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ID: 715960

Title: Murder Checks Out: A Blue Ridge Library Mystery

Author: Victoria Gilbert

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:13:30

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

It's not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford's first Winterfest in the eighth installment of the Blue Ridge Library series, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams.

Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She's already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town's festivities. With her frosty mother-in-law, Fiona, visiting for the holidays, Amy definitely has enough on her Christmas cookie plate.

But when the chair of the festival committee is found as dead as Dickens's proverbial doornail at the town's ice rink, Amy is determined to uncover the real perpetrator to protect her brother-in-law, Ethan Payne, who was placed at the scene. The clock is ticking down as Sheriff Brad Tucker is equally sure that Ethan is guilty.

It's beginning to look a lot like the murderer hasn't wrapped up his killing spree, and now, it might just be 'lights out' on the holiday festivities-and on Amy's life.

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ID: 716006

Title: Navigating Social Justice: A Schema for Educational Leadership

Author: Martin Scanlan

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:59:22

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

A highly accessible and easily adaptable conceptual framework that helps educational leaders plan, leverage, and sustain change as they create more equitable schools.

In Navigating Social Justice, Martin Scanlan introduces a comprehensive social justice schema that melds organizational learning with leading for equity. Scanlan distills wisdom gleaned from the experiences of a variety of educational professionals as well as from his own more than three decades of work in equity-focused partnership with elementary schools.

Scanlan's schema brings together five dimensions-inclusivity, communities of practice, critical formation, social ecosystems, and practical wisdom-that work together holistically to eradicate inequitable practices and policies and promote robust teaching and inclusive learning. For each dimension, the book features real-life vignettes that focus the conversation, exercises that encourage reflection, and suggested opportunities for the application of its central ideas. Each chapter also gives access to online tools, extending its utility. The practical guidance offered in this book not only will enable educational institutions to best meet the needs of families and community members but will also help leaders cultivate the moral and intellectual judgment needed to address social justice issues in schools.

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ID: 694338

Title: Apple Diary

Author: Gerri Hill

Narrator: Abby Craden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:02:26

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

After the death of her grandmother, reluctant heiress Madilyn Marak agrees to stay with her grandfather at the estate for the summer. There, she finds an old diary hidden in an antique desk in the attic-The Apple Diary-written by her great-grandmother Isabel.

In there, she finds the love story of Isabel and Lorah, along with a photograph of the two young women from 1933. The diary, like the love affair, was short and brief, but rich and vivid enough for her to feel a true bond with the women despite the heartbreaking ending.

She is determined to get Isabel's beloved apple orchard vibrant again. She hires the inexperienced Dylan Hayes, a woman soon to be homeless, to take on the chore of restoring the orchard to its original glory.

The normally quiet and reserved Madilyn finds a new joy in life as she becomes friends with the outgoing and energetic woman who has come to live on the property. As she is transformed from a stoic and passive heiress to a happy and spirited woman, she realizes the similarities of her journey and that of Isabel's.

Like Isabel, is she destined to marry a man she doesn't love? Or will she find the strength that eluded Isabel and follow her heart?

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ID: 715906

Title: Murder in Venice

Author: Martha Bond

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:23:52

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Murderous secrets are lurking in the City of Canals!

1923. Lottie Sprigg is a lowly maid. But when she's hired by a wealthy heiress, she embarks on a thrilling journey across Europe and beyond. Lottie's expecting exciting exploits and spectacular sights. But she's not expecting murder . . .

In Venice, Lottie befriends a famous opera singer after reuniting him with his lost dog. Early the next morning, the singer's corpse is found floating in the Grand Canal.

Who wanted the opera singer dead? Lottie is keen to seek justice for his orphaned dog. She's spotted some suspicious characters, but fingers point to a shadowy figure who prowls the streets and bridges at night. Who is it?

After a second slaying at a masked ball, Lottie's convinced she knows the culprit. But a twist prompts a new discovery and Lottie's pulled into a chilling chase through Venice's canals.

The Venetian police are stumped. So how can Lottie unmask the killer?

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ID: 710766

Title: Floating Worlds

Author: Cecelia Holland

Narrator: Kristin James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:12:05

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race: 'On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke' (Chicago Tribune).

Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On the fringes of the solar system, in the gas planets, a strange, new, violent kind of human has evolved. In this unstable system, the anarchist Paula Mendoza, an agent of the Committee, works to make peace and ultimately protect her people in a catastrophic clash of worlds that destroys the order she knows.

