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ID: 490371

Title: Girl They Left Behind

Author: Roxanne Veletzos

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:57:09

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Inspired by the author’s true family story of survival during the Second World War, Natalia’s story is an unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.

‘In anguish and despair we release this child into the hands of God, with hope and faith that she may be saved...’

On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of a building in Bucharest. With Romania now in league with the Nazis, the Jewish population is doomed. The child is placed in an orphanage and adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she adapts to her new life, she all but forgets the parents forced to leave her behind.

Yet, as Natalia comes of age under Soviet occupation, traces of her identity pierce the surface of her everyday life, leading to a discovery that will change her destiny. When she meets Victor, an important official in the Communist regime, she is drawn into a passionate affair despite overwhelming obstacles and her lover’s dark secrets.

When Natalia is offered a one-time chance at freedom, Victor is determined to help her escape, even if it means losing her. Natalia must make an agonising decision: remain in Bucharest with her beloved adoptive parents and the man she loves, or seize the chance to finally live life on her own terms – and to confront the painful enigma of her past.

‘There are stories that must be told because in doing so, they shed light on the irreparable consequences of war in the lives of so many innocents.’ Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl

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ID: 498919

Title: Life of One's Own

Author: Marion Milner

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:58:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Marion Milner's 1934 A Life of One's Own illustrates a modern woman's "crossing," both disciplinarily and generically. Written before Milner trained as a psychoanalyst but delving into the Unconscious, and with a title that apparently alludes to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, the book marks a point of intersection between incipient psychoanalysis and Modernist writing, of the kind represented more explicitly in the Strachey and Stephen circles with which Milner was tenuously linked. Yet Milner's insistence on the term "own" in her title and throughout the volume also makes this a useful text via which to explore the reflexes by which critics examine such crossings. This essay interrogates the critical impulse to figure intertextuality and discursive exchange as forms of debt. Turning to the manuscript source material of Milner's book, it asks what might the concept of work of "one's own" have to offer in terms of rethinking critical practice.

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ID: 498922

Title: Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America

Author: George Yancy

Narrator: George Yancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:08:46

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled "Dear White America" asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of vitriol in response. The resulting blowback played out in the national media, with critics attacking Yancy in every form possible-including death threats-and supporters rallying to his side. Despite the rhetoric of a "post-race" America, Yancy quickly discovered that racism is still alive, crude, and vicious in its expression. In Backlash, Yancy expands upon the original article and chronicles the ensuing controversy as he seeks to understand what it was about the op-ed that created so much rage among so many white readers. He challenges white Americans to rise above the vitriol and to develop a new empathy for the African American experience.

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ID: 498928

Title: Giants: The Global Power Elite

Author: Peter Phillips

Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Business & Economics

Summary:

A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.

Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett.

As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms-each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management-now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management-the facilitators-of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies-and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission-and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.

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ID: 498935

Title: Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma

Author: Carmen Aguirre

Narrator: Carmen Aguirre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn't fully love. In her early twenties she fought to find her voice as an actress and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her-Housekeeper, Hotel Maid, Mexican Hooker #1-all the while navigating the complex paths of lust and heartbreak. As she grew in her career, Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actress, and then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape; that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada's most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.

Fierce, funny and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love. From her passionate but explosive relationship with a gorgeous Argentinian basketball player to the all-consuming days at drama school in Vancouver; from the end of the Chilean revolutionary dream to life among the Chicano theatre scene of Los Angeles; from the child who was made the victim of a terrible crime to the artist who found the courage to confront her assailant, Aguirre tells a story of strength and survival that will leave you speechless.

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ID: 456519

Title: Brief History of Fascist Lies

Author: Federico Finchelstein

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:09:32

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods. Throughout the history of the twentieth century, many supporters of fascist ideologies regarded political lies as truth incarnated in their leader. From Hitler to Mussolini, fascist leaders capitalized on lies as the base of their power and popular sovereignty.

This history continues in the present, when lies again seem to increasingly replace empirical truth. Now that actual news is presented as "fake news" and false news becomes government policy, A Brief History of Fascist Lies urges us to remember that the current talk of "post-truth" has a long political and intellectual lineage that we cannot ignore.

