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Title: Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age
Author: Jennifer O'Callaghan
Narrator: Christine Williams
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:41:07
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:
Before the internet and social media offered voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of others, the acclaimed Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, exposed the dangers and delights of looking—and knowing—too much in his 1954 masterpiece Rear Window. Hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, it stars James Stewart and Grace Kelly but, in an unusual gamble, is shot entirely from within a Greenwich Village apartment. Hitchcock forces his audience to participate in his protagonist's voyeuristic impulses and darkest obsessions—a bold move in the era of the Hollywood Blacklist and restrictive Hays Code. But the gamble paid off, and Rear Window became a timeless classic. This book goes straight to the source of Rear Window's genius by mining the papers of Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, and Thelma Ritter, revealing little-known facts behind the scenes: Why taking the role of Lisa was one of the toughest decisions Grace Kelly ever made; How Hitchcock intertwined suspense and romance with inspiration from Ingrid Bergman; How he used a topless scene to distract censors from other scenes to which they may have objected; and how Hitchcock crafted the film's unforgettable villain by modeling him on a producer he loathed. This exciting book pulls back the curtain on a classic thriller that's as relevant today as ever—and every bit as thrilling.

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Title: Murder & Mayhem in Seattle
Author: Teresa Nordheim
Narrator: Susan Hanfield
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:15:36
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law & Politics

Summary:
Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. Ted Bundy's murder spree started in King County before reaching national attention in the 1970s. Local author Teresa Nordheim exposes these and many more gruesome events that scarred the city.

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Title: Guardianship of Julian St. Albans
Author: Amy Crook
Narrator: Keval Shah
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:03:21
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:
In the third Consulting Magic novel, after a peaceful holiday interlude (Rosemary for the Holidays short story), Julian St. Albans and Alexander Benedict return for more murder, mystery, magic, and . . . marriage? Julian and Alex want to begin building a new holiday cottage near the Magical Source on the St. Albans' land, and working on a magical garden for their Guardian friends, but their plans for cozy domesticity are quickly shattered as Alex is called in to consult on a strange new murder case. Julian is drawn into his own mystery when he is trapped by a curse. Alex and their friends have to rescue Julian, solve the mounting murders, and protect each other from the malevolent force clearly at work. As Alex and Julian work together, their magics and their relationship grow and lead them down a mysterious and exciting path, introducing them to new friends they never could have imagined.

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Title: Among Us
Author: Jacqueline Druga
Narrator: Kristin James
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:40:30
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:
In just forty-eight hours, a brutal and mysterious virus sweeps across the nation, claiming millions of lives. But this is just the beginning. Soon, the terrifying truth emerges: the United States is under attack—an unprecedented blitzkrieg of biological, conventional, and nuclear warfare. No town is safe, and the identity of the enemy remains unknown. Shelby Doyle lives in the small town of Hawthorne with her sons. When the attacks occur, she quickly realizes nowhere is safe. Hawthorn isn't safe. She joins a group of others and together they travel to find a safe haven. As the days pass and the attacks continue without mercy, Shelby not only wonders if they will survive long enough to find safety, but will they ever learn who is behind it all.

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Title: Painting the Town Red
Author: J.A. Johnstone
Narrator: Cody Roberts
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:55:23
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:
Welcome back to Dead Broke, Colorado. Where the latest discovery—a giant boulder of zinc—ignites a kill-crazy war that rocks the Rockies to their core. Ever since the silver market crashed, the mining town of Dead Broke has been awfully quiet. The local marshal—legendary gunman Duncan 'Mick' MacMicking—doesn't have much to do besides outshoot the occasional greenhorn looking to challenge him. But all this peace and quiet is about to end. Mayor Nugget has unearthed a mineral to rival his famous 'Hope Diamond of Silver.' He calls it the 'Zinc of Zion,' a 1,776-pound boulder of pure zinc carbonate. And when he announces his discovery, the quiet boomtown of Dead Broke goes boom—again—with a vengeance. First, a mining expert from Germany shows up—with his eyes on the prize. Then, a reporter from Baltimore arrives—and ends up dead in one of the mines. It doesn't take long for the town marshal and mayor to realize they've got a full-blown zinc war on their hands. Fueled by greed—and backed by gunpower—the German's business proposition turns into a hostile takeover. And then the German himself turns out to be a notorious outlaw with a long history of stealing whatever—and killing whoever—he wants. There's just one thing stopping him from painting the whole town red: a gunfighting legend who happens to be the town marshal they call Mick.

