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ID: 705032

Title: Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

Author: Jo Scott-Coe

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:44:08

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Social Science

Summary:

In 1966, Kathy Leissner Whitman was a twenty-three-year-old teacher dreaming of a better future. She was an avid writer of letters, composing hundreds in the years before she was stabbed to death by her husband, Charles Whitman, who went on to commit a mass shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Kathy's writing provides a rare glimpse of how one woman described, and sought to change, her short life with a coercive, controlling, and violent partner.

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ID: 699447

Title: Bluegrass King

Author: Janet Dailey

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:20:05

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the New York Times-bestselling author's Americana series: A beautiful Kentucky horse trainer gives a handsome blueblood a run for his money.

Discover romance across America with Janet Dailey's classic series featuring a love story set in each of the fifty states. With more than 300 million books sold, Dailey is an undisputed legend of contemporary romantic fiction-and in Bluegrass King, she celebrates a love as lush as the rolling hills of Kentucky.

Dani Williams has always resented wealthy, self-confident Barrett King. The scion of a blueblood Kentucky family, Barrett is used to the best of everything-while Dani and her horse-trainer father struggle to get by. But now they own The Rogue, a thoroughbred racehorse Dani is sure will be a champion. Finally, she'll get to show Barrett that he can't always win.

But there's no such thing as a sure thing-on the racetrack or in love. And when tragedy strikes for Dani, Barrett's sincere caring threatens to reveal a devastating truth: Her resentment masks an aching desire for the almost impossibly handsome man. But if she unchains her heart, will Barrett welcome her into his world of Kentucky privilege? And could she ever belong?

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ID: 710753

Title: Love and Saint Augustine

Author: Hannah Arendt

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:11:42

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts she was using in her political works. The dissertation became a bridge over which Arendt traveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York, carrying with her Augustine's question about the possibility of social life in an age of rapid political and moral change.

In Love and Saint Augustine, political science professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and philosophy professor Judith Chelius Stark make this important early work accessible for the first time. Here is a completely corrected and revised English translation that incorporates Arendt's own substantial revisions and provides additional notes based on letters, contracts, and other documents as well as the recollections of Arendt's friends and colleagues.

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ID: 694211

Title: Angel's Inferno

Author: William Hjortsberg

Narrator: Michael Kirby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:12:58

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A 1950s amnesiac and hard-boiled detective sets out for revenge in this blend of mystery, supernatural horror, and metaphysical fiction.

Private investigator Harry Angel is in a jam. Handcuffed in his apartment along with the cops and a corpse, he stands accused of violently murdering three people. The good news is he knows who did it. But in order to exonerate himself, Harry must first make his escape-and figure out his own identity.

With the authorities hot on his heels, Harry travels from New York and Boston to Paris and the Vatican in search of an elusive stage magician. Eventually piecing together his mysterious past, he descends into the dark world of the occult. And very soon he will have vengeance upon the devil himself . . .

A terrifying thriller, Angel's Inferno is the long-awaited follow-up to the Edgar Award-nominated noir suspense novel Falling Angel, the basis of the film Angel Heart.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 690709

Title: Sail Away

Author: Ashley Farley

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:45:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Mystery, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

Becca has embarked on the most important mission of her life. On a whim, she rents a beach cottage on Palmetto Island for the summer. Help comes in an unexpected friendship with the young woman next door.

Hannah has three months to plan her dream wedding. While she's eager to marry the man of her dreams, she finds the logistics of combining households and the details of organizing her event overwhelming. When she learns of a new friend's crisis, she drops everything to come to her aid.

Sidney forges ahead with her successful career as a chef, while her heart remains in the past. On impulse, she reaches out to her old boyfriend, and they rekindle their relationship. But is it enough? Can she live with her secret? Or will she risk her happiness by revealing the truth?

Amelia is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She seeks therapy in order to put the past behind her. Do all her problems stem from her abusive marriage? Or is something missing from her life? Will she give up the possibility of a future with the love of her life to fulfill another dream?

