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ID: 705777

Title: Magdalena

Author: Candi Sary

Narrator: Jennifer Pickens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:48:19

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

'Beautifully written and satisfyingly creepy, this is one of the most poignant and original ghost stories I've ever read.' -Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown

In a small, secluded town that thrives on gossip and superstition, Dottie offers plenty of both when the scandal breaks about a missing girl, a ghost, and the affair that started it all. Having suffered a history of miscarriages, reclusive Dottie develops a strange motherly interest in her fifteen-year-old neighbor, Magdalena. Somewhere between fantasy and reality, Dottie finds new life in her relationship with the mysterious girl. But Dottie's entanglements with Magdalena, a curious centenarian, a compelling stranger, an ex-mobster, and a murder of crows thrusts this once cloistered woman into a frenzy of public scrutiny. To quell the rumors, Dottie puts pen to paper and discovers something as frightening as it is liberating-her voice.

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ID: 697529

Title: Gryphon in Light

Author: Larry Dixon, Mercedes Lackey

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Set in the beloved and New York Times bestselling world of Valdemar, this first book in a new trilogy returns to the tales of the majestic gryphons.

On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near-fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops, but caused a diplomatic crisis. Frustrated by his lack of a hero's welcome, Kelvren is talked into helping with an expedition by his old friend, Firesong.

Firesong struggles with his own age and mortality, and he intends to solve a vast mystery at the center of legendary Lake Evendim as his crowning achievement. Just getting the multicultural fleet underway is a challenge, but what awaits them is a situation none of them could expect.

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ID: 699556

Title: Twelve Days: How the Union Nearly Lost Washington in the First Days of the Civil War

Author: Tony Silber

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America, Military

Summary:

In the popular literature of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the battles and changes in American life.

Tony Silber's account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, the Confederates had an organized army that was larger and ready to fight.

Maryland's eastern sections were reeling in insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North. The United States had a tiny standing army. The federal government's only defense would be state militias.

A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant. Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements.

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ID: 704279

Title: Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction

Author: Peter Kemp

Narrator: Keval Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:14:26

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel

Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives. This is truly a golden age.

But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles?

Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters, Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary.

Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom, United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary Mantel, this is a work of remarkable synthesis and clarity-an enjoyably opinionated guide to our current literary landscape.

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ID: 699390

Title: Court of Tricksters

Author: S. L. Prater

Narrator: Liam Price, Victoria Aston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:44:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:

The fae Duke of Night doesn't believe in love-but he'll claim his mate nonetheless.

Mating is a matter of politics for Night, not the heart. To prevent a forced union that will plunge the Lunar Court into war, he must find and bond his true mate.

When he lays eyes on Rain, he knows the shy forest witch is the bond mate he's been searching for. Unprepared for the intensity of his attraction, Night makes an offer that would keep his priorities straight and his court safe: a marriage of convenience. Any eligible woman-mortal and immortal alike-would leap at the chance to become the powerful duke's bride. But Rain isn't interested.

She's lived outside of society too long to ever fit into Night's world of shapeshifting tricksters and back-stabbing politicians. And Rain demands more than the trappings of marriage. She wants a match with heart.

Night doesn't have the luxury of time to change his mate's mind. War looms closer and the Lunar Court is caught in the middle. Out of options, the fae duke sees only one choice.

Kidnap his bride.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 691518

Title: Illuminated

Author: Maggie Sunseri

Narrator: Rachel Leblang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, General, Romantasy

Summary:

The borders between the dimensions are crumbling, yet all Lucius cares about is making Áine his Queen.

After surviving Nathaniel's violent plot, Áine is fiercely determined to travel to the Akashic Records and uncover the dark reality behind Lucius's unnatural rise to power. As she strives to fulfill her destiny to free the truth from its binds and restore the natural balance of the Universe, Lucius only grows more adamant that Áine is his-a gift from the heavens that ordained him King. To make matters worse, Nathaniel may have succeeded in planting the seed of doubt into the King's mind, casting Daelon and Áine's relationship under harsh scrutiny.

Caught in an escalating, magickal arms race, Lucius and Áine plot against each other and send the entire castle into clashing turmoil in their wake. All the while, Daelon and Áine's dangerous, secret affair only grows more and more volatile and all-consuming. Now everyone is forced to choose a side, and the list of deceits, subterfuge, and cosmic mysteries only grows longer. Who will be left standing when this ethereal castle of lies, pleasure, and magick comes crashing down?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 710708

Title: Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent

Author: Matt Rawle

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Discover how everything changed when God was born.

Everything seems different at the end of the year. We put lights on our houses to dispel the growing darkness, Christmas music floods local radio stations, apple cider and cranberry sauce are again on the menu, and wrapping paper and tape are always ready. Things just look, smell, and taste differently during the Advent and Christmas season, and these differences are a sign to us that God is about to do something radical and different. Christmas is when God surrounded the divine with senses of his own. That first noel was when God had eyes to see suffering, ears to hear our cries, and hands to hold those in need, and all of these senses were bundled in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 'This will be a sign to you,' the angel told the shepherds, and they traveled to Bethlehem and found a child. What signs do you see during the Advent and Christmas season that point you to the divine?

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ID: 705773

Title: Touched

Author: Walter Mosley

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:23:21

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers

Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure.

Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family-the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles-against pure evil. Think Octavia Butler meets Jeff VanderMeer meets Jordan Peele.

Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touched brilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technological innovation threaten existence itself.

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ID: 705767

Title: Killers of the Dream

Author: Lillian Smith

Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:23:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation-the intricate system of taboos-that undergirded Southern society.

Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our thinking about race relations and was for many a catalyst for the civil rights movement. It remains the most courageous, insightful, and eloquent critique of the pre-1960s South.

'I began to see racism and its rituals of segregation as a symptom of a grave illness,' Smith wrote. 'When people think more of their skin color than of their souls, something has happened to them.' Today, listeners are rediscovering in Smith's writings a forceful analysis of the dynamics of racism, as well as her prophetic understanding of the connections between racial and sexual oppression.

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ID: 697599

Title: House of War and Witness

Author: Linda Carey, Louise Carey, Mike Carey

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:41:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

In 1740, an Austrian infantry company more than two hundred strong arrives at the Prussian border. Their orders: to defend the town of Narutsin when war-inevitably-breaks out. But they don't get the warm welcome they're expecting. If anything, the locals seem strangely secretive, and the soldiers who previously garrisoned in the village have disappeared. Fearing the villagers may be consorting with the enemy, the commander orders his prim young lieutenant Klaes to investigate . . .

On the outskirts of town, in a dilapidated manor known as Pokoj, the road-weary soldiers make their home for the winter. Accompanying them is Drozde, a camp follower and entertainer who possesses a very special talent: she can see and communicate with the dead. She's the only one who knows that the crumbling mansion is far from empty. It's teeming with ghosts-and they know her.

Each spirit tells Drozde how they became a part of Pokoj's sprawling history, hinting at its future as well as its past. As she listens to their tales, it becomes apparent that the story of the manor hasn't yet ended-and that she and Klaes have their own parts to play in the horror that is to come . . .

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