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ID: 422842

Title: Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

Author: Sharyl Attkisson

Narrator: Sharyl Attkisson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:49:33

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Politics, Current Affairs, Political Ideologies

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson takes on the medias misreporting on Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, Joe Biden, Silicon Valley censorship, and more.

When the facts dont fit their Narrative, the media abandons the facts, not the Narrative. Virtually every piece of information you get through the media has been massaged, shaped, curated, and manipulated before it reaches you. Some of it is censored entirely. The news can no longer be counted on to reflect all the facts. Instead of telling us what happened yesterday, they tell us whats new in the prepackaged soap opera theyve been calling the news.

For the past four years, five-time Emmy Awardwinning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson has been collecting and dissecting alarming incidents tracing the shocking devolution of what used to be the most respected news organizations on the planet. For the first time, top news executives and reporters representing every major national television news outletfrom ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN to FOX and MSNBCspeak frankly, confiding in Attkisson about the death of the news as they once knew it. Their concern transcends partisan divides.

Most frightening of all, a broad campaign in the media has convinced many Americans not only to accept but to demand censorship over journalism. It is a stroke of genius on the part of those seeking to influence public opinion: undermine public confidence in the news, then insist upon curating information and divining the truth. The thinking is done for you. Theyll decide which pesky facts shouldnt cross your desk by declaring them false, irrelevant, debunked, unsafe, or out-of-bounds.

We have reached a state of utter absurdity, where journalism schools teach students that their own, personal truth or chosen narratives matter more than reality. In Slanted, Attkisson digs into the language of propagandists, the persistence of false media narratives, the driving forces behind today's dangerous blend of facts and opinion, the abandonment of journalism ethics, and the new, Orwellian definition of what it means to report the news. 

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ID: 392077

Title: Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author: Betty Smith

Narrator: Nicola Barber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:26:41

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Caedmon

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics, Family Life

Summary:

''A rediscovered treasure.''  Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

From Betty Smith, author of the beloved classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes a poignant story of love, marriage, poverty, and hope set in 1920s Brooklyn.

Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work, poverty, and pain has worn them down. Her mother's resentment toward being a housewife and her father's inability to express his emotions result in a tense home life where Margy has no voice. Unable to speak up against her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. 

Her goals are simpleto find a husband, have children, and live in a nice homeone where her children will never know the terror of want or the need to hide from quarreling parents. When she meets Frankie Malone, she thinks her dreams might be fulfilled, but a devastating loss rattles her to her core and challenges her life-long optimism. As she struggles to come to terms with the unexpected path her life has taken, Margy must decide whether to accept things as they are or move firmly in the direction of what she truly wants. 

Rich with the flavor of its Brooklyn background, and filled with the joys and heartbreak of family life, Tomorrow Will Be Better is told with a simplicity, tenderness, and warmhearted humor that only Betty Smith could write. 

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ID: 466381

Title: Whisper Beach: A Novel

Author: Shelley Noble

Narrator: Marni Penning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:28:18

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Colors and Breakwater Bay comes this unforgettable storyreminiscent of Kristin Hannahs beloved novelsof friends, loyalty, and love as three women who are reunited in the idyllic beach town where they grew up are forced to re-evaluate their bonds.

Fifteen years ago, seventeen-year-old Vanessa Moran fell in love and lost her virginity but not to the same boy. Pregnant, desperate, and humiliated, she fled friends and family and Whisper Beach, New Jersey, never breathing a word about her secret to anyone. She hasnt been back since. Now a professional Manhattan organizer, she returns to the funeral of her best friends husband. She intends on just paying her respects and leavingthough she cant deny she also wants the town to see how far shes come as a successful business woman. But her plans to make this a short visit fall by the wayside when her girlfriends have other ideas.

Dorie, the owner of the piers Blue Crab Restaurant where Van and her friends worked as teenagers, needs help. Dories roving husband spends every penny they make and now their restaurant is failing.

Joe, the boy Van left behind without an explanation, has never stopped loving her. While hes wary of getting hurt again, he also cant help wondering what would happen if they took up where they left off.

As the summer progresses and the restaurant takes on a new look, trouble comes from unexpected sources. For Van, this summer will test the meaning of friendship and trustand how far love can bend before it breaks.

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ID: 414928

Title: Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues

Author: Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:44:37

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

''The Young Bucks are two guys who not only beat the odds to become one of the greatest, most popular tag teams ever, but also two industry changing visionaries. Matt and Nick are two of the smartest, hard-working, passionate individuals Ive met during my 28 year career. With the creation of AEW, The Bucks will definitely leave the pro wrestling industry in a much better place then they discovered it in.'' Matt Hardy, multiple-time world tag team champion

The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team tells their inspiring story, revealing how two undersized, ambitious amateur athletes from Southern California became the idols of millions of popular sports fans and coveted among the ranks of AEWs elite wrestling lineup. 

Famous for their highflying moves, Superkicks and viral videos, Matt and Nick Jackson are two of the hottest and most talented competitors in professional wrestling today. Known as the Young Bucks, this pair of ambitious brothers are an inspiration to both fans and aspiring wrestlers worldwide due to their message of resilience and determination. That they are also faithful family men devoted to their loved ones gives them additional appeal. 

A warm, heartfelt story of hope, perseverance, and undying ambition told with the brothers wit and charm, Young Bucks begins in Southern California, where two young boys grew up dreaming of success and fame. Matt and Nick look back on the sacrifices they made to achieve their ambitions, from taking odd  jobs to pay for their own wrestling ring to hosting backyard events with friends. They share their joy at being recruited into the amateur California circuit and the work it took to finally make it professionally, and speak frankly about what it means to have the support of millions of fans cheering their talents in arenas nationwide. The Young Bucks talk endearingly about their sport, their faith, and their families, sharing personal reflections and behind-the-scenes anecdotes while paying tribute to the wrestling acts and inspirations that came before them. They also elaborate on this historical time in the evolution of wrestling, as the sport and its culture dramatically change day by day.

