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ID: 421786

Title: Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

Author: Georgina Lawton

Narrator: Georgina Lawton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:13

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year

From The Guardians Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructedthrough the authors own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.

Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georginas insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was.

It was only after her fathers death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentageand the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globethe US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Moroccoand to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.

Raceless is an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self? Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals the nuanced and emotional journey of forming ones identity.

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ID: 415749

Title: Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis: A Novel

Author: Nicky Drayden

Narrator: James Fouhey, Staci Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:22:13

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Space Opera

Summary:

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imaginative saga begun in Escaping Exodus, in which a society lives in the belly of a beastand an entire civilization's survival depends on a pair of uneasy allies who must come together for one epic battle.

Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, space faring creatures known as the Zenzee. Abused and exploited by humans for generations, these majestic animals nearly went extinct, but under the command of its newly minted ruler, Doka Kaleigh, life in the Parados I has flourished. Thanks to careful oversight and sacrifice by all of its crew, they are now on the brink of utopia, and yet Dokas rivals feel threatened by that success.  The Senate allowed Doka to lead their people believing hed fail spectacularlya disaster that would cement the legitimacy of their long-standing matriarchy. Despite vocal opposition and blatant attacks on his authority, Doka has continued to handle his position with grace and intelligence; he knows a single misstep means disaster. When a cataclysmic event on another Zenzee world forces Doka and his people to accept thousands of refugees, a culture clash erupts, revealing secrets from the past that could endanger their future. For Doka, the stakes are bigger and more personal than ever beforeand could cost him his reign and his heart. 

He has fallen for the one woman he is forbidden to love: his wife, Seske. 

Doka and Seske must work closely together to sway the other Zenzee worlds to stop their cycles of destruction. But when they stumble upon a discovery that can transform their world, they know they must prepare to fight a battle where there can be no winners, only survivors. 

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ID: 442702

Title: Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

Author: Joann S. Lublin

Narrator: Caroline Slaughter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:53:19

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Social Science

Summary:

A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of womenboomers and GenXersto examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.

For the first time in American history, a significant number of mothers are heading major corporations, including General Motors, Ulta Beauty, and Best Buy. Over the past several decades, women have made gains throughout executive suites. Yet these Power Moms still struggle with balancing their management responsibilities with raising children. Joann S. Lublin draws on the experiences of the nations two generations of these successful women to measure how far weve comeand how far we still need to go.

Lublin combines her own insights with those of eighty-five executive mothers across industriesincluding experienced public-company chiefs such as Carol Bartz, the first woman to command Autodesk and Yahoo; Hersheys Michele Buck, DuPonts Ellen Kullman, ITTs Denise Ramos, and WW Internationals Mindy Grossmanand twenty-five of their grown daughters. Lublin reveals how trailblazer boomers, many now in their sixties, often endured sweeping disapproval for their demanding management careers, even as their own daughters sometimes rejected their choices. While the second wave of executive mothersall under forty-fivehandle working parenthood with less angst, they still lead stressful lives. 

Power Moms provides lessons and advice to help todays professional women, their families, and their employers navigate this challenging terrain.  Lublin looks at the trade-offs mothers are too often forced to make between work and family and the root causes, including the dearth of large-scale paid parental leave and other family-friendly policies. While it celebrates the gains women have made, Power Moms makes clear how much more must be done to make being a working mother easier.

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ID: 435891

Title: Lola on Fire: A Novel

Author: Rio Youers

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:49:42

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Arthur Ellis Award finalist Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core.

Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.

Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. Its Blair Mayothe woman he bumped intoand shes got the missing billfold.

Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mothers diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime sceneand a security camera. Brody knows hes been framed.

Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police wont get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge. 

Brody and Molly realize that theyve become pawns in a mysterious gameone that involves a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who brutally crossed paths with Jimmy Latzo twenty-six years before. . . a ghost from the past who is intimately connected to their lives.

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ID: 461444

Title: Lady of Light and Shadows

Author: C. L. Wilson

Narrator: Abby Craden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:57:27

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

The second book in USA Today and New York Times bestselling author C.L. Wilsons hugely popular, stunning, epic fantasy romance series about Ellysetta, the girl who would be queen, the Tairen Soul, and their eternal battle for true love in the mystical Fading Lands.

She feared the dark visions and the magic within her. And she dreamed of the miraculous love that could save her.

Like an enchanted fairy tale prince he stepped from the sky to claim herthe Fey King, her destiny, her one and true love.

But behind the mesmerizing beauty of Rains violet eyes Ellysetta saw the passionate hunger of the beast . . . and a sorrow, deep and ancient, that she alone could heal. Only for him would she embrace the frightening power that dwells within her. Only with him at her side could she confront the shadows that haunt her soul. For an epic battle looms on the horizonand only united can they hope to turn back the armies of the darkness.

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ID: 436645

Title: Cathedral of Bones

Author: A. J. Steiger

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:16:59

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

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

Summary:

A stunningly imagined world, page-turning thrills, and a pair of unlikely heroes on an epic quest make this unique and immersive dark fantasyfrom acclaimed author A. J. Steigerperfect for fans of Holly Black and Kelly Barnhill.

Simon Frost lives in a curious place, where magic is used by the very best Animists to do wondrous thingslike call upon imps, wraiths, and all manner of monsters to right wrongs, deliver justice, and accomplish feats no human could achieve.

Simon Frost is not one of those Animists, though hes been trying to become one for years. 

When a plea arrives from a distant hamlet, preyed upon by an abominable monster, Simon sees the opportunity to finally prove his worth.

But upon arriving in the tiny village, Simon finds not just a monster but a key to his pastand a pathway into an unbelievable future.

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ID: 461443

Title: Lord of the Fading Lands

Author: C. L. Wilson

Narrator: Abby Craden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:28:48

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author C. L. Wilsons hugely popular, epic romantasy series about a beautiful girl who would be queen, the Fey King, and their eternal battle for true love in the mystical Fading Lands.

Once he drove back the darkness. Once he loved with such passion his name was legend.

Once, driven wild with grief over the murder of his beloved, the majestic Fey King Rain Tairen Soul had laid waste to the world before vanishing into the Fading Lands. Now, a thousand years later, a new threat draws him back into the worldand a new love reawakens the heart he thought long-dead.

Ellysetta, a woodcarvers daughter, calls to Rain in a way no other ever has. Mysterious and magical, her soul beckons him with a compelling, seductive songand no matter the cost, the wildness in his blood will not be denied. As an ancient, familiar evil regains its strength, causing centuries-old alliances to crumble and threatening doom for Rain and his people, he must claim his true mate to embrace the destiny woven for them both in the mists of time.

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ID: 414834

Title: Missing and Endangered: A Brady Novel of Suspense

Author: J. A. Jance

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:28:32

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Bradys professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jances New York Times bestselling suspense series, set in the beautiful desert country of the American Southwest.

When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona University for her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate, Beth Rankin, a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For a homeschooled Beth, college is her first taste of both freedom and unfettered access to the internet, and Jenny is concerned that shes too naïve and rebellious for her own good.

Her worries are well-founded because one day Beth vanishes, prompting Jenny to alert campus authorities, local police, and her mom, Sheriff Joanna Bradywho calls in a favor. Beth is found, but Jennys concern has unwittingly put her in the crosshairs of a criminal bent on revenge. 

With Christmas vacation approaching, and Beth at war with her parents, Jenny invites Beth to the shelter of the Brady home. While Joanna is sympathetic, shes caught up in a sensitive casean officer-involved shooting that has placed the lives of two young children in jeopardyleaving her stretched thin to help a fragile young woman recently gone missing and endangered.

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ID: 424445

Title: Consent: A Memoir

Author: Vanessa Springora

Narrator: Anne-Marie Piazza

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:32:11

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

 Consent is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph. -- The New York Times 

Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girls relationship with a famous, much older male writera universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.

Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity.

Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the countrys most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world.

At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of Frances leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known.

Consent is the story of one precocious young girls stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessas painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her countrys most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older.

Drawing parallels between childrens fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in womens lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children. 

Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer

''...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch.'' -- The New Yorker

''Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity.'' -- The Times (London)

''[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways.'' -- Slate

''Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere.'' -- Los Angeles Review of Books

A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned. -- Publishers Weekly 

''Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation.'' -- Booklist

''A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer.'' -- Kirkus

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ID: 436646

Title: Reaper of Souls

Author: Rena Barron

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:26:12

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-21

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

A prince repelled by magic. A king bent on revenge. A witchdoctor who does not walk alone.

Brimming with dark magic, high stakes, and serpentine twists, the second book in Rena Barrons thrilling YA fantasy saga is perfect for fans of Laini Taylor, Sabaa Tahir, and Tomi Adeyemi.

After so many years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has the one thing shes always wantedbut it came at too steep a price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, shes been left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom plunged into chaos, and a love that can never be.

While Arrah returns to the tribal lands to search for survivors of the demons attack, her beloved Rudjek hunts down the remnants of the demon armyand uncovers a plot that would destroy whats left of their world.

The Demon King wants Arrah, and if she and Rudjek cant unravel his schemes, he will destroy everything, and everyone, standing in his way.

Set in a richly imagined world inspired by whispered tales of voodoo and folk magic, the Kingdom of Souls trilogy has been optioned for film by Michael B. Jordan and his Warner Bros. production company, Outlier Society.

I couldnt get enough of Kingdom of Souls. Wonderfully written, and full of dark magic and danger, it was a story I couldnt wait to escape into. Highly recommended!Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series

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