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ID: 526314

Title: River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

Author: Walter Johnson

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:18:12

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an 'empire for liberty' populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reconsideration dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in US expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters' pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives, popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton's dark dominion.

But at the center of the story are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton-who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream.

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ID: 534839

Title: REV: Requiem

Author: T.R. Harris

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

REVs are the super-soldiers of the future, chemically-enhanced Marines producing the performance-enhancing drug Rev naturally in their bodies. Now, there are supermen and -women walking among us. Are they here to save Humanity, or replace it? Only time will tell.

The story continues: Having been maneuvered into attacking an innocent planet populated by natives with technology far out-pacing that of Earth, Humanity faces its greatest challenge-fighting off two superior races out to exterminate the Human race. It was bad enough when it was just mankind against the Seken. Now the Azloreans have joined the fray.

After being captured during the failed attack against the Azloreans, Zac Murphy is now being kept as a trophy by the mastermind of the whole affair, the Antaerean Kallen Zaphin. He's keeping Zac alive so the REV can witness the final demise of the Human race. In the meantime, Angus Price is struggling to stay one step ahead of the alien pursuers, leading the remnants of the Human fleet farther away from Zac and a potential rescue attempt.

But little do Zac and Angus know, there's a major new power in the galaxy on their way to help, and a home-grown power at that.

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ID: 544092

Title: Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

Author: Barbara J. King

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their lives. But how do we translate this compassion into helping other creatures, both those that are and are not our pets? Bringing together the latest science with heartfelt storytelling, Animals' Best Friends reveals the opportunities we have in everyday life to help animals in our homes, in the wild, in zoos, and in science labs, as well as those considered to be food.

Barbara J. King, an expert on animal cognition and emotion, guides us on a journey both animal and deeply human. We meet cows living relaxed lives in an animal sanctuary-and cows with plastic portals in their sides at a university research station. We observe bison free-roaming at Yellowstone National Park and chimpanzees confined to zoos. We reflect on animal testing as King shares her own experience as the survivor of a particularly nasty cancer.

This is a book not of shaming and limitation, but of uplift and expansion. Though an animal expert, she is just like the rest of us: on a journey still, learning each day how to be better, and do better, for animals. By turning compassion into action on behalf of animals, we not only improve animals' lives-we also immeasurably enrich our own.

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ID: 532307

Title: Deep in the Woods: The 1935 Kidnapping of Nine-Year-Old George Weyerhaeuser, Heir to America's Mightiest Timber Dynasty

Author: Bryan Johnston

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

It is a crime even the FBI must have considered fantastic and absurd.

In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and locked in a closet. The perps-a career bank robber, a petty thief, and his nineteen-year-old never-been-in-trouble Mormon wife-quickly become the targets of the biggest manhunt in Northwest history. The caper plays out like a Hollywood thriller with countless twists and improbable developments. Perhaps the most astonishing thing of all, though, is how it all ends.

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ID: 551515

Title: Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Author: Greg Jenner

Narrator: Greg Jenner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:45:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realize. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience-the list of stars whose careers burned bright before the Age of Television is extensive and thrillingly varied.

In this ambitious history, that spans the Bronze Age to the coming of Hollywood's Golden Age, Greg Jenner assembles a vibrant cast of over 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, demigods, ruffians, and more, in search of celebrity's historical roots. He reveals why celebrity burst into life in the early eighteenth century, how it differs to ancient ideas of fame, the techniques through which it was acquired, how it was maintained, the effect it had on public tastes, and the psychological burden stardom could place on those in the glaring limelight.

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ID: 523683

Title: Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance

Author: Janet Gleeson

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:38

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to issue paper money with the credit based on the value of land. But Queen Anne was not about to take advice from a gambler and felon. So, in exile in Paris, he convinced the bankrupt court of Louis XV of the value of his idea.

Law soon engineered the revival of the French economy and found himself one of the most powerful men in Europe. The shareholders in his new trading company made such enormous profits that the term 'millionaire' was coined to describe them. Paris was soon in a frenzy of speculation, conspiracies, and insatiable consumption. Before this first boom-and-bust cycle was complete, markets throughout Europe crashed, the mob began calling for Law's head, and his visionary ideas about what money could do were abandoned and forgotten.