Alternating between each brothers perspective from chapter to chapter, this entertaining memoir is a complete portrait of what it means to grow intoand give back towrestling, the sport and profession they embody and love. 

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ID: 421783

Title: Embrace the Day: A Novel

Author: Susan Wiggs

Narrator: Marisa Calin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Filled with dreams of a better life, 17-year-old Genevieve Elliot makes the perilous journey from England to colonial Virginia, where she and handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair tame the savage wilderness and survive the sorrows of war to make a home. 

 

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ID: 421771

Title: Burning God

Author: R. F. Kuang

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23:47:13

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Historical, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuangs acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.

After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. 

Despite her losses, Rin hasnt given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so muchthe people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challengesand unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation. 

Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenixs intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? 

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ID: 421784

Title: Under the Open Skies: Finding Peace and Health Through Nature

Author: Frida Torgeby, Markus Torgeby

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:24:18

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural worldunder the open skies.

''I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees, darkness and cold. Lying on my back and looking up at the stars, watching my breath form thin clouds.''

Under the Open Skies is one mans perspective-shifting, immersive journey into the wilds of northern Sweden and into his own soul.  

For four years, Markus Torgeby lived alone in a hut he built with his hands in the Jämtland forest on the northern tip of Sweden, reconnecting with nature, and healing from the stress and strain of urban life and an athletic career derailed by injury.

For Markus, living in the forest provided something concretecool winter air on his face, a cotton canvas of clouds overhead, wet clothes drying over the fire. Free from the constraints of modernity, his only responsibilities were the basics of survivalshelter, heat, food. Rooted on the ground under a bed of leaves, with his head finally aligned with his body, Markus found the solitude and silence he needed to be reborn.

In this moving elegy, Markus offers lessons both practicalhow to make fire, how to craft an outdoor bed, how to tap trees for waterand profoundwhat it means to become one with the natural world, to live authentically, to reconnect with yourself and your surroundings. Under the Open Skies is as invigorating as a long hike on a brisk morning and as sublime as a bowl of cinnamon porridge at the end of a long day. It is an invitationto the stressed, disconnected, and lonely, to all who yearn to unplug and slow down, to those who wonder how life got so complicatedto come home to nature, to open the mind and heart to the wide-open sky.

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ID: 421773

Title: Little Wishes: A Novel

Author: Michelle Adams

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:57

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

ONE OF POPSUGAR'S BEST ROMANCE NOVELS OF NOVEMBER 2020!

''A story of love long postponed but never forgotten, Little Wishes is a tale to be treasured. Michelle's Adam's lovely, luminous writing is a beacon that draws readers closer and brings them home to the lasting truths about life and love.'' Marie Bostwick, New York Times bestselling author of The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

For anyone who loves One Day in December and Me Before You, a sweeping love story, written with tenderness, warmth, and a generosity of spirit, about first love and second chances, a lifelong dream and finding the courage to follow your heart.

On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins I Wish . . . The notes are never signed, but she knows theyve been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared, if circumstances hadn't forced them apart all those years ago. She has kept them all. 

But on this day, what should have been the fiftieth anniversary of their falling in love, the gift fails to arrive. Could something have happened to Tom? Elizabeth has always been plagued by thoughts of what if? Propelled by worry and decades of pent up longing, Elizabeth packs a little suitcase, leaves Porthsennenon, and journeys to London . . . to find the love of her life once again. 

Finding him, Elizabeth is faced with the desperate knowledge that any time they might have now is running out.  Never before had she thought that she might truly lose timeforever. And now, knowing that life is too short, Elizabeth vows to fulfill as many of Toms wishes as she can. Yet she fears that her efforts may expose the shameful secret that, until now, has kept them apart.

Can she continue to hide the truth, or will she have the courage to reveal herself completely and finally make their dreams come truebefore its too late?

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ID: 421796

Title: This Is Not a Ghost Story

Author: Andrea Portes

Narrator: Lauren Ezzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:00:02

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Paranormal

Summary:

Nothing is as it seems in this chilling, twisting tale by bestselling author Andrea Portes, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Danielle Vega.

Rife with dark humor and chilling twists, This Is Not a Ghost Story is American Horror Story meets Theres Someone Inside Your House. It will have readers flipping back to the very first page after the shocking finale.  

I am not welcome. Somehow I know that. Something doesnt want me here.

Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, shes found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple.

But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her back.

What Daffodil doesnt yet realize is that her job comes with a steep price. The house has a long-ago grudge it needs to settle . . . and Daffodil is the key to settling it.

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ID: 421762

Title: Soulswift

Author: Megan Bannen

Narrator: Hayden Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:19:22

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-20

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Romance, Historical

Summary:

A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everything she believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raised herfrom Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of The Winners Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns.

Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of her faith, she believesas all Ovinists dothat a saint imprisoned Elath the Great Demon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation.

When Gelya stumbles into a deadly cover-up by the Ovinists military, she reluctantly teams up with Tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother goddess who must be set free, but while he succeeds in opening Her prison, he inadvertently turns Gelya into Elaths unwilling human vessel.

Now the church that raised Gelya considers her a threat. In a race against the clock, she and Tavik must find a way to exorcise Elaths presence from her body. But will this release stop the countdown to the end of the world, or will it be the cause of the earths destruction?

And as Tavik and Gelya grow closer, another question lingers between them: What will become of Gelya?

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