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ID: 613637

Title: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

Author: Lawrence Freedman

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:17:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-22

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Politics, Management & Leadership, Military

Summary:

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Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political.

Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.

© Lawrence Freedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 600411

Title: After She'd Gone

Author: Alex Dahl

Narrator: Helen Keeley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-22

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Unsettling, gripping and darkly glamorous, After She'd Gone is a timely psychological thriller about the danger of beauty, the lure of power, and the fierce love of a mother for her son.

Liv loves her son, Adrian. That's why she keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: just another tired single mother, trying to make ends meet. She has never told her son about the secrets she carries or the life she lived before he was born. She will do anything to keep him safe.

Anastasia's life is transformed when she moves from Russia to Milan and starts modelling. Suddenly, she's rich. She's desired. But then she begins to see the dark side of her new life: the high-pressure catwalk shows; the glamorous, drink-fuelled after-parties; the sun-baked Italian palazzos owned by powerful men. She will do anything to escape.

Selma is a feature journalist in Oslo. She's horrified to uncover an unsavoury and dangerous underworld when she writes an article looking into the modelling industry. Then, a woman goes missing in Sandefjord...

Reviews for Alex Dahl:

'A true Scandi-noir thriller' Daily Mail

'It will leave you gasping for air' Rachael Blok

'Tense and twisty' Woman's Own

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ID: 577239

Title: Number One Fan

Author: Meg Elison

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological

Summary:

On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from the driver, trusting everything is fine. She wakes up chained in the stranger’s basement. With no close family or friends expecting her to check in, Eli knows she needs to save herself. She soon realises that her abduction wasn’t random, and though she thinks she might recognise her captor, she can’t figure out what he wants. Her only clues are that he’s very familiar with her books and deeply invested in the fantastical world she creates. What follows is a test of wills as Eli pits herself against a man who believes she owes him everything and is determined to take it from her.

Terrifying and timely, set against the backdrop of convention culture and the #MeToo reckoning, Number One Fan unflinchingly examines the tension between creator and work, fandom and source material, and the rage of fans who feel they own fiction.

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ID: 577240

Title: Small Town, Big Magic

Author: Hazel Beck

Narrator: Natalie Duke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:50:46

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Rom-Com, Paranormal

Summary:

Theres no such thing as witches...right?

Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough to have her best friends as found family? Done.

But when Emerson is attacked by creatures that shouldnt be real and kills them with what can only be called magic, Emerson finds that the past decade of her life has been...a lie. St. Cyprian isn’t your average Midwestern river town its a haven for witches. When Emerson failed a power test years ago, she was stripped of her magical memories. Turns out, Emersons friends are all witches.

And so is she.

That’s not all, though. Evil is lurking in the charming streets of St. Cyprian. Emerson will need to learn to control whats inside of her, remember her magic, and deal with old, complicated feelings for her childhood friend cranky-yet-gorgeous local farmer Jacob North to defeat an enemy that hides in the rivers and shadows of everything she loves.

Even before she had magic, Emerson would have done anything for St. Cyprian, but now shell have to risk not just her livelihood...but her life.

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ID: 599054

Title: Under a Killer Moon

Author: B.J. Daniels

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, General, Contemporary

Summary:

A celebration becomes a crime scene with a killer hiding in plain sight...

With the 125th anniversary of Buckhorn, Montana, on the horizon, it's the job of straitlaced marshal Leroy Baggins to keep the peace during the four-day celebration. But his focus is distracted when private security owner TJ Walker arrives to help with the event. She's clearly someone who doesn't play by the rules, a loose cannon who pushes him outside his comfort zone.

Unlike the marshal, not much flusters a woman like TJ. Having once been a victim of violence, she's worked hard to become specialized in her field and in protecting her heart. But this assignment is anything but ordinary. She didn't expect this sudden attraction to Leroy-and she never could have predicted she'd come face-to-face with her attacker from years ago.

As thousands of revelers descend on the small town, what TJ and Leroy don't know is that a killer is among them and that they're in the crosshairs. Forced to team up together, they'll have to figure out how to stay alive when anything that can go wrong...does.

Bonus novella!

When the past comes knocking, Gertrude Durham will have no choice but to open the door-and her heart-in Before Memories Fade by B.J. Daniels.

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ID: 600615

Title: Rancher Returns

Author: Brenda Jackson

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:39:53

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Black Literature, Contemporary

Summary:

A rancher comes home to a passionate hero's welcome-from a perfect stranger!

