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ID: 410968

Title: Winter Counts: A Novel

Author: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Narrator: Darrell Dennis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:17:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ''a hell of a debut''

''Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book.'' Louise Erdrich

Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind thats hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgils own nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.

They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.

Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story thats as deeply rendered as it is thrilling.

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ID: 417231

Title: Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

Author: Kilian Jornet

Narrator: Steven Brand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:04:19

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, Fitness, Outdoor Recreation

Summary:

''Kilian Jornet is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation.''NEW YORK TIMES

''Inspiring and humbling'' ALEX HONNOLD

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climbs of Mount Everest in this profound memoiran intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earths highest peak to the souls deepest reaches.

Kilian Jornet has broken nearly every mountaineering record in the world and twice been named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In 2018 he summitted Mount Everest twice in one weekwithout the help of bottled oxygen or ropes.

As he recounts a life spent studying and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in naturesimplicity, freedom, and spiritual joyand offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest inspiration. 

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ID: 405848

Title: Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

Author: Rebekah Taussig

Narrator: Rebekah Taussig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:33:30

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Social Science, General

Summary:

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.

Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.

Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesnt fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.

Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

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ID: 410969

Title: Like Lovers Do: A Girls Trip Novel

Author: Tracey Livesay

Narrator: Chandra Skyye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:54

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary

Summary:

Tracey Livesay continues her fun-filled Girls Trip series with this romance that will tug at your heartstrings.

Sometimes faking it can lead to the real thing 

Driven and focused, Dr. Nicole Allen is an accomplished surgeon. With a tough past, Nics gone above and beyond everyones expectations. But when she disciplines an interna powerful donors sona prestigious fellowship shes awaiting is placed in jeopardy. 

Coming from a successful family who runs a medical business empire, Benjamin Reed Van Mont is the black sheep, having chosen to start his own business instead. Though hes not ready to settle down, he knows when the time comes it definitely wont be with a workaholic doctor like his friend Niceven if shes had him re-examining his edictmore than once. 

When Bens status-climbing ex-girlfriend finds her way back into his orbit, Nic proposes a swap of services. Shell spend the week with Ben on Marthas Vineyard, pretending to be his girlfriendbut only if hell have his family intervene on her behalf so she wont lose her fellowship. How hard can the charade be? 

But as theyre about to discover, theyve sorely underestimated their true feelings for each other

 

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ID: 420396

Title: News of the World: A Novel

Author: Paulette Jiles

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Now a Major Motion Picture

National Book Award FinalistFiction

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author ofEnemy Womenthat explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johannas parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.

Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act civilized. Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.

Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not rememberstrangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or becomein the eyes of the lawa kidnapper himself.

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ID: 415393

Title: Night Song

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:45:51

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance, Rom-Com

Summary:

A Traitorous Heart . . .

Cara Lee Henson knows no soldier can be trusted to stay in one placeand that includes handsome Sergeant Chase Jefferson of the Tenth Cavalry. Dallying with the dashing man in blue could cost the pretty, independent Kansas schoolteacher her job and her reputation. So Cara is determined to repel Chases advanceseven though her aloof facade barely masks her smoldering desire.

A Blazing Passion . . .

Never before has Chase longed for a woman the way he ached for lovely Cara Lee. The strong-willed ebony beauty, however, will not surrender easily. But with tender words and soulful caresses, Chase intends to conquer the reluctant schoolmarms misgivingsand teach her how to love fully, sensuously . . . and forever.

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ID: 410971

Title: White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine

Author: Frank Huyler

Narrator: Gary Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:03:46

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

Another pitch-perfect book of short essays (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER.

In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic.

Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenchesthis time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razors edge between life and death.

