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ID: 758293

Title: Summer in the City

Author: Ashley Capes

Narrator: Joshua Macrae

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:40:51

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

Reed is about to snap - and this time, nothing is going to stand in his way when it comes to getting answers for Elise, not even a supposedly long-vanished Sumerian God.

Or so Reed thinks.

But summer in the city isn't going to be like the others. The city itself isn't quite the same either, and even if you're lucky (or cursed) enough to count the children of Gods among your friends, nothing is ever simple...

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ID: 691809

Title: Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back

Author: Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias

Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:56:46

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Politics, History

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product.

In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations sign contracts they didn't understand, and took resources just because they were there.

Colonialism has not disappeared it has taken a new form. In the new world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. They tell us this is for our own good, to build innovation and develop new technology. But in fact every time we unthinkingly click 'Accept' on Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to kept indefinitely, repackaged by big Tech companies to control and exploit us for their own profit.

This is the era of data colonialism. The new colonial landgrab is a DATAGRAB.

In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future - and how we can fight back.

©2024 Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 723449

Title: Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World

Author: Colin Elliott

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:59:24

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: History, World, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell gives a dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle

In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall. In Pox Romana, historian Colin Elliott offers a comprehensive, wide-ranging account of this pivotal moment in Roman history.

Did a single disease—its origins and diagnosis still a mystery—bring Rome to its knees? Carefully examining all the available evidence, Elliott shows that Rome’s problems were more insidious. Years before the pandemic, the thin veneer of Roman peace and prosperity had begun to crack: the economy was sluggish, the military found itself bogged down in the Balkans and the Middle East, food insecurity led to riots and mass migration, and persecution of Christians intensified. The pandemic exposed the crumbling foundations of a doomed Empire. Arguing that the disease was both cause and effect of Rome’s fall, Elliott describes the plague’s “preexisting conditions”—Rome’s multiple economic, social, and environmental susceptibilities; recounts the history of the outbreak itself through the experiences of physician, victim, and political operator; and explores post-pandemic crises. The pandemic’s most transformative power, Elliott suggests, may have been its lingering presence as a threat both real and perceived.

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ID: 719890

Title: Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future

Author: Denise Hamilton

Narrator: Denise Hamilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:26:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Denise Hamilton helps listeners unpack their preconceived notions and reimagine a world that’s better than just “inclusive.”

Denise Hamilton has always believed in the power and promise of a word she learned as a schoolgirl: “indivisible.” In her groundbreaking debut, she challenges listeners to move beyond current notions of diversity and inclusion to build communities, workplaces, and relationships that live up to that word. She urges us to reexamine long-held beliefs and habits and to dismantle hierarchies that shape our current society. If we want to repair the fraying stitches that bind us together, if we want to build a truly close-knit collective, we cannot settle for our present approach. It’s time to recalibrate and identify a goal higher than inclusivity—the goal of indivisibility.

As a nationally recognized DEI leader, Hamilton shares accessible, personal stories and offers self-examination questions, intentional action steps, and journal prompts. While the audiobook has a focus on business and leadership, the lessons within can transform our professional and personal lives.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains charts and graphs from throughout the book.

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ID: 692304

Title: Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Author: Gracie Gold

Narrator: Gracie Gold

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:39:29

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Other, Mental Health

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “piercing account” (The Wall Street Journal) of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costs—especially if you’re an Olympic figure skater.

“A riveting memoir, which details her experience with an eating disorder, depression and her high-stakes career.”—People (Best Books to Read in February 2024)

 

When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America’s sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America’s most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly being written up everywhere from The New Yorker to Teen Vogue to People and baking cookies with Taylor Swift.

But little did the public know what Gold was facing when the cameras were off, driven by the self-destructive voice inside that she calls “outofshapeworthlessloser.” In 2017, she entered treatment for what was publicly announced as an eating disorder and anxiety treatment but was, in reality, suicidal ideation. While Gold’s public star was rising, her private life was falling apart: Cracks within her family were widening, her bulimia was getting worse, and she became a survivor of sexual assault. The pressure of training for years with demanding coaches and growing up in a household that accepted nothing less than gold had finally taken its toll.

Now Gold reveals the exclusive and harrowing story of her struggles in and out of the pressure-packed world of elite figure skating: the battles with her family, her coaches, the powers-that-be at her federation, and her deteriorating mental health.

Outofshapeworthlessloser is not only a forceful reckoning from a world-class athlete but also an intimate memoir, told with unflinching honesty and stirring defiance.

