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ID: 119635

Title: Whose Body? with eBook

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrator: Roe Kendall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder-especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.

First published in 1923, Whose Body? established the disarmingly debonair-and somewhat foppish-Wimsey as one of the most enduring characters in English literature. It remains one of the most significant (and most charming) of the Golden Age mysteries.

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ID: 119213

Title: Darkling

Author: Yasmine Galenorn

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

We're the D'Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we are savvy—and sexy—operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Camille is a wicked-good witch whose magic is as unpredictable as the weather. My sister Delilah transforms into a tabby cat when she's under stress. And me? I'm Menolly, acrobat-extraordinaire-turned-vampire. And I'd give my right fang to make my sire pay for killing me. That is, if he doesn't find me first...

All over Seattle, humans have been going missing, only to turn up as newborn vampires—the sure sign of a rogue vamp on the loose. It looks like Dredge is to blame—the same sadistic Dredge who gave me my scars and who may well be in cahoots with the demon Shadow Wing. If so, Otherworld and Earth are screwed. The only way we can hope to defeat Dredge is for me to travel home to Otherworld and face my own demons. For unless I sever the ties that bind me to Dredge, all hell is going to break loose.

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ID: 294086

Title: Snark

Author: David Denby

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:01:46

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

What is snark? You recognize it when you see it-a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker critic and bestselling author David Denby takes on the snarkers, naming the nine principles of snark-the standard techniques its practitioners use to poison their arrows. Snarkers like to think they are deploying wit, but mostly they are exposing the seethe and snarl of an unhappy country, releasing bad feeling but little laughter.

In this highly entertaining book, Denby traces the history of snark through the ages, starting with its invention as personal insult in the drinking clubs of ancient Athens, tracking its development all the way to the age of the Internet, where it has become the sole purpose and style of many media, political, and celebrity Web sites. Snark releases the anguish of the dispossessed, envious, and frightened; it flows when a dying class of the powerful struggles to keep the barbarians outside the gates, or, alternately, when those outsiders want to take over the halls of the powerful and expel the office-holders. Snark was behind the London-based magazine Private Eye, launched amid the dying embers of the British empire in 1961; it was also central to the career-hungry, New York–based magazine Spy. It has flourished over the years in the works of everyone from the startling Roman poet Juvenal to Alexander Pope to Tom Wolfe to a million commenters snarling at other people behind handles. Thanks to the grand dame of snark, it has a prominent place twice a week on the opinion page of the New York Times.

Denby has fun snarking the snarkers, expelling the bums and promoting the true wits, but he is also making a serious point: the Internet has put snark on steroids. In politics, snark means the lowest, most insinuating and insulting side can win. For the young, a savage piece of gossip could ruin a reputation and possibly a future career. And for all of us, snark just sucks the humor out of life. Denby defends the right of any of us to be cruel but shows us how the real pros pull it off. Snark, he says, is for the amateurs.

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ID: 118326

Title: Kushiel's Chosen

Author: Jacqueline Carey

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Content Notice: This title may contain mature themes and adult content.

Mighty Kushiel, of rod and weal

Late of the brazen portals

With blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealed

Pricks the eyen of chosen mortals.

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.

Phèdre nó Delaunay was sold into indentured servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, the first to recognize that she is one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. He trained Phèdre in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber-and, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze.

When she stumbled upon a plot that threatened the very foundations of her homeland, she gave up almost everything she held dear to save it. She survived, and lived to have others tell her story, and if they embellished the tale with fabric of mythical splendor, they weren't far off the mark.

The hands of the gods weigh heavily upon Phèdre's brow, and they are not finished with her. While the young queen who sits upon the throne is well loved by the people, there are those who believe another should wear the crown...and those who escaped the wrath of the mighty are not yet done with their schemes for power and revenge.

