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ID: 293800

Title: Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

Author: Diane Ackerman

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:58:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn-drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she introduces us to varieties of bird music and other signs of avian intelligence, while she herself 'migrates' from winter in Florida to spring, summer, and fall in upstate New York.

Humans might luxuriate in the idea of being 'in' nature, Ackerman points out, but we often forget that we are nature-for 'no facet of nature is as unlikely as we, the tiny bipeds with the giant dreams.' Joining science's devotion to detail with religion's appreciation of the sublime, Dawn Light is an impassioned celebration of the miracles of evolution-especially human consciousness of our numbered days on a turning earth.

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ID: 289167

Title: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Author: Terry Pratchett

Narrator: Tony Robinson

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:44:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever.

Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

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ID: 118271

Title: American Adulterer: A Novel

Author: Jed Mercurio

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General

Summary:

'The subject is an American citizen holding high elected office, married, and father to a young family...'

From its opening line, American Adulterer examines the psychology of a habitual womanizer in hypnotically clinical prose. Like any successful philanderer, the subject must be circumspect in his choice of mistresses and employ careful calculation in their seduction; he must exercise every effort to conceal his affairs from his wife and jealous rivals. But this is no ordinary adulterer. He is the thirty-fifth president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

JFK famously confided that if he went three days without a woman, he suffered severe headaches. Acclaimed author Jed Mercurio takes inspiration from the tantalizing details surrounding the president's sex life to conceive this provocatively intimate perspective on Kennedy's affairs. Yet this is not an indictment. Startlingly empathetic, darkly witty, and deft, American Adulterer is a moving account of a man not only crippled by back pain but enduring numerous medical crises, a man overcoming constant suffering to serve as a highly effective commander-in-chief, committed to a heroically idealistic vision of America. But each affair propels him into increasingly murky waters. President Kennedy fears losing the wife and children to whom he's devoted and the office to which he's dedicated. This is a stunning portrait of a virtuous man enslaved by an uncontrollable vice and a novel that poses controversial questions about society's evolving fixation on the private lives of public officials and, ultimately, ignites a polemic on monogamy, marriage, and family values.

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ID: 118515

Title: American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood

Author: Marc Eliot

Narrator: Marc Eliot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

As an actor, he seduced us with his tough-guy charm in A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry. As a director and a producer, he amazed us with his artistic insight and technical savvy in Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Changeling. Clint Eastwood represents the finest cinematic achievements of the last decades, and he remains one of film's greatest living legends.

In American Rebel, Marc Eliot examines the ever-exciting, often tumultuous arc of Eastwood's life and career, from his days as a disaffected college dropout, to his rise to fame as the archetypal loner, to his acceptance into the pantheon of the Academy as a multiple Oscar Award winner. But this unauthorized biography is as much about Eastwood's personal life as his public work, and unlike past biographers, Eliot explores Eastwood's complex relationship between his life and his art with an unflinching look at his failures and his successes.

The most complete and up-to-date Eastwood biography yet, American Rebel is a must-have for Eastwood fans and anyone who loves movies.

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ID: 364852

Title: Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays

Author: Joel Waldfogel

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-09

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Lloyd James reveals how consumer spending during the holidays generates enormous amounts of economic waste

Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and . . . gift giving. Lots and lotsand lotsof gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receivethe rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing fish from Uncle Mike. How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gifts not knowing what recipients want? Did your cousin really look excited about that jumping alarm clock? Lively and informed, Scroogenomics illuminates how our consumer spending generates vast amounts of economic wasteto the shocking tune of eighty-five billion dollars each winter. Economist Joel Waldfogel provides solid explanations to show us why it's time to stop the madness and think twice before buying gifts for the holidays.

When we buy for ourselves, every dollar we spend produces at least a dollar in satisfaction, because we shop carefully and purchase items that are worth more than they cost. Gift giving is different. We make less-informed choices, max out on credit to buy gifts worth less than the money spent, and leave recipients less than satisfied, creating what Waldfogel calls 'deadweight loss.' Waldfogel discusses how this waste isn't confined to Americansmost major economies share in this orgy of wealth destruction. While recognizing the difficulties of altering current trends, Waldfogel offers viable gift-giving alternatives.

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ID: 295843

Title: Lost Symbol

Author: Dan Brown

Narrator: Paul Michael

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

When Professor Robert Langdon's mentor is brutally kidnapped, he realises the only hope of saving his friend is to follow the clues hidden in an ancient invitation. He is then plunged into a deadly race against time as he battles through a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, codes and hidden truths, all leading towards a shocking and unthinkable finale.

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ID: 59693

Title: Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll

Author: Simon Messingham

Narrator: David Tennant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:17:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

When the Doctor arrives on Earth in the far future, he is horrified to find the planet beset by famine and starvation. England is a barren wasteland, and scientists are desperately seeding the ground to make the crops grow again. But now it seems that something even worse is happening. Karl Baring, the owner of research facility The Grange, has been snatched away in the middle of the night. His sister Katy was with him when he vanished, but is now in catatonic shock - so it is up to the Doctor, with the help of the scientists at The Grange, to investigate. What is lurking under the old bridge, and why is it preying on people? The Doctor must find out, before it strikes again... Written specially for audio by Simon Messingham and read by David Tennant, The Day of the Troll features the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the acclaimed hit series from BBC Television. '... a great piece of characterisation wonderfully captured by Tennant' - Bognor Regis Observer 'Highly recommended' - Cambs Times.

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ID: 336010

Title: Highway Robbery

Author: Kate Thompson

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:59:32

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

It's more money than the street urchin has ever dreamt of. But who is the rider, and why is there so much interest in his big black horse? And will the boy ever see the money he has been promised? There's highway robbery in the air, but it isn't entirely clear just who is trying to rob who...

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ID: 382862

Title: Her Fearful Symmetry

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

Narrator: Sian Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:22:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Paranormal, Family Life

Summary:

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed. The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

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ID: 336009

Title: Horse Boy

Author: Rupert Isaacson

Narrator: Rupert Isaacson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:28:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-09

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

In his deeply personal account, Rupert Isaacson tells the amazing story of his autistic son and his transformation through the healing power of horses. From his home in Texas to the wilds of Mongolia, we follow the Isaacson family on an epic journey on horseback - a journey that would test their love, challenge their beliefs and change their lives.

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