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ID: 436926

Title: Fine Retribution

Author: Dewey Lambdin

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:02:39

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Captain Alan Lewrie and his small squadron defeat four French frigates off northern Spain, winning honor, glory, and renown. So, why is such a successful captain suddenly without a ship, or another active commission? Why do rumors swirl that jealous foes' powerful patrons are blighting his career?

Months on end ashore, even in entertaining London setting up a household for himself and his retinue, getting his portrait painted, put him in serious sulks. Well, the artist is the sister of one of his midshipmen, a delightful and talented young lady of a modern outlook, but not modern enough to become Lewrie's lover. Dare he risk a second marriage? Then, just when things are the rosiest, at last, Admiralty calls upon him to develop and command a plan to raid French-held coasts, not with sailors and Marines from his own ship, but with a battalion of Army troops carried in a squadron of transports. It's intriguing, novel, and a way back to sea, but . . . can he part from the desirable Jessica Chenery? And if Lewrie does, will his foes allow him to succeed? Be certain that Alan Lewrie will prevail, scruples be damned!

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ID: 425994

Title: Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax

Author: Philip E. Ginsburg

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:51:55

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was entitled to the best of everything. But marriage to her high school sweetheart, a cushy secretarial job, and motherhood were not enough to satisfy Marie, and she soon began to act out in troubling ways. Only when her husband, Frank, became sick with a mysterious illness, did it seem that she was ready to put someone else's needs ahead of her own. The truth was far more disturbing.

Four years after Frank died, Marie's daughter, Carol, began to experience debilitating stomach pains. The young woman was near death when the horrifying reality finally emerged: Marie had poisoned her husband with arsenic and was attempting to do the same to her daughter. It was the first in a series of shocking twists that exposed Marie Hilley as a cold-blooded chameleon capable of the most sinister of crimes. From Alabama to Florida to New Hampshire, her trail of death and deceit included multiple identities, a second marriage, a false kidnapping, a fake death, several dramatic escapes, and a final act of desperation that brought the whole sordid saga to an astonishing end.

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ID: 430936

Title: Confessions of a Little Black Gown

Author: Elizabeth Boyle

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:23:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

She spied him in the shadows . . .

And in an instant, Thalia Langley knew the man before her was no saint. He might claim to be the Duke of Hollindrake's unassuming country cousin, but no man that handsome, that arresting, could be anything but . . . well, he simply must be an unrepentant rogue. His cat-like grace and power leave Tally shivering in her slippers at the notion of all the wicked, forbidden things he might be capable of doing . . . to her.

Indeed, Lord Larken is no bumbling vicar, but a master spy there in his majesty's service to find-and murder-a notorious pirate freed in a daring prison escape. Devoted to the Crown, Larken's not about to let an interfering (and not entirely innocent) Mayfair miss disrupt his ruthless plans. Yet how can he be anything but tempted by this lady in a little black gown . . . a dress tantalizing enough to lead even Larken astray.

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ID: 436134

Title: Teen Spirit: How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World

Author: Paul Howe

Narrator: Tim Paige

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:41

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Psychology

Summary:

Teen Spirit offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author, Paul Howe, argues it's because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.

Howe contends that many features of how we live today-some regrettable, others beneficial-can be traced to the emergence of a more defined adolescent stage of life in the early twentieth century, when young people started spending their formative, developmental years with peers, particularly in formal school settings. He shows how adolescent qualities have slowly seeped upwards, where they have gradually reshaped the norms and habits of adulthood. The effects over the long haul, Howe contends, have been profound, in both the private realm and in the public arena of political, economic, and social interaction. Our teenage traits remain part of us as we move into adulthood. We now need instruction manuals for adulting!

Teen Spirit challenges our assumptions about the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood. Yet despite a cultural system that seems to be built on the ethos of Generation Me, it's not all bad. In fact, there is an equally impressive rise in creativity, diversity, and tolerance within society: all traits stemming from core components of the adolescent character.

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ID: 444934

Title: Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality

Author: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton

Narrator: Chloe Cannon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:35:25

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Education

Summary:

Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiance. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is 'worth it,' Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education.

Drawing on findings from a five-year interview study, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton bring us to the campus of 'MU,' a flagship Midwestern public university, where we follow a group of women drawn into a culture of status seeking and sororities. Mapping different pathways available to MU students, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced and seductive route is a 'party pathway' anchored in the Greek system and facilitated by the administration. This pathway exerts influence over the academic and social experiences of all students, and while it benefits the affluent and well-connected, Armstrong and Hamilton make clear how it seriously disadvantages the majority.

