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ID: 741728

Title: Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History

Author: David J. Jepsen, David J. Norberg

Narrator: Will Tulin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:44:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.

- An engaging look at the themes, events, and people that shaped the Pacific Northwest-Washington, Oregon, and Idaho-from when only Native Peoples inhabited the land through the twentieth century.

- Twelve theme-driven essays covering the human and environmental impact of exploration, trade, settlement, and industrialization in the nineteenth century, followed by economic calamity, world war, and globalization in the twentieth.

- Written by two professors with over twenty years of teaching experience, this work introduces the history of the Pacific Northwest in a style that is accessible, relevant, and meaningful for anyone wishing to learn more about the region's recent history.

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ID: 756278

Title: American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s2020s

Author: Dale Maharidge

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:56

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Americans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this-and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the default answer from society's arbiters was: 'The police wouldn't lie.' Editors steered clear of stories about rape and sexual violence. The word 'homeless' wasn't in common use. The fabric of the middle class had not yet begun fraying.

America of the 2020s is living with cultural shapeshifting rooted in the 1980s. American Doom Loop chronicles the first part of that moving picture, then brings the story forward.

As a newspaper journalist, Dale Maharidge had a front-row seat to this decade. He was in the Philippines during the last days of Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, witnessing the US lose a critical piece of its empire dating to the Spanish-American War; he embedded with a group that was a precursor to the Oath Keepers; and he investigated police, who kept trying to get him fired.

Through it all, Maharidge gained an invaluable view of a complicated decade that offers insight into our society today.

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ID: 717164

Title: Corrigan: The Complete Series

Author: Helen Harper

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The complete boxed set series of the Corrigan novellas. These five thrilling stories retell the events of the Blood Destiny books from the Lord Alpha's point of view.

Corrigan wasn't always the Lord Alpha of the Brethren. And he wasn't always in love with Mackenzie Smith, an alleged werehamster with anger management problems. But he has always been a powerful shapeshifter who faces trouble head-on, no matter what shifter politics or supernatural machinations get in his way. Now his world isn't just filled with magic and mayhem. There's also a considerable amount of fire.

Includes the novellas Corrigan Fire, Corrigan Magic, Corrigan Rage, Corrigan Politics, and Corrigan Lust.

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ID: 756274

Title: Rest of His Days

Author: Pamela Taylor

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:14:17

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

When Sir Guy promised Will's dying mother he'd look after her son, he couldn't imagine where that oath would lead. So, he takes Will on as a man-at-arms for the worst job in England-guarding the deposed king. Will's fondness for making friends in the tavern and for the occasional company of barmaids runs contrary to Guy's personal code of honor-devotion to God and king. But the young man is a competent soldier and well-liked, so Guy settles for the occasional, public admonishment to keep the others from going down what he considers Will's path of dissolution.

Until the night Will does the unforgivable, leaving Guy's honor and his career as a knight in tatters. And leading him to swear another oath to seek retribution from Will for the harm and havoc he created. Harm and havoc that touch not just Sir Guy, but bishops, barons, earls, and even the young king Edward III. An oath that will lead Guy from the Stews of London to Ireland and France, and eventually to the early skirmishes of the looming Hundred Years War. As Guy descends into obsession with the restoration of his honor, Will has finally found a worthy purpose in life and pours every ounce of his cunning and courage into it. Set against the mystery of the death of Edward II of England, this is a tale of power struggles writ both large and small, finding redemption, and the true meaning of honor.

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ID: 764045

Title: Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age

Author: Akshat Rathi

Narrator: Sid Sagar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:50:37

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a reality than Elon Musk, to the Danish students who helped to build the world's longest-operating wind turbine, or the American oil executive building the technology that can reverse climate damages, we meet the people working to scale technologies that are finally able to bend the emissions curve.

Through stories that bring people, policy and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.

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ID: 761353

Title: Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action

Author: Dana R. Fisher

Narrator: Ann Sprinkle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:29:22

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Public Policy

Summary:

We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need?

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action-but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective. Spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Fisher examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. She considers when and how activism is most successful, identifying the importance of creating community, capitalizing on shocking moments, and cultivating resilience. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Saving Ourselves offers timely insights on how social movements can take power back and open windows of opportunity for transformative climate action.

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ID: 753894

Title: Never Dead: A Novel

Author: Joe Scipione

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:37:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

A series of grave robberies in the 1920s go unsolved until reporter Michael Jacobs follows a new thread. His investigation leads him to a small town in the suburbs of Chicago named Elk Hills. While there, he finds out more haunting information than the police ever discovered. But with each interview bringing him closer to the truth, he finds himself becoming a part of the story he was looking to write.

At the same time, wealthy businessman Edmund Creighton organizes a group of equally wealthy families and individuals in the Chicago area to finance illegal experiments in the basement of his mansion. These experiments require the presence of recently dead bodies which the members of the secret society are more than happy to acquire. But by the time these dark secrets are uncovered, it may be too late for Michael, or the truth, to make any difference.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 741629

Title: Among the Gray Lords

Author: D.J. Butler

Narrator: Derek Shoales

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:37

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

HIGH STAKES ADVENTURE AS TWO FRIENDS FIGHT THEIR WAY ACROSS A STRANGE WORLD IN A FAR-FLUNG FUTURE

Sometimes, the real enemies are the friends we make along the way.

An encounter with an old friend becomes tragically fatal, and Indrajit and Fix set out on a high-stakes, high-adrenaline quest across the ancient city of Kish to bring their friend back to life. At each step, the complications and the enemies alike pile up. The mysterious necromancers, the Vin Dalu priests, bind the heroes on an errand that sends them shuttling from one thieves' guild to the next, pitting Indrajit and Fix against the deadly House of Knives and embroiling them in a plot by the giant, wasplike Kattak to take dire revenge on Kish and all its great houses.

Can the heroes save their friend? Can Indrajit and Fix survive? Will Kish itself fall?

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ID: 760502

Title: Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War

Author: Susan E. Lederer

Narrator: Lisa S. Ware

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:19:22

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine, General

Summary:

The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period 'before Tuskegee'-from 1890 to 1940

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced-and hotly debated the ethics of-the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments-benign and otherwise-conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film), Udo Wile's 'dental drill' experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments, which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ, luetin.

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ID: 760512

Title: Botanical Daughter

Author: Noah Medlock

Narrator: Keval Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:41:40

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, LGBTQ+

Summary:

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants-lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition, a strange fungus which shows signs of intellect beyond any plant he's seen, inspires him to attempt a masterwork: true intelligent life from plant matter.

Driven by the glory he'll earn from the Royal Horticultural Society for such an achievement, Gregor ignores the flaws in his plan: that intelligence cannot be controlled; that plants cannot be reasoned with; and that the only way his plant-beast will flourish is if he uses a recently deceased corpse for the substrate.

The experiment-or Chloe, as she is named-outstrips even Gregor's expectations, entangling their strange household. But as Gregor's experiment flourishes, he wilts under the cost of keeping it hidden from jealous eyes. The mycelium grows apace in this sultry greenhouse. But who is cultivating whom?

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