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ID: 506564

Title: Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis

Author: James Rickards

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:52:45

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-21

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

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'One of the scariest books I've read... The picture that emerges is dark yet comprehensive and satisfying' Bloomberg Businessweek

'Let's hope he's wrong' Financial Times

In his latest book, financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows how currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics.

At best, they offer the sorry spectacle of countries stealing growth from their trading partners. At worst, they degenerate into sequential bouts of inflation, recession, retaliation and sometimes actual violence.

From clandestine gold purchases by China to the hidden agendas of sovereign wealth funds, Rickards shows how currency wars pose the greatest threat to international security and even the very real danger of the collapse of the financial system itself.

'Unsettling...fascinating...a thorough analysis of how nations have manipulated their currencies...with disastrous consequences' Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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ID: 454319

Title: Cannery Row: Penguin Modern Classics

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Jerry Farden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:26:14

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-21

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it?

Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California.

'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.'

'Uninhibited, bawdy, compassionate, inquisitive, deeply intelligent' Daily Telegraph

© John Steinbeck 1945 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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ID: 454306

Title: Log from the Sea of Cortez

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:46:55

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, World, Essays & Anthologies, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

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In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure. An exhilarating and highly entertaining read.

© John Steinbeck 1951 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454322

Title: Red Pony

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Frank Muller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:54:55

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

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Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In THE RED PONY, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pain, its responsibilities and its problems - through his acceptance of his father's gifts. First he is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults.

© John Steinbeck 1933 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454323

Title: Long Valley

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Holter Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics

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his classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themeselves in the world, these stories reflect many of the concerns key to Steinbeck as a writer; the tensions between town and city, labourers and owners, past and present. Included here are the celebrated tales, THE MURDERER and THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

© John Steinbeck 1938 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 462204

Title: Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:53:16

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

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'A man can't scrap his bloodline, can't snip the thread of immortality.' Such is the strength of Joe Saul's desperate longing for a child, that he feels as if a dark curse is upon him after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His beautiful, young, devoted wife loves him so much that she secretly conceives the child of another man. But when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever before... A powerful, tragic and deeply moving tale.

© John Steinbeck 1950 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454307

Title: Once There Was a War

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Lloyd James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:20:19

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Military, Essays & Anthologies, Language Instruction, Language Arts

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'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height. He begins in England, recounting the courage of the bomber crews, the tragic air-raids and the strangeness of the British, before being sent to Africa and joining a special operations unit off the coast of Italy. Eating, drinking talking and fighting alongside the soldiers, Steinbeck's empathy for the common man is always in evidence in these pieces, and he never fails to evoke the human side of an inhuman war.

'If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of writing.'

Chicago Tribune

© John Steinbeck 1958 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454304

Title: Russian Journal

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Essays & Travelogues, Russia

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Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A RUSSIAN JOURNAL is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. This is an intimate glimpse of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle.

© John Steinbeck 1948 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454308

Title: In Dubious Battle

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:20

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

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Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Set in California apple country, a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, as principled defiance turns into blind fanaticism. Caught in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself briefly becoming the leader of the strike before being crushed in its service. IN DUBIOUS BATTLE explores and dramatises many of the ideas and themes key to Steinbeck's writing.

© John Steinbeck 1936 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 454312

Title: Winter of Our Discontent

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:23:40

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

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Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition, and he is pitched on to a bold course, where all scruples are put aside. Steinbeck's searing examination of the evil influences of money, immorality, greed and ambition on America drew acclaim from the Nobel Committee who hailed him as an 'independent expounder of the truth'.

'Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work ... so powerful' Saul Bellow, author of Herzog

© John Steinbeck 1961 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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