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ID: 722634

Title: Stop Saying I'm Fine: Finding Stillness When Anxiety Screams

Author: Taylor Joy Murray

Narrator: Emma Faye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:49:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

What if 'I'm fine' is the language that the wounded heart speaks?

Many of us have become experts at pretending we're fine. Our shiny social media feeds and skin-deep smiles certainly give off a happy illusion. But we are not fine. Taylor has heard countless stories from her generation of our fetal positions on cold tile floors, immobilized by anxiety. She personally knows this place well. At eighteen, she too found herself in an anxiety-induced fetal position behind a locked bathroom stall, wondering, 'What did Jesus mean when he promised me full life?'

Stop Saying I'm Fine is a generational call to honesty, healing, and a spiritual hunger that defies superficial Christianity. We'll dig beneath the bedrock of our anxiety into the pain of our experiences, and together we'll learn how to connect to the stillness that exists beneath the chaos, finding that the wholeness and healing we long for isn't as distant as it may seem.

- For the young adult who feels trapped inside their anxiety

- For the parent or caregiver who aches to understand

- For the wounded heart that can't seem to move on

- For the weary one who has tried and failed a thousand other ways

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ID: 722931

Title: Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Author: Barbara D. Savage

Narrator: Machelle Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:52:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World, Women

Summary:

Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a 'sex and race discriminating world.' Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.

This book revives and critiques Tate's prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.

Barbara Savage's skilled rendering of Tate's story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate's life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women's history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.

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ID: 719858

Title: Season of the Gods: A Novel

Author: Robert Matzen

Narrator: Holly Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:40:54

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture.

Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that 'the perfect film' can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the studio's most powerful men. No one agrees with her until two brash young studio writers, Julius and Philip Epstein, decide to back Renie's gamble and bring the Morocco story to the screen. Their screenplay's name: Casablanca. Renie uses her charms on executive producer Hal Wallis until he finally agrees to her plan, but the problems seem insurmountable from the start, and Renie's gamble threatens to become a career killer for not only Renie but also her confederates, the Epsteins.

Set against the backdrop of Pearl Harbor and the first months of World War II, Season of the Gods careens across the Warner Bros. lot, from the Writers Building to the dressing rooms and soundstages, to tell the spellbinding and unlikely story of Hollywood's greatest masterpiece through the eyes of all who made it happen.

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ID: 722648

Title: Murders at the Rookery Grange Retreat

Author: Gina Kirkham

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:20:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Residents of a rest home are dying of very unnatural causes, in this new novel in a series of 'warm, cozy crime capers' (Jill's Book Cafe).

Christmas Eve, 1989. A couple is found slumped in front of their twinkling Christmas tree in an apparent murder-suicide . . .

Today. Librarian Pru Pearce is preparing for her wedding to police detective Andy Barnes. But after one of her Women's Institute friends suffers a suspicious accident at Rookery Grange, a home for the elderly and infirm, Pru and the other ladies are on alert. And when one of the residents is asphyxiated with a pillow, no one can rest easy . . .

With her wedding taking a disastrous turn and a killer on the loose, the part-time detective makes another vow: to investigate and solve the mystery. Will she unravel generations of murderous secrets and find the culprit?

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ID: 697551

Title: Twisted Cross

Author: Mack Maloney

Narrator: Rich Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:29:58

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, War & Military

Summary:

With the Russians vanquished, fighter pilot Hawk Hunter sets his sights on an old enemy poised for trouble in Panama.

A Boeing 727 is making a routine charter flight out of Football City-formerly known as St. Louis-when three F-4 Phantoms appear on its tail and open fire. No match for the lightning-quick Phantoms, the 727's pilot is about to give up when his assailants explode in mid-air, becoming the latest casualties of Hawk Hunter, the Wingman. Hunter is the greatest fighter pilot the world has ever known. Most recently, he brought the United States back from the brink of extinction. But a new threat has emerged from the south: An army of neo-Nazis has seized control of the Panama Canal, and they're armed to the teeth. Their hateful ideology may be decades out of date, but these jackbooted killers have firepower that is state-of-the-art.

