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ID: 513550

Title: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind

Author: Kim Harrington

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:04:13

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

Pokemon Go meets The Goonies in this exciting new adventure series!

First they took on monsters. Now they have to face ALIENS.

Come join Bex and Charlie on their second thrilling adventure in the GAMER SQUAD series!

After their scary adventure, Bex and Charlie have sworn never to play Monsters Unleashed again. Then Veratrum Games Corp releases a new augmented reality game featuring aliens instead of monsters, and the best friends just can't resist. After all, everyone loves it, even their science teacher, because it includes real star charts. But when they go to an observatory on a class trip, and open the game near a radio telescope, they get more than they bargained for: REAL aliens. One is sweet and kind; the other . . . not so much. Can Bex and Charlie capture the bad ET before it destroys their town?

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ID: 493217

Title: Lincolnomics: How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy

Author: John F. Wasik

Narrator: Bob Souer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:15:29

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America

Summary:

Lincoln's view of the right to fulfill one's economic destiny was at the core of his governing philosophy-but he knew no one could climb that ladder without strong federal support. Some of his most enduring policies came to him before the Civil War: visions of a country linked by railroads running ocean to ocean, canals turning small towns into bustling cities, public works bridging farmers to market.

Author John F. Wasik tracks Lincoln from his time in the 1830s as a young Illinois state legislator pushing for internal improvements; through his work as a lawyer representing the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1840s; to his presidential fight for the Transcontinental Railroad; and his support of land-grant colleges that educated a nation.

These brick-and-mortar developments were essential to how the nation could lift citizens above poverty and its isolating origins. Lincolnomics revives the disremembered history of how Lincoln paved the way for Eisenhower's interstate highways and FDR's social amenities. With an afterword addressing the failure of American infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Lincoln's policies provide a guide to the future, Lincolnomics makes the case for the man nicknamed 'The Rail Splitter' as the Presidency's greatest builder.

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ID: 501614

Title: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Author: Clare Hunter

Narrator: Siobhan Redmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:39:46

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Hobbies & Games

Summary:

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard.

From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.

Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents-from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland-to celebrate the age-old, universal, and underexplored beauty and power of sewing. Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story.

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ID: 501581

Title: Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

Author: Jill A. Fisher

Narrator: Diana Blue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:42

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science

Summary:

Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you choose to take part in this kind of study?

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.

This book reveals not only how social inequality fundamentally shapes these drug trials, but it also depicts the important validity concerns inherent in this mode of testing new pharmaceuticals. These highly controlled studies bear little resemblance to real-world conditions, and everyone involved is incentivized to game the system, ultimately making new drugs appear safer than they really are.

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ID: 497748

Title: Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England

Author: Sue Wilkes

Narrator: Christine Rendel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:42:57

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Europe, Social Science

Summary:

Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Jane Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature, and archives.

- Were all unmarried affluent men really 'in want of a wife'?

- Where would a young lady seek adventure?

- Would 'taking the waters' at Bath and other spas kill or cure you?

- Was Lizzy Bennet bitten by bed-bugs while traveling?

- What would you wear to a country ball or a dance at Almack's?

- Would Mr. Darcy have worn a corset?

- What hidden horrors lurked in elegant Regency houses?

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ID: 497725

Title: Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present

Author: Mary Ziegler

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:43:29

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Law

Summary:

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed. Never abandoning their constitutional demands, pro-choice and pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts. Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants, Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms American law and politics to this day.

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ID: 499423

Title: Time Traders

Author: Andre Norton

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME.

Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies-and weapons-far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source . . . and take it down.

When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America's secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades.

Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space . . .

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ID: 501608

Title: Raising Boys to Be Good Men: A Parent's Guide to Bringing up Happy Sons in a World Filled with Toxic Masculinity

Author: Aaron Gouveia

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:45:44

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Our boys are in a crisis. Toxic masculinity and tough guy-ism are on display daily from our leaders, and we see anger, dysfunction, violence, and depression in young men who are suffocated by harmful social codes. Our young sons are told to stop throwing like a girl. They hear phrases like 'man up' when they cry. They are told 'boys will be boys' when they behave badly. The 'Girl Power' movement has encouraged women to be whoever and do whatever they want, but that sentiment is not often extended to boys.

But we can treat this problem-and the power lies in the hands of parents. It's not only possible to raise boys who aren't emotionally stifled and shoved into stereotypical gender boxes; it's vital if we want a generation of men who can express their emotions, respect women, and help nurse society back to a halfway healthy place. We can reframe manhood. From Aaron Gouveia, who gained viral fame after tweeting his support for his son's painted fingernails (and who knows toxic masculinity very well), learn practical and actionable tips such as: don't accept different standards for moms and dads; teach boys that 'girl' is not an insult and retire phrases like 'boys will be boys'; and show boys that expressing their emotions and being physical is a good thing.

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ID: 499411

Title: Scot Under the Covers

Author: Suzanne Enoch

Narrator: Mhairi Morrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:05:01

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

In Scot Under the Covers, a resourceful English lady and a hot-blooded Highlander join forces to trick a scoundrel, and every rule will be broken!

Miranda Harris is known for her charm, wit, and ability to solve any problem she encounters. But when her brother lands neck-deep in gambling debt to a crafty villain and Miranda is subsequently blackmailed into marrying him, she must enlist the help of the devil himself to save the family honor-and herself.

Devilishly handsome Highlander Aden MacTaggert knows next to nothing about the ways of the ton, but he most certainly knows his way around gaming halls and women's hearts. Still, Aden is not sure how he'll manage to find a Sassenach bride in time to save his family's inheritance. When his almost sister-in-law Miranda comes to him for assistance, he proposes a partnership: She will help him navigate London society and he'll teach her everything about wagering . . . and winning back her freedom. The beautiful, clever lass intrigues Aden-but is she playing her own game, or are the sparks between them real? He is accustomed to risking his pocket. But betting on Miranda's love is a game he can't afford to lose . . .

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 501571

Title: Bloody Vows

Author: Lisa Renee Jones

Narrator: Madeleine Maby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:17:35

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

FBI agent Lilah Love leads a complicated life. She's engaged to Kane Mendez, a man most call dangerous, but hey birds of a feather, do flock together. She's dangerous, too, and in ways only Kane understands. As for their happily ever after, well that might have to wait. Right now, an old enemy who should be dead is still living, Junior, her mystery letter writer, is stirring up trouble, and her family is trying to prove they're crazier than her. On top of that she has a new case: a dead woman in a bloody wedding dress. And since Lilah knows all too well there is no such thing as coincidence, clearly someone is sending her yet another message.

Contains mature themes.

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