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ID: 383300

Title: Under the Jaguar Sun

Author: Italo Calvino

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:26:02

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

'The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors' highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparable experience.' - From Under the Jaguar Sun These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses of taste, hearing, and smell. Amid the flavors of Mexico's fiery chiles and spices, a couple on holiday discovers dark truths about the maturing of desire in the title story, 'Under the Jaguar Sun.' In 'A King Listens,' a gripping portrait of a frenzied mind, the menacing echoes in a huge palace spur a tyrant's thoughts to the heights of paranoid intensity. 'The Name, the Nose' drives to a startling conclusion as men across time and space pursue the women whose aromas have enchanted them. Mordant and deliciously offbeat, this trio of tales is a treat from a master of short fiction.

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ID: 370249

Title: Brightness Long Ago

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:12:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count-and soon learned why that man was known as the Beast.

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ID: 370268

Title: Spark

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Narrator: Eevin Hartsough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:24:40

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

When a shy girl and her dragon-like companion discover their country's idyllic weather comes at a steep-and secret-cost, they recruit fellow students to defy authority and attempt to spread the truth. Storm beasts and their guardians create perfect weather every day, and Mina longs for a storm beast of her own. But when the gentle girl bonds with a lightning beast-a creature of fire and chaos-everyone's certain it's a mistake. Everyone but Mina and the beast himself, Pixit. Quickly enrolled in lightning school, Mina struggles to master a guardian's skills, and she discovers that her country's weather comes at a devastating cost-a cost powerful people wish to hide. Mina's never been the type to speak out, but someone has to tell the truth, and, with Pixit's help, she resolves to find a way to be heard.

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ID: 370264

Title: Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness

Author: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy

Summary:

Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the reader on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours? Will robots, once they have been endowed with sensory systems like those that provide us with experience, ever exhibit the particular traits long thought to distinguish the human mind, including the ability to think about thinking? Dennett addresses these questions from an evolutionary perspective. Beginning with the macromolecules of DNA and RNA, the author shows how, step-by-step, animal life moved from the simple ability to respond to frequently recurring environmental conditions to much more powerful ways of beating the odds, ways of using patterns of past experience to predict the future in never-before-encountered situations. Whether talking about robots whose video-camera 'eyes' give us the powerful illusion that 'there is somebody in there' or asking us to consider whether spiders are just tiny robots mindlessly spinning their webs of elegant design, Dennett is a master at finding and posing questions sure to stimulate and even disturb.

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ID: 466120

Title: Murder Aboard: The Herbert Fuller Tragedy and the Ordeal of Thomas Bram

Author: C. Michael Hiam

Narrator: Michael Orenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:07:14

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, World

Summary:

From an author praised by the Wall Street Journal for his eye for a good story comes an account of Herbert Fuller tragedy of 1896, a tragedy that occurred on the high seas and one involving the senseless slaughter of three of the twelve souls on board. Stunned by this act of random violence, and in sure knowledge that one or more of their own was the murderer, the living turn the vessel to shore, 750 miles distant. In the nightmarish days and nights of suspense that follow, first one and then another of the remaining nine is seized by others as the culprit. Upon reaching port, however, all are under suspicionuntil the man most likely to have committed the act is, for reasons having to do with race, exonerated and the man most likely to be innocent, prosecuted. At the center of this gripping and gruesome story is the first mate Thomas Bram, whose subsequent murder trials became as widely followed by the press and public as was the famous trial of Lizzie Borden just a few years before. Unlike the Borden case, remembered today in books, movies, and childrens rhymes, the Bram case was almost lost to the collective memory. Fortunately, C. Michael Hiam, in the manner of Erik Larson, now brings it to life.

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ID: 370259

Title: Clean Break

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Chloe Massey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

English kick-boxer and Rudyard Kipling fan Kate Brannigan appears in her fourth adventure, chasing down art thieves in Italy while unravelling a nasty case of product tampering in her homeland. When a precious Monet painting is nicked from a posh British estate where she arranged the security, the tough-talking PI is right on the job to get it back. Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organized crime when a routine industrial case starts leaving a trail of bodies across the northwest, forcing Kate to confront hard truths in her own life.

