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ID: 636197

Title: Deception and Desire

Author: Aubrey Wynne

Narrator: Allie Rose

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:16:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Two rebellious souls . . . An innocent deception . . . One scorching catastrophe . . .

Fenella Franklin is too tall, too intelligent, and has no title. Her talents lie in numbers and a keen business mind, not in the art of flirtation. When she becomes the object of a cruel wager during her come-out in London, she vows to put off the penniless noblemen vying for her sizeable dowry. But her season is cut short after her mother discovers the subterfuge, and Fenella retreats to Scotland.

Lachlan MacNaughton has neither the temperament nor the patience to be the next MacNaughton chief, preferring to knock heads together rather than placate bickering clansmen. He readily accepts a reprieve to help with the family's textile mill in Glasgow. A sizzling chance encounter in the rain introduces him to the new female bookkeeper. His grandfather may want him back in the Highlands, but his heart has been lost in the Lowlands.

The attraction between Fenella and Lachlan sparks a passion not even two rebellious souls can deny.

But an innocent deception tests their newfound love and threatens the freedom they both crave.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 637321

Title: True History of Merlin the Magician

Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers

Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:42:23

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Europe, Social Science

Summary:

A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was 'Merlin the Magician' and his impact on Britain.

The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy, and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real-and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the 'long-lost' history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history.

Anne Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin's magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin's reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time.

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ID: 634460

Title: POP!: Create the Perfect Pitch, Title, and Tagline for Anything

Author: Sam Horn

Narrator: Sam Horn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:21:51

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Sales & Retail

Summary:

Why do some ideas break out and others fade away? What causes people to become so excited about a product that they can't wait to tell their friends? How can an idea be communicated so that it catches fire in people's imaginations?

Popular author, consultant, and workshop leader Sam Horn identifies what makes an idea, message, or product break out, and presents a simple and proven process-POP! (Purposeful, Original, Pithy)-to create one-of-a-kind ideas, products, and messages that pop through the noise, off the shelf, and into consumers imaginations.

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ID: 646280

Title: Likely Suspects

Author: G.K. Parks

Narrator: Amy Deuchler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:58:27

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, International Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

I quit my job. I walked away from everything I knew. I couldn't lose anyone else. Not again. Working for James Martin wasn't supposed to be complicated or lethal. Too bad someone wanted him dead, and I was the only thing standing in the way.

When eccentric playboy CEO James Martin's life is threatened, he decides to hire Alexis Parker, an attractive, feisty, former federal agent, to be his new security consultant and personal bodyguard. As Alex attempts to navigate the minefield of potential suspects, she discovers an underlying conspiracy that has been brewing at Martin Technologies for almost half a decade. Anyone could be involved, making Martin's closest friends, acquaintances, and employees possible suspects.

What starts out as a single death threat quickly morphs into a plot to overtake his entire company. Once the pieces fall into place, things explode, both literally and figuratively. This outwardly simple case is something neither Alex nor Martin ever imagined. It will take all of Alex's training and instincts to track down the criminal mastermind and stop the assassination plot before it's too late, and even that may not be enough.

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ID: 649578

Title: Killer Cupid

Author: Laurien Berenson

Narrator: Angie Hickman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:33:27

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Melanie is delighted at the prospect of three uninterrupted days alone with Sam (and, of course, her prize-winning Standard Poodle, Faith). They're booked at the White Birch Inn, a picturesque New England resort nestled at the foot of a snow-covered mountain. The inn has a full slate of couples' activities planned for the busy Valentine's weekend-date nights, sleigh rides, tobogganing, ice skating, and pop-up shops in the inn's ballroom-from the bubbly to the bubble bath, the resort is a perfect match for Melanie and Sam's vacation. But the first night of festivities feature an event that isn't on the program: murder.

The sheriff quickly launches an investigation, but at the inn keeper's urging-and because she suddenly finds herself a person of interest in the case-Melanie tries to sneak a little detective work into her romantic getaway. But with the resort nearly sold out for the holiday weekend, there's no shortage of suspects, and Melanie's secret sleuthing is already attracting the wrong kind of attention. Her Valentine's trip is heating up faster than the chocolate fondue . . . just not in the way Melanie hoped. But if she doesn't catch the cold-hearted killer soon, another innocent victim will get the kiss of death . . .

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ID: 637317

Title: Barring Complications

Author: Blythe Rippon

Narrator: Samantha Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:49:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary

Summary:

It's an open secret that the newest justice on the Supreme Court is a lesbian. So when the Court decides to hear a case about gay marriage, Justice Victoria Willoughby must navigate the press, sway at least one of her conservative colleagues, and confront her own fraught feelings about coming out.

Just when she decides she's up to the challenge, she learns that the very brilliant, very out Genevieve Fornier will be lead counsel on the case.

Genevieve isn't sure which is causing her more sleepless nights: the prospect of losing the case, or the thought of who will be sitting on the bench when she argues it.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 646488

Title: Wishwood

Author: E.B. Wheeler

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:28:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

Kate agrees to an arranged marriage with the mysterious Thomas Westwood to save her family's estate, but not everyone welcomes her at Wishwood, her husband's crumbling manor. The family members talk about a curse, lights move through the ruins at night, and Kate's maid won't spend the night in the house. Thomas is hiding something from Kate as well, but as she grows closer to him, a series of accidents makes her suspect that someone is willing to kill to keep Wishwood's secrets buried in the past.

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ID: 649579

Title: Gate

Author: Natsume Soseki

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:52:33

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

An NYRB Classics Original

A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sosuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sosuke's brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital. Desperate and torn, Sosuke finally resolves to travel to a remote Zen Mountain monastery to see if perhaps there, through meditation, he can find a way out of his predicament.

This moving and deceptively simple story, a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy, beauty, and gentle wit, is an understated masterpiece by one of Japan's greatest writers. At the end of his life, Natsume Soseki declared The Gate, originally published in 1910, to be his favorite among all his novels. This new translation captures the oblique grace of the original while correcting numerous errors and omissions that marred the first English version.

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ID: 637319

Title: Dark Light

Author: Jayne Castle

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:55:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Mystery

Summary:

Tabloid reporter Sierra McIntyre wants a scoop when she interviews Ghost Hunter Guild boss John Fontana about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters. She doesn't want to trust the physically and psychically powerful man, but her intuition-and her dust bunny companion-give her the green light. To uncover the conspiracy within his own organization, Fontana proposes . . . marriage. And though it's purely a business arrangement, there's nothing pure about the attraction that sizzles between them.

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ID: 653186

Title: Pieces of a Life

Author: Jewel E. Ann

Narrator: Alastair Haynesbridge, Emery Erickson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:37:10

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes a romantic, psychological thriller that critics call 'unputdownable!'

The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.

He played the piano and baseball. I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten. We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.

We were also forbidden to be more than friends. But that didn't stop us. Weeks before graduation, he annihilated my heart, and it's been seventeen years since the day I knew I'd hate him forever.

Now he's back in my life-a single dad and a homicide detective looking over my shoulder while I perform autopsies as one of Chicago's most gifted forensic pathologists. Then fate throws us a curveball.

Colten saves my life, but he can't erase the images that now keep me awake at night. And I can't explain them.

Am I still the girl he's always loved? Or nothing more than pieces of that life?

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