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ID: 317940

Title: March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution

Author: Will Englund

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:51

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: History, World, Military

Summary:

'We are provincials no longer,' said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, ending a three-centuries-long dynasty and ushering in the false dawn of a democratic Russia. Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany a few short weeks later, asserting the United States' new role as a global power and its commitment to spreading American ideals abroad. Will Englund draws on a wealth of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and newspaper accounts to furnish texture and personal detail to the story of that month. March 1917 celebrates the dreams of warriors, pacifists, revolutionaries, and reactionaries, even as it demonstrates how their successes and failures constitute the origin story of the complex world we inhabit a century later.

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ID: 317928

Title: Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next

Author: Luke Dormehl

Narrator: Gus Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, History, Philosophy, Computers

Summary:

When most of us think about Artificial Intelligence, our minds go straight to cyborgs, robots, and sci-fi thrillers where machines take over the world. But the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already among us. It exists in our smartphones, fitness trackers, and refrigerators that tell us when the milk will expire. In some ways, the future people dreamed of at the World's Fair in the 1960s is already here. We're teaching our machines how to think like humans, and they're learning at an incredible rate.

In Thinking Machines, technology journalist Luke Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and how it makes up the foundations of the machines that think for us today. Furthermore, Dormehl speculates on the incredible-and possibly terrifying-future that's much closer than many would imagine. This remarkable book will invite you to marvel at what now seems commonplace and to dream about a future in which the scope of humanity may need to widen to include intelligent machines.

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ID: 317942

Title: Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's

Author: Jason Turbow

Narrator: Jason Turbow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:27:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Baseball

Summary:

The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative team in baseball history. Never before had an entire organization so collectively traumatized baseball's establishment with its outlandish behavior and business decisions-or with its indisputable winning record: five straight division titles and three straight championships. The high drama that played out on the field was exceeded only by the drama in the clubhouse and front office. But those A's, with their garish uniforms and outlandish facial hair, redefined soon...virtually every aspect of the game for coming generations.

Under the visionary leadership of Charles O. Finley, the team assembled such luminary figures as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue. Finley acted as his own general manager, and, with an insatiable need for control, dictated everything from the playlist of the ballpark organist to the menu for the media lounge. The advent of free agency spelled the end of Finley's reign; within two years, his dynasty was lost.

A sprawling, brawling history of one of the game's most unforgettable teams, Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic is a paean to a turbulent yet magical time.

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ID: 285043

Title: Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

Author: David Leach

Narrator: Richard Clarkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:34

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: History, Politics, Middle East

Summary:

Say the word Israel today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine?

Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws readers into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era.

Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together. Crisscrossing the nation, Leach chronicles the controversial decline of Israels kibbutz movement and witnesses a renaissance of the original vision for a peaceable utopia in unexpected corners of the Promised Land. Chasing Utopia is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of a divided nation where hope persists against the odds.

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ID: 317971

Title: Adams: An American Dynasty

Author: Francis Russell

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:43:11

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

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

Summary:

John and Abigail Adams and their descendants have profoundly influenced life in the United States for more than two centuries. From the great political and philosophical contributions of Founding Father and President John Adams, the roster of Adams luminaries is unprecedented: diplomat and sixth president, John Quincy Adams; pre-Civil War 'Voice of Honor,' Charles Francis Adams; and authors Henry and Brook Adams. The story of the Adams dynasty is as impressive and compelling as its legacy.

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ID: 308890

Title: Love Lives Here: Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want

Author: Maria Goff

Narrator: Maria Goff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: Christianaudio.com

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

This is a book about discovering what we really need. There are a lot of second-best options, but we werent made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isnt one of them. This is about craving the things that matter. Things that dont just work, but last. In a life that may seem to be all fun and games with an endless supply of balloons, author Maria Goff shows how this life is also lived with intentionality, passionate purpose, and a little planningall of which make a life rich in legacy. But she had to figure out the help she needed first in order to live the beautiful life God wanted for her and wants for us. Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband, Bob, navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. Its about what they learned to make their lives meaningful and whimsical and how they created a space for their family to grow together while they reached outward.

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ID: 317970

Title: Napoleon

Author: J. Christopher Herold

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:36

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Europe, Military, History & Culture

Summary:

Napoleon Bonaparte's rise from common origins to the pinnacle of power, as well as his defeat at Waterloo, still influences our daily lives, from the map of Europe to the metric system. Here's the fascinating story of the great soldier-statesman.

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ID: 285034

Title: Congratulations on Everything

Author: Nathan Whitlock

Narrator: Braden Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:39:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

A dark and comic novel, Congratulations On Everything tracks the struggles, frailties, and cruelly pyrrhic victories of the middle-aged owner of a bar-restaurant and a 30ish lunch-shift waitress.

Jeremy has bought into the teachings of an empowerment and success guru, hook, line, and sinker. A Toronto service industry lifer, hes risen through the ranks until he finally takes the keys to his destiny and opens his own place, The Ice Shack.

Everyone assumes Ice Shack daytime waitress Charlene is innocent and empathetic, but in reality shes desperately unhappy and looking for a way out of her marriage to her high-school sweetheart. A drunken encounter sends Charlene and her boss careening. The Ice Shack stops being an oasis of sanity and, as Jeremy struggles to keep his business afloat, hell stop at nothing to maintain his successful, good guy self-image.

In an era when the gourmand rules and chefs become superstars, Congratulations On Everything is a hilarious and occasionally uncomfortable dose of anti-foodie reality that reveals what goes on when the customers and Instagrammers arent around and even sometimes when they are.

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ID: 317983

Title: Climate of Fear

Author: Fred Vargas

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:28:37

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team.

When the symbol is found near the body of a second disguised suicide, a pattern begins to emerge: both victims were part of a disastrous expedition to Iceland over ten years ago where a group of tourists found themselves trapped on a deserted island for two weeks, surrounded by a thick, impenetrable fog rumored to be summoned by an ancient local demon. Two of them didn't make it back alive. But how are the deaths linked to the secretive Association for the Study of the Writings of Maximilien Robespierre? And what does the mysterious symbol signify?

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ID: 330648

Title: Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday: 5th Doctor Novelisation

Author: Terrance Dicks

Narrator: Matthew Waterhouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-17

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Matthew Waterhouse reads this novelisation of a classic 1982 TV serial featuring the Fifth Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Davison. When the TARDIS materialises on an alien space craft, the commander of the ship - the reptilian Monarch - invites the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan to continue their journey to Earth in his company. Monarchs hospitality even extends to a generous offer to liberate the time travellers from the shortcomings of their bodies and replicate them as androids - so much more practical. Although Adric finds this proposal extremely attractive, the Doctor has good reason to be suspicious of Monarch's motives... Matthew Waterhouse, who played Adric in Doctor Who, reads Terrance Dicks's novelisation of a four-part TV serial by Terence Dudley.

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