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ID: 649566

Title: Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters

Author: Mary Soderstrom

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:57:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The scenario we are facing is scary: within a few decades, sea levels around the world may well rise by a meter or more as glaciers and ice caps melt due to climate change. Large parts of our coastal cities will be flooded, the basic outline of our world will be changed, and torrential rains will present their own challenges. But this is not the first time that people have had to cope with threatening waters, because sea levels have been rising for thousands of years, ever since the end of the last Ice Age. Stories told by the Indigenous people of Australia and the Pacific coast of North America, and those found in the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as Roman and Chinese histories all bear witness to just how traumatic these experiences were. The responses to these challenges varied: people adapted by building dikes, canals, and seawalls, by resorting to prayer or magic, and, very often, by moving out of the way of the rushing waters.

Against the Seas explores these stories as well as the various measures being taken today to combat rising waters, focusing on five regions: Indonesia, Shanghai, the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, the Salish Sea, and the estuary of the St. Lawrence River. What happened in the past and what is being tried today may help us in the future, and, if nothing else, give us hope that we will survive.

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ID: 662833

Title: Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500

Author: Peter H. Wilson

Narrator: Rory Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 34:54:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative. Looking beyond Prussia to German-speaking Europe across the last five centuries, Wilson finds little unique or preordained in German militarism or warfighting.

Iron and Blood takes as its starting point the consolidation of the Holy Roman Empire, which created new mechanisms for raising troops but also for resolving disputes diplomatically. The primary aggressor in Central Europe was not Prussia but the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, yet Austria's strength owed much to its ability to secure allies. Prussia, meanwhile, invested in militarization but maintained a part-time army well into the nineteenth century. Alongside Switzerland, which relied on traditional militia, both states exemplify the longstanding civilian element within German military power.

Only after Prussia's unexpected victory over France in 1871 did Germans and outsiders come to believe in a German gift for warfare. It took two world wars to expose the fallacy of German military genius. Yet even today, Wilson argues, Germany's strategic position is misunderstood.

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ID: 651995

Title: Acting Up

Author: Adele Buck

Narrator: Moniqua Plante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:32:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

The stage is set for the play of a lifetime: but it's the romantic drama backstage that has everyone applauding. Paul and Cath are the perfect creative team. He's an up-and-coming theater director and she's his unflappable, rock-steady stage manager. If Cath's had to bury her unrequited affection for Paul for ten long years to keep things professional, it's just the price she pays for a career she loves, working with her best friend by her side. Until he hires her old nemesis as the leading lady for a new play that's their chance to make it big. Handling temperamental actors is one thing, but watching this diva throw herself at Paul makes Cath miserable. It's another complication when the leading man shows his attraction to her. Suddenly, an unexpected new job offer seems like a good idea. But then Paul upends her world by declaring his love and sparking a passionate encounter. It's both a dream come true and a nightmare as Cath is convinced that personal and professional relationships don't mix and getting involved could jeopardize the play-and both their careers. Can Paul flip the script and set the stage to convince Cath otherwise or is their love always destined to wait in the wings?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 655938

Title: Murder on Bamboo Lane

Author: Naomi Hirahara

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:21:52

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle . . .

Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it's still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.

At the behest of her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD (a source of pride for Ellie's grandmother, but annoyance to her mom), Ellie becomes tangled in the investigation of the coed's murder-with equal parts help and hindrance from her nosy best friend, her over-involved ex-boyfriend, a smoldering detective, and seemingly everyone else in her extended family . . . only to uncover secrets that a killer may go to any lengths to ensure stay hidden.

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ID: 669869

Title: Ashes

Author: Ari Marmell

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:04:34

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

The world has ended.

Along with other scattered survivors, astronaut Cynthia Han and the remainder of ISS Expedition 81 have finally learned what happened to the people theyd left behind, and its worse than any of them could have imagined.

But even if life as Cynthia knew it is over, her struggles most certainly are not. Joshua Lamb, granted strange and inhuman abilities even as civilization died around him, directs his zealots to scoop up every pocket of survivors, to offer them the simplest choice: Join or die. The nightmarish Crooked Men still hunt the darkened, hollowed cityscapes. And towering over it all, the mind-breaking obelisks with their unreadable alien message.

At stake are not just the lives of Cynthia and her companions, but the last flickering embers of the human race. To succeed, she must not only learn the true purpose of the obelisks; she must come to understand that the worst of humanitys instincts and sins were never limited to us alone.

