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ID: 710747

Title: Hard Aground: The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy

Author: Andrew C. A. Jampoler

Narrator: Chris Monteiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:42:58

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy's strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War.

The first story focuses on the reconstruction of the US Navy following the swift and near-total dismantling of the Union Navy infrastructure after the Civil War. Jampoler argues that the federal government discovered that the fleet requested by the navy, and paid for by Congress, was the wrong fleet.

The second story relates the short, tragic life of the USS Tennessee. The USS Tennessee was ordered on two unusual missions in the early months of the First World War, long before the United States formally entered the war. These little-known missions and the ship's shocking destruction in a storm surge in the Caribbean serve as the centerpiece of the story.

Jampoler rounds out this fascinating account with the story of how the USS Tennessee's destruction prompted fierce deliberations about the US Navy's operations and chains of command for the remainder of the First World War and the high-level political wrangling inside the Department of the Navy immediately after the war.

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ID: 714245

Title: Ghost Soldiers

Author: Matt Sloane

Narrator: Adam Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:36:50

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

A bomb detonates at a peace rally in Rome.

Nearly killed is a young Russian dissident calling for revolution. Activism makes her a thorn in the Kremlin's side, but familial ties to a shadowy government oligarch make her a target.

While Interpol hunts the rogue terrorist cell, the CIA focuses on the woman.

If recruited, she can be an asset against an old adversary, but deniability is key. They send Vince Carver, a private security specialist, to join her on a high-profile train tour of Europe's capital cities.

They're not the only hard target service going after her.

The Cold War may be over, but Russian unconventional warfare has only grown more sophisticated. Preventing a series of bombings that threaten the security of Europe while babysitting a headstrong girl makes for a dangerous mission. Finding himself on a black op deep behind enemy lines, facing soldiers without uniforms or state affiliation, might just make it Carver's last.

When soldiers stop wearing uniforms, everyone is a threat.

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ID: 716007

Title: Have You Seen Sarah Baker?

Author: T.A. Cruz

Narrator: Angelina Rocca

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:44

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The search is on, but what exactly are the folks of Fulton County hiding?

For five years, high school English teacher Sarah Baker has helplessly watched her marriage become emptier than the bed she crawls into alone each night. But a divorce would leave her in financial ruin, so she stays shackled to the husband who left his vows at the altar.

Then Sarah discovers an escape and takes the ultimate risk, only to find herself chained again-this time in the basement of a remote cabin.

When a grisly teen murder rocks his quiet northwestern town, rough-around-the-edges Sheriff Jeffrey Mills has his hands full identifying the body while facing the mounting pressure of tracking down the missing high school teacher the community is determined to find. In the blink of an eye, a heart attack sidelines him during the search, and Mills faces an impossible choice: skirt the law and lose his one chance for redemption or leave Sarah Baker to her fate.

But one thing is clear: they're both running out of time.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 715926

Title: Touch of Death

Author: Alice Wilde

Narrator: Benjamin Crow, Hannah Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:21:50

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

Death was just the beginning.

I have suddenly found myself in a strange new realm. A realm in which all I know is death. Where the life I led before is nothing but a shadow haunting the peripheries of my mind.

It calls to me, begs me to remember what happened . . . but the more I try to recall, the less I seem to remember, and the more terrifying this cruel new world becomes.

I am an enigma, not only to myself, but everyone around me.

A soul lost in a world of darkness that wants nothing more than to devour me. To claim me as its own before I have a chance to escape. Before I have a chance to remember who I am . . . and how I came to be here. Before I remember, him.

But even then, the Underworld has no intention of letting me go. Not unless I can win them to my side.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 716005

Title: As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

Author: Guido Alfani

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:18:27

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science

Summary:

The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods among men'; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth central to discussions of inequality. In this book, Guido Alfani offers a history of the rich and super-rich in the West, examining who they were, how they accumulated their wealth, and what role they played in society. Covering the last thousand years, with frequent incursions into antiquity, and integrating recent research on economic inequality, Alfani finds fundamental continuities in the behavior of the rich and public attitudes towards wealth across Western history.

Alfani argues that the position of the rich and super-rich in Western society has always been intrinsically fragile; their very presence has inspired social unease. In the Middle Ages, an excessive accumulation of wealth was considered sinful; the rich were expected not to appear to be wealthy. Eventually, the rich were deemed useful when they used their wealth to help their communities in times of crisis. Yet in the twenty-first century, the rich and the super-rich have been exceptionally reluctant to contribute to the common good in times of crisis, rejecting even such stopgap measures as temporary tax increases. History suggests that this is a troubling development-for the rich, and for everyone else.

