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ID: 697525

Title: Bring Me Home

Author: Annabeth Albert

Narrator: David Lee Garver, Lance West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:06:24

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+, Military

Summary:

Help!

I've inherited my aunt's historic house in small-town Oregon, and I need to fix it up and sell it fast before I move on to my big-city dreams. I'm one of the navy's best investigators, but twenty years of living in base housing means DIY isn't part of my extensive skill set.

Luckily, my best friend has the solution: his twenty-three-year-old son. Knox recently graduated from college, needs a room for the summer, and comes with a giant cat and years of remodeling experience.

Not only is Knox all grown up and hot as sin, but I recognize him. He's the bossy, bearded guy I shared the hottest kiss of my life with. No way can my buddy find out I've got it bad for his son. But with all the stripping, hammering, and drilling, my defenses crumble one dance break at a time.

As our sexy secret summer fling continues, Knox also proves himself handy at fixing my grumpy mood and wounded heart. Now I can't imagine a future without him. I can solve any problem the navy throws at me, but I have no clue what to do about loving Knox or the damage this could do to my decades-long friendship.

Can we build a forever together, or are we destined to go our separate ways?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 686181

Title: Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball

Author: Chris Donnelly

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:48:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Baseball

Summary:

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the twenty-first century.A

Without their manic, meddling owner, the Yankees fell into the hands of Gene Michael. Michael made shrewd trades and free agent signings, and he allowed the team's prospects to develop in the Minor Leagues before getting to the Bronx.

Meanwhile, the Mets, beloved for their intensity and hard-partying ways in the 1980s, became everything that had driven fans away from the Yankees. They made bad trades and questionable signings, fired managers seemingly every year, and were a powder keg of controversy. By 1996, despite their record, the Mets were already making moves that would set them on a path to the ultimate showdown with the Yankees.

Road to Nowhere tells the story of how two teams that had swapped roles in the 1980s swapped them right back in the early 1990s.

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ID: 692738

Title: Coming Home

Author: Hope Ford

Narrator: Hugo Locke, Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:38:10

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Military

Summary:

A billionaire veteran. A younger, curvy woman on the run. Together, in a protective, all the feels romance.

I just got home from serving in the military and I'm learning how to live as a civilian when I meet her. Elle is my younger brother's assistant, but the minute I see her, I want to know everything about her.

Elle is hiding secrets. I'm hellbent on uncovering every one. Especially peeling away the layers of her frumpy clothes to reveal the curvy body that plagues my every thought.

I know she's scared, running from something or someone. So I try to keep my distance to let her know she's safe with me. Until she forces my hand. Now there's nothing that will stop me from claiming her.

But can I convince her I'm in it for the long haul and not just here to keep her safe?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 705014

Title: Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

Author: Steven Frye

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:51:31

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

It took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more bestsellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy's commitment to an older form of literary expression: naturalism. McCarthy's work tends to darker themes: violence, brutality, the cruel indifference of nature, themes which would not be out of place in the writing of Jack London or Stephen Crane. But literary naturalism is more than the oversimplified Darwinism that many think of. Nature may be red in tooth and claw, and humans are part of nature, but the humanity depicted in naturalist literature is capable of love, selflessness, and spirituality, as well.

In Unguessed Kinships, Steven Frye illuminates all these dimensions of McCarthy's work. In his novels and plays, McCarthy engages both explicitly and obliquely with the project of manifest destiny, in the western drama Blood Meridian, the Tennessee Valley Authority-era Tennessee novels, and the atomic frontier of Alamogordo in Cities of the Plain. McCarthy's concerns are deeply religious and philosophical, drawing on ancient Greek philosophy, Gnosticism, and Nietzsche, among other sources. Frye argues for McCarthy not merely as a naturalist writer but as a naturalist in the most expansive sense.

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ID: 701680

Title: My Father's Brain: Understanding Life in the Shadow of Alzheimers

Author: Sandeep Jauhar

Narrator: Sandeep Jauhar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:45:57

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

'Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a cant-miss introduction to what has been called The Age of Alzheimers.' Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War C

A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain degenerates with age and what we can do about it.

Almost six million Americansabout one in every ten people over the age of sixty-fivehave Alzheimers disease or related dementias, and this number is projected to more than double by 2050. What is it like to live with and amid this increasingly prevalent conditionan affliction that some fear more than death? In My Fathers Brain, the distinguished physician and author Sandeep Jauhar set his fathers descent into Alzheimers alongside his own journey toward understanding this disease and how it might best be coped with, if not cured.

