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ID: 539778

Title: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Author: Dean Spade

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:41:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to-or actively engineer-each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable.

Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.

This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Writing for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity.

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ID: 514043

Title: Stars Are Also Fire

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Humans and their genetically altered descendants struggle to find their place in a universe controlled by a benevolent artificial intelligence in this brilliant classic of future speculation.

On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intelligences called the cybercosm runs the planet and the universe far more efficiently than any flesh and blood ruler ever could, in essence rendering the human race obsolete. On the Earth's moon, genetically engineered Lunarians carrying the DNA of Dagney Beynac-a descendant of the legendary Anton Guthrie, founder of the powerful and visionary Fireball Enterprises-struggle to preserve their lives, their freedom, and their satellite's resources in the face of threats posed by encroaching humans and controlling machines. Over a span of five centuries, tensions have increased in the wake of the political and technological revolutions that reshaped their universe. And suddenly radical change is in the offing once more, as a secret kept hidden since the earliest days of Lunar colonization is about to be revealed-one that could effectively shut down the cybercosm and plunge the universe into chaos.

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ID: 544183

Title: Lights, Camera, Witchcraft: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television

Author: Heather Greene

Narrator: Eva Wilhelm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television. From Joan the Woman and The Wizard of Oz to Carrie and Charmed, author and film scholar Heather Greene explores how these films helped influence the public image of the witch and profoundly influenced how women negotiate their power in a patriarchal society. Lights, Camera, Witchcraft uncovers fascinating insights into the intersection of entertainment, critical theory, gender studies, and spirituality.

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ID: 526857

Title: Murmuration

Author: Blake Auden

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Murmuration is a year's worth of emotions, anxious thoughts, and panic attacks, each one a beating wing in the mind of the author.

This book is an attempt to create something beautiful from this chaos; to make sense of the things we dare not breathe to life. Focusing on loss, heartbreak, mental health, and the impact of isolation on a tired mind, these poems are the starlings that gather above the water. These pages are the hope that we can learn to heal; that the future can survive the past.

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ID: 514099

Title: Cause for War

Author: Michael Atamanov

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The Army of Earth is being sent on its first tour of duty. Its fifty thousand proud and valiant troopers are the best of the best, full of hope for brilliant victories and spoils of war that can help Earth's humanity along in its development.

There's just one little problem though. The operation's Geckho commanders view their human vassals as mere cannon fodder, good only for plugging up holes in their defensive line and shipping out to the space war's most punishing hotspots where the chance of surviving is practically nil.

How should the King of Earth behave in this situation? Disobey the suzerains' orders, draw their ire, and put his home planet under threat of complete annihilation? Or make a play for the freedom of humanity in a game of his own?

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ID: 534827

Title: Heart of a Cowboy

Author: Jody Hedlund

Narrator: Susan Hanfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:27:48

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Historical Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Brilliant scientist Linnea Newberry is on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling the Santa Fe Trail with her grandfather, Dr. Powell, on a botanical expedition to Colorado Territory. She longs to be taken seriously by the other team members, but at every calamity she faces, her grandfather threatens to send her home.

After watching his ma suffer and die in childbirth, Flynn McQuaid has sworn off women and marriage forever. Headed west to start a new life, he has his hands full not only taking care of his younger siblings but also delivering cattle to his brother. He doesn't need more complications.

When Flynn rescues Linnea from drowning during a river crossing, Dr. Powell promptly hires Flynn-unbeknownst to Linnea-to act as her bodyguard for the rest of the trip. As Flynn fights against the many dangers of the trail, he soon finds himself in the greatest danger of all-falling for a woman he's determined not to love.

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ID: 547374

Title: Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century

Author: Joshua L. Cherniss

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:36:40

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Politics, World, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought.

Assaults on liberalism-a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights-are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin-each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here.

Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition-one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.

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ID: 534842

Title: Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation

Author: Stephen W. Porges

Narrator: Derek Shoales

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:50:29

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

The foundational role of safety in our lives.

Ever since publication of The Polyvagal Theory in 2011, demand for information about this innovative perspective has been constant. Here Stephen W. Porges brings together his most important writings since the publication of that seminal work. At its heart, polyvagal theory is about safety. It provides an understanding that feeling safe is dependent on autonomic states, and that our cognitive evaluations of risk in the environment, including identifying potentially dangerous relationships, play a secondary role to our visceral reactions to people and places.

Our reaction to the continuing global pandemic supports one of the central concepts of polyvagal theory: that a desire to connect safely with others is our biological imperative. Indeed, life may be seen as an inherent quest for safety. These ideas, and more, are outlined in chapters on therapeutic presence, group psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy, autism, trauma, date rape, medical trauma, and COVID-19.

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ID: 522260

Title: Dominick

Author: Eve Langlais

Narrator: Grace Grant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:10:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Paranormal

Summary:

When she called him a pussycat, she didn't mean it literally.

There comes a time in every man's life where he's got to choose: settle down or get smacked by his mom for not giving her grandbabies. After all, he's not getting any younger, although age isn't why he retired from the military. After the incident they had no choice but to medically discharge him. Probably for the best because something inside him is struggling to break free.

Adrift and on the prowl, he runs into his high school crush, Anika. She's still as beautiful as before, meaning of course he puts his foot in his mouth, down his throat, and out his . . .

Yeah, he's still an idiot around her. He can't help himself despite knowing he should stay away. The blackouts have started up again, resulting in a loss of clothes and a raw diet.

Discovering he's a giant freaking cat isn't easy to accept, especially since his family's idea of sympathy is offering him a can of tuna and dangling a string.

They won't laugh for long once they realize he can't control the beast. Only love can tame him.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 534720

Title: Sankofa: A Novel

Author: Chibundu Onuzo

Narrator: Sara Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:02:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.

After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell her-her mother, the only parent who raised her-is dead.

Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna uncovers a few clues about her father, whom she never knew. Student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London, involvement that eventually led him to return to Africa, where he became the president-some would say dictator-of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive.

When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. It raises universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family's hidden roots. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home and found something more complex in its place.

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