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ID: 444921

Title: Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign

Author: Amber Roessner

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:42:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, North America, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

With the rise of Jimmy Carter, the 1976 presidential election proved a transformative moment in US history, heralding a change in terms of how candidates run for public office and how the news media cover their campaigns.

Amber Roessner's Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign chronicles a change in the negotiation of political image-craft and the role it played in Carter's meteoric rise to the presidency. She contends that Carter's underdog victory signaled a transition from an older form of party politics focused on issues and platforms to a newer brand of personality politics driven by the manufacture of a political image.

Roessner offers a new perspective on the production and consumption of media images of the peanut farmer from Plains who became the thirty-ninth president of the United States. Carter's miraculous win transpired in part because of carefully cultivated publicity and advertising strategies that informed his official political persona as it evolved throughout the Democratic primary and general-election campaigns. To understand how media relations helped shape the first post-Watergate presidential election, Roessner examines the practices and working conditions of the community of political reporters, public relations agents, and advertising specialists associated with the Carter bid.

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ID: 445373

Title: On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

Author: David Livingstone Smith

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:29:58

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Psychology, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

An award-winning author and philosopher, Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result.

Drawing on numerous historical and contemporary cases and recent psychological research, On Inhumanity is the first accessible guide to the phenomenon of dehumanization. Smith walks listeners through the psychology of dehumanization, revealing its underlying role in both notorious and lesser-known episodes of violence from history and current events.

On Inhumanity is bracing and vital reading in a world lurching towards authoritarian political regimes, resurgent white nationalism, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility, and fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too easily take root within us, and resist them before they spread into the wider world.

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ID: 438136

Title: Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications

Author: Raymond Buckland

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:43:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Buckland's Book of Spirit Communications is for anyone who wishes to communicate with spirits, as well as for the less adventurous who simply want to satisfy their curiosity about the subject. Explore the nature of the physical body and learn how to prepare yourself to become a medium. Experience for yourself the trance state, clairvoyance, psychometry, table tipping, levitation, talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual photography, spiritual healing, distant healing, channeling, and development circles. Also learn how to avoid spiritual fraud.

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ID: 436997

Title: Kitchen Table Magic: Pull Up a Chair, Light a Candle & Let's Talk Magic

Author: Melissa Cynova

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:11:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Melissa Cynova, bestselling author of Kitchen Table Tarot, provides a magic starter kit that is perfect for beginners. In her down-to-earth, no-nonsense style, Melissa shows how to use magic in dozens of different ways to help make positive improvements in your life and in your community. You will discover how to set intentions and goals, how to safely work with magical energies, and how to work magic for love, luck, prosperity, protection, blessings, and much more.

Magic has been used by people from many different religious or spiritual backgrounds for thousands of years. This book shares tips and techniques for simple prayers, spells, and rituals that can make a major difference in the world. You will also discover important guidance on magical ethics, as well as hands-on instructions for working with gemstones, crystals, pendulums, tarot cards, and all sorts of tools that will help you achieve your magical goals.

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ID: 441588

Title: Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories

Author: Lily Tuck

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:42:06

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A mesmerizing new novella and stories from National Book Award winner Lily Tuck

A provocative and haunting new collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships.

In the novella, a married woman reads Wuthering Heights at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph illuminates the intricate web of connections between friends at an Italian cafe; a forgotten act of violence in New York's Carl Schurz Park returns to haunt the present; and a woman is prompted by a flurry of mysterious emails to recall her time as a member of the infamous Rajneesh cult.

With keen psychological insight and delicate restraint, Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories pries open the desires, doubts, and secret motives of its characters and exposes their vulnerabilities to the light. Sharp and unflinching, the novella and stories together form an exquisitely crafted collection from one of our most treasured, award-winning writers.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 436920

Title: Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story

Author: Christina Thompson

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:29:57

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Australia & Oceania

Summary:

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.

As an American graduate student studying history in Australia, Thompson traveled to New Zealand and met a Maori known as 'Seven.' Their relationship is one of opposites: he is a tradesman, she is an intellectual; he comes from a background of rural poverty, she from one of middleclass privilege; he is a 'native,' she descends directly from 'colonizers.' Nevertheless, they shared a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own.

In this book, which grows out of decades of reading and research, Thompson explores cultural displacement through the ages and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and Cook's circumnavigation of 1770.

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ID: 443905

Title: Grave Beginnings

Author: R.R. Virdi

Narrator: Travis Baldree

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:39:34

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

'Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.' -JIM BUTCHER, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files

Another day, another hijacked body. And just thirteen hours to solve a murder . . .

Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying. Waking up in someone else's body isn't pleasant, especially when it's inside a coffin with tons of dirt pressing down on it. Once he's out, he learns his soul has thirteen hours to find the borrowed body's killer.

With the help of a brilliant FBI agent, Vincent's quest for clues leads to a looming supernatural presence. And escaping the dark threat may be impossible with his ever-ticking clock . . .

Can Vincent close the case in time, or will a powerful being make him rest in peace for good?

Grave Beginnings is the first book in the Grave Report urban fantasy detective series. If you like paranormal twists, hard-boiled investigators, and noir-style magic, then you'll love R. R. Virdi's paranormal investigator series.

His stuff is badass!' -LARRY CORREIA, New York Times bestselling author

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ID: 428333

Title: Traitor

Author: Kristin Coley

Narrator: Chris Chambers, Sarah Puckett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:45:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Crew Hayes made a promise. One he intends to keep no matter the cost. Even if it makes him a traitor to his club and his family.

Drea wants revenge for the loss of her brother and fiance at the hands of Domingo Martinez, and there is nothing she won't do to get it.

As they integrate themselves into the Viper club, growing ever closer to achieving their goals through whatever means necessary, they find themselves on a collision course with one another.

One with consequences neither could have ever anticipated.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 428319

Title: Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising

Author: Margarita Morris

Narrator: Samantha Desz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:53:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Family and freedom. It's worth fighting for what really matters.

Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, Márton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The Secret Police have come to arrest him on charges of subversion. But Katalin knows her father is innocent.

In a communist society where ordinary people live in fear of the dreaded Secret Police, suspicion and betrayal are rife. Whilst Márton endures the injustice of being wrongly accused, Katalin must find out who among her friends and acquaintances she can truly trust.

But there is a glimmer of hope in the darkness. The death of Stalin is a spark that ignites a fuse. For the first time it seems that change is possible.

In October 1956, a student-led demonstration soon turns into a bloody battle to overthrow the hated communist regime. Confronted by Soviet tanks, young and old take to the streets, armed with Molotov cocktails, bravery, and cunning.

Katalin and those she loves must fight for freedom. They must fight to survive.

Packed with authentic historical details, Goodbye to Budapest is a panoramic novel of courage, sacrifice and the indomitable human quest for freedom.

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ID: 441557

Title: Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World

Author: John Rember

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:30:24

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Philosophy

Summary:

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events-and the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a compelling, surprising, disturbing, and highly literate work of reportage and contemplation. It is both a collection of gentle-spirited wisdom and a rumination on ruin, as if distilled in equal measure from the spirits of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Through these ten essays, each further broken into ten smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction. At the same time, he never forgets those improbable connections between human beings that lead to moments of joy, empathy, and grace.

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