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ID: 525819

Title: What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma

Author: Mike Mariani

Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:11:40

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

“A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us—a reincarnation.”—Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

“A masterpiece—a book that truly captures what it means to be changed by tragedy, and a necessary salve for our troubled times.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes

“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger,” the adage—adapted from Nietzsche’s famous maxim—goes. But how much truth is there to that ubiquitous, inexhaustible saying? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one’s life is severed into a before and after. If what doesn’t kill us does not necessarily make us stronger, he asks, what does it make us?

When his own life was transformed by the onset of a chronic illness, Mariani turned inward, changing his bustling, exuberant lifestyle into something more contemplative and deliberate. In this ambitious work of narrative reporting, he uses his own experience, as well as lessons from psychology, literature, mythology, and religion, to tell the stories of people living what he describes as “afterlives.” His subjects’ harrowing episodes range from a paralyzing car crash to a personality-altering traumatic brain injury to an accidental homicide that resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment. Their “afterlives,” Mariani argues, have compelled them to supercharge their identities, narrowing and deepening their focus to find a sense of meaning—whether through academia or religion or ministering to others—in lives sundered by tragedy. Only then can these people truly reinvent themselves, testifying to their own unseen multitudes and the valiant mutability of the human spirit.

Delving into lives we rarely see in such meticulous detail—lives filled with struggle, loss, perseverance, transformation, and triumph—Mariani leads us into some of the darkest corners of human existence, only to reveal our endless capacity for kindling new light.

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ID: 548821

Title: Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery

Author: Casey Parks

Narrator: Casey Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:39:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, General

Summary:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.

'Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit.' —The New York Times Book Review

When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. 'I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man,' and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own.

For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.

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ID: 595066

Title: Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself

Author: Mike Michalowicz

Narrator: Johnathan Mcclain, Mike Michalowicz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:54:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Business Development

Summary:

'The missing link that will prepare your business and your mind for the next stage of business growth.' --from the Foreword by Gino Wickman, author of Entrepreneurial Leap and Traction

 

Does your business own you more than you own it? Are you afraid it will collapse without you? Are you sacrificing your family, friends, and freedom to keep your business in business? What if, instead, your company could run on automatic while it continued to grow and turn a profit?

It’s possible—and the revised and expanded edition of Clockwork makes it easier than ever.

If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your company so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.

 

In Clockwork, Revised & Expanded, entrepreneurship expert Mike Michalowicz improves on his step-by-step method for getting more done by doing less – making it easier than ever to have your business run itself.

 

The culmination of more than ten years research, with hundreds of new real-life case studies and improved processes drawn—drawn directly from Mike’s hugely successful training program—Clockwork, Revised & Expanded is your recipe for an ultra-efficient business.

 

Among the many new and improved strategies, you will learn how to:

- Transfer any task off your plate and trust that your team will get it done right.

- Elevate your role in your company (and life) with one single word.

- Pinpoint the critical function your business must master to avoid mediocrity.

- Leverage the extraordinary power of the 3.2 hour productivity rule.

- And finally—do what you want, when you want, in your business and your life.

 

Clockwork Revised & Expanded even includes an entirely new section that details how to improve each team member’s efficiency – both individually and within teams – without leadership involvement.

 

With Mike's Clockwork system, you will make your business finally work for you.

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ID: 561937

Title: Golden Ax

Author: Rio Cortez

Narrator: Rio Cortez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:05:39

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award

Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award

“Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture.” —Roxane Gay, author of Hunger

 

“I’ve never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience.” —Jason Reynolds, author of Ain’t Burned All the Bright

A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as 'Afropioneers' in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. 

 

In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors—some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction—Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.

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ID: 561938

Title: Lost Ticket

Author: Freya Sampson

Narrator: Helen Lloyd, Katharine Lee Mcewan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:35:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

One of Amazon’s Best Books of September!

Strangers on a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the heartwarming new novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Chance Library.

When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, brokenhearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 that he met a girl on the number 88 bus with beautiful red hair just like hers. They made plans for a date at the National Gallery art museum, but Frank lost the bus ticket with her number on it. For the past sixty years, he’s ridden the same bus trying to find her, but with no luck.

 

Libby is inspired to action and, with the help of an unlikely companion, she papers the bus route with posters advertising their search. Libby begins to open her guarded heart to new friendships and a budding romance, as her tightly controlled world expands. But with Frank’s dementia progressing quickly, their chance of finding the girl on the 88 bus is slipping away.

 

More than anything, Libby wants Frank to see his lost love one more time. But their quest also shows Libby just how important it is to embrace her own chances for happiness—before it’s too late—in a beautifully uplifting novel about how a shared common experience among strangers can transform lives in the most marvelous ways.

