Audiobooks narrated by Ian Putnam

A FUBAR Kind of Day [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Warrior 4

'When life hands you lemons, you can either make lemonade or lob them like hand grenades at your problems. Nothing is going as Idina Moorfield planned. It’s what happens when magical powers you don’t know you have manifest when you least expect it. Idina needs to make new plans, even if those plans are loosely based on her CO telling her to figure things out. Time to make lemonade. There’s all sorts of tasks Idina and her unit could be doing. Getting them to help out is another issue. Can she figure out how to get them to help her without asking them to help? Then there’s the mysterious journal she received. Every time she opens it and reads it, there’s flashing green lights everywhere. What is causing it and is the journal the answer to her questions about her powers? If she could just find a way to read it… unless it’s not meant for reading… Another mysterious package makes its way to her. It creates more questions than answers. Can Idina and her new unit bond and work together and prove they aren’t the misfits everyone thinks they are and can be quite useful once they’re understood? Can she figure out what’s going on with her powers and who is watching her? Performed by Dawn Ursula, Yenni Ann, Matthew Pauli, Wyn Delano, Eva Wilhelm, Tanja Milojevic, Torian Brackett, Ian Putnam, Andrew Mimms, Steven Carpenter, Adrian Garcia, Patrick Boylan, Gail Shalan, Bill Gillett, Megan Hastie, and Nora Achrati.'

Martha Carr, Michael Anderle (Author), Adrian Garcia, Andrew Mimms, Dawn Ursula, Eva Wilhelm, Ian Putnam, Matthew Pauli, Steven Carpenter, Tanja Milojevic, Torian Brackett, Wyn Delano, Yenni Ann (Narrator)

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Chaos and Gunfire [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Warrior 3

'Idina Moorfield is a new kind of magical with a dark and twisty lineage. Any other combat engineer in the 82nd Airborne Division would be proud of how far Idina's come, but the visions and voices in her mind are only getting worse. When it affects her work, Idina gets transferred to a new unit—a unit of misfits with their own problems. But sometimes, what seems like the worst move ever, can turn out to be the beginning of something great. Who says outcasts can’t be heroes? First, Idina has to come to terms with all her plans going up in smoke while digging deeper than she ever has into the mystery of the Moorfield family secrets. Why is she the only one in her family with these strange new powers? Someone else may also have caught on to her and is keeping watch. Can she discover who or what is watching her and why everything is happening? Performed by Dawn Ursula, Yenni Ann, Tanja Milojevic, Donald Guzzi, Ian Putnam, Torian Brackett, Matthew Pauli, Wyn Delano, Eva Wilhelm, Joy Jones, Steven Carpenter, Nick J. Russo, Patrick Boylan, Megan Hastie, Peter Stray, Andrew Mimms, Stephon Walker, Eric Messner, T. Shyvonne Stewart, Chris Davenport, Bill Gillett, Andrew James Spooner, Gail Shalan, James Konicek, and Nora Achrati.'

Martha Carr, Michael Anderle (Author), Dawn Ursula, Donald Guzzi, Eva Wilhelm, Ian Putnam, Joy Jones, Matthew Pauli, Steven Carpenter, Tanja Milojevic, Torian Brackett, Wyn Delano, Yenni Ann (Narrator)

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Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

"Engrossing and suspenseful.' -The New York Times "Expertly pulls readers in." -The Guardian "Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment." - Financial Times The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dotcom crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier crew at HuffPost and BuzzFeed were building the foundations of viral internet media. It was tech's age of innocence: the old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would facilitate the spread of truth. After all, didn't progressive activists online get Barack Obama elected? Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, was there to see it, and he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity scored with dark wit, sparing no one-and certainly not himself. Smith tells a nuanced story: yes, Denton's ideology of radical transparency was problematic, but at least he had an ideology. Jonah Peretti survived long after Denton's Gawker perished because his focus on clicks was relentlessly content-agnostic. But unintended consequences began to snowball. Traffic explores one of the great ironies of our time: the internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart and Gavin McInnes and Chris Poole, the creator of 4chan, all seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah and crew were the stars. By 2020, any reasonable observer might wonder if the opposite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading.

