M A R C H 2 0 1 4 For Libraries: tantorlibrary.com For Consumers: tantor.com Tantor Audio March 2014 Catalog Asia's Cauldron The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific Author(s): Robert D. Kaplan Read by: Michael Prichard Category: HISTORY/Asia Print Publisher: Random House 03/25/2014 Running Time: 8 hrs Unabridged Rights: US and Canada Publication Date: 03/25/2014 Trade | 9781452619194 | 7 CDs | $37.99 Library | 9781452649191 | 7 CDs | $77.99 MP3 | 9781452669199 | 1 CD | $24.99 Key Marketing Points: -Simultaneous release From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global -New York Times bestselling author Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at -Named one of the world's Top 100 Global the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine conflict. -National media attention -National/local review and feature print attention In Asia's Cauldron, Robert D. Kaplan offers up a vivid snapshot of -National/local radio attention the nations surrounding the South China Sea, the conflicts brewing -NPR campaign in the region at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and their -Author's Web site: RobertDKaplan.com implications for global peace and stability. One of the world's most perceptive foreign policy experts, Kaplan interprets America's Bios: interests in Asia in the context of an increasingly assertive China. Robert D. Kaplan is the author of over a dozen He explains how the region's unique geography fosters the growth books on foreign affairs and travel, including of navies but also impedes aggression. And he draws a striking Balkan Ghosts, Eastward to Tartary, and Warrior parallel between China's quest for hegemony in the South China Politics. Sea and the United States' imperial adventure in the Caribbean more than a century ago. Michael Prichard is a professional narrator and stage and film actor who has played several To understand the future of conflict in East Asia, Kaplan argues, thousand characters during his career. An Audie one must understand the goals and motivations of its leaders and Award winner, he has recorded well over five its people. Part travelogue, part geopolitical primer, Asia's Cauldron hundred books and has earned several AudioFile takes us on a journey through the region's boom cities and Earphones Awards. Michael was also named a Top ramshackle slums: from Vietnam, where the superfueled capitalism Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. of the erstwhile colonial capital, Saigon, inspires the geostrategic pretensions of the official seat of government in Hanoi, to Malaysia, where a unique mix of authoritarian Islam and Western-style consumerism creates quite possibly the ultimate postmodern society; and from Singapore, whose "benevolent autocracy" helped foster an economic miracle, to the Philippines, where a different brand of authoritarianism under Ferdinand Marcos led not to economic growth but to decades of corruption and crime. Praise: "A riveting, multitextured look at an underexamined region of the world and, perhaps, at the 'anxious, complicated world' of the future.'" -Booklist "Asia's Cauldron is a wonderful and captivating guide that illumines the myriad colliding forces that will shape the future of the Indo-Pacific." -Ashley J. Tellis, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Also by the author: Title ISBN13 Author - Primary Date - Publication Price - U.S. The Revenge of Geography 9781452610528 Kaplan, Robert D. October 2012 $44.99 Monsoon 9781452606187 Kaplan, Robert D. January 2012 $44.99 Tantor Audio March 2014 Catalog Six Women of Salem The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials Author(s): Marilynne K. Roach Read by: Kate Reading Category: HISTORY/United States Print Publisher: Da Capo Press 09/03/2013 Running Time: 17 hrs Unabridged Rights: North America Publication Date: 03/17/2014 Trade | 9781494500405 | 14 CDs | $49.99 Library | 9781494530402 | 14 CDs | $95.99 MP3 | 9781494550400 | 2 CDs | $34.99 Key Marketing Points: -Author appearance on The Daily Show with Jon From Marilynne K. Roach, a narrative that allows listeners to Stewart experience the history of the Salem witch trials through the eyes -Author tour: New England of those who lived it. -Academic marketing -Author's residence: Watertown, MA Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused Bios: their fellow neighbors, and two hundred and fifty five ordinary Marilynne K. Roach earned a BFA from people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous Massachusetts College of Art and works as both a vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and historian and illustrator. She is also the author of governmental leaders. All this adds up to what the Rev. Cotton The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Mather called "a desolation of names." Community Under Siege. She lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. The individuals involved are too often reduced to stock characters and stereotypes when accuracy is sacrificed to indignation. And Stage actress Kate Reading has been a freelance although the flood of names and detail in the history of an narrator for over twenty years. She has received extraordinary event like the Salem witch trials can swamp the multiple Audie Awards and nominations, as well individual lives involved, individuals still deserve to be as numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile remembered, and, in remembering specific lives, modern magazine, which has named her Narrator of the audiences can benefit from such historical intimacy. By examining Year and, for two years running, Best Voice in the lives of six specific women, Marilynne Roach shows listeners Science Fiction and Fantasy. what it was like to be present throughout this horrific time and how it was impossible to live through it unchanged. Praise: "[Full of] the author's deep knowledge of virtually every man, woman and child affected by the trials in this bizarre period." -Kirkus "Roach animates information woven together from court records, trial notes, diaries, vital records, sermon notes, and family lore in a successful attempt to personalize [the women's] lives, drawing the reader away from commonly believed stereotypes and sensational folklore." -Library Journal Also by the author: Tantor Audio March 2014 Catalog Daughter of the King Growing Up in Gangland Author(s): Sandra Lansky, William Stadiem Read by: Laural Merlington Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Personal Memoirs Print Publisher: Weinstein Books 03/04/2014 Running Time: 9 hrs 1 min Unabridged Rights: North America Publication Date: 03/04/2014 Trade | 9781452619620 | 8 CDs | $37.99 Library | 9781452649627 | 8 CDs | $77.99 MP3 | 9781452669625 | 1 CD | $24.99 Key Marketing Points: -Simultaneous release Sandra Lansky recounts for the first time the grandeur-and -Foreword by Nicholas Pileggi heartbreak-of her life as the daughter of one of the most powerful -Stadiem is a New York Times bestselling author mobsters in America. -Lansky's residence: Florida -Stadiem's residence: Santa Monica, CA In this tell-all memoir, the only daughter of the man who was considered the "brains of the Mob" opens the door on her glamorous-and tragic-life. Sandi Lansky Lombardo, daughter of Mob boss Meyer Lansky, was raised in New York City in upper-class Jewish splendor and spent her childhood in the undeniable glitz of Havana and Las Vegas in Lansky's heyday in the 1940s, '50s, and Bios: '60s. She dined out with her father and his associates when she was Sandra Lansky is the only daughter of mobster six and was introduced to Frank Sinatra when she was eleven. She Meyer Lansky. Daughter of the King is her first knew Bugsy Siegel and Uncle Lucky Luciano and met Howard book. She lives in Florida. William Stadiem is the Hughes and Joseph Kennedy. She was the Paris Hilton of her day: New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of partying until dawn at El Morocco and the Stork Club, married at many books, including Jet Set, Moneywood, Dear sixteen, romanced by Dean Martin at nineteen. She was pampered Senator, and Mr. S. He lives in Santa Monica, and protected, but her life was also full of tragedy: her mother was California. mentally ill and her eldest brother severely handicapped, and Mob violence repeatedly invaded the world of their friends and family. Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret In Daughter of the King, Sandi recounts for the first time the Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of grandeur-and heartbreak-of her life as the daughter of one of the several AudioFile Earphones Awards. An Audie most powerful mobsters in America. Sandi takes listeners back in Award nominee, she has also directed over one time to tell the story of her life-one lived in a glamorous but hundred audiobooks. troubled world where nothing ever turned out to be quite as it seemed. Also by the author: Tantor Audio March 2014 Catalog The Way of the SEAL Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed Author(s): Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhertz Machate Read by: John Pruden Category: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership Print Publisher: Readers Digest 12/26/2013 Running Time: 8 hrs Unabridged Rights: World English Publication Date: 02/04/2014 Trade | 9781494500337 | 7 CDs | $39.99 Library | 9781494530334 | 7 CDs | $77.99 MP3 | 9781494550332 | 1 CD | $24.99 Key Marketing Points: -A top 100 book on Amazon the first week and Ex-Navy Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, has remained in the top 500 since and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, -Navy SEAL books tend to do well on audio, and, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition.