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ID: 466839

Title: Walkman

Author: Michael Robbins

Narrator: Tim Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:48:23

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his 'sky-blue originality of utterance' (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)

Michael Robbins's first two books of poetry were raucous protests lodged from the frontage roads and big-box stores of off-ramp America. With Walkman, he turns a corner. These new poems confront self-pity and nostalgia in witty-miserable defiance of our political and ecological moment. It's the end of the world, and Robbins has listened to all the tapes in his backpack. So he's making music from whatever junk he finds lying around.

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ID: 482620

Title: Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape

Author: Cal Flyn

Narrator: Cal Flyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:06:51

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, History

Summary:

A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence

 

'[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence.'' --The New Yorker

Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ.

Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an 'island' of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists.

Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are.

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ID: 459552

Title: Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment

Author: Maxine Bedat

Narrator: Maxine Bedat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:21:32

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Business Development, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

 

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet

Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says 'Made in Bangladesh' or 'Made in Sri Lanka.' But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost.

In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dyeing and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been 'donated,' shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage.

A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come.

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ID: 501846

Title: Danbi Leads the School Parade

Author: Anna Kim

Narrator: Greta Jung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:27

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

An Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book

 

Meet Danbi, the new girl at school!

Danbi is thrilled to start her new school in America. But a bit nervous too, for when she walks into the classroom, everything goes quiet. Everyone stares. Danbi wants to join in the dances and the games, but she doesn't know the rules and just can't get anything right. Luckily, she isn't one to give up. With a spark of imagination, she makes up a new game and leads her classmates on a parade to remember! Danbi Leads the School Parade introduces readers to an irresistible new character. In this first story, she learns to navigate her two cultures and realizes that when you open your world to others, their world opens up to you.

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ID: 584636

Title: River of Sins

Author: Sarah Hawkswood

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:14:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

July 1144. Ricolde, 'the finest whore in Worcester', is found butchered on an island a few miles up the River Severn. How did she get there, who killed her, and why? Uncovering details of her life and her past reveal a woman with hidden depths and hidden miseries which are fundamental to the answers, but time has cast a thick veil over the killer's identity. The lord Sheriff's men have a trail that went cold over two decades ago, and evidence that contradicts itself. In a place Catchpoll knows inside out, he finds things new even to him, and then the case becomes personal.

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ID: 584645

Title: Skelton's Guide to Suitcase Murders

Author: David Stafford

Narrator: David Stafford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:37:03

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

A woman's dismembered corpse is discovered in a quarry, and police quickly link the victim back to their chief suspect: her husband, Doctor Ibraham Aziz. His wife had been planning to leave him, so his guilt isn't in doubt as far as local law enforcement is concerned. Barrister Arthur Skelton is asked to represent the accused, and though all believe the case to be hopeless, Skelton suspects there may be more to the victim's death. Aided by his loyal clerk Edgar and his roaming cousins, Alan and Norah, Skelton soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation not only concerning this world but the one beyond. Can he convince a jury of Aziz's innocence before the judge dons his black cap?

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ID: 463955

Title: Skate for Your Life

Author: Leo Baker

Narrator: Em Grosland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Biography & Memoir, Tough Topics, Non-Fiction

Summary:

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us.

'Wow! Leo's vulnerability and authenticity allowed me to experience his pain and triumph. A great testament to the positive power of skateboarding and the dangers of gender.' --Elissa Steamer (skateboarding pioneer)

'In Skate for Your Life, Leo Baker invites us on the intimate journey toward self-realization. Leo's deep passion for skateboarding is beautifully communicated while bringing to light the difficult reality of breaking the mold on a public stage. This book synthesizes what so many LGBTQIA people can relate to--the lifelong journey of seeking out spaces where we fit in, and when we don't find them, making new ones.' --JD Samson (musician, producer, and songwriter)

In this moving, personal story, professional skateboarder Leo Baker shares their journey within the sport and the importance of authenticity and allyship as a non-binary athlete.

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists.

'Your authenticity is your superpower.' That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the reader on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete.

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ID: 584670

Title: Everything Happens for a Reason

Author: Katie Allen

Narrator: Nicky Diss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:29:13

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Mum-to-be Rachel did everything right, but it all went wrong. Her son, Luke, was stillborn and she finds herself on maternity leave without a baby, trying to make sense of her loss. When a misguided well-wisher tells her that 'everything happens for a reason', she becomes obsessed with finding that reason. She remembers that on the day she discovered her pregnancy, she'd stopped a man from jumping in front of a train, and she's now certain that saving his life cost her the life of her son. Desperate to find him, she enlists an unlikely ally in Lola, an Underground worker, and Lola's six-year-old daughter, Josephine, and eventually tracks him down, with completely unexpected results

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ID: 584671

Title: End of the Line

Author: Robert Scragg

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:12

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Detective Jake Porter's life was ripped apart by the hit-and-run driver that killed his wife. The life he has been building up piece by piece is rocked by the discovery of new evidence. At the same time, he has a volatile case to juggle. Ross Henderson was a Vlogger with over ten million followers rallying against the growing tide of the far-right. As his audience tuned in to listen to Henderson tear apart more anti-immigrant vitriol, they watched in horror as he was brutally murdered during a live broadcast. Struggling to prevent full-blown riots and following the trail to his wife's killer will take its toll upon Porter, and there's no guarantee he will come out the other side intact.

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ID: 466410

Title: Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress

Author: Alicia D. Williams

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:15:41

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a Newbery Honor-winning author and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator.

Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her grandparents' farm in Barbados, she returns home to Brooklyn and immediately makes herself known. Shirley kicks butt in school; she breaks her mother's curfew; she plays jazz piano instead of classical. And as a young adult, she fights against the injustice she sees around her, against women and black people. Soon she is running for state assembly...and winning in a landslide. Three years later, she is on the campaign trail again, as the first black woman to run for Congress. Her slogan? 'Fighting Shirley Chisholm--Unbought and Unbossed!' Does she win? You bet she does.

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