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ID: 399488

Title: North Korea Journal

Author: Michael Palin

Narrator: Michael Palin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:54:23

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-19

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Asia, Global Politics, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.

In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth. His resulting two-part documentary for Channel 5 fascinated millions and won universal plaudits.

Now he shares the journal he meticulously kept during his trip, in which he describes his experiences in a country wholly unlike any other he has ever visited: a country where you will find the Tallest Unoccupied Building in the World; where the residents of Pyongyang awake every morning to the strains of 'Where Are You, Dear General?', broadcast from speakers across the city; and where there are fifteen approved styles of haircut. He chronicles a journey of stark contrasts that takes in a gleamingly modern capital complete with triumphal statues and arches one day, and a countryside that has barely changed in decades on another. He travels to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, to a centuries-old Confucian academy, and to the heart of North Korea's exquisitely beautiful mountains and lakes. He recounts conversations with official guides, teachers, propaganda artists, farmers and soldiers in which mutual incomprehension and shared humanity are constantly intermingled. And he muses on what makes people tick under a regime that to outsiders seems so utterly alien and so grimly authoritarian.

Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, Palin's journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.

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ID: 395906

Title: To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

Author: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Narrator: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:35:33

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-19

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet.

When Diana Beresford-Kroeger--whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O'Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions--was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O'Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, took her under their wing. Diana became the last ward under the Brehon Law. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality. Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate.

     This book is not only the story of a remarkable scientist and her ideas, it harvests all of her powerful knowledge about why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently shows us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods.

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ID: 406231

Title: Women: Our Story

Author: Dk , Lucy Worsley

Narrator: Stephanie Racine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-19

Publisher: DK Audio

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

Summary:

Stephanie Racine narrates Women: Our History, which re-examines history from a female perspective. This audiobook celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.

Packed full of evocative facts, and with a foreword by Lucy Worsley, this audiobook reveals the key events in women's history - from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women's Day - and the key role women have had in shaping our past.

Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big names of women's history - powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks - and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the 'forgotten' events of women's history.

Placing women firmly centre stage, Women: Our History shows women where they have come from, and, in celebrating the achievements of women of the past offers positive role models for women of today.

© 2019 Dorling Kindersley Ltd © 2019 DK Audio

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ID: 398700

Title: Made to Thrive: The Five Roles to Evolve Beyond Your Leadership Comfort Zone

Author: Brad Giles

Narrator: Brad Giles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:25:26

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

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

Summary:

What is the difference between a good leader, and a great leader?

What results do great leaders consistently achieve, and what activities do they perform in order to accomplish these results?

Are some leaders simply Made to Thrive, creating growing, profitable organisations with magnet like cultures for attracting talent, while the rest are destined to accept only good results?

Or, is it possible to learn the key roles that great leaders perform, in order to achieve enduring, great results?

Yes.

In this book Brad Giles provides a detailed step-by-step process for leaders to identify their key opportunities, evolve beyond their leadership comfort zone and implement tools to achieve enduring greatness as a leader.

Made to Thrive is a simple, practical and definitive practitioners guide on how to be a great leader.

*Audiobook includes companion PDF containing images and tools from the book.

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ID: 405622

Title: Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom

Author: Monty Don

Narrator: Monty Don

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:39:13

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-19

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Home & Garden

Summary:

Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience.

This is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice.

Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and much more. Hear about the month-by-month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you.

Monty's warm voice brings this most intimate book to life - an enriching listen for any gardener.

'I have written many gardening books, but this is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden grow well, and it also shares my view that gardening is the secret to living well, too.' (Monty)

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ID: 403996

Title: This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

Author: Yancey Strickler

Narrator: Yancey Strickler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:36:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-19

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Break free from a wealth-obsessed world

Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) that this path is inevitable.

These ideas separate us, keep us powerless, and limit our imagination for the future. We see them as the truth, but they are just a point of view that previous generations accepted as inevitable. It's time we replace them with something new.

