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Title: Thunderbirds: Legends and Reality

Author: Martin K. Ettington

Narrator: Martin K. Ettington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 56 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Thunderbirds are giant birds which have been known by the North American Indians from time immemorial. These birds are part of the culture, totem poles, and Indian history and mythology. The giant birds have also be seen in modern times. Some observers say they are just giant regular birds while others say they have the appearance of Pterodactyls. In this book we review American Indian beliefs and legends about these giant birds. We also review the many reports not only in North America, but all over the world of giant birds and/or flying reptiles. There are similar sightings all around the world too and we cover these also. Finally, I make an effort to determine what these sightings really are and if they might also make a case for living Pterodactyls in our world. It’s an exciting journey so please come aboard and learn about the amazing Thunderbird.

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Title: Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Author: Wes Moore

Narrator: Wes Moore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Library Journal From the New York Times best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world. When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw - it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, best-selling author, decorated combat veteran, former White House fellow, and CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the nation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every stratum of the city come together: grieving mothers, members of the city's wealthy elite, activists, and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore - all looking to comfort one another, but also looking for answers. He knew that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could be found only in the city as a whole. Moore - along with journalist Erica Green - tells the story of the Baltimore uprising both through his own observations and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted Black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young White public defender who's drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young Black woman who'd spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John Angelos, scion of the city's most powerful family and executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, who had to make choices of conscience he'd never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history, which is also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath.

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Title: Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Author: Julia Cooke

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Glamour, danger, liberation: In a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up. Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between five foot three and five foot nine, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Cooke's intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses' role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. Finally, with Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon - the book's special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.

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Title: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West

Author: Cameron Blevins

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.

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Title: The Battle for Peace: The Long Road to Ending a War with the World's Oldest Guerrilla Army

Author: Juan Manuel Santos

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Release date: April 27, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both large and dangerous. All previous attempts to negotiate with the FARC had failed, creating an environment where differences were irreconcilable and political will was scarce. The Battle for Peace is the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements, but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution. In The Battle for Peace, Juan Manuel Santos shares the lessons he learned about war and peace and how to build a successful negotiation process in the context of a nation which had all but resigned itself to war and the complexities of twenty-first-century international law and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that there is no handbook for making peace, he offers conflict-tested guidance on the critical parameters, conditions, and principles as well as rich detail on the innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just solution.

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Title: Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Author: Elizabeth Catte

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Release date: April 20, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the day, writes Catte, with clarity and ferocity. It was a manifestation of white supremacy. It was a form of employment insurance. It was a means of controlling 'troublesome' women and a philosophy that helped remove poor people from valuable land. It was cruel and it was wrong, and yet today sites where it was practiced like Western State Hospital, in Staunton, Virginia, are rehabilitated as luxury housing, their histories hushed up in the service of capital. As was amply evidenced by her acclaimed 2018 book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Catte has no room for excuses; no patience for equivocation. What does it mean for modern America, she asks here, that such buildings are given the second chance that 8,000 citizens never got? And what possible interventions can be made now, repair their damage?

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Title: The United Church of Canada

Author: Don Schweitzer

Narrator: Braden Wright

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 15, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada's largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s. A chronological history is followed by chapters on the United Church's worship, theology, understanding of ministry, relationships with the Canadian Jewish community, Israel, and Palestinians, changing mission goals in relation to First Nations peoples, and changing social imaginary. The result is an original, accessible, and engaging account of The United Church of Canada's pilgrimage that will be useful for students, historians, and general readers. From this account there emerges a complex portrait of the United Church as a distinctly Canadian Protestant church shaped by both its Christian faith and its engagement with the changing society of which it is a part.

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Title: Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author: Serhii Plokhy

Narrator: Roger Davis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Release date: April 13, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment. © Serhii Plokhy 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Title: Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case

Author: Jim Tracy

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 6, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Why would two small-time American public defenders search, locate, and photograph the lifeless bodies of young women their client raped, murdered, and hid, and then leave the bodies where they found them and not tell authorities? And how did they have the audacity to meet with one of the fathers of a missing girl and tell him they knew nothing about her fate or whereabouts? When the nation eventually learned of the lawyers' actions, they were horrified and outraged that two officers of the law could act in a way that seemed beyond any concept of humanity. In Sworn to Silence, award winning reporter Jim Tracy tells the lawyers' story within the framework of a true crime narrative. He uncovers a criminal who police and the public never learned was an American serial killer. Tracy does so while taking the listener back briefly to American life in the early 1970s.

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Title: Conflict Of Identity: From The Slave Trade To The Present Day: One Man's Healing in Benin, Africa

Author: Glenville C. Ashby, Ph.D.

Narrator: Maurice King

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: April 4, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Conflict Of Identity is by Dr Glenville C. Ashby, PHD, He has opened a new branch of psychology directly involving people of the African Diaspora. This book looks at the situations and conditions that have brought people of African ancestry to where they are now.. Dr. Ashby goes through the history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and colonialism, and how it still effects Blacks worldwide. He introduces the reader to Womb Therapy, a system that encourages people to reconnect with the source of wisdom, Africa.