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ID: 714195

Title: Miss Fleming Falls in Love

Author: Emma Melbourne

Narrator: Liam Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:39:38

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance, Rom-Com, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

A Girl. An Earl. A Battle of Wits . . .

Miss Amelia Fleming has a very good reason to hate the Earl of Langley. A year ago, her father drowned in the Thames after losing a fortune to Langley at cards. Now her family is broke, her fiance has broken their engagement, and the debt still hasn't been paid. Someone has to deal with the earl, but Amelia's brother doesn't have the nerve and her mother has fled to France. It's no business for a gently bred young lady, but the Earl of Langley is about to learn that Amelia Fleming is not your typical young lady . . .

Miss Fleming Falls in Love is a sweet, sparkling Regency romp about a misunderstood nobleman who meets his match in a spirited and unconventional heroine. Perfect for fans of Georgette Heyer and Bridgerton!

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ID: 704216

Title: Ghosts in the Abbey

Author: Emily L. Finch

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:18:03

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:

She can't escape her past . . .

Derbyshire, December 1861. Haunted by the events of the summer, Samantha Kingston has found her retreat to the country less restful than she hoped. When a house party reintroduces V. T. Wyatt into her life after a three-month absence, she has mixed feelings. It doesn't help that they must keep their distance to stop the gossip mill running. But when Samantha stumbles across the body of someone she recognizes and in whose death she fears she may have played a part, keeping their distance becomes impossible. Working together once again, Samantha and Wyatt must solve a murder that grows more complicated with every clue they uncover. But how does one find a killer who seems to have vanished without a trace?

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ID: 699664

Title: From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil

Author: Kirsten Schultz

Narrator: Alex Picard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:44

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Politics, World, North America, Latin America

Summary:

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance

Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange.

Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a 'colony' that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.

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ID: 707686

Title: Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical

Author: Laurie Winer

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:46:53

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

You know his work-Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were.

Diving deep into Hammerstein's life, examining his papers and his lyrics, critic Laurie Winer shows how he orchestrated a collective reimagining of America, urging it forward with a subtly progressive vision of the relationship between country and city, rich and poor, America and the rest of the world. His rejection of bitterness, his openness to strangers, and his optimistic humor shaped not only the musical but the American dream itself. His vision can continue to be a touchstone to this day.

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ID: 697533

Title: Behind Closed Doors

Author: W.R. Gingell

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:58:44

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

When is a curse not a curse? How does a house become a prison? Why is a reformed murderer the only hope for a far-too-easily injured boy?

Athelas has always been opposed to having a small, possibly-cursed Australian boy in the kitchen. When that small boy disappears, however, and Athelas's housekeeper Camellia strongly encourages him to do something about it, he finds himself wavering.

YeoWoo wants nothing to do with the disappearing Harrow, cursed or otherwise. Caught up with her own investigation and preparations for revenge, she would prefer her housemates to remain unseen and unheard. Entirely absent is even better.

But Athelas and YeoWoo have something in common: they both tread warily when it comes to their housekeeper, who runs the house with a tea-scented, magic-laced rod of iron. Camellia holds the key to Athelas's pretensions of reformation being accepted-and blames him for Harrow's disappearance. And she is determined to save Harrow, no matter what it takes.

Life as a reformed murderer would be so much easier if the process didn't include so much . . . reformation.

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ID: 697540

Title: Lucifer Crusade

Author: Mack Maloney

Narrator: Rich Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:26:12

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, War & Military

Summary:

After a devastating Russian attack on the United States, a lone American fighter pilot is out for revenge-even as he evades every air force on earth.

