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ID: 714317

Title: Drowned Boy

Author: Karin Fossum

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:30:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer

Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement, and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses something is off with Carmen's story and consults his trusted colleague, the famed Inspector Sejer. An autopsy reveals Tommy's lungs to be full of soap.

When Sejer and Skarre revisit the couple, Carmen, an epileptic, changes her story, confessing that she'd been knocked unconscious by a seizure while bathing Tommy. When she came to, she found him drowned in the tub and, horrified and frightened, threw him into the pond.

But Skarre and Sejer's doubt is not appeased, and the case is reopened. What more could Carmen be hiding? And what lengths will she take to cover her guilt? As Carmen's own family starts to doubt her, Skarre and Sejer work to find the truth.

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ID: 707713

Title: Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend

Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:59:52

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Sports, History & Culture

Summary:

For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today's most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. In Marty Glickman, Jeffrey S. Gurock showcases the life of this important contributor to American popular culture.

In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. This lively biography details this traumatic event and explores not only how he coped for decades with that painful rejection but also examines how he dealt with other anti-Semitic and cultural obstacles that threatened to stymie his career. Marty Glickman is a story of adversity and triumph, of sports and minority group struggles, told within the context of the prejudicial barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they aimed to make it in America.

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ID: 700813

Title: Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

Author: Peter Hart

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:21:06

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground.

In Footsloggers, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion's war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th Durham Light Infantry, Hart bears witness not only to their comradeship, suffering, dreadful losses, and individual tragedies, but also their courage and self-sacrifice as they fought their way across North Africa, Italy, and Greece. This is a human look at the inhuman nature of war from the author of At Close Range and Burning Steel.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 714372

Title: Toxic People

Author: S.D. Monaghan

Narrator: Jacqueline Milne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:52

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A NAIL-BITING DOMESTIC THRILLER FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.

Jenny's been married to Shane for fifteen years. They live in one of Dublin's most idyllic neighborhoods and share a seemingly perfect life. But someone wants to destroy them.

Returning home one evening, Jenny immediately knows something is wrong. The front door is ajar. Then she hears a loud crash behind the house. She races towards the sound to find Shane's crumpled Land Rover. A masked, lifeless figure is sprawled across the bonnet. Jenny peels away the attacker's balaclava-it's a young woman.

Behind the wheel, Shane slips in and out of consciousness. A figure emerges from the shadows and creeps into the car. He whispers in Shane's ear: You have no idea what's coming.

This is just the beginning. Shane and Jenny have been keeping toxic secrets from one another. Secrets that will unravel their so-called perfect life . . .

AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF DOMESTIC SUSPENSE WITH A SHATTERING FINAL TWIST.

Perfect for fans of Patricia MacDonald, Louise Candlish and Claire McGowen.

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ID: 705685

Title: Cachalot

Author: Alan Dean Foster

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:15

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sci-fi fantasy set on an aquatic planet, where cetaceans are thriving and humans dying at an alarming rate.

Welcome to Cachalot, a planet made almost entirely of water, an ocean refuge for Earth's marine mammals, rescued from near extinction at the hands of humans thousands of years ago. Free from predators and human impact, the whales thrive in their new home, growing in size and intelligence. Everything is perfect. Until humans decide to establish floating towns on Cachalot, drawn by the planet's abundant natural resources. Now someone or something is killing off Cachalot's human population, a mystery a team of marine biologists has to been sent to Cachalot to solve-a mission that could cost them their lives.

'One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy.' -the Times (London)

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ID: 710723

Title: Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light

Author: Cole Stangler

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:10:37

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Europe, Military

Summary:

The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafes, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French-American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere-in its striving, working-class districts whose residents are being priced out of their hometown today.

Paris Is Not Dead explores the past, present, and future of the City of Light through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city's progressive, cosmopolitan, and open-minded character-at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they're shifting in the opposite direction. This is the Paris many tourists too often miss: immigrant-heavy districts such as the 18th arrondissement, where crowded street markets still define everyday life. Stangler brings this view of the city to life, combining gripping, street-level reportage, stories of today's working-class Parisians, recent history, and a sweeping analysis of the larger forces shaping the city.

In the tradition of Lucy Sante and Mike Davis, Paris Is Not Dead offers a bottom-up portrait of one of the world's most vital urban centers-and a call to action to Francophiles and all who care about the future of cities everywhere.

