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ID: 493932

Title: Game of Stars and Comets

Author: Andre Norton

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:50:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Danger in the stars!

The birth of a hero is never easy. Clumsy as an elephant in high heels, he is nothing like his legendary scout father.

But inside that bull-moose-of-a-body lies the heart of a hero whose moment has arrived! Next, a boy survives alien invasion-but must learn to think and act like his reptilian enemy to exact retribution for slaughter.

These and two other tales of coming-of-age-through-peril from the writer who invented the genre, Andre Norton. Includes 'The X Factor,' 'Voorloper,' 'The Eye of the Monster,' and 'The Sioux Spaceman'-all set in Norton's 'Council/Confederation' universe.

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ID: 493889

Title: Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Author: Harsha Walia

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:10

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule.

Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial ideology. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and how racial violence is escalating deadly nationalism in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere.

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ID: 495021

Title: Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel

Author: Gilbert Adair

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:24:12

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A reserved British intellectual falls obsessively in love with a young American heartthrob, in this witty and poignant 'tour de force' (Literary Review).

When he wanders into the wrong theater and finds himself watching the wretched teen-pic Hotpants College II, cerebral British author Giles De'Ath becomes romantically obsessed with dreamboat Ronnie Bostock. Giles's infatuation drives him to the unthinkable: he reads American fan magazines and watches movies with titles like Tex Mex and Skid Marks. And finally, he travels to Long Island, intent on meeting Ronnie in the flesh.

The basis for the hit independent film starring Jason Priestley and John Hurt, Love and Death on Long Island is a brilliant and heartrending update of Thomas Mann's early twentieth-century novella Death in Venice. It offers both a poignant meditation on passion, and 'a very funny portrait of an extraordinarily unworldly academic's introduction to the dizzyingly incomprehensible realm of popular culture' (Nick Hornby).

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ID: 495067

Title: Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts

Author: Brent L. Sterling

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military, Global Politics

Summary:

Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes. Thus, outside of their own combat, militaries have studied foreign wars as a valuable source of battlefield information. The effectiveness of this learning process, however, has rarely been evaluated across different periods and contexts.

Through a series of in-depth case studies of the US Army, Navy, and Air Force, Brent L. Sterling creates a better understanding of the dynamics of learning from 'other people's wars,' determining what types of knowledge can be gained from foreign wars, identifying common pitfalls, and proposing solutions to maximize the benefits for doctrine, organization, training, and equipment.

Other People's Wars explores major US efforts involving direct observation missions and post-conflict investigations at key junctures for the US armed forces: the Crimean War (1854-56), Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and Yom Kippur War (1973), which preceded the US Civil War, First and Second World Wars, and major army and air force reforms of the 1970s, respectively. The case studies identify learning pitfalls but also show that initiatives to learn from other nations' wars can yield significant benefits if the right conditions are met.

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ID: 493873

Title: Big Chili

Author: Julia Buckley

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Lilah Drake's Covered Dish business discreetly provides the residents of Pine Haven, Illinois, with delicious, fresh-cooked meals they can claim they cooked themselves. But when one of her clandestine concoctions is used to poison a local woman, Lilah finds herself in a pot-load of trouble . . .

After dreaming for years of owning her own catering company, Lilah has made a start into the food world through her Covered Dish business, covertly cooking for her neighbors who don't have the time or skill to do so themselves, and allowing them to claim her culinary creations as their own. While her clientele is strong, their continued happiness depends on no one finding out who's really behind the apron.

So when someone drops dead at a church Bingo night moments after eating chili that Lilah made for a client, the anonymous chef finds herself getting stirred into a cauldron of secrets, lies, and murder-and going toe to toe with a very determined and very attractive detective. To keep her clients coming back and her business under wraps, Lilah will have to chop down the list of suspects fast, because this spicy killer has acquired a taste for homicide . . .

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ID: 493887

Title: Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide

Author: Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:36:48

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting.

There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as health care-and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the health care system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, nineteen cents go to health care. What are we paying for, exactly?

Health care policy is notoriously complex, but what Americans want is quite simple: good health care that's easy to use and doesn't break the bank. Polls show that as many as 70 percent of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage to all Americans.

What's less clear is how to get there.

Medicare for All is the leading proposal to achieve to universal health coverage in America. But what is it exactly? How would it work? More importantly, is it practical or practicable?

This book goes beyond partisan talking points to offer a serious examination of how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive, and pay for healthcare in America.

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ID: 493882

Title: House on Cold Hill

Author: Peter James

Narrator: Nicholas Boulton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:44:28

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

Ollie and Caro Harcourt are moving house with their twelve-year-old daughter Jade. Ollie is desperate to leave the city. Caro is less sure. Then they view Cold Hill House, a dilapidated rural mansion, and fall instantly in love. It's expensive, but with its space, seclusion, and huge grounds, it seems like a brilliant idea.

That is, until they arrive.

It soon becomes apparent that they are not alone. A spectral woman appears on screens and walks the corridors, vanishing before she can be challenged. Strange occurrences become ever more common. Then Caro starts seeing faces, always looking out of the same upstairs window.

The room behind it could hold the key to the disturbing secret behind the house's mysterious past. Except for the fact that the room doesn't seem to exist . . .

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ID: 493909

Title: Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died

Author: Jim Bernhard

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Literary, Social Science

Summary:

Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with death-and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.

Francis Bacon wrote, 'It is as natural to die as to be born,' while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, 'And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone.'

Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Moliere collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.

Edgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else's clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas really die of eighteen straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams?

If these authors have lessons for us, the best may be that of Marcus Aurelius: 'Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.'

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ID: 493903

Title: Daemon Grudge

Author: Stacey Brutger

Narrator: Eva Wilhelm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

When the gods vanished, daemons took over protecting humans from the things that go bump in the night . . . until daemons decide they deserve more.

Orphaned young and raised by the military, Octavia only knows the world of duty and honor. When she discovers they're sacrificing people to create the ultimate super soldier, men engineered specifically to rid the world of what they consider the supernatural plague, she rebels and vows to do everything in her power to stop them.

The last thing Octavia expects to find is daemons willing to help her survive. Or that she may be one of them. To make things worse, an ancient power has awakened inside her.

Sworn to protect her, the daemons decide to teach her how to use her new abilities. They never expected to fall in love with their infuriatingly vexing charge, who maddeningly risks everything to get justice for past wrongs. If they can't find a way to remove the magic before the demigods discover the truth, Octavia will die when they rip it out of her, and the world will crumble into chaos.

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ID: 493890

Title: Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence

Author: Ryan Hass

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America, Asia, Global Politics, Public Policy

Summary:

An examination of the US-China relationship that charts a new path for America focusing on its existing advantages.

Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America's relationship and rivalry with China rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted-for good or ill-by their capacity to coordinate on common challenges that neither can solve on its own, such as pandemic disease, global economic recession, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its own condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China's way and turn a rising power into an enemy in the process but to renew America's advantages in its competition with China.

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