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ID: 417793

Title: On Your Case: A Comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy) Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman's Life

Author: Lisa Green

Narrator: Lisa Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:29:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science, Law

Summary:

On Your Case gives women the tools they need to prepare anything the law might throw at them. From dating, marriage and kids to retirement and aging parents, this is the book every woman should have when trouble strikesor before!

In On Your Case, Lisa Green finally fills a gap in women?s bookshelves with a thorough, compelling and occasionally hilarious guide to the range of legal issues women can expect to navigate in their busy lives. Leveraging her experience as a lawyer and a television journalist and legal analyst, Green explains common, even complicated, legal issues in practical, easy to understand terms. She uses court cases and vivid personal anecdotes to illustrate how readers can make smart decisions when problems arise. And legal problems will arise, Green counsels, so women need to get smart, and get ready.

In her warm, inviting voice, Green shares guidance on:

Relationships: Online dating, pre and postnuptial agreements, engagement and marriage

Separation and Divorce: Splitting without anxiety, child custody and support, pet custody disputes

Babies, Children and Teens: Pregnancy and adoption, advocating for a special needs child, misbehaving teens

Work: Employment and household help

Domestic violence

Midlife and elder care: wills, medical decisions and power of attorney

Legal Help: Hiring a lawyer, DIY

As Suze Orman demystified personal finance for women, Lisa Green now does for the world of law. With On Your Case, Green helps you take care of yourself, your assets, your family, and your career and maintain control of your life.

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ID: 417788

Title: On My Own Two Feet: From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life

Author: Amy Purdy, Michelle Burford

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:53:39

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Arts & Entertainment, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder

In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing With the Stars sensation Amy Purdy reveals the story of how losing her legs led her to find a spiritual path. When the Las Vegas native was just nineteen, she came down with bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: “You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, its all going to make sense in the end. In that moment, Amy chose to live.

Her glimpse of the afterlifecoupled with a mysterious premonition shed had a month before became the defining experiences that put Amys life on a new trajectory after her legs had to be amputated. She wouldnt just beat meningitis and walk again; she would go on to create a life filled with bold adventures, big dreams, and boundless vitalityand share that spirit with the world. In 2014, Amythe only competitor, male or female, with two prosthetic legsclaimed a bronze medal for the U.S. Paralympic team in adaptive snowboarding. She then became a contestant on season eighteen of Dancing With the Stars, and viewers were captivated as the girl with bionic legs managed to out-dance her competitors all the way to the finale.

Amys journey is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the capacity we all have to dream bigger, defy expectations, and rewrite our stories. Amy was given a second chance for a reasonto use her life to inspire others. Her powerful memoir urges us to live life to the fullest, because we are all a lot more capable than we could ever imagine.

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ID: 414920

Title: Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold Wars Most Notorious Spy Rings

Author: Trevor Barnes

Narrator: William Gaminara

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:39

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold Warand the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. 

The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961 of five Soviet spies made headlines worldwide and had repercussions around the globe. Alerted by the CIA, Britain's security service, MI5, had discovered two British spies stealing invaluable secrets from the highly sensitive submarine research center at Portland, UK.  Their controller, Gordon Lonsdale, was a Canadian who frequently visited a middle-aged couple, the Krogers, in their sleepy London suburb. But the seemingly unassuming Krogers were revealed to be deep cover American KGB spiesinfamous undercover agents the FBI had been hunting for yearsand they were just one part of an extensive network of Soviet operatives in the UK.

In the wake of the spies' sensational trial, the FBI uncovered the true identity of the enigmatic LonsdaleKonon Molody, a Russian who had lived in California before being recruited by the KGB. Molody opened secret talks with MI5 to betray Russia, but before he had the chance, the KGB blackmailed Britain into spy swaps for him and the Krogers.

Based on revelatory, newly-released archival material and inside sources from around the world, Dead Doubles follows the hunt for the highly damaging Portland Spy Ring.  As gripping as a le Carré novel, this incredible narrative, layered with false identities, deceptions, and betrayal, crisscrosses from the UK to the USSR to the US, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, and brings to life one of the most extraordinary spy stories of the Cold War.

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ID: 414939

Title: Nobody Knows But You

Author: Anica Mrose Rissi

Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Caitlin Kelly, Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:46:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Biography & Memoir, Tough Topics

Summary:

The nail-bitingly intense story of a summer at camp that ends in a disturbing deathand depicts a powerful friendship that wont ever be forgotten. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Broken Things.

Kayla is still holding on to Lainies secrets.

After all, Lainie is Kaylas best friend. And despite Lainies painful obsession with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, and the ways he has tried to come between them, friends dont spill each others secrets. They dont betray each others trust.

The murder at the end of the summer doesnt change all that.

BesidesKayla knows that the truth is not the whole story.  

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ID: 414929

Title: Prime Deceptions: A Novel

Author: Valerie Valdes

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Space Opera

Summary:

The lovably flawed crew of La Sirena Negra and their psychic cats return in this fast-paced and outrageously fun science-fiction novel, in which they confront past failures and face new threats in the far reaches of space from the author of the critically acclaimed Chilling Effect.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra find themselves once again on the fringe of populated spaceand at the center of a raging covert war. When Evas sister asks for help locating a missing scientist, promises of a big paycheck and a noble cause convince Eva to take the job despite lingering trust issues.

With reluctant assistance from her estranged mother, Eva and her crew follow the missing scientists trail across the universe, from the costume-filled halls of a never-ending convention to a dangerous bot-fighting arena. They ultimately find themselves at the last place Eva wants to see againGariliawhere she experienced her most shameful and haunting failure. 

