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ID: 451450

Title: Benjamin's Crossing

Author: Jay Parini

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Kathleen Gati, Mark Bramhall, Natasha Soudek, Senn Annis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:40:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction

Summary:

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.

It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees into Spain, where they may (with luck) make their way to freedom in Portugal or South America.

     Beloved biographical novelist Jay Parini's thrilling tale of escape is beautifully interwoven with vignettes of Benjamin's complex, cosmopolitan past: his privileged childhood in Berlin, his years with the German Youth Movement, his university days. His close friendship with Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, and many other well-known artists and intellectuals who were part of Benjamin's intimate circle between the two world wars. Part tragedy, part dark comedy, this sharply realized historical novel tells one of the great and most moving peripheral stories of the Holocaust.

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ID: 569122

Title: Year I Flew Away

Author: Marie Arnold

Narrator: Marie Arnold

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:36:48

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American -- but will she lose herself in the process? Perfect for fans of HURRICANE CHILD and FRONT DESK.

It’s 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won’t be able to join her yet and she’ll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave, but life proves to be difficult in the United States, from learning the language to always feeling like she doesn’t fit in to being bullied. So when a witch offers her a chance to speak English perfectly and be “American,” she makes the deal. But soon she realizes how much she has given up by trying to fit in and, along with her two new friends (one of them a talking rat), takes on the witch in an epic battle to try to reverse the spell. 

Gabrielle is a funny and engaging heroine you won’t soon forget in this sweet and lyrical novel that’s perfect for fans of Hurricane Child and Front Desk.

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ID: 569108

Title: Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Author: Te-Ping Chen

Narrator: Chris Naoki Lee, Christine Lakin, Eddy Lee, Fiona Rene, Katie Tang, Lynn Chen, Matt Yang King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:35:25

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, General, Asian American Literature

Summary:

A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama NPR The Washington Post The Philadelphia Inquirer Esquire Kirkus Reviews Chicago Public Library Electric Literature

Malala Yousafzais Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati 

''Dazzling...Riveting.'' New York Times Book Review

Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chens remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom? Jennifer Egan

Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection. Charles Yu

A stirring and brilliant debut story collection, offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora, both love letter and sharp social criticism, from a phenomenal new literary talent bringing great insight from her years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal (Elle).

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbledmessily, violently, but still beautifullyinto the present.

Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chens stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of Chinas volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave.

With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.

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ID: 433525

Title: Serpentine: An Alex Delaware Novel

Author: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrator: John Rubinstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:20

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

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

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the master of suspense.

LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rule book. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”

This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo’s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases—the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.

The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.

This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.

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ID: 569111

Title: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book

Author: Mark Bittman

Narrator: Mark Bittman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:53:18

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science

Summary:

"Epic and engrossing." —The New York Times Book Review

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how history has been shaped by humanity’s appetite for food, farmland, and the money behind it all—and how a better future is within reach.

The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food.

 

In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments, from slavery and colonialism to famine and genocide—and to our current moment, wherein Big Food exacerbates climate change, plunders our planet, and sickens its people. Even still, Bittman refuses to concede that the battle is lost, pointing to activists, workers, and governments around the world who are choosing well-being over corporate greed and gluttony, and fighting to free society from Big Food’s grip.

 

Sweeping, impassioned, and ultimately full of hope, Animal, Vegetable, Junk reveals not only how food has shaped our past, but also how we can transform it to reclaim our future.

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ID: 569107

Title: Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir

Author: Louis Chude-Sokei

Narrator: Louis Chude-Sokei

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:31:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Arts & Entertainment, Social Science

Summary:

The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles—a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story

The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is “first son of the first son” of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie’s strict religious household in Jamaica, where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: “Is this the boy? Is this him?”

Chude-Sokei’s immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother, who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime “Jackie O of Biafra,” finally sends for him to come live with her. In Inglewood, Los Angeles, on the eve of gangsta rap and the LA riots, it’s as if he’s fallen to Earth. In this world, anything alien—definitely Chude-Sokei’s secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie—is a danger, and his yearning to become a Black American gets deeply, sometimes absurdly, complicated. Ultimately, it is a boisterous pan-African family of honorary aunts, uncles, and cousins that becomes his secret society, teaching him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in his America.