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ID: 710771

Title: Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie

Author: Lance Olsen

Narrator: Liam Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:03:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie's last days

An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives-the protean musician himself, an academic trying to compose a critical monograph about him, friends, lovers, musicologists, and others in Bowie's orbit.

At its core beat questions about how we read others, how we are read by them, how (if at all) we can tell the past with something even close to accuracy, what it feels like being the opposite of young and still committed to bracing, volatile innovation.

Set during Bowie's last months-those during which he worked on his acclaimed final album Black Star while battling liver cancer and the consequences of a sixth heart attack-yet washing back and forth across his exhilarating, kaleidoscopically costumed life, Always Crashing in the Same Car enacts a poetics of impermanence, of art, of love, of truth, even of death, that apparently most permanent of conditions.

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ID: 710568

Title: Montrose Paranormal Academy: Crossing Nexis

Author: Barbara Hartzler

Narrator: Natasha Soudek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:28:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance

Summary:

Montrose Paranormal Academy better watch out-it's time for Seer Training. I've got some new angel powers to play with. And I'm only getting started.

If there's one thing I've learned since last semester, you never know what the Three Societies are going to do next. First, they invite you into their midst and call it Seer Training. Yeah, right. Like they have any idea what to do with the likes of me. Then they say, 'Go fend for yourself.' I don't think they're going to like the way I fend for myself. Because I'm tired of bowing to the whims of the Guardians, Nexis . . . or anybody else for that matter. I'm the Seer. I'm the one with super-cool angel powers. And I'm the one who pays the price when I use them.

Whether the Guardians want to teach me or not, I need to master my new powers before they turn on me. And I need to decide a few things for myself: Whose side do I want to be on in this tug-of-war between the Three Societies? Which one of my two guys is ready to fight for me? How can I turn the tables to get what I want for a change? I still want to find my brother. Maybe even fight by his side. But first, I need to learn how to become my own Seer. Just because I have awesome powers, doesn't mean I'm anybody's property.

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ID: 714354

Title: Waiting World

Author: Andria Williams

Narrator: Esther Wane, Stewart Crank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:43:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The mansion of larger-than-life business magnate Titus McAvoy hums with the energy of his servants Nessa and Aoife, two Irish maids bonded through their journey to America, and a dream of escape. When preparation for one of Titus's famous parties sends the pair to the beach, Aoife stumbles upon a strange find on the shoreline. She instinctively pockets it, unaware that it is the key to her and Nessa's freedom. Ambergris holds more worth than silver or gold.

Amid this discovery, a young white-passing British World War I veteran named John enters the mansion's ranks, his history dragging behind him. When John's path intersects with Nessa and Aoife, the trio forms a quiet trust. Eventually, the girls show John the ambergris treasure, and together, they formulate a plan to cash in their secret and make their getaway.

These three friends are determined to forge a different life together-one free from how the rich treat the poor, and free from the pervasive rot of nationalist and racist behavior, not to mention the injustices and dangers that too often befall women. But with a crash in the stock market demolishing Titus's wealth, his eye is sharp and malicious. As the trio's strategy unfolds, so too does their boss's own merciless plan to punish whoever defies his power. Nobody walks away from Titus McAvoy.

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ID: 710535

Title: Bad Bones

Author: Lauretta Hignett

Narrator: Sharon Freedman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:12:18

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

Okay, I might be seriously under-qualified for the job of Enforcer, I'll admit. The Enforcer is supposed to be a human, for starters. It's usually an ex-special forces guy with big muscles and even bigger balls, and a knack for sorting out petty squabbles between the witches and vampires and shifters in the city.

And I'm just a technically-dead nail tech-an animated skeleton with a talent for illusion magic and gold gel manicures. But I've recently discovered that I can manifest some pretty big muscles of my own. I've already got the big balls, so I'm halfway there.

It's the 'sorting out petty squabbles' part that I might have trouble with. I'm usually the one to start the fights, not finish them. But a girl has got to grow up sometime.

My first job is finding a missing person-a half-pixie girl vanished from her home a week ago, and if she doesn't surface soon, the local Fae diplomat is going to raise Hell. Her father is blaming vampires, her boyfriend is pointing the finger at the local werewolves. The clock is ticking. I'm determined to find her alive, and prove to the supes of DC that I've got what it takes to keep this town on the straight-and-narrow.

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