In this bold, powerful book, Yancey Strickler co-founder of Kickstarter lays out an inspiring vision for a new world we have the power to create and how we can change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it's also produced dire consequences: environmental collapse, corruption, exploitation, and unhappiness around the world. We don't have to get rid of money entirely, though: we can co-opt the tools we have used toward better measurement of what matters, technology, and specificity of goals--and refocus them to build a more generous, fair, and future-prepared society. By re-calibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can blossom into a world of abundance.

Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete examples and bursting with creativity, This Could Be Our Future brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making.

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ID: 392029

Title: Why Trust Science?

Author: Naomi Oreskes

Narrator: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, Nancy Crane, Richard Lyddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:28:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, History, Philosophy

Summary:

This provocative audiobook reveals why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy

Featuring narration by Kelly Burke, John Chancer, Nancy Crane, Richard Lyddon, and Kerry Shale

Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strengthand the greatest reason we can trust it.

Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, Oreskes explains that, contrary to popular belief, there is no single scientific method. Rather, the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted. This process is not perfectnothing ever is when humans are involvedbut she draws vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong. Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy.

Based on the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University, this timely and provocative book features critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.

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ID: 395909

Title: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Author: Romeo Dallaire

Narrator: Marcel Jeannin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:13:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Military, Political Advocacy

Summary:

A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire.

     Serving in Rwanda in 1993, LGen. Roméo Dallaire and his small peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the UN in a vortex of civil war and genocide. With meagre resources to stem the killing, General Dallaire was witness to the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in a hundred days, and returned home broken, disillusioned and suicidal. Shake Hands with the Devil is his return to Rwanda: a searing book that is both an eyewitness account of the failure of humanity to stop the genocide, and the story of General Dallaire's own struggle to find a measure of peace, reconciliation and hope.

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ID: 414995

Title: Weird, Crude, Funny, and Nude: The Bible Exposed

Author: Tom French

Narrator: Tom French

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:22:13

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

Ultimate fighting bears, a fat king who poops himself, zombies, donkey bits, and a fart.

These are not the things youd expect to find in the Bible, but theyre all there. If you thought the Bible was dull, think again. This is your chance to discover all the parts of the Bible they dont teachin Sunday school - but probably should.

Weird, Crude, Funny, and Nudeis a hilarious, Christ-centred, and somewhat inappropriate look at some of the least known and discussed parts of the Bible. It's ideal for anyone who thinks nudity, poop, and farts are funny.

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ID: 375015

Title: Painted Castle

Author: Kristy Cambron

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Set in three time periods—the rapid change of Victorian England, the peak of England’s home-front tensions at the end of WWII, and modern day—The Painted Castle unlocks secrets lost for generations just waiting to be found.

A lost painting of Queen Victoria. A library bricked off from the world. And three women, separated by time, whose lives are irrevocably changed.

In Victorian England, talented sketch artist Elizabeth Meade is engaged to Viscount Huxley, owner of Parham Hill. However, Elizabeth’s real motive for being at Parham Hill has nothing to do with art or marriage. She’s determined to avenge her father’s brutal murder—even if it means a betrothal to the very man she believes committed the crime.

A century later, Amelia Woods—a World War II widow who has turned Parham Hill and its beloved library into a boarding school for refugee children—receives military orders to house a troop of American pilots. She is determined the children in her care will remain untouched by the war, but the task is proving difficult with officers taking up every square inch of their world . . . and one in particular vying for a space in Amelia’s long-shut up heart.

When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career and life back on track. But from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott, she’s left with far more questions than answers. Could this lost painting of Queen Victoria be a duplicate of the original Winterhalter masterpiece, and if so, who is the artist?

Praise for The Painted Castle:

“A gripping tale of secrets hidden behind the walls of an ancient English castle.” —KATE BRESLIN, bestselling author of Far Side of the Sea

- A Sweet Historical Split-time Romance

- The third and final book in the Lost Castle series

- Books do not have to be read in order

- Full-length novel with three woman each finding her own happily ever after

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