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ID: 499857

Title: Dare to Play

Author: Carly Phillips

Narrator: Erin Mallon, Joe Arden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:49:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Sports

Summary:

Hes the bad boy of baseball whos about to lose everything. She needs a husband to get custody of her teenage sister. Suddenly a marriage of convenience doesnt look so bad.

Pitcher Jaxon Prescott has a lot on his plate. Major league baseball. Reputation as a Player. And as of this morning? Hes on the verge of losing it all. He didnt mean to sleep with his general managers daughter. Sometimes the paparazzi finds out whos in your bed before you do. But a sizzling moment went viral and now everything hes worked for is at risk.

Whats a bad boy to do? Marry his little sisters best friend to save his image, even if its the opposite of everything he wants and believes in.

Macy Walker is the sole guardian of her step-sister until the girls mother returns and wants her daughter back. In order to win custody, Macy needs to provide stability and marrying someone would do the trick. Luckily for her, her best friends brother needs a wife.

Theyre this close to getting exactly what they wantas long as they dont fall in love.

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ID: 499859

Title: Their Reluctant Bride

Author: Vanessa Vale

Narrator: Kylie Stewart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:10:52

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Emily Woodhouse is a penniless, homeless widow thanks to her recently deceased husband. His gambling ways have placed her in a desperate situation. Faced with working off his debt in the basest of ways, she chooses instead to accept Tyler and Xanders unconventional marriage proposal. She wont be marrying one man, but two.

Tyler and Xander know instantly that Emily is the one for them. Not only does the widowed young woman rouse their protective natures, she knows of their customs regarding a two-husband marriage. Despite the fact that Emily needs the safety they can offer, she isnt eager to remarry. She might be reluctant, but they will show her what it will be like with two men to cherish, protect, and possess her.

But the past catches up with them in the most dangerous of ways. Only in facing the past can they forge a future together.

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ID: 499856

Title: Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy

Author: Stephen Wertheim

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:10:30

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: History, World, Global Politics

Summary:

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the worlds armed superpowerand never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces Americas transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nations new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore.

Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off isolationism only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the US foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored isolationisma term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new internationalism.

We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of US supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to todays global entanglements and endless wars.

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ID: 450596

Title: Colour of the Sky After Rain

Author: Tessa Keswick

Narrator: Sarah Lambie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:24:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-20

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Travel, Asia

Summary:

An extraordinary memoir of one woman's experiences in China.

Tessa Keswick first travelled to China in 1982 and immediately fell in love with its history, culture and landscape.

Over the next thirty years, she travelled extensively in China, visiting its temples and landmarks, the sites of its most famous battles, and the birthplaces of its best-known poets and philosophers. She also witnessed China's transformation, as hundreds of millions were lifted out of poverty and the country emerged as an economic superpower in waiting.

Keswick's observations of life in China are perceptive and full of insight. Her narrative is rich in microhistories of people encountered and places visited. By presenting a colourfully woven tapestry of contrasting experiences and localities, she allows the reader to glimpse the sheer diversity of China and its vast population.

A multi-textured and revealing survey of the world's largest country, as seen through one woman's eyes, The Colour of the Sky After Rain offers a compelling portrait of China in an age of radical change, and charts the key staging posts in its recent, remarkable history.

'Tessa Keswick provides joyous insights into her life with husband Sir Henry Keswick' Sunday Times.

2020 Head of Zeus

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ID: 461505

Title: Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying

Author: Alison Jean Lester

Narrator: Alison Jean Lester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:37:07

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life.

Yes. Enjoying.

She knew just where she wanted to be, with whom, doing what, and she communicated this to her family and friends with clarity and consistency. She died nine weeks later, having engaged in dying with equanimity, curiosity, and even amusement.

In Absolutely Delicious, Valeries daughter describes the roads leading to her mothers cooperation with her terminal disease and her decision to forego treatments that might have prolonged her life, but also might have ruined her death. It is a story that illuminates the benefits of acceptance and the many gifts offered by daring to own ones end.

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ID: 499119

Title: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Author: Alexander Keyssar

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:25:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: American Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist The Right to Vote explains the enduring problem of this controversial institution.

Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Most Americans have long preferred a national popular vote, and Congress has attempted on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College. Several of these effortsone as recently as 1970came very close to winning approval. Yet this controversial system remains.

