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ID: 536358

Title: Blood Sugar

Author: Sascha Rothchild

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:38:55

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year

'Terrific. You might come for the mystery, but you will stay for the sheer energy.'--New York Times Book Review

An utterly delicious debut thriller that tells the story of the most likable murderess you will ever meet, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll.

“I could just kill you right now!” It’s something we’ve all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be exact.

Though she may be a murderer, Ruby is not a sociopath. She is an animal-loving therapist with a thriving practice. She’s felt empathy and sympathy. She’s had long-lasting friendships and relationships, and has a husband, Jason, whom she adores. But the homicide detectives at Miami Beach PD are not convinced of her happy marriage. When we meet Ruby, she is in a police interrogation room, being accused of Jason’s murder. Which, ironically, is one murder that she did not commit, though a scandal-obsessed public believes differently. As she undergoes questioning, Ruby’s mind races back to all the details of her life that led her to this exact moment, and to the three dead bodies in her wake. Because though she may not have killed her husband, Ruby certainly isn’t innocent.

Alternating between Ruby’s memories of her past crimes and her present-day fight to clear her name, Blood Sugar is a twisty, clever debut with an unforgettable protagonist who you can’t help but root for—an addicting mixture of sour and sweet.

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ID: 536367

Title: Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life

Author: Joshua Becker

Narrator: Joshua Becker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:34:01

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • Discover practical steps you can take today to live a life focused on things that matter, from the bestselling author of The More of Less and The Minimalist Home.

“Things That Matter points the way to free ourselves from the distractions of everyday life so that we can build the lives we seek to create.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

Everywhere around you are distractions: That text you respond to quickly, just to get it out of the way. The newest money-making side hustle to cross your mind. The evening spent organizing your overflowing kitchen cupboards.

Disruptions are the enemies of a life well lived—both the new distractions of our generation and timeless ones that have existed for centuries. They all add up to make you feel restless, tired, and unfulfilled. They’re keeping you from living with joy, from accomplishing the good that only you can do.

But that can change today.

In Things That Matter, Joshua Becker uses practical exercises, questions, insights from a nationwide survey, and success stories to give you the motivation you need to

 

• identify the pursuits that matter most to you

• align your dreams with your daily priorities

• recognize how money and possessions keep you from happiness

• become aware of how others’ opinions of you influence your choices

• embrace what you’re truly passionate about instead of planning that next escape

• figure out what to do with all those emails, notifications, and pings

• let go of past mistakes and debilitating habits

 

Things That Matter is a book about living well. It’s about overcoming the chatter of a world focused on all the wrong things. It’s about rethinking the common assumptions of today to find satisfaction and fulfillment tomorrow.

 

How do we get to the end of our lives with minimal regrets? We set aside lesser pursuits to seek lasting meaning. And we discover the joy of doing it every day.

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ID: 530525

Title: Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

Author: Lucasta Miller

Narrator: Sally Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:04:55

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover, but as the subversive, bawdy complex cynic whose life and poetry were lived and created on the edge.

In this brief life, acclaimed biographer Lucasta Miller takes nine of Keats's best-known poems—'Endymion'; 'On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer'; 'Ode to a Nightingale'; 'To Autumn'; 'Bright Star' among them—and excavates how they came to be and what in Keats's life led to their creation. She writes of aspects of Keats's life that have been overlooked, and explores his imagination in the context of his world and experience, paying tribute to the unique quality of his mind.

 

Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.

 

We see how Keats was regarded by his contemporaries (his writing was seen as smutty) and how the young poet’s large and boisterous life—a man of the metropolis, who took drugs, was sexually reckless and afflicted with syphilis—went straight up against the Victorian moral grain; and Miller makes clear why his writing—considered marginal and avant-garde in his own day—retains its astonishing originality, sensuousness and power two centuries on.

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ID: 536364

Title: Paris Showroom

Author: Juliet Blackwell

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat, Carlotta Brentan, Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:35:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost.

Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival—until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.

 

There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s.

 

Capucine’s estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who are prospering under the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris’s Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light.

 

When an old acquaintance arrives to go “shopping” at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerous consequences.

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ID: 538760

Title: Creator in You

Author: Jordan Raynor

Narrator: Jordan Raynor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Religious & Inspirational, Non-Fiction

Summary:

With engaging rhyme, this audiobook sparks listeners' imaginations with the big idea that God created human beings to make, model, and work like Him.

The Creator in You is a book that children, graduates, and even many adults will treasure for a lifetime. This fresh perspective on the creation account from the Bible's first book, Genesis, helps readers see that 'the sixth day' wasn't the end of creation--it was 'just the beginning.'

'Before His day off, God had one more to-do. On His sixth day creating, God chose to make you.' God made kids to create like he does--by filling the world with sand castles and s'mores today, and businesses and books tomorrow. Through inspiring words, listeners of all ages will feel connected to God's story of creation in a deeply personal way, inspiring them to view their current and future work with purpose, enthusiasm, and joy.