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ID: 370246

Title: Blue Genes

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Chloe Massey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Kate Brannigan is having a bad weekend, her boyfriend's death notice is in the newspaper, her plans to capture a team of heartless fraudsters are in disarray, and a Celtic neo-punk band want her to rescue them from saboteurs. As if that isn't enough, Kate's business partner wants her to buy him out so he can emigrate to Australia, and Private Eyes with principles never have that kind of cash. Kate can't even cry on her best friend's shoulder, for Alexis has worries of her own. Confronting betrayal and greed, Kate fights to save her livelihood and her life.

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ID: 382502

Title: Passion: Reflections on the Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ

Author: Paul Thigpen

Narrator: Catherine Fowler Sample, Kevin Gallagher, Paul Thigpen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:32:32

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

In this devotional treasure, youll find forty daily reflections on the passion and death of Our Lord. Each days reflectionsuitable for Lent or for any time of the yearincludes a scriptural text, a meditation, a brief prayer, and an excerpt from the visions of two celebrated Catholic mystics: Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (17741824) and Venerable Maria de Agreda (16021665).

In these reflections, youll watch with Jesus as He prays in the Garden of Gethsemane grieve beside Him as He stands trial climb with Him on the way to Calvary mourn with His Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross.

Youll also ponder the roles of other figures in this sorrowful drama: not only Mary, but also Peter and Judas, Herod and Pilate, Simon the Cyrene and Dismas the Good Thief and, of course, Satan, whose hope of victory over Jesus is dashed in the end.

Do you want to advance from virtue to virtue, from grace to grace? Are you seeking the entire sanctification of your soul? These are the rewards, insists St. Bonaventure, of those who meditate frequently on the sufferings of Christ.

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ID: 360674

Title: Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting

Author: Anna Quindlen

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:34:28

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-19

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect gift for new parents and grandparents this Mother’s Day: a bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and #1 bestselling author

“This tender book should be required reading for grandparents everywhere.”—Booklist (starred review)

“I am changing his diaper, he is kicking and complaining, his exhausted father has gone to the kitchen for a glass of water, his exhausted mother is prone on the couch. He weighs little more than a large sack of flour and yet he has laid waste to the living room: swaddles on the chair, a nursing pillow on the sofa, a car seat, a stroller. No one cares about order, he is our order, we revolve around him. And as I try to get in the creases of his thighs with a wipe, I look at his, let’s be honest, largely formless face and unfocused eyes and fall in love with him. Look at him and think, well, that’s taken care of, I will do anything for you as long as we both shall live, world without end, amen.”

Before blogs even existed, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of family, motherhood, and modern life, in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step and going full nana in the pages of this lively, beautiful, and moving book about being a grandmother. Quindlen offers thoughtful and telling observations about her new role, no longer mother and decision-maker but secondary character and support to the parents of her grandson. She writes, “Where I once led, I have to learn to follow.” Eventually a close friend provides words to live by: “Did they ask you?”

Candid, funny, frank, and illuminating, Quindlen’s singular voice has never been sharper or warmer. With the same insights she brought to motherhood in Living Out Loud and to growing older in Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, this new nana uses her own experiences to illuminate those of many others.

Praise for Nanaville

“Witty and thoughtful . . . Nanaville serves up enough vivid anecdotes and fresh insights—about childhood, about parenthood, about grandparenthood and about life—to make for a gratifying read.”—The New York Times

“Classic, bittersweet Quindlen . . . [Her] wonder at seeing her eldest child grow into his new role is lovely and moving. . . . The best parts of Nanaville are the charming vignettes of Quindlen's solo time with her grandson.”—NPR

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ID: 358460

Title: Chat

Author: Archer Mayor

Narrator: Tom Taylorson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:31:21

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-19

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

News travels fast in the small state of Vermont. In this tight-knit society, police officers and investigators proudly maintain a kinship that transcends the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When an unidentified body is found in the peaceful town of Brattleboro, local police and the Vermont Bureau of Investigation both appear at the scene.

But before investigator Joe Gunther can begin to gather evidence of murder, a family emergency sends him to his hometown, where the lives of his mother and brother have suddenly been threatened. Gunther reaches out to a network of police officers who know him only by name and reputation as he attempts to discover the source of this imminent danger.

Meanwhile, his investigative team chases an elusive murderer who has no apparent ties to the victim. In a state that is more like a neighborhood community, secrets are difficult to keep, and its sometimes impossible to know who can be trusted. To save those he holds closest to his heart, Gunther soon finds himself opposing criminals more menacing than any he has ever encountered.

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