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Title: Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
Author: Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Narrator: Amber Dekkers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:51:54
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary, Essays & Anthologies, Women

Summary:
In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended the era's literati, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. But this is not merely a saga of literary usurping; on her own merits, Babb's impact was profound. Her life and work feature heavily in Ken Burns's award-winning documentary The Dust Bowl and inspired Kristin Hannah in her bestseller The Four Winds. Riding Like the Wind reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know—and who tells them—can change the way we remember history.

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Title: Hidden History of Walt Disney World
Author: Foxx Nolte
Narrator: Xe Sands
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:23:29
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, North America, Travel Tips

Summary:
Author Foxx Nolte gives listeners a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the surface, past the blanket of pixie dust, is a story as vivid and bizarre as any. It is a history of corporate politics, urban planning, crazy ambitions, and failed schemes. The Hidden History of Walt Disney World takes you on a journey that stretches from 'Old Florida' to the events that made Walt Disney World what it is today. There's birds made of citrus, horizontal elevators, a ghost town, and tennis ball factories. And that's just the start. Whether you've visited one or one hundred times, your vacation will never be the same again. Yep, the castle is fake. But the stories are not.

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Title: Misfortune on Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row
Author: Alan F. Dutka
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3:50:09
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:
Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior. May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doctor, the infamous con woman Cassie Chadwick posed as Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and forged a fake $5 million check. Author Alan Dutka delves into sixteen tales of anguish and deceit that offer a startling perspective on Cleveland's super-rich.

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Title: Pocketful of Diamonds
Author: Pam Lecky
Narrator: Gemma Dawson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:14:39
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:
Lucy Lawrence smoothed her silk traveling gown and watched as darkness fell over the shimmering waters of Lake Como—her honeymoon bliss shattered in an instant by a telegram carrying deadly tidings . . . Newlyweds Lucy Lawrence and Phineas Stone arrive at the glittering shores of Lake Como, Italy, not to enjoy a romantic honeymoon but to answer a frantic plea for help. Phin's brother-in-law—the charismatic Count Luca Carmosino—has vanished without a trace from his Belle Époque villa, and the couple find themselves thrust into a world of stolen diamonds and smuggling rings. From the opulent Grand Hotel Bellagio with its crystal chandeliers to the misty mountain passes of the Swiss border, Lucy must solve the mystery of the Count's disappearance and navigate the treacherous waters of Italian high society, all while maintaining the decorum expected of a proper Victorian lady . . . But as Lucy edges closer to the truth about what happened to Count Carmosino, the stakes rise dramatically. When an attempt is made on her life while Phin is out of town, Lucy realizes they're both in grave danger. Can she unravel this conspiracy and save those she loves before it's too late?

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Title: Solving the West Georgia Murder of Gwendolyn Moore: A Cry From the Well
Author: Clay Bryant
Narrator: Joshua Saxon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3:33:27
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law & Politics

Summary:
On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff's Office overseeing the case. To the dismay and bafflement of many, no charges were brought. That is, until Bryant followed his father's footsteps into law enforcement and a voice cried out from the well three decades later.

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Title: From Eden to the New Jerusalem: An Introduction to Biblical Theology
Author: T. Desmond Alexander
Narrator: Al Kessel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:55:11
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biblical Studies

Summary:
Personal stories aren't enough to offer individuals peace when they question their own existence. But the Bible's story comes not from humanity, but from God. Author, T. Desmond Alexander, suggests that God has given us the reasons for creation and our existence in the Bible, 'by resolving an intricate plot that sheds light on the entire story,' Alexander writes. Using this theory to start from the denouement, or resolution, in Revelation's last verses and work backward, Alexander pieces together the Bible's overarching plot. The resulting picture reveals the reasons for creation and life that have eluded those who seek to answer life's biggest questions without first placing themselves in God's story.

