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Title: Wicked Women of Detroit

Author: Tobin T. Buhk

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Release date: September 20, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Author Tobin T. Buhk recounts the thrilling tales of Detroit's most violent, clever, and misunderstood female criminals. 'Queen of the Underworld' Sophie Lyons faced off with detective Teresa Lewis in court three times, and twice in the street, rendering both women battered and bloodied. Nellie Pope goaded her lover to axe her husband in what the press called 'one of the most atrocious, cold-blooded, and deliberately-planned murders' in city history. Mother Elinor L. Mason, 'High Priestess of the Flying Roller Colony,' was no holy roller but a criminal chameleon who changed personas as easily as some people change clothes. And a feud between Delray madams Julia Toth and Annie Smith exposed widespread graft in the thriving red-light industry and led to one of the worst police scandals in Motor City history. These stories and more await in this deliciously entertaining collection.

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Title: [Spanish] - Ecos de Nueva España: Los siglos perdidos en la historia de México

Author: úrsula Camba Ludlow

Narrator: úrsula Camba Ludlow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Release date: September 15, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Casi 300 años de historia se asoman en este original y divertido relato que recupera los viajes, lugares, oficios, costumbres y personajes que configuraron el asombroso universo novohispano Nueva España era un territorio gigantesco, comprendía de lo que ahora es el sur de Estados Unidos hasta Nicaragua. Millones de kilómetros cuadrados. Una vastísima región en la que convivían, no siempre armoniosamente, indígenas, negros, mulatos, mestizos, asiáticos, españoles y uno que otro flamenco, portugués e inglés. Eran piratas, monjas, caciques, virreinas, esclavos y burócratas los que andaban por calles, plazas, y sorteaban los peligros de trasladarse entre pueblos, ciudades y océanos... Contrario a las aburridas lecciones escolares sobre la época virreinal, lejos de los héroes y villanos de monografía, estas páginas nos recuerdan que, entre la llegada de Cortés y la Independencia proclamada por Miguel Hidalgo, existió un mundo complejo y contrastante que apenas se mantuvo en precario equilibrio. Escrito por la reconocida historiadora y escritora, Úrsula Camba Ludlow, Ecos de Nueva España es una apasionante y colorida travesía por los siglos que moldearon nuestro tiempo.

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Title: [German] - G/GESCHICHTE - Der Wilde Westen: Cowboys, Banditen und Indianer

Author: G Geschichte

Narrator: Karsten Wolf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Release date: September 14, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Die Zeit der Cowboys währte gerade mal 20 Jahre. Erst nach Ende des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs 1865 begannen die großen Viehtriebe, und schon Mitte der 1880er-Jahre endeten sie wieder: Massenhaft produzierte Stacheldrahtzäune versperrten nun den Weg, die effektivere Eisenbahn übernahm den Transport. Trotzdem symbolisiert der Cowboy den »American Way of Life« wie kaum etwas anderes. Allein im Sattel, um ihn die leere Wildnis, wird der unbeirrbare Cowboy zum Archetyp des Eroberers. Mit der schmutzigen Realität hat das natürlich nicht viel zu tun. Diese Ausgabe von G/Geschichte beschäftigt sich mit Mythos und Realität des Cowboy-Daseins und der Fantasie, die Grenzen der Zivilisation hinter sich zu lassen.-

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Title: Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story

Author: Rachel Louise Martin

Narrator: Julienne Irons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

These days, hot chicken is a 'must-try' Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken 'Nashville-style.' Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince's Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish. But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville's Black neighborhoods—and the story of hot chicken says something powerful about race relations in Nashville, especially as the city tries to figure out what it will be in the future. Hot, Hot Chicken recounts the history of Nashville's Black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.

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Title: The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

Author: Julius S. Scott

Narrator: Earl Mclean

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful 'history from below.' Scott follows the spread of 'rumors of emancipation' and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution. By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing listeners with an intellectual history of the enslaved. Though The Common Wind is credited with having 'opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,' the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.

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Title: Lost Fort Worth

Author: Mike Nichols

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil, and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness the birth of western swing music and the death of a cloud dancer. See mansions of the well-heeled and saloons of the well-armed. Meet two gunfighters, one flamboyant preacher, one serial killer and one very short subway carrying passengers back in time to discover more of Fort Worth. Author Mike Nichols presents a colorful history tour from the North Side to the South Side's Battle of Buttermilk Junction.

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Title: Wicked Women of Ohio

Author: Jane Ann Turzillo

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

True crime with a Midwest twist. The award-winning writer recounts the stories of Ohio's most notorious vixens, viragoes, and villainesses. The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because she fell in love with the wrong man, she wound up peddling Nazi propaganda on the radio as 'Axis Sally.' Volatile Hester Foster was already doing time at the Ohio State Penitentiary when she bashed in the head of a fellow inmate with a shovel. The sinister Anna Marie Hahn dosed at least five elderly Cincinnati men with arsenic and croton oil and then watched them die in agony while pretending to nurse them back to health.

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Title: Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City

Author: Mark R. Jones

Narrator: Clark Cornell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Wicked Charleston: The Dark Side of the Holy City, by local resident and tour guide Mark R. Jones, explores the dark alleys and seedy characters not often associated with the Charleston of today. A beautiful Southern city distinguished by its opulent homes, towering church steeples, and hospitality, Charleston, South Carolina, has long been associated with the genteel side of Southern living. However, beyond the outward appearances that most people associate with Charleston, there is another side that most visitors and residents would dare not believe is part of the very fabric from which the city's history was woven. From the sexual escapades of an original Lord Proprietor and the comings and goings of the most notorious pirates, to secret brothels and nightclubs, Jones leads the reader back to a time when 'drinking, eating, and whoring with more than fifty wenches' was perhaps more common in the Holy City than one may imagine.

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Title: We Are the Land: A History of Native California

Author: William J. Bauer Jr., Damon B. Akins

Narrator: Kaipo Schwab

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Before there was such a thing as 'California,' there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, this book recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today's casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

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Title: New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State

Author: William J. Novak

Narrator: A.W. Miller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America. In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and economic life. A series of legal reforms gradually brought an end to nineteenth-century traditions of local self-government and associative citizenship, replacing them with positive statecraft: governmental activism intended to change how Americans lived and worked through legislation, regulation, and public administration. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered public services and vindicated people's rights. Over the course of decades, Americans progressively discarded earlier understandings of the reach and responsibilities of government and embraced the idea that legislators and administrators in Washington could tackle economic regulation and social-welfare problems. As citizens witnessed the successes of an energetic, interventionist state, they demanded more of the same, calling on politicians and civil servants to address unfair competition and labor exploitation, form public utilities, and reform police power.