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ID: 495660

Title: Bombarded: How to Fight Back against the Online Assault on Democracy

Author: Cyrus Krohn, Tom Farmer

Narrator: Cyrus Krohn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Politics, Current Affairs, Political Ideologies

Summary:

A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable-and what can be done about it. - Kirkus Reviews

Imagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device - yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.

The coronavirus pandemic provided a foretaste of an infuriating, dystopian future. From the start Americans fought over the most basic facts of the crisis, from death tolls to quack cures to the wisdom of stay-at-home orders. The splintered digital infosphere bred confusion and delusion, some of it fatal. Now think of our campaigns and elections. The digital information age means more than hyper-targeted, just-for-you messages from insurance companies and presidential candidates alike.

"Trying to shield yourself from disinformation and deep fakes? Cyrus Krohn offers a 'five-step program' to fight back. This book rings true.' -Jill Dougherty, Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief

Big Data is on the way to fueling information environments so fine-tuned, no two of us hold the same view of reality, and no two voters hear the same pitch. Already, citizens don't know who to trust or what to believe - about COVID-19 or anything else. If we ask nothing more of tech providers or digital citizens, the fog will continue to thicken. Irritation will merge into despair and then numbness... and democracy teeters.

Digital pioneer Cyrus Krohn knows the territory, and in Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy, Krohn locates the roots of our blooming political chaos in the earliest days of the World Wide Web. But he goes beyond recounting 25 years of destabilizing Internet shock waves and his own role in building digital culture. Krohn rolls out a provocative action plan for rescuing the American system of campaigns and elections while there is still time.

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ID: 495655

Title: Replacement Crush

Author: Lisa Brown Roberts

Narrator: Emily Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:52:40

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Romance

Summary:

An accessible, heart-melting romance that also tackles serious issues for teen girls today, from the author of Playing the Player.

Romance book blogger Vivian Galdi is a girl on a mission: the Replacement Crush Mission. After Jake the Snake pretends their secret summer kissing sessions never happened, Vivian creates a list of safe crush targets, determined to avoid anyone who pings her zing meter. But nerd-hot Dallas, the new guy in town, sends the mission and Vivians zing meter into chaos. While designing software for the bookstore where Vivian works, Dallas wages a counter mission, analyzing his target and taking advantage of the tactical errors in her strategy.Does Dallas just like a good game of Replacement Crush Battlefield, or is he on his own mission to prove to Vivian that true love cant be strategized? And how much collateral damage can they both sustain during the heat of battle?

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ID: 495657

Title: Notes from Underground

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:35:48

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

I am a sick man I am a spiteful man, a nameless voice cries out. And so, from underground, emerge the passionate confessions of a suffering man; the painful self-examination of a tormented soul; the bristling scorn of a lonely individual who has become one of the greatest antiheroes in all literature.

In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novelsCrime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, and The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky penned the darkly fascinating Notes from Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themesmoral, religious, political, and socialthat dominated Dostoevskys later works.

Those who are familiar with his works will immediately recognize the novels richly complex philosophical, political, and psychological themes; those who are not will find the best introduction to Dostoevskys grander masterpieces.

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ID: 549003

Title: Last Campaign

Author: Martin L. Shoemaker

Narrator: Rebecca Mozo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A colony on Mars becomes home to a killer conspiracy in a Near-Earth Mystery by the award-winning author of The Last Dance.

Brazilian investigator Rosalia Morais, and her husband, revered American spacer Nicolau Aames, are building a life together in Mars’s Maxwell City, the fastest-growing settlement on the planet. Good news: there are no natural predators. Bad news: there are humans. That means the crime rate is growing, too.

To ensure public safety, Rosie’s appointed by the mayor as the Red Planet’s first chief of police. No sooner does she build a law enforcement squad than the biggest challenge looks to be internal. Policing the police for graft and corruption is one thing. But when an industrialist is found among the chars of an arson, it’s murder.

The fire leads to questions that can be answered by only one man—Nick’s former officer on the Earth-to-Mars vessel the Aldrin. And Nick is still duty bound to keep the officer’s secrets. As loyalties shift, trust breaks, and the tide of a political conspiracy rises, Rosie must solve a mystery that could doom the future of humanity on Mars.

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ID: 495658

Title: Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

Author: Christopher Wanjek

Narrator: Donald Corren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:01:06

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics

Summary:

A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close at hand.

More than fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, why is there so little human presence in space? Will we ever reach Mars? What will it take to become a multiplanet species, colonizing the solar system and traveling to other stars?

Spacefarers meets these questions head on. While many books have speculated on the possibility of living beyond the Earth, few have delved into the practical challenges or plausible motives for leaving the safe confines of our home planet. Christopher Wanjek argues that there is little doubt we will be returning to the Moon and exploring Mars in the coming decades, given the potential scientific and commercial bonanza. Private industry is already taking a leading role and earning profits from human space activity. This can be, Wanjek suggests, a sustainable venture and a natural extension of earthbound science, business, and leisure. He envisions hotels in low-earth orbit and mining, tourism, and science on the Moon. He also proposes the slow, steady development of science bases on Mars, to be followed by settlements if Martian gravity will permit reproduction and healthy child development.

An appetite for wonder will take us far, but if we really want to settle new worlds, well need the earnest plans of engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Wanjek introduces us to those planners, who are striving right now to make life in space a reality.

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ID: 495667

Title: Bahama Burnout: A Novel

Author: Don Bruns

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:40:37

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a days work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happensor rather, where the magic happened until a devastating fire destroyed the entire studio. No one knows how the fire started, who started itor whose body was found among the charred ruins. Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected. Some say the studios haunted, some say its cursed, but one thing is for sure: someoneor somethingwants to stop the music. A smashed guitar and erased tracks send a subtle warning, but murder? Thats an entirely different tune. If Mick doesnt act fast, Highland Studio, along with everything and everyone in its path, could go up in smoke. Its not always better to burn out than to fade away.

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ID: 549004

Title: Keep Your Friends Close

Author: Janelle Harris

Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins, Caroline Morahan, Sarah Jane Drummey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:23

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Family Life

Summary:

Darcy Hogan’s perfect life is all over social media. She’s beautiful, she’s successful, and she and her childhood sweetheart are about to become parents for the first time. But behind all the followers and the superficial likes lurks a darker truth…

In reality, Darcy feels isolated and afraid. Her difficult pregnancy has her confined to the house, she’s being harassed online, and out-of-control debt threatens to ruin everything she’s worked so hard for.

When her husband is summoned away on business, Darcy’s cabin fever soon spirals into fear. Who is making mysterious phone calls and knocking on her door? Is it an old friend trying to reach out—or a stranger determined to push in?

As her due date creeps closer, Darcy feels ever more certain that someone is out to get her. She’s desperate to get away—but is she running from the right person?

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ID: 549007

Title: Trowbridge Road

Author: Marcella Pixley

Narrator: Tara Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:21:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.

It’s the summer of ’83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father’s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug’s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother’s grows more distant — even dangerous — pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.

Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.

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ID: 495656

Title: TMI: My Life in Scandal

Author: Leif Eriksson, Perez Hilton

Narrator: Perez Hilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, General

Summary:

TMI is the story of how Mario Lavandeira became Perez Hilton, a celebrity blogger with millions of readers around the globe who was sometimes called the Most Hated Man in Hollywood. Growing up in Miamis Little Havana in the 1980s, Perez was bullied at school because of his weight and his sexual orientation, so he devoted all his free time to eating and watching TV in his bedroom. A scholarship to NYU was a lifesaver, as Perez felt at home in New York. But his finances took a battering, and he moved on to LA. After being fired from three different jobs within the space of ten months, Perez suddenly hit it big in 2005 with his gossip blog. With Perezs help, many promising young artists reached the massesKaty Perry, Adele, Amy Winehouse, and Lady Gaga, to name just a few. Perez soon became a Hollywood insider, but during his dramatic fallout with Lady Gaga he realized that he had been used. Perezs blog became increasingly meanIt went from bitchy to nasty, he recalls.

But a turning point came when Perez uploaded a video for the It Gets Better campaign and was surprised by the backlash it received. People called him a bully and a hypocrite because he previously outed gay celebrities on his blog. Perez was forced to reevaluate not only his alter ego, but also himself as a person. Following the birth of his son, he was also faced with a number of new opportunities for growth and personal reflection. TMI reveals the man behind the blog in a new, revealing, and still-juicy memoir.

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ID: 548997

Title: Single Swallow

Author: Zhang Ling

Narrator: Adam Verner, Arthur Morey, Christopher Lane, Feodor Chin, Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:19:37

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Sagas

Summary:

The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love.

On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast—in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II—three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. It’s where they had fought—and survived—a war that shook the world and changed their own lives in unimaginable ways. Now, seventy years later, the pledge is being fulfilled by American missionary Pastor Billy, brash gunner’s mate Ian Ferguson, and local soldier Liu Zhaohu.

All that’s missing is Ah Yan—also known as Swallow—the girl each man loved, each in his own profound way.

As they unravel their personal stories of the war, and of the woman who touched them so deeply during that unforgiving time, the story of Ah Yan’s life begins to take shape, woven into view by their memories. A woman who had suffered unspeakable atrocities, and yet found the grace and dignity to survive, she’d been the one to bring them together. And it is her spark of humanity, still burning brightly, that gives these ghosts of the past the courage to look back on everything they endured and remember the woman they lost.

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