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ID: 329283

Title: Stoneheart: A Path of Identity and Redemption

Author: Baer Charlton

Narrator: Alex Knox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:36:50

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, War & Military

Summary:

2014 PULITZER PRIZE NOMINEE

Gunnery Sergeant Stone, if nothing else, is a survivor.

Stone is a walking mental time-bomb like so many others who have lost their compass. If he can't find his center and path, he may never get back.

Walking away confused. from the only home and family he has ever known, he has a phone in his pockethe does not know how to use, a pesky yeoman stalking his every move, and is on an $800 motorcycle, headed west from Bethesda, MD searching for what it means to be a civilian, and what makes home, home.

In an effort to find his peace, he ends up beside a tranquil lake, watching a perfect sunset.

And then the phone rings . . .

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Thousands of military have come back--but couldn't find their way home. If you ever served, had a loved one who did, or just know someone--this is the book for you, and a gift for them.

Through the power of the internet, you can buy today, a gift for someone serving this country--somewhere else in the world. And they can start reading it tonight. Add that person to your cart now--they will thank you tomorrow.

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ID: 382151

Title: Infants of the Brush: A Chimney Sweep's Story

Author: A. M. Watson

Narrator: Michael Troughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:49:05

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Infants of the Brushis historical fiction based on Armory v. Delamirie, a 1700s court case before the King's Bench against Paul de Lamerie, a silversmith. In the vein of Charles Dickens'Oliver Twist,Infants of the Brushis set in a time when climbing boys were forced up burning flues to dislodge harmful soot and coal ash.

Egan Whitcombe is just six years old when he is sold to Master Armory for a few coins. As one of Master Armory's eight broomers, Egan quickly learns that his life depends on absolute obedience.

Pitt, the leader of Master Armory's broomers, teaches Egan to sweep chimneys and negotiate for scraps of bread. Broken and starving, the boys discover friendship as they struggle to save five guineas, the cost of a broomer's independence.

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ID: 329420

Title: Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

Author: Michele Lent Hirsch

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-18

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Social Science

Summary:

Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut

This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses

Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.

Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab while studying the very disease, HIV, that she hides from her coworkers.

For Victoria, coming out as a transgender woman was less difficult than coming out as bipolar.

Michele Lent Hirsch knew she couldn’t be the only woman who's dealt with serious health issues at a young age, as well as the resulting effects on her career, her relationships, and her sense of self. What she found while researching Invisible was a surprisingly large and overlooked population—and now, with long COVID emerging, one that continues to grow. 

Though young women with serious illness tend to be seen as outliers, young female patients are in fact the primary demographic for many illnesses. They are also one of the most ignored groups in our medical system—a system where young women, especially women of color and trans women, are invisible.

And because of expectations about gender and age, young women with health issues must often deal with bias in their careers and personal lives. Not only do they feel pressured to seem perfect and youthful, they also find themselves amid labyrinthine obstacles in a culture that has one narrow idea of womanhood.

Lent Hirsch weaves her own experiences together with stories from other women, perspectives from sociologists on structural inequality and inequity, and insights from neuroscientists on misogyny in health research. She shows how health issues and disabilities amplify what women in general already confront: warped beauty standards, workplace sexism, worries about romantic partners, and mistrust of their own bodies. By shining a light on this hidden demographic, Lent Hirsch explores the challenges that all women face.

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ID: 328761

Title: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women

Author: Tania Romanov

Narrator: Becky Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:06:50

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-18

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story of exile, emigration and immigration and how native language can be a powerful touchstone for the sense of home. The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women"Katarina, Zora, and Tania"to flee their homelands multiple times. Family including Russian emigrants are driven out from Yugoslavia as refugees to live in a refugee camp in Italy, speaking Russian and the Serbo-Croatian language. Eventually, Tania, a successfully integrated American immigrant from Eastern Europe, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past. Mother Tongue is an exploration of lives lived in the chaos of the Balkans. It follows countries such as Yugoslavia and Serbia, that dissolved, formed, and reformed. Lands that were conquered and subjugated by Fascists and Nazis and nationalists. Lives lived in exile, in refugee camps, in new worlds.

