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ID: 400105

Title: Haile Selassie: The Life and Legacy of the Ethiopian Emperor Revered as the Messiah by Rastafarians

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Colin Fluxman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:49:36

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, World

Summary:

Before World War II, few in the West had ever heard of Abyssinia, and fewer still could point to a map and tell precisely where it was. On the eve of that war, in the autumn of 1935, as the forces of imperial Italy prepared to invade the sovereign territory of Ethiopia, the leaders of the Allies brimmed with sympathy for the imperiled African kingdom but offered nothing in the way of practical assistance. Rallying his subjects against the invaders was Negus Negusti, the King of Kings, Emperor Haile Selassie, the last ruler of the great Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia. The Italians, led by Benito Mussolini, were practically unassailable at that point, and while a bold resistance was mounted to hold back their invasion, the effort was ultimately futile. On May 2, 1936, as the Italian army bore down on the capital at Addis Ababa, Emperor Haile Selassie boarded a train and fled east to the French territory of Djibouti. From there, he was granted asylum in Britain.

Haile Selassie, a god-like figure among his devotees and followers, was recognized then as one of the great political personalities of the 20th century, and his influence over world affairs was disproportionate, bearing in mind the minor international significance of Ethiopia itself, a feudal society steeped in medieval traditions. His Appeal to the League of Nations, an address delivered to the world body in 1936 that admonished it for betraying its own principles, still ranks today as one of the greatest moments of political oratory ever recorded.

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ID: 386030

Title: Japan and World War I: The History of the Japanese Empires Participation in the Great War

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Colin Fluxman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:55:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Asia, Military

Summary:

In the Second World War, Japanese forces ranged over an immense portion of the globe, from Hawaii to Sri Lanka, but during World War I, Japanese naval forces spanned an even larger portion of the globe. Japanese warships escorted troopships carrying Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops to the Middle East, Japanese cruisers hunted German commerce raiders in the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and all over the Pacific, and Japanese destroyers plowed Mediterranean waters as they escorted British convoys from Egypt to Gibraltar and searched for German and Austrian submarines. Japanese troops besieged the German citadel of Qingdao in China, forcing that German colonial city and naval base to surrender, and through it all, Japanese naval forces stood guard off Mexico, Hawaii and the American West Coast.

All of this was accomplished with by far the fewest military losses of any of the major Allies. Japan lost perhaps 4,000 soldiers and sailors during the war, while the French and Germans lost several million. For comparison, tiny Montenegro had 20,000 World War 1 casualties, Portugal 33,000, and Bulgaria suffered 267,000. Indeed, the Japanese losses in World War I represented a small fraction of the losses incurred in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Yet Japanese strategic gains were far greater that what was obtained in the previous war, as they took the German North Pacific islands, they had a relatively free hand to exploit China, and they gained an uneasy peace with the young Soviet Union. In short, World War 1 brought Japan recognition as one of the worlds primary military and economic powers.

Japan and World War I: The History of the Japanese Empires Participation in the Great War analyzes the actions of the forgotten ally, and how Japans participation helped set the stage for its expansion across the Pacific.

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ID: 384852

Title: Predators of Eden

Author: D. W. Vogel

Narrator: Jay Benson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:15:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A heart-pounding adventure. . . . Its The Walking Dead, but with dinosaurs. Like a hungry T-rex, Horizon Alpha: Predators of Eden got its claws right into me. Gillian Philip, author of the Rebel Angels Series

We never would have come here if wed known.

Two hundred years ago, the great Ark Horizon Alpha escaped a doomed Earth and went searching for a new home. The passengers landed on Tau Ceti e expecting paradise, but instead they discovered a planet stuck in its own version of the cretaceous period. The humans one defense against the dinosaurs ravaging the planet is an electric fence, built from the remains of the shuttles that brought them there.

But Eden base has only days of power left.

With most of the adult men dead, rookie soldier Caleb Wilde and his unit of teenage boys leave the electric fences of Eden in search of a reactor core lost deep in the jungle.

The last remnant of the human race waits behind the electric fence for their return. The dinosaurs wait, toofor the electricity to die and the feast to begin.

I've often dreamt of trying to survive on a new planet and pitting myself against nature. My dreams were never this chilling, nor the ending as thrilling. I highly recommend this high energy adventure and would place it between Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clark. Reid Minnich, author of Koinobi trilogy.

There's plenty of jet fuel for the imagination. The pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the safety of no one is guaranteed. John Burris, author of Brothers

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ID: 384515

Title: Guild of Tokens: Enforcer

Author: Jon Auerbach

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:04:17

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

When the Quests are real, the consequences can be deadly.

It's been six years since Beatrice Taylor discovered the Quest Board and her life changed forever.

The rules of the Board are simple:

Complete a Quest, get a token.

The harder the Quest, the more tokens you earn.

Get enough tokens, and you level up.

Except the Quest Board isn't in a video game. It's real.

Beatrice has worked her way up from the bottom and now shes ready to hit the big time and tackle some epic Raids.

Except theres just one problem: the Guild, a shadowy group that has its tentacles in every part of the Questing world in New York City, and it doesnt appreciate Beatrices accolades and meteoric rise.

But Beatrice isnt afraid.

In fact, shes been preparing for this day ever since she first made contact with the Guild.

She just didnt expect that it would send an enforcer today of all days: her first wedding anniversary.

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ID: 383941

Title: Nurse for the Wolfman

Author: Eve Langlais

Narrator: Troy Duran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:44:53

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

What happens when a nurse falls for the wolfman?The job offer is a dream come true. Three times her usual salary. Free meals and a suite. The only catch? Margaret cant tell anyone about it.

