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ID: 322915

Title: Warrior

Author: Allan Mallinson

Narrator: Errick Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-09

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

1828: Matthew Hervey of the Sixth Light Dragoons has been urgently recalled to South Africa. The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesman who have been making incursions across the borders. When Hervey is told by his old friend, Sir Eyre Somervile, that the Zulu warrior king, Shaka, is about to make war on neighbouring tribes, he knows that matters are perilous indeed. Leaving his new wife and young daughter in England, Hervey speeds to his friend's aid. He and Somervile journey to meet the Zulu king, but Shaka's royal kraal is a horrifying place. The sentinels at the gates are corpses, and it is soon apparent that Shaka has slaughtered thousands of his own people. Into this febrile atmosphere ride Hervey, Somervile and their escort of dragoons and mounted rifles. But the sudden death of the Zulu king plunges the region into civil war, with Hervey and his men into terrible danger. Yet worse is to come. Separated from his troop, Hervey must lead Shaka's queen across a hostile and perilous land where sanctuary has never seemed further away.

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ID: 335970

Title: Sophie and the Albino Camel

Author: Stephen Davies

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:41:56

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-09

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

Sophie lives in Gorom-Gorom, with her carnivorous-plant obsessed dad. Despite living there for two years and speaking the local language, Sophie finds it difficult to make friends. So when she meets Gidaado, a young griot (story-teller), she agrees to join him and his albino camel, Chobbal, on a journey to his village. It is not until they have set off, that Sophie begins to realise just how dangerous the desert is - it's full of djinnis that creep up behind you, and jump on your head and make you go mad. Not to mention the infamous Moussa ag Litni, a ruthless bandit who steals camels...

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ID: 119324

Title: Some Day You'll Thank Me for This: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Being a 'Perfect' Mother

Author: Charlotte Hays, Gayden Metcalfe

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Cooking, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Parenting, General Comedy

Summary:

Southern society is arranged along matriarchal lines, since the Southern matriarch is a far more formidable being than the much nicer Southern male. She has to be this way; she was put on earth with a sacred mission: to drum good manners and the proper religion-ancestor worship-into the next generation.

In Some Day You'll Thank Me for This, Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays, the bestselling authors of Being Dead Is No Excuse and Somebody Is Going to Die If Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet, deliver up a hilarious treatise-complete with appropriate recipes from those finicky, demanding moms-on the joys, trials, and tribulations of being the daughter of a Southern mother. Including such chapters as 'A Crown in Heaven-The Southern Mother's Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Fashion Accoutrement,' 'Grande Dames and Other Mothers,' and 'Grandmothers: Why Precious Angel Baby Grandchildren Are So Much More Fun Than Granny's Own Bad Children,' this is the perfect gift for any Southern mother-or the daughter of one.

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ID: 119641

Title: Plea of Insanity

Author: Jilliane Hoffman

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller

Summary:

Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia is asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn't hesitate to jump on board. The defendant: a successful Miami surgeon. The victims: his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.

The perfect father. The perfect husband. Dr. David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? His defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family.

But the state suspects that Marquette's insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. And the evidence appears to be mounting that Marquette may be responsible for other unsolved murders around the state as well-murders that bear the frightening signature of a serial killer.

It's Julia's first murder trial and her first insanity defense, and the stakes are incredibly high. If convicted, Marquette faces the ultimate penalty-death. If found insane, he could walk free. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself. For her, the trial of Dr. David Marquette will mean more than just disarming a legal defense; it will take her on a personal journey back into her own past-a past she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And it will bring her face to face with a future that is so frightening, she's not sure she ever wants to see it.

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ID: 118323

Title: Betty Zane

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Classics, War & Military

Summary:

Betty Zane is the story of the first settlers in the Ohio Valley and their fight for survival during the Revolutionary War. The British have organized and incited the various eastern tribes to attack American 'Rebels' in this lesser-known theater of the war.

Betty is a fiery beauty whose quest for romance with Alfred Clarke is interrupted time and again by Indian raids and battles. In an unexpected twist, it is Betty who turns the tide at the final battle of Fort Henry.

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great-grandmother, Betty Zane is Zane Grey's first novel. This and the other two books in the Ohio River series are considered some of Grey's best work.

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ID: 119452

Title: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Author: Liaquat Ahamed

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.

In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic and suspicious Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose façade of energy and drive masked a deeply wounded and overburdened man. After the First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of international finance. Despite their differences, they were united by a common fear-that the greatest threat to capitalism was inflation-and by a common vision that the solution was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard.

For a brief period in the mid-1920s, they appeared to have succeeded. The world's currencies were stabilized, and capital began flowing freely across the globe. But beneath the veneer of boomtown prosperity, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to be a straitjacket, and the world economy began that terrible downward spiral known as the Great Depression.

As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, the Great Depression and the year 1929 remain the benchmark for true financial mayhem. Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, of their fallibility, and of the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.

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ID: 119451

Title: Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee

Author: Allen Barra

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Baseball

Summary:

Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs.

In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's remarkable life as never seen before, from his childhood in 'Dago Hill,' the Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis; to his leading role on the 1949–1953 Yankees, the only team to win five consecutive World Series; to the travails of the 1964 pennant race; through his epic battles and final peace with George Steinbrenner. This biography, replete with countless 'Yogi-isms,' offers hilarious insights into many of baseball's greatest moments. From calling Don Larsen's perfect game to managing the 1973 'You Gotta Believe' New York Mets, Yogi's life and career are a virtual cutaway view of our national pastime in the twentieth century.

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ID: 118226

Title: Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

Narrator: Jonathan Reese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams-what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams.

Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing first on the general difficulties involved in studying dreams, then on the many aspects of dream interpretation, specific symbols and examples of dreams, and the dream as a wish-fulfillment. Finally, he addresses the doubts and criticisms commonly expressed about his theories.

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ID: 379625

Title: Always Looking Up

Author: Michael J. Fox

Narrator: Michael J. Fox

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:31:05

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Struck with Parkinson's - a debilitating, degenerative disease - at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some people might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. Now, in Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to spare. With the humour and wit that dazzled fans and reviewers alike in his bestselling memoir, Lucky Man, Fox shows how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognising the gifts of everyday life.

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ID: 119225

Title: Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler

Author: Anne Nelson

Narrator: Anne Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

This riveting account of German resistance is based on years of research by the distinguished journalist Anne Nelson. This is a beautiful and moving portrait of ordinary but heroic figures-an untold story of a circle of Germans and German-Americans in Berlin who took a principled stand against Hitler and the Holocaust. They expressed their opposition by infiltrating the Nazi ministries, distributing samizdat literature to break through the information blockade, and trying to help the Allied forces achieve a military victory.

The narrative is constructed around the life of Greta Kuckhoff, an 'ordinary woman' educated at the University of Wisconsin, who returned to Germany only to see it sink into a fascist nightmare. The book relates the history of her resistance circle against an explanation of how Germany's civil society was systematically eroded.

Greta and her friends grapple with questions of ongoing concern today. How can a citizen balance the tensions between patriotism and ethics? How can civic duty be defined in a period when peaceful protest fails? How do government restrictions and the concentration of media ownership compromise democratic expression?

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