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ID: 553002

Title: Pampered to Death

Author: Laura Levine

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:18:18

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

When freelance writer Jaine Austen is surprised with an über-luxe spa getaway, she and her feline pal Prozac are eager to hit the road and bask in a week of pampering and pedicures. But what she gets is a California fat farm in disguise, complete with celery-juice cocktails, humiliating weigh-ins, and a zero-tolerance position on carbs.

Among her bulge-battling companions is Mallory Francis, a B-list movie star with a knack for making frenemies. When she's found strangled during a seaweed wrap gone awry, Jaine is hard-pressed to think of anyone who couldn't have done it. While the suspects mount faster than her hunger pangs, Jaine's search for truth, justice and contraband calories leads her straight to a cold-blooded killer-where murder may be on the menu once again . . .

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ID: 556596

Title: Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League

Author: Britni De La Cretaz, Lyndsey D'arcangelo

Narrator: Kimberly Austin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:37:55

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, Football, Social Science

Summary:

In 1967, a Cleveland businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women's football team? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters. He recruited women to compete as a traveling football troupe; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to playand play hard. Hail Mary is the story of the unlikely rise of the National Women's Football League and the players who loved a game that society told them they shouldn't be playing. In nineteen cities around the country, against the backdrop of second-wave feminism and the passage of Title IX, these athletes broke new barriers and showed adoring crowds what women were capable of physically. Thousands of people came to watchperhaps to gawk at first but then, in the end, to cheer. Hail Mary is a rollicking chronicle of fearless women-players on the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and morebringing us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was conceived, and where it ended. Hail Mary is a celebration of women athletes and their fight on and off the fieldand a powerful story of the league that changed their lives and the course of women's sports.

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ID: 554722

Title: Tales from the Crucible

Author: C L Werner, Cath Lauria, David Guymer, M Darusha Wehm, M K Hutchins, Robbie Macniven, Thomas Parrott, Tristan Palmgren

Narrator: Chelsea Stephens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:31:31

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Take a whirlwind tour to the incredible planet of a million fantasy races, the Crucible, in this wild science fantasy anthology from the hit new game, KeyForge.

Welcome to the Crucible-an artificial planet larger than our sun-an ever-growing patchwork of countless other worlds, filled with creatures, sentient beings and societies stolen from across the universe by the mythical Architects. Across this dizzying juxtaposition of alien biospheres, the enigmatic and godlike Archons seek to unlock the secrets at the heart of the Crucible. Everyone else is just trying to survive . . . Explore ten tales of adventure in a realm where science and magic team up, of discovery and culture clash, featuring mad Martian scientists, cybernetic surgeons, battle reenactors, elven thieves, private investigators, goblins, saurian monsters, and the newly arrived human Star Alliance.

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ID: 553006

Title: Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

Author: Philip Matyszak

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:35:48

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations, Military

Summary:

This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.

The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts.

We might admire their physical toughness, but Spartans also systematically abused their children. They gave rights to female citizens that were unmatched in Europe until the modern era, meanwhile subjecting their conquered subject peoples to a murderous reign of terror. Though idealized by the Athenian contemporaries of Socrates, Sparta was almost devoid of intellectual achievement.

In this revealing history of Spartan society, Philip Matyszak chronicles the rise of the city from a Peloponnesian village to the military superpower of Greece. Above all, Matyszak investigates the role of the Spartan hoplite, the archetypal Greek warrior who was feared throughout Greece in his own day and has since become a legend. The reader is shown the man behind the myth; who he was, who he thought he was, and the environment which produced him.

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ID: 553159

Title: Fear on the Fens

Author: Joy Ellis

Narrator: Henrietta Meire

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:08:53

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

FROM TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS COMES ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MYSTERIES THIS YEAR.

Now.

In the beautiful gardens of Shelley House a shocking discovery is made. A blackened hand dangles over the side of a wheelbarrow. The horrific scent of burnt flesh lingers in the air.

