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ID: 376110

Title: North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earths Magnetism

Author: Gillian Turner

Narrator: Cat Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:09:38

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-19

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, History

Summary:

This 'fantastic story' of one of physics' great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).

Why do compass needles point north-but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world's great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth's magnetism.

Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth's magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet's attractive pull-from the ancient Greeks' fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North-and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source.

Skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet's core.

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ID: 370269

Title: How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men

Author: Michael C. Reichert Phd

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:19:32

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Psychology, Parenting

Summary:

At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate men

Over the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist Michael Reichert draws on his decades of research to challenge age-old conventions about how boys become men.

Reichert explains how the paradigms about boys needing to be stoic and man like can actually cause them to shut down, leading to anger, isolation, and disrespectful or even destructive behaviors. The key to changing the culture lies in how parents, educators, and mentors help boys develop socially and emotionally.

Reichert offers readers step-by-step guidance in doing just this by:

Listening and observing, without judgment, so that boys know theyre being heard.

Helping them develop strong connections with teachers, coaches, and other role models

Encouraging them to talk about their feelings about the opposite sex and stressing the importance of respecting women

Letting them know that they dont have to be a man or suck it up, when they are experiencing physical or emotional pain.

Featuring the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience, How to Raise a Boy will help those who care for young boys and teenagers build a boyhood that will enable them to grow into confident, accomplished and kind men.

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ID: 380491

Title: Italian Folktales

Author: Italo Calvino

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29:02:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

One of the New York Timess Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are a treasure (Los Angeles Times).

Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogresas well as some quite extraordinary plants and animalsthese two hundred tales bring to life Italys folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense.

Selected and retold by one of the countrys greatest literary icons, this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere (The New York Times Book Review).

For readers of any age A masterwork.Wall Street Journal

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ID: 370247

Title: Crack Down

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Chloe Massey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:08:57

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with an investigation into a car sales fraud - nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. Richard behind bars, Kate seems to be the obvious choice to look after his eight-year-old son - who proves even more troublesome than his father. Kate finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers, child pornographers, fraudsters and violent gangland enforcers bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career.

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ID: 370271

Title: Women Talking

Author: Miriam Toews

Narrator: Matthew Edison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:58:01

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and assaulted in the night by what they were told (by the men of the colony) were 'ghosts' or 'demons,' Miriam Toews' bold and affecting novel Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. The novel takes place over forty-eight hours, as eight women gather in secret in a neighbour's barn while the men are in a nearby town posting bail for the attackers. They have come together to debate, on behalf of all the women and children in the community, whether to stay or leave before the men return. Taking minutes is the one man trusted and invited by the women to witness the conversation--a former outcast whose own surprising story is revealed as the women speak. By turns poignant, witty, acerbic, bitter, tender, devastating, and heartbreaking, the voices in this extraordinary novel are unforgettable. Toews has chosen to focus the novel tightly on a particular time and place, and yet it contains within its 48 hours and setting inside a hayloft an entire vast universe of thinking and feeling about the experience of women (and therefore men, too) in our contemporary world. In a word: astonishing.

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ID: 370252

Title: Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Author: Mary Norris

Narrator: Mary Norris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:04:21

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

'Hilarious. . . . This book charmed my socks off.' ?Patricia O'Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Greek to Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage?comma faults, danglers, 'who' vs. 'whom,' 'that' vs. 'which,' compound words, gender-neutral language?and her clear explanations of how to handle them. Down-to-earth and always open-minded, she draws on examples from Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, and the Lord's Prayer, as well as from The Honeymooners, The Simpsons, David Foster Wallace, and Gillian Flynn. She takes us to see a copy of Noah Webster's groundbreaking Blue-Back Speller, on a quest to find out who put the hyphen in Moby-Dick, on a pilgrimage to the world's only pencil-sharpener museum, and inside the hallowed halls of The New Yorker and her work with such celebrated writers as Pauline Kael, Philip Roth, and George Saunders. Readers?and writers?will find in Norris neither a scold nor a softie but a wise and witty new friend in love with language and alive to the glories of its use in America, even in the age of autocorrect and spell-check. As Norris writes, 'The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.'

