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ID: 716024

Title: Wish

Author: Lena Gibson

Narrator: Hana Lass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:50:58

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

Three men. Two timelines. One wish.

Haunted by her choices, including marrying an abusive con man, thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth has been unable to speak for two years. She is further devastated when she learns an old boyfriend has died. Nothing in her life is right.

That night, Elizabeth wishes for a mulligan. When she wakes, to her surprise, it is no longer 2022, but 2017. Though thrilled to have a chance to fix mistakes, the past is not perfect. She has a stalker and is still voiceless. Just like before, her boyfriend slips into a mysterious coma, so she enlists his brother Christopher's aid to determine the cause. In their investigation, he becomes her staunchest ally and her unexpected soulmate.

Elizabeth's stalker threatens her happiness, as do those who wish secrets to remain buried. If she can't reclaim her voice, her former boyfriend will fade away in a coma and her stalker may claim her life.

Don't miss The Wish, which mixes the mundane with a hint of magic-a romantic and thrilling ride for anyone who imagines they could transform regret into their best decision.

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ID: 714380

Title: You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace

Author: Angelique Bellmer Krembs, Cie Nicholson, Dawn Hudson, Katie Lacey, Lori Tauber Marcus, Mitzi Short

Narrator: Lindsey Dorcus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:25:12

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

From small indignities to unconscious slights, women experience situations at work every day that may seem small or unimportant but that effectively differentiate and exclude them. These are micro-offenses; the small, awkward, or uncomfortable moments that slow-build until the unwelcome environment takes hold and women disengage.

Situations the authors address range from things like use of the term 'girl' versus 'woman,' watching male colleagues leave work for a social event where women colleagues were left off the invite list, or hearing that a qualified woman shouldn't be offered an assignment because she has small children at home. You Should Smile More shows witnesses, allies, supervisors, and women at every level in their careers how to dismantle everyday gender bias, based upon the latest research, personal accounts, and interviews with professionals, both women and men.

Widely known as a meme, the title itself is now a call-to-action against the very advice women so frequently hear from male colleagues or bosses. The authors spotlight these all-too-familiar moments, offering realistic strategies every witness can use to confront and productively address them. The information in this book finally advances women in the corporate workplace as equals and advances organizations on the path to creating cultures of true inclusion.

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ID: 710759

Title: Wages of Sin

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Ana Clements

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:15:52

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. A patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting contacts between the sexes except for married couples. While imperfect, such drastic actions do limit the spread of the disease.

The 'Wasting' (HIV) has caused devastating destruction throughout the known world and severely limited the development of technology as well, creating a mid-nineteenth century England and London almost unrecognizable to us. This is the world Viola is born into. Extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books which she reads, she dreams of traveling to far-off places, something she can only do via books since her actions and movements are severely restricted by law custom.

Meticulously researched and exquisitely detailed in a way only a master like Harry Turtledove can do, this book is a tour-de-force from one of the best historical and alternate history writers ever to write in the genre.

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ID: 699633

Title: My Serenity

Author: M. Clarke

Narrator: Aletha George, Nelson Hobbs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:41:51

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, New Adult

Summary:

Seth Stewart returns home after his beloved father's death to oversee the family's businesses. He must kiss the prestigious internship goodbye after the first year of his MBA. When he collides with Josefina Anders, his first crush, chemistry ignites.

Josefina has many secrets, and she is too ashamed to share them with anyone, especially Seth. But things get complicated when her mother and her overly possessive ex returns to her life.

Will Seth's connection for Josefina be strong enough to see past her secrets, or will he realize he can't rekindle an old flame?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 710733

Title: Following Caesar: From Rome to Constantinople, the Pathways That Planted the Seeds of Empire

Author: John Keahey

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:07:42

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

In 66 BC, young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 BC. After achieving greatness in Rome and the far reaches of Gaul, he led armies along this road to battle enemies in Roman civil wars. And then, across the Adriatic Sea, he joined Via Appia's sister road, the Via Egnatia that began in today's Albania. Other armies followed these two roads that eventually connected Rome to Byzantium, today's Istanbul. In the early second century AD, the emperor Trajan charted a new coastal route between Benevento and Brindisi, later called the Via Traiana.

Today, short stretches of the original three roads can be seen in the ruins of ancient Roman cities, now preserved as archaeological wonders, and through the countryside near, and sometimes under, modern highways. Following those routes is the purpose of treading along the path that Caesar and so many others took over the early centuries. Modern eyes, seeing through the mists of more than two thousand years of history, lead the traveler along these three roads coursing through six countries between Rome and Istanbul.

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ID: 694323

Title: Calling on the Matchmaker

Author: Jody Hedlund

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:27:05

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Historical Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail, Finola quickly realizes she can't outsmart or outwit the dashing, determined, and daring man.

A candidate in the St. Louis mayoral election, Riley is confident a union with the wealthy Shanahan family will help solidify his chances of winning-and even more assured he and Finola can make a difference together. When a cholera outbreak begins to take St. Louis by storm, they must navigate a burgeoning attraction and growing danger testing all they know about love and sacrifice.

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ID: 695364

Title: Wind Called My Name

Author: Mary Louise Sanchez

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:36:48

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Historical

Summary:

Some days, ten-year-old Margarita Sandoval feels as if the wind might blow her away. The country has been gripped by the Great Depression, so times are hard everywhere. Then she has to leave her familia in New Mexico-especially her beloved Abuelita-to move to Fort Steele, Wyoming, where her father has taken a job on the railroad.

When Margarita meets Caroline, she's excited to have a friend her own age in Wyoming. But it often seems like Caroline, like many other people in town, doesn't understand or appreciate the Sandovals' Hispanic heritage. At the same time, the Sandovals discover that Abuelita might lose her home unless they can pay off her tax bill. Can Margarita keep her friend, help her family in New Mexico, and find a place in Fort Steele for good?

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ID: 715939

Title: Fire Season

Author: Stephen Blackmoore

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:52:11

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

Los Angeles is burning.

During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should. Necromancer Eric Carter is being framed for the killings and hunted by his own people.

To Carter, everything points to the god Quetzalcoatl coming after him, after he defied the mad wind god in the Aztec land of the dead. But too many things aren't adding up, and Carter knows there's more going on.

If he doesn't figure out what it is and put a stop to it fast, Quetzalcoatl won't just kill him, he'll burn the whole damn city down with him.

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ID: 710752

Title: Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

Author: John Brewer

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:08:24

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism

Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavor and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature.

John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travelers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fueling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.

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ID: 682859

Title: Refine

Author: Nichole Van

Narrator: Shiromi Arserio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:14:32

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance, Clean & Wholesome, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

Each life is tethered to others, tendrils wrapping through time itself . . . drawing people to each other . . .

In 1815, Timothy, Viscount Linwood-handsome, arrogant, privileged-never veers from the refined rules of his world. Cheerfulness and other unsavory emotions are for lesser persons. Anything that smacks of trade is to be shunned. Honor and pride above all else. Consequently, when he discovers his estates are bankrupt, he decides to woo and marry an heiress post-haste. After all, love is for lesser-mortals. But Fate intervenes and draws him to a vibrant woman who makes him want things he can never have. Can a pompous lord change enough to find redemption?

In 2015, Jasmine Fleury just wants her happily-ever-after. If only she could stop losing people instead-her grandmother, boyfriends . . . and now her entire family. Worse, she finds herself babysitting a haughty nineteenth century lord who can't even shave himself. What grown man can't shave himself? She has no interest in playing damsel-in-shining-armor to his knight-in-distress. But Fate has other plans . . .

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