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ID: 559903

Title: On the Subject of Unmentionable Things

Author: Julia Walton

Narrator: Phoebe Strole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:02:11

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully awkward novel from the award-winning author of Words on Bathroom Walls.

Phoebe Townsend is a rule follower . . . or so everyone thinks. She’s an A student who writes for her small-town school newspaper. But what no one knows is that Phoebe is also Pom—the anonymous teen who’s rewriting sex education on her blog and social media.

Phoebe is not a pervert. No, really. Her unconventional hobby is just a research obsession. And sex should not be a secret. As long as Phoebe stays undercover, she’s sure she’ll fly through junior year unnoticed. . . .

That is, until Pom goes viral, courtesy of mayoral candidate Lydia Brookhurst. The former beauty queen labels Phoebe’s work an “assault on morality,” riling up her supporters and calling on Pom to reveal her identity. But Phoebe is not backing down. With her anonymity on the line, is it all worth the fight?

Julia Walton delivers a brutally honest novel about sex, social media, and the courage to pursue truth when misinformation is rife. Who knew truth could be so scandalous?

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ID: 559896

Title: Song of the Closing Doors: Poems

Author: Patrick Phillips

Narrator: Patrick Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:24:40

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

From New York City subway encounters to memories of pickup basketball games on Fourth Street, a love letter to the past, and to all the relationships and memories our homeplaces hold, from the National Book Award finalist.

“I will consider a slice of pizza,' opens Phillips's poem 'Jubilate Civitas.' 'For rare among pleasures in Gotham, it is both / exquisite and blessedly cheap.' Thus, as throughout this collection, he celebrates a simple pleasure that 'in a time of deceit . . . is honest and upright, steadfast and good'; even the busted buttons we press when waiting to cross the street make for elegy in a collection that brings us this poet at his burnished best.

 

Phillips finds his love of a complex, vibrant city extends to his dearest people—he writes for his friend Paul, dying of cancer; for his wife’s stormy eyes when they fight; for the baby boy he once woke at night to feed and change. All these and more pass through Phillips's elegant yet colloquial lines, in a book that shines with love and honesty on every page. As he writes, 'If you're reading this / we were once friends.' 

 

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ID: 559902

Title: Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Author: Mimi Zhu

Narrator: Mimi Zhu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:12:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

“Radical and revolutionary.” —Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, Again

 

A collection of powerful interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu’s journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent romantic relationship, a stunning and provocative book that will guide and inspire readers to lean into love with softness

In their early twenties, Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse. This left them broken, in search of healing and ways to re-learn love. This work is a testament to the strength and adaptability all humans possess, a tribute to love. Be Not Afraid of Love explores the intersections of love and fear in self-esteem, friendship, family dynamics, and romantic relationships, and extends out to its effects on society and the greater political realm. In sharing their own intimate encounters with oppression, healing, joy, and community, Mimi invites readers to reflect deeply on their own experiences as well, with the intention of acting as a guide to undoing the hurt or uncertainty within them. In this heartrending and revolutionary book, Mimi reminds us, be not afraid of love.

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ID: 566827

Title: Love on the Brain

Author: Ali Hazelwood

Narrator: Brooke Bloomingdale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:07:10

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, New Adult

Summary:

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

A #1 LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results.

Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.

 

Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school—archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

 

Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

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ID: 557677

Title: Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World

Author: Ella Frances Sanders

Narrator: Subhadra Newton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:17:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Architecture & Design

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Eating the Sun and Lost in Translation, a gorgeously illustrated love letter to everything that is beautiful, and a manifesto for those who are struggling to remember or recognize what beauty is

People are increasingly baffled as to what they can call beautiful, what they should call beautiful, and whether or not they are able to apply beautiful to themselves or to the things around them. Our outdated yet hugely pervasive modern notions of beauty provide one of the greatest sadnesses of all—an intensely human emptiness that we are mistakenly trying to fill with objects and hollow promises.

 

To be able to find our way back to beauty is a deceptively urgent task in the world today. Everyone deserves revelations, the kind that are daily, hugely personal, and very often ephemeral. We are surrounded by beauty—beauty that isn’t something we can buy: spiderwebs only seen in the sunlight, the greenish glow of a fox’s eyes watching in the dark, or the comforting screech of the subway that takes you to your many futures.

 

Part meditation, part self-help guide, and part interactive journal, Everything, Beautiful explores what beauty is, why it matters, and how we can find it in our everyday lives. Filled with thoughtful, intimate, and brilliant insights, inspirational quotes, breathtaking illustrations, and space for readers to write, draw, and reflect on their own ideas of beauty, Everything, Beautiful is for anyone who feels they cannot point to beauty any longer, are struggling to see it, or feel that it has left them behind.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF which contains illustrations and quotes from the book.

