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ID: 569896

Title: Flashover

Author: Suzanne Chazin

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:37:02

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

As Fire Marshal Georgia Skeehan investigates the deaths of two doctors, both victims of 'flashover' fires and on the board approving 'line of duty' compensation for disabled fire fighters, her whole world is shattered when her boyfriend and fellow marshal Mac Marenko is found murdered in her best friend's apartment.

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ID: 567528

Title: Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice: Third Edition

Author: Geneva Gay

Narrator: Diana Blue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:59:15

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

Geneva Gay is renowned for her contributions to multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, professional learning, and classroom instruction. Gay has made many important revisions to keep her foundational, award-winning text relevant for today's diverse student population, including: new research on culturally responsive teaching, a focus on a broader range of racial and ethnic groups, and consideration of additional issues related to early childhood education. This book demonstrates that all students will perform better on multiple measures of achievement when teaching is filtered through students' own cultural experiences.

While retaining its basic organization and structure, the Third Edition features:

- New research that validates the positive effects of culturally responsive teaching.

- Examples that broaden the racial and ethnic groups that can benefit from culturally responsive teaching.

- More attention to the quality of life for students of color in colleges and universities.

- The addition of Practice Possibilities that describe how culturally responsive teaching can be implemented.

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ID: 574284

Title: Lie Lay Lain

Author: Bryn Greenwood

Narrator: Nikki Zakocs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:34:09

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiance. She's on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer's fiance wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help.

Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she's desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest.

Where Jennifer's promise and Olivia's lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.

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ID: 570998

Title: Biography of the Pixel

Author: Alvy Ray Smith

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:58:14

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Computers, Architecture & Design

Summary:

The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making.

Smith's story of the pixel's development begins with Fourier waves, proceeds through Turing machines, and ends with the first digital movies from Pixar, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky. Today, almost all the pictures we encounter are digital. Smith explains, engagingly and accessibly, how pictures composed of invisible stuff become visible-that is, how digital pixels convert to analog display elements. Taking the special case of digital movies to represent all of Digital Light (his term for pictures constructed of pixels), and drawing on his decades of work in the field, Smith approaches his subject from multiple angles. A Biography of the Pixel is essential reading for anyone who has watched a video on a cell phone, played a videogame, or seen a movie.

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ID: 555649

Title: His Fantasy Bride

Author: Nina Croft

Narrator: Victoria Aston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:02:28

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Summary:

I can't marry you. You don't love me.

Two sentences, that's all Gabrielle Harper left Vito D'Ascensio when she vanished the night before their wedding. If he wants his bride back, he's going to have to hunt her down and prove his love. But when he searches for Gabrielle, he finds Gabby instead; it seems his perfect bride is nothing but a fantasy.

After six months, Gabby presumes it's over, an episode in her life she's totally ashamed of. But now Vito is back. He's the one man she can never have, but as desire explodes between them, she has a tough time remembering why they shouldn't be together. Oh, right, her family hates him, and he's done terrible things. Or has he? But it doesn't matter. When he finds out the truth about who she really is . . . he'll never want to see her again.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 574249

Title: Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation

Author: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Narrator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:23:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, General

Summary:

The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races-and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep emotional work of connecting the abstract intelligence of their mind with their body's intelligence, to explore the relationship between living and becoming, doing and listening.

Combining that deep listening and living with their work in activism, Body, Becoming offers us a way of understanding the body beyond constructions-political or medical-industrial-complex defined-toward cultivating the body as important in our endeavors to build a more inclusive vision for democracy. Mixing memoir and faith, somatics theory and body practice, Henderson-Espinoza steers us through territory both familiar and difficult-as we discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom, where culture shifts originate and materialize-and a better world becomes, as we too become.

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ID: 576013

Title: Take What You Need: Life Lessons after Losing Everything

Author: Jen Crow

Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:17:08

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Jen Crow's transformation was triggered, quite literally, by a bolt of lightning. That jolt, which destroyed her home in a subsequent fire, forced her to consider what she really needed as she looked to rebuild her life.

In Take What You Need, Crow opens new perspectives for all of us looking to understand our past, our unexpected suffering, our failures, so we too can begin charting a course forward-one drawn from resilience and hope. We see with the immediacy of someone who nearly lost it all that our possessions won't carry us. Our responses to the regrets, losses, separations, addictions, and unexpected twists and turns of our lives are shaped by the spiritual values that sustain us and the people who support us.

Crow invites us to explore the expected and unexpected turns our lives can take-and all the ways we can pay attention to what we truly need to survive the painful moments and live lives of meaning. Survival guide, spiritual companion, and a light in the dark, Take What You Need offers hope, humor, and real-life spiritual tools to meet the hardest moments of our lives.

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ID: 558944

Title: Cooper's Choice

Author: Laura Scott

Narrator: Brenda Scott Wlazlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:21:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Separated by tragedy-Reunited by love

Will he choose family or love?

As an artist Cooper Holland instantly notices the beautiful woman going into a church, for the second time in as many days. When a man dressed in black begins to follow her, he instinctively knows something is wrong. Soon, he discovers there are two men after the pretty lady, and is shocked when Mia claims they want to kill her. The rules of witness protection prevent Mia Royce from confiding in Cooper, the attractive artist who has raced to her rescue. Unfortunately, her US Marshal contact isn't answering her calls.

Cooper has the street smarts to help her remain hidden so she reluctantly accepts his help. As the attacks against Mia grow more threatening, she isn't sure how to keep Cooper safe from the men who now want to harm, him, too. Cooper claims he can protect himself, but Mia secretly knows there's a lot at stake. She can't ask Cooper to give up his life, despite the fact he'd already captured her heart. Will Cooper choose his foster family, or her love?

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ID: 574248

Title: Discouraging the Duke

Author: Alexa Aston

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:16:13

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Accused of something they never did. Five boys banished from their homes in disgrace, to the place where they find the brothers of their heart-and build new family ties that will last a lifetime.

A lonely army captain who suddenly finds himself a duke. A gentleman's daughter running an estate because her father no longer can. Two lonely souls whose sparks are undeniable . . .

Miles Notley returns home as the new Duke of Winslow after being sent away for accidentally killing his younger brother when he was ten years old, an act his older brother committed-and denied. He has no idea how to run an estate, much less be a duke.

Emery Jenson came to Wildwood ten years ago with her parents, hired to be the estate's steward and housekeeper. She has taken on more responsibility as her father's mind grows weak and now runs the ducal country seat. When the new duke shows up, she schemes to hide her father's deficiencies, believing the Duke of Winslow won't remain long.

But Miles isn't going anywhere. He decides no one but Emery can be his duchess-if she will only say yes.

Will Emery discover that the best place she can be is at the Duke of Winslow's side?

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ID: 569933

Title: China's Leaders: From Mao to Now

Author: David Shambaugh

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:59:40

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Asia, Global Politics, Social Science

Summary:

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power.

In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders' personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China's modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.

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