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ID: 720212

Title: Truce

Author: Angie Smibert

Narrator: Amanda Ronconi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:31:23

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Historical, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Bone, whose Gift allows her to see memories in everyday objects, must unearth her family's deepest secrets to find her favorite, missing uncle. This supernatural historical mystery is the final book in the critically-acclaimed and emotionally-resonant Ghosts of Ordinary Objects trilogy.

In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in December 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: seeing the history of a significant object when she touches it. But one object is off limits: Uncle Ash's World War I dog tags, which hold memories of terror. When a body identified as Uncle Ash turns up inside the mines, Bone will need every ounce of courage she can summon to not only find her beloved uncle through the dog tags but prove that he isn't the thief the mine supervisor claims he is. The Truce is the riveting conclusion to the Ghosts of Ordinary Objects trilogy, with Bone facing her greatest challenge yet.

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ID: 722883

Title: Trail of Secrets

Author: Lacy Williams

Narrator: Johanna Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:38:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Historical Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Stella is the oldest of three sisters and she's got a long history of being the one to protect and provide for her family. When a dangerous threat sent the Fairfax sisters on a wagon train journey west, Stella knew her best bet was to disguise herself as a man to keep herself and her sisters safe.

Collin Mason has secrets of his own. And his family isn't short on drama either, not with his troublemaking twin and an older brother about to get hitched. But he's the only one who sees the real Stella-and that she needs help.

Collin sees the vulnerability Stella tries so hard to hide. When he becomes the only one she can trust and she discovers that danger has followed her family, Stella must rely on him despite her reluctance . . .

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ID: 714296

Title: His Christmas Family

Author: Melissa McClone

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:23:46

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Holiday, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Two and a half years after Grace Wilcox's husband died a war hero, the hole in her heart and life remains. She wants to start over with their young son, but a snowstorm thwarts her plans, stranding them in Hood Hamlet. When Grace knocks on a stranger's door in search of help, a handsome firefighter comes to the rescue.

Bill Paulson invites the two wayward travelers into his home. A relationship and family aren't on his radar, but something about the widow and her son touches Bill's heart. While Grace's truck is being repaired, she wants to give her son a special Christmas. An overgrown kid who loves the holidays, Bill decides to do the same for Grace.

Attraction soon flares between Grace and Bill, but she won't gamble her heart on another hero and he doesn't consider himself husband material. Can a little Christmas magic show them love and a family are worth the risks?

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ID: 720267

Title: Speculation

Author: Nisi Shawl

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:17:26

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

After Winna's little sister breaks her glasses, her grandfather gives her an old-timey pair of spectacles that belonged to her great-aunt Estelle. The specs are silver and perfectly circular, with tiny stars on the bridge and earpieces that curl all the way around her ears.

Best of all, they're magic.

Because when Winna makes a wish beginning with the words 'What if'-that is, when she speculates-the spectacles grant it. Winna wishes she could see ghosts . . . and soon she meets not only the real Estelle, but Estelle's mother, Winona. Nearly a century before, Winona escaped from slavery and ran north with her baby, Key. But Key was stolen from her under mysterious circumstances, and now Estelle and Winona have a mission for Winna: Find Key.

He's still alive. He doesn't know the whole truth. And unless Winna can solve the mystery and bring him home, a powerful curse called the Burden will smother out their family's lives-and Winna's mom could be its next victim.

This beautifully written historical fantasy by an award-winning science fiction author offers new twists and turns in every chapter and will leave you looking at your own family's roots with new eyes.

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ID: 722914

Title: How to Think Like Aquinas: The Sure Way to Perfect Your Mental Powers

Author: Kevin Vost

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:18:02

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

In this book, you'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. The bestselling author of The One-Minute Aquinas offers here a fully guided tutorial of exercises to perfect your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, practical wisdom, and so much more that lead to happier and holier lives. You'll also learn:

- The connections between thinking, happiness, and holiness

- How to perfect intellectual powers you may not know you possess

- Why a failure to understand human nature impairs our ability to understand anything

- The three fundamental acts of practical wisdom

- How to spot twenty common logical fallacies

- And much more

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