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ID: 530090

Title: Bound by Firelight

Author: Dana Swift

Narrator: Assaf Cohen, Dana Swift, Priya Ayyar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

The heart-pounding sequel to Cast in Firelight, perfect for fans of epic, sweepingly romantic fantasy by Sabaa Tahir, Susan Dennard, and Mary E. Pearson.

 

After a magical eruption devastates the kingdom of Belwar, royal heir Adraa is falsely accused of masterminding the destruction and forced to stand trial in front of her people, who see her as a monster. Adraa's punishment? Imprisonment in the Dome, an impenetrable, magic-infused fortress filled with Belwar’s nastiest criminals—many of whom Adraa put there herself. And they want her to pay.

 

Jatin, the royal heir to Naupure, has been Adraa’s betrothed, nemesis, and fellow masked vigilante . . . but now he’s just a boy waiting to ask her the biggest question of their lives. First, though, he’s going to have to do the impossible: break Adraa out of the Dome. And he won’t be able to do it without help from the unlikeliest of sources—a girl from his past with a secret that could put them all at risk.

 

Time is running out, and the horrors Adraa faces in the Dome are second only to the plot to destabilize and destroy their kingdoms. But Adraa and Jatin have saved the world once already. . . . Now, can they save themselves?

 

'I was hooked from beginning to end!'—Kathryn Purdie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bone Crier’s Moon

 

'Fans of Serpent & Dove’s smart-alecky Lou and The Wrath and the Dawn’s cunning Shazi should prepare themselves to fall head over heels for the fiery Adraa.'—Kelly Coon, author of the Gravemaidens duology

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ID: 539685

Title: Kids of Cattywampus Street

Author: Lisa Jahn-Clough

Narrator: Tara Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:46:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

“An extraordinary book.” --Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events

 

Lovers of Roald Dahl and Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School will be captivated by the adventures of this very special group of friends who live on the same street.

In this delightful chapter book, you'll meet Jamal, Lindalee, Hans, Matteo, and others--the kids who live on Cattywampus Street, not far from the Waddlebee Toy Store.

Each of the eleven chapters in this magical, mysterious, silly, scary, happy, and sometimes sad chapter book tells an utterly unforgettable tale about one of the kids. Whether it's about Jamal and his magic ball, which knows how to find him after its been stolen away; or Charlotta, who shrinks so small that she can fit inside her dollhouse; or Rodney, whose pet rock becomes the envy of all the kids on Cattywampus Street, here are stories sure to charm, captivate, and engage all listeners of chapter books, even the most reluctant.

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ID: 517814

Title: Runaway

Author: Nick Petrie

Narrator: Stephen Mendel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:35:58

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

'Petrie has a preternatural talent for ratcheting up suspense.'--New York Times Book Review

 

When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series.

War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle.

 

In order to save the woman and himself, Peter must use everything he has learned during his time as a Marine, including his knowledge of human nature, in order to escape a ruthless killer with instincts and skills that match—and perhaps exceed—Peter’s own.

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ID: 530080

Title: Sneaks

Author: Catherine Egan

Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:55:40

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humor

Summary:

Men in Black meets middle school! A school project takes an alien turn when three kids uncover a secret society whose aim is to keep sneaks--mischievous interdimensional sprites--from slipping into our universe!

When Ben Harp sees his teacher's watch crawling across the hallway, he thinks he must be dreaming.

 

 But no, he’s just seen his first Sneak—an interdimensional mischief-maker that can borrow the form of any ordinary object. 

 

 He figured this school year would be bad—his best friend moved away, the class bully is circling, and he’s stuck doing a group project with two similarly friendless girls, Charlotte and Akemi. Still, he wasn’t expecting aliens!

 

 And he certainly wasn’t expecting that the woman he and Charlotte and Akemi are assigned to interview for their “living local history” project would be a Sneak expert. Or that she’d foist an old book on them to keep safe . . . and then disappear.

 

 Now Ben, Charlotte, and Akemi are trying to understand a book that seems to contain a coded map while being pursued by violent clothes hangers, fire-spitting squirrels, and more. The Sneaks want that book! And they want something else, too: to pull a vastly more dangerous creature into the world with them.

 

 Can three misfit kids decode the book in time to stop an alien takeover? And if they do, will they get extra credit on their group project?

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ID: 517823

Title: Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Author: Jing Tsu

Narrator: Jing Tsu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:18:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Asia, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

What does it take to reinvent a language?

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology.

Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today.

With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains charts, photos, and visuals from the book.

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ID: 530723

Title: Speaking with Spirit: 52 Prayers to Guide, Inspire, and Uplift You

Author: Agapi Stassinopoulos

Narrator: Agapi Stassinopoulos

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:26:34

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

A collection of 52 prayers and stories to inspire, unlock inner strength, and navigate daily life with spirit, from the author of Wake Up to the Joy of You.

“Prayer is a bridge to your truest self that you can access at any time.”—ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

“This lovely book vibrates with wisdom.”—JESSICA ALBA

“Read this book to discover the power of prayer.”—GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN

Prayer is your ongoing conversation with something larger than yourself. And similar to a mindfulness practice, a daily prayer practice has the power to change your life. Regardless of whether or not you practice organized religion, this gift is available to you as a way to unlock greater awareness and inner strength. With her signature joy and heartfelt wisdom, Agapi Stassinopoulos presents a non-denominational guide to harnessing this power of prayer in your life and using it to find connection, peace, and gratitude.

With a structure and style similar to her bestselling meditation book Wake Up to the Joy of You, Agapi encourages us to pray for everything, not just for special occasions. You can get your God fix anytime and anywhere: at the gym or on the train, when you're on a deadline or when you're enjoying your first cup of coffee. Accompanied by her personal stories, she shares fifty-two prayers for a year of personal transformation, from navigating relationships with family and friends and expanding past your fears to uncovering your true self and releasing your inner creativity. With prayers written with her unique poetry, verve, and spiritual insight, Agapi guides us in transforming the fear, worry, and anxiety of everyday life into conscious moments of peace and calm.

Ultimately, she is teaching us the language of our own soul and the larger energy out there, whatever you want to call it, which is always available to us if we know how to listen and to speak with spirit.

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ID: 518042

Title: Joan Is Okay: A Novel

Author: Weike Wang

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:36:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Asian American Literature

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang masterfully probes the existential uncertainty of being other in America.”—Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, Vox

Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life by their own cultural and social expectations.

 

Once Joan and her brother, Fang, were established in their careers, her parents moved back to China, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in their homeland. But when Joan’s father suddenly dies and her mother returns to America to reconnect with her children, a series of events sends Joan spiraling out of her comfort zone just as her hospital, her city, and the world are forced to reckon with a health crisis more devastating than anyone could have imagined.

 

Deceptively spare yet quietly powerful, laced with sharp humor, Joan Is Okay touches on matters that feel deeply resonant: being Chinese-American right now; working in medicine at a high-stakes time; finding one’s voice within a dominant culture; being a woman in a male-dominated workplace; and staying independent within a tight-knit family. But above all, it’s a portrait of one remarkable woman so surprising that you can’t get her out of your head.

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ID: 517824

Title: Runaway Duchess

Author: Joanna Lowell

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Summary:

A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance from the author of The Duke Undone.

 

Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of becoming a duchess. But family disgrace forces her into marriage with the most vile duke in England, and she finds herself desperate for a way out. When a rustic stranger mistakes her for globe-trotting botanist Muriel Pendrake at a train station, Lavinia has a split second to decide whether to submit to her fate or steal someone else's.

Neal Traymayne spent his youth traveling the world as Varnham Nursery's most daring plant hunter. Now he runs the nursery and is ready to settle down with a like-minded wife who'll fit right in with his large, happy, down-to-earth family. His correspondence with Muriel Pendrake proved they're the perfect match. Odd that the woman in the flesh seems more like a society belle than a scientist.

As they tramp the Cornish moors together, Lavinia and Neal discover a wild and rare desire. But this blossoming love is rooted in lies, and when the real Muriel Pendrake shows up, they can't hide from who they are. The truth may wither their hopes of happiness, or it may bloom into the sweetest love of all.

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ID: 536836

Title: Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom

Author: Shaka Senghor

Narrator: Shaka Senghor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:02:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Parenting

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons—one whom he is raising and the other whose childhood took place during Senghor's nineteen-year incarceration.

 

“A visceral and visual journey for the ages . . . the perfect road map for us to remove the barriers and obstacles against our true feelings.”—Kenya Barris, creator of black-ish

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Essence

Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his own mistakes and the disconnection caused by a society that sees Black lives as disposable. With his second, Sekou, born after Senghor's release, he has experienced healing, transformation, intimacy, and the possibilities of a world where men and boys can openly show one another affection, support, and love.

In this collection of beautifully written letters to Jay and Sekou, Senghor traces his journey as a Black man in America and unpacks the toxic and misguided messages about masculinity, mental health, love, and success that boys learn from an early age. He issues a passionate call to all fathers and sons—fathers who don't know how to show their sons love, sons who are navigating a fatherless world, boys who have been forced to grow up before their time—to cultivate positive relationships with other men, seek healing, tend to mental health, grow from pain, and rewrite the story that has been told about them.

Letters to the Sons of Society is a soulful examination of the bond between father and sons, and a touchstone for anyone seeking a kinder, more just world.

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ID: 530063

Title: Mermicorns #4: Sniffles and Surprises

Author: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Narrator: Holly Linneman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:54:12

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Part unicorn, part mermaid, and totally magical! Don't miss this exciting chapter book series from the author of the popular Purrmaids series!

Oh no! Lily is sick. That means she’s stuck in bed all day. She’s going to miss an exciting lesson at the Magic Academy. Even worse, she can’t go to the clubhouse after school with her best friend, Sirena. Is her whole day ruined? Or do Sirena and their kitten friends have a surprise for her? 

 

Read all the Mermicorn adventures:

#1: Sparkle Magic

#2: A Friendship Problem

#3: The Invisible Mix-Up

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