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ID: 413787

Title: One True Patriot: A Novel

Author: Sean Parnell

Narrator: Stephen Mendel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:58:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

Special operative Eric Steele must stop a foreign assassin targeting top-tier U.S. military personnel and derail a strike aimed at the heart of America in this third electrifying military thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War, perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Tom Clancy

Two months after taking down terrorist Aleksandr Zakayev, Eric Steele is back in action. Though he is completing his Alpha assignments with the same deadly efficiency as always, he has lingering questions about his missing fatherand his own future in the Program.

When Steele gets the alert that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Parisonly to arrive too late. Jonathan Raines, Stalker Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal attack. While on leave in the City of Light, Raines had met an attractive art historian who lured him into a trap. Before she vanished, the mysterious woman left a warning for anyone from the Alpha program who might follow her.

One of the best and most effective warriors in the top-secret Program, Steele has been trained to take on enemies, and no threat will deter him from avenging a fallen brother. But the killer wont be easy to find. The search takes Steele around the world, from France, to the Adriatic coast of Italy, to the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, and to a top-secret prison in Russia where, unexpectedly, he finds more clues about his fatherbefore finally taking him back to the streets of Washington, D.C.

No one is safe while the killer is on the loose, and the danger is heightened when Steele discovers intel that killing Alphas is just the beginning of a larger, more nefarious plot. The real target is much, much biggerand its up to Steele to prevent catastrophe before he becomes the next elite warrior to fall.

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ID: 412860

Title: Feather Crowns: A Novel

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrator: Kate Udall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:44:51

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

From prize-winning author Bobbie Ann Mason, a brilliantly wrought novel about the first woman to give birth to quintuplets in early 1900s America.

Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900a time when many Americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the worldFeather Crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of Hopewell, Kentucky, Christianna Wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America.

Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Hundreds of strangers descend on her home, all wanting to see and touch the ''miracle babies.'' The fate of the babies and the bizarre events that follow their births propel Christie and her husband far from home, on a journey that exposes them to the turbulent pageant of life at the beginning of the modern era.

Richly detailed and poignant, Feather Crowns focuses on one woman but opens out ultimately into the chronicle of a time and a people. Written in Bobbie Ann Mason's taut yet lyrical prose, the novel ranges from a peaceful farming community to a fire-and-brimstone revival camp, from traveling shows to the the nation's capital. Moving through the center of it all is Christie, a charming, headstrong, loving woman who struggles heroically to come to terms with the extraordinary events of her long life.

Feather Crowns is an American parable of profound resonance. Spellbindingly readable, it is a novel of classic stature that confirmed Bobbie Ann Mason as one of America's most important writers.

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ID: 414744

Title: Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey into the Upside-Down World of Trumps MAGA Rallies

Author: Carl Hoffman

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:03:36

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, North America, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

''A brilliant, riveting, funny, terrifying journey into the beating heart of Trumpland.'' Liza Mundy, author of Code Girls

In this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trumps rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the presidents base. 

Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, pierced this alternate society, welcomed in and initiated into its rites and upside-down beliefs, and finally ushered to its inner sanctum. Equally freewheeling and profound, Liars Circus tracks the MAGA faithful across five thousand miles of the American heartland during a crucial arc of the Trump presidency stretching from the impeachment saga to the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic that ended the rallies as we know it.

Trumps rallies are a singular and defining force in American historya kind of Rosetta stone to understanding the Age of Trump. Yet while much remarked upon, they are, in fact, little examined, with the focus almost always on Trumps latest outrageous statement. But who are the tens of thousands of people who fill these arenas? What do they see in Trump? And what curious alchemybetween president and adoring crowdhappens there that might explain Trumps rise and powerful hold over both his base and the GOP?

To those on the left, the rallies are a Black Mass of American politics at which Trump plays high priest, recklessly summoning the darkest forces within the nation. To the MAGA faithful, the rallies are a form of pilgrimage, a joyous ceremony that like all rituals binds people together and makes them feel a part of something bigger than themselves. Both sides would acknowledge that this traveling roadshow is the pressurized, combustible core of Trumps political power, a meeting of the faithful where Trump is unshackled and his rhetoric reaches its most extreme, with downstream consequences for the rest of the nation.

To date, no reporter has sought to understand the rallies as a sociological phenomenon examined from the bottom up. Hoffman has done just this. He has stood in line for more than 170 hours with Trump's most ardent superfans and joined them at the very front row; he has traveled from Minnesota to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Hampshire immersing himself in their culture. 

Liars Circus is a revelatory portrait of Trumps America, from one of our most intrepid journalists. 

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ID: 412012

Title: Whale of the Wild

Author: Rosanne Parry

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:16:10

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A spellbinding, heart-stopping adventure. Booklist (starred review)

A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure. New York Times Book Review

In the stand-alone companion to the New York Timesbestselling A Wolf Called Wander, a young orca whale must lead her brother on a tumultuous journey to be reunited with their pod. This animal adventure novel explores family bonds, survival, global warming, and a changing seascape. Includes information about orcas and their habitats.

