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ID: 519206

Title: Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History

Author: Peter Baldwin

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:46:10

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, World

Summary:

Why, when we have been largely socialized into good behavior, are there more laws that govern our behavior than ever before?

Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries-for millennia, even. Over the past five hundred years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over three thousand years.

Baldwin explains that the involvement of the state in law enforcement and crime prevention is relatively recent. In ancient Greece, those struck by lightning were assumed to have been punished by Zeus. In the Hebrew Bible, God was judge, jury, and prosecutor when Cain killed Abel. As the state's power as lawgiver grew, more laws governed behavior than ever before; the sum total of prohibited behavior has grown continuously. At the same time, as family, community, and church exerted their influences, we have become better behaved and more law-abiding. Even as the state stands as the socializer of last resort, it also defines through law the terrain on which we are schooled into acceptable behavior.

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ID: 538172

Title: Surviving Dirty John: My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder

Author: Debra Newell

Narrator: Debra Newell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:55:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

'Debra Newell's journey, her tale of survival and her openness in sharing her story, is awe-inspiring.' -ERIC BANA

Debra Newell is nothing if not a survivor. By the time she met John Michael Meehan online, she had lived through a near-fatal childhood illness, an attempted rape in her twenties, the traumatic death of her sister at the hands of her brother-in-law, and multiple failed marriages. But despite those tragedies, she seemed to have it all: adoring children, a successful business, and a fabulous penthouse apartment.

Still, to her, there was something missing: the blinding, all-consuming love she first read about while passing time in her childhood sickbed. And she thought she found that love for real with John Meehan.

Debra's story is one of trauma, heartbreak, and deception. But it is also a relatable, inspirational, and hopeful story of forgiveness and, most of all, love: the boundaries children and parents cross to protect and save the people they love; the love one must find for oneself; and the ways the illusion of love can be used to manipulate and harm.

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ID: 534736

Title: Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey

Author: Tim Falconer

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and Against All Odds

Join a ragtag group of misfits from Dawson City as they scrap to become the 1905 Stanley Cup champions and cement hockey as Canada's national pastime.

An underdog hockey team traveled for three and a half weeks from Dawson City to Ottawa to play for the Stanley Cup in 1905. The Klondikers' eagerness to make the journey, and the public's enthusiastic response, revealed just how deeply, and how quickly, Canadians had fallen in love with hockey. After Governor General Stanley donated a championship trophy in 1893, new rinks appeared in big cities and small towns, leading to more players, teams, and leagues. And more fans. When Montreal challenged Winnipeg for the Cup in December 1896, supporters in both cities followed the play-by-play via telegraph updates. As the country escaped the Victorian era and entered a promising new century, a different nation was emerging. Canadians fell for hockey amid industrialization, urbanization, and shifting social and cultural attitudes. Class and race-based British ideals of amateurism attempted to fend off a more egalitarian professionalism. Ottawa star Weldy Young moved to the Yukon in 1899, and within a year was talking about a Cup challenge. With the help of Klondike businessman Joe Boyle, it finally happened six years later. Ottawa pounded the exhausted visitors, with 'One-Eyed' Frank McGee scoring an astonishing 14 goals in one game. But there was no doubt hockey was now the national pastime.

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ID: 539791

Title: Monsters: a reckoning

Author: Alison Croggon

Narrator: Larissa Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:56:19

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Politics, History

Summary:

'This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination . . . grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible . . .

'I was born as part of a monstrous structure-the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love. I am the daughter of an empire that declared itself the natural order of the world.'

From award-winning writer and critic Alison Croggon, Monsters is a hybrid of memoir and essay that takes as its point of departure the painful breakdown of a relationship between two sisters. It explores how our attitudes are shaped by the persisting myths that underpin colonialism and patriarchy, how the structures we are raised within splinter and distort the possibilities of our lives and the lives of others. Monsters asks how we maintain the fictions that we create about ourselves, what we will sacrifice to maintain these fictions-and what we have to gain by confronting them.

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ID: 538176

Title: Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams

Author: Katie Ives

Narrator: Petrea Burchard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:53:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Outdoor Recreation

Summary:

Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.

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ID: 530314

Title: Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920

Author: Neil Faulkner

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920

The Ottoman Sultan called for a 'Great Jihad' against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency.

