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ID: 578970

Title: Little Match Girl Strikes Back

Author: Emma Carroll

Narrator: Imogen Wilde

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:40:07

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-22

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

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

Summary:

It only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, from bestselling and award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child.

Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, Bridie leads the match factory workers out on strike, achieving the remarkable through their unity and courage.

A defiant and empowering retelling of the classic you thought you knew, based on real-life events, this stunning collaboration brought to life in glorious spot colour introduces a bold new heroine for future generations to treasure.  

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ID: 629985

Title: Shifty's Boys

Author: Chris Offutt

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the centre of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be rehabbing his leg, signing his divorce papers, getting out of town, and most of all, staying out of the way of his sister Linda's re-election as Sheriff -but he keeps on looking, and suddenly he's getting shot at himself.

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ID: 567247

Title: Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity

Author: Nicholas Kardaras

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Social Science, Mental Health

Summary:

From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how weve become mad for our devices as our devices our driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide ratesand offers a way out.

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it digital heroin. Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults and looks at the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.

In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young peoples mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. Whats driving this mental health epidemic? Our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic 'digital social contagion, spreading a variety of psychiatric disorders.

The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain's architecture into inherently pathological and reactive 'black and white' thinkingtoxic for politics and society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and emptyall in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization.

But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose in peoples lives. Digital Madness is a crucial audiobook for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young peoples mental and physical health.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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ID: 564683

Title: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel

Author: Angie Cruz

Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell, Rossmery Almonte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

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

Summary:

This program features original sound design.

'Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Caras success.' - Library Journal

'Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel transports listeners into the tumultuous, funny, heartrending world of Cara Romero...With her sibilant Spanish accent and musical intonations, Almonte's Cara is unforgettable as she launches her fierce, strong, and witty self straight into our hearts.'- AudioFile Magazine

'Audiobook newbie Rossmery Almonte impressively commands most of the recording as fiercely tenacious yet surprisingly charming Cara. That Almonte shares Dominican roots with both her character and author Cruz...undoubtedly enhances the expert production.' - Booklist

One of my favorite books I have read in years. Quiara Alegria Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of In the Heights

From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Womens Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new audiobook novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story.

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work.

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.

Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruzs most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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ID: 573487

Title: Bliss Montage: Stories

Author: Ling Ma

Narrator: Katharine Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:13:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection.'- AudioFile

A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.

What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?

In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anythingif you bury yourself alive.

These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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ID: 623186

Title: Horsetail Hollow: Magically Maximus, Amazingly Angus and Fearlessly Philippe

Author: Kiki Thorpe

Narrator: Emily Eiden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:00:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

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

Summary:

Nevergirls meets the Spirit series in this magical chapter book series about two sisters who must help the horses of Disney return to their original fairytales, by New York Times bestselling author Kiki Thorpe.

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ID: 569876

Title: Season of Light: A Celebration of Christmas

Author: Jess Redman

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:04:32

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Holidays

Summary:

This program features original sound design.

A luminous children's audiobook about Christmas traditions that make the season a time of joy, love, faith, and light.

Under star-filled winter skies, with homes and trees aglow, with candles lit and hearts so full, our love will shine and grow.

From paper snowflakes to silver bells, reindeer to wise men, Christmas is a season of faith and song, giving and serving, loved ones and light that can last the whole year through. With Jess Redman's beautiful poetic text, Season of Light is sure to be a holiday favorite for years to come.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers

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ID: 623416

Title: Black Panther: Uprising

Author: Ronald L. Smith

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:23:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

The third book in the hit Young Prince series from Ronald L. Smith, recipient of the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award. When T'Challa gets special permission to have his friends from America, Sheila and Zeke, come to Wakanda, he can't wait to show them his home for a change. But their tour is brought to a halt when one of T'Challa's peers, Tafari, summons dark forces in order to return Wakanda to the 'old ways' before Vibranium was discovered. Tafari manages to banish the King and Queen along with all the tribal elders to an alternate dimension in exchange for the Originator's release, leaving Wakanda vulnerable and unprotected. Can T'Challa and his friends stop Tafari before the leaders of Wakanda are trapped forever?

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ID: 564684

Title: They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

Author: Sarah Kendzior

Narrator: Sarah Kendzior

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, American Politics, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

This program is read by the author.

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville.'

Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Sarah Kendzior delves into the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory, 'deftly separat[ing] fact from fiction in a conspiracy-addled nation' (VANITY FAIR).

'The topics covered in this audiobook may be rough going for listeners, but the author's commitment to sounding the alarm will keep them glued to their earbuds.'- AudioFile

Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies. Uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists.

The truth may hurtbut the lies will kill us.

They Knew discusses conspiracy culture in a rapidly declining United States struggling with corruption, climate change, and other crises. As the actions of the powerful remain shrouded in mysteryFrom Norman Baker to Jeffrey Epstein, Iran-Contra to January 6' (VF)it is unsurprising that people turn to conspiracy theories to fill the informational void. They Knew exposes the tactics these powerful actors use to placate an inquisitive public.

Here, for the first time, Kendzior blends her signature whip-smart prose and eviscerating arguments with lyrical and intimate examinations of the times and places that haunt American history. 'America is a ghost story,' states Kendzior, as she unearths decades of buried history, providing an essential and critical look at how to rebuild our democracy by confronting the political lies and crimes that have shaped us.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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ID: 564674

Title: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Author: Rachel Aviv

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, History & Culture

Summary:

A New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2022

A Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of 2022

The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her childrens forgiveness after recovering from psychosis; a man who devotes his life to seeking revenge upon his psychoanalysts; and an affluent young woman who, after a decade of defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to go off her meds because she doesnt know who she is without them. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Avivs exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs paralleluntil it no longer does.

Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental disorders shape their course in our lives. Challenging the way we understand and talk about illness, her account is a testament to the porousness and resilience of the mind.

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