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ID: 536359

Title: Go Hex Yourself

Author: Jessica Clare

Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Holly Linneman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Paranormal, Contemporary

Summary:

One of…

Amazon’s Best Romances of April

Goodreads’ Most Anticipated April Romances

BookRiot’s Best Books of the Week

PopSugar’s Romance Novels for When You Need a Little Spice

Culturess’ April Romance to Have on Your Spring TBR

It’s one hex of an attraction in this romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Clare.

When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she’s astonished to find that she’s not applying to work at her favorite card game, Spellcraft: The Magicking. Instead, she’s applying to be an actual familiar for an actual witch. As in, real magic.

The new job has a few perks - great room and board, excellent pay, and she's apprenticing to a powerful witch. Sure, the witch is a bit eccentric. And sure, there was that issue with the black cat Reggie would prefer to forget about. The biggest problem, however, is warlock Ben Magnus, her employer's nephew and the most arrogant, insufferable, maddening man to ever cast a spell.

 

Reggie absolutely hates him. He's handsome, but he's also bossy and irritating and orders her around. Ben's butt might look great in a crystal ball vision, but that's as far as it goes. But when someone with a vendetta targets the household, she finds herself working with Ben to break a deadly curse. Apparently, when they're not fighting like cats and dogs, things get downright...bewitching.

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ID: 536357

Title: Kew Gardens Girls at War

Author: Posy Lovell

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:08:38

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Inspired by real events, a touching novel about a new class of courageous women who worked at London’s historic Kew Gardens during World War II.

In the face of war, gardening is their duty…When Daisy Cooper’s new husband joins the RAF to fight the Battle of Britain, she’s terrified she’s going to lose him. So when her mother Ivy suggests she join the gardeners at Kew to keep busy, Daisy’s intrigued. After all, Ivy worked at Kew during the last great war and made lifelong friends along the way. Louisa Armitage, not ready to hang up her gardening gloves just yet, and Beth Sanderson, an aspiring doctor looking to make a difference, decide to enlist as well. When tragedy strikes, the women are forced to come together to support one other during their darkest hours. But can the Kew Gardens Girls survive the horrors of war-torn London this time?

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ID: 536368

Title: Stepping Back from the Ledge: A Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal

Author: Laura Trujillo

Narrator: Laura Trujillo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:22:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, General, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

In this “seismically moving memoir” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted?

 

“Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker

Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved. 

Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward. 

Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.

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ID: 536361

Title: Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Author: Christopher Blattman

Narrator: Landon Woodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:25:49

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

A seasoned peacebuilder and acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly process

It’s easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It’s also easy to forget that war shouldn’t happen—and most of the time it doesn’t. Around the world, there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a fraction erupt into violence, a fact too many accounts overlook.

 

With a counterintuitive approach, Christopher Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace. War is too costly to fight, so enemies almost always find it better to split the pie than spoil it for everyone or struggle over thin slices. In those rare instances when fighting ensues, we should ask: What kept rivals from compromise?

Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is not the norm; that there are only five reasons why conflict wins over compromise; and how peacemakers turn the tides through tinkering, not transformation.

 

From warring states to street gangs, ethnic groups and religious sects to political factions, there are common dynamics to heed and lessons to learn. Along the way, through Blattman’s time studying Medellín, Chicago, Sudan, England, and more, we learn from vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples, and fanatics.

What of remedies that shift incentives away from violence and get parties back to dealmaking? Societies are surprisingly good at interrupting and ending violence when they want to—even gangs do it. Realistic and optimistic, this is a book that lends new meaning to the adage “Give peace a chance.”

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of maps and pie charts from the book.

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ID: 536353

Title: Flirting with Fate

Author: J. C. Cervantes

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:19:18

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

'I dare anyone to read this book without a ginormous grin on their faces. Warmth, humor and enchantments burst off the page, and the colorful characters of the Granados family crackle to life with Cervantes's signature wit, aching empathy and enviable flair for whimsy.' —Roshani Chokshi, NYT bestselling author of The Gilded Wolves trilogy.

 

Jane the Virgin meets The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in New York Times bestselling author J.C. Cervantes's charming, romantic YA debut.

Ava Granados will never forgive herself for being late to her beloved nana’s deathbed. But due to a flash flood that left Ava in a fender bender with a mysterious boy, she missed her grandmother’s mystical blessing—one that has been passed between the women of her family upon death for generations. 

 

Then Nana’s ghost appears with a challenge from beyond the grave. As it turns out, Nana did give Ava a blessing, but it missed its target, landing with the boy from the night of the storm instead. Was it fate? Ava refuses to believe so. With the help of her sisters and Nana’s rather bumbling spiritual guide, she’s determined to reclaim her share of the family magic and set Nana free.

 

For guarded Ava, befriending some random boy is the last thing she wants to do. She’s gotten along just fine protecting her heart—keeping people at a distance is a great way to ensure no one ever hurts you. But as Ava embarks on her mission to retrieve the lost blessing, she starts to wonder if getting close to thunderstorm boy is worth the risk.

 

In her swoony, heartwarming young adult debut, New York Times bestselling author J.C. Cervantes weaves an unforgettable tale about family, fate, and finding love where you least expect it.

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