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ID: 596263

Title: Snow White

Author: Donald Kasen

Narrator: The Peter Pan Players

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:17:46

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Snow White is banished to the forest for being more beautiful than the queen. She comes to live with the seven dwarfs who live and work in the forest. When the queen finds out where Snow White is she puts a spell on her and she goes to sleep. She sleeps until a handsome prince comes and wakes her.

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ID: 504978

Title: Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most: The Instant New York Times Bestseller

Author: Greg McKeown

Narrator: Greg McKeown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:02:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-21

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ESSENTIALISM COMES A GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST IMPORTANT TASKS EFFORTLESS

The intricacy of modern life has created a false dichotomy between things that are 'hard and important,' and those that are 'easy and trivial.' Everything has become so much harder than it ought to be. But, Greg McKeown, bestselling author of Essentialism, says, there is a third alternative. In Effortless, he offers practical strategies for making the most vital tasks the easiest ones. Honed over the better part of a decade, these strategies include:

Asking 'What Step Can I Remove?' (accomplish more, in fewer steps)

Having the Courage to Be Rubbish (prioritize progress over perfection)

Deciding What 'Done' Looks Like (don't keep running after you pass the finish line)

McKeown's philosophy of essentialism has helped thousands to eliminate nonessential activities and focus on the few that really matter. Working out what is essential is the first step - making these tasks effortless is the next. Effortless will show you how.

© Greg McKeown 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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ID: 501943

Title: What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Author: Minouche Shafik

Narrator: Minouche Shafik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:55:32

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Minouche Shafik provides an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive

Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change.

Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return.

Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.

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ID: 460622

Title: DK Life Stories: Florence Nightingale

Author: Kitson Jazynka

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:27:32

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-21

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Learn all about Florence Nightingale and her revolutionary nursing work in this children's biography.

In this biography, discover the fascinating story of Florence Nightingale, who cared for British soldiers during wartime as the 'Lady of the Lamp.'

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of nursing at a time when women were discouraged from working outside the home, especially in the field of science. She saved many lives both on and off the battlefield through implementing a new standard of medical care, and by leading groups of nurses to improve conditions. In this biography book for kids ages 8-11, learn all about the inspiring story of Florence Nightingale - social reformer, statistician, and mother of modern nursing who bucked the social norms of her day and changed the world.

This new biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. An age-appropriate text to create an engaging audiobook children will enjoy listening to. This is the one biography series everyone will want to collect.

© 2019 James Buckley Jr © 2020 DK Audio

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ID: 488627

Title: Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Author: Susan Neiman

Narrator: Susan Neiman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:29:22

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

This compelling audiobook narrated by Susan Neiman sheds critical light on the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorism

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their effortscombined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sadeeroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense. Featuring a substantial new afterword by Neiman that raises provocative questions about Hannah Arendt's take on Adolf Eichmann and the rationale behind the Hiroshima bombing, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and thought-provoking meditation on good and evil, life and death, and suffering and sense.

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ID: 754505

Title: Gone: A search for what remains of the world's extinct creatures

Author: Michael Blencowe

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:59:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in Gone.

'Really, really well written' – CHRIS PACKHAM

 

Inspired by his childhood obsession with extinct species, Blencowe takes us around the globe – from the forests of New Zealand to the ferries of Finland, from the urban sprawl of San Francisco to an inflatable crocodile on Brighton’s Widewater Lagoon. Spanning five centuries, from the last sighting of New Zealand’s Upland Moa to the 2012 death of the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, Lonesome George, his memoir is peppered with the accounts of the hunters and naturalists of the past as well as revealing conversations with the custodians of these totemic animals today. 

 

Each chapter focuses on a different animal, revealing insights into their unique characteristics and habitats; the history of their discovery and just how and when they came to be lost to us. 

 

Blencowe inspects the only known remains of a Huia egg at Te Papa, New Zealand; views hundreds of specimens of deceased Galapagos tortoises and Xerces Blue butterflies in the California Academy of Sciences; and pays his respects to the only soft tissue remains of the Dodo in the world. Warm, wry and thought-provoking, Gone shows that while each extinction story is different, all can inform how we live in the future. Discover and learn from the stories of the:

- Great Auk. A majestic flightless seabird of the North Atlantic and the ‘original penguin’.

- Spectacled Cormorant. The ‘ludicrous bird’ from the remote islands of the Bering Sea. 

- Steller’s Sea Cow. An incredible ten tonne dugong with skin as furrowed as oak bark. 