Ben Smith (Author), Ben Smith, Ian Putnam (Narrator)

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The Sidekicks Initiative [Dramatized Adaptation]

'Mostly powerless. Completely clueless. Once, they stood next to justice. Now they're standing up for it... When sworn protectors of Earth, the Justice Platoon, are all horribly killed, their former arch-enemies come crawling out of the woodwork. Outnumbered, outgunned, and out of options, the US Government has no choice but to activate the Sidekicks Initiative, dragging the Platoon's middle-aged ex-sidekicks out of retirement. Now these three reluctant, out of shape former child-wonders must work together to stop the rising tide of supervillainy, avenge their former mentors' deaths, and bring the world back from the brink of destruction. Assuming they don't kill each other first. Featuring anaphylactic shockwaves, unexpected hippos, and an aggressive man shouting at butterflies! Performed by Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Walker, Tracy Lynn Olivera, David M. Jourdan, Ian Putnam, Gabriel Michael, Christopher Williams, Samantha Turret, Kelly Baskin, Wyn Delano, Rayner Gabriel, Holly Adams, Shanta Parasuraman, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, James Lewis, Nhea Durousseau, Rob McFadyen, Michael John Casey, Yasmin Tuazon, Ken Jackson, Matthew Pauli, Nora Achrati, Karen Novack, Eric Messner, and James Konicek.'

Barry J. Hutchison (Author), Bradley Foster Smith, Christopher Walker, Christopher Williams, David M. Jourdan, Gabriel Michael, Ian Putnam, Kelly Baskin, Rayner Gabriel, Samantha Turret, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Wyn Delano (Narrator)

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28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to Be Ready for Anything

In 2020, engineering firm Velentium faced an unprecedented ask: partner with a small medical device company and a very large vehicle manufacturer to increase emergency ventilator production from hundreds per month to thousands per week-in just twenty-eight days. Serving on the frontlines of pandemic response is enough pressure to cause any size business to buckle, but the small firm thrived and even doubled in size to complete their manufacturing scale-up known as Project V: seven months of work in six weeks. Velentium's cofounder Dan Purvis attributes their extraordinary success to their decade-in-the-making company culture, which buoyed them in the face of an unforeseeable crisis. In 28 Days to Save the World, he lays out how to harness the power of organizational culture to prepare your small business to weather any challenges ahead. Every quarter, more than 30 million small-business entrepreneurs face innumerable familiar crises that can spell their doom. Drawing from his twenty-five years of experience as a small-business leader, and with gripping stories from Project V, Purvis reveals crisis-tested methods for turning challenges into opportunities.

Dan Purvis (Author), Ian Putnam (Narrator)

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Secession and State Creation: What Everyone Needs to Know

What makes a state? This question has attracted more and more attention in recent years with Catalan's illegal vote for independence from Spain and Palestine's ongoing search for international recognition. And while Scotland chose to remain with the United Kingdom, discussions of independence have only continued as the ramifications of the Brexit vote begin to set in. Kosovo, South Sudan, and the situation in Ukraine-each in its way reveals the perils of creating a nation separate from neighbors who have dominated it. As James Ker-Lindsay and Mikulas Fabry show in this new addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, the road to statehood never did run smooth. Declaring independence is only the first step; gaining both local and global acceptance is necessary before a state can become truly independent. The prospect of losing territory is usually not welcomed by the parent state. Beyond this immediate conflict, the international community often refuses to accept new states without proof of defined territory, a settled population, and effective government, which frequently translates to a democratic one with demonstrated respect for human rights. Covering the legal, political, and practical issues of secession and state creation, Ker-Lindsay and Fabry provide a sure-footed guide to a complex topic.

James Ker-Lindsay, Mikulas Fabry (Author), Ian Putnam (Narrator)

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China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power: Theory Practice and Implications

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a 'great maritime power' and secondly, that the PLA 'become a world-class armed force by 2050.' China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the 'world class' goal. Beginning with an exploration of why China is seeking to become such a major maritime power, author Michael McDevitt first explores the strategic rationale behind Xi's two objectives. McDevitt dubs this China's 'sea lane anxiety' and traces how this has required the PLA Navy to evolve from a 'near seas'-focused navy to one that has global reach; a 'blue water navy.' The more than ten years of anti-piracy patrols in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean has acted as a learning curve accelerator to 'blue water' status. McDevitt then explores the PLA Navy's role in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. He provides a detailed assessment of what the PLAN will be expected to do if Beijing chooses to attack Taiwan potentially triggering combat with America's 'first responders' in East Asia. This book concludes with a forecast of what Xi's vision of a 'world-class navy' might look like in the next fifteen years when the 2035 deadline is reached.