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Title: Two Sisters
Author: Lorna Henderson
Narrator: Lianne Walker, Mhairi Morrison
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:47:02
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Psychological

Summary:
Sisters are meant to look after each other. But Josie and I have secrets. Just like our mother did. My husband and I have moved back into my childhood home: a pretty stone cottage by the sea. Our two kids love the huge garden and the views are breathtaking. The renovations will probably cost twice what they said, but I know it'll be amazing in the end. I'm baking a cake when the builder calls me over. 'We've found something.' 'What do you mean?' 'Bones,' he says. 'You've got bones buried at the bottom of your garden.' The first person I call is my sister Josie. She'll know what to do. We've been there for each other ever since our mother walked out more than twenty years ago. We were just children. The only contact we had was a card on our birthdays—but they suddenly stopped when we reached the age of twenty-one. We ask our father about the bones. What he tells us will shatter everything I thought I knew about my family.

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Title: Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy
Author: David A. Sklansky
Narrator: Mike Lenz
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:41:35
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Law, General, Political Advocacy, Political Science

Summary:
How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. Criminal Justice in Divided America shows how police, courts, and prisons helped to break American democracy and how better approaches to public safety and criminal accountability can help to repair it. Engaging critically with concerns from both the left and the right, Sklansky lays out a clear and deeply researched agenda for reforming police departments, prosecutors' offices, criminal trials, and punishment. Sklansky seeks pragmatic solutions that take account of political realities: the lofty ideal of empowering 'the people' or 'the community' can mean little when members of the public or the community disagree. While efforts to 'defund' the police have exacerbated political conflicts without addressing the underlying problem of how and when force should be used to protect public safety, reforms aimed at improving police accountability, restraining prosecutorial power, and expanding the role of juries can bring together warring parties who share a concern for justice. Ultimately, Sklansky argues, reform must be rooted in a strong commitment to pluralism―bridging political divides rather than worsening them, strengthening democracy, and securing the broad support that enables durable change.

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Title: Fathers of the Church, 3rd Edition: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers
Author: Mike Aquilina
Narrator: John Guccion
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:55:43
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense. But who were they? What can we learn from their ancient teachings? What can the Fathers teach the twenty-first century—about holiness, culture, faith, and the Gospel. This is the definitive resource for anyone interested in learning about the Church Fathers and their legacy. Ideal for RCIA, catechists, clergy, as well as lay Catholics who want to learn more about the great teachers of early Christianity. In this new and extensively updated third edition, you'll find: ● Twenty Church Fathers never before covered in this series ● Many poets of ancient Christianity, whose hymns we still sing today. ● An extensively revised introduction ● The Mothers of the Church and their impact

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Title: Rich's: A Southern Institution
Author: Jeff Clemmons
Narrator: Chris Abernathy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:09:25
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Business & Economics, History, North America, Sales & Retail

Summary:
The storied history of the iconic Atlanta department store. In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing dynasty. Join historian Jeff Clemmons as he traces Rich's 137-year history. For the first time, learn the true stories behind Penelope Penn, Fashionata, The Great Tree, the Pink Pig, Rich's famous coconut cake and much more, including how events at the downtown Atlanta store helped John F. Kennedy become America's thirty-fifth president. With an eye for accuracy and exacting detail, Clemmons recounts the complete history of this treasured southern institution.

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Title: Of Song and Darkness
Author: Jessica Spruill
Narrator: Ash Kingsley, JD Tomlinson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:55:06
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Romantasy

Summary:
Poseidon has fallen. The world won't be far behind. Unless she can stop the rising darkness. The world beneath the waves is in chaos. Without Poseidon to hold it at bay, Dark Water is slowly spreading, devouring anything it touches. Even the mighty King Manta has given up hope. But his daughter hasn't. Rhea, the siren princess of Aquarius, will do anything to save her world. Even if it means hunting down the mythical Medusa—and partnering with a notorious pirate captain. Blackheart Kai has more dangerous secrets than Rhea can fathom. He'd rather kill her than help her save her people. She knows he can't be trusted. But knowing that doesn't stop her from needing him . . . or wanting him. With the survival of the seven seas hanging in the balance, can Rhea and Kai overcome their hatred and work together when it matters most? Or are they destined to share Poseidon's dark fate?

