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ID: 515765

Title: Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Author: Mara Rockliff

Narrator: Rosa Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:17:15

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Historical

Summary:

An inspiring biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956.

Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city buses for one day: December 5, 1955. Throughout the boycott--at Holt Street Baptist Church meetings led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.--and throughout the struggle for justice, Georgia served up her mouth-watering fried chicken, her spicy collard greens, and her sweet potato pie, eventually selling them to raise money to help the cause.

Here is the vibrant true story of a hidden figure of the civil rights movement, told in flavorful language by a picture-book master.

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ID: 514522

Title: Vinyl Moon

Author: Mahogany L. Browne

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:58:03

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General

Summary:

A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain.

'A true embodiment of the term Black Girl Magic.” –Booklist

 

When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California life she has known.

 

Angel feels out of sync with her new neighborhood. At school, she can’t shake the feeling everyone knows what happened—and that it was her fault. The only place that makes sense is Ms. G’s class. There, Angel’s classmates share their own stories of pain, joy, and fortitude. And as Angel becomes immersed in her revolutionary literature course, the words from Black writers like Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Zora NEale Hurston speak to her and begin to heal the wounds of her past.

This stunning novel weaves together prose, poems, and vignettes to tell the story of Angel, a young woman whose past was shaped by domestic violence but whose love of language and music and the gift of community grant her the chance to find herself again.

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ID: 514526

Title: Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel

Author: Elizabeth George

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:28:20

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Police Stories

Summary:

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!

 

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George.

When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he's assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. They must sort through the lies and the secret lives of people whose superficial cooperation masks the damage they do to one another.

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ID: 514956

Title: Our Kind of People

Author: Carol Wallace

Narrator: Suzanne Barbetta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Fans of Bridgerton will love this 'exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age' (Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra) as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin.

Among New York City's Gilded Age elite, one family will defy convention.

Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and fall of their family--each is forced to re-examine who she is, and even who she is meant to love.

From the author of To Marry an English Lord, an inspiration for Downton Abbey, comes a charming and cutthroat tale of a world in which an invitation or an avoided glance can be the difference between fortune and ruin.

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ID: 530074

Title: Salaam, with Love

Author: Sara Sharaf Beg

Narrator: Mayuri Bhandari

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:26:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

This heartfelt and humorous YA contemporary follows Dua, who spends the month of Ramadan making unexpected discoveries about family, faith, and first love.

Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisions her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn’t seen in years.

 

Dua struggles to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof, engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor. And as if fasting the whole day wasn’t tiring enough, she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan, the cute drummer in a Muslim band who has a habit of showing up at her most awkward moments.

 

After just a month, Dua is surprised to find that she’s learning a lot more than she bargained for about her faith, relationships, her place in the world—and cute drummers. . . .

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ID: 534596

Title: Why We Need Water (Waffles + Mochi)

Author: Cynthia Ines Mangual

Narrator: Jade Wheeler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:09:04

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Humor

Summary:

An all-new storybook based on Netflix's Waffles + Mochi, which is prodcued by President Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground!

Before Waffles and Mochi can make a special meal for their friends, they need to learn about a very important ingredient—water. Follow them around the world as they learn how necessary water is and the different ways it can be used. Children ages 3 to 7 who love Netflix's new show about friendship and fun-filled eating will enjoy this audiobook. 

 

Join Waffles and Mochi for global adventures that reveal the stories behind our food. Produced by President Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and streaming on Netflix, Waffles + Mochi is an entertaining mix of puppetry, animation, celebrity chefs, and famous guest stars. This delightful new show introduces young children and their families to a world of cooking and fearless eating.

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ID: 514524

Title: Code Name: Serendipity

Author: Amber Smith

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:57:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Fans of Katherine Applegate, Holly Goldberg Sloan, and Lynda Mullaly Hunt will love New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith’s heartwarming middle grade debut about family, friendship, and the magic connection between a girl and her dog.

Eleven-year-old Sadie’s school year is off to an awful start. Her best (and only) friend has moved away, her older brother is a jerk (as always), and her beloved Gramps is having more and more trouble keeping his memories straight. But when she comes across a stray dog, she discovers something wonderful and magical—she and the dog, Dewey, are able to communicate telepathically. Sadie knows that Dewey is destined to be her friend.

Dewey is quickly captured and sent to a shelter. And Sadie’s moms say Dewey is dangerous, a bite risk, and that Sadie, whose mind is always wandering with a larger than life imagination, needs to prove she’s more responsible before she can adopt any pets. But Sadie is running out of time—Dewey lets Sadie know that her days at the shelter are numbered.

The only solution: break Dewey out of doggie jail.

In this reaffirming, magical, and uplifting story of friendship, family, and believing in yourself, New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith assures readers: it’s okay to think big and act with your whole heart.