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ID: 498938

Title: Onions in the Stew: Betty MacDonald's 4th humorous autobiography

Author: Betty MacDonald

Narrator: Heather Henderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The war created nearly insoluble housing problems in Seattle, so when Betty MacDonald remarried during it, she and her new husband, Don, were unable to find anything suitable. They turned to the small islands within commuting distance, but tours of these islands turned up little available housing, at least of the suitable variety, until they found the perfect house on Vashon. Now all they had to do was learn to cope with island life.

"Betty MacDonald's books are all funny, witty and wise.

But Onions in the Stew is the favorite book of the Betty Fans worldwide. Why? She described family life on Vashon Island with husband Don and daughters Anne and Joan in an unique way. You can read it over and over again and you'll enjoy the everyday life of this wonderful family." Amazon Customer - 2001

They moved to Vashon in the fall, which wasn't too bad, but then winter showed up and was tough on everyone. Unsurprisingly, Betty's two teenaged daughters reached heights of unenthusiasm. Don and Betty's commute had more in common with a marathon as they struggled to travel to the mainland daily. They nearly packed it all in that first winter, but spring came and the Island seduced them with her many different charms. The glories - and difficulties - of gardening on Vashon; the friendly and the less than lovable neighbors; the animals, starting with their own dog and cats, plus raccoons, deer and others. Their house was always full of guests, guests and more guests, and then there were the renovations, the machinery needing repairs, the undependable workmen, and what might go wrong next? All too familiar ground for most householders, but for MacDonald, these all included a slight island twist.

Eventually, MacDonald's daughters do grow up into charming adults, in spite of an abrasive adolescence, and return to Vashon when they can to remembered the joys. This was Betty MacDonald's last memoir before her untimely death from cancer - her farewell. Her tongue is still sharp and she still finds humor in ludicrous situations, quirky personalities, and self-turned jibes, and the whole rounds out the picture begun with the (golden) Egg. She knew she was dying, but that didn't dry up her wit or dissuade her from enjoying the life she had. She was one amazing woman and a writer whose prose remains as vibrant and enjoyable today as it was when originally published.

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ID: 498923

Title: Crash Course: Accidents Don't Just Happen

Author: Julie Whipple

Narrator: Heather Henderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:56

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-21

Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

"Relive the story of an ill-fated commercial flight that was doomed before it was ever airborne; and find out how it may one day save your life-if it hasn't already."

-Chris Mendenhall, Air Traffic Controller, Tinker AFB

On a cold winter night, a passenger jet with 189 aboard crash landed, out of fuel, in a suburban neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Ten people died. The pilot was blamed and stripped of his career, and a sweeping transformation of flight crew training took place that made United Flight 173 (in)famous worldwide as the model for failure and change. That was only the half of it. Hiding in plain sight for years in an attorney's file boxes, the forgotten truths of the landmark air disaster reveal much more: an emotional journey tethered to the disgraced pilot and a three-year-old girl who survived the crash and became an unlikely hero for justice and public safety in the dramatic legal battle that followed. Crash Course, by award-winning journalist Julie Whipple, is the long-overdue, true story of a misunderstood airline tragedy that changed more about our daily lives than most people know. Here is why we're safer today, how we're not, and what we can do about it.

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ID: 494980

Title: Lost Sister

Author: Andrea Gunraj

Narrator: Phoenix Pagliacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:22:43

Language: English

Release date: 12-25-20

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Alisha and Diana are young sisters living at Jane and Finch, a Toronto suburb full of immigrants trying to build new lives in North America. Diana, the eldest, is the light of the little family, the one Alisha longs to emulate more than anyone else. But when Diana doesn't come home one night and her body is discovered in the woods, Alisha becomes haunted. She thinks she knows who did it, but can't tell anyone about it.

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ID: 518827

Title: Some Naughty, None Nice

Author: T.J. Michaels

Narrator: Lacy Laurel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:18:13

Language: English

Release date: 12-23-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

Camryn Jakes is a self-made woman. A banker, or former banker--yeah, there's a story there, all right--to the rich and famous, she finds herself on a new journey of discovery.

A city girl with a country heart, Camryn quietly disappears from the hustle and bustle of downtown Atlanta. Standing at the site of her Grandmother's old house in Savannah, she discovers that there's more to the stories her Gran-gran used to tell her as a child. In fact, there's a lot more to them--and it happens to stand at six and a half feet tall with a penchant for disappearing...literally.

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