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ID: 419536

Title: Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named

Author: Peter Wothers

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:18:04

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, History

Summary:

The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others-even well-known elements such as oxygen or nitrogen-the roots are less clear.

Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names. Delving back in time to explore the history and gradual development of chemistry, he sifts through medieval manuscripts for clues to the stories surrounding the discovery of the elements, showing how they were first encountered or created, and how they were used in everyday lives. While some of the origins of the names were controversial (and indeed incorrect-some saying, for instance, that oxygen might be literally taken to mean 'the son of a vinegar merchant'), they have nonetheless influenced language used around the world to this very day. Throughout, Wothers delights in dusting off the original sources, and bringing to light the astonishing, the unusual, and the downright weird origins behind the names of the elements so familiar to us today.

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ID: 430980

Title: Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy

Author: Richard Cordray

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:13

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Law, Public Policy

Summary:

Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own.

It is no wonder consumers feel powerless: they are outgunned every step of the way. Since 1970, the financial industry has doubled in size. It is the biggest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, spending about $1 billion annually on campaigns and another $500 million on lobbying. The four biggest banks each now has more than $1 trillion in assets. Financial products have become a mass of fine print that consumers can hardly even read, let alone understand.

Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sharing the stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing big banks for cheating or deceiving consumers, putting limits on predatory lenders, simplifying mortgage paperwork, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers.

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ID: 424181

Title: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment

Author: Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden

Narrator: Paul Brion

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:11:22

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

A book for clinicians and clients to use together that explains key concepts of body psychotherapy.

Written for therapists and clients to explore together in therapy, this book is a practical guide to the language of the body. It begins with a section that orients therapists and clients to the volume and how to use it, followed by an overview of the role of the brain and the use of mindfulness. The last three sections are organized according to a phase approach to therapy, focusing first on developing personal resources, particularly somatic ones; second on utilizing a bottom-up, somatic approach to memory; and third on exploring the impact of attachment on procedural learning, emotional biases, and cognitive distortions.

The concepts and interventions introduced in this book are designed as an adjunct to, and in support of, other methods of treatment rather than as a stand-alone treatment or manualized approach. By drawing on the therapeutic relationship and adjusting interventions to the particular needs of each client, thoughtful attention to what is being spoken beneath the words through the body can heighten the intimacy of the therapist/client journey and help change take place more easily in the hidden recesses of the self.

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ID: 434732

Title: Half-Blood Academy 2: Magic Secret

Author: Meg Xuemei X

Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Noelle Bridges

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:13:21

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Paranormal

Summary:

I hate myself for craving the panty-melting demigods.

But my awakening power is volatile and destructive. Only they can prevent me from turning into a ticking bomb.

When Lucifer's heir breaches the wards of the Academy to kidnap me, the sea demigod, my sworn enemy, uncovers my hidden origin. Instead of exposing me, or, worse, leading the Dominion army to hunt me down, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind to protect my dangerous secret.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 432148

Title: Dark Prince

Author: Michelle Hercules

Narrator: Mindy Kennedy, Troy Duran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:59:37

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Paranormal

Summary:

There are only two ways a human can cross the gates of Bloodstone Institute: as a familiar to one of the Blueblood vampires who attend the elite school or as a snack.

I'm neither, but I have to get in at all costs. My brother made a big mistake, and now I have to fix it by stealing from the most powerful and cruel vampire to ever come to Bloodstone, Lucca Della Morte. If that wasn't almost suicidal, I need to get it done before the spell concealing my human nature wears off.

But I forget that I'm only pretending to be a vampire. I'm still human and susceptible to Lucca's dangerous allure. His darkness calls to my soul. His savagery makes my blood sing. I'm falling for the dark prince, craving him in a visceral way that's frightening and exciting at the same time.

If he discovers my secret, he'll destroy me. And yet, I can't help wanting to get closer. I never thought I had a death wish until I met him.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 429402

Title: Countenance of War: A Historical Novel of Scotland

Author: J.R. Tomlin

Narrator: Gary Furlong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

Fourteenth-century Scotland suffers under the heel of England's King Edward, and James Douglas refuses to submit to the conqueror. As he wages a scorched-earth guerilla war to drive out the invader and reclaim his birthright, Edward brings a vast army to crush the Scots. In the midst of the brutal war, even the woman James loves is threatened by his implacable duty.

A man caught in the clash of two nations rushes to his destiny in this novel of passion, loyalty, cunning, and ruthlessness. The conflict reaches a bloody crescendo as the Scots and English cross swords in a reckoning that will determine Scotland's very survival.

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ID: 436111

Title: For the Hell of It

Author: Cate Corvin

Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Sarah Puckett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:21:20

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

They broke my halo. Burned my wings. Sent me plummeting straight to Hell.

When I'm captured by demons and forced into the fighting pits of the Seventh Circle of Hell, I need to stay alive long enough to claw my way back to Heaven and destroy the archangels who betrayed me.

Four dangerous men stand between me and my vengeance.

A deadly Nephilim in self-imposed exile. Hunger incarnate, ravenous for an angel. The heir to Satan's sinful throne. And the prince who bound my soul to his until I win my freedom.

They think I'm still pure. They think I'm innocent. They think they'll enjoy corrupting me.

Joke's on them. This angel's no saint. If Heaven doesn't want me, I'll be bad for the Hell of it.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 434731

Title: Reactive

Author: Becky Moynihan

Narrator: Em Eldridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:17:45

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

AN INESCAPABLE CITY. THREE DEADLY TRIALS. ONE WAY OUT.

Lune Tatum, adopted daughter of the Supreme Elite, has lived within her father's walled city for eleven years.

But she wants out.

Except she can't leave, and not because of the clans and mutated beasts that roam beyond the impenetrable, electrified walls protecting her life. Her plan has always been to win the Elite Trials and earn Title of Choice-her only chance at freedom. And the only way to return home to her mother.

Then a boy from her past arrives on her eighteenth birthday. His presence threatens Lune's carefully laid plans and exposes memories she's desperate to forget. He can't be trusted. Especially as he possesses dangerous secrets. And what he reveals could ruin the chance at freedom she's willing to die for.

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ID: 434723

Title: Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles

Author: Jon Wilkman

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:37

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, History, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten.

With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives. A key figure is William Mulholland, the self-taught engineer who created an unprecedented water system, allowing Los Angeles to become America's second largest city, and who was also responsible for the design and construction of the St. Francis Dam.

Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.

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ID: 424150

Title: Princess Game: A Reimagining of Sleeping Beauty

Author: Melanie Cellier

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:22:01

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

They call her the Sleeping Princess, but Celeste is far from asleep . . .

Celeste has been cursed since her sixteenth birthday-just not in the way the rest of the kingdom thinks. All they see is her breath-taking beauty, marred by her foolishness. Only she knows that she retains her brilliant mind. And it's a secret she must keep at all costs.

Over the years she's grown accustomed to the necessary deception. After all, her life depends on it. And she's even found a way to protect her kingdom, working from the shadows. But now a dangerous new threat has emerged, one that Celeste can't defeat alone. She needs the help of a newly-arrived prince. One who's altogether too handsome and too charming. Somehow she needs to keep her secret, save her kingdom and find a way to free herself from the curse. The last thing she has time to do is sleep.

In this reimagining of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, it's only the princess' mind that is asleep. And sometimes appearances can be deceiving.

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