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ID: 530076

Title: Hide and Geek

Author: T. P. Jagger

Narrator: Danice Cabanela

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:47:26

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy, Humor

Summary:

Four friends know that being a geek is a superpower -- and they're about to prove it as they solve a puzzlemaker's last clue and uncover a long lost treasure!

The GEEKs:

Gina, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin have been best friends for as long as they can remember. So when their arch-nemesis points out that their initials make them literally GEEKs, they decide to go with it.

The problem:

The GEEKs’ hometown of Elmwood was once the headquarters of the famous toymaker Maxine Van Houten. Her popular puzzle sphere, the Bamboozler, put the town on the map. But Maxine passed away long ago. Now the toy factory is shutting down, and Elena’s mom and Kevin’s dad are losing their jobs. They might have to move—and that would mean splitting up the GEEKs!

The quest:

Maxine left one final puzzle, a treasure hunt that could save the town and keep the friends together. But only those who know and love Elmwood best will be able to solve it. GEEKs to the rescue!

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ID: 517835

Title: Brown Girls: A Novel

Author: Daphne Palasi Andreades

Narrator: Tashi Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:26:57

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.

 

“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster

FINALIST: The New American Voices Award, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, The New American Voices Award, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews

If you really want to know, we are the color of 7-Eleven root beer. The color of sand at Rockaway Beach when it blisters the bottoms of our feet. Color of soil . . .

Welcome to Queens, New York, where streets echo with languages from all over the globe, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky scent of the Atlantic Ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Within one of New York City’s most vibrant and eclectic boroughs, young women of color like Nadira, Gabby, Naz, Trish, Angelique, and countless others, attempt to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with the American culture in which they come of age. Here, they become friends for life—or so they vow.

Exuberant and wild, together they roam The City That Never Sleeps, sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, yearn for crushes who pay them no mind—and break the hearts of those who do—all while trying to heed their mothers’ commands to be obedient daughters. But as they age, their paths diverge and rifts form between them, as some choose to remain on familiar streets, while others find themselves ascending in the world, beckoned by existences foreign and seemingly at odds with their humble roots.

A blazingly original debut novel told by a chorus of unforgettable voices, Brown Girls illustrates a collective portrait of childhood, adulthood, and beyond, and is a striking exploration of female friendship, a powerful depiction of women of color attempting to forge their place in the world today. For even as the conflicting desires of ambition and loyalty, freedom and commitment, adventure and stability risk dividing them, it is to one another—and to Queens—that the girls ultimately return.

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ID: 534597

Title: Day the Crayons Came Home

Author: Drew Daywalt

Narrator: Almarie Guerra, Bahni Turpin, Barrett Leddy, Daniel Henning, Drew Daywalt, Jamie K. Brown, Jesus E. Martinez, Macleod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Rob Shapiro, Ron Butler, Tara Sands, Taylor Meskimen, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:12:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humor

Summary:

The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and blockbuster hit, The Day the Crayons Quit!

A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015

“Highly anticipated (yes, even for adults)” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm not sure what it is about this kid Duncan, but his crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters! Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued. From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath the sofa cushions and then broken in two after Dad sat on him; to poor Turquoise, whose head is now stuck to one of Duncan's stinky socks after they both ended up in the dryer together; to Pea Green, who knows darn well that no kid likes peas and who ran away—each and every crayon has a woeful tale to tell and a plea to be brought home to the crayon box.

Audiobook cast of narrators:

Drew Daywalt as THE NARRATOR and PINK CRAYON

Barrett Leddy as MAROON CRAYON and GRAY CRAYON

Jesus E. Martinez as PEA GREEN CRAYON (ESTEBAN THE MAGNIFICENT)

Bahni Turpin as NEON RED CRAYON

MacLeod Andrews as YELLOW CRAYON

Ron Butler as ORANGE CRAYON

Michael Crouch as TAN CRAYON and THE SHARPENER

Taylor Meskimen as GLOW IN THE DARK CRAYON

Rob Shapiro as GOLD CRAYON and THE SOCK (TED)

Tara Sands as THE PENCIL

Almarie Guerra as TURQUOISE CRAYON

Jamie K. Brown as BIG CHUNKY TODDLER CRAYON

Daniel Henning as BROWN CRAYON

René Ruiz as PURPLE CRAYON

James Patrick Cronin as BEIGE CRAYON

Robbie Daymond as WHITE CRAYON

Max Meyers as PEACH CRAYON

Kim Mai Guest as THE PAPERCLIP

Praise for The Day the Crayons Came Home:

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Picture Book of 2015!

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015!

One of Parents Magazine's Ten Best Children's Books of 2015!

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year!

'Funnier than the creators' original blockbuster.'--Parents Magazine

'Mr. Daywalt’s text blends with Mr. Jeffers’s illustrations to make a picture book that will have children clamoring for more crayon adventures.'—The Wall Street Journal

“Continues its predecessor’s pleasing, goofy conceit…Once again, both Daywalt’s text and Jeffers’ illustrations are endearing.”—New York Times Book Review

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