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ID: 439908

Title: Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life

Author: Annie Auerbach

Narrator: Annie Auerbach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:58:24

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at womens professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life (Marie Claire)now widely available for American readers and updated with an author note addressing work in the post-Covid age.

The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach has long championed: working 9-5 in an office doesnt work for most us. 

Its time to change the rules.

We can be efficient and productive when were allowed the freedom of flexibilityto meet deadlines working during the hours and in the places we choose. But before the coronavirus pandemic, only 47 percent of American workers had access to flexible working options. Annie Auerbach advises major corporations, including Nike, Google, Unilever, and Pepsico. She understands work culture and the needs of employees. The world is changing for working women, but until the recent pandemic, companies turned a blind eye. Now, its time to make this change routine.

Auerbach reiterates the importance of leaving the office cubicle behind and explores the realities many women experience working from home and the changes to their daily lives, including the trickle-down effects, from emotional labor to balancing childcare and education with work, to even biohacking the female bodys unique rhythms. 

What happens when women embrace the concept of flex? We become more creative, more strategic with our time and energy, and more engaged with our personal lives. As Auerbach makes clear, we reject our toxic culture of presenteeism, time-pressure, and ultimately burnout. It helps us escape the army of octopus lady jugglers, crazed with the exhaustion of having it all. It allows us to live longer lives more sustainably. It gives us self-worth.

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ID: 437421

Title: Dragonfly Girl

Author: Marti Leimbach

Narrator: Hayden Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:07:13

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

In this spellbinding thriller and YA debut from bestselling author Marti Leimbach, Kira Adams has discovered a cure for deathand it may just cost her life.

Things arent going well for Kira. At home, she cares for her mother and fends off debt collectors. At school, shes awkward and shy. Plus, she may flunk out if she doesnt stop obsessing about science, her passion and the one thing shes good at . . . very good at.

When she wins a prestigious science contest she draws the attention of the celebrated professor Dr. Gregory Munn (as well as his handsome assistant), leading to a part-time job in a top-secret laboratory. 

The job is mostly cleaning floors and equipment, but one night, while running her own experiment, she revives a lab rat that has died in her care. 

One minute it is dead, the next it is not.

Suddenly shes the remarkable wunderkind, the girl who can bring back the dead. Everything is going her way. But it turns out that science can be a dangerous business, and Kira is swept up into a world of international rivalry with dark forces that threaten her life. 

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ID: 452045

Title: Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Author: Sophie Williams

Narrator: Sophie Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:25:05

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Join the fight for racially marginalized people with this pocket-sized guide filled with practical insights from one of the leading voices of the movement for equality and founder of the @officialmillennialblack Instagram.

As the tragic murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated, not being racist is not enough. To fulfill the American ideal, to ensure that all people are equal, you must be actively anti-racist. 

In this essential guide, Sophie Williams, goes beyond her popular Instagram @officialmillennialblack, providing sharp, simple, and insightful steps anyone can take to be a better ally in the fight against racism. While the books focus is on race, it also touches on  sexism, classism, ableism, oppression, and white supremacy. 

Written in her iconic Instagram style, this pocket-sized guide is a crucial starting point for every anti-racist ally, covering complex topics at the heart of anti-racist principles. Whether you are just finding your voice, have made a start but arent sure what to do next, or want a fresh viewpoint, Anti-Racist Ally introduces and explains the language of change and shows you how to challenge the system, beginning with yourself. Sophie reminds you that this is a learning process, which means facing difficult truths, becoming uncomfortable, and working through the embarrassment and discomfort. 

The fight for justice isnt easy there arent any shortcuts or quick wins. But together, anti-racist allies can use their power to truly change the world and lives.

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ID: 437417

Title: Waiting for a Scot Like You: The Union of the Rakes

Author: Eva Leigh

Narrator: Zara Hampton-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:26:05

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Eva Leigh concludes her Breakfast Club and 80s movie-inspired Regency series with a merry widow and a stoic major on a bumpy road to love...

Adjusting to life in peacetime isnt easy for Major Duncan McCameron. Escorting a lady on her journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. She makes his head spin and being alone together will surely end in disaster.

Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man. Ready to live life to the fullest, shes headed to a week-long bacchanal and the journey should be half the fun. Except shes confined to a carriage with a young, rule-abiding, irritatingly handsome Scottish soldier who wouldnt know a good time if it landed in his lap. But maybe a madcap escapade will loosen him up...

Between carriage crashes, secret barn dances, robbers, and an inn with only one bed, their initial tension dissolves into a passion that neither expected. But is there a future for an adventure-loving lady and a duty-bound soldier, or will their differences tear them apart?

Don't miss the earlier books in the Union of the Rakes seriesMy Fake Rake and Would I Lie to the Duke are available now!

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ID: 442695

Title: Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Author: Tori Telfer

Narrator: Jaime Lamchick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:58:17

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Women

Summary:

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of historys notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scamsby the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.

From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the bestor worst.

In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette.

In the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was soon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the Confederacyor the Union, depending on who she was talking to. Meanwhile, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegies illegitimate daughter.

In the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show dogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling their stories to magazines. What about today? Spoiler alert: these artists are still conning. 

Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathologyand how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?

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ID: 400778

Title: Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding As the Only One

Author: Katrina M. Adams

Narrator: Carolyn Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:52:42

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Business, Other

Summary:

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Associationthe first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the positioncomes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most lucrative sports event in the worldlessons that can be applied across business and to any life challenge.

One of professional tenniss Grand Slam Tournaments, the U.S. Open has been described as a fourteen-day Superbowl. This single tennis championship, held annually in New York City, attracts top professionals from around the globe, generates more money than any other sporting eventor any other sport over an entire seasonand attracts more than 700,000 attendees and millions of television viewers. 

In Own the Arena, Katrina Adams offers a privileged, singular inside look at this sensational global event, while elaborating on what makes tennis the only sport of a lifetime. She opens with the womens 2018 championship match between Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams that ended in boos. This was Adamss last year as president and the whole world was watching. How would she respond? How should the press be handled? What needs to be said to Osaka? Serena? What does this break from decorum mean for the Open and the sport?

As Adams shares a wealth of stories from her career and personal life, as well as insights from top tennis professionals, she provides invaluable information on meeting lifes tests both on the tennis court and off. Own the Arena offers fresh perspectives on having presence, being remembered, directing a conversation, and moving boldly in spaces where you are the only one. It also covers good sportsmanshiptreating others with respect and by being inclusive and open to diverse perspectives. Tennis is said to be 90 percent mental; this book shows how to take the elements of mental fortitude and use them to achieve greatness. By embracing and expressing ones inner grace and humanity, Adams shows, you can own the arena.

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ID: 437420

Title: Initial Insult

Author: Mindy McGinnis

Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Lisa Flanagan, Tim Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:29:49

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Tough Topics

Summary:

In the first book of a suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship . . . forevermore. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Truly Devious!

Tress Montors family used to mean somethinguntil she didnt have a family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. The entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the White Trash Zoo.

Felicity Turnado has it all: looks, money, and a secret. One misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and shes worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she cant even remember what it is . . . only that she cant look at Tress without feeling shame and guilt.

But Tress has a plan. A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicitybrick by brickas she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. Tress will have her answersor settle for revenge.

* A Junior Library Guild Selection * Texas Tayshas Reading List of the Year * A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year *

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ID: 441993

Title: Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence

Author: Tanya Selvaratnam

Narrator: Tanya Selvaratnam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:09:40

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Women

Summary:

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America.

When Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, they seemed like the perfect match. Both were Harvard alumni; both studied Chinese; both were interested in spirituality and meditation, both were well-connected rising stars in their professionsSelvaratnam in entertainment and the art world; Schneiderman in law and politics. 

Behind closed doors, however, Tanyas life was anything but ideal. Schneiderman became controlling, mean, and manipulative. He drank heavily and used sedatives. Sex turned violent, and he called Tanyawho was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Southern Californiahis brown slave. He isolated and manipulated her, even threatening to kill her if she tried to leave. 

Twenty-five percent of women in America are victims of domestic abuse. Tanya never thought she would be a part of this statistic. Growing up, she witnessed her father physically and emotionally abuse her mother. Tanya knew the patterns and signs of domestic violence, and did not see herself as remotely vulnerable. Yet what seemed impossible was suddenly a terrifying reality: she was trapped in a violent relationship with one of the most powerful men in New York. 

Sensitive and nuanced, written with the gripping power of a dark psychological thriller, Assume Nothing details how Tanyas relationship devolved into abuse, how she found the strength to leaverisking her career, reputation, and lifeand how she reclaimed her freedom and her voice. In sharing her story, Tanya analyzes the insidious way women from all walks of life learn to accept abuse, and redefines what it means to be a victim of intimate violence.

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ID: 390397

Title: Living the Confidence Code: Real Girls. Real Stories. Real Confidence.

Author: Claire Shipman, Jillellyn Riley, Katty Kay

Narrator: Claire Shipman, Katty Kay, Kyla Garcia, Laurie Hernandez, Sandy Rustin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:29:39

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

New from the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of The Confidence Code for Girls!

The best way to understand confidence is to see it in action. Thats why bestselling authors Katty Kay, Claire Shipman, and JillEllyn Riley have collected 30 true stories of real girls, pursuing their passions, struggling and stumbling, but along the way figuring out how to build their own special brand of confidence.

From Bali to Brazil, South Africa to Seattle, Australia to Afghanistan, these girls took risks, doubted themselves, and sometimes failed. But they also hung in there when things got hard. Along the way they discovered what matters to them: everything from protesting contaminated water to championing inclusive books to the accessibility of girls basketball shoes, and so much more.

Different goals, different stories, different personalities, all illustrating the multitude of ways to be confident in the world. 

Packed with engaging interviews, Living the Confidence Code proves that no matter who you are, or how old you are, nothing is out of reach when you decide to try. Join this growing global community of powerful girls and imaginewhat would you like to do, once you tap into your confidence? How will you write your story?

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ID: 466383

Title: Lovecraft Country: A Novel

Author: Matt Ruff

Narrator: Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Black Literature

Summary:

Now an HBO series from J.J. Abrams (executive producer of Westworld), Misha Green (creator of Underground), and Jordan Peele (director of Get Out and Us), this brilliant and imaginative novel by critically acclaimed author Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of Jim Crow America, melding historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle Georgepublisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guideand his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhiteheir to the estate that owned one of Atticuss ancestorsthey encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racismthe terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

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