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ID: 705771

Title: Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

Author: Adam J. Berinsky

Narrator: Tom Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:51:35

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Politics, Current Affairs, Public Policy

Summary:

Political rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an 'inside job') and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate. If misinformation crowds out the truth, how can Americans communicate with one another about important issues? In this book, Adam Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them.

Drawing on original survey and experimental data, Berinsky shows that a tendency toward conspiratorial thinking and vehement partisan attachment fuel belief in rumors. Berinsky argues that in fighting misinformation, it is as important to target the undecided and the uncertain as it is the true believers. In a world where most people don't pay attention to politics, political leaders are often guilty of disseminating false information-and failing to correct it when it is proven wrong. Berinsky suggests that we should focus on the messenger as much as the message. Just as important as how misinformation is debunked is who does the debunking.

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ID: 694212

Title: Bring the Jubilee

Author: Ward Moore

Narrator: Jim Seybert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:38:50

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to the city to escape his otherwise inevitable future of poverty and indentured servitude.

But the specter of war between the Confederacy and the other great global power, the German Union, haunts the entire region, and a nationalist terrorist group has other plans for Hodge. Before long, he is swept up in the politics of the day and becomes involved with a beautiful physicist who is working on a machine intended to change his fate-and the fate of the world.

Long before Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South, Bring the Jubilee was the first novel to pose the question 'What if the South had won the Civil War?' A counterfactual classic, it was included in renowned science fiction editor David Pringle's list of the 100 Best Science Fiction Novels.

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ID: 705787

Title: Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Author: Lauren Elkin

Narrator: Lauren Elkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:37:37

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Coming across the term 'art monster' in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman?

Art Monsters is a landmark feminist intervention in the way we think about women's stories and bodies, calling attention to a radical genealogy of feminist art that not only reacts against patriarchy but redefines its own aesthetic aims. Exploring a rich lineage of visual artists, thinkers, and writers, Elkin examines the ways feminists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth of their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, raced bodies, female bodies: What are the languages of the body, and what are the materials we need to transcribe them? Above all, how can we use the notion of the feminist 'art monster' to shape how we live our lives?

Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Elkin demonstrates her power as a cultural critic in this erudite and engaging book. From Kara Walker's silhouettes to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece Dictee, Art Monsters daringly weaves links between disparate artists and writers, and shows that their work offers a potent defense of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, ambiguity and opacity.

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ID: 710541

Title: Rambling Man

Author: Robert Vaughan

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:49:45

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Bestselling author Robert Vaughan is back with another riveting adventure sure to please fans of all ages.

Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves.

When the war ends, Lucas and almost 1,500 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which has a capacity of just under 400 passengers. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift.

Returning home to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Lucas becomes a police officer. At the time, Cape Girardeau policemen received no salary, but were paid for specific tasks, including receiving bounties for prisoners captured. Lucas also finds an unexpected love interest in a journalist who works for the Cape Girardeau newspaper.

Tragedy strikes, and Lucas finds himself no longer able to remain in Cape Girardeau. He begins a western drift, rambling without a specific destination. He becomes a bounty hunter, and is very successful at it, eventually finding an opportunity to settle accounts with an old enemy.

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ID: 714197

Title: Bone's Gift

Author: Angie Smibert

Narrator: Amanda Ronconi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:22:50

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Historical, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Bone possesses a Gift that allows her to see the stories in everyday objects in this supernatural historical mystery.

In southern Virginia coal-mining town in 1942, Bone Phillips has just reached the age when most members of her family discover their Gift. Bone has a Gift that disturbs her; she can sense stories when she touches an object that was important to someone. She sees both sad and happy-the death of a deer in an arrowhead, the pain of a beating in a baseball cap, and the sense of joy in a fiddle. There are also stories woven into her dead mama's butter-yellow sweater-stories Bone yearns for and fears. When Bone receives a note that says her mama's Gift is what killed her, Bone tries to uncover the truth. Could Bone's Gift do the same? Here is a beautifully resonant coming-of-age tale about learning to trust the power of your own story.

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ID: 705703

Title: Island Blues

Author: Arthur Stone

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:02:25

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The new, detached setting is teeming with 'land mines'-highly unusual ones. Plenty of other, deadlier things would be happy to reach out and touch someone anywhere, be it the roof of a skyscraper or a subway tunnel deep underground. Tons of somnambulant extras could swing either way: cut your throat or help you, purely on a whim. Weapons are as deadly as they are improbable. Deliberately imposed multiple handicaps make any attempts at camouflage meaningless.

