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ID: 61627

Title: Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition

Author: Rick Reilly

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:52:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, General Comedy

Summary:

The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.

What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey—with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana—to discover the answer to this enduring question.

From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).

These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winning—even when the victory in question might strike some as pointless, like the ability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It's debatable whether these sports push the body or just human idiocy to the outermost limits, but one thing is for sure: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and will deliver plenty of unabashed fun.

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ID: 61622

Title: Indivisible: A Novel

Author: Kristen Heitzmann

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

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

Summary:

An inseparable bond. An insatiable force.

Battling his own personal demons, Police Chief Jonah Westfall knows the dark side of life and has committed himself to eradicating it. When a pair of raccoons are found mutilated in Redford, Colorado, Jonah investigates the gruesome act, knowing the strange event could escalate and destroy the tranquility of his small mountain town. With a rising drug threat and never-ending conflict with Tia Manning, a formidable childhood friend with whom he has more than a passing history, Jonah fights for answers—and his fragile sobriety.

But he can’t penetrate every wound or secret—especially one fueled by a love and guilt teetering on madness.

From best-selling author Kristen Heitzmann comes a spellbinding tale of severed connections and the consequences of life lived alone.

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ID: 61788

Title: Worst Laid Plans at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Author: Alexandra Lydon, Laura Kindred

Narrator: Alexandra Lydon, Casey Wilson, Laraine Newman, Maddow , Mary Lynn Rajskub, Suz , Tymberlee Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody

Summary:

“When bad sex happens to good people, there is no recourse like full disclosure,” is the motto of Worst Laid Plans, a comedy show staged at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the highly influential comedy organization co-founded by Amy Poehler. True stories of terrible sex imparted by the brave survivors who lived to tell, Worst Laid Plans is part Vagina Monologues, part car crash, and wholly hilarious. From 'Trapped in the Closet' to 'IncogNEGRO' to 'The Farting Rapist,' this hour-long epic features recordings from live shows in Los Angeles and New York City, including performances by Laraine Newman (Original cast “SNL”), Mary Lynn Rajksub (“24”), Casey Wilson (“SNL”), and other performers who shamelessly take the mic to reveal all. Created by Alexandra Lydon and Laura Kindred, Worst Laid Plans premiered in 2007 and continues to play to sold out audiences to this day. 

 

Never was humor so dry.

The performers you hear on this audio are not victims, but by and large the architects of their own misfortune. Because of that, a couple have chosen to remain pseudonymous. Others were more brave.

Tymberlee Hill (“IncogNEGRO”), “Suz” (“Trapped in the Closet”), Alexandra Lydon (“The Farting Rapist”), Laura Kindred (“You Bet Your Ass”), Casey Wilson (“Rub a Dub Dub, Thanks for the… Nub?”), Laraine Newman (“Beef Stroganoff”), Mary Lynn Rajskub (“My Fast Boyfriend”),  “Maddow” (“Tunnel to Nowhere”)

 

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ID: 154970

Title: Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics

Author: Kenman L. Wong, Scott Rae

Narrator: John Pruden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Business & Economics, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Business Development

Summary:

Integrity is essential to Judeo-Christian business ethics. But todays business environment is complex. Those in business, and those preparing to enter the business world, need to grapple with the question of how integrity and biblical ethics can be applied in the workplace. They need to go beyond integrity in their thinking.Beyond Integrity is neither excessively theoretical nor simplistic and dogmatic. Rather, it offers a balanced and pragmatic approach to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and real-life case studies further help the reader grapple with ethical dilemmas. The authors conclude each chapter with their own distinctly Christian commentary on the topic covered.This second edition includes recent issues that have surfaced in todays constantly changing business culture. Revisions include: Ethical implications of information technology, biotechnology, and other important new issues Reflections on recent court cases that shape the moral discussion Shorter text with increased accessibility to the reader With the goal of helping readers arrive at their own conclusions, this book provides a decision-making model. Beyond Integrity equips men and women to develop a biblically based approach to the ethical challenges of twenty-first century business.

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ID: 61634

Title: Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

Author: Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity, World Religions, Women

Summary:

A moving and inspirational true story of one woman’s life after fleeing the ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect featured in Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey—from the New York Times bestselling author of Escape

 

“Triumph is thoughtful, intelligent, and engaging.”—Meg Wolitzer, bestselling author of The Interestings

 

In 2003, Carolyn Jessop, a lifelong member of the extremist Mormon sect the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), gathered up her eight children, including her profoundly disabled four-year-old son, and escaped in the middle of the night to freedom. After detailing the shocking conditions of FLDS and her harrowing flight in her memoir, Escape, Carolyn reveled in her newfound identity as a bestselling author, a devoted mom, and a loving companion to the wonderful man in her life. She thought she had put her past firmly behind her. 

Then, on April 3, 2008, it came roaring back when the state of Texas, acting on a tip from a young girl who’d called a hotline alleging abuse, staged a surprise raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a sprawling, 1700-acre compound near Eldorado, Texas, where the jailed FLDS  “prophet” Warren Jeffs had relocated his sect’s most “worthy” members three years earlier. The ranch was being run by Merril Jessop, Carolyn’s ex-husband and one of the cult’s most powerful leaders. As a mesmerized nation watched the crisis unfold, Carolyn was called upon as an expert to help authorities understand the customs and beliefs of the extremist religious sect.