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ID: 710593

Title: Wet Behind the Ears

Author: W.R. Gingell

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

Athelas never wanted housemates. Now he has three: the gumiho for whom he provided an alibi, the tea-wielding housekeeper who poisoned him, and the young human who might pose the greatest danger of all.

All of Athelas's training tells him to kill small, soft things before something else does-or worse, before he grows fond of them and then something kills them. He should at least know better than to worry about the revenge-bent gumiho who is drawing the attention of every high-ranking Behindkind in Seoul Between.

Hot on the tails of the gumiho who slaughtered her family, YeoWoo instead stumbles over the battered and broken body of a merman who knows just a little bit too much about her quarry. It should be simple to keep Marazul both alive and useful, but although YeoWoo is successful in the former, the latter is a different tail.

YeoWoo has always taken what she wanted in blood and force. Athelas has always gained what he needed by deception and manipulation. With their usual methods failing at every turn and the investigation swiftly becoming deadly, it's time to make a few changes.

Athelas has begun to fear that if he does change, his life will forever spin out of his control . . .

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ID: 699439

Title: Love Dare

Author: Asia Monique

Narrator: Mari , Winston James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:06:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature, Contemporary

Summary:

Lily Fredericks has many fears, but losing out on the love that Devin Booker is offering to her on a silver platter is number one on that list. Aware of her intense feelings for the man ten years her senior, Lily comes to a decision, but not before Devin ups the ante.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 705696

Title: Stay Tonight

Author: Kaylee Ryan

Narrator: Alexa Elmy, Eric Macarthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:01

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Sterling

It's always been her, and I just never realized. Now that I'm looking at her that way, I can't unsee it . . . and I don't want to. Alyssa has been my best friend since kindergarten, and these intense new feelings could cost me our friendship. She's the one I share everything with, good or bad. It makes sense to share my life with her. But I can't risk losing the only woman I've ever loved, which will happen if she doesn't feel the same.

Alyssa is loyal and kind and takes my breath away. I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to figure out what's been right in front of me.

Alyssa

Falling for my best friend is easy, but keeping it to myself while figuring out what to do about it is the hard part. Because in a small town, everyone knows everyone . . . and their business.

Sterling is the perfect guy-handsome, with a heart of gold and a protective streak. I know he'll do anything for me . . . except maybe admit he feels the same way I do.

So, I'm stuck in limbo and am in love with my best friend. Just when I work up the nerve to finally tell him how I feel, everything changes with a confession and two words: stay tonight.

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ID: 710572

Title: Fortunate Son

Author: Aimee Nicole Walker

Narrator: Lance West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:24:57

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Ivan Gallagher's first and only attempt at love nearly cost him everything-his reputation, family, and even his freedom. Needing an outlet for his pent-up passion, the gruff foreman turns his beekeeping hobby into a successful business. Just when he's on the verge of taking his liquid gold to the next level, a granted favor transforms his orderly life into a sticky mess.

Rory Snyder was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but wealth couldn't spare him from loss and heartache. Finding himself at the center of a dangerous media storm, the social media influencer seeks refuge at Redemption Ridge. Too bad the Viking-sized Ivan seems impervious to Rory's charms because he could use a sexy distraction from the chaos threatening to ruin his life.

Predawn collisions in the hallway lead to revelations, explorations, and something far sweeter than honey. Soon, living in the moment becomes living for the moment. But for how long? A future seems impossible for the humble foreman and the fortunate son until a common nemesis makes Ivan and Rory realize what they truly stand to lose.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 714436

Title: Children of the Northern Forest: Wild New England's History from Glaciers to Global Warming

Author: Jamie Sayen

Narrator: Stephen Caffrey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:31:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Jamie Sayen approaches the story of northern New England's undeveloped forests from the viewpoints of the previously unheard: the forest and the nonhuman species it sustains, the First Peoples, and, in more recent times, the disenfranchised human voices of the forest, including those of loggers, mill workers, and citizens who, like Henry David Thoreau, wish to speak a kind word for nature.

From 1988 to 2016 paper companies sold their timberlands and closed seventeen paper mills in northern New England. Policy makers ceded veto power to large absentee landowners, who tried to preserve the status quo by demanding additional tax cuts and other subsidies for economic elites. They vetoed measures designed to restore and preserve forest health; at present, about half of the former industrial forests are classified as degraded, and the regional economy continues to be trapped in low-value commodity markets.

This book operates as a case study of how a rural resource region can respond to a global economy responsible for climate change, habitat loss and degradation, and environmental injustice. Sayen offers a blueprint for restoring vast wildlands and transitioning to a lower-carbon, high-value-adding, local economy, while protecting the natural rights of humans, nonhumans, and unborn generations.

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