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ID: 547589

Title: By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose

Author: Simon Morley

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:33:25

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The rose is bursting with meaning: over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death, and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at life's seminal moments.

Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has attached itself to us, its needy host and servant, to become one of the most adored flowers across cultures. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts-no longer selected by nature, but by us. From Shakespeare's sonnets to Bulgaria's Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England, and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance.

This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.

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ID: 545816

Title: Body and Soul Food

Author: Abby Collette

Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:54:45

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

In this must-listen new mystery series, fraternal twins Keaton and Koby will pull double duty when they take down a killer while preparing to open their new bookstore and soul-food cafe, Books & Biscuits.

When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Years later, they reunite and decide to make up for lost time and capitalize on their shared interests by opening up a well-stocked bookstore and cozy soul-food cafe in the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Timber Lake. But this new chapter of their lives could end on a cliffhanger after Koby's foster brother is found murdered.

The murder, which occurred in public between light-rail stops, seems impossible for the police to solve. But as Keaton and Koby know, two heads are always better than one, especially when it comes to mysteries. With just a week to go before the grand opening of their new cafe, the twins will use their revitalized connection with each other to make sure this is the killer's final page.

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ID: 502333

Title: Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra

Author: John Szwed

Narrator: Leon Nixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:55:09

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz.

John Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography of this musical polymath, who was one of the twentieth century's greatest avant-garde artists and intellectuals. Charting the whole of Sun Ra's life and career, Szwed outlines how after years in Chicago as a blues and swing band pianist, Sun Ra set out in the 1950s to impart his views about the galaxy, black people, and spiritual matters by performing music with the Arkestra that was as vital and innovative as it was mercurial and confounding. Szwed's listeners-whether they are just discovering Sun Ra or are among the legion of poets, artists, intellectuals, and musicians who consider him a spiritual godfather-will find that, indeed, space is the place.

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ID: 545846

Title: 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK

Author: David Krell

Narrator: Chloe Cannon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:39

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Sports & Recreation, North America, Baseball

Summary:

In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare National League playoff between the Giants and the Dodgers, and a thrilling seven-game World Series where the Yankees won their twentieth title.

Baseball was expanding with the Houston Colt .45s and the New York Mets, who tried to fill the National League void in New York. Despite their record, the '62 Mets revived National League baseball in a city thirsty for an alternative to the Yankees.

Earlier that year in Los Angeles, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley launched Dodger Stadium, a state-of-the-art ballpark in Chavez Ravine and a new icon for the city.

Beyond baseball, 1962 was also a momentous year in American history: Mary Early became the first Black graduate of the University of Georgia, First Lady Jackie Kennedy revealed the secrets of the White House in a television special, John Glenn became the first astronaut to orbit Earth, and JFK stared down Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Weaving the 1962 baseball season within the social fabric of this era, David Krell delivers a fascinating book as epochal as its subject.

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ID: 552129

Title: Stealing His Heart

Author: Diane Alberts

Narrator: Samantha Summers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:58:48

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Military

Summary:

If he's not careful, she'll steal his heart, too . . .

Tara Harris is a professional thief with a conscience. She makes her living retrieving priceless stolen items from sleazy rich jerks, and returning them to their rightful owners. Until a routine nighttime assignment when Tara suddenly finds herself pinned against the wall. And oh, does the hard male body pressed against her feel good. And damned familiar . . .

Busted.

Jake Forsythe was Tara's former burglary partner, until he left her naked in bed-unsatisfied-and disappeared from her life years ago. Now he's back, hotter and more naughtily delicious than ever. And he has a nice, blackmailing kind of proposition-Tara can either help him with a secret project, or she can go to jail. But the moment Tara agrees to help Jake, she realizes she's just made a deal with a sexy-assed devil. Because this time, she stands to lose something more precious than any rare objets d'art . . .

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 552069

Title: Survivors

Author: Toby Neighbors

Narrator: A J Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:14:36

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Nothing in the Corps is guaranteed!

Staff Sergeant Eli Vanhorn isn't the man he used to be. Once a proud member of the Fleet Marine Corps' elite Terrestrial Advance Combat teams, the battle on colony planet Luyten C left him broken and scarred. But after a year of surgeries and physical therapy, he's ready to complete his enlistment as Master of Arms on the exploration vessel Rihla. It should be a simple, stress free assignment-but things rarely work out as they should.

For decades humanity's efforts to spread across the galaxy have been hampered by the violent Orrkasi, an intelligent, space faring race of which little is known. But Staff Sergeant Vanhorn is no stranger to the Orrkasi. He's a veteran with eight combat engagements, a harden warrior, a man who knows how to improvise, adapt, and overcome. But he's facing challenges he never expected before. His body is crippled and scarred, the TAC Team brotherhood he once thrived in see him as a pariah, and he's haunted by the horrors of combat. Just getting through his first cruise after returning to active duty won't be easy.

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ID: 552322

Title: Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws

Author: Ted Cadsby

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:51:22

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Career Development, Psychology

Summary:

We are oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering. We replay past anguish, anticipate future distress, and stew in self-righteous anger. In Hard to Be Human, Ted Cadsby focuses on five cognitive design flaws that foster underthinking and overreacting, and reveals powerful strategies to overcome them.

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ID: 523676

Title: Gray Matters

Author: Dolores Arden

Narrator: Melissa Moran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:58

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Remy Devereux is an ace homicide detective with the SFPD. At work, she's embroiled in a months-long murder investigation that has yet to show any signs of breaking. At home, she's on the skids with her soon-to-be ex-girlfriend, while nightmares of the gruesome murder scene keep her up at night.

On the other side of the country, Giana Falco has just made the biggest change in her life. She's ended her engagement and now she's moving to the west coast to take a job as a forensic scientist in a town where she knows practically no one.

Sparks fly the moment Remy and Giana meet. Remy has never seen a woman more intelligent or more beautiful than her new colleague, but she knows that allowing herself to fall for a straight woman would be a uniquely masochistic kind of folly. For her part, Giana is intrigued by the tall and reticent detective. She sees no reason why the two of them shouldn't become the best of friends.

The stakes couldn't be higher as the two women put their heads together to work the case, drawing ever closer to finding the killer-and ever closer to finding each other. Try as they might to ignore it, the attraction they feel becomes something neither one of them can deny.

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ID: 544079

Title: Irish Prince

Author: Virginia Nelson

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:04:09

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, General, Contemporary

Summary:

CEO Aiden Kelley's life of billionaire extravagance is flipped upside down when his ex shows up with a ten-year-old she claims is his. Totally out of his element and losing the control so integral to his success, he needs help. To top it all off, the only constant woman in his life, his executive assistant, has given notice just when he needs her help to survive his newfound fatherhood.

Chelsea Houston is an executive assistant, not a nanny. The only person more clueless about kids is her boss. Helping him on a daddy-daughter road trip is her last task before he'll accept her two weeks' notice and she can be free of the infuriating man she's had a crush on for longer than she'd admit.

Aiden's carefully ordered life has never been so disorganized, and he's suddenly tempted by the things he thought he could never have. Things like love and family. Who knew chaos could be so damn fun?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 552315

Title: Thinking About History

Author: Sarah Maza

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:31

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World

Summary:

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.

Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move outside those boundaries? What is the relation among popular, academic, and public history, and how should we evaluate sources? What is the difference between description and interpretation, and how do we balance them? Maza provides choice examples in place of definitive answers, and the result is a book that will spark classroom discussion and offer students a view of history as a vibrant, ever-changing field of inquiry that is thoroughly relevant to our daily lives.

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