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ID: 710704

Title: In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz

Author: Philip Taubman

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:11:12

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of the twentieth century, often against withering resistance. While political, social, and cultural dynamics have changed profoundly since Shultz served at the commanding heights of American power in the 1970s and 1980s, his legacy and the lessons of his career have even greater meaning now that the Shultz brand of conservatism has been almost erased in the modern Republican Party.

This book, from longtime New York Times Washington reporter Philip Taubman, restores the modest Shultz to his central place in American history. Taubman reveals Shultz's gift for forging relationships with people and then harnessing the rapport to address national and international challenges, under his motto 'trust is the coin of the realm'-as well as his difficulty standing up for his principles. Based on exclusive access to Shultz's personal papers, housed in a sealed archive at the Hoover Institution, In the Nation's Service offers a remarkable insider account of the behind-the-scenes struggles of the statesman who played a pivotal role in unwinding the Cold War.

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ID: 719844

Title: Someday Angeline

Author: Louis Sachar

Narrator: Abigail Reno

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:34:02

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Nobody understands why Angeline is so smart. She could read the first time she picked up a book, she can play the piano without ever having had a lesson, and she even knows what the weather is going to be. But being smart is causing Angeline nothing but trouble. The mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with an eight-year-old girl who seems to be a genius. Angeline doesn't want to be either a genius or a freak. She just wants the chance to be herself and be happy. But it's only when she makes friends with a boy the kids call 'Goon' and the teacher they call 'Mr. Bone' that Angeline gets that chance.

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ID: 694379

Title: Ghost and the Twins

Author: Anna J. McIntyre, Bobbi Holmes

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:25:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Restless spirits invade Beach Drive with the arrival of the twins and the stork's unexpected return.

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ID: 714262

Title: Yellowstone Standoff: A National Park Mystery

Author: Scott Graham

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:49:48

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Yellowstone Standoff takes listeners deep into the backcountry of a wildly popular national park. When Yellowstone National Park's grizzly bears and gray wolves suddenly and inexplicably go rogue, archaeologist Chuck Bender teams with his old friend, Yellowstone Chief Ranger Lex Hancock, to defend the suspect members of a group scientific expedition. Soon, Chuck finds himself defending the lives of his family as an unforeseen danger threatens in the storied national park's remote wilderness.

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ID: 720270

Title: How We Age: The Science of Longevity

Author: Coleen T. Murphy

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:38:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Medicine, Biology & Chemistry, Psychology

Summary:

All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age, Coleen Murphy shows how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. Murphy, a leading scholar of aging, explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods, have allowed scientists to probe the molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biological rules that govern aging in model systems provides clues about how we might slow human aging, which could lead in turn to new therapeutics and treatments for age-related disease.

Among other vivid examples, Murphy describes research that shows how changing a single gene in the nematode worm C. elegans doubles its lifespan, extending not only the end of life but also the youthful, healthy part of life. Drawing on work in her own lab as well as other recent research, Murphy chronicles the history and current state of the field, explaining longevity's links to reproduction and mating, sensory and cognitive function, inheritances from our ancestors, and the gut microbiome. Written with clarity and wit, How We Age provides a guide to the science: what we know about aging, how we know what we know, and what we can do with this new knowledge.

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ID: 699419

Title: Traitors' Gate: Book Three of Crossroads

Author: Kate Elliott

Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36:31:58

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

In Spirit Gate and Shadow Gate, Kate Elliott took listeners to the fascinating world of the Hundred, a land teeming with an array of cultures, gods, and conflicts blighted by the shadow of chaos and destruction. Now, Elliott returns to the exquisitely crafted cities and landscapes of the Hundred, in a thunderous conclusion to the saga.

In the darkness of war and destruction, forces gather to reclaim the peace: Those immortal Guardians who still serve justice seek a means to end the devastating reign of one of their own; a hired outlander army struggles to halt the advance of the horde that has despoiled vast lands and slaughtered countless people in its murderous wake, while still guarding against a burgeoning threat from an aggressively expansionist empire; and the eagle reeves who have long been the only law enforcers of the Hundred struggle to reorganize after a devastating massacre has decimated their numbers. But even as these forces give hope to those who would live in peace, a terrible danger looms: a traitor with Imperial ambitions, the most dreaded, least anticipated threat of all . . .

In the unfolding drama of political upheaval and violent change, nothing is certain, as alliances dissolve and power shifts with the unpredictability of a desert sandstorm. Traitors' Gate will leave her many listeners begging for more.

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ID: 710584

Title: Wanted: Understanding Daddy

Author: Sammi Cee

Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:05:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Is it possible for a renewed friendship to lead to more?

Dylan's life changed for the worse back in middle school. Because of that, he ghosted his best friend, Brett, out of fear and embarrassment. Now, as things finally come together for him, he's more concerned with earning a place back in Brett's life than he is about finding the Daddy his friends think he needs. What's an Understanding Daddy, anyway?

Brett feels like he's been waiting a lifetime to find out why his childhood bestie walked away from him. The more time they spend together, the clearer it becomes that he doesn't have to understand what happened. All that matters is now.

As Brett's feelings morph into something brand new, something special, will Dylan believe that he'd truly like to be his Daddy or will he let the past hinder what should have always been?

Welcome to another heartwarming story from The Tap Tavern where the Daddies are helping this chosen family of boys discover how beautiful they are.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 710577

Title: Big Stick Energy

Author: Hayden Hall

Narrator: Curtis Michael Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:34:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary, Sports

Summary:

Hayden Hall presents Book 3 in the Arctic Titans of Northwood U series.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 722649

Title: Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

Author: Jennifer Horne

Narrator: Sara Sheckells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:07:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story contest judged by H. L. Mencken, Mayfield became friends with Mencken and his circle, then visited with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage. Back in Tuscaloosa after the war, however, she became increasingly paranoid about perceived conspiracies arrayed against her. Finally, her mother and brother committed her to Bryce Hospital for the Insane, where she remained for the next seventeen years.

Throughout her life, Mayfield kept journals, wrote fiction, and produced thousands of letters while nursing the ambition that had driven her since childhood: to write and publish books. During her confinement, Mayfield assiduously recorded her experiences and her determined efforts-sometimes delusional, always savvy-to overturn her diagnosis and return to the world as a sane, independent adult. At fifty-nine, she was released from Bryce and later obtained a decree of 'having been restored to sanity.' She went on to publish noteworthy literary biographies of the Menckens and the Fitzgeralds, finally achieving her quest to become the author of books and her own life.

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ID: 720280

Title: Imagining the Method: Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance

Author: Justin Owen Rawlins

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:42:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: 'Method acting.' The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method-what its author Justin Rawlins calls 'methodness'-created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries.

Imagining the Method traces the primordial conditions under which the Method was conceived. It explores John Garfield's tenuous relationship with methodness due to his identity. It considers the links between John Wayne's reliance on 'anti-Method' stardom and Marlon Brando and James Dean's ascribed embodiment of Method features. It dissects contemporary emphases on transformation and considers the implications of methodness in the encoding of AI performers. Altogether, Justin Rawlins offers a revisionist history of the Method that shines a light on the cultural politics of methodness and the still-dominant assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors and acting that inform how we talk about performance and performers.

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