Month: May 2026

Striking the Balance – Harry Turtledove

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Title: Striking the Balance
Author: Harry Turtledove
Read By: Todd McLaren
Copyright: 1996
Genre: Alternate History
Series Name: WorldWar
Position in Series: 04

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Total Duration: 25:37:48
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WORLDWAR: BOOK 4
At the bloody height of World War II, the deadliest enemies in all of
human history were forced to put aside their hatreds and unite against
an even fiercer foe: a seemingly invincible power bent on world domination.-
With awesome technology, the aggressors swept across the planet, sowing
destruction as Tokyo, Berlin, and Washington, D.C., were A-bombed into
submission. Russia, Nazi Germany, Japan and the U.S. were not easily
cowed, however. With cunning and incredible daring, they pressed every
advantage against the invader’s superior strength, and, led by Stalin,
began to detonate their own atom bombs in retaliation.
City after city explodes in radioactive firestorms, and fears grow as
the worldwide resources disappear; will there be any world left for
the invaders to conquer, or for the uneasy allies to defend?
While Mao Tse-tung wages a desperate guerrilla war and Hitler drives
his country toward self-destruction, United States forces frantically
try to stop the enemy’s push from coast to coast. Yet in this battle
to stave off world domination, unless the once-great military powers
take the risk of annihilating the human race, they’ll risk losing the
war.
The fatal, final deadline arrives in Harry Turtledove’s grand, smashing
finale to the Worldwar series, as uneasy allies desperately seek a way
out of a no-win, no-survival situation: a way to live free in a world
that may soon be bombed into atomic oblivion.

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Strega – Andrew Vachss

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Title: Strega
Author: Andrew Vachss
Read By: Phil Gigante
Copyright: 1987
Audiobook Copyright: 2010
Genre: Mystery
Series Name: Burke
Position in Series: 02

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Total Duration: 10:49:39
Total MP3 Size: 260.65
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Andrew Vachss’s implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She
wants Burke to find an obscene photograph and that search will take
him into the ocean that vows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents
are fesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted
adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity
and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice,
there is no turning back.

In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller
that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with
no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority
of the damned.

"It’s wonderful. The words leap off the page. The plot is fresh. The
principal character is original. The style is as clean as a haiku."
— The Washington Post Book World

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Reality Check.

After rescuing Amy and dismantling the twisted experimentation lab, Xay and his team get honored as heroes.

However, Cosmos Academy responds with brutal, individualized coaching-forcing them to confront their weaknesses and face the true scale of power within the Awakened World.

They each train hard to master their abilities before their second awakening, but Xay takes on two extra challenges along the way: psychic force-and earning the approval of Kimi’s intense family. Click to expand…
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Category:Fiction, Literature, Short Stories
Language:English

Description: Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)
Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories-originally published from 1985 to 2012-offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians.
While the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to "Finger Web," which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to "The Interior of Gaaldine," which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.
No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how-and why-we read. Click to expand…
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Catergory: Fiction, Science Fiction

Cyborg samurai Catherine LeBlanc pulls out the big guns-literally-when aliens unleash an apocalyptic weapon in the seventh book of this cyberpunk adventure. The Antithesis want nothing more than to consume other worlds, altering their environments and birthing armies of monsters to continue their spread across the galaxy. Their next target is Earth, but with hundreds of Samurai protecting their home, it will be no easy victory. Taking root on Mars and its moons, the Antithesis have concocted a plan for the ultimate cosmic takeover: transform Phobos into a living satellite and hurtle it toward Earth. Phobos has been terraformed into a breeding ground, creating an army capable of flooding the entire solar system. As the giant alien nest nears, the threat becomes increasingly apparent. If the Martian moon collides with Earth, the loss of life will be catastrophic and the Antithesis will be free to turn humanity’s home into a new hive for the enemy. With Armageddon fast approaching, Catherine LeBlanc and her fellow Samurai only have a matter of days to prepare their counterstrike. To prevent the planet from turning into a wasteland, they will need to assemble international forces and meet their extraterrestrial foes on the battlefield. But even their combined firepower might not be enough to defend against what lies ahead . . . The seventh volume of the hit LitRPG sci-fi series-with more than 23 million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook! Click to expand…
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Catergory: History, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction