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ID: 436958

Title: Storm Witch

Author: D.N. Hoxa

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:05:32

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

My name is Scarlet Jones, and I'm a witch . . . of some kind. Probably.

I grew up in a family full of strong Blood witches, in which my strange magic never belonged. I thought I was the only one of my kind out there, a true freak of nature, and I liked it that way. I lived on my own, learning to hunt these creatures nobody seemed to know anything about, a bunch of mindless thingies who were in the habit of sucking my magic dry wherever they found me. I even set up a party for them, just so I could teach them some manners.

But my plan went to hell when four strangers crashed the party, people who apparently were like me. Just like that, I no longer felt like a special little flower. With four unconscious bodies at my feet and no idea what was going on, I thought that was the worst it was going to get. Boy, was I wrong . . .

The rest of my life is only just beginning, and by the looks of it, it is not going to be a smooth ride.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 430101

Title: Agents of Order

Author: Martha Carr, Michael Anderle, Tr Cameron

Narrator: Traci Odom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:26:52

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

Enough is enough. Special Agent Diana Sheen has been pushed too far.

Magical attacks on her, on her team, and on the city she's responsible for have tipped the balance. It's time to hold the enemy responsible.

But there are more players on the opposing side than she knows. Dirty politicians, a sneaky witch maneuvering to increase her own power, and a dark and mysterious magical alien who is moving the rest around like toy soldiers on a gameboard. Plus, a sneaky assassin is prowling around her town.

But the Blackops Agents of Magic are ready. Cara's artifact daggers are more powerful than she could have imagined. Rath the troll's training as a master of the blade continues and Diana's teacher Nylene is ready to roll up her sleeves and get into the action.

It's time for the chaos to end. Diana and her team are committed to bringing a sense of order back to their home. Meanwhile, the enemy has set its sights on yet another target Diana cares about . . .

Magic or mundane, you hurt people in their city, and BAM is gonna bring you down.

It's all in a day's work at the newest bureau of the Federal Agents of Magic.

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ID: 434044

Title: Discovery of Destiny

Author: B.N. Rundell

Narrator: Scott Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:54:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The author of the bestselling Buckskin Chronicles takes us on an epic journey in Book 2 of the Stonecroft Saga.

Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential, and vindictive, is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er do well troublemaker who surrendered his life in a duel with Stonecroft. After a perilous journey down the Ohio River aboard a flatboat, the two friends now set out to explore the west. But local toughs in the young town of New Madrid pick a fight and earn nothing but wounds and a grudge, a grudge that will be nursed by bounty hunters that seek to collect the sizable reward offered for the head of this young, would-be explorer.

But when they find a runaway captive of the Pawnee, and fight alongside the Osage Warriors, the most feared fighters in the new land, the plans of the two friends take a drastic detour. Land-locked pirates team up with bounty hunters and renegade Indians to do their best to permanently change the plans of the two adventuresome friends. And when women enter the picture, everything changes.

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ID: 432140

Title: Her Bush

Author: Penelope Bloom

Narrator: Alexander Cendese, Cj Bloom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:16:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

Everything went wrong when I trimmed his bush.

And no, it's not what you're thinking. I'm a professional. The client hired me to trim a bush in his garden for a party. I accidentally turned it into something that rhymes with 'a big rock and walls'. Imagine my surprise when the art world decides it's a masterpiece.

Were my raging hormones the cause of my bush sculpting blunder? I mean, who would blame me if they were? After meeting Harry Barnidge for the first time, my brain went straight to cavewoman mode. There were undignified fantasies of being bashed over the head and carried off to a cave, a significant loss of vocabulary, and maybe even a little drooling.

But I can't focus on that. On him. I need this job to make my little sister's dreams come true. Until now, I've managed to screw everything in my professional and personal life up, but I'm determined to make this work.

So when Mr. Heartstopper offers to help me manage my accidental art career, it's impossible to say no. It's like the old saying goes. If you erect it, they will come. Or something like that.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 429406

Title: Raptor of the Highlands

Author: Peter Wacht

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:16:11

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Light dances with dark, green fire burns in the night, hopes and dreams follow the wind, to fall in black or white.

The prophecy spoke of Thomas Kestrel: outcast, lord, sorcerer, warrior, and perhaps savior of the Kingdoms-if he survives.

In The Raptor of the Highlands, the third book in The Sylvan Chronicles, Thomas realizes more fully the devastation of his people. Imprisoned but not defeated, he befriends Oso, a Highlander who helps him escape the mines. Clashing with the High King's reivers and destroying their prison, he and Oso begin to infuse hope once more in the people of his homeland.

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