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ID: 720264

Title: Ride Lonesome

Author: Kirk Ellis

Narrator: Justin Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:53:58

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the 'Ranown cycle,' is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called 'the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking.' Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America faced with the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism.

Veteran screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome Ellis not only shows how this one film embodies a turning point for the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy.

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ID: 722636

Title: Hidden in Paris

Author: Corine Gantz

Narrator: Summer Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:21:04

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A socially awkward widow is forced to take boarders into her Paris home, in this smart, witty novel of love, loneliness, friendship, and metamorphosis.

Living in France among people she hardly understands, Annie has had trouble leaving the house since the death of her husband. And since home happens to be a small place nestled in the heart of Paris, why would she ever want to? But when unexpected events threaten her beloved home, Annie has no choice but to find lodgers-quickly.

After placing an ad, Annie attracts tenants with the kind of baggage she isn't prepared for: a long-legged, cool-headed ex-model on the run from her abusive husband; a frail young woman harboring a possible death wish; a mysterious artist; and an infuriating blue-blooded Frenchman-and all soon threaten Annie's way of life in ways she never anticipated.

But when Annie finds herself reluctantly but actively engaged in the lives of her tenants she discovers she might just free herself in the process . . .

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ID: 707595

Title: Kinning

Author: Nisi Shawl

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:18:15

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Historical

Summary:

Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.

The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.

Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality-the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding.

Meanwhile, Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga return home from a sojourn in Egypt to vie for their country's rule following the abdication of their father King Mwenda. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies.

Will Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope, freedom, and equality to anti-colonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces inside and out?

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ID: 722650

Title: Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War

Author: Martin Pengelly

Narrator: Alex Mortensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:19

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Literary, Military

Summary:

Before 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those fifteen young men became leaders in war.

Filled with drama, tragedy, and personal transformations, this is the story of a unique brotherhood. It is a story of American rugby and a story of the U.S. Army created through intimate portraits of men shaped by West Point's motto: 'Duty, Honor, Country.'

Some of the players deployed to Afganistan and Iraq, some to Europe. Some became infantry, others became fliers. Some saw action, some did not. One gave his life on a street in Baghdad when his convoy was hit with an IED. Two died away from the battlefield but no less tragically.

Journalist Martin Pengelly, a former rugby player himself, was given extraordinary access to tell this story, a story of a brutal sport and even more brutal warfare.

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ID: 720291

Title: Young Children and Worship

Author: Jerome W. Berryman, Sonja M. Stewart

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Sonja Stewart and Jerome Berryman have taken the needs of children into account and devised an exciting method for introducing three- to seven-year-olds to the wonder of worship. Their approach, which integrates religious education and worship, has been presented at numerous workshops and training sessions. Based on the authors' experiences, the methods described here will be invaluable to teachers helping children understand and appreciate worship.

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ID: 730506

Title: Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

Author: Vincent Schiraldi

Narrator: Barry Abrams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:06

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Law

Summary:

We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately four million more who are on probation and parole-monitored by the state at great expense and at risk of being sent to prison at the whim of a probation or parole officer for the least imaginable infraction?

Vincent Schiraldi was New York City probation commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg, supervising a system charged with monitoring 30,000 people on a daily basis. In Mass Supervision, he combines firsthand experience with deep research on the inadequately explored practices of probation and parole, to illustrate how these forms of state supervision have strayed from their original goal of providing constructive and rehabilitative alternatives to prison. They have become instead, Schiraldi argues, a 'recidivism trap' for people trying to lead productive lives in the wake of a criminal conviction.

Schiraldi offers the first full and up-to-date account of these two key aspects of our criminal justice system, showing that these practices increase incarceration, have little impact on crime rates, and needlessly disrupt countless lives. Ultimately, he argues that they should be dramatically downsized or even abolished completely.

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ID: 716018

Title: Righteous and People of Conscience of the Armenian Genocide

Author: Ago Demirdjian, Gérard Dédéyan, Nabil Saleh

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:37:32

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World, Middle East

Summary:

This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first modern genocide. Foreigners and Ottomans alike ran considerable risks to bear witness and rescue victims, sometimes sacrificing their lives.

Diplomats, humanitarians, missionaries, lawyers and other visitors to the Empire stood up, including Tolstoy's daughter, Alexandra; Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who first established genocide as an international crime; and the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who recognized and relieved the plight of stateless Armenian refugees. Ottoman subjects-from officials and officers to ordinary townspeople and villagers-faced near-certain death for their entire family by resisting orders and helping Armenians.

Unlike the Righteous of the Holocaust, these heroes have been systematically ignored and erased-a major injustice. Based on fresh research and hoping to repay a moral debt to Ottoman Muslims who braved everything to rescue the authors' forebears, this book is an important, moving testament to a grievously overlooked aspect of the Armenian tragedy.

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ID: 714251

Title: Riptide

Author: Kym Grosso

Narrator: Ryan West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:33:10

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Surfer Seth Tremaine loves living life on the edge. Waking up on an unfamiliar yacht in the middle of the ocean with an intriguing woman by his side usually meant he was about to have a good time. But it soon becomes clear ominous storms are headed his way. Determined to protect her and unearth the truth, he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of international secrets. Seth introduces her into the adventurous world of Club Altura and discovers she's the biggest the rush he'd ever had.

Kaimana Keahi hadn't planned on saving the surfer. But the day he'd plummeted into the churning water, her reflexes took over and she made the decision, not only to save him, but to ask for his help. Doing so that day had thwarted her plan to attack a lethal crime boss, but it may have been blessing in disguise. Trusting her instincts once again, Kaimana shares her plans to take down the syndicate that's responsible for her mentor's disappearance. Trusting Seth with her life, she falls for him as he tests her limits.

As Seth and Kaimana discover the nature of the beast that comes for them, they must learn to trust each other in the face of death.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 719837

Title: Bite Me

Author: Skye Alder

Narrator: Connor Brown, Kingsley Rose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:33:48

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:

I need to quit.

I've been telling myself that every day for the last six months. I knew as soon as I started working for Hudson as his virtual assistant that this wasn't going to work out. He's rude, bossy, and a total grouch.

I've only managed to last this long because whenever he starts being a jerk, I sass him right back. Enough is enough though. It's time for me to find a new job.

Except when I finally meet him in person to tell him that I quit, he refuses to accept my resignation.

Suddenly, instead of the grumpy jerk that I'm used to, Hudson seems to be trying to be almost . . . nice. It must be a trap. Except he says that it's something else.

Can I trust him when he says that we're fated to be?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 714294

Title: Indian Bride

Author: Karin Fossum

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:04:21

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the 'good people of Elvestad' can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocent-including the cafe owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a chief witness, and the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.

Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

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