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ID: 689691

Title: Astronomer in Love

Author: Antoine Laurain

Narrator: Dan Calley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:03:23

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Satire

Summary:

Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain.

In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought.

250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume's telescope in a property he's sold. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment.

Then the woman walks through the doors of his office, and his life changes forever . . .

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ID: 689694

Title: Military Intelligence Blunders

Author: Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:13:08

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's-and controversial insider's-view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the US-led coalition's 2003 war with Iraq, as well as failures of intelligence in Ukraine following Russia's invasion in February 2022. Colonel John Hughes-Wilson analyzes not just the events that conspire to cause disaster, but why crucial intelligence is so often ignored, misunderstood or spun by politicians and seasoned generals alike. This book analyses: how Hitler's intelligence staff misled him in a bid to outfox their Nazi Party rivals; the bureaucratic bungling behind Pearl Harbor; how in-fighting within American intelligence ensured they were taken off guard by the Viet Cong's 1968 Tet Offensive; how overconfidence, political interference and deception facilitated Egypt and Syria's 1973 surprise attack on Israel; why a handful of marines and a London taxicab were all Britain had to defend the Falklands; the mistaken intelligence that allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power until the second Iraq War of 2003; the truth behind the US failure to run a terrorist warning system before the 9/11 WTC bombing; and how governments are increasingly pressurizing intelligence agencies to 'spin' a party-political line.

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ID: 684154

Title: Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Author: Nicholas Radburn

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:54:27

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, North America, Europe, Social Science

Summary:

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade

During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into a transatlantic system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year.

In this wide-ranging history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of merchants collectively transformed the slave trade by devising highly efficient but violent new business methods. African brokers developed commercial infrastructure that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people's constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade dragged millions of people into its terrible vortex and became one of the most important phenomena in world history.

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ID: 689689

Title: Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place

Author: Brooks Lamb

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Social Science

Summary:

Love for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity-concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry-and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to care for the land, even in the face of adversity. Paying particular attention to farmland loss from suburban sprawl, rampant agricultural consolidation, and, for farmers of color, racial injustice, Brooks Lamb reckons with the harsh realities that these farmers face.

Drawing from in-depth interviews and hands-on experiences in two changing rural communities, he shares stories and sacrifices from dozens of farmers, local leaders, agricultural service providers, and land conservationists. Lamb's rural roots and farming background enable him to cultivate honest, trusting connections with the farmers he engages, yielding raw and powerful insights. Time and again, compelling evidence reveals that stewardship virtues encourage people to live and act as devoted caretakers.

With a refreshing, accessible, and engaging approach, Lamb argues that these resilient and often overlooked farmers show rural and urban people alike a way forward, one that serves people, places, and the planet. That path is rooted in love for the land.

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ID: 689697

Title: Alice the Cat

Author: Tim Cummings

Narrator: Tina Wolstencroft

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:56:23

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

On the verge of her thirteenth birthday, Tess's life is falling apart. Her mother is dead. Her father is like a zombie. And now her beloved cat, Alice, has started running into the street when cars go by, trying to get run over. The only thing Tess can think of that might help? Running away. As she ventures from home, Tess stumbles upon a crew of manga-loving goth kids hiding out in the local haunted house performing seances. There, she discovers that the house's ghostly entity desperately wants a cat to care for in the afterlife, and it has its sights set on Alice. With the help of an unexpected friend and the brilliant, adorkable kid who has a huge crush on her, Tess will do whatever it takes to save Alice the cat, help the ghost, heal her dad, and survive the summer in one piece.

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ID: 686148

Title: Gold by Moonlight: Lessons for Walking Through Pain

Author: Amy Carmichael

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:54:04

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

In this book are sensitive lessons from a walk with pain. Amy Carmichael writes from experience with illness on how to follow God in the midst of struggle. However Gold by Moonlight is not for the ill only. Rather, it is for all who walk in difficult places or who are caught in any.

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ID: 686149

Title: Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

Author: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:11:21

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Ancient Civilizations, History & Culture

Summary:

In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526). This engaging history of his life and reign immerses readers in the world of the warrior-king who ushered in decades of peace and stability in Italy as king of Goths and Romans. Theoderic transformed his roving 'warrior nation' from the periphery of the Roman world into a standing army that protected his taxpaying Roman subjects with the support of the Roman elite. With a ruling strategy of 'integration through separation,' Theoderic not only stabilized Italy but also extended his kingdom to the western Balkans, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula.

Using sources as diverse as letters, poetry, coins, and mosaics, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer brings listener into the world of Theoderic's court, from Gothic warriors and their families to the notables, artisans, and shopkeepers of Rome and Ravenna to the peasants and enslaved people who tilled the soil on grand rural estates. This book offers a fascinating history of the leader who brought peace to Italy after the disintegration of the Roman Empire.

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ID: 686164

Title: Emerald Necklace

Author: Linda Rosen

Narrator: Traci Odom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Three months after her husband's death in 1969, Rosalee Linoff is determined to jump back into life.

She desperately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again-and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, bestselling author Fran Barish.

But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret-and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace.

As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality-which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran.

When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?

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ID: 689571

Title: Murder at the Seven Dials

Author: Cara Devlin

Narrator: Allie Rose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:04

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Romance, Detective Stories

Summary:

A murdered opera singer. A duke drenched in her blood. For Bow Street Officer Hugh Marsden, the brutal killing is a straightforward case. Ever since his exile from polite society, the chance to arrest a high and mighty peer of the realm has never presented itself. Hugh won't snub the opportunity now.

But Audrey Sinclair, the Duchess of Fournier, is certain her husband is wrongly accused, and she's determined to prove it to the arrogant Bow Street officer, even if she must employ her most peculiar ability-or perhaps curse-to guide her investigation. After all, a duchess can do as she pleases.

Exasperated with the meddling duchess, Hugh is convinced she is protecting her own secrets, and the duke's. But when Audrey's discoveries persuade him to believe the true killer is still at large, he has no choice but to join her in the hunt-if only to keep her from becoming the next victim.

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ID: 689696

Title: Maybe There Are Witches

Author: Jude Atwood

Narrator: Hana Lass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:04:57

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

After moving to the tiny village of Biskopskulla, middle school student Clara Hutchins discovers that her family has a history in the region: one hundred forty years ago, one of her ancestors was hanged as a witch from the white oak tree on the edge of town. When Clara finds a mildewed diary in the basement, she's even able to read the rambling thoughts of her long-dead relative. But when the book's predictions about Clara's own life start coming true, she wonders if those nineteenth-century villagers had a point: maybe her great-great-great grandmother really did have unearthly abilities. Now, a break-in at the tomb of the town's founder means a great evil has returned to Biskopskulla. Clara and her newest friends-two of the weirdest boys in school-must join forces to decipher the messages of a murdered witch and stop an unnatural catastrophe. But as they quest through historic cemeteries, backcountry libraries, and high-octane scholastic bowl tournaments, something sinister is lurking, watching, and waiting . . .

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