Hidden in the Rockies, the clinic is well protected andodd. It doesnt take her long to realize the doctors and scientists are up to no good. Especially once she meets Luke.

Her patient is an angry man who used to be a soldier. Now, hes something else. A savage beast with gentle eyes that glow green when hes agitated.

What has he become?

And will she be next?

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ID: 384840

Title: Brother's Ruin: Industrial Magic Book 1

Author: Emma Newman

Narrator: Emma Newman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:30:01

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. The Industrial Revolution, powered by the Royal Societys magic, is changing the world and fortunes can be made by those with strong magical talent. Newly discovered talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages are snapped up for a pittance.

Charlotte Gunn doesnt trust the Royal Society and is hiding her magical talents to avoid being forcibly recruited by them. But when her magic is mistaken as her brothers and he is put forward for compulsory testing, she has a terrible choice to make; watch him be taken from their struggling family for little compensation, or pass off her talents as his own to make the magi pay more for taking him.

When her fathers life is put in danger by a terrifying debt collection agency with a record of people dying on their premises, Charlotte is forced to trick the most powerful people in the land to paying her family higher compensation in order to clear her fathers debt. But can she keep her own magical talents hidden and remain free herself?

This is the audiobook version of the novella published by Tor.com.

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ID: 384525

Title: Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

Author: Beatrix Potter

Narrator: Diana Aday

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:11:40

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a delightful story of an eastern grey squirrel who grows so fat eating nuts stored in a hollow tree, he cannot escape from the tree. Along the way, he and his wife, Goody Tiptoes, meet a flock of chirping birds and a charming chipmunk and his wife, who befriend Timmy and Goody, and they share in the adventures of collecting nuts for the winter.

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ID: 387366

Title: Ellis Island and Angel Island: The History and Legacy of Americas Most Famous Immigration Stations

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:26:08

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

On New Years Day 1892, a young Irish girl named Annie Moore stepped off the steamship Nevada and landed on a tiny island that once held a naval fort. As she made her way through the large building on that island, Annie was processed as the first immigrant to come to America through Ellis Island. Like so many immigrants before her, she and her family settled in an Irish neighborhood in the city, and she would live out the rest of her days there.

Thanks to the opening of Ellis Island near the end of the 19th century, immigration into New York City exploded, and the citys population nearly doubled in a decade. By the 1900s, 2 million people considered themselves New Yorkers, and Ellis Island would be responsible not just for that but for much of the influx of immigrants into the nation as a whole over the next half a century. To this day, about a third of the Big Apples population is comprised of immigrants today, making it one of the most diverse cities in the world.

Angel Island, the largest island in San Francisco Bay at about 740 acres, was originally named when Don Juan Manuel Ayala sailed into San Francisco Bay. Supposedly, the island was named Angel because the land mass appeared to him as an angel guarding the bay, and when Ayala made a map of the Bay, on it he marked Angel Island as, Isla de Los Angeles.

The island is currently a large state park with beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay and skyline, but the most noteworthy part of the park is the immigration museum. That site is what makes Angel Island so famous today, as it remains best known for being the entry point for Asian immigrants to the United States from 1910-1940.There is no way to know for sure how many people actually passed through Angel Island because of the destruction of most of the historical documentation in a fire, but historians estimate that it was between 100,000 and 500,000 people.

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ID: 387367

Title: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: The Lives and Careers of the First Men on the Moon

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:27:41

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, History

Summary:

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work. Neil Armstrong

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them. Buzz Aldrin

At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stood still throughout the world, as thousands converged on the Kennedy Space Center and millions tuned in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground, as a small spacecraft attached to the giant Saturn V rocket several hundred feet tall started lifting off. Quickly being propelled several thousand miles per hour, it takes just a few minutes to reach a speed of 15,000 miles per hour, and just a few more minutes to enter orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. Apollo 11 was on its way to a historic first landing on the Moon.

Apollo 11s trip to the Moon may have started on that day in 1969, but the journey had begun over a decade earlier as part of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. While landing on the Moon was a noble goal proposed as early as 1961 by President Kennedy, NASA and the nation as a whole moved with urgency simply to best the Soviet Union, which had spent the 1950s beating America to important space-related firsts, including launching the first satellite and cosmonaut in orbit. In fact, President Eisenhowers administration began the design for the Apollo program in 1960 in hopes of getting a head start to the Moon, despite the fact the plans originated a year before the first Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbited the Earth and two years before John Glenn did.

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ID: 386029

Title: Angel Island: The History and Legacy of the Immigration Center in San Francisco Bay

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:12:18

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

Angel Island, the largest island in San Francisco Bay at about 740 acres, was originally named when Don Juan Manuel Ayala sailed into San Francisco Bay. Supposedly, the island was named Angel because the land mass appeared to him as an angel guarding the bay, and when Ayala made a map of the Bay, on it he marked Angel Island as, Isla de Los Angeles. This would remain the islands name ever since, even as the use of the island would certainly change over time.

The island is currently a large state park with beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay and skyline, but the most noteworthy part of the park is the immigration museum. That site is what makes Angel Island so famous today, as it remains best known for being the entry point for Asian immigrants to the United States from 1910-1940. There is no way to know for sure how many people actually passed through Angel Island because of the destruction of most of the historical documentation in a fire, but historians estimate that it was between 100,000 and 500,000 people.

Angel Island is often referred to the Ellis Island of the West, but many argue that they are extremely different in their preservation of immigrant histories. For one, Angel Island took much longer to preserve, and the preservation of Ellis Island focuses on the positive reception of European immigrants on the East Coast, which plays well to corporate sponsors and the American story. Historian John Bodnar explained that Ellis Island represents the view of American history as a steady succession progress and uplift for ordinary people.

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