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Title: Murder at Somerset House
Author: Andrea Penrose
Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:31:16
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:
Beyond the gilded ballrooms and salons of Regency London lurks a sinister web of intrigue and deception, and when a murder occurs within the scientific community, Lord Wrexford and Charlotte are the perfect pair to unravel it. A welcome interlude of calm has descended on Wrexford and Charlotte, though with three lively young boys in their care and an unconventional circle of friends and allies, quiet rarely lasts. And sure enough, in the dead of night, an old acquaintance appears and asks for help. His brother-in-law has been accused of murdering a fellow member of the prestigious Royal Society at their London headquarters, Somerset House. Wrexford agrees to investigate, and with a little unexpected help from their young charges, discovers that what seemed a simple case may be part of a darker, more dangerous plot, where science, money, and politics collide. A mysterious new technical innovation threatens to ignite a crisis throughout Europe, with frightening consequences for London's financial world. There is also personal upheaval for Wrexford and Charlotte, when a shocking secret from the past brings a profound change to their family, testing the bonds of loyalty and trust.

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Title: Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
Author: Paul Maher Jr.
Narrator: Paul Bellantoni
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:14:00
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:
Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the twentieth century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his life and work. He reveals how Kerouac's troubled interactions with alcohol, drugs, and spirituality stamped its importance on his autobiographical prose and poetry and created a singular language that united thoughts on the human condition and spiritual liberation. Becoming Kerouac: A Writer In His Time affixes Kerouac's life and art in a fresh way, giving listeners a rich perspective from which to understand this twentieth-century literary genius. Using unpublished archival material, Becoming Kerouac focuses on the writer's critical formative years—1940 to 1957—to demonstrate his growth as a novelist and poet. Narrating the events that comprised Kerouac's life, biographers have long struggled to illustrate his complexness and the contradictions that shaped his determinations and dogged his relationships. But without consideration of the writing, the troubles in life fail to reveal their deeper resonances by skillfully analyzing the work while tracing the events. Becoming Kerouac fuses Kerouac's life and art to comprehend this misunderstood literary genius.

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Title: Hanging the Devil
Author: Tim Maleeny
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:17:40
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:
It was supposed to be a simple job: steal the paintings, leave the forgeries . . . When a helicopter crashes through the skylight of the Asian Art Museum, an audacious heist turns into a tragedy. The only witness to the crash is eleven-year-old Grace, who watches in horror as her uncle is killed and a priceless statue stolen by two men and a―ghost? At least that's how the eerie, smoke-like figure with parchment skin and floating hair appears to Grace. Scared almost to death, she flees into the night and seeks refuge in the back alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown. Grace is found by Sally Mei, self-appointed guardian of Chinatown. While Sally trains Grace in basic survival skills, her erstwhile partner Cape Weathers, private detective and public nuisance, searches for the mysterious crew behind the robbery before they strike the museum a second time. As the clock winds down, Cape enlists aid from some unlikely allies to lay a trap for a ghost who has no intention of being caught―nor of leaving any witnesses alive to tell the tale.

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Title: Black History is for Everyone
Author: Brian Jones
Narrator: Brian Jones
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:41:24
Language: English
Release date: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:
Black history is under attack from powerful right-wing forces that seek to excise it from classrooms and libraries. Its opponents fail to understand a simple truth: the best education challenges our assumptions and demands we keep at it. It makes us uncomfortable, helps us see larger forces at work, and gives us glimpses of alternate futures. In Black History Is for Everyone, award-winning educator and scholar Brian Jones offers a meditation on the power of Black history, using his own experiences as a life-long learner and classroom teacher to question everything from the meaning of race and nation to the radicalism of the American Revolution. We see that 'race' took centuries to get defined; we follow Frederick Douglass as he grapples with how to relate to the United States and, later, to Haiti; we compare the American, French, and Haitian revolutions; and we learn why the study of Black history has always been threatened. In these pages, Jones offers a persuasive case for Black history and a celebration of the rewards of education. With warmth, immersive storytelling, and good cheer, Jones encourages us to delve deeper into our collective history, explores how curiosity about our world is essential—and reminds us that with stakes so high, the effort is worth it.