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ID: 329418

Title: Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance

Author: Linda K. Wertheimer

Narrator: Tara Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-18

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Religious Studies, Education

Summary:

An intimate cross-country look at the new debate over religion in the public schools

 

A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers, joined the line of worshippers and acted out the motions of the Muslim call to prayer. A video of the prayer went viral with the title “Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah.” Charges flew that the school exposed the children to Muslims who intended to convert American schoolchildren. Wellesley school officials defended the course, but also acknowledged the delicate dance teachers must perform when dealing with religion in the classroom.

Courts long ago banned public school teachers from preaching of any kind. But the question remains: How much should schools teach about the world’s religions? Answering that question in recent decades has pitted schools against their communities.

Veteran education journalist Linda K. Wertheimer spent months with that class, and traveled to other communities around the nation, listening to voices on all sides of the controversy, including those of clergy, teachers, children, and parents who are Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, or atheist. In Lumberton, Texas, nearly a hundred people filled a school-board meeting to protest a teacher’s dress-up exercise that allowed freshman girls to try on a burka as part of a lesson on Islam. In Wichita, Kansas, a Messianic Jewish family’s opposition to a bulletin-board display about Islam in an elementary school led to such upheaval that the school had to hire extra security. Across the country, parents have requested that their children be excused from lessons on Hinduism and Judaism out of fear they will shy away from their own faiths.

But in Modesto, a city in the heart of California’s Bible Belt, teachers have avoided problems since 2000, when the school system began requiring all high school freshmen to take a world religions course. Students receive comprehensive lessons on the three major world religions, as well as on Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and often Shintoism, Taoism, and Confucianism. One Pentecostal Christian girl, terrified by “idols,” including a six-inch gold Buddha, learned to be comfortable with other students’ beliefs. 

Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation, which includes a return to her rural Ohio school, which once ran weekly Christian Bible classes, reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a new generation of religiously literate Americans.

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ID: 356178

Title: His Whole Life

Author: Elizabeth Hay

Narrator: Susan Coyne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-18

Publisher: Emblem Editions

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

Summary:

'Hay is a wise and astute observer of adolescence. . . . His Whole Life is a moving reflection on nationhood and the evolution of an unbreakable mother-son bond.' The Globe and Mail

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters is at risk: family, nature, country, home.

At the outset, ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is an enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of Jim's youth and sets out competing claims on everyone's love: for Canada over New York; for a mother over a father; a friend over a husband; one son over another. With her trademark honesty, wisdom, vivid sense of place, and nuanced characters, Hay deftly charts the deepening bond between mother and son even as the family threatens to come apart.

Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec was on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming-of-age story as only Elizabeth Hay could tell it. With grace and power, she explores the mystery of how members of a family can hurt each other so deeply, and remember those hurts in such detail, yet find openings that shock them with love and forgiveness. This is vintage Elizabeth Hay at the height of her powers.

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ID: 323839

Title: Workin' Our Way Home: The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other

Author: Ron Hall

Narrator: Barry Scott, Daniel Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-18

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion to Debbie led them to work toward fulfilling her vision: to ease the pain associated with poverty, homelessness, and inequality.

Workin’ Our Way Home describes the ten years Ron and Denver lived together after Miss Debbie’s death. Written in both Ron’s and Denver’s unique voices, their inspiring (and often hilarious) adventures include:

- Their sometimes-bizarre life together in the Murchison Mansion

- Denver accidentally almost burning the house down—twice

- The challenges involved with making a movie

- Two visits to the White House

- Traveling the country to raise awareness about homelessness

- And much more!

With both wit and wisdom, these pages reveal God’s plan lived out through these men and those closest to them, including their passion to fulfill Debbie’s dream of mitigating the suffering and humiliation associated with homelessness and inequality.