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ID: 502100

Title: Edge of Redfish Lake

Author: Conrad Jungmann Jr.

Narrator: Conrad Jungmann Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:14:43

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-21

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Alaskas salmon fisheries have long been the origin of adventure, intrigue, hard-earned money, danger, mystery, and tragedy. In 1988, as journalist Julian Hopkins tried to make sense out of his best friends drowning, he found out the fatally-beautiful Bristol Bay was also the lair of a killer ... an angered one who at seasons end would follow him home and drag him into the heart of Seattles most notorious unsolved serial murder case.

In his debut novel, Conrad Jungmann Jr. takes us on a suspenseful crime-legal drama, from rough-and-rugged Alaska to the edge of loyalty, loss, love, jealousy, justice, and vengeance. Full of hidden undertones and powerful epiphanies, EDGE OF REDFISH LAKE is the authors ode to the Alaska commercial fisheries, old-school journalism, the Green River Killer investigation, DNA forensic science, and plight of Pacific salmon.

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ID: 509543

Title: Taelstone

Author: Robyn Prokop

Narrator: Jonathan Moffat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

Ash isn't the Chosen One he isnt even supposed to learn the Song. And hes certainly no hero hes just a kitchen slave. But he cant abandon his feisty friend Kep to her cruel fate. Together they must fulfil the quest, but will the slave tracker killthem first? Or will the Song driveAsh to madness? Haunted by strange visions of the past, the friends are swept into a world of peril and adventure. As ancient history collides with the present, a terrible evil is revealed. What strange destiny lies in wait? And what is the mystery of theTaelstone? If you love action-packed fantasy adventures, with loadsof twists, you'll loveTaelstone.

A superbly written fantasy adventure. A BRONZE MEDAL WINNER and highly recommended. The Wishing Shelf Book Awards

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ID: 488545

Title: This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings

Author: Julia Samuel

Narrator: Julia Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:11:15

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-21

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Aging & Longevity, Psychology

Summary:

A leading therapist shares memorable patient stories to explore the key crises in life and what we can learn from them.

If change is the natural order of things, why do so many people struggle with the milestones of life--from first jobs and first loves to children leaving home and retirement?

We live in a culture of limitless choice--and life is now more complex than ever. In This Too Shall Pass, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on hours of conversations with her patients to show how we can learn to adapt and thrive during our most difficult and transformative experiences.

 

Illuminated by the latest social and psychological research, this book unflinchingly deals with the hard times in family, love, work, health and identity--from a woman deciding whether to leave her husband for a younger lover, to a father handling a serious medical diagnosis; and from a new mother struggling with the decision to return to work, to a young man dealing with the aftermath of coming out, to a woman starting again after losing her job.

 

These powerful, unforgettable and deeply intimate stories about everyday people will inform our understanding of our own unique response to change and enlighten the way we approach challenges at every stage of life.

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ID: 436050

Title: Glory Girl: Daring to Believe in Your Passion and Gods Purpose

Author: Jess Connolly

Narrator: Jess Connolly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:47:37

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-21

Publisher: Zonderkidz

Genres: Kids, Religious & Inspirational, Non-Fiction, Health & Family

Summary:

God has a purpose for you. But maybe what you’re meant to be is still a mystery. So where do you start? Jess Connolly will help you get answers to this question and more, no matter where you are in your journey.

Glory Girl will jumpstart your search for purpose. In each meaningful chapter, Jess’s wise words will help you: discover the things you are really passionate about, understand your strengths and weaknesses, face your fears, catch the vision, make a plan, and find the confidence you need to make your move—all in the bold belief that God has called you to every step of the journey.

Glory Girl helps girls ages 8–12:

- Recognize their unique, God-given gifts.

- Fight their fears with faith and truth.

- Deal with distractions that throw them off course from God’s plan for them.

- Stop trying to be “the best” at everything and trust that God has a plan for them.

- Stop comparing themselves to others.

Reflective journaling prompts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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