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ID: 209992

Title: Make It in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy

Author: Andrew N. Liveris

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-11

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics

Summary:

We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders, and with our manufacturing engine driving the process, we built a solid, high-achieving middle class and a thriving economy. Now, thanks to policies that are either indifferent-or downright hostile-to manufacturing, we're at the brink of losing it all. If you think this won't affect you, guess again.

In Make It in America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, author Andrew N. Liveris presents a powerful case for the critical importance of domestic manufacturing to the long-term health of the entire U.S. economy and issues a candid wake-up call to America to reinvent its manufacturing base before it's too late.

If anyone has street cred on this subject, it's Liveris. Currently chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, one of the world's largest manufacturers and of the most global corporations, he's been on the global manufacturing stage for over thirty years. In this thought-provoking book, Liveris challenges conventional wisdom and, using vivid examples from around the globe, makes clear:

-Manufacturing matters-more than ever before. Not all sectors are created equal. Manufacturing can create jobs and wealth to a degree that the service sector can't match.

-The Rust Belt, it turns out, isn't so rusty. Twenty-first-century manufacturing means solar cells for your home, batteries for your hybrid car, the touch screen on your smart phone, and the e-ink in your Kindle.

-Government's got to get engaged. Liveris argues it's a false choice to claim that you must be either pro-business or pro-government. Globalization has changed the equation, and governments all over the world are working in partnership with-and taking action on behalf of-their leading industries. Why isn't America?

Liveris sees where America is losing ground-from innovation to job creation-and explains how we can take back our future. Make It in America is a must-listen for anyone who believes that America's greatest, most productive, most prosperous days are not behind us. Our best days lie ahead of us if we take proactive measures now. They're still within reach.

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ID: 343215

Title: Waterborne

Author: Bruce Murkoff

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:06:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The Washington Post Book World raves, 'Waterborne is a formidable achievement, an engrossing story, masterfully told.' During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. Each is drawn there for a different reason, but they have all been haunted by tragedy. The transformation of nature mirrors the changes in their lives. '... a gorgeously written, Steinbeck-like saga that is part thriller, part romance, and part social critique, replete with blissful and brutal sexuality, unbridled prejudice, and acts of both kindness and mayhem.'-Booklist, starred review

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ID: 334737

Title: Cold Dawn

Author: Carla Neggers

Narrator: Carol Monda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:51:07

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

Sprinkling her captivating suspense novels with generous doses of romance, New York Times best-selling author Carla Neggers takes her fans' breath away. In Cold Dawn a body is found in Black Falls, Vermont, burned almost beyond recognition-yet search and rescue expert Rose Cameron is sure she knows the victim's identity. Enter smoke jumper Nick Martini, who is on the trail of an arsonist. Soon the two combine their talents-and that's when sparks really begin to fly.

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ID: 307687

Title: Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Lisette Lecat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:21:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Romance, Romantica

Summary:

Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, and Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humor-not to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea. In this latest installment in the charming, bestselling series, Precious Ramotswe faces two confounding cases: the mysterious fate of some cows, and the ghost-like reappearance of her dear old white van. As Mma Ramotswe investigates the deaths of cows at a cattle post outside Gaborone, she finds herself also pursuing other mysteries closer to home. One of Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni's apprentices appears to have gotten a girl pregnant, and has run away to avoid marrying her. Meanwhile, Precious sees her beloved old van-sent to the junkyard long ago-trundling around the city again. Has the van been miraculously revived, or is she hallucinating? Further complicating matters are Violet Sephotho's newly launched campaign for a seat in Botswana's parliament, and Grace Makutsi's growing fears that she'll never be able to marry her fiancE Phuti Radiphuti if she can't find the perfect pair of wedding shoes. As ever, Precious will draw on her trademark grace and wisdom as she helps unravel all these tangled threads.

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ID: 283057

Title: Mission Road

Author: Rick Riordan

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:28:59

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Having scored the big three of mystery's most-soughtafter awards-the Edgar, Anthony and Shamus-Rick Riordan writes with a blazing talent that matches the heat of his novels' Texas settings. Wisecracking PI Tres Navarre receives an unexpected visit from old friend Ralph Arguello. But Ralph, a seemingly reformed criminal, isn't there to shoot the breeze. His wife, Ana, a San Antonio police detective, has been gunned down-casting suspicion on Ralph because Ana had been looking into Ralph's involvement in a Mafia-related murder.

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ID: 100414

Title: Twelve Caesars

Author: Suetonius

Narrator: Clive Chafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-11

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of observation, anecdote, and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn-and all too human-individuals.

This version of The Twelve Caesars is the translation by Alexander Thomson, M.D.

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ID: 266617

Title: Devil Went Down to Austin

Author: Rick Riordan

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:49:08

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Tres has taken a short-term teaching job at the University of Texas at Austin. He is living with his brother Garrett, a computer wizard, and enjoying this easy assignment. But when Garrett's business partner is murdered, Tres must switch from professor to detective. Rick Riordan, teacher, Texan, and multiple award-winner, creates a masterful mixture of local color and mystery in each Tres Navarre mystery.

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ID: 290609

Title: Soloist

Author: Mark Salzman

Narrator: David Chandler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-11-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age

Summary:

Acclaimed best-selling author Mark Salzman delivers a humorously poignant tale in this novel of disappointment and redemption. Renne Sundheimer's life is a shadow of his youth, when he was a celebrated genius cellist. Now a college professor, he struggles to regain his gift. But in one week he is drafted into jury duty and reluctantly agrees to tutor a young Korean boy, forcing Renne to come to terms with his limitations and broaden his horizons. 'This is a beautiful novel, a veritable concerto.'-Booklist

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ID: 208153

Title: Instruments of Darkness: A Novel

Author: Imogen Robertson

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-11

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction

Summary:

In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.

For years, Mrs. Westerman has sensed the menace of neighboring Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex. It is the home of a once-great family that has been reduced to an ailing invalid, his whorish wife, and his alcoholic second son, a man haunted by his years spent as a redcoat in the Revolutionary War. The same day, Alexander Adams is slain by an unknown killer in his London music shop, leaving his children orphaned. His death will lead back to Sussex and to an explosive secret that has already destroyed one family and threatens many others.

Instruments of Darkness combines the brooding atmosphere of Anne Perry with the complex, compelling detail of Tess Gerritsen, moving from drawing room to dissecting room, from coffee house to country inn. Mrs. Westerman and Mr. Crowther are both razor-sharp minds, and their personalities breathe spirit into this gripping historical mystery.

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ID: 100413

Title: Conscience of a Conservative

Author: Barry Goldwater

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-11

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Politics, Public Policy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

When it was first published, The Conscience of a Conservative reignited the American conservative movement and made Barry Goldwater a political star. It influenced countless conservatives in the United States and helped to lay the foundation for the Reagan Revolution in 1980.

Just as vital today as it was then, this book addresses many topics that could be torn from today's headlines. Goldwater discusses education, labor unions and policies, civil rights, agricultural policy and farm subsidies, social welfare programs, and income taxation. This significant book lays out the conservative position both politically and economically that would come to dominate the Conservative Movement in America.

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