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ID: 657766

Title: Only with You

Author: Lauren Layne

Narrator: Laurie West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:11

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas in this 'funny, sexy, sweet, laugh-out-loud romance'-Harlequin Junkie from the New York Times bestselling author of Somebody Like You.

Cocktail waitress Sophie Dalton doesn't exactly have a life plan. She's perfectly happy being everyone's favorite party girl. But when a Las Vegas bachelorette party goes awry and an uptight businessman mistakes Sophie for a prostitute . . . well, Sophie wonders if it's time to reevaluate her priorities. Swearing off her thigh-high boots for good, Sophie slinks back home with damaged pride-and a jackpot of a hangover.

Yet what happens in Sin City doesn't always stay there. On a trip to Seattle to open a new office, Grayson Wyatt meets his latest employee-who turns out to be the same woman he recently called a hooker. Wealthy and gorgeous, Gray is a man used to getting what he wants. And it doesn't take long to figure out that smart, sassy, sexy Sophie is everything he's been looking for. As their late nights at the office turn into hot morning-afters, they realize their Vegas misunderstanding may lead to the real thing . . .

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 657313

Title: What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees

Author: Stephen Buchmann

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:41:38

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

For many of us, the buzzing of a bee elicits panic. But the next time you hear that low droning sound, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She may be using her sensitive olfactory organs, which provide a 3D scent map of her surroundings. She may be following visual landmarks or instructions relayed by a hive-mate. She may even be tracking electrostatic traces left on flowers by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious paths and experience their alien world.

Although their brains are incredibly small-just one million neurons compared to humans' one hundred billion-bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into the questions most of us never thought to ask (for example: Do bees dream? And if so, why?). With each discovery, Buchmann's insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder is infectious.

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ID: 660492

Title: We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

Author: Raja Shehadeh

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:09:01

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, History & Culture

Summary:

2023 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction

A subtle psychological portrait of the authors relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee. He was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities of their relationship.

A vocal and fearless opponent, Aziz resists under the British mandatory period, then under Jordan, and, finally, under Israel. As a young man, Raja fails to recognize his fathers courage, and in turn, his father does not appreciate Rajas own efforts in campaigning for Palestinian human rights. When Aziz is murdered in 1985, it changes Raja irrevocably.

This is not only the story of the battle against the various oppressors of the Palestinians but also a moving portrait of a particular father and son relationship.

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ID: 657323

Title: He's with the Band

Author: Julie Stone

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:09:59

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

After twenty-three years of marriage to an utter jackass and beige decor as far as the eye can see, Campbell Cavett is now divorced. Officially. But how did she lose herself for all these years? Somehow she went from being a bold, starry-eyed young groupie who followed Golden Tiger on tour to . . . snapping photos of snot-nosed kids for their Pinterest moms at the local Portrait Hut.

But she takes her Divorce Party one bottle of Pinot Grigio too far and wakes to discover she's quit her boring-ass job, arranged to sell her house, and has tickets to the Golden Tiger reunion show. Which is exactly when fate and Campbell decide it's time to pick up where she left off all those years ago.

Now Campbell's on tour as the official photographer of her favorite band and living the life she's always dreamed. But backstage access means that she's about to discover a whole lot. Not just about herself, but about a blast from her past who looks way hotter than he has any right to twenty-plus years later. Plus, there's that mind-blowing secret Golden Tiger's been hiding from everyone. They say time can heal anything. But is six weeks on the road enough to truly start fresh?

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 650173

Title: Creative Rebel's Guide to Writing Amazing Fiction

Author: Meghan March

Narrator: Meghan March

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:53:29

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

Creative flow has blessed me with thirty-nine novels that have collectively sold over 5 million copies, in sixteen languages, in under eight years, earning me over $10 million and over fifty spots on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and foreign bestselling lists.

All of my dreams came true because I learned to write amazing fiction.

I wrote this book for the old methe girl who had big dreams, but no real idea how to write the books shed need to make those big dreams come true. I wanted to make it easier for her to get to where I am now by sharing what I learned along the way. I wanted her to be able to leap over the pitfalls where I stumbled, avoid the challenges that held me back, and glide past the emotional despair, mental anguish, and burnout I faced.

I wrote this book because my readers said that no one else writes books like me, and I thought I bet I can teach some people how and humanity could benefit from better books being written.

Ultimately, I wrote this book because it was fun, and I enjoyed writing it immensely.

I hope you love it and that it helps you on your creative journey. I hope all of your dreams come true because you learn to write amazing fiction. Dont ever underestimate where it can take you.

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