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ID: 679972

Title: Girl Made of Stars

Author: Ashley Herring Blake

Narrator: Krystal Hammond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Girl Made of Stars is a timely, emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths of consent and victim blaming in the aftermath of sexual assault, while shining a light on the story of a survivor with sensitivity and hope. For fans of Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be.

Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara's friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think. Can her brother really be guilty of such a violent act? Torn between her family and her sense of right and wrong, Mara feels lost, and it doesn't help that things are strained with her ex-girlfriend, Charlie. As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie come together in the aftermath of this terrible crime, Mara must face a trauma from her own past and decide where Charlie fits into her future.

Confronting difficult questions surrounding consent, victim blaming, and sexual assault, Girl Made of Stars is a timely, emotionally gripping novel that shines a light on the story of a survivor with sensitivity and hope.

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ID: 679984

Title: City of Never

Author: Rachel Higginson

Narrator: Amy Melissa Bentley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:19

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

I was there the day the wall fell from the sky. The day they gunned down my mother and permanently separated the rich from the poor. I was there the day my father decided he could force utopia on a certain half of the population and leave the rest to rot.

Pragmapax was once a great city, the only remaining outpost of civilization in our part of the world. But now, divided by an impossible wall, we've become two cities. Two peoples that despise each other. Two different ways of life-one idyllic and peaceful, the other savage and lawless. Civil war seethes in the air, breathing down our necks.

The only thing I know is that if war finally breaks out, I'm trapped on the wrong side of the wall.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 692559

Title: I Didn't Steal Your Mermaid

Author: R. Stim

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:49

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

As far as 12-year-old Frankie Jackson is concerned, mermaids are like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny stuff made up by grown-ups so that they can sell movies and toys. At least thats what Frankies dad once told her.

But one day, while staying on a houseboat for the summer, Frankie finds herself face-to-face with a mermaid. Convinced that it is a dream, Frankie cant shake the vision of the blue-haired sea creature. Meanwhile, the town of Sausalito is buzzing with rumors about a wealthy woman who disappeared into the Bay wearing a million-dollar necklace (shaped like a mermaid). Are the missing woman and Frankies dream related?

Thats what Frankie has to find out!

With help from her houseboat friends and Roxy, her host and confidant for the summer, Frankie proves her innocence. But more importantly, she learns that dreams and real life can sometimes merge and that people are not always who they seem to be.

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ID: 675562

Title: Rome: Strategy of Empire

Author: James Lacey

Narrator: Joel Richards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Ancient Civilizations, Military

Summary:

The Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years-an impressive number by any standard. The decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian trying to unearth the grand strategy of the Roman Empire must, therefore, always remain cognizant of the time scale. Over the centuries, the Empire's underlying economy, political arrangements, military affairs, and the myriad of external threats it faced were in constant flux, making adaptability to changing circumstances as important to Roman strategists as it is to strategists of the modern era.

Yet the very idea of Rome having a grand strategy, or what it might be, had not concerned historians until Edward Luttwak's The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire appeared forty years ago. Although this pioneering work generated much debate, it failed to win over many ancient historians, in part because of its heavy emphasis on military force and its neglect of considerations of diplomacy, economics, politics, culture, and the changing nature of the threats that confronted Rome.

By employing an expansive definition of strategy and by focusing much of the narrative on crucial historical moments and the personalities involved, James Lacey provides a comprehensive, persuasive, and engaging account of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

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ID: 673058

Title: Left Field

Author: Elizabeth Sims

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:10:07

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Lillian Byrd has been searching her soul after the gut-wrenching experience of killing someone in self-defense. Scrabbling to make ends meet, she takes a job as a quasi-detective, solving life's little mysteries for a pair of eccentric women in one of Detroit's last prestigious neighborhoods. When she spots a corpse on the next-door lawn, she jumps back into honest work as an investigative journalist.

Her friend Mercedes reveals that the dead woman, Abby Rawson, played on a women's softball team she manages and pressures Lillian into taking her spot. Softball turns to hardball when Lillian not only plunges into a love affair with the team's sought-after pitcher but also goes undercover as an exterminator, a squatter, and a charity worker to investigate Abby's death and the corrupt medical organization she worked for. No one on the team is above suspicion, and as they get closer to snagging the coveted championship title-and Lillian gets closer to discovering the dark truth behind Abby's murder-she fights to keep her new love in her life and literally save her own.

Filled with Lillian Byrd's trademark snark, nail-biting twists and turns, and a thrilling climax, Left Field scores a grand slam that'll leave listeners cheering in the stands.

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ID: 678398

Title: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream

Author: Peter Moore

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Europe, Philosophy

Summary:

The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. 'The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness' was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with 'the preservation of.' The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down-and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America.

Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the 'American dream.' Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution.

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ID: 669938

Title: Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

Author: Elissa Altman

Narrator: Elissa Altman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:39:17

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

From the former Washington Post columnist and James Beard Awardwinning author of Poor Mans Feast comes a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction.

Treyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing of meat and dairy. Also, imperfect, intolerable, offensive, undesirable, unclean, improper, broken, forbidden, illicit.

Fans of Augusten Burroughs and Jo Ann Beard will enjoy this kaleidoscopic, universal memoir in which Elissa Altman explores the tradition, religion, family expectations, and the forbidden that were the fixed points in her Queens, New York, childhood. Every part of Altmans youth was laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal, and the yearning for acceptance: synagogue on Saturday and Chinese pork ribs on Sunday; bat mitzvahs followed by shrimp-in-lobster-sauce luncheons; her old-country grandparents, whose kindness and love were tied to unspoken rage, and her bell-bottomed neighbors, whose adoring affection hid dark secrets.

While the suburban promise of The Brady Bunch blared on television, Altman searched for peace and meaning in a world teeming with faith, violence, sex, and paradox. Spanning from 1940s wartime Brooklyn to 1970s Queens to present-day rural New England, Treyf captures the collision of youthful cravings and grown-up identities. It is a vivid tale of what it means to come to yourself both in spite and in honor to your past.

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ID: 684143

Title: Churchill's German Special Forces: The Elite Refugee Troops who took the War to Hitler

Author: Paul Moorcraft

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Europe, Military

Summary:

The existence of German-speaking units fighting for the Allied cause during WW2 has remained largely a well-kept secret. But seventy-five years on these units' contribution to victory needs to be fully acknowledged.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill had no qualms about using native German speakers from Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany itself. The majority were Jews who had fled persecution.

Two examples of these secret units were X Troop Commandos and the Special Interrogation Group.

The SIG men deserve their legendary status. They fought, and often died, wearing Wehmacht uniform. As this book reveals that, after infiltrating Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps, one detachment even drew Nazi pay. Once the existence of SIG units became known, their immediate execution on capture was ordered, unless their temporary reprieve would reveal intelligence under torture.

We learn how Churchill's initiative was copied by both Americans and Russians.

Post-war SIG and X Troop survivors joined British special forces or were used to hunt down Nazi war criminals.

All this and more is covered in this groundbreaking book by a writer who is both a leading historian and foreign correspondent.

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ID: 678346

Title: Vampire Hunter D: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane

Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:54:59

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Granny Viper is a 'people finder,' a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle-Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is-and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . .

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ID: 679963

Title: Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Author: Leo Braudy

Narrator: Perry Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them

Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity.

Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, he explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous. Haunted is a compelling and incisive work by a writer at the height of his powers.

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