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ID: 518045

Title: Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Author: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:57:29

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, Women

Summary:

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first major biography of one of our most influential judges—an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary—that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. • “Timely and essential.'—The Washington Post

“A must-read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality.” —Anita Hill

With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley” (CNN). Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary.

    

Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions--how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America.

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ID: 530067

Title: August of the Zombies

Author: K. G. Campbell

Narrator: Todd Haberkorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:28:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

It started out as a small zombie problem. Then four more zombies tagged along. Now there are too many to count! From the acclaimed illustrator of Flora & Ulysses comes the exciting conclusion to the Zombie Problems trilogy.

After facing an alligator attack and a paddle boat accident in search of the zombie stone, August comes out unscathed...but emptyhanded. At least Claudette is still by his side, along with a few more zombies. Of course, it isn't long before a few zombies becomes a horde, and August has so many questions: What is he supposed to do with all of these zombies? What is his Aunt Orchid hiding? Will his life ever be like Stella Starz (in her own life)? And most importantly, will he ever find the zombie stone and get everything back to normal?

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ID: 506075

Title: Seoulmates

Author: Jen Frederick

Narrator: Greta Jung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A Korean-American adoptee fights to be with the one she loves while coming to terms with her new identity in this enthralling romantic drama and sequel to Heart and Seoul by USA Today bestselling author Jen Frederick.

When Hara Wilson lands in Seoul to find her birth mother, she doesn’t plan on falling in love with the first man she lays eyes on, but Choi Yujun is irresistible. If his broad shoulders and dimples weren’t

enough, Choi Yujun is the most genuine, decent, gorgeous guy to exist. Too bad he’s also her stepbrother.

Fate brought her to the Choi doorstep but the gift of family comes with burdens. A job in her mother’s company has perks of endless company dinners and super resentful coworkers. A new country means

learning a new language which twenty-five year old Hara is finding to be a Herculean task. A forbidden love means having to choose between her birth family or Choi Yujun.

All Hara wanted was to find a place to belong in this world—but in order to have it all, she’ll have to risk it all.

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ID: 488550

Title: Squish #3: The Power of the Parasite

Author: Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm

Narrator: Andrea Emmes, Fred Sanders, Joel Froomkin, Jorjeana Marie, Kirby Heyborne, Marc Cashman, Mark Deakins, Mary Dilts, Maxwell Glick, Rene Ruiz, Rob Shapiro, Stefan Rudnicki, Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Comics & Graphic Novels, Humor

Summary:

Now an animated show on HBO Max!

It's SQUISHa hilarious, action packed graphic novel series, now adapted for audio, from the award-winning creators of Babymouse! Filled with superheroes, comics within comics, and gross-out science, Squish is perfect for fans of Dog Man, Captain Underpants, and My Weird School.

School's out! Everyone's favorite amoeba is headed to summer camp! But instead of SUPER AWESOME FUN, Squish's summer is turning out to be SUPER AWESOME TERRIFYING! For one thing, Squish can't swim. And to make matters worse, his new camp friend is a Hydra (scientific fact: A hydra's tentacles can paralyze you!). Will Squish sink or will he swim this summer? (And what's up with Pod and black holes anyways??) Find out the answers to these questions and more in the super spectacular adventure, Squish #3: The Power of the Parasite. Summer reading has never been so slimey!

Here's what people are saying about everyone's favorite amoeba!

New York Times:

'An energetic, good-hearted escapade, one that young readers will enjoy.'

Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews:

* 'Hilarious. If ever a new series deserved to go viral, this one does.'

The Bulletin:

'A perfect mix of writing that is simple enough for early readers but still remarkably snarky, clever, and entertaining. Kids will soak up the humor, tidbits of science instruction, and adventure.'

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ID: 522755

Title: Red Palace

Author: June Hur

Narrator: Michelle H. Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:41:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Historical

Summary:

June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace―a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kerri Maniscalco.

To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood...

Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, eighteen-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father's approval.

But Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon's closest friend and mentor. Determined to prove her beloved teacher's innocence, Hyeon launches her own secret investigation.

In her hunt for the truth, she encounters Eojin, a young police inspector also searching for the killer. When evidence begins to point to the Crown Prince himself as the murderer, Hyeon and Eojin must work together to search the darkest corners of the palace to uncover the deadly secrets behind the bloodshed.

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ID: 518041

Title: Getting His Game Back: A Novel

Author: Gia De Cadenet

Narrator: Jonathan Horvath

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:55:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women

Summary:

“A thoroughly satisfying love story with a big, beating heart.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

 

“This book is emotional, steamy and sweet—a triple threat! De Cadenet tackles mental health, gender stereotypes, and interracial romance with care and creativity. I loved it!”—Chantel Guertin, author of Instamom

Khalil Sarda went through a rough patch last year, but now he’s nearly back to his old self. All he has to do is keep his “stuff” in the past. Real men don’t have depression and go to therapy—or, at least they don’t admit it. He’s ready to focus on his growing chain of barbershops, take care of his beloved Detroit community, and get back to being the ladies’ man his family and friends tease him for being. It’ll be easy . . . until Vanessa throws him completely off his game. 

Vanessa Noble is too busy building a multimillion-dollar tech career as a Black woman before age thirty to be distracted by a relationship. Not to mention, she’s been burned before, still dealing with the lingering hurt of a past breakup. Besides, as her friends often remind her, she’ll never find a man who checks all the boxes on her famous List. Yet when she desperately needs a shape-up and happens upon one of Khalil’s barbershops, the Fade, he makes her reconsider everything. Khalil is charming, intelligent, sexy, and definitely seems like he’d treat a woman right . . . but he’s not Black. 

Vanessa may be willing to take a chance on Khalil, but a part of him is frustratingly closed off, just out of her reach. Will old patterns emerge to keep them apart? Or have they both finally found a connection worth throwing away the playbook for?

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ID: 549491

Title: Just Help!: How to Build a Better World

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

Narrator: Kerry Washington, Sonia Sotomayor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:11:32

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a fun and meaningful story about making the world--and your community--better, one action at a time, that asks the question: Who will you help today?

Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question.

In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young listeners on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community.

This audiobook shows how we can all help make the world a better place each and every day.

 

Praise for Just Help!:

 

'Generosity proves contagious in this personal portrait of community service by Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor.' --Publishers Weekly

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ID: 505636

Title: God: An Anatomy

Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Narrator: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:56:54

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Biblical Studies

Summary:

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous.

'[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh’s body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun.”—The Economist        

The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male.

 

Here is a portrait—arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible—of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world. From head to toe—and every part of the body in between—this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before.

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ID: 518037

Title: Roughest Draft

Author: Austin Siegemund-Broka, Emily Wibberley

Narrator: Dan Bittner, Imani Jade Powers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:56:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

One of...

Amazon's Best Romances of January

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They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down.

Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract.

Facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they're forced to reunite. The last thing they ever thought they'd do again is hole up in the tiny Florida town where they wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. Working through the reasons they've hated each other for the past three years isn't easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.

While passion and prose push them closer together in the Florida heat, Katrina and Nathan will learn that relationships, like writing, sometimes take a few rough drafts before they get it right.

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ID: 538625

Title: Shady Hollow

Author: Juneau Black

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.

Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy.

 

Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case.

 

A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL 

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