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Title: The Ancient Underground Wall in Rockwall, Texas

Author: Martin K. Ettington

Narrator: Martin K. Ettington

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 34 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The underground rock wall in Rockwall, Texas has fascinated me for years. I’ve read everything I could online about it. Recently I moved from Los Angeles to Denton, Texas which is only about an hour drive from Rockwall. So I went there and spent an hour with the Rockwall County Museum Curator and learned a lot more about the structure. Was also able to examine and take pictures of the wall section moved from the actual wall and reconstructed outside the museum. In this book I’ve related the history of the wall’s discovery, excavations, interesting items and structures found on or near the wall, and information about possible giants who might have built it. There are a lot of unanswered questions about this structure which still need to be learned. Those questions are listed near the end of this book.

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Title: Reading Confederate Monuments

Author: Maria Seger

Narrator: Mason Jackson

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Contributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret the literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in the contemporary United States.   The literary and cultural studies scholars featured in this collection engage many different archives and methods, demonstrating how to read literal Confederate monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment of literatures that produced and celebrated them. They further explore how to read the literary texts advancing and contesting Confederate ideology in the US cultural imaginary—then and now—as monuments in and of themselves. On top of that, the essays published here lay bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments and counter-monuments—divulging how and what they teach their readers as communal and yet contested narratives—thereby showing why the persistence of Confederate monuments matters greatly to local and national notions of racial justice and belonging. In doing so, this collection illustrates what critics of US literature and culture can offer to ongoing scholarly and public discussions about Confederate monuments and memory. Brought to audio through new AI narrative technology, Reading Confederate Monuments teaches us that even as we remove, relocate, and recontextualize the physical symbols of the Confederacy dotting the US landscape, the complicated histories, cultural products, and pedagogies of Confederate ideology remain embedded in the national consciousness. To disrupt and potentially dismantle these enduring narratives alongside the statues themselves, we must be able to recognize, analyze, and resist them in US life. The pieces in this collection position us to think deeply about how and why we should continue that work.

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Title: The Preventorium: A Memoir

Author: Susan Annah Currie

Narrator: Vanessa Webb

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge for patients of all ages afflicted with the pernicious and contagious disease. Although located on the same medical campus, the preventorium was a separate medical institution for children; no children with TB were admitted in the sixty-year run of the hospital. The name preventorium meant a place of preventing disease as there was a fear of sickly children contracting TB. The Mississippi Preventorium was one of the last, if not the very last, of these special hospitals for children. Now closed, the preventorium housed over three thousand children, including author Susan Annah Currie. In this intimate memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the preventorium. From her arrival in May 1959 at six years old, Currie vividly explores the unique and isolating world that she and children across the country experienced. Her exacting routine, dictated by the nurses and doctors who now acted as her parents, erased the distinction between patients and created both a sense of community among the children and a deep sense of loneliness. From walking silently single file through the cold, narrow halls of the hospital to nurses recording every detail of their bathroom habits to extremely limited visitation from family, Currie's time at the preventorium changed her and those around her, leaving an indelible mark even after their return home. While many of the records from the preventorium have been lost, Currie's memoir opens to readers a lost history largely forgotten. Told in evocative prose, The Preventorium explores Currie's personal trials, both in the hospital and in the echoes of her experiences into adulthood.

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Title: Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life

Author: James Daschuk

Narrator: J.D. Nicholsen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics—the politics of ethnocide—played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald’s “National Dream.” It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book’s influence by leading Canadian historians. Called “one of the most important books of the twenty-first century” by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a “Book of the Year” by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers’ Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others.

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Title: Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers

Author: Emma Christopher Lirette

Narrator: Linda Rigamer Lirette

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In recent years, shrimpers on the Louisiana coast have faced a historically dire shrimp season, with the price of shrimp barely high enough to justify trawling. Yet, many of them wouldn't consider leaving shrimping behind, despite having transferrable skills that could land them jobs in the oil and gas industry. Since 2001, shrimpers have faced increasing challenges to their trade: an influx of shrimp from southeast Asia, several traumatic hurricane seasons, and the largest oil spill at sea in American history. In Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers, author Emma Christopher Lirette traces how Louisiana Gulf Coast shrimpers negotiate land and blood, sea and freedom, and economic security and networks of control. This book explores what ties shrimpers to their boats and nets. Despite feeling trapped by finances and circumstances, they have created a world in which they have agency. Lirette provides a richly textured view of the shrimpers of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, calling upon ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical theory. With evocative, lyrical prose, she argues that in persisting to trawl in places that increasingly restrict their way of life, shrimpers build fragile, quietly defiant worlds, adapting to a constantly changing environment. In these flickering worlds, shrimpers reimagine what it means to work and what it means to make a living.

