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Title: Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Author: Ian Frisch

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2019-02-26

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Memoir

Publisher's Summary:

In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from around the world.

Magic Is Dead is Ian Frisch’s head-first dive into a hidden world full of extraordinary characters and highly guarded secrets. It is a story of imagination, deception, and art that spotlights today’s most brilliant young magicians—a mysterious club known as the52, who are revolutionizing an ancient artform under the mantra Magic Is Dead.

Ian brings us with him as he not only gets to know this fascinating world, but also becomes an integral part of it. We meet the52’s founding members—Laura London, Daniel Madison, and Chris Ramsay—and explore their personal demons, professional aspirations, and what drew them to their craft. We join them at private gatherings of the most extraordinary magicians working today, follow them to magic conventions in Las Vegas and England, and discover some of the best tricks of the trade. We also encounter David Blaine; hang out with Penn Jillette; meet Dynamo, the U.K.’s most famous magician; and go behind the scenes of a Netflix magic show. Magic Is Dead is also a chronicle of magic’s rich history and how it has changed in the internet age, as the young guns embrace social media and move away from the old-school take on the craft.

As he tells the story of the52, and his role as its most unlikely member, Ian reveals his own connection with trickery and deceit and how he first learned the elements that make magic work from his poker-playing mother. He recalls their adventures in card rooms and casinos after his father’s sudden death, and shares a touching moment that he had, as a working journalist, with his childhood idol Shaquille O’Neal.

“Magic—the romanticism of the inexplicable, the awe and admiration of the unexpected—is an underlying force in how we view the world and its myriad possibilities,” Ian writes. As his journey continues, Ian not only becomes a performer and creator of magic—even fooling the late Anthony Bourdain during a chance encounter—he also cements a new brotherhood, and begins to understand his relationship with his father, fifteen years after his death. Written with psychological acuity and a keen eye for detail, Magic Is Dead is an engrossing tale full of wonder and surprise.

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Title: Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author: Adam Higginbotham

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2019-02-14

Publisher: Transworld Digital

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham, read by Jacques Roy.

The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history's worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens, but all of humanity. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute.

Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a masterful non-fiction thriller, and the definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth.

Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the twentieth century, of human resilience and ingenuity, and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will--lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats-remain not just vital but necessary.

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Title: Dare to Desire

Author: Carly Phillips

Narrator: Sophie Eastlake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2019-02-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips turns up the heat in her newest sexy contemporary romance series, and introduces you to the Dare family ... siblings shaped by a father's secrets and betrayal.

Quarterback Alex Dare had it all-an all-star football career and his choice of willing women-until injury forces him into early retirement. When he is offered a groundbreaking position with a rival team, he's intrigued, but there's a catch. He'll be working alongside the same woman he callously hurt when she got too close for comfort. Social worker Madison Evans grew up in foster homes and knows what it means to have-not. She isn't impressed by Alex Dare's wealth or charm. Not since she fell hard for him once before, only to discover she was just one of his too-easy conquests.

This time around Madison refuses to succumb to Alex so easily. But Alex wants Madison. And if there is one thing Alex does well, it's to get what he wants. Can he convince Madison to take a risk and dare to love?

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Title: Ricocheting Regrets: Sadness in my Positivity

Author: Joseph Batte

Narrator: Joseph Batte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2019-01-31

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Comedy, Poetry, General Comedy

Publisher's Summary:

Appreciate a rare genre:Twenty-four poetic short stories, embedded with sparks of life drama and humor, based on a true life story. Extreme imagery is used, in some of the stories, to entice further thinking, enabling oneto tap deeper, into their inner most subconscious. Better captureunderlying life insights...

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Title: Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

Author: Matt Bai

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2019-01-10

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman.

When politics went tabloid...

In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. He was articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. However, he was also a deeply private man, uneasy when attention moved away from his political views to his personal life. Then, in one tumultuous week, it all came crashing down. Rumours of marital infidelity, a photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully-named yacht, and a newspaper's stakeout of Hart's home resulted in a media frenzy the likes of which had never been seen before.

Through the spellbindingly reported story of the Senator's fall from grace, Matt Bai, Yahoo News columnist and former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, revisits the Gary Hart affair and unpicks how one man's tragedy forever changed the nature of political media and, by extension, politics itself. This was the moment when the paradigm shifted - private lives became public; news became entertainment; and politics became tabloid.

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