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ID: 490342

Title: Knight Watch

Author: Tim Akers

Narrator: Joe Hempel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:32:19

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

John Rast went to the Ren Faire looking for a fight. Well, a simulated fight, with blunt swords and safety equipment. But when his final opponent turns into a living, fire-breathing dragon, John finds himself in the fight of his life. It's John or nothing stopping a disaster in its tracks-and the only real weapon at hand is his mom's Volvo. So John decides to let it roll . . .

And that's when destiny comes to call. John is spirited away to the well-hidden base of Knight Watch, the organization that stands between humanity and the real nasties the rest of the world doesn't know about.

Knight Watch would be John's dream job-except for the storm goddess that destroys his parents' house, the abandoned mall replete with too much dead, and the Fetch that aims to make John's domain a final resting place. All this has John's putative allies in the Knight Watch worried that John is the one bringing bad things into multiple worlds. John and his reluctant teammates have to figure out who, or what, is pulling the strings before all of Knight Watch falls prey to a well-concealed puppet master and far worse things enter this world.

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ID: 534807

Title: Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Author: Art Carden, Deirdre N. Mccloskey

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:26:59

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, General

Summary:

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism.

For listeners looking for a distillation of McCloskey's magisterial work, Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich is what you've been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy's key ideas and its most provocative arguments.

Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to The Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey's influential explanation of how we got rich.

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ID: 512099

Title: Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story

Author: Michael Elliott

Narrator: A.T. Chandler, Michael Elliott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

'You already know John Hiatt is one of our best songwriters, but what you might not know is his life is as great a story as his songs. . . . I thought I knew my John Hiatt, but I learned a lot.' -David Menconi, author of Step It Up and Go

By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped from three record labels, burned through two marriages, and had fallen deep into substance abuse.

It took a stint in rehab and a new marriage to inspire him, a producer, and an A&R man to have a little faith. By February 1987, he was back in the studio on a shoestring budget with a hand-picked supergroup consisting of Ry Cooder on guitar, Nick Lowe on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums, recording what would become his masterpiece, Bring the Family.

Based on author Michael Elliott's multiple extensive and deeply personal interviews with Hiatt as well as his collaborators and contemporaries, including Rosanne Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, and many others, Have a Little Faith is the journey through the musical landscape of the 1960s through today that places Hiatt's long career in context with the glossy pop, college-alternative, mainstream country, and heartland rock of the last half-century.

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ID: 519210

Title: How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Ruth Feldstein

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:22:17

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, World, North America, Arts & Entertainment, Social Science

Summary:

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a 'show tune.' Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers.

In How It Feels to Be Free, Ruth Feldstein examines celebrated black women performers, illuminating the risks they took, their roles at home and abroad, and the ways that they raised the issue of gender amid their demands for black liberation. Feldstein focuses on six women who made names for themselves in the music, film, and television industries: Simone, Lena Horne, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and Cicely Tyson. These women did not simply mirror black activism; their performances helped constitute the era's political history. Makeba connected America's struggle for civil rights to the fight against apartheid in South Africa, while Simone sparked high-profile controversy with her incendiary lyrics. In 1968, Hollywood cast the outspoken Lincoln as a maid to a white family in For Love of Ivy. That same year, Diahann Carroll took on the starring role in the television series Julia.

How It Feels to Be Free demonstrates that entertainment was not always just entertainment and that 'We Shall Overcome' was not the only soundtrack to the civil rights movement.

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ID: 534834

Title: Water Garden

Author: Louise Soraya Black

Narrator: Henrietta Meire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:13:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:

Sarah has given up her career to raise her children in the countryside, while her husband works long hours in London. Alone, she explores the fields and the woods near her home and discovers an enchanting lake, a memorial bench for a boy who drowned in mysterious circumstances, and Finn, a beautiful troubled teenager who plays truant from school. As Sarah pieces the mystery together, an uncomfortable attraction between her and Finn builds, climaxing over one hot summer, threatening to destroy everything that she holds dear. Woven into Sarah's story are the voices of the older generation-Maggie, the RAF nurse and Flavia, the Italian girl. As their stories unfold, a secret is revealed, binding Sarah and Finn in a way that they would never guess.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 514656

Title: Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations

Author: Vijay Prashad

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:29:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Global Politics, General

Summary:

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair-a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue.

Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso-also assassinated-who said: 'You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.'

Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.

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ID: 526897

Title: Dragon Heart: Book 10: Land of War

Author: Kirill Klevanski

Narrator: Kevin T. Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:12:17

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Hadjar Darkhan heeded the call of his dragon heart. His path was dangerous, full of hardships and bitter losses. And when he came close to reaching his goal, he lost everything instead . . .

Hadjar survived the bloody war for the throne of his homeland. He fought against monsters and enemies that made entire generations tremble in fear. He traversed the vast Sea of Sand, found the mythical Mage City, and witnessed the destruction of an ancient civilization. Then, in the pursuit of knowledge, Hadjar came to Dahanatan, the capital of the Empire.

Hadjar had thought his goal was worth the sacrifice, but now he wasn't so sure. He'd made too many mistakes, lost too much, and paid too high a price by unquestioningly heeding that inexorable call. Had it all been for nothing? What if Hadjar Darkhan was just an ordinary fool who'd found his supposed destiny somewhere it had never been in the first place? No convenient answers were forthcoming

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ID: 534708

Title: Space Force!: A Quirky and Opinionated Look at America's Newest Military Service

Author: Taylor Dinerman

Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:12:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Politics, North America, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Public Policy

Summary:

The United States Space Force has a noble mission-to protect America, to support our allies, and to support our nation's interest as we, along with other nations, move out into the little patch of the universe that is our home system.

The desire to establish a US Space Force has been around for decades, in both science fiction and in the minds of people who attempt to seriously consider what our nation needs in order to deter future wars (and if necessary, to fight and win them). As an institution, the US Space Force has gotten off to a shaky start; however, prolific space writer Taylor Dinerman has great confidence that someday soon, it will find the right leadership and eventually be emancipated from the Department of the Air Force. At that point, the institution can begin to truly serve the great cause of creating a spacefaring civilization-as it was always meant to.

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ID: 530302

Title: Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First

Author: Indira Samarasekera, Martha Piper

Narrator: Marie Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:22:03

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Education

Summary:

Candid and insightful perspectives on the dilemmas and opportunities women confront as they take on leadership positions

Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera had vastly different career paths on their way to becoming the first (and so far only) female presidents of two of Canada's largest and most respected research universities and directors of some of the nation's largest market cap companies, but what they had in common was their gender, their willingness to take risks when leadership opportunities presented themselves, and a work ethic second to none. It was not always easy, pretty, or fair, but it was always the result of choosing to answer the call to lead. A call that in the authors' view, too many women still turn away from.

In Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First, Piper and Samarasekera share their personal and professional stories, offering guidance for women leaders of every age and at every stage of their career. Nerve is a must-listen for any woman who is leading today, considering leading, or thinking about life after leading.

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ID: 521272

Title: Twisted Crimes

Author: Michael Hambling

Narrator: Cat Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:34:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A COUPLE IS FOUND DEAD IN THEIR CAR ON A REMOTE NATURE RESERVE. WHAT DID THEY KNOW THAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE KILL TO KEEP THEM SILENT?

Full of twists and turns, this crime thriller will keep you turning the pages until the stunning conclusion.

Sylvia and Ted Armitage, a retired couple, attend the wrong funeral service by mistake. A month later their daughter returns from holiday to find them missing. The police make little headway in tracing their whereabouts until their bodies are found in their car, abandoned in the middle of a copse in a tranquil nature reserve. They appear to have committed suicide, but some of the forensic evidence suggests otherwise. The police slowly make progress and find several links to a shady organization that owns a string of bars, clubs, and cafes.

When another body is found in the same area, DCI Sophie Allen must use all her investigative skills to unravel the connections between these very different victims. Some of the suspects are involved in shady deals and corruption, others are masking dark family secrets. Sophie is joined by two new police officers, Rose Simons and George Warrander, who will transform her team.

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