Detectives Nikki Galena and Joseph Easter are called in to investigate.

Twenty years ago.

A family destroyed by tragic secrets. The scientist father who killed their gardener, before being murdered himself. The brother who disappeared, never to be seen again.

Until now?

Nikki and Joseph must find a man who's been missing for two decades and unravel the painful past of a broken family before anyone else dies.

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ID: 552153

Title: Halfhearted Hunter

Author: R.E. Carr, Rick Gualtieri

Narrator: Andrea Emmes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:52:28

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Hell is where the heart is.

For five years my life has been a living breathing hell-literally. Worst of all, I don't remember any of it. We're not talking some vague blackout here, no, this is full-on comic book levels of amnesia. But now I'm back, only to find the whole world managed to survive without me. Some hero I turned out to be.

There's no time to wallow, though, not when I'm surrounded by pissed off dryads and vampires who've somehow figured out how to walk in the sunlight. I'll need to get my head back in the game before they do something stupid, like trigger Armageddon-again.

Thankfully, I'm not alone. With an equally confused former vampire by my side, as well as a baby minotaur and my wizard ex-boyfriend, I'll have to contend with the forces of Hades that are hot on my tail. I've been given a second chance at life. Now to make sure I don't die before I can actually enjoy it.

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ID: 553103

Title: Last Ritual

Author: S.A. Sidor

Narrator: Todd Menesses

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:53

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

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

Summary:

A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror.

Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham's social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr's mock rituals are intended to break through those walls and free what lies beyond. Alden must act, but it might already be too late to save himself, let alone Arkham.

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ID: 553081

Title: Like Wolves on the Fold: The Defense of Rorke's Drift

Author: Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:44:42

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: 'The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold' (Richard Holmes).

On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen recuperating hospital patients were passing a hot, monotonous day. It seemed certain that the Rorke's Drift detachment would share the same fate. And yet, against incredible odds, the British managed to defend their station.

In this riveting history, Colonel Snook brings the insights of a military professional to bear on this fateful encounter at the start of Anglo-Zulu War. It is an extraordinary tale-a victory largely achieved by the sheer bloody-mindedness of the British infantryman. Recounting in detail how the Zulu attack unfolded, Snook demonstrates how 150 men achieved their improbable victory. Snook then describes the remainder of the war, from the recovery of the lost Queen's Colour of the 24th Regiment to the climactic charge of the 17th Lancers at Ulundi. We return to Isandlwana to consider culpability, and learn of the often tragic fates of many of the war's participants.

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ID: 556589

Title: Prose and Cons

Author: Wendy Corsi Staub

Narrator: Anna Caputo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:25:32

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Its been nine months since widowed mom Bella Jordan and her young son Max moved to Lily Dale, the quirky, close-knit New York community populated by people who can speak to the dead if one believes in that kind of thing. Now she counts Valley View, the guesthouse she runs, as home and her psychic medium neighbours as friendseven haughty British Pandora, who used to own Valley View before her difficult divorce. So when Pandora sweeps in, requesting an urgent tête-à-tête, Bella expects it to be another complaint about book club. It isnt. Pandora airily reveals her elderly Auntie Eudora is taking a last-minute cruise from London to New York with her gentleman friend Nigeland minutes later Bella is bemused to find shes agreed to host them at Valley View free of charge. Bella has enough on her plate: her son Max, their two kitties, a budding relationship with local vet Drew not to mention this months book-club pick to read. But when she begins to have suspicions about one of her new guests, shes determined to uncover the truth for Pandoras sakeeven if it kills her first.

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ID: 531887

Title: Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden

Author: Kate Saunders

Narrator: Sasha Higgins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:59

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:

In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs. Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theatre, she cannot turn away the woman in need. She agrees to take the case. But what starts out as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theatre. Soon Mrs. Rodd finds herself embroiled in family politics, rivalries that put the Capulets and Montagues to shame, and betrayals on a Shakespearean scale. Mrs. Rodd will need all her investigative powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more.

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