Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 702796 Title: Gray Author: Chris Baron Narrator: Caleb Summers Format: Unabridged Length: 06:42:28 Language: English Release date: 09-26-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Kids, Health & Family Summary: The Gray is a sensitively told middle grade story from Chris Baron about living with anxiety and finding ways to cope. It's been a tough year for Sasha-he's been bullied at his middle school and his anxiety, which he calls the Gray, is growing. Sasha's dad tells him to 'toughen up'-and he does, but with unfortunate, hurtful results. His parents and therapist agree that a summer in the country with his aunt might be the best medicine, but it's the last place he wants to be. He'll be away from his best friend, video games, and stuck in the house that reminds him of his beloved uncle who died two years earlier. His aunt is supportive, and there are lots of places to explore, and even some potential new friends. When Sasha is introduced at a local ranch to a horse coincidentally-incredibly-nicknamed the Gray, he feels he's found a kindred spirit. But his own Gray is ever-present. When one of his new friends disappears, Sasha discovers that the country is wilder and more mysterious than he imagined. He tries to muster enough courage to help in the search . . . but will the Gray hold him back? Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 686148 Title: Gold by Moonlight: Lessons for Walking Through Pain Author: Amy Carmichael Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Length: 05:54:04 Language: English Release date: 07-25-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational Summary: In this book are sensitive lessons from a walk with pain. Amy Carmichael writes from experience with illness on how to follow God in the midst of struggle. However Gold by Moonlight is not for the ill only. Rather, it is for all who walk in difficult places or who are caught in any. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 691497 Title: Discovered Author: Maggie Sunseri Narrator: Rachel Leblang Format: Unabridged Length: 09:29:33 Language: English Release date: 08-22-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, General, Romantasy Summary: Her magick was hidden to keep her alive. When that power is unleashed, only one witch can protect her. All Áine wants for her twenty-second birthday is a night out in New York City with her normal, human friends. But when her roommate stumbles into oncoming traffic, Áine breaks the bind on her extraordinary, witch-born power to save her. With Áine's magick now freed, her world shifts, and the voice of a male witch commands her to run. Hunted by dark forces, Áine is taken to Aradia, the witch realm, by the mysterious and captivating witch, Daelon. A man of perfect control, Daelon needs Áine's trust to protect her and train her to wield her magick. But Áine considers her 'gift' more of a curse and wants nothing to do with the realm of her mothers' murderers. Even worse, Daelon's shielding ability makes him the only one impervious to her clairsentience-the ability to read others' true nature. As Daelon's undeniable magnetism puts her under a spell of its own, Áine must decide how much trust and control she's willing to relinquish. Because as enemies descend, it's becoming harder to tell if her fierce protector is really a friend . . . or a foe. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 691526 Title: Hunted Author: Maggie Sunseri Narrator: Rachel Leblang Format: Unabridged Length: 09:32:19 Language: English Release date: 11-28-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, General, Romantasy Summary: Áine and Daelon believe they've escaped to freedom, but Lucius has marked Áine as his and promises it's only a matter of time before he makes his claim. Iciera is a land untouched by the Shadow King's evil reign, and Áine and Daelon must convince the witches who live there that joining the fight for Aradia's restoration is the only way it will remain protected. Despite being plagued by nightmares and worry for the allies and friends they left behind, Áine and Daelon find themselves embraced by the Icieran people. While they train for the battles to come, they must also prepare for the lengths that Lucius will go to make Áine his Queen. As Daelon discovers just how deep his bond with Áine runs, Lucius works tirelessly to convince Áine that it is the connection between the two of them that's truly the strongest force in the universe. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 684150 Title: Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness Author: Robert Lunday Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Length: 08:32:31 Language: English Release date: 08-08-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science Summary: Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by connecting his stepfather's case to other true-life disappearances as well as those portrayed in fiction, poetry, and film. In doing so Disequilibria explores the transience in modern life, considering the military-dependent experience, the corrosive effects of war, and the struggle to find closure and comfort as time goes by without answers. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 716001 Title: Beautifully Scarred Author: H. P. Davenport Narrator: Ash Beverly, Louise Brenner Format: Unabridged Length: 07:07:45 Language: English Release date: 11-28-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, Contemporary Summary: With her past firmly behind her where it belongs, Juliette has made a career out of turning her scars into art. She uses her skills to help others cover the evidence of their pain, too. But some scars are too deep, too painful for anyone to hide completely. Juliette has everything she could ever need-great parents, her dream job, the best friend a girl could ask for, and a new body to warm her bed whenever she wants. With her focus firmly on the here and now, she never expects a kiss from a stranger to throw a bomb in the middle of her carefully constructed life. Every wound leaves a scar. Every scar tells a story. Her story left her beautifully scarred. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 707606 Title: Sixteen Carved Pieces Author: Michelle Kidd Narrator: Simon Mattacks Format: Unabridged Length: 10:02:29 Language: English Release date: 09-26-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense Summary: An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist Billie-Rose's bloodstained body is found in the kitchen of her ground-floor flat. She's been strangled to death, there's a deep laceration to her upper thigh, and a wooden chess-piece grasped tightly in her hand. Daubed on the wall in Billie-Rose's own blood is a strange symbol: a bishop's mitre. All Detective Jack MacIntosh can think is: He's back. Four years earlier, four young women were also strangled to death in their own homes, the same deep wound to the thigh, the same weird symbol scrawled on the wall. The work of the killer they call the Bishop. Is he back to kill again? Jack and his team are in a race against time to pull the pieces together and uncover the truth before more young women die. Perfect for fans of Helen H. Durrant, Biba Pearce, Lynda La Plante, Angela Marsons, and Rachel McLean. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 760467 Title: Fortune's Blade Author: Karen Chance Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Length: 16:03:54 Language: English Release date: 05-14-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy Summary: Dory and Dorina Basarab were once one person, albeit an unusual one. They were a dhampir-the hated cross between a human and a vampire that is reviled and feared in both circles. But the human and vampire parts of their nature were recently torn apart by a fey weapon, and now, for the first time in five centuries, they are two separate people. And one of them is being hunted. Dory and her husband, the vampire senator Louis-Cesare, brave the strange and often deadly world of Faerie looking for her other half. But even finding her proves difficult, and despite their skill and abilities, they struggle to stay alive. And then struggle again with the secrets about their family that their search uncovers-secrets that may give them a fighting chance in the war they are waging against ancient gods or may end up destroying two worlds. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 699390 Title: Court of Tricksters Author: S. L. Prater Narrator: Liam Price, Victoria Aston Format: Unabridged Length: 07:44:56 Language: English Release date: 10-24-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy Summary: The fae Duke of Night doesn't believe in love-but he'll claim his mate nonetheless. Mating is a matter of politics for Night, not the heart. To prevent a forced union that will plunge the Lunar Court into war, he must find and bond his true mate. When he lays eyes on Rain, he knows the shy forest witch is the bond mate he's been searching for. Unprepared for the intensity of his attraction, Night makes an offer that would keep his priorities straight and his court safe: a marriage of convenience. Any eligible woman-mortal and immortal alike-would leap at the chance to become the powerful duke's bride. But Rain isn't interested. She's lived outside of society too long to ever fit into Night's world of shapeshifting tricksters and back-stabbing politicians. And Rain demands more than the trappings of marriage. She wants a match with heart. Night doesn't have the luxury of time to change his mate's mind. War looms closer and the Lunar Court is caught in the middle. Out of options, the fae duke sees only one choice. Kidnap his bride. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 757763 Title: Mated to the Mad Marquess Author: S. L. Prater Narrator: Liam Price, Victoria Aston Format: Unabridged Length: 06:59:27 Language: English Release date: 05-07-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy Summary: The Warrior Witch . . . Hrafn is one of the Winged Ones-a warrior witch of old-and the last of her clan. Duty-bound to watch over the sacred resting place of her kin, her honor is challenged when a fae lord's magical shadows chase her from her home. The Mad Marquess . . . Descended from the old god of legend, Malcolm Rauor possesses the ability to steal one's sanity. The marquess views his power and the eerie shadows that serve him as an affliction, one dooming him to a lonely immortal existence. Everything changes after a disastrous chance encounter with a witch on the outskirts of his estate. The woman is the mate he'd long ago lost all hope of ever finding. Malcolm's love language is death threats and violence. When Hrafn appears to be fluent in both, he kidnaps his mate. Accidentally. Now what's he to do? Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 794517 Title: House of Purple Cedar Author: Tim Tingle Narrator: Jason Grasl Format: Unabridged Length: 08:45:00 Language: English Release date: 12-10-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Fairy Tales & Folklore Summary: 'The hour has come to speak of troubled time. It is time we spoke of Skullyville.' Thus begins Rose Goode's story of her growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year's Eve, 1896, of New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls dies, but Rose escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother Pokoni and her grandfather Amafo, both respected elders who understand the old ways. Soon after the fire, the white sheriff beats Amafo in front of the town's people, humiliating him. Instead of asking the Choctaw community to avenge the beating, her grandfather decides to follow the path of forgiveness. And so unwinds this tale of mystery, Indian-style magical realism, and deep wisdom. It's a world where backwoods spiritualism and Bible-thumping Christianity mix with bad guys; a one-legged woman shop-keeper, her oaf of a husband, herbal potions, and shape-shifting panthers rendering justice. Tim Tingle—a scholar of his nation's language, culture, and spirituality—tells Rose's story of good and evil with understanding and even laugh-out-loud Choctaw humor. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 705005 Title: Finding a Way: Taking the Impossible and Making it Possible Author: Siri Lindley Narrator: Siri Lindley Format: Unabridged Length: 07:30:00 Language: English Release date: 10-17-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Women Summary: Siri Lindley wanted to be a world champion triathlete . . . even though she didn't know how to swim. She wanted to love and be loved . . . even though her father shunned her because she was gay. She wanted to savor every day and enjoy the life she'd made with her wife, her career, and her passion for horses . . . even though in November 2019 she was diagnosed with a rare-and usually fatal-form of acute myeloid leukemia. Every time Siri has faced what seemed impossible, she found a way to not only survive the situation, but to thrive within it. Today, she's cancer free, a triathlon world champion, happily married, and one of the most popular coaches and motivational speakers in the world. Finding a Way is her life-giving guide for listeners who are feeling stuck between the life they want to live and the life that they're living now. This book gives you the tools and strategies you need to find a way through your struggles and on to triumph. You have everything you need inside of you to do this. You get to go first in deciding what story you want to live in any moment. You get to go first in deciding what is possible for you, what you are capable of, and what life's challenges will mean for you. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 675566 Title: Tenkill Author: Shannon Kirk Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Length: 11:30:10 Language: English Release date: 07-04-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller, Political Thriller Summary: Greta Vinet Seville, E-Discovery Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at the international law firm of Coarse & Cotton, finds herself on the run from her own firm after absconding with firm data to conduct her investigation, and enlists a diverse cast of friends and experts to help her comb through the mountains of data that confirms a trail of corruption that has shaped generations. Her off-the-books, rag-tag legal team includes a genius litigation technology professional, a possibly psychopathic (but effective) summer associate, an AP investigative reporter, a classical painting art restorer, Greta's philosophy professor brother, and Greta's love interest, a compliance attorney at Tenkill. Romance, action, technology law, corruption are all explored, and married with Greta's personal backstory about a renegade, vigilante aunt whose been on the run for decades and fighting her own politically charged battles. They create a make-shift war room in a historic Salem, Massachusetts home, and their pursuit of more evidence leads them in action-packed chases around Boston . . . and a massive hospital-Tenkill-that is at the center of the corruption. But this investigation is like no other Greta has ever conducted, as people who have millions to lose and careers to ruin have and will kill to keep what she seeks to uncover secret. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 699664 Title: From Conquest to Colony: Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil Author: Kirsten Schultz Narrator: Alex Picard Format: Unabridged Length: 10:19:44 Language: English Release date: 11-21-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: History, Politics, World, North America, Latin America Summary: A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil's wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a 'colony' that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 702805 Title: Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories Author: Thomas Mann Narrator: James Anderson Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 09:16:00 Language: English Release date: 10-17-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics Summary: Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-'the starched collar,' as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. The headliner of this volume, 'Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow' (in its first new translation since 1936)-a subtle masterpiece that reveals the profound emotional significance of everyday life-is Mann's tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the 'Bigs' and 'Littles' of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a free-standing excerpt from Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks-a sensation when it was first published. 'Death in Venice' (also included in this volume) is Mann's most famous story, but less well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another, comic story-included here as 'Confessions of a Con Artist, by Felix Krull.' 'Louisey'-a tale of sexual humiliation that gives a first glimpse of Mann's lifelong ambivalence about the power of art-rounds out this revelatory, transformative collection. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 728460 Title: Ariel's Duke Author: Loni Ree Narrator: Lu Banks, Patrick Brawn Format: Unabridged Length: 01:24:00 Language: English Release date: 01-30-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, Contemporary Summary: Bruno Revello believes he's immune to the Silver Spoon Falls water, but Karma is about to teach the mafia underboss that he can't avoid his destiny. Bruno: Lucky for me, I'm immune to the Silver Spoon Falls matchmaking water. I've been watching all my business associates fall victim to its effects, swearing it will never happen to me. Little do I know, Karma already has me in her sights. A relaxing Saturday at my private retreat nearly turns deadly when a bear knocks me overboard. An actual black bear. When a curvy little siren saves me from certain death, the beauty steals my heart in the process. To my horror, my little savior disappears before I'm able to discover her identity. Thank God, Karma hasn't finished meddling in my life. I find my curvy little siren walking alongside the road and see the perfect opportunity to keep her. Whether it's against her will or not is up to Ariel. I'm going to offer her a very lucrative position, and Ariel has a choice to make. Either she can become my mob princess willingly or I'll have to resort to other means to convince her. Very pleasurable means. Either way, it's going to be a wild ride. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 684049 Title: Deadly Claws Author: Jenna St. James Narrator: Angie Hickman Format: Unabridged Length: 04:23:00 Language: English Release date: 06-27-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery Summary: A Forty-year-old Witch with a New Career A Gargoyle Sheriff Raising a Teenaged Daughter And an Enchanted Island Full of Secrets Career-driven witch, Shayla Loci, is about to turn forty and is ready for a change. When she retires from capturing criminal supernaturals for the government, she figures her days of chasing bad guys are over. Little did she know her new job as the game warden on Enchanted Island would thrust her right back into harm's way . . . and she wasn't even officially on the clock yet! But when Sheriff Stone enlists her help to find out who killed an island resident, Shayla readily agrees. Between sorting through alibis, gathering clues, and mentoring a wayward teenager on how to be a witch . . . Shayla's life is hectic. If only her estranged dad-the King-wouldn't insist she take her bodyguard, Needles, with her everywhere she goes. Just when Shayla believes she's identified the killer, a new threat emerges . . . leaving her to make a snap decision that may cost her her life. This paranormal cozy series with a twist on midlife discovery will leave you guessing and hungry for more! Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 682930 Title: Bad Things: The Nature and Normative Role of Harm Author: Neil Feit Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan Format: Unabridged Length: 11:00:00 Language: English Release date: 06-05-23 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Philosophy Summary: Bad Things addresses various philosophical questions about the nature and moral relevance of harm. The most basic question is this: under what conditions does an event harm a given individual? Neil Feit focuses primarily on the metaphysics of harm, and he both defends and extends the counterfactual comparative account of harm. On this account, in its most basic form, an act or event harms an individual provided that she would have been better off if it had not occurred. The counterfactual comparative account is widely accepted but also widely criticized. Feit provides detailed and thorough responses to the most challenging objections. He argues that an adequate theory of harm should entail the counterfactual comparative account but also make room for a certain kind plural harm, where two or more events together harm an individual although neither one by itself is harmful. These harmful events are bad things, collectively, even if no single event is itself a bad thing. Feit sets out and defends a detailed account of plural harm, addressing issues about the magnitude and the time of the harm suffered by the victim. The primary focus of the book is on the metaphysics of harm, but issues concerning its normative or moral relevance are addressed. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 719776 Title: Dante Author: Cameron Hart Narrator: Helena Walters, Soren Gray Format: Unabridged Length: 03:28:59 Language: English Release date: 01-30-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: Romance, General, Mystery, Contemporary Summary: I haven't seen my old man in years, and I like it that way. Being the second in command of the Di Salvo crime family has kept me plenty busy, not to mention paid for my father's expensive in-home care after he spent his life searching for happiness in the bottom of a bottle. With the threat of war looming overhead, I don't have time to worry about my father's latest health scare. Until I hear her voice. Cambria. We've texted in the few months she's been working as my father's nurse, but we've never actually spoken. She tells me it's time for me to come visit before it's too late. I try brushing her off, but somehow, I find myself on a private jet, heading back home. I wasn't sure what to expect, but it certainly wasn't the stunning, too sweet, too tempting Cambria. She doesn't belong in my world, but I can't stay away. When my woman becomes a pawn in a much bigger and more dangerous game, I jump into action. I'm going to get my girl back, and then I'm going to do whatever it takes to keep her forever. Contains mature themes. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 796838 Title: Gender History: A Very Short Introduction Author: Antoinette Burton Narrator: Kitty Hendrix Format: Unabridged Length: 03:52:28 Language: English Release date: 07-16-24 Publisher: Tantor Media Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science, Law Summary: This volume introduces the field of gender history—its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frictions. It offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historical analysis, tracing the emergence, usage, and applicability of these entwined subjects. Inevitably political, gender history has taken aim at the broader field of historical narrative by asking who counts as a historical subject, what difference gender makes, and how attention to it subverts reigning assumptions of what power, culture, economics, and identity have been in the past—and what they are today. The book explores how gender analysis has changed interpretations of the histories of slavery, capitalism, migration, and empire. As a field, gender history has been extraordinarily influential in shaping several generations of scholars and students. And, as part of the movement toward gender equality that is key to modern western progress, gender history has been caught up in the culture wars that continue to shape post-global society. The practice of gender history has always run up against the forces of race, class, and sexuality that challenge the singularity of gender itself as an explanatory category of historical analysis. That powerful, unruly tension is at the heart of this Very Short Introduction. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com