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ID: 584478

Title: Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

Author: Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans

Narrator: Kurt Kanazawa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Business Development

Summary:

'Kurt Kanazawa presents this absorbing story of the initial success and later downward spiral of Tony Hsieh, tech founder and former CEO of Zappos. Kanazawa's youthful tone and vocal energy connect with Hsieh's wealth and celebrity status without glossing over his descent into drugs, alcohol, and mental health problems.'-- AudioFile

Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists.

Tony Hsiehs first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade later, he sold online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion.

The secret to his success? Making his employees happy.

At its peak, Zapposs employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it became one of the hardest companies to get hired at, and CEOs from other companies regularly toured the headquarters. But Hsiehs vision for change didnt stop with corporate culture: Hsieh went on to move Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas and personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the citys historic downtown area. There, he could be found living in an Airstream and chatting up the locals. But Hsiehs forays into community-revival projects spun out of control as his issues with mental health and addiction ramped up, creating the opportunity for more enablers than friends to stand in his mercurial good graces.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by the pressure to succeed but who never lost his generous spirit.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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ID: 584505

Title: Rescue

Author: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrator: Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General

Summary:

'Narrator Victoria Villarreal keeps this canine-themed thriller on track, providing the empathy and consistency required to get into the mind of Joe, a mutt with a gifted nose, a DEA pedigree, and a price on his head.'- AudioFile

The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.

While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her storys subjectsan adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts the dog, who she names Felix after the veterinarian who saved him.

In investigating Felixs past, Bettina discovers that his life is nothing like what she assumed. For one thing, hes not a Mexican street dog at all. A former DEA drug-sniffing dog, Felix has led a very colorful, dangerous, and profitable life. With Bettinas story going viral, some interesting people are looking for Felix, making him a targetagain.

Bettina soon finds herself drawn into a deadly criminal underworld from which she and her beloved dog may not return.

Other Forge Books by T. Jefferson Parker:

A Thousand Steps

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books.

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ID: 685422

Title: Masquerade on the Riviera

Author: Evonne Wareham

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:49:19

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Romance, Mystery

Summary:

Renowned Egyptologist Dr Elliott Elwood is slightly puzzled when he's invited to Torquay to take part in a bizarre bidding war for a well-known artefact collection. But, of course, he couldn't pass up the chance to view the 'Cleopatra Necklace' - an infamous piece from the collection, rumoured to be cursed. However, Elliott's weekend away with his fellow bidders, including the strangely familiar Maisie Norris - if that is her real name - ends up involving far more than afternoon tea and historical chit-chat. Cunning thievery and clever games abound in the days and weeks that follow, eventually culminating in a glitzy but potentially perilous masked ball on the Côte d'Azur. Will Elliott find an element of truth in the necklace's notorious reputation, or could his growing connection with the mysterious Maisie bring him all the luck he needs?

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ID: 677852

Title: When We Had Summer

Author: Jennifer Castle

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:32:40

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Teen, General, Tough Topics

Summary:

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in this new young adult novel about a tight-knit, daring, and eclectic group of friends who dedicate every summer to completing their #SummerSistersBucketList together that is until one of their own passes away. Best friends Carly, Daniella, Lainie, and Penny aka the self-proclaimed #SummerSisters have been coming to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Park Heights ever since they could remember. And every year, the girls make a bucket list and dedicate their entire summer to completing every item on it, documenting their wacky escapades on FotoSlam for everyone to see. It's their tradition, and as long as the Summer Sisters had each other, the rocky jetty on the shore, and their bucket list, that would never change. Right? But then, tragedy strikes after Carly the mastermind behind the bucket list unexpectedly passes away. As the remaining Summer Sisters try to wrap their heads around their best friend's death, life seems determined to throw more curveballs at the girls, threatening to split the Summer Sisters up for good. Daniella is accepted to a prestigious music academy in New York City, Lainie finds out her family is moving to Florida and leaving Ocean Park Heights for good, and Penny struggles to find her footing as she feels ready to leave childhood behind more quickly than either of her friends. What will hold them together with Carly gone and the Summer Sisters seemingly over? Then, Daniella finds Carly's final bucket list. And just like that, the Summer Sisters are back! But of course, things don't always go as planned, and the girls try their hardest to navigate grief, loss, and coming-of-age woes while keeping the Summer Sisters and Carly's memory alive.

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ID: 640038

Title: Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Author: Virginia Sole-Smith

Narrator: Virginia Sole-Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

This program is read by the author.

In this illuminating narrative on the daily onslaught of body shame that kids face from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers a compelling, reported look at how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that fat is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we dont want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes weight loss as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about the motives and morals of people in larger bodies. And parents today, having themselves grown up in the confusion of modern diet culture, worry equally about the risks of our kids caring too much about being thin and about what happens if our kids are fat. Sole-Smith shows how the reverberations of this messaging and social pressures on young bodies continue well into adulthoodand what we can do to fight them.

Fat Talk argues for a reclaiming of fat, which is not synonymous with unhealthy, inactive, or lazy. Talking to researchers and activists, as well as parents and kids across a broad swath of the country, Sole-Smith lays bare how Americas focus on solving the childhood obesity epidemic has perpetuated a second crisis of disordered eating and body hatred for kids of all sizes. She exposes our societys internalized fatphobia and elucidates how and why we need to stop preventing obesity and start supporting kids in the bodies they have.

