis on the president's military role, creating a cult around the commander in chief. The tendency of modern presidents to flaunt military airs, Wills points out, is entirely a postbomb phenomenon. Finally, the Manhattan Project inspired the vast secretive apparatus of the national security state, including intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA, which remain largely unaccountable to Congress and the American people.

Wills recounts how, following World War II, presidential power increased decade by decade until reaching its stunning apogee with the Bush administration. Both provocative and illuminating, Bomb Power casts the history of the postwar period in a new light and sounds an alarm about the continued threat to our Constitution.

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ID: 119181

Title: Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century-he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan was not the first archetypal adventurer to spring from Howard's fertile imagination.

He was...a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan.... A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things.... Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect-he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

Collected in this volume are all of the stories that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan: 'Skulls in the Stars,' 'The Right Hand of Doom,' 'Red Shadows,' 'Rattle of Bones,' 'The Castle of the Devil,' 'Death's Black Riders,' 'The Moon of Skulls,' 'The One Black Stain,' 'The Blue Flame of Vengeance,' 'The Hills of the Dead,' 'Hawk of Basti,' 'The Return of Sir Richard Grenville,' 'Wings in the Night,' 'The Footfalls Within,' 'The Children of Asshur,' and 'Solomon Kane's Homecoming.'

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ID: 117917

Title: Return of the Native

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-10

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

One of Thomas Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love, believes that her escape from Egdon lies in her marriage to Clym Yeobright, the returning 'native,' home from Paris and discontented with his work there. Clym wishes to remain in Egdon, however-a desire that sets him in opposition to his wife and brings them both to despair. Surrounding them are Clym's mother, who is strongly opposed to his marriage; Damon Wildeve, who is in love with Eustacia but married to Clym's cousin Thomasin; and the oddly ambiguous observer Diggory Venn, whose frustrated love for Thomasin turns him into either a guardian angel or a jealous manipulator-or perhaps both.

This stew of curdled love and conflicting emotions can only boil over into tragedy, and the book's darkly ironic ending marks it as both a classically Victorian novel and a forerunner of the modernist fiction that followed it.

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