In Millionaire, Janet Gleeson lucidly reconstructs this epic drama where fortunes were made and lost, paupers grew rich, and lords fell into penury-and a modern fiscal philosophy was born.

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ID: 530313

Title: Manaborn 1

Author: Cassius Lange

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:23:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Summary:

This is the story about how I died. Not really . . . I mean, I don't remember most of it, thank goodness. Long story short, I was betrayed. Some people I thought I could trust invaded my sky palace, stole my women, and enslaved my pet shadow hounds.

I was destroyed, utterly. Or so they thought.

Somehow, mana, the source of my previous power, brought me back. The backstabbing weasels think they are safe, barricaded in their strongholds. Here's the horrible part. They willingly sacrificed their own flesh and blood for security. And they had the nerve to call me evil?

Death wasn't all bad, I guess. It showed me what was truly important. But before I can get around to living my second life, I have some retribution to dish out.

Yes, some will call me unnatural. Others, evil. Blah blah blah.

I call myself the Manaborn.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 520493

Title: Lilac Code

Author: Becki Willis

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:52:33

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Will a case of mistaken identity be the death of her?

Madison Reynolds is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation. Her best friend Genny is judging a celebrity bake-off near DC, so it's the perfect opportunity for a girl's getaway. With fun-loving Granny Bert in tow, the trio heads to the very heart of the Intel community.

A mix-up at the airport leaves Madison with the wrong luggage, and a last-minute change in accommodations lands them at The Columbia Inn at Peralynna. How can they know its ties to the spy world will soon spin them into its web?

The stories of espionage and agents are intriguing, but too incredible to be real. The Texans know nothing about secret codes and counterintelligence. They've never heard of The Lilac Code, or the illusive agent-for-hire known simply as Kalypso.

Back home in The Sisters, a drama is unfolding that involves Madison's precious twins. She's raised them to do the right thing, no matter the consequence, but will their quest for justice put them in danger?

The twins risk everything to save their school, while deep in spy territory, Madison and Genny race against the clock-and the elements-to save Granny Bert's life.

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ID: 530230

Title: Fallen Wolf

Author: Belle Harper

Narrator: Alex Kydd, Sarah Sampino

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:25:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Teen, Paranormal

Summary:

My whole life, all I wished for was a best friend and a boyfriend who treated me like a princess.

Well for me, living in a small community where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knew me as the 'annoying' girl, it was hard for me to get even one of those wishes. But when new girl Lexi Turner strolled into English class and sat next to me. My wish finally came true.

For the first time, in eighteen years. Me. Ada Stephens, had a best friend.

Lexi wasn't a regular new girl who blended into the background. No, she was turning every male head in the high school, especially the Kiba boys. Ugh . . . they were so hot and knew it. But they didn't hold a flame to Saint Wood. He graduated last year and I never stopped crushing . . . how could you. He was Saint-freaking-Wood

Now I had the bestie, I was just missing the one other thing I wished for.

Only . . . I think I wished a little too hard.

But not everything is what it seems. The Kiba boys held secrets . . . ones I shouldn't have known.

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ID: 529804

Title: Connectivity 2.0

Author: Aven Ellis

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

Switch to first-class seat on a transatlantic flight? Check! Sexy ginger seatmate with gorgeous British accent? Hello! Discuss love of grandmillennial decor with super-hot seatmate? Why not, throw caution to the wind!

Will the history of a career-driven American finding love with a British billionaire repeat itself? Hmm . . .

Recent college graduate Lauren Charleston heads to London for a prestigious media graduate internship that is part of a well-laid plan for career success.

Falling for a playboy billionaire with the nickname of Icky Ollie? Not part of said plan.

Tech developer Oliver Pratt makes tabloid headlines for his wild ways, seen with a myriad of women-including a princess. He's exactly the type of man Lauren detests-especially in light of her past with men.

But Lauren might find exactly what she needs in Oliver if she can see beyond the surface-and face her own past, too. Will these two opposites find a certain connectivity, as their career mentors did? Or will this romance short-circuit before it begins?

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