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ID: 552348

Title: Maybe Someone Like You

Author: Stacy Wise

Narrator: Piper Goodeve

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:09

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, New Adult

Summary:

'This sweet new adult book is sure to leave you with a smile on your face.'-USA Today bestselling author Cindi Madsen

Katie Capwell is a bright and accomplished recent law school graduate, and she has her shiny future all mapped out. It's brimming with courtroom victories and creating change. Ryan Brincatt is a tattooed and impossibly cool martial artist, and he's mastered a fierce roundhouse kick.

Their paths never should have crossed.

But when Katie lurks outside the kickboxing gym where Ryan works as a trainer, she's immediately drawn to his casual confidence and playful green eyes. Without making her usual list of pros and cons, she impulsively signs up to train with him.

She never imagined that one decision would change. Absolutely. Everything.

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ID: 555672

Title: Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Author: Keith Wailoo

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:46

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science

Summary:

Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as 'the best place to buy menthols.' Black smokers overwhelmingly prefer menthol brands such as Kool, Salem, and Newport. All of this is no coincidence. The disproportionate Black deaths and cries of 'I can't breathe' that ring out in our era-because of police violence, COVID-19, or menthol smoking-are intimately connected to a post-1960s history of race and exploitation.

In Pushing Cool, Keith Wailoo tells the intricate and poignant story of menthol cigarettes for the first time. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden persuaders who shaped menthol buying habits and racial markets across America: the world of tobacco marketers, consultants, psychologists, and social scientists, as well as Black lawmakers and civic groups including the NAACP. Today most Black smokers buy menthols, and calls to prohibit their circulation hinge on a history of the industry's targeted racial marketing. In 2009, when Congress banned flavored cigarettes as criminal enticements to encourage youth smoking, menthol cigarettes were also slated to be banned. Through a detailed study of internal tobacco industry documents, Wailoo exposes why they weren't and how they remain so popular with Black smokers.

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ID: 553076

Title: Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West

Author: Gary B. Fogel

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:02:24

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, North America, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

With a reputation as the hot-air balloon capital of the world and the home of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the southwestern desert city of Albuquerque frequently showcases the magic and adventure of ballooning. This legacy links back to the 1880s and a man by the name of Park Van Tassel. Through his pioneering flight, Van Tassel not only opened the skies to future generations across New Mexico, but he also opened minds to the possibility of manned flight throughout the American West.

A charismatic, P. T. Barnum-like showman, Van Tassel rose from obscurity to introduce the new science of ballooning and parachuting throughout the West. Van Tassel toured extensively-from California to Utah, Colorado, and Louisiana and later embarking on an international journey that took him to Hawaii, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond. Sky Rider weaves together the many threads of Van Tassel's extraordinary life journey, situating him at last in his rightful place among the prominent aerial exhibitionists of his time.

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ID: 545863

Title: City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

Author: Otto Friedrich

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:57:22

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development

Summary:

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profitable.

In this masterful work of cultural history, the legendary Otto Friedrich tells the story of Hollywood's heyday and decline in a vivid narrative featuring an all-star cast of the actors, writers, musicians, composers, producers, directors, racketeers, labor leaders, journalists, and politicians who played major parts in the movie capital during the turbulent decade from World War II to the Korean War.

Friedrich draws on sources from celebrity biographies to trade-union history, mingling lively gossip with analysis of Hollywood's seedier business dealings and telling the stories of legendary movies such as Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, and All About Eve.

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ID: 544105

Title: Hard Compromise

Author: Samanthe Beck

Narrator: Meghan Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:09:30

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

Laurie Peterson assumes her impulsive one-night stand with sinfully sexy Sheriff Ethan Booker is the biggest surprise of the year . . . until her bakery burns down while she's basking in the afterglow. It looks like her dreams are up in smoke, but then Ethan proposes a deal too tempting to resist.

