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ID: 487977

Title: Time-Out for Sophie

Author: Rosemary Wells

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:02:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Sophie means to be a good little mouse, but she just can't resist testing the limits with her patient parents and grandmother.

Eat supper? More fun to throw it on the floor.

Fold the laundry? More fun to knock over the pile.

Read with Grandma? More fun to steal her glasses.

And then it’s time out for Sophie!

Rosemary Wells has created a memorable new character, ready to take her place next to Max and Ruby, Yoko, and Noisy Nora. Sophie's adorable antics will strike a chord with children and parents alike.

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ID: 520676

Title: Gordo: Stories

Author: Jaime Cortez

Narrator: Alejandro Ruiz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:39:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, General

Summary:

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father’s drunken fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist, uses tiny library pencils to draw huge murals of graffiti flowers along the camp’s blank walls, the words “CHICANO POWER” boldly lettered across, until she runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend, Manny, and steals her mother’s Panasonic radio for a final dance competition among the camp kids before she disappears. And then there are Los Tigres, the perfect pair of twins so dark they look like indios, Pepito and Manuel, who show up at Gyrich Farms every season without fail. Los Tigres, champion drinkers, end up assaulting each other in a drunken brawl, until one of them is rushed to the emergency room still slumped in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck.

These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters – who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency, when laborers, grown adults, must fear for their lives and livelihoods as they try to do everything to bring home a paycheck? Written with balance and poise, Cortez braids together elegant and inviting stories about life on a California camp, in essence redefining what all-American means.

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ID: 487985

Title: How to Kill Your Best Friend

Author: Lexie Elliott

Narrator: Ell Potter, Jane Collingwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:29

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.

Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband.

Lissa’s closest friends gather at the resort to honor her life, but Georgie and Bron can’t seem to stop looking over their shoulders. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water, and even their luxurious private villas can’t help them feel safe. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the funeral guests together on the island, nobody knows who they can trust. Lissa’s death was only the beginning....

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ID: 494219

Title: What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home

Author: Ned Johnson, William Stixrud

Narrator: Ned Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:39:38

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Education

Summary:

A guide to effectively communicating with teenagers by the bestselling authors of The Self-Driven Child

If you're a parent, you've had a moment--maybe many of them--when you've thought, 'How did that conversation go so badly?' At some point after the sixth grade, the same kid who asked 'why' non-stop at age four suddenly stops talking to you. And the conversations that you wish you could have--ones fueled by your desire to see your kid not just safe and healthy, but passionately engaged--suddenly feel nearly impossible to execute. The good news is that effective communication can be cultivated, learned, and taught. And as you get better at this, so will your kids.

William Stixrud, Ph.D., and Ned Johnson have 60 years combined experience talking to kids one-on-one, and the most common question they get when out speaking to parents and educators is: What do you say? While many adults understand the importance and power of the philosophies behind the books that dominate the parenting bestseller list, parents are often left wondering how to put those concepts into action. In What Do You Say?, Johnson and Stixrud show how to engage in respectful and effective dialogue, beginning with defining and demonstrating the basic principles of listening and speaking. Then they show new ways to handle specific, thorny topics of the sort that usually end in parent/kid standoffs: delivering constructive feedback to kids; discussing boundaries around technology; explaining sleep and their brains; the anxiety of current events; and family problem-solving. What Do You Say? is a manual and map that will immediately transform parents' ability to navigate complex terrain and train their minds and hearts to communicate ever more successfully.

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ID: 484235

Title: Kissing Booth #3: One Last Time

Author: Beth Reekles

Narrator: Taylor Meskimen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

The third book in The Kissing Booth series - now a Netflix film starring Joey King, Jacob Elordiand Molly Ringwald!

Elle is spending the summer before college at her family beach house with her boyfriend Noah and best friend Lee hoping to have the best summer ever--until new choices about college make her question what her heart really wants. Will Elle have to choose between her best friend and her boyfriend?

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ID: 487990

Title: Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

Author: Lizzie Johnson

Narrator: Lizzie Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:24:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Social Science, General

Summary:

The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds.

“A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year)

On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead.

As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses.

In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric’s decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.

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ID: 487982

Title: Sophie's Christmas Surprise

Author: Rosemary Wells

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:02:33

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Holidays

Summary:

Sophie is sure that the big box under the Christmas tree is for her. But it isn't! It's for her baby sister, Jane. Much to her dismay, she sees that it's the small package that's for her. But Sophie finds out that the best things often come in small packages.

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ID: 536690

Title: White Girls

Author: Hilton Als

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

'This book will change you.' --Chicago Tribune

White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.

Cover photograph: World's Fair, New York, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

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ID: 512825

Title: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Author: Rafia Zakaria

Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:24:42

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.

Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals.

Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and “the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West” to the condescension of the white feminist–led “aid industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.

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ID: 508690

Title: Night Music: A Novel

Author: Jojo Moyes

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:09:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Now published in the United States for the first time—an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes.

Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside.

 

With the house falling down around them, and the last of her savings disappearing fast, Isabel turns to her neighbors for help, not knowing that her mere presence there has stirred up long-standing obsessions.

 

As she fights to make her house a home, passions and lives collide. Isabel will discover an instinct for survival she never knew she had— and that a heart can play a new song. . . .

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