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ID: 716037

Title: Bugsy's Shadow: Moe Sedway, 'Bugsy' Siegel, and the Birth of Organized Crime in Las Vegas

Author: Larry D. Gragg

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:13:11

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, Arts & Entertainment, History & Culture

Summary:

Early in the Prohibition era, Moe Sedway became part of the New York organized crime gang led by Meyer Lansky and Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel. A loyal and highly effective operative for Siegel, Sedway eventually gained monopoly control of the race wire service in Las Vegas and also became an effective casino manager of the Las Vegas Club, El Cortez, and the Rex Club.

A breach in their relationship led to rumors that Sedway had gained Lansky's approval for a 'hit' on Siegel. The unsolved mystery of who murdered Bugsy in 1947 has spawned numerous theories about the identity of the hitman, but regardless of who pulled the trigger, Bugsy's death opened the way for Moe to flourish as his own man at last. Long overshadowed by Bugsy in the annals of organized crime in America, Moe Sedway is now at last brought out into the light in this riveting tale of the sensational life and times of one of Vegas's most mysterious and little-known figures.

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ID: 719780

Title: Blood Ties

Author: Alexey Osadchuk

Narrator: Ryan Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:39:47

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Heinrich de Gramont's petition to the king to release Max Renard from his duty to serve at Westerly Fort has been signed. Max's debt to the crown has been paid. And now his 'doting' uncle expects his wayward and petulant nephew to come to the capital at once so he can be wed to Viscountess Aurelie de Marbot.

Max knows there's no getting out of a trip to the capital this time. Also, beyond personal affairs, he has a lot of questions both for his father's brother and a number of maternal relatives. And so, Max decides to make for Herouxville to see with his own eyes just how far blood ties can take him.

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ID: 710726

Title: Say My Name: A True Crime Novel

Author: Joe Clifford

Narrator: Justin Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:19:52

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Say My Name is a true crime story about a crime that never happened.

On the heels of a divorce, a mid-list mystery writer returns to his hometown in Central Connecticut and is dragged back into a decades-old, unsolved case involving former missing classmates to expose the horrific secrets of a quaint, idyllic New England town.

Fusing the modern domestic psychological thriller with popular unsolved mysteries (Girl on the Train meets In Cold Blood), this meta blend of true crime and fiction plays with expectations and perspective before its mind-blowing conclusion.

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ID: 714385

Title: Girl on the Porch

Author: Richard Chizmar

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:57:55

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

When the Tuckers' next-door neighbor mentions someone rang their doorbell late the previous night, Sarah and Kenny Tucker check their home's security camera and discover something shocking: the doorbell ringer also visited their house and it wasn't a teenager playing a prank, but instead a terrified young woman with a shackle hanging from her right wrist. She anxiously pressed the doorbell again and again, glancing over her shoulder as if someone was coming for her, before giving up and taking off into the dark.

Almost overnight, she becomes known as The Girl on the Porch-and she's everywhere. There are updates on all the local networks, national coverage on CNN and Fox News, and the video goes viral on social media. Before long, everyone has seen the harrowing security camera footage.

Kenny and Sarah figure it's only a matter of time before someone recognizes the woman, but as the days pass and no one comes forward, odd things begin to transpire around the Tucker family: a man intensely watches them at a restaurant and then vanishes, fresh footprints appear in the garden next to their house where no one should have been, a neighbor's pet is viciously killed and mutilated, and a mysterious man has started following their daughter Natalie . . .

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ID: 710602

Title: Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume 5

Author: Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:41:24

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Tales of the Liaden Universe brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.

STORYTELLING ON AN EPIC SCALE

For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe novels by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have captivated fans with their unique blend of action adventure, science fiction, and interpersonal relationships. In addition to over twenty novels (and counting), Lee and Miller have written dozens of shorter works based in the Liaden Universe, featuring the strong characterization, detailed world-building, wit, and derring-do that listeners of the series adore.

Sure to delight longtime fans and newcomers alike, these tales highlight why the nationally bestselling Liaden Universe novels are treasured by space opera aficionados, with amazing settings, strong characterizations, compelling romance, and edge-of-the-chair action in stories that range from cosmic to comic.

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ID: 717135

Title: Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality

Author: Edward Broadbent

Narrator: Frank Block

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:12

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life

Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent's ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads listeners through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond: exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage, and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas, Rene Levesque, and Willy Brandt. From the formative minority Parliament of 1972-1974 to the contentious national debate over Canada's constitution to the free trade election of 1988, the book chronicles the life and thought of one of Canada's most respected political leaders and public intellectuals from his childhood in 1930s Oshawa to the present day. Broadbent's analysis also points toward the future, offering lessons to a new generation on how principles can inform action and social democracy can look beyond neoliberalism. The result is an engaging, timely, and sweeping analysis of Canadian politics, philosophy, and the nature of democratic leadership.

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ID: 704264

Title: Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River

Author: Sally Sierer Bethea

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:02:27

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Sally Sierer Bethea was one of the first women in America to become a 'riverkeeper'-a vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accountable. In Keeping the Chattahoochee, she tells stories that range from joyous and funny to frustrating-even alarming-to illustrate what it takes to save an endangered river. Her tales are triggered by the regular walks she takes through a forest to the Chattahoochee over the course of a year, finding solace and kinship in nature.

For two decades, Bethea worked to restore the neglected Chattahoochee, which provides drinking water and recreation to millions of people, habitat for wildlife, and water for industries and farms as it cuts through the heart of the Deep South. Pairing natural and political history with reflective writing, she draws listeners into her watershed and her memories. Bethea's passion for the natural world-and for defending it with a strong, informed voice animates this instructive memoir. Offering lessons on how to fight for our fundamental right to clean water, Bethea and her colleagues take on powerful corporate and government polluters. They strengthen environmental policies and educate children, reviving the great river from a century of misuse.

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ID: 705768

Title: Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer

Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:45:35

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius

Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific-Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.

In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one. Drawing on extensive archival research in Vienna and the Czech Republic, and reconsidering the meaning of some of his best-known works, Bodley provides a fuller account than ever before of Schubert's extraordinary achievement and incredible courage. This is a compelling new portrait of one of the most beloved composers of the nineteenth century.

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ID: 719854

Title: Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire

Author: Sara A. H. Butler

Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:56:46

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, North America, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its 'Briarcliff Campus.' Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it.

Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.-also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures. A man of big vision and bigger adventures, and a socialite whose boisterous, unapologetic personality made him both beloved and reviled in the Atlanta community. But after he passed away in 1953, his stories faded from memory, either tangled up with or overshadowed by his father.

It's no mystery why Briarcliff garners attention. It's self-consciously grandiose, built to display maximum grandeur to the neighborhood. It towers over the landscape, set far back from the road behind a filled-in, overgrown pool. Its face is stitched together where a music hall was added two years after the main house was completed, and the bricks don't quite match up. This book offers a deep-dive into the life of Asa Candler, Jr. to excavate a piece-and place-of Atlanta history.

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ID: 720268

Title: Unraveling

Author: Amanda Owens

Narrator: Mary Helen Gallucci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:22:07

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

You never think it will happen to your family-until it does.

Taylor Herron's mom is missing, and her life is unraveling at the seams. Deciding which way to turn and who to trust has proven to be a monumental task.

Detective Aleena Shaw has been assigned the case of finding Gwen Herron. Both a stunning and complicated woman, she soon becomes Taylor's only hope.

The path to finding her mom soon uncovers more questions than answers, and leaves doubt in place of hope. Love and lies are an outcome Taylor didn't expect-but the truth will always be revealed no matter the cost.

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