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ID: 695398

Title: Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land

Author: Bill Waiser, Jennie Hansen

Narrator: Adam Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:25

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

You won't find the Ocean Man and Pheasant Rump reserves on a map of southeastern Saskatchewan. In 1901, the two Nakoda bands reluctantly surrendered the seventy square miles granted to them under treaty. It's just one of more than two dozen surrenders aggressively pursued by the Laurier Liberal government over a fifteen-year period. One in five acres was taken from First Nations.

This confiscation was justified on the grounds that prairie bands had too much land and that it would be better used by white settlers. In reality, the surrendered land was largely scooped up by Liberal speculators-including three senior civil servants and a Liberal cabinet minister-and flipped for a tidy profit. None were held to account.

Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government's settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way again.

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ID: 695397

Title: Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning

Author: Irvin Muchnick

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:17:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Health & Wellness, Football, Other, Fitness

Summary:

By now, football's concussion crisis is well known: every year brings headlines of our Hall of Fame heroes behaving erratically and dying young. But did you know that several kid players across the continent drop dead every year before a single ball is snapped-just from extreme conditioning drills directed by all-powerful coaches? Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads takes the conversation about football and public health to a new level with investigations of the sport's underreported worst tragedies and their cover-ups, at major universities, obscure junior colleges, and high schools. These add up to a kind of quiet pandemic-a socially induced one enabled by our thirst for spectacle and by a skewed vision of masculinity.

Here are the shocking stories of young men who get struck down by exertional heatstroke and other causes sometimes not even acknowledged (such as the sickle cell trait syndrome that afflicts many African Americans). When the worst happens, the football world simply buries the evidence, pays off victims' families, and moves on.

No matter how much we enjoy America's most popular sport at elite levels, this book makes the case that it belongs out of our public schools and off our public fields.

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ID: 702838

Title: Waking the Witch

Author: Rachel Burge

Narrator: Rebecca Norfolk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:16:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

A darkly spellbinding tale of female empowerment steeped in Welsh mythology and Arthurian legend.

'I tried to keep you safe, but I see now that I can't. They won't stop until they have you . . .'

When Ivy's search for her mother draws her to a remote Welsh isle, she uncovers a dark secret about her past.

An ancient and corrupt power is stalking Ivy, and her only chance of survival is to look deep within herself. For not every story in legend is true, and some evils are not what they seem.

An unputdownable novel steeped in Welsh mythology and Arthurian legend.

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ID: 695401

Title: Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

Author: Timothy Mitchell

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:12:17

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Public Policy, Business Development

Summary:

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption, and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body politic both in regions such as the Middle East, which rely upon revenues from oil production, and in the places that have the greatest demand for energy.

Coal was a source of energy so open to disruption that oligarchies in the West became vulnerable to mass demands for democracy. In the mid-twentieth century, however, the development of cheap and abundant energy from oil offered a means to reduce this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it possible to reorganize political life around the management of something now called 'the economy'. The politics of the West became dependent on an undemocratic Middle East.

In the twenty-first century, the oil-based forms of modern democratic politics have become unsustainable. Foreign intervention and military rule are faltering in the Middle East, while governments everywhere appear incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to end the age of carbon democracy-the disappearance of cheap energy and the carbon-fueled collapse of the ecological order.

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ID: 704211

Title: Fifteen Reasons to Kill

Author: Michelle Kidd

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:36:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist.

Eighty-one-year-old Eddie Wakefield is found brutally murdered at the nursing home where he lives. Crudely carved into his flesh-while he was still alive-is the number fifteen.

Detective Jack MacIntosh and his team are determined to track down the ruthless killer of this frail elderly man. But the investigation is leading nowhere.

Then the second body is discovered. The victim was stabbed to death in their own home. Again, the number fifteen is etched into the dead man's flesh.

A single clue leads to St Bartholomew's School for Boys, a grim and forbidding institution on England's south coast-and a series of shocking secrets stretching back more than forty years.

What is the significance of the number fifteen . . . and is Jack prepared for the horrifying truth?

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ID: 686076

Title: Earthly Crown

Author: Kate Elliott

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:48:43

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The nomadic tribes of the jaran are uniting the settled cities of their homeland one by one. Their charismatic leader, Ilya Bakhtiian, has his loyal wife by his side, but there is something about her he doesn't know: Tess Soerensen is a human.