For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her familys matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader shes destined to be?

A Whale of the Wild weaves a heart-stopping tale of survival with impeccable research on a delicate ecosystem and threats to marine life. New York Times-bestselling author Rosanne Parrys fluid writing brings the Salish Sea and its inhabitants to vivid life. An excellent read-aloud and read-alone, this companion to A Wolf Called Wander will captivate fans of The One and Only Ivan and Pax.

Includes extensive backmatter about orcas and their habitats.

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ID: 412004

Title: Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn

Author: James Dean, Kimberly Dean

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:03

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Animals & Nature, Holidays

Summary:

New York Times bestselling creators James and Kimberly Dean show us all the wonderful things about autumn. A great book to share with the family at Thanksgiving or anytime!

Pete the Cat isn't sure about the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn. But when he discovers corn mazes, hay rides, and apple picking, Pete realizes there's so much to enjoy and be thankful for about autumn.

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ID: 412009

Title: Clear Springs: A Family Story

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason, Random House Inc.

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:23:31

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST

From acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason, her Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir chronicling three generations of her Kentucky lineage, spanning a century in the life of an American family.

'Mason gets to the heart of a whole generation.... She can write the hard truth about home, love, loss.... Immensely satisfying.' New York Times Book Review

People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir has the same power. In it, Mason tells the story of her own familya multilayered saga of three generations, their aspirations, their conflicts, and the ties that bound them to one another.

Spanning decades, Clear Springs gracefully weaves together the stories of Mason's grandparents, parents, and her own generation. The narrative moves from the sober industriousness of a Kentucky farm to the hippie lifestyle of the countercultural 1960s; from a New York fan magazine to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a county poorhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie.

In the process of recounting her own odysseythe story of an isolated girl who dreamed of distant placesMason depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century. Ultimately, Clear Springs is a heartfelt portrait of an extended family, and a profound affirmation of the importance of family love. 

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ID: 412003

Title: Pete the Cat: Crayons Rock!

Author: James Dean, Kimberly Dean

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:05:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

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

Summary:

From the authors of the bestselling Pete the Cat series, James and Kimberly Dean, comes a colorful story about crayons that ROCK!  

Pete uses his groovy crayons to draw lots of things, and for the first time ever, hes drawing his pals. But when Pete shows his artwork to his friends, they dont react the way he expected them to.

Will Pete put his favorite crayons down or find a way to turn it all around?

Get artsy with everyones favorite blue cat in this groovy story that adds a creative touch to the importance of great friends and never giving up. Fans of Pete the Cat will love watching him take his positive outlook and transform something ordinary into an awesome masterpiece! 

Don't miss Pete's other adventures, including Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes, Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas, Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses, Pete the Cat and the Bedtime Blues, Pete the Cat and the New Guy, Pete the Cat and the Cool Cat Boogie, Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes, and Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party.

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ID: 412863

Title: We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State

Author: Kai Strittmatter

Narrator: Matthew Waterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:25

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Global Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post

As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history. 

Chinas new drive for repression is being underpinned by unprecedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conversations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000) scan for faces and walking patterns to track each individuals movement. In some schools, childrens facial expressions are monitored to make sure they are paying attention at the right times. In a new Social Credit System, each citizen is given a score for good behavior; for those who rate poorly, punishments include being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exclusion from certain jobs, and preventing their children from attending better schools. And it gets worse: advanced surveillance has led to the imprisonment of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many held in draconian reeducation camps.

This digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complicity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to Chinas huge market. And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their surveillance technology abroadincluding to the United States.

We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillanceand a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security.

Terrifying. A warning call.'' The Sunday Times (UK), a Best Book of the Year so Far

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ID: 415744

Title: Runaway: New Poems

Author: Jorie Graham

Narrator: Jorie Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:45:57

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham

In her formidable and clairvoyant collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not?

Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable presenta nowin which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, counting silently towards infinity. Grahams essential voice guides us fluently as we pass here now into the next-on world, what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us to the last be human.

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ID: 408936

Title: Family Pictures: A Novel

Author: Sue Miller

Narrator: Vivienne Leheny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:55:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.New York Times Book Review

From bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midstan autistic child.

The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. David is a good father, sometimes sarcastic, always cool-tempered. Two wonderful children round out the perfect picture. Then the third child arrivesand life is never the same again. Over the next forty years, the Eberhardt family struggles to live with a flood tide of upheaval and heartbreak, love and betrayal, passion and pain...hoping they can someday heal their hearts. 

Family Pictures is an unforgettable, insightful, and resounding novel of strength and resiliency against overwhelming circumstances.

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