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ID: 692297

Title: Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game

Author: Aaron Murphy, Rachel Bitecofer

Narrator: Rachel Bitecofer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:46:24

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Politics, Current Affairs, Public Policy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

A radical, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can win elections at one of the most pivotal moments in the history of our nation’s democracy

“Bitecofer hits hard against the GOP tactics of fear and anger and the Democrats’ status quo narratives around political engagement and winning elections.”—Michael Steele, former RNC chair

Why do Democrats fail to win voters to their side, and what can they do to develop new winning political strategies—especially as the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance in 2024? Too often the carefully constructed, rational arguments of the Left meet a grisly fate at the polls, where voters are instead swayed by Republican candidates hawking anger, fear, and resentment. Only when Democrats are handed an overwhelming motivational issue—like the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade—have they found a way to counter this effect.

Political scientist and strategist Rachel Bitecofer came to prominence after predicting the size (to the seat) of the Democrats’ rare Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms. At the heart of her prediction lay a powerful concept—negative partisanship, or the idea that voters, even most so-called independents, don’t vote for their candidate so much as they vote against their candidate’s opponent. Seen through this lens, Hit ’Em Where It Hurts is a deep dive into the Republicans’ own playbook, sharing how Democrats can turn the Right’s own tactics against them. The way for Democrats to wage—and win—electoral war, Bitecofer writes, is to present themselves as “brand ambassadors for freedom, health, wealth, safety, and common sense,” the very opposite of the extremist, freedom-fearing Right. This is a last-ditch effort to armor democracy while there is still time to save and strengthen it against hijacking by a small minority of ideologues.

As America careens into the election cycle that will determine its democratic future, Hit ’Em Where It Hurts is the book for any Democrat who has ever banged their head against a wall when obvious reasoning failed to sway voters over to their side. This guide is a lifeline to save American democracy in its darkest hour.

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ID: 754604

Title: Crown of Shadows

Author: Keri Arthur

Narrator: Laura Horowitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

Never mess with the relics of the old gods or the pixies who once guarded them.

After her moms disappearance six months ago, Bethany Aodhán has been running their tavern in old Devasomething her family had been doing ever since a light-fingered pixie lost them the job of guarding the treasures of the old gods eons ago.

Then her brother, Lugh, is attacked, his best friend murdered, and the tavern firebombed. A confrontation with a former lover leads to the discovery of another murder and a missing jewel from a godly relic, and Beth learns that the Éadrom Hoardone of three godly hoards now guarded by the elveshas been stolen.

But this is no ordinary theft. Darker forces are at work, and theyre not only seeking the means to resurrect a god of destruction but the power to forever banish daylight. That power lay with Agronas Clawsthree godly artifacts that, when used together, give the user full control over night itself.

With the webs of suspicion drawing ever tighter around them, Beth & Lughwith the help of two sexy elves and a cantankerous old goddess who knows far more than she admitsrace to find the missing artifacts before those intent on unleashing chaos.

Its a race they must win, because its not just their lives on the line, but the fate of modern-day England.

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ID: 754139

Title: Shadow of the Tower

Author: Andre Jones

Narrator: Benjamin Fife

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:26:18

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Shadow of the Tower Book 2 The Seven Portals SeriesYou want time-travel, prophecy, and heroic women? How about magic & a futuristic dystopian Earth?No problem. What more could you want...?

Undead assassins & shape-changers?

Yep, got them too!

Telepaths & wyverns, I hear.

Why not find out?

Escaping death, Leonie is teleported from one danger to another ... and another planet.

With her unique origins now revealed, Leonie yearns to move on, but prophecy has her in its clutches. On an alien world where civilisation is so different, racial indifference is the same. With her new found powers, Leonie is a force to be reckoned with, but can she save the world? Or will she be able to change her destiny?

Friends and allies are lost.The time is coming for her to take more drastic and dangerous measures if theres any hope to survive.

Time is running out!

Join Leonie and all her weird but wonderful friends in not only surviving mounting hazards and evil enemies, but also travelling between worlds and time.

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ID: 752769

Title: Terror in Topaz: A Harriet Gordon Mystery

Author: A.M. Stuart

Narrator: Catherine Bilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:34

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical

Summary:

The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.

The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur,but death is waiting

Singapore 1910:Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant visit takes a dark turn when a visitor to the school is shot dead on the front steps of the headmasters bungalow.

After being suspended from the Straits Settlements Police, Inspector Robert Curran has disappeared on a personal quest to find a missing girl, but his suspension is not all it appears and he receives secretive orders to investigate the mysterious Topaz Club, which seems to be at the center of high-level corruption within the colonial government of Malaya.

The uninvestigated death of a woman with links to the Topaz Club brings Harriet and Curran together in a determination to shut down the notorious establishment for good.

But a devious criminal stands in the way and it is going to take Harriet and Curran all their resources to bring justice for the victims of the Topaz Club and in doing so, find what it is they have been looking for in each other.

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ID: 718639

Title: How to Train Your Dog: Transform Your Dog's Behavior and Strengthen Your Bond Forever A Dog Training Book

Author: Adam Spivey

Narrator: Adam Spivey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:08:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Everything you need to know to tackle your dog’s behavioral issues and understand how your dog thinks, from the trainer behind social media sensation Southend Dog Training

Do you wish you could get your dog to behave better? Southend Dog Training founder Adam Spivey can help. In this indispensable book, he helps you build a better connection with your dog at any age and solve any behavioral issues with simple, proven training techniques. He won’t just tell you what to do to get your dog to listen to your commands; he will also help you to understand how your dog thinks and why they might be struggling with certain things.

