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ID: 526853

Title: Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

Author: Kim Knott

Narrator: Sunny Patel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:44:06

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

Summary:

Hinduism is practiced by nearly eighty percent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyzes the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, the role of Brahmins, gurus, and storytellers in the transmission of divine truths, and the cultural and moral importance of epics such as the Ramayana.

In this second edition Knott considers the impact of changes in technology and the flourishing of social media on Hinduism, and looks at the presence of Hinduism in popular culture, considering pieces such as Sita Sings the Blues. She also analyzes recent developments in India, and the impact issues such as Hindu nationalism and the politicization of Hinduism have on Hindus worldwide.

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ID: 530296

Title: Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City

Author: Josephine Ensign

Narrator: Holly Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:52

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science

Summary:

In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle history-past its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or not-to reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society.

The sometimes fragmentary tales of these people, their lives and deaths, are not included in official histories of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental illness, addiction, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and homelessness? Drawing on interviews and extensive research, Ensign shares a diversity of voices within contemporary health care and public policy debates.

Informed by her own lived experience of homelessness, as well as over three decades of work as a family nurse practitioner providing primary health care to homeless people, Ensign is uniquely situated to explore the tensions between caregiving and oppression, as well as charity and solidarity, that polarize perspectives on homelessness throughout the country. A timely story in light of the ongoing health care reform debate, the affordable housing crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the stories from Skid Road illuminate issues surrounding poverty and homelessness throughout America.

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ID: 522257

Title: Dungeon of the Old Gods

Author: Wolfe Locke

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:54:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Dungeon. Quest. Adventure.

A journey into madness.

When John Younger answered the Regent's call to find a missing prince, he thought it would be an easy way to make some coin. He was wrong. Thrust into a life-or-death battle with creatures only heard about in stories long since forgotten, John finds himself in a dungeon of elder ones and old gods.

As he descends into the heart of darkness, John must use all of his brains and brawn to successfully make it through each floor of the dungeon, while saving others and gaining the favor of those within.

Will John make it to the final floor and escape? Or will he succumb to the dark whisperings of those who dwell below?

Journey today into the world of Pandemonium!

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ID: 520475

Title: Once Upon a Devilishly Enchanting Kiss

Author: Bree Wolf

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:34:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

He loves nothing better than to tease her. She considers him her nemesis . . . until the day she does not.

England 1801: LADY LOUISA, daughter to the EARL OF WHICKERTON, never thought she would ever have reason enough to hate anyone; especially not PHINEAS HAWKE, VISCOUNT BARRINGTON, the man with the most wickedly dark eyes she has ever seen. Louisa is suddenly forced to realize that the man she could easily have lost her heart to has discovered her most shameful secret.

Anger settles in her heart, burying all tender emotions, as she tries her utmost to ignore him. That is easier said than done.

PHINEAS HAWKE has known the lovely LADY LOUISA almost all his life. Her face is a familiar sight, and although he cannot deny that she possesses certain appealing charms, Phineas has never looked at her and seen someone other than simply one of Lord Whickerton's daughters.

At least not, until another gentleman rather unexpectedly voices his partiality toward her.

Suddenly, Phineas realizes that the woman he has known all his life is one he has ignored for far too long, and to his utter dismay, she has come to loathe the very sight of him. He will not yield easily.

As it seems, neither will she.

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ID: 529811

Title: Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

Author: David Robert Grimes

Narrator: David Robert Grimes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:26:40

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy

Summary:

Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today

In our ever-more-polarized society, there's at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with misinformation, faulty logic, and the gullible followers who buy into it all. Of course, we're not among them-are we?

Scientist David Robert Grimes is on a mission to expose the logical fallacies and cognitive biases that drive our discourse on a dizzying array of topics-from vaccination to abortion, 9/11 conspiracy theories to dictatorial doublespeak, astrology to alternative medicine, and wrongful convictions to racism. But his purpose in Good Thinking isn't to shame or place blame. Rather, it's to interrogate our own assumptions-to develop our eye for the glimmer of truth in a vast sea of dubious sources-in short, to think critically.

Grimes's expert takedown of irrationality is required for anyone wondering why bad thinking persists and how we can defeat it. Ultimately, no one changes anyone else's mind; we can only change our own-and give others the tools to do the same.

