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ID: 715962

Title: Hate Machine

Author: Stephen Blackmoore

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:22

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The eighth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.

If there's one thing Eric Carter can count on, it's his past coming back to bite him in the ass.

Gabriela Cortez, La Bruja, has had her soul trapped . . . somewhere, and the only one who knows how to get it back is the Oracle of Las Vegas, a powerful artifact that Carter helped create almost thirty years before. It doesn't just predict the future-it makes things happen, influencing events to reach the goal it wants.

Only somebody's gone and stolen it, attempting to turn it into an artifact that doesn't just change the future, but also the past.

Eric needs to find it and steal it back before this comes to pass. If he doesn't, Gabriela's soul is lost. And quite possibly the future as well.

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ID: 741689

Title: Only Exceedingly Shy

Author: Jann Rowland

Narrator: Harry Frost

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:34:21

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Disheartened and convinced by Elizabeth's assertion of Miss Bingley's character, Jane Bennet insists Elizabeth return to London with the Gardiners after Christmas to provide her with a reprieve from their mother, who has not accepted Elizabeth's rejection of Mr. Collins's suit.

What Elizabeth could never have imagined was her chance meeting with Mr. Darcy in London, and even more shocking is his request to introduce her to his sister, Miss Georgiana Darcy. When Elizabeth agrees, she makes the young heiress's acquaintance, immediately understanding Miss Darcy's crippling shyness and her low spirits.

Amid her interactions with Miss Darcy, Elizabeth learns another astonishing fact, that Mr. Darcy looks at her with the eyes of a suitor. Though Elizabeth's world is turned upside down, she learns there is more to Mr. Darcy than she ever thought. She also learns to be wary of the claims of a man who took advantage of her initial dislike for the gentleman.

With her usual fortitude, Elizabeth navigates these shoals, determined to provide friendship to a young girl, learn more about the increasingly intriguing Mr. Darcy, and discover the truth about Mr. Bingley's abandonment of her sister.

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ID: 734674

Title: Hidden Goddess

Author: Marina Finlayson

Narrator: Hollie Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:46

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:

Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Jake, the man of Lexi's dreams, is trapped in the underworld. Only Hades can free him, but Hades is missing, presumably a captive of the shadow shapers. Lexi wants nothing more than to free both of them, but the shadow shapers have hidden their tracks well. She has no idea where to start looking for the missing Lord of the Underworld until a visit to Death himself reveals vital information.

Finally Lexi has a target, but this will be no ordinary rescue mission. In a faraway city, she must face the shadow shapers on their home turf. She is the only hope for Jake and Hades, but there are too many gaping holes in her memory, too many things she doesn't know. And some of them are about to come back to bite her big time.

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ID: 745709

Title: Beguiled

Author: Cyla Panin

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:17:16

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Romance

Summary:

Ella is a seventeen-year-old weaver whose entire livelihood depends on her loom. She dreamed of opening her own shop, but when her father died in debtor's prison, she had to support herself by taking whatever clients she could get. In order to buy supplies, she goes into debt of her own, and when her loom breaks, Ella realizes she needs more help than a repairperson can give her. She, like everyone, has heard about the spirit called the Bean-Nighe who will grant any wish-for a price.

Ella is desperate, so she asks the Bean-Nighe to fix her loom. And it works. The loom is fixed, and she creates beautiful pieces she could have never imagined before. All she has to do is feed the loom a drop of blood each time she weaves-a small price to pay. And when she brings two bolts to a rich client, she meets a mysterious man named Callum and bargains for an invitation to his exclusive party. At that party, he's so mesmerized by her talent he offers Ella a place to live and patronage for her art. It seems like Ella's fortune is finally turning for the better . . . until she begins to notice the loom taking more from her than she offered.

As she becomes entangled in the lives of the city's rich, swept into Callum's allure, and trapped by the Bean-Nighe's magic, Ella must figure out a way to secure her future while she still has a future at all.

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ID: 741591

Title: Murder Marks the Page

Author: Karen Rose Smith

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:47:55

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

New York State's Belltower Landing is a lakeside resort town where tourists spend their summer days boating, floating, and paddle-boarding on the water. It's also the perfect place to cuddle up with a good book and enjoy a cup of tea, courtesy of Tomes & Tea. Owned and operated by Jazzi and her best friend Dawn Fernsby, the book bar is beloved by vacationers and locals alike, but browsers grabbing brews in the off season aren't enough to help them make ends meet.

