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ID: 525829

Title: Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well

Author: Bo Seo

Narrator: Bo Seo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:06:28

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Business & Economics, Negotiation & Communication, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion.

When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not speak English, and, unsurprisingly, struggled at school. But, then, in year five, something happened to change his life: he was introduced to debating.

Immediately, he was hooked. It turned out, perhaps counterintuitively, that debating was the perfect activity for someone shy and unsure of himself. It became a way for Bo not only to find his voice, but to excel socially and academically. He went on to win world titles with the Australian schools and Harvard University teams.

But debating isn’t just about winning or losing an argument: it’s about information gathering, truth finding, lucidity, organization, and persuasion. It’s about being able to engage with views you disagree with, without the argument turning toxic.

Good Arguments shares insights from the strategy, structure and history of debating to teach readers how they might better communicate with friends, family and colleagues. Touching on everything from the radical politics of Malcom X to Artificial Intelligence, Seo proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that, far from being a source of conflict, good-faith debate can enrich our daily lives. Indeed, these good arguments are more important than ever at time when bad faith is all around, and our democracy seems so imperiled.

‘From two-time world champion debater Bo Seo, a thoughtful, instructive and eloquent meditation on the art of debate and why its central pillars - fact-finding, reason, persuasion and listening to opponents - are so valuable in today’s alarming ecosystem of misinformation and extreme emotion. When Bo Seo’s family immigrated from South Korea to Australia, he was a shy, conflict-averse eight year old who worried about being an outsider, and in “Good Arguments,” he recounts how debate not only helped him to cross language lines, but also gave him confidence and a voice of his own.’  Michiko Kakutani, former chief book critic for The New York Times.

“In a world increasingly rent by division within and between nations, Bo Seo’s lucid and humane search for ‘better ways to disagree’ could not be more timely or valuable.”  Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia

 

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ID: 591207

Title: Choice

Author: Kathy Clark

Narrator: Mark Harrietha

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:57:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Teen, Historical, Tough Topics

Summary:

Jakob and his family hide their Jewish identity in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Discovered, he is sent as a prisoner to Auschwitz where he keeps himself alive out of a desire for revenge on the friend he believes turned on him, only to discover when he is free that things are not as he thought.

Thirteen-year-old Jakob's family has hidden their true identity as Jews and are living as Catholics in Budapest during WWII. One day, in a burst of loyalty, Jakob decides to reveal that he is Jewish, a choice that puts his whole family in danger. Jakob hopes his best friend Ivan, a Christian whose father is a high-ranking military official, will help his family, but he comes to believe that Ivan has abandoned them. Sent as a prisoner to Auschwitz, Jakob is kept alive by his passion for revenge against Ivan. When Jakob is finally freed, he discovers that Ivan too made a choice that day, a choice that changes everything Jakob thought was true.

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ID: 591206

Title: Just Lucky

Author: Melanie Florence

Narrator: Michelle Bardach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:41:27

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Teen, General, Tough Topics

Summary:

There's nothing lucky about your family falling apart.

Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things ... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families are okay. Some aren't. And some really, really aren't.

Is it possible to find a home again when the only one you've ever known has been taken from you?

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ID: 591204

Title: Any Kind of Luck at All: A memoir

Author: Mary Fairhurst Breen

Narrator: Mary Fairhurst Breen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:53:58

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, General, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

Can the strength accumulated over a lifetime of losses be enough to cope with a daughter's death?

What was it like growing up as a smart girl in a world of 1970s suburban conformity? What family secrets were hidden behind the vertical blinds and sliding glass doors, or swept under the orange shag carpets? Is it possible to move from married mother-of-two to lesbian feminist activist without passing heartache?

In her bittersweet memoir, Mary Fairhurst Breen sketches scenes from a life darkened by four generations of mental illness and addiction. Despite the odds, Mary's sense of humor and willingness to practice "radical acceptance" see her through the chaos to a life full of friends, art, and the joys of being a grandmother. Ultimately, she must face her greatest challenge of all when her daughter becomes one of the tens of thousands of people every year to die of opioid poisoning. This is a journey of awakening and activism, and a portrait of a life to be celebrated in all its complexity.

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ID: 591191

Title: Him Standing

Author: Richard Wagamese

Narrator: Billy Merasty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:13:34

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Paranormal

Summary:

When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas's growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask.

This mask is to represent the master, but Lucas must find its face in his dreams. As his dreams become more and more disturbing, he feels himself changing. And the mask takes control of his life. Then a chance encounter with an old woman introduces him to the identity of the master. He is an ancient sorcerer named Him Standing, a powerful and dark wizard. The more Lucas works on the mask, the closer Him Standing comes to emerging from the dream world to walk the earth again. What follows is a race against time and the forces of evil in this supernatural thriller.

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ID: 591205

Title: Krista Kim-Bap

Author: Angela Ahn

Narrator: Vicki Kim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:37:27

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

In debut author Angela Ahn's middle grade novel, all Krista wants is to figure out the three F's: food, family, and friends...

Krista and Jason have been best friends since preschool. It never mattered that he was a boy with reddish-brown hair and she was the "Korean girl" at school. Now in fifth grade, everyone in their class is preparing their Heritage Month projects. Jason has always loved Krista's Korean family, and particularly their cooking, but Krista is conflicted about being her school's "Korean Ambassador". She's also worried about asking her intimidating grandma to teach the class how to make their traditional kimbap dish. Combine that with her new friends pulling her away from Jason, and Krista has a lot to deal with this year!

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ID: 601173

Title: Slender Thread

Author: John Rhodes

Narrator: Evie Butcher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:31:09

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

1942: Amid the Siege of Malta, one of the most crucial battles in modern history, only extraordinary courage and willpower can turn looming defeat into victory.

The war in the Mediterranean, 1942: The outcome of World War II hangs, as Churchill says, by a slender thread. Erwin Rommel, Hitlers Desert Fox, is poised to defeat the reeling British army in Egypt and thwart Americas first operation in Europe. Only the tiny, embattled, half-starved Mediterranean island of Malta stands in Rommels way.

Will heroism and devotion be enough to stave off the implacable forces of Hitlers all-conquering Third Reich and Mussolinis new Roman Empire? And, as the battle rages, the relentless strains of war threaten not only the survival of Malta but also the survival of Johnnie and Eleanors relationship. Will their future together be yet another casualty of war?

John Rhodes, author of the award-winning Breaking Point series, weaves the fictional story of fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux and military strategist Eleanor Rand into the heartbreaking, inspiring historical fabric of World War II.

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ID: 591192

Title: Runaway Dreams

Author: Richard Wagamese

Narrator: Billy Merasty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:58:25

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world where "the ancient ones stand at your shoulder ... making you a circle / containing everything."

These are Medicine teachings told from the experience of one who lived and still lives them. He also describes his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away at an early age, and the beatings he received when the authorities tried "to beat the Indian right out of me." Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveller, with his love of country, his love of people. Through it all, there are poems of love and music, the language sensuous and tender.

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ID: 591218

Title: What Is Written on the Tongue: A Novel

Author: Anne Lazurko

Narrator: Alex Parra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:47

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

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

Summary:

For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization

Released from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla war, his loyalties challenged when his squad commits atrocities reminiscent of those he suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Sam falls in love with both Sari and the beautiful island she calls home, but as he loses friends to sniper fire and jungle malady, he also loses sight of what he wants most - to be a good man.

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ID: 591190

Title: Next Sure Thing

Author: Richard Wagamese

Narrator: Billy Merasty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:07:33

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-22

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track.

Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing.

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