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ID: 449750

Title: Kindness of Strangers

Author: Salka Viertel

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:36:45

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

A memoir about showbiz in the early twentieth century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age.

Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, 'a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the twentieth century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies. Her childhood . . . is an entrancing idyll. In Berlin, in Prague, in Vienna, there appears Karl Kraus, Kafka, Rilke, Robert Musil, Schoenberg, Einstein, Alban Berg. There is the suffering and disruption of the First World War and the suffering and agony after it, which is described with such intimacy and vividness that you endure these terrible years with the author. Then comes the migration to Hollywood, where Salka's house on Mabery Road becomes a kind of Pantheon for the gathered artists, musicians, and writers. It seems to me that no one has ever described Hollywood and the life of writers there with such verve.'

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ID: 449718

Title: Love Factor

Author: Quinn Ivins

Narrator: Lori Prince

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:36:41

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary

Summary:

Molly Cook is almost thirty, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. It might be the nineties, and everything's shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won't budge on gay rights. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics . . . and her strict and sexy statistics professor.

Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can't handle her high standards. She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can't stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.

But when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can't ignore it-even if the subject hits too close to home. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student.

The thing is, as the chemistry builds between them, Molly isn't sure she wants to be a grad student anymore . . . if she ever did.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 443873

Title: Tree Guardian

Author: Andrew Karevik

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:57:25

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

After a brush with death that almost cost me everything, I managed to expose Izguril's machinations and imprison the usurper god within me.

Now, with no more immediate threats to my survival, I wish that I could take some time to rest, but I can't. Because if the goblin village that has taken up residence within me is thriving, and more adventurers come every day to test their mettle against my traps and monsters, something is nagging at the back of my mind. A dark vision, that was confirmed by none other than the Mistmother-the goddess of foresight. In nine short years, Invaders will arrive in this world to raze it to the ground. Not a soul will survive. Nothing will remain.

That's why I cannot relax. I must gather as much strength as I can if I want to stand a chance to repel them. And to do that, there's no two ways about it: I need to expand the dungeon. I need to add more rooms and more treasures to make it more compelling, so that I may attract more seasoned adventurers. Because if the essence of novice adventurers might be enough to maintain my magic reserves, I need that of powerful warriors and wizards to reach the next level.

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ID: 449749

Title: Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

Author: William Souder

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California's limitless bounty and appalled by the country's refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice-paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy.

A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his favorite things were drinking and womanizing and getting married, which he did three times. And while he claimed indifference about success, his mid-career books and movie deals made him a lot of money. And yet Steinbeck also took aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of income inequality, and the urgency of ecological collapse.

Steinbeck remains our great social realist novelist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and the disenfranchised a voice in American life and letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, Mad at the World captures the full measure of the man and his work.

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ID: 454191

Title: Ghost of a Memory

Author: Anna J. McIntyre, Bobbi Holmes

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:36:17

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery, Paranormal

Summary:

Past and present collide when a secret from the 1920s wreaks havoc on Marlow House.

Walt struggles to remember what he may have forgotten before it's too late.

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ID: 453529

Title: Renegade

Author: Kristin Coley

Narrator: Chris Chambers, Sarah Puckett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:17:35

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

renegade-a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

Clutch Hayes has always been a Rebel, but when an old enemy comes gunning for revenge, he'll sacrifice everything to protect the little girl who holds his heart. Including going renegade.

Cut off from his brothers, he has no choice but to put his trust into the feisty doctor who saves his life, then kidnaps him.

Diane Richard wouldn't call herself adventurous, but when the man who saved her life shows up on her doorstep, bleeding out from a gunshot wound, she lets him inside. When he insists on leaving, determined to rescue a little girl, she knows she can't let him go alone.

Pursuing a desperate enemy, they need each other to survive and save the little girl caught in the middle of a deadly feud.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 445330

Title: Invention of China

Author: Bill Hayton

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:29:18

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Asia, Global Politics

Summary:

A provocative account showing that 'China'-and its 5,000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day.

China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but 'China' as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals.

In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems-the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea-were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to 'invent' a new vision of China. By asserting a particular, politicized version of the past the government bolstered its claim to a vast territory stretching from the Pacific to Central Asia. Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how the Republic's reworking of its past not only helped it to justify its right to rule a century ago-but continues to motivate and direct policy today.

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ID: 454222

Title: Flock and a Fluke

Author: Hillary Avis

Narrator: Kitty Hendrix

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:33:05

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

It's springtime in Honeytree, and Leona's pullets are finally laying. Customers are flocking to buy her farm-fresh eggs.

But during the town's Easter Egg Scramble, Leona finds more than hidden treasure when she stumbles on the dead body of the pastor's wife. And the death isn't a fluke-it was poison.

After Leona's eggs are blamed for delivering the fatal dose, her customers fly the coop along with her reputation. With her nest egg dwindling, she doesn't have time to brood. Her only hope to rise back to the top of the pecking order? Figure out who held a grudge against Honeytree's golden girl-and why.

But things get tricky. Her two leading suspects also happen to be running for mayor. And neither one of them is crowing when Leona fowls up their campaigns with her clucking around.

Can Leona take the heat of small-town politics? Or will she be forced out of the frying pan with egg on her face?

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ID: 454217

Title: Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the 'Young Poet'

Author: Franz Xaver Kappus, Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:19:32

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Summary:

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's ten classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.

For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever lost to posterity. Yet, shockingly, these letters were recently uncovered in Germany, and now the acclaimed translator Damion Searls has not only cast a fresh eye on Rilke's original letters but also those of the 'young poet,' Franz Xaver Kappus, an Austrian military cadet and an aspiring poet. This timeless edition, in addition to presenting their dialogue together for the first time in English, provides a new window into the workings of Rilke's visionary poetic and philosophical mind, allowing us to reexperience the literary genius of one of the most inspiring works of twentieth-century literature.

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ID: 434059

Title: Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world

Author: Helen Lunn, Marcus Byrne

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:25:09

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle

In this sweeping history of more than 3,000 years, beginning with Ancient Egypt, scientist Marcus Byrne and writer Helen Lunn capture the diversity of dung beetles and their unique behavior patterns. Dung beetles' fortunes have followed the shifts from a world dominated by a religion that symbolically incorporated them into some of its key concepts of rebirth, to a world in which science has largely separated itself from religion and alchemy. With over 6,000 species found throughout the world, these unassuming but remarkable creatures are fundamental to some of humanity's most cherished beliefs and have been ever present in religion, art, literature, science and the environment. They are at the center of current gene research, play an important role in keeping our planet healthy, and some nocturnal dung beetles have been found to navigate by the starry skies. Outlining the development of science from the point of view of the humble dung beetle is what makes this charming story of immense interest to general readers and entomologists alike.

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