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ID: 669766

Title: Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law

Author: Anne Norton

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:15:41

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished revolutions; an ethic for those who will not be mastered. This is an ethic for those who hold fast to the rights they have by nature.

Democracy is always a risky business; full of promise and danger. The promise is the freedom to rule ourselves. The danger is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the unruly, fear of one another, fear of anarchy. The fearful look for a strong hand, a powerful leader, a protector, a gun. Anarchy leads to courage, to self-reliance, self-discipline, self-rule, and solidarity. Anarchy is the nursery of democracy. It is not anarchy we have to fear, it is authoritarianism.

We have been taught to see the people as a problem to be managed. Anne Norton sees them as a source of strength. Anarchic democracy grows wild: springing from the everyday actions of ordinary human beings.

Liberalism and conservatism alike have turned away from the democratic, to institutions, rules, and regulations. Anne Norton turns to anarchic people who practice democratic ethics.

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ID: 659931

Title: Rough

Author: Reese Knightley

Narrator: Declan Winters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:28:34

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, LGBTQ+

Summary:

After circling around each other for so long, are they ready to take it to the next level?

Mason can admit that he's had the hots for rough and gruff Gage Hillcrest for well over a year now. Only Gage is bossy and overbearing as all hell. Not to mention that Gage is a closed book and Mason doesn't know anything about the man.

Gage has wanted smart mouthed and sexy, Mason Taylor since he first laid eyes on him. But the two of them are like oil and water. Mason is wild. And well, Gage is not. Mason also has a big house and more money than he'd ever need while Gage is drowning in debt.

When Pegasus is asked to help the local police find a missing undercover officer, the unit leaps in with all hands on deck. Lives collide when they roll out on the mission and Mason finds out that Gage needs aid taking care of his family. Of course, Mason jumps in to help.

As the pair grow closer, life gets more complicated when Gage's son goes missing. With loved ones in jeopardy, Pegasus will do everything in their power to find the little boy and recover the missing undercover cop before it's too late.

Because in the end, it's all about family and taking care of those in need.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 670961

Title: Second Thoughts About the Second Coming: Understanding the End Times, Our Future, and Christian Hope

Author: Robert D. Cornwall, Ronald J. Allen

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:41:13

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Biblical Studies

Summary:

Various ideas float around about the subject of last things, leading many Christians to conclude that they don't know what to think about the subject. Yet at the core of the Christian doctrine of last things lies two simple and complementary hopes: that God ever and always offers hope for our individual futures and for the future of the whole world.

In this helpful book, Allen and Cornwall explain how we don't have to subscribe to sensationalist theories or sketchy interpretations to believe in Christian hope. They walk the listener through the central biblical teachings on last things and then show the ways the church has interpreted those teachings throughout the centuries. In a respectful way, the authors demonstrate that end-time beliefs centered on the Rapture came into existence only recently, and they then offer several more life-affirming, contemporary interpretations as alternatives.

This book is designed to help pastors develop both topical and lectionary-based sermon series on Christian hope.

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ID: 669744

Title: In the Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition

Author: Leonard Allen

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:45:41

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Find Your Bearings and Chart a New Path

All throughout the modern period, there has been a steady campaign for people to 'think for themselves' without tradition's distorting restraint. As a result, many Christians now blindly sip a watered-down faith, marketed as 'no creed but the Bible.' But, as Leonard Allen shows, we are always traditioning-even if one doesn't believe in tradition. And in this time of theological uncertainty and confusion, that process calls for new intentionality and seriousness. In the Great Stream will show you what the Great Tradition is, and how it can be our ally providing weight, ballast, and bearings to all those who seek to live out-and to hand on-the faith. Discover the vital recoveries that we need to make that draw on classic Christian orthodoxy. These older ways are the key to renewing our hearts and our churches.

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ID: 668826

Title: Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s1990s

Author: Bettina Aptheker

Narrator: Ann Sprinkle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:33:08

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science

Summary:

The Communist Party banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from membership beginning in 1938 when it cast them off as 'degenerates.' It persisted in this policy until 1991. During this sixty-year ban, gays and lesbians who did join the Communist Party were deeply closeted within it, as well as in their public lives as both queer and Communist. By the late 1930s, the Communist Party had a membership approaching 100,000 and tens of thousands more people moved in its orbit through the Popular Front against fascism, anti-racist organizing, especially in the south, and its widely read cultural magazine, the New Masses. Based on a decade of archival research, correspondence, and interviews, Bettina Aptheker explores this history, also pulling from her own experience as a closeted lesbian in the Communist Party in the 1960s and '70s. Ironically, and in spite of this homophobia, individual Communists laid some of the political and theoretical foundations for lesbian and gay liberation and women's liberation, and contributed significantly to peace, social justice, civil rights, and Black and Latinx liberation movements.

