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ID: 414934

Title: Who I Was with Her

Author: Nita Tyndall

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:41:10

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

''A beautiful, poised, and thought-provoking debut about love, loss, coming out, and discovering living life on your own terms.'' New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Glasgow

There are two things that Corinne Parker knows to be true: that she is in love with Maggie Bailey, the captain of the rival high school's cross-country team and her secret girlfriend of a year, and that she isn't ready for anyone to know she's bisexual.

But then Maggie dies, and Corinne quickly learns that the only thing worse than losing Maggie is being left heartbroken over a relationship no one knows existed. And to make things even more complicated, the only person she can turn to is ElissaMaggie's ex, and the single person who understands how Corinne is feeling.

As Corinne struggles to make sense of her grief and what she truly wants out of life, she begins to have feelings for the last person she should fall for. But to move forward after losing Maggie, Corinne will have to learn to be honest with the people in her life...starting with herself.

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ID: 414941

Title: Grown

Author: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:19:17

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

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

Summary:

An instant New York Times bestseller! Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape culture, and the vulnerability of young black girls. Groundbreaking, heart-wrenching, and essential reading for all in the #MeToo era. Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles 

Award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young womans voice.

When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields?

Before there was a dead body, Enchanteds dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Koreys charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now hes dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point to Enchanted.

Never have I read a story that so flawlessly hits the highest high and lowest low notes of Black girlhood in pursuit of the American Dream. Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Jackpot

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ID: 453614

Title: Night Night, Sleep Tight: A Novel of Suspense

Author: Hallie Ephron

Narrator: Ann Marie Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:44:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

From the award winning author of There Was an Old Woman comes a mystery tinged with Hollywood glamour, set in a town where fame and infamy are often interchangeable.

Los Angeles 1986: When Deirdre Unger makes the drive from San Diego to Beverly Hills to help her father put his dilapidated house on the market, she is expecting to deal with his usual kvetching and dark moods. But she gets a lot more than she expected... In a cruel Sunset Boulevard-ian twist, Deirdre arrives home to find her father face down in his too-small swimming pooldead.

At first, Deirdre assumes her fathers death was a tragic accident. But the longer she stays in town the more Deirdre begins to suspect that this is merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making.

The sudden re-surfacing of Deirdres childhood BFF Joelen Nicholdaughter of the famous and infamous Elenor Bunny Nicholseems like more than a coincidence. Back in 1958, Joelen confessed to killing her movie star mothers boyfriend. It just so happens that Deidre was at the Nichols house the night of the murder, which was also the night she suffered her own personal tragedy. Could all of these events be connected?

As Deirdre struggles to uncover the truth about the past, is forced to confront a truth she has long not wanted to believe: even beneat the slick veneer of Beverly Hills, darkness can take hold.

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ID: 414924

Title: Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Author: Elizabeth Lesser

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:57:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Literary Criticism

Summary:

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?

Elizabeth Lesser believes that if womens voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding storiesstories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence.

Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. Its about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by.  Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers toowhen we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human.

Lesser has walked two main paths in her lifethe spiritual path and the feminist onepaths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate.

Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers A Toolbox for Inner Strength. Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no onewoman or manis immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted.

Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

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ID: 413770

Title: Turning Point

Author: Paula Chase

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:24

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

When being yourself isn't good enough, who should you be?

Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel for middle-school readers by Paula Chase, the acclaimed author of So Done and Dough Boys, will resonate with fans of Jason Reynolds, Rebecca Stead, and Renée Watson.

Best friends Rasheeda and Monique are both good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following her deeply religious and strict aunts every rule. For Mo, that means not making waves in the prestigious and mostly White ballet intensive shes been accepted to.

But what happens when Sheeda catches the eye of Mos older brother, and the invisible racial barriers to Mos success as a ballerina turn out to be not so invisible? What happens when you discover that being yourself isnt good enough? How do you fight back?

Paula Chase explores the complex and emotional issues that affect many young teens in this novel set in the same neighborhood as her acclaimed So Done and Dough Boys. Friendship, family, finding yourself, and standing your ground are the themes of this universal story that is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Rebecca Stead, and Renée Watson.