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ID: 559885

Title: Hair to Share

Author: Sylvia Walker

Narrator: Tashi Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:08:32

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

A joyful exploration of friendship, generosity, and confidence that comes from within.

A fresh take on celebrating the beauty of natural textured hair, HAIR TO SHARE tackles the difficulty of childhood medical hair loss and the impact empathy and generosity can have on one's self-esteem. 

Suri was born with more hair than anyone had ever seen on a baby.  As she grew, so did her hair until it eventually reached all the way down to her knees! But when she makes a new friend a girl who has no hair, Suri wants to find a way to help her feel comfortable and confident. 

Complete with backmatter addressing the many causes of medical hairloss, how to support kids managing hair loss, and how to donate or receive natural hair wigs, this sweet story is the embodiment of generosity and self love.

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ID: 525813

Title: Soul Taken

Author: Patricia Briggs

Narrator: Lorelei King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:33:52

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Paranormal

Summary:

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

The vampire Wulfe is missing. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking me, some may see it as no great loss. But, warned that his disappearance might bring down the carefully constructed alliances that keep our pack safe, my mate and I must find Wulfe—and hope he’s still alive. As alive as a vampire can be, anyway.  

But Wulfe isn’t the only one who has disappeared. And now there are bodies, too. Has the Harvester returned to the Tri-Cities, reaping souls with his cursed sickle? Or is he just a character from a B horror movie and our enemy is someone else?  

The farther I follow Wulfe’s trail, the more twisted—and darker—the path becomes. I need to figure out what’s going on before the next body on the ground is mine.

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ID: 559901

Title: Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters

Author: Linda Flanagan

Narrator: Abby Craden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:40:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, Other, Social Science

Summary:

Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022

A close look at how big money and high stakes have transformed youth sports, turning once healthy, fun activities for kids into all-consuming endeavors—putting stress on children and families alike

Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life. But youth sports have changed so dramatically over the last 25 years that they no longer deliver the healthy outcomes everyone wants. Instead, unbeknownst to most parents, kids who play competitive organized sports are more likely to burn out or suffer from overuse injuries than to develop their characters or build healthy habits. What happened to kids' sports? And how can we make them fun again?

In Take Back the Game, coach and journalist Linda Flanagan reveals how the youth sports industry capitalizes on parents’ worry about their kids’ futures, selling the idea that more competitive play is essential in the feeding frenzy over access to colleges and universities. Drawing on her experience as a coach and a parent, along with research and expert analysis, Flanagan delves into a national obsession that has: 

- Compelled kids to specialize year-round in one sport. 

- Increased the risk of both physical injury and mental health problems.

- Encouraged egregious behavior by coaches and parents.

- Reduced access to sports for low-income families. 

 A provocative and timely entrant into a conversation thousands of parents are having on the sidelines, Take Back the Game uncovers how youth sports became a serious business, the consequences of raising the stakes for kids and parents alike--and the changes we need now.

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ID: 559914

Title: Venom Dark and Sweet

Author: Judy I. Lin

Narrator: Joshua Chang, Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:08

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

The enthralling conclusion to Judy I. Lin's Book of Tea duology—A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Venom Dark and Sweet—is sure to enchant fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo.

A great evil has come to the kingdom of Dàxi. The Banished Prince has returned to seize power, his rise to the dragon throne aided by the mass poisonings that have kept the people bound in fear and distrust.

Ning, a young but powerful shénnóng-shi—a wielder of magic using the ancient and delicate art of tea-making—has escorted Princess Zhen into exile. Joining them is the princess' loyal bodyguard, Ruyi, and Ning's newly healed sister, Shu. Together the four young women travel throughout the kingdom in search of allies to help oust the invaders and take back Zhen's rightful throne.

But the golden serpent still haunts Ning's nightmares with visions of war and bloodshed. An evil far more ancient than the petty conflicts of men has awoken, and all the magic in the land may not be enough to stop it from consuming the world...

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ID: 559285

Title: Daybreak on Raven Island

Author: Fleur Bradley

Narrator: Kamali Minter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:51

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Historical, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

From the critically acclaimed author of Midnight at the Barclay Hotel comes a thrilling new middle grade mystery novel inspired by Alcatraz Prison.

Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison. Tori would rather be on the soccer field, but her bad grades have benched her until further notice; Marvin would rather be at the first day of a film festival with his best friend, Kevin; and Noah isn't looking forward to having to make small talk with his classmates at this new school.

But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever. They must work together to uncover a killer, outrun a motley ghost-hunting crew, and expose the age-old secrets of the island all before daybreak.

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