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Title: How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

Author: Mehrsa Baradaran

Narrator: Priya Ayyar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-09-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Publisher's Summary:

The United States has two separate banking systems today?one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit.

Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities?all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later.

In an age of corporate megabanks with trillions of dollars in assets, it is easy to forget that America's banking system was originally created as a public service. Banks have always relied on credit from the federal government, provided on favorable terms so that they could issue low-interest loans. But as banks grew in size and political influence, they shed their social contract with the American people, demanding to be treated as a private industry free from any public-serving responsibility. They abandoned less profitable, low-income customers in favor of wealthier clients and high-yield investments. Fringe lenders stepped in to fill the void. This two-tier banking system has become even more unequal since the 2008 financial crisis.

Baradaran proposes a solution: reenlisting the US Post Office in its historic function of providing bank services. The post office played an important but largely forgotten role in the creation of American democracy, and it could be deployed again to level the field of financial opportunity.

Echoes the photojournalism of Jacob Riis whose 1890 work on the slums of New York, How the Other Half Lives, spurred a housing-reform movement.Financial Times (London)

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Title: John Marchmont's Legacy

Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Narrator: Cate Barratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-09-07

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance

Publisher's Summary:

Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has always done her duty. However, when she falls in love and her beloved is in love with another woman, the malice of her heart is released in full view. In this dramatic tale, the vivid description of the country is also important- as if nature has a part in it. Unlike many novels, nobody gets what they deserve at the end. Or do they? Read and decide for yourself. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

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Title: Ones

Author: Daniel Sweren-Becker

Narrator: Dan Bittner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-09-06

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

We are not all created equal.

Seventeen years ago, Cody and her boyfriend James were two of the lucky babies from 1% of the population randomly selected to receive genetic engineering.

Known as the Ones, this generation of genetically enhanced teenagers is excelling. Cody, James, and their fellow Ones are healthy, beautiful, talented...and to some, that's not fair. Mounting fear and jealousy of the Ones' success leads to the creation of the Equality Movement, which quickly gains enough traction to outlaw future genetic engineering-and demote the Ones to second-class citizens.

Cody anticipated the repercussions even before the brick smashed through her window. It bears a clear message: the darkest impulses of society have been unleashed, and the Ones are the targets. As their school, the government, and even family and friends turn against them, Cody begins to believe they have no other choice but to protect their own. She draws closer to a group of radical Ones led by the passionate and fevered Kai, and James begins to question just how far she is willing to go to fight for her rights...

Themes of justice, discrimination and terrorism mix with actual science to create a frightening version of our near future in this pulse-pounding thriller.

An Imprint Book

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Title: Magia con imanes

Author: Terry Catasús Jennings

Narrator: Rosalyna Toth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-08-10

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing

Genres: Kids, General

Publisher's Summary:

Diana ama utilizar los imanes para hacer sus trucos de magia para los niños en la alberca. Cuando Enrique llega al pueblo, no le gusta que Diana los esté engañando. Él le da a ella un mapa del tesoro de hace cien años y ella utiliza su compás y sus herramientas para marcar el lugar del tesoro. Para su sorpresa, el tesoro no está donde debe estar. ¿Qué hace que su compás la haya llevado fuera de su curso? Cuando ella descubre la respuesta, ¿Continuará Diana engañando a los otros niños con sus trucos de magia o los ayudará a aprender sobre los imanes y los polos magnéticos en movimiento de la tierra?

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Title: Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

Author: Julian Fellowes

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2016-07-05

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's new legendary ball, one family's life will change forever.

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Title: Mind of Terror: A Former Muslim Sniper Explores What Motiviates ISIS and other Extremist Groups (and how best to respond)

Author: Tass Saada

Narrator: Marco Prentice

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-07-01

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

What motivates Islamic terrorists? What's in the mind of terror?

News reports cover the tragic events — the bombings, the massacres, and the suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are — from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But what is behind these events that fuels atrocity after atrocity? Tass Saada provides the answer as he delves into the mind of terror, explaining what motivates extremist groups throughout the Middle East. A former Muslim and a onetime sniper with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization, Tass has had that mindset himself. But at age forty-two, he steered his life in a radical new direction. Tass not only describes the motivations and aspirations of those who live in the Middle East, he also outlines a peaceful solution. We can plant seeds of hope that will transform not only the Middle East but also our increasingly diverse neighborhoods at home.

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Title: Youth of Old Age

Author: Stuart Price

Narrator: A Full Cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-06-28

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Publisher's Summary:

Wickedly acerbic, The Youth of Old Age shows acclaimed British actor Prunella Scales at her dragon-tongued best. As the story's matriarch, she's determined to prevent her heir from marrying out of sorts.

Written and directed by award-winning Stuart Price, you'd be mad not to listen to this wicked comedy. To be there when [a Wireless Theatre Live radio drama] is being recorded is thrilling!-Guardian (London)

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Title: Choosing Riley

Author: S. E. Smith

Narrator: David Brenin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-06-28

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author S.E. Smith presents another action-, adventure-, and suspense-filled story to transport listeners out of this world.

Riley St. Claire has always followed her own rules. When she discovers her current employer is not as law-abiding as she thought, she has to leave town in a hurry ... or end up buried with the dead guy she discovered. She doesn't expect to be picked up by a passing trader from another world.

As the ruling king of Sarafin, Vox d'Rojah is expected to produce a son who will be joined in marriage with the first-born daughter of the king of Valdier. But Vox has no intentions of having any sons, at least not in the near future. He's quite happy with the wide selection of females at his disposal. When Vox is captured by a ruthless Valdier royal and sold to a mining operation, the last thing he expects to find is his bride mate.

Vox isn't sure which would be easier: fighting another war with the Valdier or capturing and holding on to the human female who's unlike anyone he has ever encountered. Now he must escape back to his world while fighting pirates, traders-and Riley!

The king of Sarafin has met his match in Ms. Riley St. Claire from Earth. Now he just needs to figure out a way to let her know he has chosen her as his queen?and he has every intention of keeping her by his side forever. This delightful science fiction paranormal romance is a very entertaining introduction to a new series.-Night Owl Reviews

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Title: In the Darkroom

Author: Susan Faludi

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-06-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir

Publisher's Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE 2017

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity.

In 2004 feminist writer Susan Faludi set out to investigate someone she scarcely knew: her estranged father. Steven Faludi had lived many roles: suburban dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. Living in Hungary after sex reassignment surgery and identifying as 'a complete woman now,' how was this new parent connected to the silent and ultimately violent father who had built his career on the alteration of images?

Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's metamorphosis takes her across borders - historical, political, religious, sexual - and brings her face to face with the question of the age: is identity something you 'choose' or is it the very thing you cannot escape?

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Title: Empire

Author: Rachel Van Dyken

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka, Tom Taylorson, Erin Spencer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2016-05-31

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, General

Publisher's Summary:

I have lost everything-my purpose, my love, my soul.

Death knocks on my door. I want to answer, but every time I reach for the handle, the promise I made her brings me back.

So I breathe. I live. I hate. And I allow the anger to boil beneath the surface of a perfectly indifferent façade.

I am broken, and I don't want to be fixed.

One last trip to New York, one last chance to redeem a lost part of the Mafia family. The Empire is crumbling, and it's my job to fix it. It's my job to mend the pieces that were scattered over thirty years ago.

But the only way to fix it is to do something I swore I'd never do again: an arranged marriage.

This time, I won't fall. Or so help me God, I'll kill her myself.

My name is Sergio Abandonato. You think you know my pain, my suffering, my anger, my hate.

You have no idea.

I am the Mafia. I am the darkness.

Blood in. No out.