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ID: 119449

Title: Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Author: Bernd Heinrich

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd Heinrich explores his local woods, where he delights in the seemingly infinite feats of animal inventiveness he discovers there.

Because winter drastically affects the most elemental component of all life-water-radical changes in a creature's physiology and behavior must take place to match the demands of the environment. Some creatures survive by developing antifreeze; others must remain in constant motion to maintain their high body temperatures. Even if animals can avoid freezing to death, they must still manage to find food in a time of scarcity or store if from a time of plenty.

Infused by the author's inexhaustible enchantment with nature, Winter World awakens the wonders and mysteries by which nature sustains herself through winter's harsh, cruel exigencies.

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ID: 119769

Title: Survivors of the Chancellor

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks, and starvation are just some of the many travails that beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them survive the wreck of the Chancellor?

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ID: 119768

Title: Yellow Claw

Author: Sax Rohmer

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

The elusive Oriental villain known as 'Mr. King' masterminds an insidious plot to hold London's wealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have already killed one socialite, and more are threatened. Hot on the trail are two of Sax Rohmer's greatest detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar, as they undertake a case that threatens to destroy the cream of British society!

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ID: 119456

Title: Glass Houses

Author: Rachel Caine

Narrator: Cynthia Holloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

Morganville, Texas, is a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad come out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows-one that will spill out into the bright light of day.

Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. The popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks on the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. And Claire really doesn't have the right connections-to the undead who run the town. When Claire heads off campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

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ID: 119476

Title: 5 Principles for a Successful Life: From Our Family to Yours

Author: Jackie Gingrich Cushman, Newt Gingrich

Narrator: Callista Gingrich, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, Newt Gingrich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Is life really so complicated? Ask happy and successful people this question and you're likely to hear that, in its essence, life is really quite simple. In this book, Newt Gingrich and his daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman-with the help of prominent people they know and admire, such as Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Mary Matalin, and David Petraeus-show how, by following just five principles, you can live life to its fullest:

-Dream Big. Like Walt Disney, who shared the magic kingdom of his imagination with millions, or like Jackie's sister, Kathy, who didn't let a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis stop her from completing a walking marathon, see where your dreams can take you.

-Work Hard. As Jackie points out in her recollections of her dad's early political career, working hard can be a surprising source of energy, and adopting an attitude of cheerful persistence will help you reach your goal.

-Learn Every Day. The key is to remember that learning is a reciprocal process. You can't be passive; you must be engaged. Come along on a visit to the acclaimed Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta to see how this principle works in action.

-Enjoy Life. And what's the best way to do that? From the wisdom of the ancient philosophers to information from the latest scientific studies, the answer is the same: Be grateful for all your blessings, and do something every day to show compassion and generosity to others.

-Be True to Yourself. It sounds easy, but it's the hardest principle to live by. Discover what people from William Shakespeare to Henrik Ibsen to John P. Abizaid have had to say about this touchstone for an honest life.

With these inspiring and memorable words of wisdom, Newt and Jackie have given us a book to treasure for a lifetime.

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ID: 293806

Title: Beautiful Disaster

Author: Kate Brian

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:25:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life-all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington.

Now enrolled as a junior at the exclusive Atherton-Pryce boarding school just outside of Washington, D.C., Ariana sleeps in Frette sheets, flirts with the captain of the crew team, and gossips with the most beautiful girls on campus. She killed to get back her life of privilege. Just how far will she go to keep it?

From the author of the bestselling Private novels comes a series about the dark world of wealth, secrets, and privilege.

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ID: 119233

Title: Sleeping Dogs

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head.

Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him...until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide...until he's locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces.

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ID: 119765

Title: Ring of Thoth and Other Tales

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics, Paranormal

Summary:

In 'The Ring of Thoth,' Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith wakes, it is the middle of the night and he is locked inside the darkened museum. Soon he becomes aware that someone else is there, too. A mysterious figure holding a light has come into the hall and opened the case of one of the mummies. Smith realizes that it is the attendant that he saw earlier in the day, and as he watches from the shadows, he becomes involved in the extraordinary story of the ring of Thoth.

In addition to 'The Ring of Thoth,' this collection of short stories by the masterful Arthur Conan Doyle contains 'The Captain of the Polestar,' 'J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement,' 'The Great Kleinplatz Experiment,' 'The Man from Archangel,' 'That Little Square Box,' 'John Huxford's Hiatus,' 'A Literary Mosaic,' 'John Barrington Cowles,' and 'Elias B. Hopkins.'

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ID: 119766

Title: Typhoon

Author: Joseph Conrad

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Classics

Summary:

Calm, stoic captain Mac Whirr has just been given command of a new steamship, the Nan-Shan. He and his crew are transporting Asian workers across the China Sea when a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure alerts Mac Whirr of 'some uncommonly dirty weather knocking about.'

Soon the steamship, her crew, and the human cargo are caught in the midst of a vicious typhoon. The impending disaster brings out the best and the worst of Mac Whirr; Jukes, the chief mate; Solomon, the wise engineer; and the rest of the crew. Conrad shows that in the struggle for survival, true character will always be exposed.

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ID: 119767

Title: Path of the King

Author: John Buchan

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

The Path of the King offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the Vikings through centuries of Norman and French, Flemish, English, Scottish, and American social, economic, and political life. Famous events such as the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, the adventures of Daniel Boone, and much else provide the background for the men and women who successively have the blood of kingliness in them, however diluted. The subtly linked individual stories are used to suggest that kingliness may be dormant or fitful over several generations but will eventually reappear in someone, like Abraham Lincoln.

All the leading characters are presented as descended from a young Viking prince whose death among the Franks as a defeated Northman is implied in the first episode. That princeling's golden torque is the symbol of his royal status, but it is remodeled as a ring, ultimately resurfacing in America only to be lost by young Abe Lincoln when he uses it to catch a fish in a 'crick.' But its loss is of no account, for when kingliness in fact reappears in Lincoln the man, there is no need for it.

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