 

In Triumph, Carolyn tells the real, harrowing story behind the raid and sets the record straight on much of the damaging misinformation that flooded the media in its aftermath. She recounts the setbacks and the successes, all while weaving in details of her own life in the years since her escape—including her budding role as a social critic and her struggle to make peace with her eldest daughter’s heartbreaking decision to return to the cult.

 

An extraordinary woman who has overcome countless challenges and tragedies in her life, Carolyn shows us in this book how she has triumphed in spite of everything—and how you can, too, no matter what adversity you face.

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ID: 61625

Title: Two Brides Too Many: A Novel, The Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek Book 1

Author: Mona Hodgson

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Historical Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed west—away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the boisterous, booming mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado to start new lives for themselves as mail-order brides.

 

Aboard the train, romantic dreamer Nell carries a photo of her intended close to her heart and imagines an exciting and love-filled future, while her pragmatic older sister Kat resigns herself to marriage as a duty, not a delight.

 

But when the ladies disembark at the train depot, neither fiancé Patrick Maloney or Judson Archer awaits them with open arms. The well-bred Sinclair sisters find themselves unexpectedly alone in the wild, frontier town—a place where fire threatens to reduce the buildings to rubble, the working women strut the streets, rogues will gamble for the shoes on one’s feet, and God’s grace is found amongst the most unlikely of folks.

 

Two sisters,

Two missing misters,

A shocking welcome to the wild west that leaves both Kat and Nell Sinclair questioning their dreams­ and the hope for true love.

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ID: 159357

Title: Edge of Apocalypse: A Joshua Jordan Novel

Author: Craig Parshall, Tim LaHaye

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:05:43

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-10

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

A former war hero designs a weapon the whole world is trying to get their hands on. As world events show signs of the apocalypse, what price will he pay to save his country? From the co-author of the renowned Left Behind series, this epic story chronicles the unfolding end of the world.

Joshua Jordan, former US spy-plane hero now turned weapons designer, has come up with a devastatingly effective new missile defense system—the Return to Sender laser weapon. But global forces are mounting against America, and corrupt White House and Capitol Hill leaders are willing to do anything to stop the nation’s impending economic catastrophe—including selling out Joshua and his weapon.

With help from a group of powerfully connected Christian leaders known as the Patriots, Jordan works to save the nation from economic moral collapse—and to clear his name. As the world events begin setting the stage for the “end of days,” Jordan must consider the personal price to pay if he is to save the nation he loves.

From New York Times best-selling author Tim LaHaye, creator and co-author of the world-renowned Left Behind books, and Craig Parshall, this epic story chronicles the earth-shattering events leading up to the Apocalypse foretold in Revelation.

- Futuristic Christian suspense

- The first installment of The End series

- Book 1: Edge of Apocalypse

- Book 2: Thunder of Heaven

- Book 3: Brink of Chaos

- Book 4: Mark of Evil

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ID: 289625

Title: Betsy Ross and the Making of America

Author: Marla R. Miller

Narrator: Dana Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, North America, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman behind the flag.

Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creator of “the first flag,” Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative and thoughtful work provides a close look at the famous seamstress, and along the way delivers an epic depiction of the tensions that animated life in Revolutionary Philadelphia. At the same time, Miller casts new light on the lives of the hardworking artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its furniture, clothing, ships, and homes.

This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative will be the definitive volume for years to come.

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ID: 61716

Title: Last Chance

Author: Christy Reece

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Romance, General, Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

Passion is their most dangerous move

Never say die

 

McKenna Sloan saved Lucas Kane’s life and then vanished. Lucas moved mountains trying to find her again, and finally McKenna relented—for one fleeting night. The truth is, McKenna’s life is all about the dark, deception-filled world of Last Chance Rescue, and for her, there’s no hope of love or Lucas. But fate, and Lucas’s determination, soon change everything. A kidnapped young woman, a lure to out a killer and the fierce need to bring a criminal to justice combine for one explosive event. For a woman who specializes in staying away from relationships and staying in the heart of danger, this is the most impossible mission of all. Because the odds are deadly, and the passion won’t die.

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ID: 61713

Title: Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945

Author: Max Hastings

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-10

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Military

Summary:

A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before.

Beginning in 1940, when popular demand elevated Churchill to the role of prime minister, and concluding with the end of the war, Hastings shows us Churchill at his most intrepid and essential, when, by sheer force of will, he kept Britain from collapsing in the face of what looked like certain defeat. Later, we see his significance ebb as the United States enters the war and the Soviets turn the tide on the Eastern Front. But Churchill, Hastings reminds us, knew as well as anyone that the war would be dominated by others, and he managed his relationships with the other Allied leaders strategically, so as to maintain Britain’s influence and limit Stalin’s gains.

At the same time, Churchill faced political peril at home, a situation for which he himself was largely to blame. Hastings shows how Churchill nearly squandered the miraculous escape of the British troops at Dunkirk and failed to address fundamental flaws in the British Army. His tactical inaptitude and departmental meddling won him few friends in the military, and by 1942, many were calling for him to cede operational control. Nevertheless, Churchill managed to exude a public confidence that brought the nation through the bitter war.

Hastings rejects the traditional Churchill hagiography while still managing to capture what he calls Churchill’s “appetite for the fray.” Certain to be a classic, Winston’s War is a riveting profile of one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.

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