Between brainstorming social media publicity ideas for the shop and fending off flirtatious men she has no interest in or time for, Jazzi befriends a woman named Brie who has recently made contact with her biological father. As an adopted child herself, Jazzi is more than happy to give Brie emotional support, especially as her wealthy father's wife and children see her as a threat.

But Brie is also looking to start a family of her own. Unfortunately, all the potential princes she's met through a dating app turn out to be frogs. Then, when Brie is found murdered, Jazzi finds herself playing detective. With a list of suspects ranging from jealous half-siblings to less-than-suitable suitors, Jazzi may need to consult some of her shop's bestselling mysteries to help her uncover a killer . . .

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ID: 751958

Title: Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think

Author: Helen De Cruz

Narrator: Lisa S. Ware

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:29:43

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy

Summary:

Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life's most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.

Drawing on the latest psychological insights on emotions, Helen De Cruz argues that wonder and awe are emotional drives that motivate us to inquire and discover new things, and that humanity has deliberately nurtured these emotions in cultural domains such as religion, science, and magic. Tracing how wonder and awe unify philosophy, the humanities, and the sciences, De Cruz provides new perspectives on figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Adam Smith, William James, Rachel Carson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Abraham Heschel. Along the way, she explains how these singular emotions empower us to be open-minded, to experience joy and hope, and to be resilient in the face of personal troubles and global challenges.

Taking inspiration from Descartes's portrayal of wonder as 'that sudden surprise of the soul,' this illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living and preserve the things we find wonderful and valuable in our lives.

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ID: 751976

Title: Awkwardness: A Theory

Author: Alexandra Plakias

Narrator: Patricia Shade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:45:28

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy

Summary:

Awkwardness offers an account of the psychology and philosophical significance of a ubiquitous social phenomenon. Our aversion to awkwardness mirrors our desire for inclusion. This explains its power to influence and silence us: as social creatures, we don't want to mark ourselves as outsiders. As a result, our fear of awkwardness inhibits critique and conversation, acting as an impediment to moral and social progress. Even the act of describing people as 'awkward' exacerbates existing inequities, by consigning them to a social status that gives them less access to the social goods (knowledge, confidence, social esteem) needed to navigate potentially awkward situations.

Awkwardness discusses how we ostracize and punish those who fail to fit into existing social categories; how we all depend on-and are limited by-social scripts and norms for guidance; and how these norms frequently let us down when we need them. But awkwardness has a positive side: it can highlight opportunities for moral and social improvement, by revealing areas where our social norms and scripts fail to meet our needs or have yet to catch up with changing social and moral realities. Awkwardness ultimately underscores the conflict between our moral motivations and our desire for social approval and conformity.

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ID: 753888

Title: Bloom

Author: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrator: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:39:09

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber-from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as 'a storyteller working at the top of her class.'

Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash-precise, pretty, and practically perfect-sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants.

Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she's not the one doing the devouring . . .

Told in lush, delectable prose, this is a deliciously dark tale of passion taking an unsavory turn . . .

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 741704

Title: Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier

Author: Seth Kantner

Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:46:03

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, North America, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, History & Culture

Summary:

'Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.' -Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever

When Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves was published it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous bestseller lists, was critically acclaimed, and won a number of awards.

Seth's nonfiction second book, the memoir Shopping for Porcupine, was even more compelling for many-the same raw details of a homesteading upbringing, but intensely personal. Now, in Swallowed by the Great Land, he once again brings us into his lyrical wilderness existence.

Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author's own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits-a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.

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ID: 770081

Title: Deceitful Lust

Author: Carter Westgate

Narrator: Sonny Swinhart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:17:41

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Deceitful Lust is the story of protagonist Garmin Narzeal, living a a bachelors life in the late 1990's Garmin is ready to pursue a young woman named Lydia. He feels she will be his ticket to becoming a man, and sheding the last retainer of his youth into a new identity. Sadly, for Garmins sake, he finds that the fruit of the eyes is often times rotten at the core. Lydia plays right into Garmin's hand taking him on a night of terror that he will never forget. An innocent party soon becomes the site of a dastardly plan that will forever change his outlook on Good VS Evil. Join Garmin as he goes through the eb and flow of deception, leading to his redemption on the other side.

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