Michael A. Mcdevitt (Author), Ian Putnam (Narrator)

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Space Team 11: Sentienced to Death [Dramatized Adaptation]: Space Team Universe

'Accidental space adventurer Cal Carver has had a rough few months. He's fought spider-dragons, battled space clowns, and been repeatedly tortured by the galaxy's oldest assassin. And don't even get him started on the squirrel-tits. Now all that's behind him, Cal just wants to kick back and relax. The universe, however, has other ideas. He and his crew find themselves in possession of the Symmorium Sentience, a once god-like entity now stripped of its power. The Sentience needs help to return home and restore the Symmorium species, which recently found itself the subject of an unfortunate genocide. But with dark forces seeking to turn the Sentience's power into a planet-pulverizing weapon, the team's trek across the galaxy becomes a desperate race against time, with the fate of the very cosmos at stake. Featuring awkward space-dates, gene-splicing villains, and a packet of coconut fingers as old as time itself, Space Team: Sentienced to Death is the eleventh book in the bestselling Space Team series by multi-award-winning author Barry J. Hutchison, and perfect for fans of funny stuff happening in space. Performed by Phil Thron, Danny Gavigan, Carolyn Kashner, Darius Johnson, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Walker, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Marni Penning, Laura C. Harris, Ian Putnam, Nanette Savard, Henry W. Kramer, David Cui Cui, Gabriel Michael, Christopher Williams, Bradley Foster Smith, Eric Messner, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Nora Achrati, Michael John Casey and Scott McCormick.'

Barry J. Hutchison (Author), Carolyn Kashner, Christopher Walker, Danny Gavigan, Darius Johnson, Ian Putnam, Laura C. Harris, Marni Penning, Nanette Savard, Phil Thron, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Mended Wings: The Vietnam War Experience Through the Eyes of Ten American Purple Heart Helicopter Pi

You hear them first, the whop whop sound of rotor blades chopping through the humid Vietnam air. Suddenly they appear, screaming toward the landing zone at treetop level. Gunships launch rockets into the nearby tree line. The resulting explosions announce the arrival of the lift helicopters, pointing their noses skyward like falcons coming out of a dive for landing. Bullets rip into the thin aluminum skin and plastic that surrounds the men who fly these machines. When one pilot is hit, the other takes the controls and carries on. When one helicopter crashes in flames, the pilots in the others maintain formation and push ahead. Nothing deters these warriors, volunteers all, from flying on with the tenaciousness of zealots. Who are these men? Where did they come from? Where have they gone? Mended Wings is their story. Follow the lives of ten Purple Heart heroes as they relate the Vietnam War experience from the perspective of the helicopter cockpit. Get to know the generation of men who fought with pride, determination, skill, and courage only to be shunned when they brought their battered bodies and haunting memories home. Their fathers and uncles were heralded as the 'greatest generation.' Meet the forgotten generation. Meet the men whose stories did not end as a name on a black wall in Washington D.C. Meet the survivors.

Colin P. Cahoon (Author), Ian Putnam (Narrator)

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Space Team 10: Sting of the Mustard Mines [Dramatized Adaptation]: Space Team Universe

'The Space Team Universe has been changed forever! Having journeyed through time in order to restore peace to the galaxy, Cal Carver and Space Team are a little dismayed to find out they may have inadvertently made things even worse. Whoops. Captured by an unfamiliar alien species, the crew is banished to a life of slavery in the Mustard Mines of Moktar, where they come face to face with the sinister Manacle - a terrifying new enemy whose diabolical agenda is worse than any they have encountered before. With the clock ticking and thousands of lives at stake, Space Team must race across the galaxy, stop Manacle's evil scheme, and save the day once more. But first, they have to escape... Featuring space gnomes, sand stomachs, and the sexiest facial paralysis in history. Performed by Phil Thron, Danny Gavigan, Carolyn Kashner, Darius Johnson, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Walker, Niusha Nawab, Ian Putnam, Wyn Delano, Tanja Milojevic, Bradley Foster Smith, Alejandro Ruiz, Jacob Yeh, Chris Stinson, Colleen Delany, Dan Delgado, David Engel, Ken Jackson, Nanette Savard, Peter Holdway, Richard Rohan, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Ryan Haugen, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford and Zeke Alton.'

Barry J. Hutchison (Author), Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Christopher Walker, Danny Gavigan, Darius Johnson, Ian Putnam, Niusha Nawab, Phil Thron, Tanja Milojevic, Wyn Delano, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Ian Putnam