In an intimate memoir rich with humor and heartbreak, Jauhar relates how his immigrant father and extended family felt, quarreled, and found their way through the dissolution of a cherished life. Along the way, he lucidly exposes what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters and explores everything from the history of ancient Greece to the most cutting-edge neurologicaland bioethicalresearch. Throughout, My Fathers Brain confronts the moral and psychological concerns that arise when family members must become caregivers when childrens and parents roles reverse, and when we must accept unforeseen turns in our closest relationshipsand in our understanding of what it is to have a self. The result is a work of essential insight into dementia, and into how scientists, caregivers, and all of us in an aging society are reckoning with the fallout.

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ID: 699491

Title: Girl Flees Circus: A Novel

Author: C. W. Smith

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:28

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

When nineteen-year-old aviatrix Katie Burke crash lands her biplane on the only street in No Name, New Mexico, her arrival changes her life and the lives of everyone around her. As Katie and her craft need repair, locals take her in and help her, including a schoolteacher who longs for Katie's friendship, an interracial couple who own the town's diner, a handsome young mechanic who lives in a teepee, and a shell-shocked veteran of World War I.

As her story unfolds, Katie's mysteries deepen-revealing shocking secrets, a scandalous past, and a future in true peril. Girl Flees Circus takes flight the moment Katie crashes to earth, promising a journey into the lives of a glamorous, redheaded stranger and the people she will change forever.

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ID: 697550

Title: No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories

Author: Clifford D. Simak

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Twelve classic tales of the unknown from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Way Station.

Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterious hollows, cliffs, dark forests, and the Wisconsin River flowing in its deep-cut valley. As Simak wandered the countryside and the ridges, he peopled them with imaginary characters who later came to life in his stories. One such individual is Johnny, the orphaned farm boy of 'The Contraption,' who stumbles upon a wrecked starship and receives a priceless gift from its owners. Another is the old prospector Eli, whose surprising discoveries on Mercury get him killed in 'Spaceship in a Flask.' In 'Huddling Place,' a man with paralyzing agoraphobia is the only one who can save the life of a dear friend on Mars-if he can bear to make the trip. And in the title story, aliens slowly take over Earth while humans leave it behind and head for the Homestead Planets.

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ID: 694289

Title: Any Man's Death

Author: Loren D. Estleman

Narrator: Justin Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A Detroit mob war draws Peter Macklin back into his old life as a Mafia assassin in award-winning author Loren D. Estleman's riveting hard-boiled thriller

The Reverend Thomas Aquinas Sunsmith is halfway through his sermon when killers open fire. He is preaching against the evils of gambling, which a cartel of mobsters is trying to legalize in Detroit. The hail of gunfire misses the reverend, but a choir member is cut down-the first victim in the battle for the soul of the Motor City.

The Detroit mob has erupted into civil war, and professional killer Peter Macklin is caught in the middle. A former mob employee, he has since tried to stay away from the savagery of organized crime, but now they're offering him a job too tempting to refuse. The mob will kill whomever it takes to bring gambling to Detroit, and Macklin is about to discover their secret weapon: a seventeen-year-old prodigy assassin, who happens to be Macklin's own son.

This suspenseful thriller from the four-time Shamus Award-winning author of the Amos Walker Mysteries rumbles with hard-boiled action and razor-sharp dialogue.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 690700

Title: Troubled Queen

Author: Amy Licence

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:51:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Summary:

1528: Escaping from her family's scandalous involvement with Anne Boleyn's circle, Thomasin Marwood is beginning a new life in the service of Queen Catherine of Aragon.

Thomasin is trying to forget Rafe Danvers, the man who stole her heart and then betrayed her, and when a group of Venetians arrive at court, she is drawn to the sophisticated Nico.

But a great danger is lurking. The dreaded sweating sickness has returned, which claimed the life of Catherine's first husband, Prince Arthur, many years ago.

Catherine and her ladies are forced to flee, and their shared isolation with King Henry brings the couple closer again.

But Anne Boleyn will not let herself be forgotten.

Thomasin finds herself torn between new friends and old loyalties as Rafe comes back into her life.

Who will win Thomasin's heart? Will she survive the dreaded sickness? And will Anne Boleyn become victorious in her quest for the throne?

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ID: 695368

Title: Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Author: Max Fraser

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The 'hillbilly highway' was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture-from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today's white working-class conservatives.

The book draws on a diverse range of sources-from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music-to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest-bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present.

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