When Soviet nukes destroyed the United States, Hawk Hunter took refuge in the only place he has ever felt safe: the sky. One of the finest fighter pilots of all time, he used his talents to found the Pacific American Air Corps (PAAC), a democratic counterweight to the corruption that dominates the rest of the country. Their first action was the Circle War: a Russian invasion led by the sinister terrorist Viktor Robotov. The PAAC expelled the Russians, but Robotov managed to escape. And the Wingman has taken up the pursuit. In a world where it's a crime to wave stars and stripes, Hunter paints his F-16 red, white, and blue. Pursued by every air force on Earth, he tears up the sky in search of revenge. There are hundreds of killers on his tail, but he has only one target-and Hunter never misses.

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ID: 714205

Title: His Christmas Wish

Author: Melissa McClone

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:43:17

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Holiday, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Carly Bishop loved Christmas . . . until tragedy struck.

Carly Bishop doesn't want to come home for Christmas. Hood Hamlet is filled with nothing but heartbreaking reminders of the fiance and brother she lost six years ago. But her family needs her, so Carly must dig deep to unearth her Christmas spirit so she can give her niece and nephew the best holiday ever.

Mountain rescuer Jake Porter believes he could have saved his two friends that fateful day and kept the Bishop family from experiencing such a heart-wrenching loss. He hopes helping Carly rediscover the magic of Christmas will allow him to finally move forward with his life, but he's not certain anything can relieve the guilt that's kept him stuck all these years.

As Jake and Carly spend more time together, attraction grows, but toe-curling mistletoe kisses aside, his late best friend would never think Jake is good enough for his little sister. But maybe he can open her heart to something else she's given up on . . . love.

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ID: 710748

Title: Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation

Author: Edward G. Gray

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:05:44

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

The story of the Mason-Dixon Line is the story of America's colonial beginnings, nation building, and conflict over slavery.

Acclaimed historian Edward Gray offers the first comprehensive narrative of the America's defining border. Formalized in 1767, the Mason-Dixon Line resolved a generations-old dispute that began with the establishment of Pennsylvania in 1681. In 1780, Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery inaugurated the next phase in the Line's history. Proslavery and antislavery sentiments had long coexisted in the Maryland-Pennsylvania borderlands, but now African Americans faced a boundary between distinct legal regimes. With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, the Mason-Dixon Line became a federal instrument to arrest the northward flow of freedom-seeking Blacks. Only with the end of the Civil War did the Line's significance fade, though it continued to haunt African Americans as Jim Crow took hold.

Mason-Dixon tells the gripping story of colonial grandees, Native American diplomats, Quaker abolitionists, fugitives from slavery, capitalist railroad and canal builders, presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Underground Railroad conductors-all contending with the relentless violence and political discord of a borderland that was a transformative force in American history.

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ID: 705793

Title: Lost Cities of the Ancient World

Author: Philip Matyszak

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:51:05

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World

Summary:

The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past?

In this compendium of forgotten cities, Philip Matyszak explores the trials, tribulations, and triumphs these cities faced. Lost Cities of the Ancient World brings to life the sites and settlements across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond that time forgot, from the sunken city of Pavlopetri in the Mediterranean to the deep cave dwellings of Derinkuyu in Turkey. Four thousand years of human history are covered in this volume, offering unique insights into forgotten cities and ways of life.

Matyszak reveals a dynamic network of peoples and cultures who fought and traded between themselves, exchanging inventions, ideas, and philosophies, with the result that people as far apart as Catalhöyükin Turkey and Skara Brae in Scotland's Orkney Islands shared a common heritage. By examining the motivations that first drew populations to gather and settle together, as well as the challenges that led to their cities' abandonment, this striking and often surprising book offers us a fresh perspective on our urban origins.

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ID: 707618

Title: Christmas at Greenoak

Author: Marty Wingate

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:05:31

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Pru Parke takes on the most serious challenge of her life: cooking an entire Christmas feast alone. But she is distracted by a mysterious plant vendor at a local holiday market, who appears and disappears into the night. He seems familiar, and yet . . .

Join Pru and Christopher as they suss out this stranger while Pru contends with cooking a turkey fit for a crowd. Just how many potatoes and sprouts can two people eat?

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