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ID: 709855

Title: Dane's Mark

Author: Lora Leigh

Narrator: Brianna Bronte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:31

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

A new kind of Breed is faced with what happens when destiny and desire collide in the latest novel in the highly charged series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh.

 

A decade ago Katy Chavos was a proud misfit who had her heart broken, crushed by a man who drew her close with one breath and pulled away the next. He left a mark she’s done everything in her power to erase. But when Katy’s job brings her back to the hometown she couldn’t wait to escape, seeing Dane again awakens something inside her that won’t be tamed....

 

Dane Vanderale isn’t like other Breeds. As a hybrid he’s stronger, more primal, and more determined to hide it. He’s also certain that Katy is not his mate—not that that stops him from wanting her with every part of his soul. He knows he hurt her deeply and he intends to make things right, but she is dead set on keeping him at arm’s length.

 

Despite their painful history, Katy can’t deny the intense attraction she still feels for Dane. And before long, it will be impossible for either to deny the truth that has been in front of them all along....

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ID: 692250

Title: How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

Author: Shayla Lawson

Narrator: Shayla Lawson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:17:34

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Essays & Travelogues

Summary:

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major with these daring and exquisitely crafted essays, where Lawson journeys across the globe, finds beauty in tumultuous times, and powerfully disrupts the constraints of race, gender, and disability.

One of Esquire's Best Memoirs of 2024

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Elle, Them, Book Riot, LitHub, Stylecaster, and Chicago Review of Books

In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.

Through encounters with a gorgeous gondolier in Venice, an ex-husband in the Netherlands, and a lost love on New Year’s Eve in Mexico City, Lawson’s travels bring unexpected wisdom about life in and out of love. They learn the strength of friendships and the dangers of beauty during a narrow escape in Egypt. They examine Blackness in post-dictatorship Zimbabwe, then take us on a secretive tour of Black freedom movements in Portugal.

Through a deeply insightful journey, Lawson leads readers from a castle in France to a hula hoop competition in Jamaica to a traditional theater in Tokyo to a Prince concert in Minnesota and, finally, to finding liberation on a beach in Bermuda, exploring each location—and their deepest emotions—to the fullest. In the end, they discover how the trials of marriage, grief, and missed connections can lead to self-transformation and unimagined new freedoms.

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ID: 701035

Title: Witches of Brooklyn

Author: Sophie Escabasse

Narrator: Aspen Vincent, Blaire Chandler, Ej Lavery, Erin Bennett, Ian James Corlett, James Fouhey, Jeanette Illidge, Josh Hurley, Mirai , Sara Matsui-Colby, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:27:49

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Comics & Graphic Novels

Summary:

There's a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family.

A middle-grade graphic novel adventure—adapted for audio—filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making Friends.

Could there really be witches in Brooklyn?!

Effie's aunts are weird. Like, really WEIRD. Really, really, really WEIRD! The secretly-magic kind of weird and that makes Effie wonder . . . does this mean she can do magic, too?

Life in Brooklyn takes a strange twist for Effie as she learns more about her family and herself. With new friends who will do whatever they can to be there for her, a cursed pop-star, and her magically-inclined aunts--Effie's life is about to get interesting.

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ID: 716672

Title: Wraith Squadron: Star Wars Legends (Wraith Squadron)

Author: Aaron Allston

Narrator: Marc Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:03:23

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Space Opera

Summary:

As the battle against the Empire rages, a new crew of X-wing fighters risk life and machine on a daring undercover mission and emerge as the Rebel Alliance’s elite strike force.

It is Wedge Antilles’s boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects being given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial admiral Trigit and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. 

The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. However, the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.

Are they up to the challenge?

If not, the penalty is instant death.

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ID: 689990

Title: What Is a Solar Eclipse?

Author: Dana Meachen Rau

Narrator: Michael Martinez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:33:19

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:

Learn about the phenomenon of a solar eclipse just in time for the Great American Eclipse that will take place on April 8, 2024 in this title in the Who HQ Now series featuring newsmakers and trending topics.

Just in time for the third North American total solar eclipse of the twenty-first century, this book explains how to safely observe solar eclipses, how long eclipses last, and why they result in a blackout period during the day. Young armchair astronomers and astronauts will be inspired by the wonders of outer space and what exists beyond our atmosphere as they learn more about the moon, the sun, and our earth. What really happens during a solar eclipse and how does it affect the energy in our atmosphere? You'll find the most up-to-date eclipse information in this exciting new book.

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