Back home, her brother, Charles, led an unsuccessful revolt against the all-powerful Chapalii Empire. Charles's insistence that Tess join him is as strong as Ilya's reluctance to part with his beloved wife and neither considers that Tess may have her own plans for the future. As three fiercely independent spirits struggle for a solution, the fates of both the human race and the jaran hang in the balance.

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ID: 704206

Title: Trouble at Trident Academy

Author: Debbie Dadey

Narrator: Jillian Yetter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:49:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

In this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun-even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea.

It's MerGirl Shelly Siren's first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to the end of her sparkling mermaid tail. How will she ever fit in at the prestigious Trident Academy? Everyone there is so smart and so pretty and so rich. At least she and her best friend, Echo, are in the same class, but so is Pearl, a spoiled know-it-all who only wants to make trouble for Shelly; Rocky, a MerBoy who loves to tease everyone; and Kiki, a shy MerGirl who's new to Trident City.

At first Shelly and Echo have lots of fun: eating lunch together, trying to make grumpy Mr. Fangtooth smile, and joining after-school clubs. But when Shelly and Echo have an argument about their very first school assignment, Pearl gets involved and makes matters worse. Will Shelly and Echo fix their friendship?

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ID: 699448

Title: Catch Me If You Candy

Author: Ellie Alexander

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:24:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Halloween has arrived in picturesque Ashland, Oregon, and all of the ghouls and goblins have descended on Main Street for the annual parade. It's a giant street party and Torte is right in the mix.

Jules Capshaw and her team have been baking up autumn delights and trick-or-Torte bags filled with sugar cookie cutouts, spiced cider, and mummy munch. It's the end of the season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which means that the costumes for the parade are going to be out of this world. The elaborate guises even extend to pets. The grand marshal of this year's parade is no other than a regal pug aptly named King George. Jules is delighted to get to share the experience with Carlos and Ramiro, but things take a dark turn when she discovers a dragon slumped in front of the bakeshop.

Jules is distraught when she realizes the dragon is dead. She's also shaken because a few days before the parade, her mother's Mahjong partner Helen discovered a warning note about a dragon in an antique game set. Jules hopes it's just a random coincidence, but as the clues begin to unfold it becomes evident that there's been a murder on All Hallow's Eve. Can Juliet sift out the truth before the killer comes after her?

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ID: 690701

Title: Lowcountry on My Mind

Author: Ashley Farley

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:06:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

'An element of suspense along with the right amount of romantic sparks.'

Childhood friends reunite in an explosive tale of family dysfunction and romance gone wrong.

Amelia has been plotting to escape her abusive husband for years. When her mama's untimely death provides an unexpected opportunity, she hops on the next bus to the South Carolina Lowcountry. Her husband will eventually come for her. But she's prepared. Her freedom has given her the confidence to face her uncertain future. She settles in at her family's oceanfront estate to await her destiny. But a visit from Amelia's past presents danger in a different form.

After a string of disastrous blind dates, Max falls for the first guy who expresses an interest in her. As the weeks wear on, her attraction to Ron wanes. But he's living in her apartment. And he won't be so easy to get rid of. Jump on board for a wild ride of adventure with the continuation of the bestselling Palmetto Island Series.

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ID: 704268

Title: Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision

Author: William Lee Adams

Narrator: William Lee Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:38:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, General

Summary:

As a boy, William Lee Adams spent his days taking care of his quadriplegic brother, while worrying about his undiagnosed bipolar Vietnamese mother, and steering clear of his openly racist and homophobic father. Too shy and anxious to even speak until he was six years old, it seemed unlikely William would ever leave small-town Georgia.

In time, William discovered that learning was both a refuge and a ticket out. So even as he struggled to understand and to get others to accept both his sexuality and his biracial identity, William focused on his schoolwork, his extracurricular activities, and building community with the students and teachers who embraced him for who he truly was. Though his scholarship to Harvard parachuted him into a whole new world, he still carried a lifetime of secrets and unanswered questions that would haunt him no matter how far he traveled.

Years later, as a journalist in London, William discovered the Eurovision Song Contest-an annual competition known for its extravagant performers and cutthroat politics. Initially just a fan, he started blogging about the contest, ultimately becoming the most sought-after expert on the subject. William was soon jetting across the continent to meet divas, drag queens, and aspiring singers, who welcomed him to their beautiful, if dysfunctional, family of choice.

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