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ID: 118306

Title: Call of the Canyon

Author: Zane Grey

Narrator: John Bolen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

From the master of the western comes a tale of love tested by the rugged life of the American Southwest. Carley Burch, a beautiful young woman, must leave her glamorous high-society life of New York to follow her fiance, Glenn Kilbourne, to the rugged Wild West. She braves fierce ruffians, brutal elements, and lack of civilization in an attempt to reclaim him. Glenn, suffering from shell shock and the betrayal of his country following World War I, had moved west to recover. He then fell in love with the West, and his perspective on life was changed forever. Glenn now finds his previous high-society life repulsive. Can Carley adapt to the rigorous life of the West? Will she be able to convince Glenn to return to his 'home' in New York? Will she be in time before a rival temptress steals Glenn away?

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ID: 54852

Title: Laura Solon Talking And Not Talking - Series 2

Author: Laura Solon

Narrator: Laura Solon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:48:17

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

The complete second BBC Radio 4 series by Perrier Award winner Laura Solon. Laura Solon won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her sensational debut show. She now returns to Radio 4 with a new series of her bittersweet comedy show packed with characters, monologues and sketches from this extraordinary writer and performer. There will be talking, not talking, some stories, and a lion made out of china. Aided by Rosie Cavaliero, Ben Moor and Ben Willbond, Laura Solon is a remarkable talent with an astonishing eye for detail and ear for voice. The writing is as fresh as a cowslip, as sharp as a kitchen-knife, and sometimes as coarse as a fishwife - Telegraph '... moments of twisted genius' - Observer 'Talking and Not Talking is very clever' - Times 'Solon's series stood out for its self-assurance, its unforced oddness...' - Independent 'She's a remarkable talent' - Guardian 'Laura Solon is the new Catherine Tate' - Mail on Sunday

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ID: 54848

Title: Doctor Who: Ghosts of India

Author: Mark Morris

Narrator: David Troughton

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:30:18

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos, a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. These creatures, it is said, are as white as salt and have only shadows where their eyes should be. With help from India's great spiritual leader, Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi, the Doctor and Donna set out to investigate these rumours. What is the real truth behind the 'half-made men'? Why is Gandhi's role in history under threat? And has an ancient, all-powerful god of destruction really come back to wreak his vengeance upon the Earth? Featuring the Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television, Ghosts of India is read by David Troughton, who has appeared in many episodes of Doctor Who. Written by Mark Morris.

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ID: 118303

Title: Lost World

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Historical

Summary:

On a zoology expedition up the Amazon River, Professor Challenger makes an inexplicable discovery. Back in London, his claims are ridiculed throughout the professional community. Reluctantly, he recounts to journalist Edward Malone, 'Curupuri is the spirit of the woods, something terrible, something malevolent, something to be avoided. None can describe its shape or nature, but it is a word of terror along the Amazon. Something terrible lay that way. It was my business to find out what it was.'

Professor Challenger vows to prove his tale at a zoological meeting, and a party is formed to find the truth. Malone joins adventurer Lord John Roxton and staid professor Summerlee on the mission. They journey to the depths of the Amazon, well provisioned and armed to the teeth. But how little they are prepared for what they find there.

Today, Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he was also the author of many science fiction novels, and The Lost World was one of his best. This original tale of the 'living dinosaurs' was the inspiration for many others of its kind, including Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

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ID: 119647

Title: 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History

Author: Charles Bracelen Flood

Narrator: Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-09

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, History & Culture

Summary:

At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, challenged him for the Republican nomination. But by the end of the year, the war's end was in sight, and slavery was on the verge of extinction.

Despite all the turmoil of war and political infighting, Lincoln also set the stage for a new era of westward expansion. He shaped the decades to come through laws and subsidies that propelled railroads westward, by the Homestead Act that offered western lands to immigrant farmers and by the Act to Encourage Immigration that enabled 615,000 men, women, and children to arrive in America during the Civil War.

As the year ended, John Wilkes Booth, who stalked Lincoln throughout 1864, was only a few weeks away from assassinating our greatest president.

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ID: 54850

Title: Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap

Author: Simon Messingham

Narrator: Russell Tovey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:24:19

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-09

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Sebastiene was human... once. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal... In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more prize. For this trophy, he knows he is going to need help. He's brought together the finest hunters in the universe to play the most dangerous game for the deadliest quarry of them all. They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor. Featuring the Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television, The Doctor Trap is read by Russell Tovey, who played Midshipman Alonso Frame in the TV episode Voyage of the Damned.

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