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ID: 413108

Title: These Violent Delights: A Novel

Author: Micah Nemerever

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A Literary Hub Best Book of Year A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection A Passport Best Book of the Month

The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novela feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.

When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, its with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmates effortless charm.

Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equalan ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.

As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence.

Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.

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ID: 415387

Title: Good Company

Author: Arthur M. Blank

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:06:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Featuring an introduction by President Jimmy Carter

The Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business.

Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the leading home improvement retailer in the world. And even while opening a new store every 42 hours, they never lost sight of their commitment to care for their people and communities. In fact, in 2001, The Home Depot was voted America's most socially responsible company. 

Blank left The Home Depot that same year with a burning question: Could the values and culture that made that company great be replicated? Good Company takes readers inside the story of how he did just that-turning around a struggling NFL team, rebooting a near-bankrupt retail chain, building a brand-new stadium, revitalizing a blighted neighborhood, launching a startup soccer club, and more.

''When good companies put the wellbeing of their customers, their associates, and their communities first, financial success will follow,'' Blank writes. ''The entrepreneurs and business leaders of today and tomorrow have an extraordinary opportunity: to prove that through upholding values we can create value-for the company, for the customer, and for the community.''

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ID: 452649

Title: Runaway Bunny

Author: Margaret Wise Brown

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:59

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Classics

Summary:

HBO Max animated special premieres March 25, 2021!

The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, beloved childrens book author of Goodnight Moon, is now available in digital audio read by audiobook star Robin Miles!

If you run away, said his mother, I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.

A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.

The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words.

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ID: 414919

Title: Grounded: A Senators Lessons on Winning Back Rural America

Author: Jon Tester

Narrator: Jon Tester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:34:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, American Politics

Summary:

An inspiring and eye-opening memoir showing how Democrats can reconnect with rural and red-state voters, from Montanas three-term democratic senator.

Senator Jon Tester is a rare voice in Congress. He is the only United States senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senateas a farmer. But what has really come to distinguish Tester in the Senate is his commitment to accountability, his ability to stand up to Donald Trump, and his success in, time and again, winning red state voters back to the Democratic Party.

In Grounded, Tester shares his early life, his rise in the Democratic party, his vision for helping rural America, and his strategies for reaching red state voters. Leaning deeply into lessons on the value of authenticity and hard work that he learned growing up on his familys 1,800-acre farm near the small town of Big Sandy, Montanathe same farm he continues to work today with his wife, SharlaTester has made his political career a testament to crossing the divides of class and geography. The media and Democrats too often discount rural people as Trump supporters; Tester knows better. His voice is vital to the public discourse as we seek to understand the issues that are important to rural and working-class America in not just the 2020 election but also for years to come. 

A heartfelt and inspiring memoir from a courageous voice, Grounded shows us that the biggest threat to our democracy isnt a president who has no moral compass. Its politicians who dont understand the value of accountability and hard work. Tester demonstrates that if American democracy is to survive, we must put our trust in the values that keep us grounded.

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ID: 414057

Title: Little Bird

Author: Cynthia Voigt

Narrator: Katherine Littrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:23:59

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Celebrated Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt introduces Little Bird, a tiny crow with a big imagination and an even bigger heart, in this timeless novel just right for the young middle grade audience. 

When a wild fisher cat attacks their nest, Little Bird and her flock are devastated. Not only does the fisher cat harm the fledglings, but it also makes off with the shiny pendant that the superstitious crows rely on for good luck. Little Bird believes that she can find the lucky pendant and return it to the nest before disaster strikes. The other crows arent so sureafter all, Little Bird is so little and undependable and meek.

But with the help of some new friendsincluding a very funny goatLittle Bird journeys through forests and over lakes and fields, challenging her wits and survival skills along the way. The crow who returns home is wiser, braver, kinder, and readyat lastto spread her wings.

Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigts gentle humor, sense of fun and adventure, and delightful main character sing off the page in this timely short novel about bravery and friendship. A page-turning read-aloud for families and classrooms, and a terrific book for fans of Nuts to You, by Lynne Rae Perkins, and Avis Poppy books.

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