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ID: 439504

Title: Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir

Author: Elizabeth Miki Brina

Narrator: Sachi Lovatt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:29:15

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

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

Summary:

A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage.

Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.

Decades later, Elizabeth comes to recognize the shame and self-loathing that haunt both her and her mother, and attempts a form of reconciliation, not only to come to terms with the embattled dynamics of her family but also to reckon with the injustices that reverberate throughout the history of Okinawa and its people. Clear-eyed and profoundly humane, Speak, Okinawa is a startling accomplishment—a heartfelt exploration of identity, inheritance, forgiveness, and what it means to be an American.

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ID: 463171

Title: 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators

Author: Carmine Gallo

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:32:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Negotiation & Communication

Summary:

Master the ten simple secrets used by the world's greatest business communicators and transform your career!

Based on author Carmine Gallo's career as a Fortune 500 communications coach and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Communicators has been updated and revised to show business people how to achieve their personal and professional goals by mastering the ten simple secrets used by the world's greatest business communicators. The book offers techniques and proven tips that explain how these successful communicators connect with audiences who demand passion, inspiration, preparation, clarity, brevity, command presence, and simplicity, all delivered in a visually compelling package.

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ID: 440974

Title: Every Human Intention: Japan in the New Century

Author: Dreux Richard

Narrator: Dreux Richard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:21:54

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Asia, Social Science, Philosophy

Summary:

A stunning blend of investigative journalism, authoritative science writing, and embedded ethnography. Every Human Intention captures the unsettling, lyrical beauty of the intimate moments and buried secrets that form Japan’s national drama.

“An absolute marvel. Reveals the inner workings of modern-day Japan like no other work of literary nonfiction I have read, and does so with the smooth story-telling expertise of a novelist.”—Richard Wiley, author of Soldiers in Hiding

Every Human Intention takes us beyond political debates and news analysis, into the infinite complexity of historically significant events as they unfold. Admitted to the innermost corridors of Japan’s bureaucracy, Richard witnesses the near-collapse of the nation’s nuclear regulator and meticulously documents the way this upheaval is concealed from the public. Through his decade-long relationship with Japan’s Nigerian community, he pursues the elaborate cover-up at the heart of Japan’s immigration system. On the nation’s northern border, he follows the region’s youngest census worker through a landscape of abandoned homes and vanishing lives. In Richard’s poised narration, there are no simple answers or elegant conclusions—only the unsettling, lyrical beauty of the intimate moments and buried secrets that form Japan’s national drama.

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ID: 439525

Title: Tom Stoppard: A Life

Author: Hermione Lee

Narrator: Stephen Crossley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37:47:29

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Literary, Arts & Entertainment, Art & Music

Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him.

“An extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.” —Harper's

Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love—remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences.

Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard escaped the Nazis with his mother and spent his early years in Singapore and India before arriving in England at age eight. Skipping university, he embarked on a brilliant career, becoming close friends over the years with an astonishing array of writers, actors, directors, musicians, and political figures, from Peter O'Toole, Harold Pinter, and Stephen Spielberg to Mick Jagger and Václav Havel. Having long described himself as a 'bounced Czech,' Stoppard only learned late in life of his mother's Jewish family and of the relatives he lost to the Holocaust.

Lee's absorbing biography seamlessly weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful, and always riveting portrait of a remarkable man.

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ID: 441982

Title: We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

Author: Justin Fenton

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:41:42

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Law

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city

NOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS

“A work of journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police unit but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster that is the American drug war.”—David Simon

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging, and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people. Facing pressure from the mayor’s office—as well as a federal investigation of the department over Gray’s death—Baltimore police commanders turn to a rank-and-file hero, Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, and his elite plainclothes unit, the Gun Trace Task Force, to help get guns and drugs off the street. 

 

But behind these new efforts, a criminal conspiracy of unprecedented scale was unfolding within the police department. Entrusted with fixing the city’s drug and gun crisis, Jenkins chose to exploit it instead. With other members of the empowered Gun Trace Task Force, Jenkins stole from Baltimore’s citizens—skimming from drug busts, pocketing thousands in cash found in private homes, and planting fake evidence to throw Internal Affairs off their scent. Their brazen crime spree would go unchecked for years. The results were countless wrongful convictions, the death of an innocent civilian, and the mysterious death of one cop who was shot in the head, killed just a day before he was scheduled to testify against the unit.

 

In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal. The result is an astounding, riveting feat of reportage about a rogue police unit, the city they held hostage, and the ongoing struggle between American law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve.

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ID: 463163

Title: Lead Like a Coach: How to Get the Most Success Out of ANY Team

Author: Karen Morley

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:43:04

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

To be the best leader you can be, you need to understand one simple rule: your TEAM, not YOU, needs to be the STAR

One of the hardest parts of leadership is knowing how to step away from your hard-won authority and let others step forward. Dr. Karen Morley is here to help! She emphasizes that in an environment of continuing disruption (where innovation and creativity are crucial assets), a command-and-control method of leadership is destined to fail. However, leaders who are able to coach, rather than give orders or step in, will find themselves in the midst of a solutions-forward, creative-minded, team.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of figures included in the print edition.