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Title: [Spanish] - Los días de la Revolución: Una historia de Argentina cuando no era Argentina (1806 - 1820)

Author: Eduardo Sacheri

Narrator: Eduardo Sacheri

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: November 14, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

El primer audiolibro de historia de Eduardo Sacheri. Querido lector: Te preguntarás por qué me pongo a escribir un libro de Historia cuando todos los míos anteriores son ficciones, es decir, historias inventadas. Y es que antes de empezar a escribir ficción estudié Historia. Obtuve mis títulos de profesor y de licenciado y me dediqué durante muchos años a enseñar en la universidad y en escuelas secundarias. De hecho, sigo enseñando. ¿Por qué, además, quise escribir un libro? En las últimas décadas la investigación histórica se ha renovado mucho en la Argentina, con preguntas nuevas y aproximaciones mucho más ricas y diversas que antes. Y sin embargo esos trabajos no han conseguido, en general, abrirse paso en el sentido común más o menos compartido por la sociedad. Al contrario: siguen muy vigentes, en esa 'agenda pública', discursos históricos moralizadores, que no se proponen comprender sino juzgar y que simplifican nuestra perspectiva con anacronismos y visiones épicas que dificultan nuestra posibilidad de entender ese pasado colectivo. Por eso es importante que los que enseñamos Historia hagamos lo posible por facilitar el encuentro entre el trabajo académico más serio y actualizado y la sociedad a la que ese trabajo está destinado. Creo que esa es una de las principales funciones de quienes nos dedicamos a la docencia. En Los días de la Revolución, mi primer libro de Historia, vas a encontrarte con una posible explicación del proceso revolucionario que sacude y derrumba el Virreinato del Río de la Plata entre 1806 y 1820. La Argentina no 'nace' automáticamente de ese proceso. Al contrario: es producto de una larga, accidentada y compleja evolución. Pero es cierto que algunas de las claves de esa construcción hunden sus raíces en esos tiempos revolucionarios, en esas personas, en esas circunstancias y en esas peripecias. Y aquellos años de principios del siglo XIX, cuando el Imperio Español estalla en pedazos, habitan también en nosotros, en lo que somos en el siglo XXI. Este libro es una invitación a explorar juntos esos vestigios cargados de significado. Eduardo Sacheri

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Title: Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present

Author: Mike Cox

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Following on the heels of his magnificent history of the 19th-century Texas Rangers, Mike Cox now traces the Rangers from 1900 to the present. From horseback to helicopter, from rough-and-tumble cattle ranches to boom-and-bust oil fields, and from Prohibition to World War II, Cox brilliantly guides listeners through the modern history of these legendary Texas lawmen.

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Title: An Instrument of War

Author: Martin Hicks

Narrator: Steven Miller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Release date: November 5, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

It is August 1863 and the Confederate Navy Cruiser Palmetto escapes from Charleston harbour to resume her career as a raider, hunting the shipping of the United States. The succeeding months see her range the Atlantic Ocean before facing a wild passage of Cape Horn, as her Captain Thomas Grover steers his ship for the Orient, seeking ever more victims in his mission to cripple the overseas commerce of the enemy. Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire Scotland and began writing after a career in education. “An Instrument of War,” the sequel to “Palmetto,” is his tenth book, all of them set in the war of 1861-65. He is currently working on the third and final book of the “Palmetto” series.

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Title: [Spanish] - Un samurai en la Revolución Mexicana

Author: Carlos Almada

Narrator: Manuel Gorka, Carlos Almada

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

¿Por qué una comunidad japonesa en México asumió riesgos enormes para proteger a la familia Madero en medio de una de las jornadas más sangrientas en la Ciudad de México desde la conquista española? En febrero de 1913, durante la Decena Trágica, el encargado de negocios ad interim de Japón, Horiguchi Kumaichi, acogió, salvó y consoló -con graves riesgos para su vida y la de los suyos- a la esposa, padres y dos hermanas del presidente Francisco I. Madero. En los diarios o crónicas de la época -tanto aliados como adversarios- y en la historiografía mexicana, las menciones a Horiguchi son escasas, por lo que existía un gran misterio sobre las motivaciones de la comunidad japonesa para resguardar a los Madero en una de las jornadas más sangrientas en la capital desde la Conquista española. A partir de los diarios personales de esa época del diplomático nipón, entrevistas con descendientes de las familias Madero y Horiguchi y una amplia investigación documental, Carlos Almada -exembajador de México en Japón- reconstruye esa historia y encuentra en el modesto origen samurái de Horiguchi pistas para entender su misión autoimpuesta de salvamento en nuestro país. Un samurái en la Revolución mexicana tiene el mérito de encontrar un vínculo heroico entre un pasaje olvidado de nuestra historia y una de las tradiciones japonesas más honorables. A lo largo del libro, Almada enriquece ese relato con los lazos antiguos y modernos entre México y Japón y demuestra lo importante que resultó la gesta de Horiguchi, el enviado samurái, en la relación diplomática entre estas dos naciones. En palabras de la crítica: «Carlos Almada hace una auténtica aportación historiográfica al rescatar del olvido —o de la ignorancia— la dignísima actitud del representante japonés Horiguchi Kumaichi durante el cuartelazo de febrero de 1913 en contra del presidente Madero.»-Javier Garciadiego

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Title: The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battle for the Right to Choose

Author: Karin Wells

Narrator: Karin Wells

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Release date: October 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Spring 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of a group of remarkable women who helped bring about abortion reform. The caravan left Vancouver with 17 activists and arrived in Ottawa on May 8th 1970, where over 500 women rallied and shut down parliament. In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan. Three thousand miles later, they “occupied” the prime minister’s front lawn in Ottawa, led a rally of 500 women on Parliament Hill, chained themselves to their chairs in the visitors’ galleries, and shut down the House of Commons, the first and only time this had ever happened. The seventeen were a motley crew. They argued, they were loud, and they wouldn’t take no for an answer. They pulled off a national campaign in an era when there was no social media, and with a budget that didn’t stretch to long-distance phone calls. It changed their lives. And at a time when thousands of women in Canada were dying from back street abortions, it pulled women together across the country.