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ID: 697584

Title: Zelensky Effect

Author: Henry E. Hale, Olga Onuch

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:04:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Europe, Global Politics, Russia

Summary:

With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine's leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, 'I need ammunition, not a ride.' Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country's independence even as a longer war began for the southeast.

You cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian.

The Zelensky Effect explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine's national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country's first 'independence generation'. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky's life and career, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolize his country.

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ID: 695380

Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber

Author: David Smart

Narrator: Brian P. Craig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, History & Culture, Outdoor Recreation

Summary:

Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins-in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of climbing history covering Yosemite, the Tetons, the Gunks, the Alps, the United Kingdom, and more from the 1960s onward features star characters such as Liz Robbins-Robbins's wife and a pioneering adventurer in her own right-Yvon Chouinard, John Harlin, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, Tom Frost, and Doug Tompkins.

An important addition to our knowledge of the Golden Age of rock climbing in Yosemite and the development of the clean climbing ethos, Royal Robbins sheds new light on an elemental figure of outdoor culture.

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ID: 691981

Title: Friendship Love Autism: Communication Challenges and the Autism Diagnosis that Gave Us a New Life Together

Author: Andrew Preston, Michelle Preston

Narrator: Andrew Preston, Michelle Preston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:57:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Marriage & Family, Psychology

Summary:

Andrew didnt realize he might be autistic until his girlfriend, Michelle, approached him about it months into their relationship. No amount of life experience couldve prepared Michelle for the confusion she felt while dating Andrew, as he was unlike any man she had ever dated before. The thought never dawned on her that she could fall deeply in love with a man who was autistic or that he might be unaware of this, even into his thirties.

Whenever they share their story, they are asked the same three questions:

How did you figure out Andrew was autistic?

How did you approach him about it?

How did you get a diagnosis?

These are all fair questions and have interesting and often comedic answers. In this compelling book, Michelle and Andrew answer these questions and share much more.

You will follow along as their friendship unexpectedly blossoms into a relationship. You will see love flourish among ridiculous twists and turns. They bring you along for the autism diagnosis that allowed them to grow a deeper understanding of each other.

Andrews contributions to this book are invaluable as they give insight as to what life is like to be him. Michelles humor and authenticity are both unexpected and refreshing.

Come along on this outrageous journey of friendship turned to love on the spectrum.

Youll laugh, youll cry, and youll see numerous people you are close to through a whole new lens! This book is a must-read for people of all ages and walks of life. (Teresa de Grosbois, number one international best-selling author of Mass Influence)

Photos can be found at: Bellamimalifestyles.com

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ID: 692767

Title: Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany

Author: Wolf Gruner

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:27:21

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World

Summary:

Drawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria, Germany, Israel, and the United States, this book tells the story of five Jewish people-a merchant, a homemaker, a real estate broker, and two teenagers-who bravely resisted persecution and defended themselves in Nazi Germany. These stories have not been told until now, and each case is one of many, as Gruner shows by resurfacing similar accounts of Jewish refusal to accept persecution and violence in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1943, upending the notion of passive Jews, and expanding the concept of resistance.

Each individual described here represents a category of resistance: written opposition, oral protest, contesting Nazi propaganda, defiance of anti-Jewish laws and measures, and self-defense against physical attacks. Many of these courageous acts resulted in the resisters being prosecuted and put on trial, and often receiving harsh punishments, while some led to acquittal by courts and others to changes in Nazi policies. Taken together, these accounts reframe our understanding of German Jewish attitudes during the Holocaust, while also providing an astonishing examination of the complex Nazi reactions to the many individual acts of Jewish resistance.

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ID: 694361

Title: Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob

Author: Dan E. Moldea

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:26:55

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law & Politics, North America

Summary:

Founded in 1924, the Music Corporation of America got its start booking acts into speakeasies run by such notorious Chicago mobsters as Al Capone. How then, in only a few decades, did MCA become the driving force behind music publishing, radio, recording artists, Hollywood, and the burgeoning television industry? Enter Ronald Reagan.

By the late 1950s, Reagan was a passe movie actor. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, he was also MCA's key client. With Reagan's help, MCA would become the most powerful entertainment conglomerate in the world. And with MCA's help, Reagan would secure a fortune (resulting in a federal grand jury hearing), be marketed to the public as a viable politician, and ascend to the presidency of the United States. But according to reporter Dan E. Moldea, there had always been another catalyst behind MCA: Ties to organized crime that reached back to the company's inception-and through Reagan's Teamster-backed candidacy-had never been severed.

