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Title: Dog Tales: 12 True Dog Stories of Loyalty, Heroism and Devotion

Subtitle: Book 5

Author: John Hodges

Narrator: Patricia Mary Hoeksema

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-16

Publisher: VIDDA Publishing

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

If you're listening to this I can guess that you've either lived or worked with dogs. We don't call them man's best friend for nothing. Since the very dawn of civilization man has shared his life with our canine friends.

The relationships we have with our dogs are as real and intense as any we have with our family and friends or partners, many would say more important in a lot of ways.

Even though we don't share a common verbal language, something magical happens when your soul meets with the warm, trusting nature and intelligence of a dog. All they ask for is kindness, compassion, and a regular meal. In return they will be with you through the trials of life, your best friend, always loyal and always have your back when the road gets rough.

A dog makes a house a home and completes the family. A person with the love and understanding of dogs is a person I can trust and relate to. I'm sure you feel the same way.

If you want some funny, sad, and heartwarming short listens, treat yourself. Cuddle up with your pooch and enjoy these dog tales.

Members Reviews:

I will pass these lovely stories down to my children and grand babies!

As an experienced dog trainer and behaviorist, I can confidently say that John has successfully put into words, what it really feels like to be around many different types of dog's and situations.

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Title: Law Enforcement from an Industrial/Organizational Perspective

Author: Steven G Carley MS

Narrator: Steven G Carley MS

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: SGC Production

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Through professional opinion and research data pertaining to police organizations, a perspective of law enforcement occurs of industrial/organizational psychology. Conclusions of this research include adequate measures not to take place in police personnel administration pertaining to organizational effectiveness or individual performance. Observable consequences both positive and negative are documented of the effects of college education on police officers. The selection process for law enforcement is moving away from the screening out of the unfit toward selection testing. Significant aspects of occupational choice are social and security needs along with the need for an environment having structured leadership. More so than other occupational groups, police report moderately lower job satisfaction, and the paramilitary or directive structure of command of most police departments happens to coincide with the preferences of police officers for such a leadership style masking their discretionary powers. The implementation of selection procedures may seem impractical the result of flawed validation studies. Finally, not being adequately specified are the modal police personality attribute origins despite a tendency to ascribe to organizational socialization.

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Title: Dark Family

Author: Sara Gran, Megan Abbot

Narrator: Mia Gaskin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: The Believer, McSweeney's

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

V. C. Andrews and the secret life of girls.

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Title: Charming Deformities

Author: Michelle Tea

Narrator: Julie Eickhoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: The Believer, McSweeney's

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Undercover in Sioux Falls with a queer, rogue taxidermist.

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Title: Journey of a Thousand Storms

Author: Kooshyar Karimi

Narrator: Raj Sidhu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service. Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts.

Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state, he was a member of a political group that opposed the government. He'd also been using his medical skills illegally, to save unmarried pregnant women from death by stoning.

Snatched from the street, he was jailed and tortured and then forced to spy for the regime, before finally escaping to Turkey. There he faced a whole new struggle to keep his family safe while awaiting refugee status from the UN. He was forbidden to work and at the mercy of corrupt police, con men and red tape. Then life became more dangerous still, when the Intelligence Service tracked him down and used his mother, back in Iran, as blackmail.

Kooshyar's inspiring story of how he managed to forge a new life in Australia is heightened by his largeness of heart, strength of character, and insight into human behaviour, from the unfathomably evil to the selflessly kind. With the skill of a natural storyteller, Journey of a Thousand Storms recounts a life of endurance, compassion and gritty determination.

Members Reviews:

Inspiring, brave and full of love

This is an amazing story by an incredibly courageous man. It shows the awful suffering of asylum seekers the world over, the persecution that sends them away from their homeland, the frightening journey, the waiting and waiting for interviews, authorisation, the shame, the squalor, the hunger, the hopes so often dashed. In this case there is reward and success, but still it is hard to adjust to a new country, to find satisfying work, to keep family together, the children secure. A story beautifully told and thankfully with a happy ending. So moving !

Girl from the Bush

Where does Journey of a Thousand Storms rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

My first audiobook and I loved it.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Journey of a Thousand Storms?

I couldn't wait to listen to more..a wonderful captivating story that shows that kindness, simple and genuine kindness, can be found where you least expect it and when you need it most.

Which character as performed by Raj Sidhu was your favourite?

Kooshyar was an amazing son, father and husband. His heart was filled with love and understanding, which enabled him to forgive when our natural instinct would be to hate.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

There were many moments when I cried, others when I smiled... I was constantly amazed at the integrity of Kooshyar.

Any additional comments?

A must read!

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Title: Virtual Afterlives

Subtitle: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Candi K. Cann

Narrator: Lesley Ann Fogle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the 21st century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions.

Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death. Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed.

The book is published by University Press of Kentucky.

Members Reviews:

There are things I wish she had gone more in depth about but overall I really liked it.

This was very well done. I was an academic read but it was written in a very readable way. There are things I wish she had gone more in depth about but overall I really liked it.

Five Stars

I thought this very enlighting very well written

Five Stars

Dr. Cann is a phenomenal author and thinker, and this work is truly fascinating!

