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ID: 487691

Title: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump

Author: Spencer Ackerman

Narrator: Spencer Ackerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:55:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, North America, Current Affairs, American Politics

Summary:

A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021

 

'An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued.' —The New York Times

 

'One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era.' —New York Magazine

An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction

For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance; weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions; sanctioned torture; and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. What began as the persecution of Muslims and immigrants has become a normalized feature of American politics and national security, expanding the possibilities for applying similar or worse measures against other targets at home, as the summer of 2020 showed. A politically divided and economically destabilized country turned the War on Terror into a cultural—and then a tribal—struggle. It began on the ideological frontiers of the Republican Party before expanding to conquer the GOP, often with the acquiescence of the Democratic Party. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open.

Reign of Terror shows how these developments created an opportunity for American authoritarianism and gave rise to Donald Trump. It shows that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity to dismantle the War on Terror after killing Osama bin Laden. By the end of his tenure, the war had metastasized into a bitter, broader cultural struggle in search of a demagogue like Trump to lead it.

 

Reign of Terror is a pathbreaking and definitive union of journalism and intellectual history with the power to transform how America understands its national security policies and their catastrophic impact on civic life.

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ID: 502555

Title: King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution

Author: Steve Sheinkin

Narrator: Steve Sheinkin, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:38:51

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir, Historical

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners an American history lesson they'll never forget in the fun and funny King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution.

A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year

A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing

What do the most famous traitor in history, hundreds of naked soldiers, and a salmon lunch have in common? They’re all part of the amazing story of the American Revolution.

Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution.

This isn't one of them.

What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, ancedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, hundreds of soldiers plunged into battle 'naked as they were born') close-up narratives filled with little-known details, lots of quotes that capture the spirit and voices of the principals ('If need be, I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston' --George Washington), and action. It's the story of the birth of our nation, complete with soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real facts you can't help but want to tell to everyone you know.

“For middle-graders who find Joy Hakim’s 11-volume A History of US just too daunting, historian Sheinkin offers a more digestible version of our country’s story...The author expertly combines individual stories with sweeping looks at the larger picture―tucking in extracts from letters, memorable anecdotes, pithy characterizations and famous lines with a liberal hand.”―Kirkus Reviews

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ID: 503779

Title: Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

Author: Rebecca Walker

Narrator: Rebecca Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:56:44

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Social Science

Summary:

From the international bestselling author of Black, White, and Jewish comes a 'wonderfully insightful' (Associated Press) book that's destined to become a motherhood classic. Now in trade.

Like many women her age, thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. As an adult she longed for a baby but feared losing her independence. In this very smart memoir, Walker explores some of the larger sociological trends of her generation while delivering her own story about the emotional and intellectual transformation that led her to motherhood.

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ID: 508696

Title: Babies Don't Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?): The Introvert's Guide to Surviving Parenthood

Author: Julie Vick

Narrator: Katie Koster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:13:33

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Parenting, General Comedy

Summary:

A baby can be a good excuse to skip a party, but . . . goodbye alone time, hello awkward new social obligations.

All parents want the same things: to balance work and home life, to raise happy kids, to never attend a baby drumming class, and to build a secret room in their home where they can hide (preferably not the bathroom). Yes, an introverted parent would more keenly want to be free of the slew of attention and expectations that accompany both pregnancy and parenthood, but even the most outgoing person is sure to reach their limit eventually. Here, with laugh-out-loud humor and well-earned experience, Julie Vick offers coping mechanisms for everything from sharing the news that you are becoming a parent to the moment the baby is born (one way or another, it will happen), from managing doctor’s visits to handling playdates. She offers advice on finding childcare and ignoring the nursing versus formula conversation with strangers. Witty yet valuable, her tips, checklists, and the occasional chart focus on the time from pregnancy through preschool.

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ID: 488556

Title: Kokoro

Author: Natsume Soseki

Narrator: Elizabeth Jasicki, Kotaro Watanabe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:23:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

“Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature.”—Haruki Murakami

The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century

 

No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning 'heart'—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls 'Sensei.' Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

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ID: 502553

Title: Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

Author: Steve Sheinkin

Narrator: Steve Sheinkin, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:13:11

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir, Historical

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War.

A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year

A Beacon of Freedom Award Winner

Get the feeling something big is about to happen? Welcome to the Civil War―one of the scariest, saddest, and occasionally wackiest stories in American History.

1856: Northern and Southern settlers attack each other in Kansas.

1858: Congressmen start sneaking guns and knives into the Senate chamber.