Continuing conversations started by works like Girls & Sex, Under Pressure, and Essential Labor, Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking audiobook that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture messaging, and ultimately empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith offers an alternative framework for parenting around food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive worldbecause its not our kids, or their bodies, who need fixing.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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ID: 602098

Title: Becoming a Queen

Author: Dan Clay

Narrator: Dan Clay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:41:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics, LGBTQ+

Summary:

This program is read by the author.

A vibrant and emotional novel from debut author Dan Clay about a boy who turns toward love, self-expression, and drag when the unthinkable happens, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Julie Murphy.

If only Mark Davis hadnt put on a dress for the talent show. It was a jokeother guys did it toobut when his boyfriend saw Mark in that dress, everything changed.

And now, fresh on the heels of high school heartbreak, Mark has given up on love. Maybe some people are just too much for this worldtoo weird, too wild, too feminine, too everything. Thankfully, his older brother Eric always knows what to say to keep Mark from spinning into self-loathing. 'Be yourself! Your full sequin-y self.

But Mark starts to notice signs that his perfect older brother has problems of his own.

When the source of Marks strength suddenly becomes the source of his greatest pain, the path back to happiness seems impossible. Searching for a way out, Mark slips into a dress to just, briefly, become someone else, live a different life. His escape, however, becomes an unexpected outlet for his paina path to authentic connection, and a provocation to finally see other people as fully as he wants to be seen.

Beautifully written, heart-wrenching, and ultimately uplifting, Dan Clay's Becoming a Queen is a stunning story about love, loss, and the ineffable power of a purple princess dress.

A Macmillan Audio production from Roaring Brook Press.

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ID: 677169

Title: Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker

Author: Kim M. Watt

Narrator: Patricia Gallimore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:14:09

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Rebellious Christmas wreaths. Mysterious welly-dwelling eggs. A plague of irate water fowl. And ten ladies of a certain age who are by no means the least troublesome of Toot Hansell's residents, as far as Detective Inspector Adams is concerned. She's entirely certain her training never covered dealing with the Women's Institute, dragons, or festive magic spills. Not to mention invisible dogs with caffeine dependencies. But Christmas is almost here. Things can't go too wrong. . . can they? Well. It is Toot Hansell. . . Get some dragons in your Christmas with this collection of twelve short stories from the world of the Beaufort Scales mysteries, plus twelve festive recipes!

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ID: 677945

Title: Murder at Down Street Station

Author: Jim Eldridge

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:53

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical

Summary:

December 1940. Down Street underground station, in the heart of London's Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet from the relentless air raids overhead. In this supposedly secure location, the body of a woman is found, stabbed in the heart. The victim, fortune-teller Lady Za Za, did not see this one coming. Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called to investigate but whispers of treason and corruption succeed in muddying the waters of the case. As the pressure rises and more victims come to light, Coburg and Lampson are on dangerous ground, with a devious killer on the loose.

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ID: 584489

Title: For the First Time, Again: A Take Them to the Stars Novel

Author: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrator: Imogen Wilde, Kevin Shen, Kristin Atherton, Lance C. Fuller, Rory Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:22:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

This program features multicast narration.

Exciting, thought-provoking, and ultimately shocking...Im in for the ride to the very end! James Rollins on A History of What Comes Next

Against the backdrop of authentic historical events, Sylvain Neuvel concludes his acclaimed Take Them to the Stars series with a biting satire on the role of authority in all its guises, bringing us a truly breathtaking science fiction trilogy that spans the ages.

When you dont know The Rules its hard to stay safe.

After a traumatic incident, Aster's blood work comes back with some unusual readings. Unsurprising, as shes the last of an alien race called the Kibsu, though she doesnt know it.

She becomes the focus of a hunt, with her mortal enemies, the Trackers, on one side, and the American government on the other. But help has come from a most unexpected quarter.

Whoever finds her first, it wont be good news for Aster.

Or for the world!

Also Available by Sylvain Neuvel:

Take Them to the Stars series:

1. A History of What Comes Next

2. Until the Last of Me

The Test

A Macmillan Audio Production from Tor.com.

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ID: 586529

Title: Hestia Strikes a Match: A Novel

Author: Christine Grillo

Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Sheree Wichard, Tom Force

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:25:46

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-23

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

This program features multicast narration.

Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war.

The year is 2023, and things are badbad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to ght for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (theyre leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again its Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends.

Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting) for a job at a Baltimore retirement village on the Inner Harbor (lots of security). Shes single and adrift, save for her coworkers and Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old, thrice-happily-married resident who gleefully supports Hestias half-hearted but hopeful attempts to nd love again in a time of chaos and disunion. She reckons with the big questions (How do we live in the midst of political collapse? How do we love people who believe terrible things?) and the little ones (How do I decorate a nonworking fireplace? Can I hook up with a mime?), all while wrestling with that simmering, roiling, occasionally boiling feeling that things are decidedly not okay, but we have to keep going, one foot in front of the other, because maybe, just maybe, we can still nd the kinds of relationships that sustain a person through anything.

Christine Grillos Hestia Strikes a Match is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. Equal parts wise and hilarious, it lls the heart, forties the spirit, and will surely help to fend o despair. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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