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ID: 506693

Title: Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth

Author: Dave Seminara

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:22:16

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the worlds most traveled people reach the planets last untouched frontiers; instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly lesson on the perils of wanderlust.

At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the worlds best traveled person. The billionaire heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the worlds most challenging destinationswar torn cities, disputed territories, and remote or officially off-limits islands at the margins of the map. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel by finding ingenious ways to bring the worlds most widely traveled people to difficult-to-reach and forbidden places. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning signs that William Baekeland wasnt who they thought he was.

Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth delves deep inside the subculture of country collecting, taking readers to danger zones like Mogadishu and geographical oddities like Norways nearly impossible-to-reach Bouvet Island. Along the way, this raucous tale of adventure and international intrigue illuminates the perils and pleasures of wanderlust while examining a fundamental question: why are some people compelled to travel, while others are content to stay home? Mad Travelers is a perceptive and at times hilarious account of how the pursuit of everywhere put the worlds greatest travelers at the mercy of a brilliant young con man.

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ID: 500499

Title: Crongton Knights

Author: Alex Wheatle

Narrator: Michael Ajao

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:57:51

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Living on the South Crongton council estate has its worriesand life for McKay has been even tougher since his mum died. His dad has been working all hours to

keep the bailiffs from their door. His brother is always out riding the streets at night, tempting trouble. And now, having strayed off his turf on a heroic (if

misguided) mission to help out a girl, McKay finds himself facing a friends crazy ex-boyfriend, some power-tripping hood-rats and a notoriously violent gangster

with a vendetta which hits too close to home. Poor McKay. He never asked for trouble But during one madcap night of adventure and danger, he will find out who his true friends are and what it means to stick with your family.

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ID: 506705

Title: Rendezvous with God: Rendezvous with God Volume One

Author: Bill Myers

Narrator: Bill Myers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:32:52

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

The best of Jesus Calling and The Shack with a touch of humor underlining Gods desire for intimate friendship.

A reclusive professors life is turned upside down when his impulsive, fourteenyear-old niece decides to live with him. To make matters worse, he begins slipping

back into Gospel times for off-the-record discussions with Jesus Christ. Soon he realizes the conversations tie directly into the drama and bitter-sweet comedy of

his own life. Myers has created angst-filled, lovable characters who reach realworld solutions in the midst of their strugglesnot always the way they hope.

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ID: 501061

Title: On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

Author: Jaime Jo Wright

Narrator: Leah Horowitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Foxglove Manor would twist its way into your soul until one day it owned you, and it called to you, and it didn't cease haunting you until you came back.

In 1885, Adria Fontaine has been sent away from her home to recover goods her malevolent father pirated on the Great Lakes during the Civil War. Hoping to find freedom away from her father, Adria arrives at Foxglove Manora stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superiorbut senses only wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life.

Centuries later, Kailey Gibson takes on a position as a nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Abducted as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and death, overshadowed by the chilling threat from her kidnappers that they may return. When the residents of Foxglove start sharing stories of whispers in the night, hidden treasure, and a love willing to kill, it becomes clear this home is far from a haven.

As the sinister mysteries of Foxglove Manor haunt two women separated by time, they will have to risk it all to banish the past's demonsincluding their own.

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ID: 512455

Title: Best Laid Plans

Author: Gwen Florio

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:03:11

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

In the first of a new mystery series, we meet Nora Best as she flees her old life, cheating husband and all, and takes to the road with an Airstream trailer.

Nora Best is the envy of her friends. She's just turned fifty and has traded in her home with The Perfect-Ass Husband for an Airstream trailer and an adventure of a lifetime across the US.

But during their leaving party, Nora finds her husband in a compromising position with a friend. Storming out of the party she jumps into her truck with no idea how to tow the Airstream or where she's going.

Nora ends up in a campground in the mountains of Wyoming, drowning her sorrows with its managers, Brad and Miranda. When she is woken by a frantic Miranda after Brad has disappeared and bloodstains have been found around the campsite, Nora finds herself caught up in an adventure she could never have expected . . . facing a charge of murder.