How to Train Your Dog will help you and your dog with

• Leash training, recall, and reactivity when you’re both out and about

• Jumping, excessive barking, and reactions to the TV or doorbell

• Dos and don’ts for households with children and/or multiple dogs

• Chewing, biting, and destructive behavior

 

Whether your dog is old or young, from a breeder or is a rescue, and has big or small issues, Adam’s inimitable straight-talking approach will get you to a better place with your best friend.

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ID: 684898

Title: One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

Author: Dominic Erdozain

Narrator: Dan Bittner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:37:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.

“At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change the way we live in this country.”—Eddie S. Glaude Jr., bestselling author of Begin Again

More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation.

Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns: As we parse legislation on background checks and automatic-weapons bans, we fail to ask what place guns should have in a functioning democracy. Taking readers on a brilliant historical journey, Erdozain shows how the founders feared the tyranny of individuals as much as the tyranny of kings—the idea that any person had a right to walk around armed was anathema to their notion of freedom and the peaceful republic they hoped to build. They wrote these ideas into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ideas that were subsequently affirmed by two centuries of jurisprudence.

And yet the twin scourges of racism and nationalism would combine to create a darker American vision—a rogue and reckless freedom based on birth and blood. It was this freedom, not the liberty promised by the Constitution, that generated our modern gun culture, with its mystic conceptions of good guys and bad guys, innocence and guilt. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court reinvented the Second Amendment in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller, an opinion that Erdozain convincingly eviscerates, many Americans had already acceded to the fiction: the unfreedom of an armed society. To save our democracy, he argues, we must fight for the founders’ true idea of what it means to be free.

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ID: 719620

Title: Putin's Exiles: Their Fight for a Better Russia

Author: Paul Starobin

Narrator: David Aranovich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Global Politics, Russia, Political Ideologies

Summary:

The future of Russia lies outside the country.

Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country’s deeds, by personal hatred for the Czar-like Putin, and by a vision of a better Russia, shorn of autocracy, the exiles have mounted an organized resistance to Putin’s rule.

The resistance includes followers of the imprisoned Putin opponent Alexi Navalny, dissident Russian Orthodox priests, and journalists feeding Russians back home the kind of coverage that Kremlin-controlled media censors. Most aggressively, some exiles are actively aiding the Ukrainian fight against Russia’s armed forces in hopes of hastening Russia’s defeat and Putin’s demise.

Paul Starobin, a veteran analyst of Russia, travels to places like Armenia and Georgia to meet with exiles and has conversations with prominent figures throughout Europe and America, as he takes measure of this rebellion—and its potential to fix a nation plagued by revanchist imperial dreams.

Putin’s Exiles is an indispensable work for anyone trying to understand Russia today—to go beyond Putin's propaganda and the tightly controlled narrative inside the country, and look outside its borders to the diaspora of Russian exiles, who are imagining and fighting for the future of their country.

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ID: 692264

Title: Hard by a Great Forest: A Novel

Author: Leo Vardiashvili

Narrator: Luke Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:24:32

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024

'The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement.'—The Financial Times

“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of literature from Europe’s war-torn corners.” —Los Angeles Times

'This novel annihilated me.... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more.' —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner

“Tender and raw and funny.” —Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin

'Propulsive, funny, and profound.'—Elif Batuman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Idiot

“A book like no other, from an imagination like no other.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Is Lost

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over

Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for asylum in England. Two decades later, all three men are struggling to make peace with the past, haunted by the places and people they left behind.

When Irakli decides to return to Georgia, pulled back by memories of a lost wife and a decaying but still beautiful homeland, Saba and Sandro wait eagerly for news. But within weeks of his arrival, Irakli disappears, and the final message they receive from him causes a mystery to unfold before them: “I left a trail I can’t erase. Do not follow it.”

In a journey that will lead him to the very heart of a conflict that has marred generations and fractured his own family, Saba must retrace his father’s footsteps to discover what remains of their homeland and its people. By turns savage and tender, compassionate and harrowing, Hard by a Great Forest is a powerful and ultimately hopeful novel about the individual and collective trauma of war, and the indomitable spirit of a people determined not only to survive, but to remember those who did not.

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ID: 734527

Title: Drop It, Rocket!

Author: Tad Hills

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Rocket, the beloved dog from the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read and Rocket Writes a Story, is back in a Step 1 leveled reader—adapted for audio. Rocket is ready to find new words for his word tree with his teacher, the little yellow bird. He finds a leaf, a hat, and a star . . . but when he finds a red boot, he doesn’t want to let go. What will make Rocket drop it?

With predictable patterns, simple words, and lots of repetition, young listeners will love this new Rocket book, which they can listen to all by themselves!

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ID: 695239

Title: Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Author: Chris Dixon

Narrator: Chris Dixon, Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:09:40

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon

“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney

“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI

The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die and can, in fact, be saved with blockchain networks. He separates this movement, which aims to provide a solid foundation for everything from social networks to artificial intelligence to virtual worlds, from cryptocurrency speculation —a distinction he calls “the computer vs. the casino.”

 

With lucid and compelling prose— drawing from a 25-year career in the software industry—Dixon shows how the internet has undergone three distinct eras, bringing us to the critical moment we’re in today. The first was the “read” era, in which early networks democratized information. In the “read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not just corporations.

 

Read Write Own is a must-read for anyone—internet users, business leaders, creators, entrepreneurs—who wants to understand where we’ve been and where we’re going. It provides a vision for a better internet and a playbook to navigate and build the future.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations and charts from the book.

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