To complete her mission and get paid, Eva must navigate a paradise embroiled in a rebellion, where massive forests and pristine beaches hide psychic creatures and pervasive surveillance technology. Can she find her quarry while avoiding the oppressive local regime, or will she be doomed to repeat past mistakes when her dark deeds come to light?

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ID: 413791

Title: How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation

Author: E. D. Hirsch

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:31:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that essence. Concerned citizens, teachers, and parents take note!  We ignore this book at our peril.'' Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools

In this powerful manifesto, the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy addresses the failures of Americas early education system and its impact on our current national malaise, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taughtan educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen Americas unity, identity, and democracy.

In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging Americas public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on child-centered learning. History, geography, science, civics, and other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning techniques and values-based curricula; indoctrinated by graduate schools of education, administrators and educators have believed they are teaching reading and critical thinking skills. Yet these cannot be taught in the absence of strong content, Hirsch argues.

The consequence is a loss of shared knowledge that would enable us to work together, understand one another, and make coherent, informed decisions. A broken approach to school not only leaves our children under-prepared and erodes the American dream but also loosens the spiritual bonds and unity that hold the nation together. Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. Critical and compelling, How to Educate a Citizen galvanizes our schools to equip children with the power of shared knowledge.

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ID: 414923

Title: Dear Ann: A Novel

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:20:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the acclaimed author of the classics Shiloh and Other Stories and In Country comes a beautifully crafted and profoundly moving novel which follows a woman as she looks back over her life and her first love.

Ann Workman is smart but naïve, a misfit whos traveled from rural Kentucky to graduate school in the transformative years of the late 1960s. While Ann fervently seeks higher learning, she wants what all girls yearn fora boyfriend. But not any boy. She wants the Real Thing, to be in love with someone who loves her equally.

Then Jimmy appears, as if by magic. Although he comes from a very different place, upper-middle class suburban Chicago, he is a misfit too, a rebel who rejects his upbringing and questions everything. Ann and Jimmy bond through music and literature and their own quirkiness, diving headfirst into what seems to be a perfect relationship. But with the Vietnam War looming and the country in turmoil, their future is uncertain.

Many years later, Ann recalls this time of innocenceand her own obsession with Jimmyas she faces another life crisis. Seeking escape from her problems, she tries to imagine where she might be if she had chosen differently all those years ago. What if she had gone to Stanford University, as her mentor had urged, instead of a small school on the East Coast? Would she have been caught up in the Summer of Love and its subsequent dark turns? Or would her own good sense have saved her from disaster?

Beautifully written and expertly told, Dear Ann is the wrenching story of one womans life and the choices she has made. Bobbie Ann Mason captures at once the excitement of youth and the nostalgia of age, and how consideration of the road not takenthe interplay of memory and imaginationcan illuminate, and perhaps overtake, our present.

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ID: 397565

Title: Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

Author: Jenna Bush Hager

Narrator: Jenna Bush Hager

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:01:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Women

Summary:

Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.

To the world, George and Barbara Bush were Americas powerful president and influential first lady. To Jenna Bush Hager, they were her beloved Gampy and Ganny, who taught her about respect, humility, kindness, and living a life of passion and meaningtimeless lessons that continue to guide her.

In Midland, Texas, Jennas maternal grandparents, Harold and Jenna WelchPa and Grammeea home builder and homemaker, lived a quieter life outside the national spotlight. Yet their influence was no less indelible to their granddaughter. Throughout Jennas childhood and adolescence, the Welches taught her the name of every star in the sky, the way a dove uses her voiceteaching her to appreciate the beauty in the smallest things.

Now the mother of three young children, Jenna pays homage to her grandparents in this collection of heartwarming, intimate personal essays. Filled with love, laughter, and unforgettable stories, Everything Beautiful in Its Time captures the joyous and bittersweet nature of life itself. Jenna reflects on the single year in which she and her family lost Barbara and George H. W. Bush, and Jenna Welch. With the light, self-deprecating charm of the bestselling Sisters Firstcowritten with her twin sister, BarbaraJenna reveals how they navigated this difficult period with grace, faith, and nostalgic humor, uplifted by their grandparents sage advice and incomparable spirits.

In this moving book, Jenna remembers the past, cherishes the present, and prepares for the futureproviding a wealth of anecdotes and lessons for her own children and all of us. Poignant and humorous, intimate and sincere, Everything Beautiful in Its Time is a warm and wonderful celebration of the enduring power of family and an exploration of the things that truly matter most.

As long as Im alive, my grandparents will not be forgotten. . . . I hear their voices in the letters they sent me and in my memories. They offer comfort, support, and guidance, and I will listen to them always.

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ID: 397994

Title: Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Author: Tom Burgis

Narrator: Tom Burgis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:58:35

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, History, World

Summary:

A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the worlds most powerful dictatorships. Washington Post

In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes capitalisms monsterglobal kleptocracyand reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.

They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.

They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.

In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.

Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.

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ID: 413790

Title: Monogamy: A Novel

Author: Sue Miller

Narrator: Sue Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexitiesand the absurditiesof love, infidelity, and grief.  O, the Oprah Magazine

A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller.

Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.

Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetitescurious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annies comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and introspective, is a photographer. She is about to have her first gallery show after a six-year lull and is worried that the best years of her career may be behind her. They have two adult children; Lucas, Grahams son with his first wife, Frieda, works in New York. Annie and Grahams daughter, Sarah, lives in San Francisco. Though Frieda is an integral part of this far-flung, loving family, Annie feels confident in the knowledge that she is Grahams last and greatest love.

When Graham suddenly diesthis man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives togetherAnnie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him? 

Then, while she is still mourning Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.

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