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ID: 506698

Title: Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War

Author: Jeff Shesol

Narrator: Jim Frangione

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:37:53

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, North America, Science & Technology, History & Culture, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.

If the United States couldnt catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War?a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival?and America was losing.

On February 20, 1962, when John Glenn blasted into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his mission was not only to circle the planet; it was to calm the fears of the free world and renew Americas sense of self-belief. Mercury Rising re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon. Drawing on new archival sources, personal interviews, and previously unpublished notes by Glenn himself, Mercury Rising reveals how the astronauts heroics lifted the nations hopes in what Kennedy called the 'hour of maximum danger.'

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ID: 501057

Title: Fancy Pants

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrator: Nicole Poole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:32:15

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:

She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europes jet-set playgrounds. Now shes broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown. Hes a tall, lean Texan whos sure to regret stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett. Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is the adventure of a lifetime.

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ID: 497494

Title: Marathon War: Leadership in Combat in Afghanistan

Author: Jeffrey Schloesser

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

From Major General Jeffrey Schloesserformer Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-Eastcomes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.

Join Major General Schloesser in the daily grind of warfare fought in the most forbidding of terrain, with sometimes uncertain or untested allies, Afghan corruption and Pakistani bet hedging, and the mounting casualties of war which erode and bring into question Schloessers most profoundly held convictions and beliefs. Among several battles, Schloesser takes readers deep into the Battle of Wanat, where nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fierce, up-close fight to prevent a new operating base from being overrun. This encounter required Schloesser to make tactical decisions that had dramatic strategic impact, and led him to doubts: Can this war even be won? If so, what will it take?

This book is a rare insight and reflection into the thoughts of critical national decision-makers including President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, then Senator Barack Obama, and numerous foreign leaders including Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Key military leadersincluding then Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, then Central Command Commanding General David Petraeus, then Lieutenant General and future Chairman Martin Dempsey, and International Security Force Commander General David McKiernanall play roles in the book, among many others, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley and Army Chief of Staff General James McConville. Analyzing their leadership in the chaos of war Schloesser ultimately concludes that successful leadership in combat is best based on competence, courage, and character.

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ID: 497482

Title: After Francesco

Author: Brian Malloy

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:44

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

From acclaimed author Brian Malloy comes a stunning novel of love, friendship, and surviving the deepest loss, set in New York City and Minneapolis in 1988, at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

Two years after his partner, Francesco, died, twenty-eight-year-old Kevin Doyle is dusting off his one good suit jacket for yet another funeral, yet another loss in their close-knit group. They had all been young, beautiful, and living the best days of their lives, though they didnt know it. That was before New York City began to feel like a war zone, its horrors somehow invisible, and ignored by the rest of the world.

Some people might insist that Francesco is in a better place now, but Kevin definitely isnt. He spends his days in a mind-numbing job and his evenings drunk in Francescos old apartment, surrounded by memories. Francesco made everything look easy, and without him, Kevin struggles to keep going. And then one night, he stops trying. When Kevin awakens in a hospital, he knows its time to move back home to Minnesota and figure out how to start living again without Francesco. With the help of a surviving partners support group and old and new friends, Kevin slowly starts to do just that. But an unthinkable family betrayal, and the news that his best friend is fighting for his life in New York, will force a reckoning and a defining choice.

Drawing on his experience as part of the AIDS generation, Brian Malloy brings authenticity, insight, sensitivity, and humor to a story that is distinct yet universal in its powerful exploration of heartbreak and recovery, and the ways in which love can defy grief.

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ID: 501062

Title: Hard Reboot

Author: Django Wexler

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

'You're finished. The house owns you now.'

Kas is a junior academic on a research mission to Old Earth. When a con artist tricks her into wagering a huge sum of money she doesnt have on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of Old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights.

Is it time to get back to the books yet?

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