The paths of these four women collide in a dramatic conclusion. Farley once again reminds us that family is more than blood ties.

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ID: 695299

Title: Lost Mages 1

Author: Db King, Shawn Whitney

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

They were once the most powerful mages in the land, but they were betrayed. Their crafted weapons and armor were stolen and they were exiled.

Now, with war on the horizon, the king needs them again. But they won't be wielding magic for the king. Not this time.

The Lost Mages are coming home, and this time, they're out for vengeance.

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ID: 695395

Title: This Side of Innocence

Author: Taylor Caldwell

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Summary:

#1 New York Times Bestseller: A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York.

Jerome Lindsey and his foster brother, Alfred, couldn't be more different. The son of a wealthy banker in upstate New York, Jerome leaves home for a life of extravagance and adventure, seducing countless women along the way. Meanwhile, Alfred becomes an executive at the family bank and his adoptive father's heir apparent. After his wife dies, Alfred shows little interest in remarrying-until he meets Amalie Maxwell, the ravishing and headstrong daughter of a tenant farmer.

Fearing that his inheritance is at stake, Jerome returns home to expose Amalie as a shameless gold digger. But the more he schemes against her, the closer he's drawn to her. Now, Jerome and Amalie will discover the thin line between love and hate-and that a moment of passion can have a lifetime's worth of consequences.

A mesmerizing tale of forbidden desire and a brilliant portrait of small-town America during the Reconstruction Era, This Side of Innocence is 'a masterful piece of storytelling' from one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 702805

Title: Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories

Author: Thomas Mann

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics

Summary:

Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-'the starched collar,' as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

The headliner of this volume, 'Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow' (in its first new translation since 1936)-a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life-is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the 'Bigs' and 'Littles' of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks-a sensation when it was first published. 'Death in Venice' (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story-included here as 'Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull.' 'Louisey'-a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection.

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ID: 697606

Title: Something Close to Magic

Author: Emma Mills

Narrator: Ella Lynch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

It's not all sugar and spice at Basil's Bakery, where seventeen-year-old Aurelie is an overworked, underappreciated apprentice. Still, the job offers stability, which no-nonsense Aurelie values highly, so she keeps her head down and doesn't dare to dream big-until a stranger walks in and hands her a set of Seeking stones. In a country where Seeking was old-fashioned even before magic went out of style, it's a rare skill, but Aurelie has it.

The stranger, who turns out to be a remarkably bothersome bounty hunter named Iliana, asks for Aurelie's help rescuing someone from the dangerous Underwood-which sounds suspiciously like an adventure. When the someone turns out to be Prince Hapless, the charming-but-aptly-named prince, Aurelie's careful life is upended. Suddenly, she finds herself on a quest filled with magic portals, a troll older than many trees (and a few rocks), and dangerous palace intrigue.

Even more dangerous are the feelings she's starting to have for Hapless. The more time Aurelie spends with him, the less she can stand the thought of going back to her solitary but dependable life at the bakery. Must she choose between losing her apprenticeship-or her heart?

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ID: 699628

Title: Implied Consent

Author: Keenan Powell

Narrator: Lu Banks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:03:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, Legal Thriller

Summary:

WINNER OF 2023 IPPY GOLD MEDAL!

'Sharp-witted, big-hearted, and authentic, Implied Consent is a knock-out of a novel from a writer who knows both the letter of the law and the messiness of real life.' -Catriona McPherson, multi-award winning author of In Place of Fear.

Attorney Maureen Gould has a dark secret and a hunger for justice.

When a powerful movie producer attacks, and then fires, his young female assistant, Maureen sets out to make things right.

Enter defense counsel and Maureen's estranged father, Frank Gould, a man more evil than his client. Inside and outside of the courtroom, Frank pulls every dirty trick known and makes up a few of his own.

To win justice for her client Maureen must defeat her father and free herself from her past.

Secrets trap the shamed with the guilty. Truth will set them free.

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