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ID: 455874

Title: Take a Nap! Change Your Life.: The Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive

Author: Mark Ehrman, Sara Mednick

Narrator: Sara Mednick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:38:13

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Instructional & How To

Summary:

Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, enhances your sex life, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight loss, reduces the risk of heart attack, elevates your mood, and strengthens memory. Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous side effects, and, best of all, is absolutely free.

This miracle drug is, in fact, nothing more than the nap: the right nap at the right time. The work of Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., a researcher at the Salk Institute and the leading authority on the study of the nap, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. is the scientifically-based breakthrough program that shows how we can fight the fatigue epidemic—which afflicts an estimated 50 million Americans—through a custom-designed nap. Take a Nap! Change Your Life. explains the five stages of the sleep cycle, particularly Stage Two, Slow Wave Sleep, and REM, and the benefits each one provides; how to assess your tiredness and set up a personal sleep profile; and how to neutralize the voice in your head that tells you napping is a sign of laziness. (Not that anyone would have called JFK, Churchill, Einstein, or Napoleon a slug-a-bed.) It shows us how to determine exactly when our optimum napping time is, and exactly how long we should try to sleep—even how it’s possible to design a nap to inspire creativity one day, and the next day design one to help us with our memory. There are tips on how to create the right nap environment, a 16-step technique for falling asleep, and more.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadble PDF containing a Glossary of Terms, as well as charts from the book.

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ID: 457092

Title: Bloodsworn

Author: Scott Reintgen

Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Lauren Fortgang, Rebecca Soler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:41:40

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Three cultures clash in all out war--against each other and against the gods--in the second book of this fantasy duology that's sure to capture fans of The Hunger Games and An Ember in the Ashes.

The Races are over. War has begun.

Ashlord and Longhand armies battle for control of the Empire as Dividian rebels do their best to survive the crossfire. This is no longer a game. It's life or death.

Adrian, Pippa, and Imelda each came out of the Races with questions about their role in the ongoing feud. The deeper they dig, the clearer it is that the hatred between their peoples has an origin point: the gods.

Their secrets are long-buried, but one disgruntled deity is ready to unveil the truth. Every whisper leads back to the underworld. What are the gods hiding there? As the sands of the Empire shift, these heroes will do everything they can to aim their people at the true enemy. But is it already too late?

'A page-turning inferno of a book.' -- Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series

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ID: 449861

Title: You Are Always Loved: A Story of Hope

Author: Harry Cunnane, Madeleine Dean

Narrator: Harry Cunnane, Lori Ada Jaroslow, Madeleine Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:08:47

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

This deeply felt children's book from Congresswoman Madeleine Dean and her son Harry—authors of the memoir Under Our Roof—reassures children that, even when the grown-ups in their life are absent, they are loved and enough as they are.

When you can't stop the lightning or calm the crashing thunder,

you can look inside your heart,

where there's hope.

An evergreen message about hope and unconditional love is told through the story of a bunny separated from its parent during a rainstorm and all the forest friends who come together to offer help. This lyrical book will touch children who have experienced deep loneliness or isolation, and is crafted especially for those who know the unique heartache of witnessing a family member suffer from addiction.

This audiobook is a child's companion to the authors' memoir, Under Our Roof, a story of opioid addiction and recovery. You Are Always Loved reinforces the message that it's never the child's fault and they are loved no matter what.

 

Stay tuned after the story for a note read by Madeleine Dean and Harry Cunnane, and the original song “Never Alone,” written and performed by the legendary Paul Williams.

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ID: 498559

Title: Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

Author: L. David Marquet

Narrator: L. David Marquet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:26:51

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

“One of the 12 best business books of all time…. Timeless principles of empowering leadership.” – USA Today

'The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” —FORTUNE

Since Turn the Ship Around! was published in 2013, hundreds of thousands of readers have been inspired by former Navy captain David Marquet’s true story. Many have applied his insights to their own organizations, creating workplaces where everyone takes responsibility for his or her actions, where followers grow to become leaders, and where happier teams drive dramatically better results.

Marquet was a Naval Academy graduate and an experienced officer when selected for submarine command. Trained to give orders in the traditional model of “know all–tell all” leadership, he faced a new wrinkle when he was shifted to the Santa Fe, a nuclear-powered submarine. Facing the high-stress environment of a sub where there’s little margin for error, he was determined to reverse the trends he found on the Santa Fe: poor morale, poor performance, and the worst retention rate in the fleet.

Almost immediately, Marquet ran into trouble when he unknowingly gave an impossible order, and his crew tried to follow it anyway. When he asked why, the answer was: “Because you told me to.” Marquet realized that while he had been trained for a different submarine, his crew had been trained to do what they were told—a deadly combination.

That’s when Marquet flipped the leadership model on its head and pushed for leadership at every level. Turn the Ship Around! reveals how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the U.S. Navy’s traditional leader-follower approach. Struggling against his own instincts to take control, he instead achieved the vastly more powerful model of giving control to his subordinates, and creating leaders.

Before long, each member of Marquet’s crew became a leader and assumed responsibility for everything he did, from clerical tasks to crucial combat decisions. The crew became completely engaged, contributing their full intellectual capacity every day. The Santa Fe set records for performance, morale, and retention. And over the next decade, a highly disproportionate number of the officers of the Santa Fe were selected to become submarine commanders.

Whether you need a major change of course or just a tweak of the rudder, you can apply Marquet’s methods to turn your own ship around.

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