- Upland Moa. The improbable birds and the one-time rulers of New Zealand. 

- Huia. The unique bird with two beaks and twelve precious tail feathers. 

- South Island Kkako. The ‘orange-wattled crow’, New Zealand’s elusive Grey Ghost. 

- Xerces Blue. The gossamer-winged butterfly of the San Francisco sand dunes. 

- Pinta Island Tortoise. The slow-moving, long-lived giant of the Galápagos Islands. 

- Dodo. The superstar of extinction. 

- Schomburgk’s Deer. A mysterious deer from the wide floodplains of central Thailand. 

Ivell’s Sea Anemone. A see-through sea creature known only from southern England. 

 

A modern must-read for anyone interested in protecting our earth and its incredible wildlife, Gone is an evocative call to conserve what we have before it is lost forever.

 

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ID: 532008

Title: Face Value

Author: Ian Andrew

Narrator: Gemma Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:18:37

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

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

Summary:

The international booklife prize for fiction winner - Face Value is the gripping first book in the Wright & Tran crime thriller series. If you like electrifying action, breathless pacing, and three-dimensional characters, then you'll love Ian Andrew's award-winning special ops detective novel.

Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and both were lucky to make it home. Now, based in a run-down office in Kentish Town they try to keep their heads above water as private investigators. When two grown-up children claim their elderly parents have been kidnapped, Kara and Tien are sceptical, but they need the money and anyway, Kara could really do with keeping her mind off the man she just murdered.

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ID: 604866

Title: Brain Body Food: The Ultimate Guide to Thriving Into later Life and Reducing Dementia Risk.

Author: Ngaire Hobbins

Narrator: Ngaire Hobbins, Ross Newth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:23:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition, Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

In this unique book, you will learn food and life choices crucial to preventing avoidable physical and cognitive decline and the stark difference between those at 40 or 50, compared to what's needed as you move closer to your 80s and beyond.

Most popular health and eating plans are ideal for those in their 20s, 30s and 40s, but can be anything from unhelpful to downright harmful if you are heading towards or beyond your 70s.

Brain Body Food gives you insights into understanding that and knowing how to adapt your focus to avoid harm and relish life as you age.

The author, Ngaire Hobbins reads this book in a clear and engaging but authoritative style. Ngaire is a dietitian specialising in nutrition, wellness and brain health into later age and is skilled at presenting complex science in everyday language, making this an easy listen packed with practical, sensible advice.

You will learn:

- why weight loss is no longer good for you

- about harnessing the power of the gut microbiome

- about diabetes at later age

- anti-inflammatory and cell protective eating

- how physical activity is inextricably linked to nutrition for peak health

- practical, life-enhancing strategies for people living with frailty and/or dementia

- and much, much more

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ID: 486915

Title: Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Author: Sarah Berman

Narrator: Ewa Wolniczek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-21

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, World Religions

Summary:

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

FINALIST for 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book

FINALIST for the 2023 SCWES Book Awards

'Don't Call It A Cult is the most detailed, well-reported, and nuanced look at NXIVM's history, its supporters, and those left destroyed in its wake. If you want to understand NXIVM--and other groups like it--reading Sarah Berman's account is essential.'

--Scaachi Koul, bestselling author of One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.

Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labour. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, an organization run by Keith Raniere and his high-profile enablers (Seagram heir Clare Bronfman; Smallville actor Allison Mack; Battlestar Galactica actor Nicki Clyne). In her deeply researched account, Berman unravels how young women seeking creative coaching and networking opportunities found themselves blackmailed, literally branded, near-starved, and enslaved. With the help of the Bronfman fortune Raniere built a wall of silence around these abuses, leveraging the legal system to go after enemies and whistleblowers.

Don't Call It a Cult shows that these abuses looked very different from the inside, where young women initially received mentorship and protection. Don't Call It a Cult is a riveting account of NXIVM's rise to power, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world. It explores why so many were drawn to its message of empowerment yet could not recognize its manipulative and harmful leader for what he was--a criminal.

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ID: 503653

Title: Great Godden

Author: Meg Rosoff

Narrator: Andrew Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:10:17

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: Penguin Teen

Genres: Teen, General, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

We Were Liars meets Call Me By Your Name in this lyrical and quintessential coming-of-age tale about a summer when everything changes, from Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of the iconic novel How I Live Now.

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer. . . . In a holiday house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things they shouldn't, as their brother and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers: irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise -- and the consequences will be devastating.

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