Denver said it best: “Whether we is rich or whether we is poor, or somethin’ in between, this earth ain’t no final restin’ place. So in a way, we is all homeless—ever last one of us—just workin our way home.”

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ID: 323843

Title: Stories I Love to Tell

Author: Gene Edwards

Narrator: Milton Bagby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-18

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

America’s beloved storyteller will guide and thrill your imagination with these classic tales. Join Gene Edwards as he recounts his favorite stories from more than 50 years of travel and ministry.

Considered the “Paul Harvey” of Christian writers, Gene Edwards is one of America’s most beloved authors. Stories I Love to Tell, his new book, is a compilation of tales that continue to move audiences. From stories about a chance meeting with Helen Keller at the Garden Tomb in the Holy Land to an astounding Jonah experience inside a whale to stories about a child growing up in a one-room shack, Gene knows how to spin an old-fashioned yarn.

During the last four decades, Gene has amassed an enthusiastic, dedicated readership. Stories I Love to Tell will delight and entertain devoted fans as he relays story after astonishing story. You will want to grab a hot drink and huddle around the fireplace as America’s seasoned storyteller transports your imagination to another time and place.

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ID: 531766

Title: Immundus

Author: Christina Enquist

Narrator: Kira Omans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:17:20

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

BEWARE THE CURE. BETRAY THE CAUSE.

Would you sacrifice your humanity to save mankind?

ITS THE YEAR 2828, and Domus is the last remaining country. Divided into twelve walled cities known as genuses, Domus spans whats known as the purist landslands unaffected by the genetic modifications that killed all other species of mammals. But outside the walls of each genus the Immundus threaten the welfare of those within. From a young age, all citizens of Domus are trained for combat against these intruders.

At sixteen, Nia Luna knows little of the Immundus, except for the citywide alarms that ring any time an Immundus nears the genus walls. What she does know is that her own species is dyingtheir numbers dwindling as a mysterious disease called allagine kills many before their eleventh birthday. The same disease that ravaged her family when it took her sister.

When Nia is recruited into Genesis, a research company pioneering the path to a cure, she knows that her dream to find a cure for allagine is finally within her grasp. But within weeks of starting at Genesis, Nia witnesses something she shouldnt havesomething that changes everything. As she sets down a dangerous path that uncovers national secrets, Nia will have to decide not only what kind of person she wants to be but also how far shes willing to go to save humanity.

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ID: 356192

Title: Deep River Night: A Novel

Author: Patrick Lane

Narrator: Ian Tracey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-18

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, General, Psychological

Summary:

In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, and Annie Proulx, the much-anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Red Dog, Red Dog is set over the course of 48 hours in a remote sawmill community where violence, complicity, and inaction run deep.

World War Two vet Art Kenning is the alcoholic first-aid man in an isolated sawmill village in the interior of B.C., where he dreads the sound of the five whistles that summon him to the mill floor whenever a worker is hurt. Traumatized by an incident in Holland, when he stood by while members of his unit committed a horrific act, he loses himself in drink, and in memories of the love affair he had with a woman in wartime Paris. But the sad comfort of his self-imposed detachment is shattered when one of the most powerful men at the mill arrives at his door late one evening to ask for his help. What unfolds over the course of that night and following day will force Art to confront acts of evil, both in the present and the past, as well as the tragic consequences of his own inaction.

.Alternating with Art's story are the stories of Joel, a teenaged runaway who owes his life to Art, Wang Po, the mill's cook and a survivor of the Rape of Nanjing, Alice, a young Indigenous girl sold from a residential school, and, Cliff, a Metis man with a hidden past. These lives, and more, intertwine to reveal a complex, morally ambiguous community where the undercurrents of violence and complicity are never far from the surface.

     Writing with exquisite precision and emotional force, Patrick Lane gives us a novel whose darkness is fractured by moments of light. Deep River Night is a riveting story about the burden of bearing witness to a terrible crime

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