Ethan has no intention of settling for a one-night stand with Laurie. Nor does he want anything to do with the women his wealthy family wants him to meet. Not when he's waited ten years for his chance to make his move. His deal might have strings-and Laurie may not know the stakes-but nothing will stop this sexy cop from staking a real claim on her body and her heart.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 552454

Title: Lamentations: A Novel of Women Walking West

Author: Carol Kammen

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:41:32

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Fiction, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen provides an interpretation of the women's thoughts and feelings as events played out in and around the wagons heading west.

In this novel the men are in the background-and we hear the women ponder the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native Americans they encounter, and their changing roles. Lamentations is about women's reality as wives or unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as explorers of the land.

Kammen gives voice to these women as they consider a strange new land and the people who inhabit it, mulling over what they, as women of their time, could not say aloud. They face the difficulties of the road, the slow trust that builds between some of them, and the oddities of the men with whom they travel. These women move from silent witnesses within a constrained gender sphere to articulate observers of a complicated world they ultimately helped to shape.

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ID: 557334

Title: Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart

Author: Nancy L. Segal

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:32:53

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Science & Technology, Medicine, Psychology

Summary:

In the early 1960s, the head of a prominent New York City Child Development Center and a psychiatrist from Columbia University launched a study designed to track the development of twins and triplets given up for adoption and raised by different families. The controversial and disturbing catch? None of the adoptive parents had been told that they were raising a twin-the study's investigators insisted that the separation be kept secret. Here, Nancy Segal reveals the inside stories of the agency that separated the twins, and the collaborating psychiatrists who, along with their cadre of colleagues, observed the twins until they turned twelve.

Interviews with colleagues, friends, and family members of the agency's psychiatric consultant and the study's principal investigator, as well as a former agency administrator, research assistants, journalists, ethicists, attorneys, and-most importantly-the twins and their families who were unwitting participants in this controversial study, are riveting. Through records, letters, and other documents, Segal further discloses the investigators' attempts to engage other agencies in separating twins, their efforts to avoid media exposure, their worries over informed consent issues in the 1970s, and the steps taken toward avoiding lawsuits while hoping to enjoy the fruits of publication.

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ID: 552430

Title: Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicolas II

Author: Coryne Hall, John Van der Kiste

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:08

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Russia

Summary:

This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution.

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ID: 544084

Title: Werewolf Wears Prada

Author: Kristin Miller

Narrator: Samantha Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:48:14

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Paranormal

Summary:

Falling in love bites . . .

Melina Rosenthal worships at the altar of all things fashion. Her dream is to work for the creme de la creme fashion magazine, Eclipse, and she'll do much anything to get there. Even fixing up the image of a gorgeous, sexy public figure who's all playboy, all the time. Even if he's the guy who broke her heart a year ago . . .

Even if Hayden Dean is a werewolf.

Since his father's death, Hayden's the heir apparent to the San Francisco Wolf Pack-well, once he settles down. Hayden isn't interested in giving up his partying ways, except he's pretty sure he's found his fated mate, and the fact that she's a non-shifter is bad news. Now he must find a compromise between the traditions of his wolf world and his certainty that Melina is his . . . before fate (or another werewolf) bites them both in the butt.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 552467

Title: DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible

Author: Allan V. Horowitz

Narrator: Rich Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:18:16

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Health & Wellness, North America, Science & Technology, Medicine, Mental Health

Summary:

The first comprehensive history of 'psychiatry's bible'-the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder. Its nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the diagnoses that patients receive, students are taught, researchers study, insurers reimburse, and drug companies promote. Although the manual is portrayed as an authoritative corpus of psychiatric knowledge, it is a product of intense political conflicts, dissension, and factionalism. The manual results from struggles among psychiatric researchers and clinicians, different mental health professions, and a variety of patient, familial, feminist, gay, and veterans' interest groups. The DSM is fundamentally a social document that both reflects and shapes the professional, economic, and cultural forces associated with its use.

In DSM, Allan V. Horwitz examines how the manual, known colloquially as 'psychiatry's bible,' has been at the center of thinking about mental health in the United States since its original publication in 1952.

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