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ID: 699506

Title: Knots in My Yo-Yo String

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Narrator: Matt Weisgerber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:41:58

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir, Health & Family

Summary:

Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his bestselling fiction.

'A master of those embarrassing, gloppy, painful, and suddenly wonderful things that happen on the razor's edge between childhood and full-fledged adolescence' -The Washington Post

From first memories through high school, including first kiss, first punch, first trip to the principal's office, and first humiliating sports experience, this is not merely an account of a highly unusual childhood. Rather, like Spinelli's fiction, its appeal lies in the accessibility and universality of his life. Entertaining and fast-paced, this memoir is a must-have for Spinelli fans of all ages.

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ID: 699444

Title: Indy Man

Author: Janet Dailey

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:58:27

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Fast cars and racing hearts drive this Americana romance set in Indiana by the New York Times-bestselling author.

In two short months, Susan Mabry will achieve her dream of marrying Warren Sullivan, her boss and the man she's harbored a crush on for years. An attorney, Warren isn't the most romantic of men, but he's handsome and knows how to make her feel special-at least when he's not too busy working. So when an attractive stranger brazenly intrudes on them at a restaurant, Susan can't understand why she feels butterflies.

Later that night, she sees her blue-eyed admirer on television: Mitch Braden is a champion racecar driver in town for the upcoming Indianapolis 500. Despite giving him the brush-off, Susan can't help seeing Mitch everywhere, including the Mabry home, where he quickly charms her entire starstruck family. Susan does her best to discourage Mitch and keep Warren from becoming jealous, but when an Indy Man sets his mind on a prize-he races to win.

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ID: 691595

Title: Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered The World

Author: Paul Baker

Narrator: Paul Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:21:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. The term possibly derives from the French se camper, meaning to pose in a bold, provocative, or exaggerated fashion. Frequently used to define or deride young heterosexual men, the upper classes, Black people, older women, and gay men, camp has also played a key role in equality movements.

Paul Baker's highly anticipated reappraisal of camp surveys its touchstones across history and the changing ways that it has been understood. He traces the history of camp from the courts of Louis XIV and trials of Oscar Wilde to the archetypical dandy Beau Brummell and the celebrated playwright Noel Coward; from The Valley of the Dolls, Harlem's drag balls, and Brazilian telenovelas through to the modern day divas of Donna Summer, Madonna, and Britney Spears.

Celebrating camp as an aesthetic, a sensibility, and a way of life, this essential dive into an often-derided phenomenon, shows how camp has been a place of refuge and renewal, of heroism and hedonism, and how it is more powerful than ever.

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ID: 691596

Title: Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

Author: Gaia Bernstein

Narrator: Faith Connor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:47:27

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Psychology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

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ID: 686150

Title: Plantagenet Princesses: The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Author: Douglas Boyd

Narrator: Gareth Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

A unique look at the lives of two daughters that highlights the dichotomy of lives of royal women, as both daughters and mothers of kings, who also knew both prison and power.

The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. Although academically labeled 'medieval,' their era was the violent transition from the Dark Ages, when countries' borders were defined with fire and sword. If princes fought for their succession to crowns, the princesses were traded-usually by their mothers-to strangers for political power without the bloodshed. Years before what would today be marriageable age, royal girls were dispatched to countries whose speech was unknown to them and there became the property of unknown men. Eleanor's daughters Marie and Alix were abandoned in Paris when she divorced Louis VII of France. By Henry II, she bore Matilda, Alienor, and Joanna. Joanna was imprisoned by William II of Sicily and worse treated by her brutal second husband in Toulouse. If Eleanor was libeled as a whore, Alienor's descendants include two saints, Louis of France and Fernando of Spain. And then there were the illegitimate daughters, whose lives read like novels . . .

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ID: 700811

Title: Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

Author: Dan Callahan

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:58:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers.

Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront.

Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963-64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.

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ID: 699490

Title: Burned: The Spy South Africa Never Caught

Author: Sue Dobson

Narrator: Clare Staniforth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:54:12

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Africa, Military

Summary:

'An unflinching memoir of a spy during a tumultuous time and unsavory alliances. Dobson recounts her recruitment, training, and espionage with rare self-awareness.' -Henry R. Schlesinger, author of Honey Trapped

From the snowy Soviet shooting range to the heat and dust of Africa, nothing is what it seems. And neither is Sue Dobson.

The image of South Africa in the 1980's as the golden paradise on the tip of the African continent conceals a brutal, racist Apartheid regime. Those who oppose it risk their lives. Beauty and brutality go hand in hand.

Sue Dobson, a young white South African woman lives a 'legend'-a life where she pretends to conform, moving easily through the echelons of the racist government in her work as a journalist, whilst concealing her espionage and military training in the Soviet Union, and her intelligence work for the banned African National Congress.

Matters come to a head when sinister forces try to derail the Namibian independence process and Sue's cover is blown during a difficult honey trap operation, bringing the Cold War to Africa, and leading to her desperate flight across Southern Africa with the Apartheid security police snapping at her heels.

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ID: 697589

Title: Deadly Trade

Author: Barbara Kyle

Narrator: Devon Sorvari

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:15:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Natalie Sinclair has dedicated her life to animal rescue. From lost dogs and cats to lab rabbits and pigs, Nat and her team of volunteers at All Creatures Great and Small will do almost anything to keep animals out of harm's way. When a freak accident results in the death of her beloved horse, and the man responsible ends up murdered, Nat is a natural suspect. Worse, she has caught the attention of the dead man's brother, whose wealth and unsavory connections run deep, including a link to a dangerous ring of criminals trafficking in wild animals.

Suddenly, Nat's problems are much greater than breaking up lab tests on animals or finding her own missing dog. To clear her name, she's going to have to take risks she's never taken before and confront people she'd much rather avoid-including those closest to her. As her professional and personal life crumbles around her, and the stakes surrounding the murder become more and more dangerous, Nat will have to act with extreme daring or else she, not the animals, will be the one in need of rescue.

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ID: 686167

Title: Moonlight Blade

Author: Tessa Barbosa

Narrator: Jennifer Aquino

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

I promised my mother I would never come to Bato-Ko . . . and yet here I am.

Narra Jal is one of the cursed, cast aside her whole life, considered unlucky. But with her mother's life on the line, she will return to the city where she was born to face the trials: a grueling, bloodthirsty series of challenges designed to weed out the weak, the greedy, and the foolish. Trials to select the next ruler of Tigang.

Narra has nothing. No weapons. No training. No magic. No real chance of leaving with her life. Just her fierce grit and a refusal to accept the destiny she's been handed. Even the intense, dark-eyed Guardian she feels a strangely electric connection with cannot help her. Narra is on her own. But she'll show everyone what the unlucky can do.

Let the bloodbath begin.

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ID: 699388

Title: Heart of Stone

Author: David W. Burns

Narrator: Jen Jayden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:35:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Can a monster choose to be good?

That's the question facing Kyra Anastas. With snakes for hair and a gaze that turns men to stone, Kyra is a modern-day Medusa, making a living in Chicago as a hitwoman for hire. Feared and hated even by her fellow Mythic, she lives a solitary and bitter existence until a dying millionaire asks Kyra to protect her daughter from supernatural dangers. Eager to be more than just a dealer of death, Kyra takes the job. But the road to redemption will force Kyra to face all her demons-not just the monsters chasing them across the Windy City, but also the horrors that haunt her own evil past.

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