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ID: 370253

Title: 1637: The Polish Maelstrom

Author: Eric Flint

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:48:21

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A new addition to the four-time New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17th century Western Europe, the 'out-of-time' modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must fight for its life against Dark Age domination. Alternate history master Eric Flint returns in top form with an epic addition to the multiple New York Times best selling Ring of Fire series. A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now when United States of Europe ally King Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is dragged into a full-scale European war against ruthless opponents. Meanwhile Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader of the up-time West Virginians, has been turned out of office in an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet. He's determined to stoke the fires of democratic rebellion in Saxony near the main front, and thus keep the young nation he founded, and once led, out of the hands of medieval tyrants-tyrants who would like nothing better than to wipe those troublesome upstarts from the future off the timeline and go back to the bad old days of oppression and serfdom.

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ID: 512491

Title: 22 Minutes: The USS Vincennes and the Tragedy of Savo Island: A Lifetime Survival Story

Author: Jeff Spevak

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:36:13

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history. But he paid a price and buried the horrific memories for decades. In the manner of Mitch Alboms highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie, 22 Minutes is a searing account of a survivor coming to terms with an incident he had suppressed for sixty years and the writer who painstakingly put together the clues about what had happened. Author Jeff Spevak was confronted with a dilemma: How do you tell the story of a man who cant bring himself to talk about the most epic moment of his life? A clever fellow whod scrapped to survive in a fashion that seems quaint today, Coleman tested himself as a teenager by swimming across lakes, building homes from foraged lumber, running a Navy carpentry shop as though he were a member of the scamming crew of McHales Navy. He was a self-taught sailor whod become a legend on Lake Ontario. At age 96, Ernie was still sailing. Ernie Coleman talked of his life frankly his honest remembrances of brawls and regrets. But he refused to talk about the one thing that had haunted him for decades: the sinking of his ship the Vincennes and his nightmares of men screaming in the burning sea, of incinerated corpses still manning the anti-aircraft guns. Through interviews with Coleman's family and others who knew Coleman, and arduous research Spevak finally put together what had occurred the night of the horrendous loss of his ship, the USS Vincennes, a cruiser sunk during the World War II Battle of Savo Island off Guadalcanal. Four big ships and more than 1,000 sailors were lost that night in a 22-minute battle, the worst open-sea defeat in the history of the United States Navy. Gripping, moving, highly personal, 22 Minutes is Colemans story of the incident he had buried for more than 60 years. Did Ernie pursue sailing with such intensity, at a time when most men his age are sitting in front of the television, waiting for the end, so that he did not have to close his eyes and remember that night on the Vincennes? I know why those kids come back from Afghanistan and shoot themselves, he said sadly one morning, sitting on the shady patio at his home. You lay awake at night, reacting, reacting, reacting. Because its so real. 22 Minutes has enormous potential to match some of the best-selling first-hand World War II memoirs published in recent years.

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ID: 402885

Title: New York Yankees of the 1950s: Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance

Author: David Fischer

Narrator: Dave Cruse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:11:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Baseball

Summary:

The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. David Fischer brings expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the most dominant decade in the annals of sport.

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ID: 368606

Title: Forget Me Not

Author: Brenda Jackson

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:11:41

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-19

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Contemporary

Summary:

Brenda Jackson welcomes you back to Catalina Cove, where love is waiting to be reclaimed…

Ashley Ryan never doubted that her husband, Devon, was the love of her life. Even now, three years after Devon died in a car wreck while on a business trip, Ashley can’t bring herself to move on. But when her girlfriends surprise her with a getaway to beautiful Catalina Cove, Louisiana, she gets the shock of her life when she encounters a man—bearded, more rugged than before, but unmistakably her Devon.

“Ray Sullivan” moved to this quiet coastal town after waking up in a hospital with amnesia. Haunted by a life he can’t remember, he’s built walls around his heart and a quiet life running boat tours—a life that includes no recollection of Ashley, a woman he suddenly finds himself irresistibly drawn to.

Doctors warn Ashley of the danger in forcing her husband to remember the past. Though she longs to tell him the truth, she finds herself falling all over again for a man she knows may never truly come back to her. In this place where healing and second chances are just a heartbeat away, can love take root once more?

Don’t miss The House on Blueberry Lane, the next book in The Catalina Cove series by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!

The Catalina Cove series

Book 1: Love in Catalina Cove

Book 2: Forget Me Not

Book 3: Finding Home Again

Book 4: Follow Your Heart

Book 5: One Christmas Wish

Book 6: The House on Blueberry Lane

 

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