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Title: The Abolition of Liberty

Subtitle: The Decline of Order and Justice in England

Author: Peter Hitchens

Narrator: Peter Hitchens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

From identification cards to how we protect our property, public debate rages over what our basic human rights are and how they are to be protected.

In this trenchant and provocative audiobook, Peter Hitchens sets out to show that popular views of these hotly contested issues - from crime and punishment to so-called 'soft drugs' - are based on mistaken beliefs, massaged figures and cheap slogans. His powerful and counterintuitive conclusions make challenging listening for those on both the Left and the Right and are essential listening for all concerned with creating a lawful and peaceful society.

The Abolition of Liberty argues that because of the misdemeanours of the few, the liberty of the many is seriously jeopardised.

Critic Reviews:

"It's fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media.... Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on life in contemporary Britain." (Neil Clark, Spectator)

Members Reviews:

Arguments well made and well meant

May I thank Mr Hitchens for a thoroughly expert book. Superb research and moral enquiry.

Typically rigorous and compelling. Recommended

Peter Hitchens' analysis of the systemic failures of the modem British policing and justice systems is typically rigorous and compelling, and its lessons and warnings extend far outside Britain's confines.

Highly recommended.

You must listen to this

A wonderful, funny polemic. This book explains the break down of crime and punishment in the UK in a humorous, yet serious way.

Informative

I think better than to be turned into a murderer yourself through the death penalty, better to send these people home, let their culture deal with them that's my opinion.

Peter Hitchins, not unlike his brother, never disappoints. Informative as usual, words of an experienced, well travelled, well educated man, who is never out to impress only to speak the truth, no matter what the popular word of the day.

An eye opener

I am always on the look out for a book that will change the way that I see the world. This is one such book.

Like most of my millenial compatriots, I've been somewhat muddle-headed about the synthesis of personal liberty, executive government, the legal system, and the role of police in civic life. Peter Hitchens brings these together with his trademark incisiveness.

Hitchens has a real knack for bringing out the history of these societal pillars in such a way as to clarify both what they are meant to be, and what they have become. I would call it a must-read in todays political context.

Although this book is written from the British perspective, its application to Australian is quite clear.

Hitchens is a good reader, and not a flamboyant one. There are better readers, but not many.

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Title: Let's Agree to Disagree

Subtitle: 13 Civil Dialogues on the Culture Wars

Author: Kovie Biakolo

Narrator: Je Nie Fleming

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In an increasingly polarized society, and in the midst of seemingly endless culture wars, our civil discourse appears to be in shambles. What are we to do? If a lack of conversation is the primary culprit of the current state, then perhaps intentionally engaging in debate and discussion will lead us in the right direction. From race and police brutality, to concepts of beauty and the body, to sex and dating, Let's Agree to Disagree is an endeavor to revive cultural dialogues from hostility to civility.

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Title: The Secret Handshake

Author: Samantha Hunt

Narrator: Paige McKinney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-16

Publisher: The Believer, McSweeney's

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

In the great tradition of Southern literature, the fiction of Breece DJ Pancake brings us down to Hades and acts a road map to disasters that the oppression of poverty can wreak on a life.

©2005 Samantha Hunt (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Title: What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People?

Subtitle: Do Black Americans Understand they are Facing Self-Destruction?

Author: Raymond Sturgis

Narrator: john fiore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-16

Publisher: Raymond Sturgis

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Publisher's Summary:

The condition of African Americans today is quite alarming and disturbing. African Americans have an enormous amount of contributions from their ancestors to advance in positive and productive directions. However, black Americans' advancement in technology, science, music, arts, and business is overshadowed by black-on-black crime and poor family values. What is the reason why so many black people have lost respect, hope, and pride in the very achievements that enable them to enrich their children's future? Where is the love and pride that can elevate blacks to support black businesses, housing. and human life? What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People? is asking a question of the murderers and deviants of black communities, to dysfunctional families and hopeless youth who feel they have no contributions to their race. The world will always have a microscope on blacks in America, because for centuries blacks have inspired other minorities and victims of discrimination to believe that they, too, can overcome. Today, African Americans are more concerned about surviving the violence of their neighborhoods than creating businesses, enriching children's minds with love, or fighting for better schools. African Americans are too preoccupied with crime and poor economic conditions to save their children from hopelessness and low self-esteem.

The future of today's youth depends on how well we encourage their dreams of success, and if the only dream they have is surviving gun violence, where does that leave African Americans' future? How many deaths will it take for African Americans to understand their plight? How many hopeless black adolescents have to kill someone before someone notices their cries for help? Many may contend that there is nothing wrong with blacks in America until a black child is murdered, until a wife or girlfriend is abused, until black communities become unlivable war zones. What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People? is about not only the problems plaguing blacks in America but solutions that can help uplift a race in need of refreshing words to restore their belief in a better America. You will not find a better book on the market today that substantiates the concerns of African Americans than What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People?

Members Reviews:

simply a rant, nothing more

Mr. Sturgis delivers a lengthy rant against his fellow African Americans. Nothing enlightening here.