It looks like there are way too many top Challenge participants around. Culling time is upon us.

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ID: 702801

Title: Veil of Truth and Trickery

Author: Analeigh Ford

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:25:28

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

Delphine has been fae-marked from birth, treated as a curse despite the fact the once treacherous fae haven't been sighted in decades-in fact, no one in Delph's village has so much as laid eyes on one of the folk in nearly a century.

Right up until a fae turns up on her doorstep, demanding Delph as down payment.

No sooner has she set foot in the fae realm, however, then she learns she's no mere collateral in a deal made with the lord that owns her family lands. She was selected for a reason, hunted down for a single purpose.

The fae courts are fading. The folk disappearing. Only four courts remain. Four princes determined to save their crumbling kingdoms.

And Delph . . . Delph may just hold the key to save them all.

But even as Delph learns to see past the feared glamour of the fae realm, she quickly learns the impossible position she's found herself in. The fae may not be the monsters she was led to believe, but in order to save them . . . she may have to become a monster herself.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 705772

Title: Highland Rogue to Ruin

Author: E. Elizabeth Watson

Narrator: Mhairi Morrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:53:14

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

For fans of Diana Gabaldon and Scarlett Scott comes a story of warring clans, illicit longing . . . and the brutish Highlander who risks it all.

Known as the 'Demon of the Seas,' Tormund MacLeod only wants vengeance for his brother's murder. At this year's Lughnasadh festival, the vicious and unyielding Laird of the powerful MacDonald clan will know the bite of his sword. But the festival offers many distractions-including a fair and bonny masked vixen whose touch disarms Tormund, body and soul. And och, like the cursed MacLeod he is, he wants what he shouldn't have . . .

Lady Brighde MacDonald might understand her brother's overprotectiveness-but she doesn't have to like it. What she needs is the reckless freedom in the arms of an imposing, rough, and sweet-talking Highlander. Only too late, they both recognize that they're enemies. She's the sister of the man Tormund wants dead. And he is the brutish blackguard of the clans . . .

Now their tryst could mean war. Brighde would see a truce, but it means she must convince her brother and the man she loves to lay down their swords. But Tormund hides a long-buried secret that could destroy both clans.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 702854

Title: Those Savage Stars

Author: Cameo Renae

Narrator: James Cavenaugh, Krys Janae

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:36

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Elara: As an infant, I was abandoned on the steps of a church. My childhood was spent in an abusive foster home. At nineteen, I killed someone.

Not long after, three men in black cloaks kidnap me and whisk me through a magical portal to a world I never knew existed. But the enchanting realm of Celestria is in turmoil. A dark enemy has infiltrated the land and is attempting to seize control. The last hope of the people of Celestria is locating Changelings in the mortal world . . . like me.

Yet an assessment of my magic leads to a shocking revelation. Someone used a powerful spell to suppress my powers. But who? And why?

Prince Kage Dargan: The moment I see her, my world pauses. Though we've never met, the girl is familiar to me. Since I was a boy . . . she has visited me in my dreams.

Even so, I can't let my guard down around her. The last Changeling I trusted tried to kill me. Besides, my attraction to her is a temptation I can't risk. My parents arranged my upcoming marriage years ago and breaking that pact could have steep consequences.

Still, I have to wonder why the girl from my dreams has finally appeared. Is it fate? Or something far more sinister?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 699409

Title: Shadow Gate: Book Two of Crossroads

Author: Kate Elliott

Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27:51:04

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The captivating, bestselling Spirit Gate swept listeners into the turbulent world of the Hundred, where the peace and order of life under the protection of the immortal Guardians has given way to chaos and violence. In the face of a vast horde of marauders led by a rogue Guardian, the bravery and resourcefulness of a lone eagle-reeve and others who risk their lives for the common good have prevented death and destruction from overwhelming the Hundred.

Now in Shadow Gate, the enthralling sequel, the source of corruption of the Guardians is still a mystery to the mortals who fight to withstand the forces that have turned against them. And when three new Guardians emerge, a struggle begins among the immortals, with nothing less at stake than the future of the land and its gods.

With all the color, excitement, and narrative power that have made Kate Elliott an enormously popular writer, Shadow Gate weaves a powerful spell of action, romance, and magic that will entrance legions of listeners.

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