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Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works And Why

If you've ever wondered about the constitutional basis for presidential pardons, this book explains it, offering examples from the recent and distant past. Follow constitutional law professor and popular newsroom commentator Kim Wehle through a fascinating rundown of how this executive power has been—and might be—used by American presidents.

Kim Wehle (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Shifting Gears: Coast to Coast on the Trans Am Bike Race

Meaghan Marie Hackinen's follow-up to her award-nominated debut South Away charts her unforgettable, twenty-five-day journey on the Trans Am Bike Race: a coast-to-coast ride across the entire North American continent from Oregon to Virginia. Without the aid of a support crew, Hackinen must rely entirely on her wits, ingenuity, and sheer determination to finish this extremely challenging feat. A sports story with a unique theme, Hackinen writes about the Trans Am Bike Race as a cultural whole, as she encounters consequences and unforeseen repercussions of an underground, unregulated athletic endeavor. Shifting Gears is another expertly-delivered travelogue and a thrilling glimpse into a world of athletes driven to impossible lengths.

Meaghan Marie Hackinen (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (1854–1920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and public health. His fascinating life illuminates vast transformations in the United States. Gorgas came of age amidst war and disease and the politics of racial segregation. He followed his father into military service as an army medical officer. Gorgas applied Walter Reed's research on the theory of mosquito-borne disease transmission, ending centuries of yellow fever in Havana through the eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Applying similar strategies on the isthmus of Panama against yellow fever and malaria, Gorgas enabled the completion of the Panama Canal. Hailed a hero, he pursued his fight against mosquito-borne disease throughout the tropics. Appointed as United States Army surgeon general, Gorgas resumed work modernizing the army health care system. Celebrated in life, Gorgas's reputation fell victim to competing political interests and jealousies after his death, a cautionary tale about historical memory and the politics of science and personality. Carol R. Byerly's balanced and contemporary examination of Gorgas illuminates his complex legacy in medicine and public health, military history, and American ambitions at the dawn of United States global ascendency.

Carol R. Byerly (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Revenant Ecologies: Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation

As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of unique life forms and ecosystems. Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious framework-(bio)plurality-that focuses on nurturing unique, irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to transform global ecological-political relations. Revenant Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively defying the forms of violence that drive extinction-and that shape global efforts to manage it.

Audra Mitchell (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners? In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, postwar governments appropriated the most coveted unclaimed works for display in various public buildings. Following cultural property norms of the time, the governments created custodianships over the unclaimed pieces, without using archives in their possession to carry out thorough provenance (ownership) research. This policy extended the dispossession of Jewish owners wrought by the Nazis and their collaborators well into the twenty-first century. The custodianships included paintings by traditional and modern masters, such as Rembrandt, Cranach, Rubens, Tiepolo, Picasso, and Matisse. This appropriation of plundered assets endured without controversy until the mid-1990s, when activists and journalists began challenging the governments' right to hold these items, ushering in a period of cultural property litigation that endures to this day.

Elizabeth Campbell (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered United States presidents since George Washington's death in 1799. Over twelve individually illuminating chapters, this volume offers a unique approach to understanding American culture and politics by uncovering parallels between different generations of mourners, highlighting distinct experiences, and examining what presidential deaths can tell us about societal fissures at various critical points in the nation's history, right up to the present moment.

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Matthew R. Costello (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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How To Be a Badass Witch Boxed Set: Books 1-3

Virtutis gloria merces. Translation: Glory is the reward of valor. Fed up with playing the normal game, recent university graduate, ex-cum laude, ex-soccer star, ex-popular, and mostly broke Kera MacDonagh changes her life when she decides to research how to be a witch . . . And believes it. Kera didn't want to go back east and deal with her overbearing Mom. So, when university was done, she stayed behind in Los Angeles. Little did she realize how controlling moms can be from the other side of the country. Feeling a little desperate to make her own way, she buys a few books on business. And one on a lark 'How to be a Badass Witch.' That's when the trouble started. Join Kera as she grows into her powers and faces challenges as she learns how to become a badass witch, then vigilante, and finally detective. And maybe find love along the way.

Michael Anderle (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Super Powereds: Year Three [Dramatized Adaptation]: Super Powereds 3

'Junior year has come for the remaining students of Melbrook Hall, and it promises to be the most difficult one yet. With one of their own gone and another under serious investigation, none of the former Powereds knows how many days remain for them in the Hero Certification Program. The time they do have will be filled with more trials and classes, honing their skills as they work toward the increasingly difficult goal of becoming Heroes. Ample new challenges await them, and not all of them can be met on the safety of Lander’s campus. Fallout from last year’s final exam has stirred the interest of many parties, not all of them friendly. With enemies pressing in from all directions, it’s going to take new alliances, dedication, and countless hours of training if they want to last another year. Performed by Jonathan Lee Taylor, Robb Moreira, Rana Kay, Darius Johnson, Matthew Bassett, Megan Poppy, Holly Adams, Tanja Milojevic, James Konicek, Zeke Alton, Rayner Gabriel, Dan Delgado, Carolyn Kashner, Nanette Savard, James J. Johnson, John Kielty, Nora Achrati, Amanda Forstrom, Chris Stinson, Matthew Schleigh, Julienne Irons, Joel David Santner, Terence Aselford, Lise Bruneau, Kay Eluvian, Tia Shearer, Chris Davenport, Alyssa Keegan, Wyn Delano, Keith Richards, James Lewis, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Steven Carpenter, Mort Shelby, Bradley Foster Smith, Shanta Parasuraman, Ken Jackson, Eric Messner, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Yasmin Tuazon, David Zitney, and Richard Rohan.'