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ID: 497771

Title: Dragon Soul

Author: Danielle Bennett, Jaida Jones

Narrator: Cornell Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:37:01

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

During the war between the kingdoms of Volstov and Ke-Han, no fighter could match Rook for sheer arrogance and skill. Only Rook could ride the great dragon Havemercy, whose savagery and bloodlust matched his own. His brother, Thom, is bookish, diffident, and reserved, yet he yearns for Rook's approval-and fears he can never earn it. With the war over, and an uneasy truce between the two nations, Thom hopes the long-lost brothers can bond on a trip together.

But Rook cares only that Havemercy lies scattered in pieces across Ke-Han-and someone is buying up her parts, and those of other fallen dragons. The beasts are dead, but the magic that powered them is not. And now a Ke-Han agent, a Volstov sorceress, and a group of desert tribesmen are vying to possess that magic and control the future.

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ID: 534697

Title: Everywhere Blue

Author: Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

Narrator: Carly Robins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:23:32

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A brother's disappearance turns one family upside down, revealing painful secrets that threaten the life they've always known.

When twelve-year-old Maddie's older brother vanishes from his college campus, her carefully ordered world falls apart. Nothing will fill the void of her beloved oldest sibling. Meanwhile Maddie's older sister reacts by staying out late, and her parents are always distracted by the search for Strum. Drowning in grief and confusion, the family's musical household falls silent.

Though Maddie is the youngest, she knows Strum better than anyone. He used to confide in her, sharing his fears about the climate crisis and their planet's future. So, Maddie starts looking for clues: Was Strum unhappy? Were the arguments with their dad getting worse? Or could his disappearance have something to do with those endangered butterflies he loved . . .

Scared and on her own, Maddie picks up the pieces of her family's fractured lives. Maybe her parents aren't who she thought they were. Maybe her nervous thoughts and compulsive counting mean she needs help. And maybe finding Strum won't solve everything-but she knows he's out there, and she has to try.

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ID: 519160

Title: How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

Author: T.M. Luhrmann

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:58:07

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith

How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them? But it isn't easy to maintain a sense that there are invisible spirits who care about you. In How God Becomes Real, acclaimed anthropologist and scholar of religion T. M. Luhrmann argues that people must work incredibly hard to make gods real and that this effort helps to explain the enduring power of faith.

Drawing on ethnographic studies of evangelical Christians, pagans, magicians, Zoroastrians, Black Catholics, Santeria initiates, and newly orthodox Jews, Luhrmann notes that none of these people behave as if gods and spirits are simply there. Rather, these worshippers make strenuous efforts to create a world in which invisible others matter and can become intensely present and real. The faithful accomplish this through detailed stories, absorption, the cultivation of inner senses, belief in a porous mind, strong sensory experiences, prayer, and other practices. Along the way, Luhrmann shows why faith is harder than belief, why prayer is a metacognitive activity like therapy, why becoming religious is like getting engrossed in a book, and much more.

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ID: 520495

Title: Collected Short Stories and Essays

Author: Dana Stabenow

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:57:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Edgar-award winning author Dana Stabenow is best known for her Kate Shugak novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing-be it crime, fantasy, horror, or science fiction-is Alaska. This genre-spanning collection of sixteen short stories features familiar characters like Kate and Jim, Liam and Wy, and Bill and Moses, but also ranges farther afield than many listeners will expect, leaping from modern-day Anchorage to twenty-second century Mars to the fantasy kingdom of Mnemosynea. Remarkably disparate, but indisputably Stabenow, whose fertile imagination is anything but predictable.

Titles in this collection: 'Nooses Give,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Under the Influence,' 'Wreck Rights,' 'Cherchez la Femme,' 'Siren Song,' 'The Eyak Interpreter,' 'Any Taint of Vice,' 'On the Evidence,' 'Missing, Presumed . . .,' 'The Perfect Gift,' 'Gold Fever,' 'Cheechako,' 'No Place Like Home,' 'Justice is a Two-edged Sword,' and 'A Woman's Work.'

Newly added in this edition, find 'Collected Essays' and 'Dana on Writing' as well!

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ID: 522306

Title: Gamble

Author: LaVyrle Spencer

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:10:53

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Summary:

A story of honesty and humor for anyone who has ever lived and loved from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer.

Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety, but her green eyes could blaze with anger-or sparkle with humor.

Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong.

They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts-and they were reborn in each other's arms by the soft, wondrous gift of love.

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