Ranging from the forests of Central Africa to the deserts of Egypt, Sudan, and Somaliland, Neil Faulkner explores a fatal collision between two forms of oppression, one rooted in the ancient slave trade, the other in modern 'coolie' capitalism. He reveals the complex interactions between anti-slavery humanitarianism, British hostility to embryonic Arab nationalism, 'war on terror' moral panics, and Islamist revolt. Far from being an enduring remnant of the medieval past, or an essential expression of Muslim identity, Faulkner argues that 'Holy War' was a reactionary response to the violence of modern imperialism.

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ID: 538153

Title: Legacy

Author: Laura Pavlov

Narrator: Amelie Griffin, Nelson Hobbs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:14:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

Ford: I don't have time for distractions.

I have a billion-dollar company to run. A father to grieve. A legacy to fulfill.

Harley DeLuca is not my type. She's snarky. She's stubborn. And she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen-even in her ridiculous grungy tennis shoes.

I can't get enough of her.

Harley: I was a mistake from the moment of conception. The sins of my mother have followed me like a nightmare in a horror flick.

I'm determined to make a life for myself, free of my past. I have three goals. Open a bakery. Keep Gramps safe. And forget that I'm Valentina DeLuca's daughter.

There's no room in my life for a man. Especially an arrogant, condescending jerk like Ford Montgomery. But now he's my business partner. My friend. And if I'm not careful, he just might be-everything.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 539789

Title: Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot

Author: Deborah Sundahl

Narrator: Lexi Evans

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:51:53

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Intimacy & Sex, Psychology

Summary:

The first edition of Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot was meant to raise awareness about the phenomenon of female ejaculation and resurrect a now lost wonder, as well as the mystery surrounding this aspect of female sexuality. The second edition of the book promises to do even more through its mindful approach to awakening the sensations of the G-spot, and in offering a gentler and safer method that Deborah developed to enable a woman to have more control over her ability to ejaculate.

The revision also includes more testimonials from workshop participants, an interview with a sexual healer, and an expanded list of outside references, resources, product makers, and tantra teachers. Sundahl summarizes and explains new information that has come to light regarding the G-spot, paying special attention to the renamed and researched PC muscles, and new 'find, see, and feel' techniques for ejaculating with a partner. She has also added new information to her section on men's role in female ejaculation, updating findings on men's sexual tastes. With its new features meant to enhance Sundahl's original empowering and healing message regarding female sexuality, the second edition of Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot helps listeners appreciate the wonders and healing potential of female ejaculation.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 530216

Title: Horror: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Darryl Jones

Narrator: Gareth Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:35:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that.

Ranging from vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves has made its appearance in everything from Shakespearean tragedies to internet memes. Exploring the key tropes of the genre, including its monsters, its psychological chills, and its love affair with the macabre, this Very Short Introduction discusses why horror stories disturb us, and how society responds to literary and film representations of the gruesome and taboo.

Analyzing the way in which horror has been used throughout history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current generation, Darryl Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying capacity of human nature.

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ID: 521263

Title: Perfect Bind

Author: Dorothy St. James

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Librarian Tru Beckett, ardent defender of the printed word, is about to find out that keeping murder checked out of her beloved library is much harder than she thought . . .

Tru Beckett succeeded in building a secret book room in her now bookless library, where book lovers from lovely Cypress, South Carolina, can rejoice in the printed word. Now she's working hard to maintain the little library downstairs while keeping her 'real job' upstairs in the bookless technology center. The last thing she needs is a mysterious vandal who seems intent on breaking into her secret book-filled sanctuary and creating chaos. The nasty interloper doesn't steal anything, but brutalizes the books, damaging them and knocking them off shelves.

A patron of the secret book room tells Tru that there have been creepy goings-on at the library for years, especially in the basement where the secret book room is located. He's heard rumors of a poltergeist that haunts the library, determined to scare off readers. Tru is certain it's hogwash, but she's at a loss to think of who might be vandalizing the beautiful books she fought so hard to protect. And when a dead body shows up right behind the library, Tru is certain that it's not a ghost but a cold-blooded killer that she and her trusty tabby Dewey Decimal will need to uncover.

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