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ID: 556124

Title: Bad at Love

Author: Gabriela Martins

Narrator: Carla Corvo, Javier Prusky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

'An open-hearted exploration of loneliness and love against the backdrop of the vibrant L.A. music scene.'—Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

 

This fun and flirty romance follows a teen rocker with a bad boy reputation and the aspiring journalist who’s determined to dig up the dirt on him . . . if they don’t fall for each other first.

Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tabloids’ bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him . . . except for Sasha, who hates bad boys. When a chance encounter brings them together, Sasha sees an opportunity to get close to Daniel and write a story that will make a name for herself at the celebrity gossip magazine where she interns. But Daniel is surprisingly sweet and extremely cute—could she be falling for him?

 

The truth is: Daniel is hiding something. When Sasha discovers his secret, will she follow her heart or deliver the hottest story of the summer?

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ID: 597241

Title: Kingdom of Secrets

Author: Christyne Morrell

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:11:15

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

When her father is arrested for a crime she committed, Prismena will do anything to save him, taking her on a high-flying and shadowy adventure in this middle-grade fantasy debut.

In the kingdom of Oren, Prismena longs to fly hot-air balloons, but her father insists she keep her feet on the ground. When he's arrested for a crime he didn't commit--and one that Prismena did--she must decide between following the rules and following her heart.

Her decision will catapult her on an adventure that challenges everything she knows about her identity, her kingdom, and even her beloved balloons.

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ID: 561931

Title: Honest June: The Show Must Go On

Author: Tina Wells

Narrator: Tyla Collier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:34:16

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Humor

Summary:

June can't tell a lie - and that made for a lot of drama even before she joined her school musical! An enchanting middle grade series that readers won't want to miss. Honestly.

June has a hard time telling the truth when it isn't what people want to hear. But she's trying to be honest with herself, and auditioning for the school musical is what she really wants -- even if her parents have other ideas. 

But the drama is brewing offstage, too. On the night of the play, June's secret blog is released to the whole school. ALL of the inner secrets she's been desperate to keep to herself are unleashed! Will her friends and family forgive her fibs? Or will this be June's final act?

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ID: 561932

Title: Trex

Author: Christyne Morrell

Narrator: Erin Ruth Walker, Jacob Mcnatt, Maria Marquis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:21:15

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

This middle grade mystery follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a reclusive girl training to be a spy, as they're pitted against school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things.

Trex’s experimental brain implant saved his life—but it also made his life a lot harder. Now he shocks everything he touches. When his overprotective mother finally agrees to send him to a real school for sixth grade, Trex is determined to fit in.

He wasn’t counting on Mellie the Mouse. She lives in the creepiest house in Hopewell Hill, where she spends her time scowling, lurking, ignoring bullies, and training to be a spy. Mellie is convinced she saw lightning shoot from Trex’s fingertips, and she is Very Suspicious.

And she should be . . . but not of Trex. Someone mysterious is lurking in the shadows . . . someone who knows a dangerous secret.

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ID: 494972

Title: Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

Author: Seth Goldenberg

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:33:52

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness, Philosophy

Summary:

A bold manifesto arguing that the most complex challenges we face today—as individuals, businesses, and a society—require us to ask deeper questions, not seek easier answers

 

“With this beautifully written book, Seth Goldenberg awakens the gifts we all possess: wonder, optimism, and the fearlessness to reverse destruction.”—Bruce Vaughn, vice president of experiential creative product, Airbnb

In a world with an endless hunger for innovation, why is it so hard to create audacious change? According to thought leader Seth Goldenberg, the answer to this question stems from how we, as a society, view questions themselves.

 

In Radical Curiosity, Goldenberg argues that because we value knowing above learning and prioritize doing over thinking, curiosity has become an endangered species. Only by rediscovering the power of questions can we hope to rewrite the commonly held “legacy” narratives that no longer serve us and to remake our organizations, our politics, and our lives.

 

With this empowering book, Goldenberg introduces the practice of Radical Curiosity through the lens of seven narratives that are going through significant transformation: Learning, Cohesion, Time, Youth, Aliveness, Nature, and Value. Along the way, he unpacks principles intended to spark our own questioning, including:

 

• Education is too big to fail, but maybe it should.

• Time travel isn’t reserved for DeLoreans.

• Let us now praise rural communities.

• Survival economics have made imagination a luxury good.

 

Blending philosophy, business strategy, cultural criticism, and fascinating case studies, Radical Curiosity is a new way of solving our most complex problems—one focused not on technology or science but on the power of human inquiry. By asking us to relearn how we learn, reengage in dialogue, revive our youthful sense of wonder, and rethink what we value, it reignites the curiosity needed to imagine and build a better world.

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