Drew Hayes (Author), Darius Johnson, Full Cast, Holly Adams, James Konicek, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Matthew Bassett, Megan Poppy, Rana Kay, Rayner Gabriel, Robb Moreira, Tanja Milojevic, Zeke Alton (Narrator)

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Heroes Road: Volume Three (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Heroes Road 3

'How many times can Heroes cheat death? Abandoned by her allies, the Republic of Venice holds out as the last beacon of resistance against the hobgoblin armies. Armed with new weapons the Southern Horde drives upon the floating city by land and sea. The Northern Horde drives deep into the heart of Europa and all fall before it. The Horde is vast beyond measure. Assassin daggers lurk in every shadow. Necrotic evil seeps and infects. For two doomed warriors standing upon the precipice of Armageddon honor is their only refuge. The love of their people and their friends their only armor. For Coel and Snorri the only path is to walk the Heroes Road. One last time. Performed by Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Genebach, Amanda Forstrom, Colleen Delany, Holly Adams, Carolyn Kashner, Lillian Rachel, Andrew James Spooner, Todd Scofield, Wyn Delano, Danny Gavigan, Elliot Dash, Lise Bruneau, Michael Glenn, Andy Clemence, Nanette Savard, Zeke Alton, John Kielty, Rob McFadyen, James Konicek, Jeff Allin, Troy Allan, Elias Khalil, Christopher Walker, Jeri Marshall, Terence Aselford, Ken Jackson, Ron Miles, Karen Novack, Joe Mallon, Dawn Ursula, Robb Moreira, Jenna Sharpe, Andy Brownstein, Christopher Williams, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Eric Messner, James Lewis, Nick DePinto, David Engel, Ian Russell, Yasmin Tuazon, and Kimberly Gilbert.'

Chuck Rogers (Author), Amanda Forstrom, Andrew James Spooner, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Chris Genebach, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, Holly Adams, Lillian Rachel, Todd Scofield, Wyn Delano (Narrator)

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Don't Cross This Line [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Kurtherian Gambit 14

It's been three years Bethany Anne and her team have been building, trying their best to stay off the radar and not fight with those they are trying to save. The emotions have boiled to the surface. The is a line drawn in the sand, and some idiots just have to step across it. Those that thought the cat didn't have claws are about to find out how very, very wrong they are. Performed by Colleen Delany, Emily Beresford, Amanda Forstrom, Anthony Palmini, Michael John Casey, Lily Beacon, David Engel, Jacob Yeh, Holly Adams, Nick Russo, Steve Wannall, Elias Khalil, Nora Achrati, Danny Gavigan, Tyler Hyrchuk, Paul Reisman, James Konicek, Matthew Pauli, James Lewis, Zeke Alton, Sara Matsui-Colby, Michael Glenn, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Rob McFadyen, Terence Aselford, David Cui Cui, Nanette Savard, Christopher Graybill, Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Walker, Ken Jackson, Richard Rohan, Christopher Williams, Keval Shah, Tony Nam, Marni Penning, Lise Bruneau, Eric Messner, Wyn Delano, JW Rone, Evan Casey, Scott McCormick, Yasmin Tuazon, Bianca Bryan, Karen Novack, Andy Clemence, Triya Leong, Rayner Gabriel, David Jourdan, Matthew Bassett, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Matthew Schleigh, Catherine Aselford, Julie-Ann Elliott, and Emlyn MacFarland.

Michael Anderle (Author), Amanda Forstrom, Anthony Palmini, Colleen Delany, David Engel, Emily Beresford, Full Cast, Holly Adams, Jacob Yeh, Lily Beacon, Michael John Casey, Nick Russo, Steve Wannall (Narrator)

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All Systems Red [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Murderbot Diaries 1

'A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. ''As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.'' In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth. Performed by David Cui Cui, Khaya Fraites, Zeke Alton, Alejandro Ruiz, Aure Nash, Bradley Foster Smith, Holly Adams, Megan Dorminy, Natalie Van Sistine, Michael John Casey, Rayner Gabriel, Shanta Parasuraman, Tanja Milojevic and Wyn Delano.'

Martha Wells (Author), Alejandro Ruiz, Aure Nash, Bradley Foster Smith, David Cui Cui, Holly Adams, Khaya Fraites, Megan Dorminy, Michael John Casey, Natalie Van Sistine, Rayner Gabriel, Zeke Alton (Narrator)

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Rise of the Supernatural Queen

One final battle between supernaturals and humans. One last chance to save the supernatural world from extinction. One epic destiny to fulfill. The Supernatural War is reaching its conclusion, and what's coming is worse than vampire-witch Kat Troy ever expected. There's no such thing as a good monster. That's the motto of Colonel Sheila Baxter and the Hunter Network. The hunters don't care who gets in the way. Human casualties are the cost of war. Kat and her team race to prevent the humans from developing a devastating weapon that threatens the existence of all supernaturals. There's one big problem. The Dark Witches of New Orleans are back, and they're working on the side of the humans. The Supernatural Criminal Investigations team must convince the NOLA coven that humans will not leave them untouched after vampires and werewolves are exterminated. Kat has built alliances with the werewolves and vampires. All that remains to fulfill her destiny to become the Supernatural Queen and save her people from destruction is gaining the loyalty of the witches. Will Kat succeed in her quest to unite the supernatural world under her reign? Or will humanity's ultimate weapon spell destruction?

Lyn South, Michael Anderle (Author), Holly Adams (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Holly Adams