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Technology vs. Truth

Deception in the Digital Age

by Scientific American ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth, and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the ... Read more

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In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth, and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the
... Read more
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Way Hollywood Tells It, The

Story and Style in Modern Movies

by David Bordwell ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

8 hours 56 min

Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters.American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

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Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today's bloated blockbusters.American filmmakers have created a durable tradition - one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that
... Read more

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The Europeans

by Henry James ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins.Eugenia wins the attentions of Robert Acton, the most appropriate suitor in the area, while also seducing her younger cousin, Clifford. But her foreign gentility and ... Read more

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Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins.Eugenia wins the attentions of Robert Acton, the most appropriate suitor in the area, while also seducing her younger cousin, Clifford. But her foreign gentility and
... Read more

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Words without Music

A Memoir

by Philip Glass ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

15 hours 6 min

World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow one to experience the moments of creative fusion when ... Read more

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World-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has almost single-handedly crafted the dominant sound of late twentieth-century classical music. In Words without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice: that of a born storyteller and insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow one to experience the moments of creative fusion when
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Eclipsed by Fate

by James Lloyd ...

This book is the sequel to the 3rd story in my first book entitled, ‘Keys, Portraits of Trials and Truth’. It sees the relationship between the protagonist (Madelyn), and her former nemesis (Edith) evolve into a ‘sister-like’ friendship over a four year period. Madelyn has graduated law school with honors and now works as a junior associate for the new firm where Edith serves as partner. It’s also ... Read more

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This book is the sequel to the 3rd story in my first book entitled, ‘Keys, Portraits of Trials and Truth’. It sees the relationship between the protagonist (Madelyn), and her former nemesis (Edith) evolve into a ‘sister-like’ friendship over a four year period. Madelyn has graduated law school with honors and now works as a junior associate for the new firm where Edith serves as partner. It’s also
... Read more
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No Heart for a Thief

by James Lloyd Dulin ...

Narrated by Daniel Cryer-Muthedath Ryder ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Malitu
Unabridged

15 hours 34 min

We are the stories we tell ourselves...even the lies.The Thief, a great spirit, and her descendants have abused their ability to steal magic for centuries. When Kaylo starts to hear the song of other people’s magic, he must learn to hide from his people as well as the invaders. A gift or a curse, Kaylo may be able to save his people from the Gousht Empire that claimed their land with this stolen ... Read more

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We are the stories we tell ourselves...even the lies.The Thief, a great spirit, and her descendants have abused their ability to steal magic for centuries. When Kaylo starts to hear the song of other people’s magic, he must learn to hide from his people as well as the invaders. A gift or a curse, Kaylo may be able to save his people from the Gousht Empire that claimed their land with this stolen
... Read more
Prison:

Life’S Follies

by James Lloyd ...

The book deals with some very serious events that I was a part of, starting almost immediately getting out of my two-week indoctrination period: from hands-on trips to lock up to deal with troublesome inmates to a life-or-death situation in the control room in my fourth month of my six-month probationary period, through a couple of riots that took place right after my probation was up, as well as ... Read more

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The book deals with some very serious events that I was a part of, starting almost immediately getting out of my two-week indoctrination period: from hands-on trips to lock up to deal with troublesome inmates to a life-or-death situation in the control room in my fourth month of my six-month probationary period, through a couple of riots that took place right after my probation was up, as well as
... Read more
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Pictures at a Revolution

Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

by Mark Harris ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

17 hours 20 min

The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967—Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde—and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.It's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals such as Mary ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967—Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde—and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever.It's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals such as Mary
... Read more

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The Orphan

by James Lloyd ...

Omar Duncan is a product development specialist who is plagued by his past through vivid daydreams, which keeps him alienate from his peers and detached from reality. His story traces key experiences from adolescence to adulthood as he revisits, in vivid detail, three of them that were most impactful. Because he has allowed years of bitterness and disappointment to drive him, he has conveniently ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Omar Duncan is a product development specialist who is plagued by his past through vivid daydreams, which keeps him alienate from his peers and detached from reality. His story traces key experiences from adolescence to adulthood as he revisits, in vivid detail, three of them that were most impactful. Because he has allowed years of bitterness and disappointment to drive him, he has conveniently
... Read more
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Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

12 hours 29 min

America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they?As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the three percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly. Or are they?As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.
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Washington Square

by Henry James ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

On New York City’s Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter. Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when Dr. Sloper threatens to disinherit Catherine, ... Read more

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On New York City’s Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter. Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when Dr. Sloper threatens to disinherit Catherine,
... Read more

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Love and Light: Sharing the Good News of John with the World

by James Lloyd ...

• Over 30 sermons covering all chapters of John • Ready to preach sermons • For all audiences • Powerful outlines • Biblical and expository • Special sermons for special days • Begin at Christmas and end at Pentecost • Or preach as you wish • Includes first-person sermons on John and Thomas • Includes a children’s drama sermon on John 6 ... Read more

$8.99 USD

• Over 30 sermons covering all chapters of John • Ready to preach sermons • For all audiences • Powerful outlines • Biblical and expository • Special sermons for special days • Begin at Christmas and end at Pentecost • Or preach as you wish • Includes first-person sermons on John and Thomas • Includes a children’s drama sermon on John 6
... Read more

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