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Title: The Love of A Bad Man

Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Narrator: Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A schoolgirl catches the eye of the future leader of Nazi Germany. An aspiring playwright writes to a convicted serial killer, seeking inspiration. A pair of childhood sweethearts reunite to commit rape and murder. A devoted Mormon wife follows her husband into the wilderness after he declares himself a prophet. The twelve stories in The Love of a Bad Man imagine the lives of real women, all of whom were the lovers, wives, or mistresses of various ‘bad' men in history. Beautifully observed, fascinating, and at times horrifying, the stories interrogate power, the nature of obsession, and the lengths some women will go to for the men they love. ‘A rare combination of immense writing talent and wondrous imagination.' JEFF GUINN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MANSON ‘With each finely tuned voice, Woollett draws empathy from abject horror. A confident and mesmerising performance.' MELANIE JOOSTEN, AUTHOR OF BERLIN SYNDROME ‘A genuinely fresh reading experience . . . we're sure to hear a lot more from this talented writer in coming years.' BOOKS+PUBLISHING

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Title: Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII

Author: Laurence Rees

Narrator: John Hopkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II. He has come face-to-face with rapists, mass murderers, even cannibals, but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all. His quest has taken him from the Baltic States to Japan, from Poland to America, and from Germany to China. Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters. Meet Estera Frenkiel, a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death; Peter Lee, a British officer brutally treated by his Japanese captors; Zinaida Pytkina, a female member of the Soviet Union's infamous SMERSH organisation, who took pleasure in killing a German Prisoner; Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier so fanatical that he refused to surrender until 29 years after the end of the war; and Petras Zelionka, a Lithuanian who shot Jewish men, women and children for the Nazis. The devastating first-hand testimony in Their Darkest Hour is both a lasting contribution to our understanding of the war and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis. © Laurence Rees 2007 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Auschwitz

Author: Laurence Rees

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed. Auschwitz examines the mentality and motivations of the key Nazi decision makers, and perpetrators of appalling crimes speak here for the first time about their actions. Fascinating and disturbing facts have been uncovered - from the operation of a brothel to the corruption that was rife throughout the camp. The book draws on intriguing new documentary material from recently opened Russian archives, which will challenge many previously accepted arguments. This is the story of murder, brutality, courage, escape and survival, and a powerful account of how human tragedy of such immense scale could have happened. © Laurence Rees 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

Author: Laurence Rees

Narrator: Barnaby Edwards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Release date: July 30, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply swapped the rule of one tyrant, Adolf Hitler, for that of another: Joseph Stalin. Why this happened has remained one of the most troubling questions of the entire conflict, and is at the heart of Laurence Rees' dramatic book. In World War II: Behind Closed Doors, Rees provides an intimate 'behind the scenes' history of the West's dealings with Joseph Stalin - an account which uses material only available since the opening of archives in the East as well as new testimony from witnesses from the period. An enthralling mix of high politics and the often heart-rending personal experiences of those on the ground, it will make you rethink what you believe about World War II. © Laurence Rees 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

Author: Anne Applebaum

Narrator: Anne Applebaum

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too. Anne Applebaum traces a familiar history in an unfamiliar way, looking at the trajectories of individuals caught up in the public events of the last three decades. When politics become polarized, which side do you back? If you are a journalist, an intellectual, a civic leader, how do you deal with the re-emergence of authoritarian or nationalist ideas in your country? When your leaders appropriate history, or pedal conspiracies, or eviscerate the media and the judiciary, do you go along with it? Twilight of Democracy is a new kind of political writing, an essay that mixes the personal and the political and brings a fresh understanding to the dynamics of public life in Europe and America, both now and in the past. © Anne Applebaum 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs

Author: Peter Andreas

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

In his path-breaking Killer High, Peter Andreas shows how six psychoactive drugs—ranging from old to relatively new, mild to potent, licit to illicit, natural to synthetic—have proven to be particularly important war ingredients. This sweeping history tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Beer and wine drenched ancient and medieval battlefields, and the distilling revolution lubricated the conquest and ethnic cleansing of the New World. Tobacco became globalized through soldiering, with soldiers hooked on smoking and governments hooked on taxing it. Caffeine and opium fueled imperial expansion and warfare. The commercialization of amphetamines in the twentieth century energized soldiers to fight harder, longer, and faster, while cocaine stimulated an increasingly militarized drug war that produced casualty numbers surpassing most civil wars. As Andreas demonstrates, armed conflict has become progressively more drugged with the introduction, mass production, and global spread of mind-altering substances. As a result, we cannot understand the history of war without including drugs, and we similarly cannot understand the history of drugs without including war.

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Title: Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World

Author: R. Alan Covey

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Release date: July 21, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the 'Cajamarca miracle'—in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands—demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority. Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and transformation of the Inca realm. R. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two civilizations. Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the worldviews of those on each side of the conflict. The survivors built colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy or the enduring supernatural power of the Andean landscape. Covey's rich new history, based on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the pre–Columbian Americas.

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Title: Charleston's Daughter

Series: #1 of Low Country

Author: Sabra Waldfogel

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

A Charleston belle with slavery on her conscience. A slave with rebellion in her heart. In South Carolina in 1858, no friendship could be more dangerous. Caro Jarvie's father, who owns her, loves her and educates her. He raises her for a life she can never have—as a wealthy planter's daughter. When he dies, he can't protect her, and she is cast back into slavery. But she can't forget her father's promise. As she grieves for him, she yearns for freedom. Emily Jarvie, daughter of a wealthy planter, is content with slavery—until she inherits a slave cousin in Caro. Her conscience goads her into an act of charity. She gives Caro a shawl. She is shocked—and transformed—when Caro has the audacity to ask her for a book instead. Unlikely cousins, unlikely friends, Emily and Caro become unlikely allies as Caro glimpses a path to freedom and Emily begins to question slavery itself. As South Carolina hurtles toward secession, will their bond destroy their lives—or set them both free?

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Title: Apollo 11: An AP Special Anniversary Edition

Author: The Associated Press

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

HOW AMERICA WON THE RACE TO THE MOON! In this fascinating history of the Apollo 11 mission, the Associated Press chronicles America's journey to the moon. In 1957 the Soviet Union sent Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into space. America took up the challenge to explore the next frontier. A dozen years, and 25 billion dollars later, the mission of Apollo 11 would yield man's finest hour. For that was the first time man's foot left prints on another heavenly body. And that was only the beginning. Apollo 11 is the incredible story of how a nation forged the technology during the turbulent 1960s to slip humanity from the bonds of its native planet. This inside look remembers those who made the great enterprise succeed. The achievement of the astronauts, especially Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, was more than a victory for the United States; it was a triumphant moment for all mankind. And no other moment will seem as big until we reach beyond the moon for other planets, other stars.

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Title: The Secular Enlightenment

Author: Margaret Jacob

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: July 14, 2020

Genres: World

Publisher's Summary:

The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. Margaret Jacob reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. She takes listeners from London and Amsterdam to Berlin, Vienna, Turin, and Naples, drawing on rare archival materials to show how ideas central to the emergence of secular democracy touched all facets of daily life. Human frailties once attributed to sin were now viewed through the lens of the newly conceived social sciences. People entered churches not to pray but to admire the architecture, and spent their Sunday mornings reading a newspaper or even a risqué book. A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of eighteenth-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.