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ID: 755280

Title: Death in the Stacks

Author: Jenn McKinlay

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:25:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

In the latest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Better Late Than Never, the library’s big fund-raiser leaves director Lindsey Norris booked for trouble....

Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library’s annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover’s dream—it’s the library’s biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable.

Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the event a success. But when Olive publicly threatens the library’s newest hire, Paula, Lindsey cracks like an old book spine and throws Olive out of the library.

The night of the fund-raiser, Lindsey dreads another altercation with Olive—but instead finds Paula crouched over Olive’s dead body. Paula may have secrets, but Lindsey and the rest of the crafternooners know she’s not the one who took Olive out of circulation. As the plot thickens, Lindsey must catch the real killer before the book closes on Paula’s future....

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ID: 692302

Title: Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

Author: Byron Tau

Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:06:21

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Social Science, Computers

Summary:

You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.

“A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.”—Kirkus Reviews

“That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance program—one designed to track everyone.”

For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring.

Of course, our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this: Ever get the sense that an ad is “following” you around the internet? But the true potential of our phones, computers, homes, credit cards, and even the tires underneath our cars to reveal our habits and behavior would astonish most citizens. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of valuable data about every one of us. That data is for sale—and the biggest customer is the U.S. government.

In the years after 9/11, the U.S. government, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus of breathtaking scope—one that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directive—“get everything you can”—and the result is a surreal world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. And the public knows virtually nothing about it.

Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargain—ubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price?

*Includes a downloadable PDF of resources and key concepts & definitions from the book

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ID: 692259

Title: Haunting in the Arctic

Author: C. J. Cooke

Narrator: Lucy Goldie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:11:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

A  deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches.

The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew – and they’re all owed something only she can give them...

Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbidding, remote coast of Iceland. It’s scheduled to be destroyed, but explorer Dominique feels an inexplicable pull to document its last days, even though those who have ventured onto the wreck before her have met uncanny ends.

 

Onboard the boat, Dominique will uncover a dark past riddled with lies, cruelty, and murder—and her discovery will change everything. Because she’ll soon realize she’s not alone. Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for almost a century. Something that craves revenge.

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ID: 724335

Title: Buffalo Fluffalo

Author: Bess Kalb

Narrator: Bess Kalb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:14

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Introducing a sweet and silly buffalo who tries to bluff and fluff his way into being bigger than he really is. This laugh-out-loud story by an Emmy-nominated comedy writer shows it’s okay to be yourself.

I’m the Buffalo Fluffalo

I heave and I huffalo

Leave me alone because

I’ve had enuffalo.

Buffalo Fluffalo arrives on the scene puffed up with self-importance. Stomping around and raising billows of dust, Buffalo Fluffalo proclaims his superiority to the other creatures—the ram, the prairie dog, and the crow—who just want to be his friend. So Buffalo Fluffalo, who has had enuffalo, heads off to grumble to himself. Suddenly, a rain shower pours down from the clouds and—what’s this? All of his fluffalo is a soggy mess! There Fluffalo stands, a drenched pip-squeak without his disguise. The other animals, who could see through Fluffalo’s bravado from the start, circle around to comfort him. As prairie dog says with a smile in his eyes, You’re great how you are, no matter your size.

Listeners will find Buffalo Fluffalo’s insecurity endearing and will be moved to reassure him. This humorous and delightful book encourages self-acceptance with a lighthearted touch.

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ID: 757175

Title: Loot: A novel

Author: Tania James

Narrator: Maanuv Thiara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:23:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years.

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Kirkus Reviews

“Addictively absorbing.” —The New York Times Book Review

This wildly inventive, irresistible feat of storytelling from a writer at the height of her powers is 'an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel about war, displacement, emigration, and an elusive mechanical tiger' (Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait).

Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to build a giant tiger automaton for Tipu’s sons, a gift to commemorate their return from British captivity. His fate—and the fate of the wooden tiger he helps create—will mirror the vicissitudes of nations and dynasties ravaged by war across India and Europe.

Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Lucien du Leze, Abbas hones his craft, learns French, and meets Jehanne, the daughter of a French expatriate.  When Du Leze is finally permitted to return home to Rouen, he invites Abbas to come along as his apprentice. But by the time Abbas travels to Europe, Tipu’s palace has been looted by British forces, and the tiger automaton has disappeared. To prove himself, Abbas must retrieve the tiger from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art.

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ID: 718439

Title: White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Author: Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:02:38

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles

“This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.”—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American Psychosis

White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions. Their rage—stoked daily by Republican politicians and the conservative media—now poses an existential threat to the United States.

Schaller and Waldman show how vulnerable U.S. democracy has become to rural Whites who, despite legitimate grievances, are increasingly inclined to hold racist and xenophobic beliefs, to believe in conspiracy theories, to accept violence as a legitimate course of political action, and to exhibit antidemocratic tendencies. Rural White Americans’ attitude might best be described as “I love my country, but not our country,” Schaller and Waldman argue. This phenomenon is the patriot paradox of rural America: The citizens who take such pride in their patriotism are also the least likely to defend core American principles. And by stoking rural Whites’ anger rather than addressing the hard problems they face, conservative politicians and talking heads create a feedback loop of resentments that are undermining American democracy.

