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ID: 268850

Title: Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:01:14

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: History, Politics, North America, Political Ideologies

Summary:

1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In August, Republicans met in Miami, picking the little-loved Richard Nixon as their candidate, while in September, Democrats in Chicago backed the ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey. TVs across the country showed antiwar protesters filling the streets of Chicago and the police running amok, beating and arresting demonstrators and delegates alike.

In Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer, America’s most protean and provocative writer, brings a novelist’s eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today’s bitterly divided country arose.

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ID: 267122

Title: Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

Author: James Stone

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Medicine, Public Policy

Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America’s five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality.

America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable, but some we are entirely capable of solving. In Five Easy Theses, James M. Stone presents specific, common-sense solutions to a handful of our most pressing challenges, showing how simple it would be to shore up Social Security, rein in an out-of-control financial sector, reduce inequality, and make healthcare and education better and more affordable. The means are right in front of us, Stone explains, in various policy options that — if implemented — could preserve or enhance government revenue while also channeling the national economy toward the greater good. 

 

Accessible and thought provoking, Five Easy Theses reveals that a more democratic, prosperous America is well within our reach.

Includes a bonus PDF with charts and figures

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ID: 268851

Title: Wrong Place, Right Time

Author: Elle Casey

Narrator: Elizabeth Godley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:58:48

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Jenny’s single-parent life revolves around her kids and her job, which means that hours of Animal Planet and strings of computer code are about all she has time for. Not that Jenny’s looking for adventure or romance—she’s the type of woman who believes in playing it safe.

When Jenny is called upon to do some consulting for the Bourbon Street Boys—a New Orleans private security firm—she knows she should stay away. They conduct surveillance on known criminals and put themselves in harm’s way pretty much every day, so No is the obvious answer…Problem is, there’s a guy on the team with a body to die for and a dimple that just won’t quit luring Jenny in, tempting her to throw all caution to the wind.

Will Jenny take the risk or will she do what she’s always done—play it safe and wait for the right time?

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ID: 265135

Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938

Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, World, Women

Summary:

The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. 'Engrossing' (Boston Globe).

The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War II, the years of the Roosevelts' greatest challenges and finest achievements. In her remarkably engaging narrative, Cook gives us the complete Eleanor Roosevelt—an adventurous, romantic woman, a devoted wife and mother, and a visionary policymaker and social activist who often took unpopular stands, counter to her husband's policies, especially on issues such as racial justice and women's rights. A biography of scholarship and daring, it is a book for all readers of American history.

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ID: 268846

Title: Borderline Insanity

Author: Jeff Miller

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:08:45

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

Special Agent Dagny Gray is a member of a small FBI team with unprecedented independence. To maintain their autonomy, the team must continue to solve big cases. To stay on the team, Dagny must keep her personal demons under control.

When Father Diego Vega tells her that undocumented workers are vanishing from a small town gripped by immigration politics, Dagny thinks she’s found her next case. But without bodies or proof of foul play, her boss won’t let her take it. Defying his orders, Dagny risks her career to investigate with Father Vega.

The families of the victims don’t trust her. The local police won’t help her, and the sheriff wants to stop her. Deep down, she worries that she’s not going to find the missing men alive. But what she uncovers is more horrifying than anything she could have imagined?

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ID: 267119

Title: Trump and Me

Author: Mark Singer

Narrator: David Remnick, Mark Singer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Arts & Entertainment, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”

In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

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ID: 263324

Title: Royal Games

Author: Sariah Wilson

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Genesis Kelley didn’t just get her heart broken. The aspiring veterinarian had it crushed in front of millions of viewers on the dating reality show Marry Me. Now, just as she’s getting her life and dignity back together, her royal heartbreaker, Prince Rafael of Monterra, has landed in Frog Hollow, Iowa. And he’s renting out her aunt’s guest cottage.

Deceiving TV audiences for his brother’s sake cost Rafe the girl of his dreams. But he’s going to fix it, even if it means moving from his mountain-kingdom home to small-town Iowa. A prince doesn’t give up on his rightful princess—especially once he realizes Genesis is in deeper danger than she knows.

Between fixing her truck, whisking her off to Monterra for a whirlwind date, and charming the entire town, Rafe is thawing the ice around Genesis’s heart. Will it be enough to earn back her trust, protect her from her past—and sweep her into a real-life fairy tale?

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ID: 265134

Title: Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume I, 1884-1933

Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, Women

Summary:

Eleanor Roosevelt was born into the privileges and prejudices of American aristocracy and into a family ravaged by alcoholism. She overcame debilitating roots: in her public life, fighting against racism and injustice and advancing the rights of women; and in her private life, forming lasting intimate friendships with some of the great men and women of her times.

This landmark biography provides a compelling new evaluation of one of the most inspiring women in American political history. Celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, and reviewers everywhere, it presents an unprecedented portrait of a brave, fierce, passionate political leader of our century.

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ID: 268847

Title: Eagle Tree

Author: Ned Hayes

Narrator: Will Ropp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:12:28

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life

Summary:

Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls—and despite the state’s threat to take him away from his mother if she can’t keep him from getting hurt. But the young autistic boy cannot resist the captivating pull of the Pacific Northwest’s lush forests just outside his back door.

One day, March is devastated to learn that the Eagle Tree—a monolithic Ponderosa Pine near his home in Olympia—is slated to be cut down by developers. Now, he will do anything in his power to save this beloved tree, including enlisting unlikely support from relatives, classmates, and even his bitter neighbor. In taking a stand, March will come face-to-face with some frightening possibilities: Even if he manages to save the Eagle Tree, is he risking himself and his mother to do it?

Intertwining themes of humanity and ecology, The Eagle Tree eloquently explores what it means to be part of a family, a society, and the natural world that surrounds and connects us.

Revised edition: This edition of The Eagle Tree includes editorial revisions.

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ID: 269498

Title: 'Dig Two Graves'

Author: Edwin Alexander

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:13

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-16

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Dig Two Graves was inspired by the extraordinary courage of Lieutenant Terence Edward Waters, GC (posthumous), the West Yorkshire Regiment, during the Korean War. Badly injured and a PoW, Waters ordered his men to join the N Korean Peace Fighters in return for decent treatment but, refusing to do so himself, died of malnutrition, hypothermia and gangrene.

The fictional story, relocated to the Vietnam war, opens many years after the Lieutenants death, with the publication of a photograph of the PoW Camp Commandant responsible, now US citizen and successful businessman Donald Quang. Hershey is commissioned by a fellow Vietnam veteran to carry out a routine check into Quangs background, ostensibly for business reasons. Complications multiply quickly as it emerges that the Lieutenants senior NCO who survived the camp is already on his way to the US hell-bent on revenge and that both the CIA and the KGB have an interest in Quang.

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