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ID: 157659

Title: Leaving

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Narrator: Amanda Carin, Carin Rudnicki de Cuir Amanda Young Stefan Gabrielle Jud, Gabrielle De Cuir, Judy Young, Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:44

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

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

Summary:

A small-town girl finally has her chance at becoming an actress on Broadway--but can she really give up everything she's ever known?

Bailey Flanigan is finally leaving her small-town home of Bloomington, Indiana, for the adventure of a lifetime: she has gotten a part in a Broadway musical in New York City. She's determined to take advantage of this unbelievable opportunity, but is she really ready to leave family and friends for the loneliness of the big city? And what about Cody, her former boyfriend? His disappearance has her worried about their future and praying that their love can survive.

Cody has been struggling with his own problems. In order to be closer to his mother, who's in prison for a drug charge, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. New friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey.

Love, loneliness, big opportunities, and even bigger decisions put these two young people to the test in the first book in the Bailey Flanigan series. 

- Features members of the popular Baxter family from New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's beloved Redemption series, now streaming online

- Sweet, contemporary Christian romance

- The first installment of The Baxters--Bailey Flanigan series 

- Book 1: Leaving

- Book 2: Learning

- Book 3: Longing

- Book 4: Loving

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ID: 156264

Title: Finishing Well: The Adventure of Life Beyond Halftime

Author: Bob P. Buford

Narrator: Max Bloomquist

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:26:21

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Author Bob Buford called them 'code breakers.' They are people age 40 and older who have pioneered the art of finishing well in these modern times, and who can teach us to do the same, starting today. Buford sought out 60 of these trailblazers--including Peter Drucker, Roger Staubach, Jim Collins, Ken Blanchard, and Dallas Willard--and has recorded their lively conversations in these pages so that they can serve as 'mentors in print' for all of us.

'Twenty years from now,' Buford writes, 'the rules for this second adulthood as a productive season of life may be better known. But for now, we're out across the frontier breaking new ground.'

Buford gives you a chance to sit at the feet of these pioneers and learn the art of finishing well so you can shift into a far more fulfilling life now, no matter your age, and pursue a lasting significance that will be a legacy for future generations.

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ID: 92672

Title: Red on Red: A Novel

Author: Edward Conlon

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

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

Summary:

A gripping debut work of crime fiction, from the author of the bestselling memoir about life as a New York City cop, Blue Blood. (“May be the best account ever written of life behind the badge.” —Time)

 

In Red on Red, Edward Conlon tells the electrifying and suspenseful story of two NYPD detectives, Meehan and Esposito: one damaged and introspective, the other ambitious and unscrupulous. Meehan is compelled by haunting and elusive stories that defy easy resolution, while Esposito is drawn to cases of rough and ordinary combat. A fierce and unlikely friendship develops between them and plays out against a tangle of mysteries: a lonely immigrant who hangs herself in Inwood Hill Park, a serial rapist preying on upper Manhattan, a troubled Catholic schoolgirl who appears in the wrong place with uncanny regularity, and a savage gang war that erupts over a case of mistaken identity.

 

A literary thriller about the twisted dynamic of a successful police partnership—the tests of loyalty, the necessary betrayals, the intersections of life and work—Red on Red tells an unrelenting and exciting story that captures the grittiness, complexity, ironies, and compromises of life on the job.

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ID: 92670

Title: Okay for Now

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:17:41

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-11

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Historical

Summary:

“The Dump” is what Doug Swieteck calls his new home in upstate New York. He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug’s oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him?

But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon’s Birds of America at the local library. His mission will lead him to Lil Spicer, who shows him how to drink a really cold Coke, to Mrs. Windermere, who drags him to a theater opening, and to the customers of his Saturday grocery deliveries, who together will open a world as strange to him as the lunar landscape.

Swieteck, who first appeared in Gary D. Schmidt’s Newbery Honor book The Wednesday Wars, will discover the transforming power of art over disaster in a story about creativity and loss, love and recovery, and survival.

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ID: 93027

Title: Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World

Author: Tina Rosenberg

Narrator: Dana Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:18:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Social Science

Summary:

In the style of The Tipping Point or Freakonomics, a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.

The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. The Haunted Land, her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In Join the Club, she identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure. Her stories of peer power in action show how it has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get top grades in college calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. She tells how creative social entrepreneurs are starting to use peer pressure to accomplish goals as personal as losing weight and as global as fighting terrorism. Inspiring and engrossing, Join the Club explains how we can better our world through humanity's most powerful and abundant resource: our connections with one another.

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ID: 92277

Title: Troubled Man

Author: Henning Mankell

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell’s brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.

On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.

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ID: 92274

Title: Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

Author: Andrea Wulf

Narrator: Antonia Bath

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Military, Home & Garden

Summary:

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation.

Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.

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ID: 92275

Title: Dead by Midnight: A Death on Demand Mystery

Author: Carolyn Hart

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

An exciting new installment in the popular Death on Demand series from multiple award-winner Carolyn Hart.

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ID: 92497

Title: Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

Author: Duncan J. Watts

Narrator: Duncan J. Watts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future. 

Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire to mislead us into believing that we understand more about the world of human behavior than we do; and in turn, why attempts to predict, manage, or manipulate social and economic systems so often go awry.

It seems obvious, for example, that people respond to incentives; yet policy makers and managers alike frequently fail to anticipate how people will respond to the incentives they create. Social trends often seem to be driven by certain influential people; yet marketers have been unable to identify these “influencers” in advance. And although successful products or companies always seem in retrospect to have succeeded because of their unique qualities, predicting the qualities of the next hit product or hot company is notoriously difficult even for experienced professionals.

Watts' argument has important implications in politics, business, and marketing, as well as in science and everyday life.

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ID: 92496

Title: Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India

Author: Joseph Lelyveld

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-11

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, Asia, History & Culture

Summary:

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.

Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows in vivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped on another subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and then tested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma, or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the way to the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emerges as one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperous lawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated to political and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-by-step through the heroic—and tragic—last months of this selfless leader’s long campaign when his nonviolent efforts culminated in the partition of India, the creation of Pakistan, and a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing that ended only with his own assassination.

India and its politicians were ready to place Gandhi on a pedestal as “Father of the Nation” but were less inclined to embrace his teachings. Muslim support, crucial in his rise to leadership, soon waned, and the oppressed untouchables—for whom Gandhi spoke to Hindus as a whole—produced their own leaders.

Here is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi’s extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more than six decades after his death still ensures his place as India’s social conscience—and not just India’s.

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