Alexander Keyssar explains its persistence. After tracing the Electoral Colleges tangled origins at the Constitutional Convention, he explores the efforts from 1800 to 2020 to abolish or significantly reform it, showing why each has failed. Reasons include the complexity of the electoral systems design, the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values, the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments, and, importantly, the Souths prolonged backing of the Electoral College, grounded in its desire to preserve white supremacy in the region. The commonly voiced explanation that small states have blocked reform for fear of losing influence proves to have been true only occasionally.

Keyssar examines why reform of the Electoral College has received so little attention from Congress for the last forty years, and considers alternatives to congressional action such as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and state efforts to eliminate winner-take-all. In analyzing the reasons for past failures while showing how close the nation has come to abolishing the institution, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? offers encouragement to those hoping to produce change in the twenty-first century.

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ID: 499109

Title: Their Captivated Bride

Author: Vanessa Vale

Narrator: Kylie Stewart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:28:08

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

When it was three against one, I was always going to be overwhelmed.

The Bridgewater way of two men marrying one woman is uncommon in the Montana territory. But three men marrying one woman? That is unheard of, especially for beautiful Olivia Weston. Her fate, it seems, will have her married to one mana man she doesnt love.

But when her betrothed treats her in a cruel manner, she rejects him and not long afterwards catches the eye of three handsome and virile ranchers. Cross, Rhys, and Simon are as different as three men can be. But they have one thing in common; they are determined to offer Olivia the protection of marriage and the promise of endless carnal pleasures.

Olivia worries that her instant attraction and hasty agreement to marry three men stems from a defect in her character. What kind of woman not just loves three men, but makes the most intimate parts of herself available to their lustful attention? The chemistry between them is like lightning. Can she deny it? Or will Olivia submit to become the most sated Bridgewater wife in this ongoing ménage series?

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ID: 499121

Title: Penrod

Author: Booth Tarkington

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:21:08

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the preWorld War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Like most children, Penrod gets caught up in his own elaborate lies with hilarious results. His friends and his dog accompany him on his many jaunts, from the stage as the Child Sir Lancelot, to the playground, to school. They make names for themselves as bad boys who, fittingly, always have the most fun. This humorous, thoughtful story is a wonderful example of the real-life characterization and attention to detail for which Tarkington is celebrated.

Over a century after it was first published to incredible popularity and acclaim, Penrod remains wildly funny and entertaining to adults and children alike.

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ID: 499100

Title: Fix Up

Author: Tawna Fenske

Narrator: Savannah Peachwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:48:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

Uncovering this sexy geeks charm is easy. Keeping her hands off of him is impossible.

While he may look like the love child of a movie starlet and an NFL linebacker, Ben Langley has the people skills of a half-drowned porcupine. Why socialize when there are chemistry labs and bad sci-fi flicks? If he has any hope of taking the helm as CEO of the family business, Ben needs an image makeover. Pronto.

Enter Holly Colvin, owner of First Impressions public relations and branding firm, and the woman who just saved Ben from the clutches of an over-attentive sales clerk. Hollys rebranded hundreds of companies in her career, but shes never rebranded a person. The guy clearly needs help, though, and shes just the woman for the job.

With the clock ticking for them both, Holly and Ben face off over wardrobe malfunctions and business jargon that sounds a lot sexier than it should. But can Holly make Ben into the man he thinks he should be without losing the man shes starting to love?

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ID: 499111

Title: Their Treasured Bride

Author: Vanessa Vale

Narrator: Kylie Stewart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:11:26

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Rebecca Montgomery never expected to leave London and go to the American West, but this was how her brother saves her an impending marriage of convenience. She also never expected her brother to marry her by proxy to a trusted friend before dying on the journey. She quickly discovers that the Montana territory is a far cry from England, and so are the expectations of a wife at Bridgewater Ranch, for shes married not just to Dashiell, but also to his friend and fellow Scot, Connor MacDonald.

Dashiell McPherson never expected to find himself wed to a woman hes never met, especially not a prim lady raised to believe her sexuality is something to be repressed rather than enjoyed. Can an inhibited woman accept not just one but two husbands? It will take ample Scottish brash, a fair amount of brawn and plenty of carnal persuasion to free Rebecca of her inhibitions and show her how treasured she is.

This fourth book in the bestselling Bridgewater series continues the saga of this polyandrous Western community where men are men, and their women are pleasured in ways that will have themand readersbegging for more.

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