This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone interested in political history, gender studies, and the history of sexuality.

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ID: 670970

Title: Prospector's Only Prospect

Author: Dani Collins

Narrator: Laurie West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:26:45

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

After eight days in a cramped stagecoach, divorcee Marigold Davis already regrets her decision to come to Denver City to marry. She certainly didn't realize she'd signed up for mosquitoes, mud, and scores of rough men eyeing her. But with her life in Kansas all but incinerated, Marigold needs a husband. Even if she's not the bride that gold prospector Virgil Gardner is expecting . . .

Virgil Gardner has a reputation as a grumpy hard-ass, and he's fine with it. He's also no fool-this is not the woman he agreed to marry. It takes a tough-as-nails woman to survive the harshness of a Rocky Mountain gold claim, and this whiskey-eyed, gentle beauty is certainly not the type. Now it's just a matter of how quickly she'll quit so he can find a wife who will stick. Someone who can care for the only thing he values even more than gold-his children.

But Marigold isn't about to give in. Berry picking turned into a bear escape. Or cooking for an entire crew of bottomless pits. She's got more grit than most. And just when Virgil starts to realize his replacement bride might be the treasure he's been looking for, an unannounced guest arrives . . . to change everything.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 669859

Title: Crunchy Dragon Treats

Author: Senna Miller

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:09:36

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Game developer Kirk Delgado is dealing with your typical tabletop group while testing a new module for his wildly popular game, Nestrana. Unbeknownst to Kirk (but knownst to us!), hes about to wake up in Nestrana.

There, he meets the lovely Elf Solana and a disembodied Narrator who tasks Kirk with leveling up and fighting the final dragon boss. In order to do this, Kirk and Solana must form a party.

Unfortunately, theyve been matched with the overly good, overly large, and very stupid Blues. With a party this bad, Kirk may never get back home.

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ID: 670967

Title: Weight of Everything

Author: Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:47:15

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

It's been six months since Sarah's mom died. Three months since her dad fell apart. Sarah has left her fine arts boarding school to take care of her dad and her little brother, and now she's trying to hold everything together at home while adjusting to the local public high school.

With her dad's drinking and spending getting out of control, Sarah struggles to make sure that the bills are paid, that her brother is fed and safe, that her dad's grief won't crush them all. She has no time for art, unless she's cranking out a piece to sell online for some grocery money. And she definitely doesn't have the time or the emotional energy to find out if her sweet, handsome classmate, David Garza, could be more than a friend.

But then a school project prompts Sarah to delve into her mom's Mexican and Guatemalan roots. As she learns more about this side of her heritage, Sarah starts to understand her mom better-and starts to face her own grief. When she stumbles upon a long-buried piece of history that mattered deeply to her mom, Sarah realizes she can't carry her pain silently anymore. She has to speak up, and she can't do it alone.

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ID: 673099

Title: Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild

Author: Mary Taylor Young

Narrator: Carolyn Jania

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:29:11

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

In this A Sand County Almanac for the twenty-first century, nature writer and zoologist Mary Taylor Young tells the story of the growing effects of climate change on her land in the pine-covered foothills of southern Colorado.

Climate change wasn't yet on the public radar when Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in 1995. They built a cabin and set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and Mary began a nature journal of her observations, delighting in the ceaseless dramas, joys, and tragedies that are the fabric of life in the wild.

But changes greater than the seasonal cycles of nature became evident over time: increasing drought, trees killed by plagues of beetles, wildfires, catastrophic weather, bears entering hibernation later and thinner, the decline of some familiar birds, and the appearance of new species.

Using the journal as a chronicle of change, Young tells a story echoed in everyone's lives and backyards. But it's not time to despair, she writes. It's time to act.

Young sees hope in the human ability to overcome great obstacles, in the energy and determination of young people, and in nature's resilience, which the bluebirds show season after season.

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ID: 652104

Title: Meet Us by the Roaring Sea: A Novel

Author: Akil Kumarasamy

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:58:04

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens, and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students-living through a drought and at the edge of the war-as they create a new way of existence to help the people around them. In the process, the translator's life and the manuscript begin to become entangled.

Along the way, the arrival of a childhood friend, a stranger, and an unusual AI project will force her to question her own moral compass and sense of goodness. How involved are we in the suffering of others? What does real compassion look like? How do you make a better world?

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