1860: President James Buchanan is heard wailing, “I am the last president of the United States!”

Unraveling a very complicated string of events--the small things, the personal ones, the big issues--Steve Sheinkin takes readers behind the scenes that led to The Civil War. It is a time and a war that threatened America's very existence, revealed in the surprising true stories of the soldiers and statesmen who battled it out.

“Chatty and accessible, this book does double duty: it introduces Civil War history for readers who don't know much about it and supplies browsable commentary for those familiar with the big picture...Beginning with a look at the role cotton played in the history, his fast-paced narrative is broken into short, tersely titled vignettes...The horrors of slavery and battlefield slaughter are clear, as are achievements of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and many more.” ―Booklist

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ID: 500894

Title: Mine

Author: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:18

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

A twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.

'A fiendishly creepy ghost story.'--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim

'Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it.”--Katherine Arden, bestselling author of Small Spaces

Lily Horne is a drama queen. It's helped her rise to stardom in the school play, but it's also landed her in trouble. Her parents warn her that Florida has to be different. It's a fresh start. No theatrics. But this time, the drama is coming for her.

Her new house is a real nightmare. . .

The pool is full of slime, the dock is rotten, and the swamp creeps closer every day. But worst of all, the house isn't empty . . . it's packed full of trash, memories, and, Lily begins to fear, the ghost of the girl who lived there before her.

And whatever is waiting in the shadows wants to come out to play.

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ID: 515766

Title: American Anthem: A Song of Our Nation

Author: Gene Scheer

Narrator: Ken Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Based on the song that President Joe Biden quoted in his inaugural address, this picture book, now adapted for audio, celebrates the beauty and diversity of this country and the legacies on which we build our future.

As President Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address, he quoted from a song that fully captured his own spirit of service: “The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day. What shall be our legacy? What will our children say? Let me know in my heart, when my days are through—America, America, I gave my best to you.” It was a sentiment that spoke not only to our new president’s character, but to the sense of pride in duty and purpose for the sake of a country we hold dear. And it contained a message of quiet patriotism that so many of us hope to share with the next generation.

 

In this new book, using the full text of the song President Biden quoted, we do just that. With words that speak to the soul of our nation, we take listeners on a journey through this beautiful country—its history, its struggles, and its dignity—and throughout, we count our own blessings and think about how we can do more to share them with others, and give our best to our country and everyone in it.

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ID: 464570

Title: My Voice Is a Trumpet

Author: Jimmie Allen

Narrator: Mary Beth Adair

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

*'The rhythm and flow of words perfectly match the art while advising readers to choose love and use their voices in a powerful song.' --School Library Journal (starred review)

 

From rising country star Jimmie Allen comes a lyrical celebration of the many types of voices that can effect change.

From voices tall as a tree, to voices small as a bee, all it takes is confidence and a belief in the goodness of others to change the world. Coming at a time when issues of social justice are at the forefront of our society, this is the perfect audiobook to teach children in and out of the classroom that they're not too young to express what they believe in and that all voices are valuable.

 

The perfect companion for little listeners going back to school!

Stay tuned after the story to hear a special Q&A between author Jimmie Allen and the narrator—his former kindergarten teacher—Mary Beth Adair!

This audiobook contains an original song written by Jimmie Allen entitled “My Voice is a Trumpet.” Used with permission of the Artist.

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ID: 521983

Title: Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids

Author: Christine French Cully

Narrator: Allison Strong, Amy Dickinson, Angel Pean, Carla Corvo, Cassandra Morris, Christine French Cully, Em Grosland, Greta Jung, Hemi Yeroham, Jamie K. Brown, Julie Shields, Shaan Dasani, Yuuki Luna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:24:28

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Parenting

Summary:

A unique, inside look at American childhood through the conversations between Highlights magazine and its young readers and a call to grown-ups to make time to actively listen to the children in their lives.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights--revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine. From the timeless, everyday concerns of friendship, family, and school, to the deeper issues of identity, sexuality, divorce, and grief, here is a unique time capsule of American childhood in the voices--and the very handwriting--of children themselves. The audiobook captures a child's-eye view of some of the most important events of the past 75 years: the COVID-19 pandemic, 9/11, the Challenger Disaster, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cully’s insightful narrative becomes a call to action for adults to lean in and listen to children, to make sure our kids know that they matter and what they think matters, and to assure them that they have the power to become people who change the world.

 

By turns funny, heartbreaking, moving, and enlightening, Dear Highlights will cause listeners to reflect, to listen, and to embrace the children in their lives.

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