Discover New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson's The Westmoreland Legacy...

Returning from active duty to find his ranch being dug up by a beautiful stranger isn't the homecoming navy SEAL Gavin Blake expected. Dr. Layla Harris is convinced there's buried treasure on his land, and won't be deterred from the hunt. Gavin begrudgingly lets her proceed with her project, but the only treasure this wealthy rancher wants to uncover is the professor's secret desires! When Layla unearths family secrets-and mysterious threats-he vows to do whatever it takes to protect her. But will she be there for him when her explosive revelations rock his world to its very foundations?

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ID: 596446

Title: African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History

Author: Hakim Adi

Narrator: Brenda Iyalla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:43:36

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

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A major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country's past

Despite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest.

Yet, as acclaimed historian Hakim Adi demonstrates, from the very beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart. Libyan legionaries patrolled Hadrian's Wall while Rome's first 'African Emperor' died in York. In Elizabethan England, 'Black Tudors' served in the land's most eminent households while intrepid African explorers helped Sir Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe. And, as Britain became a major colonial and commercial power, it was African and Caribbean people who led the radical struggle for freedom - a struggle which raged throughout the twentieth century and continues today in Black Lives Matter campaigns.

Charting a course through British history with an unobscured view of the actions of African and Caribbean people, Adi reveals how much our greatest collective achievements - universal suffrage, our victory over fascism, the forging of the NHS - owe to these men and women, and how, in understanding our history in these terms, we are more able to fully understand our present moment.

© Hakim Adi 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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ID: 600404

Title: Stone

Author: Finbar Hawkins

Narrator: Finlay Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:32:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

A second novel from the bestselling author of Branford Boase-shortlisted and Carnegie-nominated Witch. An engrossing story of fathers and sons, death and grief, and unexpected bonds, new and old, forged by dark and benign magic.

When Sam, grieving the death of his father, finds a silver-flecked stone, ice-cold to the touch, strange and eerie things begin to happen. Myth, legend, magic and witchcraft mingle on the ancient hillside where the chalk white horse has galloped for centuries. Ravens wheel. Wolves prowl. As Halloween draws close, witches dance. Odin gathers brave, fallen warriors to his side.

Only the mysterious new girl, Oona, can heal Sam's heart, revealing tarot secrets with her bewitching ways.

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ID: 577269

Title: Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger

Author: Julie Sykes

Narrator: Amanda Posener

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:23:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The second story in a magical adventure series from the bestselling author of the Unicorn Academy, brimming with drama and an environmental theme.

The Keepers are a secretive tribe of little people who live in the middle of Whispering Woods, caring for the countryside and rewilding it when humans (or Ruffins as they know them) are careless with it.

Young Keepers Cora and Jax are trainees who need to prove themselves or risk being sent back to school. Intent on their task of building a hedgehog highway by making holes at the bottom of fences on a new housing estate, they come upon a deer trapped in the foundations of a building site. Their woodland magic isn't strong enough to help the deer escape, but they will not be able to complete their task if they try to get help for the deer.

A brilliant new magical series perfect for 6-8 year olds combining animal rescue, nature conservation and adventure.

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ID: 600406

Title: House on Rockaway Beach

Author: Emma Burstall

Narrator: Georgia Maguire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

A gripping tale of family secrets, sibling rivalry and summer romance.

Sophie spent many happy summers at Rockaway Beach, visiting her beloved grandmother. Endless days playing in the sand with her sister Celia, watching day trippers come and go, never straying far from the quaint old house on the edge of the sea.

Then, one summer, the visits stopped. Sophie knows her mother and grandmother fell out, but she never found out why. So, many years later, it comes as a huge shock when she learns that her grandmother left the house to her and Celia in her will.

Together, the sisters return to Rockaway, but they cannot agree on anything. Sophie wants to keep the house, Celia is determined to sell. It seems they will never see eye to eye, until Sophie makes a chance discovery which will make her question everything...

Why do she and Celia have such different memories of their grandmother? What caused the rift with their mother? And who is the mysterious old woman watching them from afar?

Praise for Emma Burstall:

'A charming, warm-hearted read... Pure escapism' Alice Peterson

'Burstall is a great writer, and this is not your usual run-of-the-mill chick lit... I was gripped from the start' Daily Mail

'Burstall has a true knack for transporting you to her world' Jane Corry

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