From the author of The Hoffa Wars, this is an epic and serpentine investigation into the insidious links among Hollywood, the Mob, and politics.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 694336

Title: Horror Show

Author: Greg Kihn

Narrator: Paul Brion

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:39:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

Schlock horror director Landis Woodley lives in a decaying mansion in the Hollywood Hills. When he abandoned the movie business-after being reduced to filming skin flicks and peep shows-he also left a laundry list of enemies, including the IRS. But avid fan Clint Stockbern is determined to write a piece on the alcoholic recluse for Monster magazine. Woodley agrees to the interview-for $600 in cash.

As the tape recorder starts rolling, Stockbern travels back in time with Woodley. He hears recollections of Attack of the Haunted Saucer, the worst movie of all time, and Blood Ghouls of Malibu. But he really wants to know about Woodley's masterpiece, Cadaver. Shot on location in the Los Angeles County morgue, the film was rumored to have used real corpses and everyone associated with the production has been fatally haunted since its 1957 release. But the truth is far more terrifying than Stockbern imagined. Is a dead Satanist, possessed by the devil, reaching out beyond the grave? Or is the reporter the final victim in a diabolical scheme dreamed up by mortals?

Horror Show is a wild and wacky romp that sends up mid-century Hollywood horror movies and schlockmeisters Roger Corman, William Castle, and Ed Wood.

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ID: 694254

Title: Twisted Shadows

Author: Patricia Potter

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:50:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Mystery

Summary:

In Patricia Potter's high-octane romantic thriller, a young woman discovers she is not only the daughter of a notorious crime boss but a person of interest to a steely FBI agent

Clutching her babies, a mother flees through the streets of Boston, desperate to escape the monster she married. Thirty-four years later, two men enter Samantha Carroll's Colorado art gallery, and her safe, secure world explodes. Now Sam is en route back to Boston to meet her twin brother, Nick, and Paul Merritta, the crime boss whose blood runs through her veins. Merritta is dying, and he wants to clear up some unfinished business with his daughter.

Nathan McLean won't rest until he brings down Merritta and his entire family. For the determined FBI agent, it's also personal-payback for what Merritta did to his own loved ones. But there's a wild card in the stacked deck-Samantha Carroll. Now Sam's on the FBI's radar, and she's falling for the one man who could destroy her newfound family. But Nathan isn't the only danger. There's someone else out there too-someone who wants her dead.

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ID: 692733

Title: Ghosts, Bridesmaids, and Buttercream

Author: J. A. Holder

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:47:38

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Michelle Bishop is trying to get used to life with her sidekick, Georgia Beauregard, but it's not easy being shadowed by a ghost twenty-four hours a day. When YouTube star Esme Jacobs and her crew come to town, Michelle finds herself mixed up in a celebrity wedding she'd just as soon ignore. But Esme just happens to be Georgia's favorite social media influencer, and she's not about to let Michelle bow out of this.

Michelle soon finds herself involved in a YouTube challenge gone wrong while Georgia unexpectedly gets to meet her idol. The bodies are piling up, drama from the past is rearing its ugly head, and Georgia's mom is demanding answers about her daughter's death. Can Michelle and Georgia find the murderer and somehow salvage a nightmare wedding weekend?

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ID: 699557

Title: Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Author: Patrick Mackie

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:38:38

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer?

Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death; from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments; from his hugely successful operas to intimate compositions on the keyboard, Patrick Mackie leads the listener through the major and lesser-known moments of the composer's life and brings alive the teeming, swiveling modernity of eighteenth-century Europe. In this era of rococo painting, surrealist aesthetics, and political turbulence, Mozart reckoned with a searing talent that threatened to overwhelm him, all the while pushing himself to extraordinary feats of musicianship.

In Mozart in Motion, we are returned to the volatility of the eighteenth century and hear Mozart's music in all its audacious vividness, gaining fresh perspectives on why his works still move us so intensely today, as we continue to search for a modernity he imagined into being.

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ID: 699552

Title: Bad Henry: The Murderous Rampage of The Taco Bell Strangler

Author: Ron Chepesiuk

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:36:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994.

Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between seventeen and thirty-five years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature-concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women.

A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage spurred controversy throughout the city. Community members accused local police of ignoring the murders because of the victims' race. The ensuing investigation became the largest in North Carolina's history.

Wallace was eventually found guilty and convicted of nine counts of murder, but he admitted to more killings while incarcerated; he is potentially responsible for anywhere from twenty to ninety deaths of Black women. Wallace continues to appeal and awaits his execution at Central Prison in Raleigh.

BAD HENRY: The Murderous Rampage of 'The Taco Bell Strangler' by Ron Chepesiuk offers valuable insight into the psychology of serial killers and sheds light on issues surrounding race and policing.

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