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ID: 119645

Title: How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

Author: Jack Horner, James Gorman

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Biology & Chemistry, General

Summary:

In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs-or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the twenty-first century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.

In the 1980s, Horner began using CAT scans to look inside fossilized dinosaur eggs, and he and his colleagues have been delving deeper ever since. At North Carolina State University, Mary Schweitzer has extracted fossil molecules-proteins that survived 68 million years-from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil excavated by Horner. These proteins show that T. rex and the modern chicken are kissing cousins. At McGill University, Hans Larsson is manipulating a chicken embryo to awaken the dinosaur within-starting by getting it to grow a tail and eventually prompting it to grow the forelimbs of a dinosaur. All of this is happening without changing a single gene.

This incredible research is leading to discoveries and applications so profound they're scary in the power they confer on humanity. How to Build a Dinosaur is a tour of the hot rocky deserts and air-conditioned laboratories at the forefront of this scientific revolution.

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ID: 119237

Title: Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

Author: Tom Zoellner

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Military, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium could master the world.

Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to believe that civilization would end with apocalypse. Slave labor camps in Africa and Eastern Europe were built around mine shafts, and America would knowingly send more than 600 uranium miners to their graves in the name of national security.

Fortunes have been made from this yellow dirt; massive energy grids have been run from it. Fear of it panicked the American people into supporting a questionable war with Iraq, and its specter threatens to create another conflict in Iran. Now, some are hoping it can help avoid a global warming catastrophe.

In Uranium, Tom Zoellner takes readers around the globe in this intriguing look at the mineral that can sustain life or destroy it.

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ID: 294040

Title: Finding Grace: A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life...and Finding It Again

Author: Donna VanLiere

Narrator: Donna VanLiere

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:38:11

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires-even the simplest ones-are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need Him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book about the 'undeserved gift which is life itself.' It's the story of 'Finding Grace.'

Donna VanLiere has entertained millions with her inspirational stories. In her new book, she gives us a candid look into her own life-a life filled with suffering and pain, but one that ultimately finds peace with itself.

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ID: 118321

Title: Border Legion

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Romance, Classics

Summary:

Jim Cleve has been deemed 'a good guy' all of his life, and it agitates him to no end. Even his girlfriend, Joan Randle, has scorned him for this 'weakness,' telling Jim, 'You haven't it in you even to be bad!' Dejected and hurt, Jim abandons the life he has known for the gold mining camps along Alder Gulch in southern Montana. It is here, among the thieves and murderers, that he must make a new name for himself.

Meanwhile, Joan realizes the danger that she has put Jim in and rushes off to save him. However, when she stumbles across the ruthless desperado gang leader Jack Kells, it is soon Joan who is in need of rescue. When Kells tries to rape her, Joan grabs his gun and shoots him. But something keeps Joan from leaving him to die. In the face of Joan's loving spirit, Kells experiences his own change of heart. But it is too late; Kells's outlaw gang arrives and takes Joan hostage.

So begins the border legion adventures of roving bandits, lust, and greed. With Jim's search for a new identity, Jack's moral dilemma, and the fight for Joan's freedom, this thrilling story portrays the epic theme of man's continual struggle between good and evil.

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ID: 274285

Title: Flood and Fang: Book 1

Author: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:35:42

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-09

Publisher: Hachette Children Group UK

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.

Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the unthinkable and discover the unknowable; his wife, Minty, is too absorbed in her latest obsession - baking; and ten-year-old Cudweed is running riot with his infernal pet monkey. Only Solstice, the black-haired, poetry-writing Otherhand daughter, seems to pay any attention. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood, and kitchen maids continue to go missing, the family come ever closer to the owner of the black tail...

Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

Read by Martin Jarvis

(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

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ID: 118320

Title: Rainbow Trail

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:39:06

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Romance, Classics

Summary:

John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life, and when he met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. He had to have her. She was worth life itself.

Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he had posses to worry about, violent bands of Indians to outrun, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell.

Hell, yes. Busting her out of jail had been a cinch. After that it really got tough.

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ID: 118319

Title: Man of the Forest

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Romance, Classics

Summary:

Milt Dale is the Man of the Forest. Living alone in a camp in the wilderness called Paradise Park, he prefers the company of bears, cougars, and wolves to that of the surrounding ranchers and troublemakers. But one day he overhears a conversation that changes his life and convinces him to leave his wild paradise to save a young woman from certain doom.

The pioneer spirit runs in Helen Rayner's blood, but it may not save her from the nasty end that tough guy Snake Anson has planned for her. To get his hands on her uncle's ranch, he needs to get rid of Helen-by any means necessary. But luckily for Helen, the Man of the Forest is not about to let that happen.

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ID: 119187

Title: No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels

Author: Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols-these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.

Dobyns leaves no stone of his harrowing journey unturned. At runs and clubhouses, between rides and riots, Dobyns befriends bad-ass bikers, meth-fueled 'old ladies,' gun fetishists, psycho-killer ex-cons, and even some of the 'Filthy Few'-the elite of the Hells Angels who've committed extreme violence on behalf of their club. Eventually, at parties staged behind heavily armed security, he meets legendary club members such as Chuck Zito, Johnny Angel, and the godfather of all bikers, Ralph 'Sonny' Barger. To blend in with them, he gets full-arm ink; to win their respect, he vows to prove himself a stone-cold killer.

Hardest of all is leading a double life, which has him torn between his devotion to his wife and children and his pledge to become the first federal agent ever to be 'fully patched' into the Angels' near-impregnable ranks. His act is so convincing that he comes within a hairsbreadth of losing himself. Eventually, he realizes that just as he's been infiltrating the Hells Angels, they've been infiltrating him. And just as they're not all bad, he's not all good.

Reminiscent of Donnie Brasco's uncovering of the true Mafia, this is an eye-opening portrait of the world of bikers-the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson's seminal work-one that fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who would otherwise be powerless outsiders. Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation, but also the freedom-and, yes, brotherhood-of the only truly American form of organized crime.

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ID: 118317

Title: Princess and the Goblin

Author: George MacDonald

Narrator: Ian Whitcomb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

Young Princess Irene is sent to the country to be raised in a half-farmhouse, half-castle located in the side of a mountain. While exploring the top of the castle, Irene becomes lost and inexplicably finds her way to a mystifying and beautiful woman spinning a thread. Princess Irene discovers that this woman to which she is drawn is her great-great-grandmother. But after she returns, her nurse, Lootie, refuses to believe in the old woman's existence, and the young princess cannot find the way back to her great-great-grandmother.

Days later, while on an outing with Lootie, Princess Irene believes that she detects a goblin. They meet a young miner, Curdie, who confirms her sighting. Soon Curdie discovers that goblins lurking under the castle have constructed an evil plot against the king and his palace. Princess Irene's belief in her great-great-grandmother's powers becomes essential as she and Curdie work to foil the sinister goblin plan. As the Princess tells Curdie, 'Sometimes you must believe without seeing.'

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ID: 350431

Title: Unnatural Death

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrator: Full Cast , Ian Carmichael

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:19:09

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

This was the second Lord Peter Wimsey story to be adapted for radio in the mid-seventies. Broadcast May 5th to June 16th 1975, it was adapted by Chris Miller and produced by Simon Brett. The case of Agatha Dawson is closed, but Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied. With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation. Then Agatha's maid is suddenly murdered. The episode titles are: 1) No Sign of Foul Play 2) Death in Epping Forest 3) The Will 4) Hallelujah 5) The Property Act 6) Vera Findlater and 7) Miss Climpson Investigates. This will be the ninth, and probably the last, Radio Collection release of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories starring Ian Carmichael.

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