From the doomed, like the Iraq vet with a brain full of shrapnel, to the self-destructive, like the young woman who inserts a sewing needle into her heart, to the transcendent, like the homeless Navajo artist whose sketches charm the nurses, Huyler assembles a profound mosaic of human suffering and grace, complemented by episodes from his personal life: the hail that fell the night his wife gave birth, his drive through a snowstorm to see his father in a Colorado ER, the beautiful wedding of his childhood friend with terminal cancer. Melding hard-earned wisdom with a poets crystalline vision, Huyler evokes the awesome burden of responsibility, the exhaustion, the relief of a costume disco nurse party, and those rare occasions when the confluence of luck and science yield, in the authors words, moments of breathtaking greatness. 

White Hot Light offers an unforgettable portrait of a field that illuminates society at its most vulnerable, and its most elemental.

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ID: 414011

Title: You Belong: A Call for Connection

Author: Sebene Selassie

Narrator: Sebene Selassie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:35:01

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Philosophy, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

''A POWERFUL WORK OF SPIRITUALITY AND ANTI-RACISM''Publishers Weekly

''IF YOU READ ONE BOOK IN 2020, MAKE IT THIS ONE.''Tricycle 

From much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie, You Belong is a call to action, exploring our tangled relationship with belonging, connection, and each other

You are not separate. You never were. You never will be.

We are not separate from each other. But we dont always believe it, and we certainly dont always practice it. In fact, we often practice the oppositedisconnection and domination.  From unconscious bias to cancel culture, denial of our inherent interconnection limits our own freedom.

In You Belong, much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing the many challenges currently impacting our world. Using ancient philosophy, multidisciplinary research, exquisite storytelling, and razor-sharp wit, Selassie leads us in an exploration of all the ways we separate (and thus suffer) and offers a map back to belonging. 

To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yourself and others. To belong is also to acknowledge injustice, reckon with history, and face our own shadows. Full of practical advice and profound revelations, You Belong makes a winning case for resisting the forces that demand separation and reclaiming the connectionand belongingthat have been ours all along.

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ID: 408938

Title: Inventing the Abbotts: And Other Stories

Author: Sue Miller

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:48:25

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Compelling. . . . What Miller offers . . . is a distinctive sensibilitya candid exploration of the frail and gritty truths about trying to love without harm or reprisal.Boston Globe

In this riveting collection of short stories, bestselling author Sue Miller writes compellingly about a chapter in the moral history of our time.

The fascinating stories featured in Inventing the Abbotts explore the treacherously shifting ground of erotic and family relationships. 

In the title story, a young man takes up successively with three daughters of the most fashionable family in town. Others concern a young girl in the first blush of sexual curiosity, and a stricken dowager whose seizures release a brutal and sometimes obscene candor. In one story after another, Sue Miller presents a remarkable gallery of characters, offering insight into contemporary men and women with their hungry hearts and dismayed consciences.

With keen sensitivity and penetrating insight, Inventing the Abbotts will strike a chord with readers everywhere.

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ID: 410975

Title: Shadow School #2: Dehaunting

Author: J. A. White

Narrator: Kim Mai Guest

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:52:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-20

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Return to Shadow School for the second installment of the spooky middle-grade series from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of Nightbooks and The Thickety series.

Cordelia Lius first year at Shadow School was a success. She studied hard and made friends. She also sent hundreds of ghosts into the afterlife, because Shadow School isnt a normal school, and Cordelia Liu isnt a normal girl.

But her second year is already different. Ghosts are refusing to move on, the teachers are acting weird, and Cordelias best friends, Benji and Agnes, arent as interested in rescuing the ghosts as they used to be. Benji is busy hanging out with the girl he befriended over the summer, while Agnes spends all her time building a machine that might be capable of dehaunting the school forever.

Cordelia is the only one who believes that something sinister is happening right under their noses.  But what if its even worse than she could imagine?

Praise for Shadow School #1 Archimancy:

Just the right balance of humor, mystery, and scariness. Readers will be eager to see more of this smart and spunky trio in further spooky adventures. Kirkus

The story balances the spookier elements with the humorous and difficult going-ons of middle school. An easy quick pick for a just creepy enough read.BCCB

A well-paced thriller. Tension builds to a crescendo, and the ending promises more adventures to come for Cordelia and her friends.Booklist

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