Schaller and Waldman provocatively critique both the structures that permit rural Whites’ disproportionate influence over American governance and the prospects for creating a pluralist, inclusive democracy that delivers policy solutions that benefit rural communities. They conclude with a political reimagining that offers a better future for both rural people and the rest of America.

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ID: 692295

Title: Defiant Joy: Find the Hope to Light Your Way, Even in the Darkness

Author: Jennifer Michelle Greenberg

Narrator: Jennifer Michelle Greenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:42:30

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Rediscover the God of joy, who defies the suffering of this broken life—from the author of Not Forsaken

 

“A gift to all who search for hope.”—W. Lee Warren, MD, author of Hope Is the First Dose

When Jennifer Greenberg escaped her abusive childhood home at the age of twenty-one, she found that few Christians knew how to encourage her. Platitudes such as, “God won’t give you more than you can handle,” “Forgive and forget,” and “Have faith!” left her feeling misunderstood and alone. Would she ever be whole again? Could joy exist for someone so broken?

 

By discarding false theology and toxic positivity, Greenberg discovered joy beyond anything she was taught in church: joy that’s a gift from God. In her new book, Defiant Joy, Greenberg shares this groundbreaking hope as she explores

 

• why philosophies like the prosperity gospel and legalism fail us

• how Jesus is with us amid our sadness, disappointment, anger, and anxiety

• how God’s joy far exceeds any emotion we can muster 

 

God doesn’t want you to pretend you’re okay. Discover the freedom of living beyond performance faith. Embrace a joy that shines in defiance of the darkness.

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ID: 760248

Title: From Slavery to the Stars

Author: Andreea Kindryd

Narrator: Andreea Kindryd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:56:03

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-24

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure.  It's about

more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor's love story; it's a journey

through history, loss, and triumph.

Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm

X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and faced the

challenges of breaking through the glass ceiling. She has fulfilled her dreams now and makes

her home on the other side of the world, living under the stars of the Southern Cross

in Australia.

Her story is a celebration of human resilience, a testament to the beauty of diversity, and a

reminder of our shared journey on this planet. It's a firsthand account of remarkable people

who changed the world, seen through her unique and personal lens.

A must-read for those who crave a story that both enlightens and entertains.

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ID: 692290

Title: Liturgies for Wholeness: 60 Prayers to Encounter the Depth, Creativity, and Friendship of God in Ordinary Moments

Author: Audrey Elledge, Elizabeth Moore

Narrator: Audrey Elledge, Elizabeth Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:39:56

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Prayer, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Sixty modern and inspiring liturgies that offer compassionate insight to nurture your soul, from the bestselling authors of Liturgies for Hope.

“A voice of reassurance and a much needed reminder of the hope we have.”—Joshua Luke Smith, performing artist, pastor, and author

What if my current life is preparing me for something I can’t see?

Oh God, when I feel overlooked and forgotten,

when I ache to be important,

redirect my heart to You who remembers me.

When your spirit is restless and you can’t find the words, these modern-day liturgies help you articulate your brokenness to the God who calls you beloved.

The lyrical prayers in Liturgies for Wholeness name our longings—the ache for physical rest, the grief over something we never had, the desire for healing in a relationship—even as they call us to notice the blessing of washing our face and watching nightfall and sink deep into an awareness of God’s presence.

Divided into eight sections—including Mind, Senses, Body, Home, and Community—these liturgies can be read communally or individually to bring you into greater intimacy with God. Each prayer includes related Scripture references to offer you further opportunity for meditation and reflection.

With each liturgy in Liturgies for Wholeness, may you sense God’s deep desire for you and may you delight in the only One who can make you whole.

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ID: 746250

Title: Idiot's Guides Beginning Investing: Explore the Risks and Rewards for Various Investment Options

Author: Danielle L. Schultz

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:45:22

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

For a beginner, investing can be an overwhelming and intimidating topic, and finding which   investment options are right for you is an almost impossible task. Idiot's   Guides: Beginning Investing helps the new investor understand all the most   common investment options, how to choose the right ones for your needs and   goals, and how to increase your chances for success. This audiobook covers:

 

- Self-assessment tools that help readers understand their own personal   risk tolerance and choose the investment strategies that fit their   needs.

- Basics on each investment type, including stocks, bonds, mutual   funds, real estate, and more, with primers on each investment type, the   basics on how to invest with each option, and how to improve chances for   success.

- The dos and don'ts of real estate investing, including what to pursue, and what to avoid when it comes to real estate.

- Simple strategies for investing in the bond market

- Tips and tricks for investing in stocks, including which types of stocks   to avoid and which types to buy

- How to protect assets and invest using time-tested and sensible   techniques

- Setting goals and investing for college, retirement, luxury purchases, and other common financial goals

- Managing investments and personal portfolios for both short term and long-term gains

 

   © 2016 Danielle L. Schultz © 2023 DK Audio

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