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ID: 445754

Title: Gold Diggers: A Novel

Author: Sanjena Sathian

Narrator: Rama Vallury

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:21:01

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post  

How far would you go for a piece of the American dream?

A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition.

A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal.

When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost.

Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America. 

Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!

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ID: 445768

Title: Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It

Author: Sharman Apt Russell

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it.

 

A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world’s children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential.

 

During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children and in how—with a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, and new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies—we have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the “miracle” of ready-to-eat therapeutic food.

 

Intertwined with stories of scientists and nutrition experts on the front lines of finding ways to end malnutrition for good, Russell writes of her travels to Malawi, one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world and also the site of pathbreaking, cutting-edge research into childhood malnutrition. (Eighty percent of Malawians are farmers subsisting on less than an acre of land and coping with erratic weather patterns due to global warming; fifty percent live below the poverty line; and forty-two percent of Malawi’s children are affected by a lack of food or nutrients.)

 

As she writes of her personal exploration of new friendships and insights in a country known as “the warm heart of Africa,” Russell describes the programs that are working best to reduce childhood stunting and explores how malnutrition in children is connected to climate change, how vitamins and minerals are preventing these harmful effects, why the empowerment of women is the single most effective factor in eliminating childhood malnutrition, and what the costs of ending childhood malnutrition are.

 

Sharman Russell, much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, whose writing has been called, “elegant” (The Economist) and “extraordinarily well-crafted, far-reaching, and heart-wrenching” (Booklist), winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, has written an illuminating, inspiring book that makes clear the promise of what is today, gratefully, within our grasp.

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ID: 449819

Title: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers: Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation

Author: Fern Schumer Chapman

Narrator: Fred Sanders, Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement

'Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret.'

Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite many attempts at reconnection. Her grief and shame were devastating and isolating. But when she tried to turn to others for help, she found that a profound stigma still surrounded estrangement, and that very little statistical and psychological research existed to help her better understand the rift that had broken up her family. So she decided to conduct her own research, interviewing psychologists and estranged siblings as well as recording the extraordinary story of her own rift with her brother--and subsequent reconciliation.

Brothers, Sisters, Strangers is the result--a thoughtfully researched memoir that illuminates both the author's own story and the greater phenomenon of estrangement. Chapman helps readers work through the challenges of rebuilding a sibling relationship that seems damaged beyond repair, as well as understand when estrangement is the best option. It is at once a detailed framework for understanding sibling estrangement, a beacon of solidarity and comfort for the estranged, and a moving memoir about family trauma, addiction, grief, and recovery.

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ID: 493765

Title: Maxwell's Demon

Author: Steven Hall

Narrator: Piers Hampton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:49:19

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts, Maxwell's Demon heralds the triumphant return of Granta Best Young British Novelist Steven Hall

Thomas Quinn is having a hard time. A failed novelist, he's stuck writing short stories and audio scripts for other people's characters. His wife, Imogen, is working on a remote island halfway around the world, and talking to her over the webcam isn't the same. The bills are piling up, the dirty dishes are stacking in the sink, and the whole world seems to be hurtling towards entropic collapse. Then he gets a voicemail from his father, who has been dead for seven years.

Thomas's relationship with Stanley Quinn--a world-famous writer and erstwhile absent father--was always shaky, not least because Stanley always seemed to prefer his enigmatic assistant and protégé Andrew Black to his own son. Yet after Black published his first book, Cupid's Engine, which went on to sell over a million copies, he disappeared completely. Now strange things are happening to Thomas, and he can't help but wonder if Black is tugging at the seams of his world behind the scenes.

Absurdly brilliant, wildly entertaining, and utterly mind-bending, Maxwell's Demon triumphantly excavates the ways we construct meaning in a world where chaotic collapse looms closer every day.

Plaque, by Alexander Fisher. England, c.1865 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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ID: 449894

Title: How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

Author: Jeffrey Marsh

Narrator: Jeffrey Marsh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:41:39

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Too short. Too weird. Too quiet. Not true. Let Internet superstar Jeffrey Marsh help you end those negative thoughts and discover how wonderful you are.

 

An interactive experience, How to Be You invites you to make the audiobook your own through activities such as answering questions about how you do the things you do, and discovering patterns in your lives that may be holding you back. Through Jeffrey's own story of 'growing up fabulous in a small farming town'--along with the stories of hero/ines who have transcended the stereotypes of race, age, and gender--you will discover that you are not alone.

 

Learn to deepen your relationship with yourself, boost your self-esteem and self-worth, and find the courage to take a leap that will change your life.

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ID: 451453

Title: You Love Me: A You Novel

Author: Caroline Kepnes

Narrator: Santino Fontana

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Psychological

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Can’t get enough of Joe Goldberg? Don’t miss the latest thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s compulsively readable You series, with an all-new plot not seen in the blockbuster Netflix show.

“Fiendish, fast-paced, and very funny.”—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE

Joe Goldberg is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.

He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way . . . by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.

The trouble is . . . Mary Kay already has a life. She’s a mother. She’s a friend. She’s . . . busy.

True love can only triumph if both people are willing to make room for the real thing. Joe cleared his decks. He’s ready. And hopefully, with his encouragement and undying support, Mary Kay will do the right thing and make room for him.

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ID: 584090

Title: Hotel Cartagena

Author: Simone Buchholz

Narrator: Imogen Church, Seán Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:32:10

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a man whose life and family have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions. With the police looking on from outside their colleagues' lives at stake and Chastity on the inside, increasingly ill from sepsis, the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation and a devastating outcome for the teamall live streamed in a terrifying bid for revenge.

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ID: 584653

Title: In the Company of Strangers

Author: Awais Khan

Narrator: Esh Alladi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:15

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Mona has almost everything: money, friends, social status...everything except for freedom. Languishing in her golden cage, she craves a sense of belonging. Desperate for emotional release, she turns to a friend who introduces her to a world of glitter, glamour, covert affairs and drugs. There she meets Ali, a physically and emotionally wounded man, years younger than her. Heady with love, she begins a delicate game of deceit that spirals out of control and threatens to shatter the deceptive facade of conservatism erected by Lahori society, and potentially destroy everything that Mona has ever held dear.

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ID: 584097

Title: Smoke Screen

Author: Jrn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger

Narrator: James Lailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:15

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Oslo, New Year's Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricia's disappearance is not all that it seems

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ID: 584070

Title: Deity

Author: Matt Wesolowski

Narrator: Ben Higgins, Cathleen Mccarron, David Monteath, Karen Cass, Matt Wesolowski, Sarah Barron, Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:11:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-21

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls. Online journalist, Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the accusations of sexual abuse and murder that were levelled at Crystal before he died. But as Scott begins to ask questions and rake over old graves, some startling inconsistencies emerge: Was the fire at Crystal's remote home really an accident? Are reports of a haunting really true? Why was he never officially charged?

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