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ID: 230844

Title: Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Author: Cynthia Barnett

Narrator: Christina Traister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A natural history of rain, told through a lyrical blend of science, cultural history, and human drama

It is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of all the world's water. Yet this is the first audiobook to tell the story of rain.

Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of colored rains—with the human story of our attempts to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our 'founding forecaster,' Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume.

Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is an audiobook for everyone who has ever experienced it.

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ID: 232963

Title: Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World

Author: Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

How simplicity trumps complexity in nature, business, and life.We struggle to manage complexity every day. We follow intricate diets to lose weight, juggle multiple remotes to operate our home entertainment systems, face proliferating data at the office, and hack through thickets of regulation at tax time. But complexity isn't destiny. Sull and Eisenhardt argue there's a better way: by developing a few simple yet effective rules, you can tackle even the most complex problems.Simple rules are a hands-on tool to achieve some of our most pressing personal and professional objectives, from overcoming insomnia to becoming a better manager or a smarter investor. Simple rules can help solve some of our most urgent social challenges from setting interest rates at the Federal Reserve to protecting endangered marine wildlife along California’s coast.Drawing on more than a decade of rigorous research, the authors provide a clear framework for developing effective rules and making them better over time. They find insights in unexpected places, from the way Tina Fey codified her experience working at Saturday Night Live into rules for producing 30 Rock (rule five: never tell a crazy person he’s crazy) to burglars’ rules to choose a house to rob (“avoid houses with a car parked outside”) to Japanese engineers using the foraging rules of slime molds to optimize Tokyo’s rail system.Whether you’re struggling with information overload, pursuing opportunities with limited resources, or just trying to change your bad habits, Simple Rules provides a powerful way to tame complexity.

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ID: 231982

Title: Voices in the Night: Stories

Author: Steven Millhauser

Narrator: Adam Grupper, Alyssa Bresnahan, Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny, disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals inVoices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly 'A Voice in the Night' hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor,Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers.

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ID: 231895

Title: I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son: Essays

Author: Kent Russell

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-14-15

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Locked in battle with both his adult appetites and his most private childhood demons, Kent Russell hungers for immersive experience and revelation, and his essays take us to society's ragged edges, the junctures between savagery and civilization. He pitches a tent at an annual four-day music festival in Illinois, among the misunderstood, thick-as-thieves fans who self-identify as Juggalos. He treks to the end of the continent to visit a legendary hockey enforcer, the granddaddy of all tough guys, to see how he's preparing for his last foe: obsolescence. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a self-immunizer who is willing to prove that he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. And in the piercing interstitial meditations between these essays, Russell introduces us to his own raging and inimitable forebears.

Blistering and deeply personal, I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son records Russell's quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges, his persistent alienation, and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father.

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ID: 230771

Title: Catch You Later, Traitor

Author: Avi

Narrator: Mark Turetsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-10-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Historical

Summary:

From Newbery Medalist Avi comes the thrilling and suspenseful story of an ordinary American family who fall under suspicion. It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family? As Pete follows the quickly accumulating clues, he begins to wonder if the truth could put his family's livelihood--and even their freedom--at risk. In the tradition of 'Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, Don't You Know There's a War On?, 'and 'Nothing But the Truth, Catch You Later, Traitor' tells a funny, insightful story packed with realistic period detail of a boy in mid-twentieth-century America whose family is caught in the wide net of America's Red Scare.

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ID: 230487

Title: Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen

Author: Donald Bain, Jessica Fletcher

Narrator: Sandra Burr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

In the latest in the USA Today bestselling series, someone writes a recipe for murder.…

Jessica loves the Fin & Claw restaurant, owned by young couple Brad and Marcie. And the restaurant is the couple’s dream come true. But when famed chef Gerard Leboeuf decides to open an eatery right next to theirs, tensions rise fast and hot—and lead to a nasty confrontation between Leboeuf and Brad. So when Leboeuf is found dead with a knife planted in his chest, Brad becomes suspect number one. But plenty of others had a motive to kill Leboeuf, and it’s up to Jessica to uncover who really added murder to the menu.

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ID: 231226

Title: One Hot Murder

Author: Lorraine Bartlett

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Katie Bonner, the reluctant manager of Artisans Alley in the quaint shopping district of Victoria Square, is no stranger to ambivalence. Things have been going hot and heavy with pizza maker Andy Rust-so much so that Katie has moved in over his pizza parlor. But now that summer's ushered in a heat wave, an apartment above pizza ovens without an air conditioner is making Katie hot and bothered.

At the height of the heat wave, a tragic fire strikes Victoria Square. Wood U, a small store selling wooden gifts and small furniture, is destroyed. But the fire may just be a smoke screen-for murder. A body is found among the charred wreckage, and the victim didn't die from smoke inhalation. He was shot. Now-despite making Detective Ray Davenport hot under the collar-Katie is determined to smoke out a cold-hearted killer...

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ID: 231228

Title: Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom

Author: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Narrator: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:20:08

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

The moment the second line on the pee stick turns pink, women discover they've entered a world of parenting experts. Friends, family, colleagues, the UPS delivery guy-suddenly everybody is a trove of advice, much of it contradictory and confusing. With dire warnings of what will happen if baby is fed on demand and even direr warnings of what will happen if he isn't, not to mention hordes of militant 'lactivists,' cosleeping advocates, and books on what to worry about next, modern parenthood can seem like a minefield.

In busy Mom-friendly short essays, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay delivers the empathetic straight dirt on parenting, tackling everything from Mommy & Me classes ('Your baby doesn't need to be making friends at three months old-you do! But not with people you'll meet at Mommy & Me') to attachment parenting ('If you're holding your baby 24/7, that's not a baby, that's a tumor'). Stefanie Wilder-Taylor combines practical tips with sidesplitting humor and refreshing honesty, assuring women that they can be good mothers and responsibly make their own choices.

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ID: 230482

Title: Beautiful Broken Promises

Author: Kimberly Lauren

Narrator: Eva Kantor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

Lane Parker has suffered a terrible loss: a loss he can’t get over, not even years later. Burdened by secrets he won’t tell his closest friends and focused on only one goal, he finally gets the phone call he’s been waiting for. Luck gives him a precious second chance to get back what was taken from him—and he’ll use all his strength to make sure that the tragedy never happens again.

Raegan Hayes is a spirited fighter and survivor—and she’s furious at Lane, her former employer, after their paths cross at a police station and he accuses her of betrayal. Now, they both must move forward to get past the tragic incident that tore them apart long ago. But the more time Lane spends with the beautiful Raegan, the more he becomes drawn to her…and the more his passion overpowers his hostility. Can a new beginning transform their relationship from suspicion-filled to steamy?

Revised edition: This edition of Beautiful Broken Promises includes editorial revisions.

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ID: 230759

Title: Bittersweet

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrator: Julia Gibson, Morgan Hallett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

For more than 20 years, Susan Wittig Albert has been delivering 'some of the best-plotted mysteries on the market' (Houston Chronicle). In Bittersweet, China is hoping to spend a peaceful Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs. But the holiday turns treacherous after a deadly accident. And when a local vet is shot, China and game warden Mack Chambers suspect a connection to fawns stolen from a nearby ranch.

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