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ID: 488900

Title: Triple: A Novel

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Raza Jaffrey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:08:35

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Espionage

Summary:

A New York Times bestselling novel of international suspense and terror from the author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning

As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad’s number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world’s balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust. . . .

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ID: 440975

Title: We Play Ourselves: A Novel

Author: Jen Silverman

Narrator: Renata Friedman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:09:45

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Feminist Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline’s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls’ clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic.

 

As Cass is drawn into the film’s orbit, she is awed by Caroline’s ambition and confidence. But over time, she becomes troubled by how deeply Caroline is manipulating the teens in the name of art—especially as the consequences become increasingly disturbing. With her past proving hard to shake and her future one she’s no longer sure she wants, Cass is forced to reckon with her own ambitions and confront what she has come to believe about the steep price of success.

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ID: 440957

Title: Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City

Author: Rosa Brooks

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:42:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, Social Science

Summary:

Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post

“Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post

 

“Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs

Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the 'blue wall of silence' in this radical inside examination of American policing

In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department.

Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested.

In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the 'blue wall of silence.' She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.

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ID: 488898

Title: Key to Rebecca

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Tim Downie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:32:46

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Espionage

Summary:

Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published forty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written. 

A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel’s advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city’s doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl. . . .

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ID: 454329

Title: What We'll Build: Plans For Our Together Future

Author: Oliver Jeffers

Narrator: Oliver Jeffers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

An instant New York Times bestseller!

From Oliver Jeffers, world-renowned picture book creator and illustrator of The Crayons' Christmas, comes a gorgeously told father-daughter story and companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Here We Are!

What shall we build, you and I?

Let's gather all our tools for a start.

For putting together . . .

and taking apart.

A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together. Using their own special tools, they get to work, building memories to cherish, a home to keep them safe, and love to keep them warm.

A rare and enduring story about a parent's boundless love, life's endless opportunities, and all we need to build a together future. The perfect baby shower gift or gift for new parents!

Praise for What We'll Build:

'[Has] the offbeat, sweet style Jeffers' fans know and love.' --Kirkus Reviews

'An intensely personal statement of intergenerational fellowship and an obvious pick for library shelves best explored at home.' --School Library Journal

'Children will love his playbook for building a future of love and imagination, and they will delight in the special relationship the father and daughter share.' --Booklist

'Stroked in generous swaths of warm color and Jeffers's signature childlike scribbles . . . .. Jeffers's benediction portrays a parent who surrounds his child with love and steadies her as she learns how to bring her dreams to fruition.' --Publishers Weekly

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ID: 449891

Title: Layli and Majnun

Author: Nezami Ganjavi

Narrator: Dick Davis, Peter Ganim, Sean Rohani, Serena Manteghi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:37:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song 'Layla' and that Lord Byron called 'the Romeo and Juliet of the East,' in a masterly new translation

The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.

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ID: 488897

Title: Eye of the Needle: A Novel

Author: Ken Follett

Narrator: Samuel West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:02:06

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Espionage, War & Military

Summary:

The worldwide phenomenon from the bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, A Column of Fire, and The Evening and the Morning

His code name was “The Needle.” He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. . . . 

 

But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis. . . . 

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ID: 440967

Title: Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

Author: Alan Lightman

Narrator: Christopher Grove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:45:44

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science & Technology, History

Summary:

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles 'big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between.

 

Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab?

 

Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang.

Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

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ID: 449885

Title: Monkey King: Journey to the West

Author: Wu Cheng'en

Narrator: Robert Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:58:12

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Classics, Historical

Summary:

A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said 'is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people'--now in a thrilling new translation

A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.

Joined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.

Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.

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ID: 439491

Title: Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz

Author: Dick Davis, Hafez , Jahan Malek Khatun, Obayd-E Zakani

Narrator: Dick Davis, Ramiz Monsef, Tala Ashe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:03:25

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature

 

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south-central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered “our finest translator of Persian poetry” (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.

“Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time…Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

*This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains notes from the book.

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