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ID: 710717

Title: Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

Author: Gregory D. Smithers

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:44

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science, Law

Summary:

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated the sexual practices and marital status of enslaved African Americans to reproduce new generations of slaves for profit.

In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. He argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South. By placing African American histories and memories of slave breeding within the larger context of America's history of racial and gender discrimination, Smithers sheds much-needed light on African American collective memory, racialized perceptions of fragile black families, and the long history of racially motivated violence against men, women, and children of color.

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ID: 710720

Title: Extended Stay

Author: Juan Martinez

Narrator: Lee Osorio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:40:47

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, General, Paranormal

Summary:

In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable-those with something to hide.

After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new life in the desert, earning a promotion to management along with an irresistible offer to stay at the hotel rent-free. But as beloved photographs go missing and grotesque strangers wander the corridors, the promise of the Alicia decays into nightmare. Alvaro discovers that the hotel is a small appendage of an enormous creature that feeds on guests and their secrets, one that will eventually bring him face-to-face with the memories he most wants to outrun. Alvaro, Carmen, and their friends decide to cooperate with the creature. But in their efforts to appease it, do they sacrifice too much of themselves?

Haunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.

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ID: 691526

Title: Hunted

Author: Maggie Sunseri

Narrator: Rachel Leblang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:32:19

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, General, Romantasy

Summary:

Áine and Daelon believe they've escaped to freedom, but Lucius has marked Áine as his and promises it's only a matter of time before he makes his claim.

Iciera is a land untouched by the Shadow King's evil reign, and Áine and Daelon must convince the witches who live there that joining the fight for Aradia's restoration is the only way it will remain protected. Despite being plagued by nightmares and worry for the allies and friends they left behind, Áine and Daelon find themselves embraced by the Icieran people. While they train for the battles to come, they must also prepare for the lengths that Lucius will go to make Áine his Queen.

As Daelon discovers just how deep his bond with Áine runs, Lucius works tirelessly to convince Áine that it is the connection between the two of them that's truly the strongest force in the universe.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 714424

Title: My March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival

Author: Halina Kleiner

Narrator: Natasha Soudek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:39:20

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, History & Culture

Summary:

A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night.

Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable, even though the prisoners are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler.

As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe's coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived the Volary Death March and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.

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ID: 714420

Title: Final Year of Anne Boleyn

Author: Natalie Grueninger

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:54

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman.

The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne's predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a roller coaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality, and rumor. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London.

Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, listeners will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalizing tale.

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ID: 716031

Title: GodTalk: Experiences of Humanity's Connections with a Higher Power

Author: Neale Donald Walsch

Narrator: William Sarris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:47:29

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Don't look now, but God is talking with you. In fact, God is never not talking with you! Neale Donald Walsch, New York Times bestselling author of Conversations with God, invites you to be present to life and the experience of your talks with God. He shares how God talks to you in a hundred ways across a thousand moments, using feelings, words, images, ideas, metaphors, and events that can change your life.

Experience Neale's classic wit as he shares his famous five-word statement from God-You've got me all wrong-for a twenty-first-century audience . . . with a modern-day twist.

Find out how God can suddenly reveal Itself in unexpected, unforgettable, mysterious, and miraculous ways, leaving behind a powerful message that touches you continuously for the rest of your days. Feel the wonder as Neale Donald Walsch, along with our sacred storytellers, share their talks with God.

Enjoy Neale's commentary and wisdom on each person's true experience! Then experience your own conversations as Neale shares the six-step process he uses in his talks with God. Discover profound, yet simple, insights into what you can do to deepen the dialogue once you become tuned into God talking to you!

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ID: 710709

Title: Skid Dogs

Author: Emelia Symington-Fedy

Narrator: Emelia Symington-Fedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:40:35

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Women

Summary:

A raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of nineties rape culture.

Emelia Symington-Fedy grew up with her girl gang on the railroad tracks of a small town in British Columbia. Unsupervised and wild, the girls explored the power and shortcomings of 'best' friendships and their growing sexuality.

Two decades later an eighteen-year-old girl is murdered on Halloween on the same tracks, and Symington-Fedy returns to her hometown to stay with her mother, who is fearful of a murderer at large.

While the media narrows its focus on how the girl dared be alone on the tracks, Symington-Fedy slowly comes to terms with the mistreatment of her own teenage body. Giving a bold and often darkly humorous first-hand account of nineties rape culture and the sexual coercion that still permeates girlhood, Symington-Fedy holds her hometown close and accountable and exposes the subtle ways that misogyny shows up daily.

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ID: 714437

Title: Vapes of Wrath

Author: Renee George

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:47:30

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

My name is Nora Black, and I'm celebrating my BFFs midlife matrimony!

Gilly is engaged, and I have invited a couple of friends to help us celebrate her bachelorette vacation in wine country. We are leaving work behind for three days of good food, good friends, and good fun.

Or so I thought. When the youngest of our group, Tippy Davenport, gets flirty with a local musician, his girlfriend is less than pleased. Some might even call her reaction homicidal. But when the woman turns up dead during a hiking tour, our vacation turns into an investigation.

It doesn't take a sommelier to sniff out the sour grapes surrounding this murder, including the astringent scents of old money, family intrigue, jealousy, and greed. I'll have to employ my psychic nose to catch a killer and get the bride back home to Garden Cove in time for her wedding.

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ID: 710746

Title: Soviet Sixties

Author: Robert Hornsby

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:29:56

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Russia

Summary:

The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union

Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the 'sixties' era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories were won in the space race, Stalinist cultural dogmas were challenged, and young people danced to jazz and rock and roll.

Robert Hornsby examines this remarkable and surprising period, showing that, even as living standards rose, aspects of earlier days endured. Censorship and policing remained tight, and massacres during protests in Tbilisi and Novocherkassk, alongside invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, showed the limits of reform. The rivalry with the United States reached perhaps its most volatile point, friendship with China turned to bitter enmity, and global decolonization opened up new horizons for the USSR in the developing world. These tumultuous years transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and helped reshape the wider world.

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ID: 710582

Title: Highland Reckoning

Author: Willa Blair

Narrator: Dave Gillies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:45:52

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Drummond Lathan has never wished for any form of the strange talents that curse his mother's bloodline. Serving as his father's advisor, negotiator, and second in command, his position as Lathan heir and his highly honed skill as a warrior garner him more than enough attention without the added burden of the hushed whispers his talented siblings have to bear.

Morven MacComas knows the destructive power of whispers. A year and a day after handfasting, her husband denied her and disappeared, leaving her disgraced and brokenhearted. When she discovered he also left her pregnant, she vowed that there would be but one love in her life-her child. Five years later, even as she struggles to deny her attraction to the visiting Lathan heir, Morven fears his recent arrival is somehow linked to a daring daylight raid on her clan. Reivers have taken her young son.

Drummond has always had a knack for finding lost things, but believes his success as good fortune. As the attraction between Drummond and Morven grows, his heartfelt attachment to her becomes a bond that could lead to the boy. And if Morven can allow herself to trust in love again before her son is lost forever.

Contains mature themes.

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