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ID: 719836

Title: Imitation: The Basics

Author: Allard R. Feddes, Bertjan Doosje, Liesbeth Mann, Naomi Van Bergen

Narrator: Lianne Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:39:56

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

Imitation: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the topic of imitation behavior in humans, providing a summary of existing scientific research on imitation, covering everything from examples of imitation across each developmental stage to animal imitation such as monkeys imitating each other.

The authors argue that imitation forms the foundation of long-lasting relationships, including those between children and parents, as well as intimate partners. Structured to resemble a human lifetime, chapters explore the reasons behind why people imitate, and address imitation across all phases of life, starting from infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and ending with late adulthood. The authors describe characteristic forms of imitation that occur in these life stages and provide answers to the following important questions: Who do humans imitate? Who is more likely to imitate others? What kind of behaviors do humans imitate? Is there a dark side of imitation? When do humans imitate each other? And are there cultural differences in imitation?

Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is perfect for undergraduate students of social psychology, developmental psychology and neuroscience, as well as professionals, academics and any general listeners interested in research about human social behavior.

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ID: 719857

Title: Who Gets to Write Fiction?: Opening Doors to Imaginative Writing for All Students

Author: Ariel Sacks

Narrator: Jen Jayden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:07:13

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

Writing and sharing fiction allows adolescents to glimpse other lives

The current curricular emphasis on analytical writing can make it feel risky to teach creative writing in ELA classrooms. But the opportunity to write fiction in school opens many doors for young people: doors the author argues are critical to the development of our students, our education system, and even our democracy.

This book will delight English teachers weary of focusing relentlessly on argument and information writing. Veteran teacher Ariel Sacks vividly describes the many academic, social-emotional, and community-building advantages of teaching imaginative writing in the classroom, not least of which is the impact it has on equity for marginalized students. Her book is a teacher-to-teacher text that folds in detailed, practical guidance about how to design lessons and meet standards, while presenting a powerful central argument: that the writing of fiction should be treated not as a luxury for some, but as a center of the English curriculum for all students.

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ID: 714308

Title: Long Way Home

Author: Harper Sloan

Narrator: Maya Beechwood, Tj Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:13:44

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Military

Summary:

There's a price to pay for a life with a greater purpose. The healing of time is a damn liar when you're living a life as a dead man with no true home, and the silence couldn't be more deafening. Counting the days, good and bad, I exist as the world keeps spinning. I can never look back. All I can do is hope I took enough out of that life to carry me forward on those dead legs. Everything that was meant to give the tragedy of my life meaning ended up holding me prisoner in this wreckage of my past.

Until now.

One look into her eyes and I'm completely disarmed. It's only everything I thought I gave up. These walls I've built to protect and shroud me crumble more whenever she's near. I've spent years waiting for a reason to breathe again, and now that I have her within reach, I'm not sure I can keep her. Is it possible to find both the missing piece of my soul and the remedy to my healing in one set of bright green eyes? Everything I thought I would never have is staring back at me saying . . . yes, I can.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 714426

Title: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Author: Rebecca May Johnson

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:22:20

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Cooking, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction

Summary:

A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint, and revolution, by a rising star in food writing

This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.

Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on?

In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking-that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books-as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control.

Small Fires shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere.

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ID: 714190

Title: Foundations

Author: J.D. Astra

Narrator: Jason Vu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:15:20

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

For Jiyong, Bastion Academy is more than just a school for magic in the heart of the Kingdom . . .

It's his chance to pursue the secrets of the ancient ones' machines and get his family out of the poverty-stricken outer-city. His acceptance letter in hand, Jiyong is sure nothing will stand in the way of his dreams.

When a street brawl lands him in a coma only weeks into the year, his chances of graduating are all but shot. With an unlikely digital companion, he'll have to rebuild his magic core and catch up on all his classes, or risk being dropped from the academy at the end of the year.

But kingdom life is not like the outer-cities, and kingdom kids are far more ruthless about who they'll allow to climb to the top. Jiyong will have to train hard and fight for every score to make it in this wealthy academy for powerful families, all while supporting his own from afar.

From J. D. Astra, author of Viridian Gate Online: Firebrand, comes a brand-new Cultivation Academy series, bursting at the seams with nanites, martial arts, and robot battling.

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