FromNew Yorkerwriter Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.
ATIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK | ANEW YORK TIMESNONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING
"A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound."-Patrick Radden Keefe, author ofSay Nothing
"A gift to anyone interested in American history. I couldn’t stop turning pages."-Charles Yu, author ofInterior Chinatown
"What history should be-richly detailed, authoritative, and compelling."-David Grann, author ofThe Wager andKillers of the Flower Moon
Strangers in the Land tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan-Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. A prolonged economic downturn that idled legions of white workingmen helped create the conditions for what came next: a series of progressively more onerous federal laws aimed at excluding Chinese laborers from the country, marking the first time the United States barred a people based on their race. In a captivating debut, Michael Luo follows the Chinese from these early years to modern times, as they persisted in the face of bigotry and persecution, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy.
Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence, like Gene Tong, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history; of demagogues like Denis Kearney, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s; of the pioneering activist Wong Chin Foo and other leaders of the Chinese community, who pressed their new homeland to live up to its stated ideals. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. The Chinese became the country’s first undocumented immigrants: hounded, counted, suspected, surveilled.
In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as "strangers in the land." Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the "stranger" label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a New Yorker writer’s style and sweep, Strangers in the Land is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story. Click to expand…
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Catergory: Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Family Relationships, Divorce, Relationships, Marriage, Biography & Memoir

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN VOGUE, BBC, NEW YORK TIMES, W MAGAZINE, TOWN & COUNTRY
**’A beautifully written eulogy for the loss of a relationship’ Joyce Carol Oates
‘Beautiful… devastating … Strangers reads with all the momentum and colour of water-tight literary fiction’** British Vogue
How do we go on when a loved one betrays us?
On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden’s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her. His decision shocked Belle to her core: she believed he was a happy man, a committed partner, and a devoted father to their three children. She thought he was a man who had settled into the life he had always wanted: a successful career, summers spent at their beloved home on Martha’s Vineyard, lots of tennis. Overnight, he transformed from her steady companion into a stranger.
As she pieces her life together in the wake of a loss she had never imagined coming, she finds she is much stronger than she ever expected. Exploring the transformation of a shy, quiet girl, nicknamed ‘Belle the Good’ to a powerful, brave, determined woman who has learned to use her voice to expose the patriarchal structures that have forced women to be discreet and compliant for far too long, Strangers is a must-read memoir of self-discovery.
‘Burden is an elegant writer . As Strangers and myriad tv shows attest, even the most intimate and long marriages can yield nasty surprises. In the end, how well do you really know the person who lies next to you in bed every night?’ Economist
‘A compelling tale of marriage and deception. Strangers raises some serious questions about the nature of intimacy and what makes a "perfect" marriage . She weaves the narrative together deftly: I devoured Strangers in about two days, greedily absorbing every twist and painful turn . I loved it.’ Lucy Denyer, Telegraph
‘Examines how we view intimacy, how the people closest to us can change without us knowing, and how to move forward in the wake of devastation.’ W Magazine
‘Burden’s sharp, personal writing brings readers deep into her unthinkable circumstances and offers a promise to anyone suffering: you can make it to the other side.’ Town & Country Click to expand…
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Read by the author, Tiffany Jenkins

‘Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating and full of surprises’– Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen

‘It is refreshing – and empowering – to read such a nuanced, thoughtful history of this slippery concept’– Kate Fox, author of Watching the English

AFinancial Times‘What to read in 2025’ Book

From ancient times to our digital present,Strangers and Intimatestraces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger.

In this sweeping history, acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins takes listeners ion an epic journey, from the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens to the moral rigidity of the Victorian home, and from the feminists of the 1970s who declared that ‘the personal is political’ to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age.
Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning: as social media, surveillance and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, Jenkins asks a timely question: can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century? Click to expand…
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️ Strangers And Intimates The Rise And Fall Of Private Life Audiobook (377.06 MB)

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