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ID: 618149

Title: Mythics #2: Hailey and the Dragon

Author: Lauren Magaziner

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:04:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Case Closed author Lauren Magaziner and artist Mirelle Ortega return for the second installment in the middle grade fantasy series full of action, adventure, friendship, and mythical creatures.

After Pairing Day didnt go as planned for the MythicsMarina, Hailey, Kit, Ember, and Pippathey embrace their journey to find their Mythies and save Terrafamilar. Hailey has always known she was destined for adventure, and after watching Marina and Ember unite with their mythical animal familiars, shes more than ready to embark on her quest.

Buzzing with excitement and running full speed ahead, Hailey is still adjusting to being part of a team. Shes used to leading the charge on her own, but now she has four other girls she can count onand shell need them on this journey.

Golden Jumpsuit is after the Mythics, and she might have allies all over Terrafamiliar. How will Hailey and the Mythics figure out who to trust when theyre still working on trusting each other? The fate of Terrafamiliar is in their hands.

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ID: 616790

Title: Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Author: Joanna Biggs

Narrator: Hannah Curtis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:20:42

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism, Women

Summary:

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions

A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselvesand how others might do the same

I took off my wedding ring for the last timea gold band with half a line of Morning Song by Sylvia Plath etched insideand for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didnt fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free. . . .

A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next.

Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a feverdesperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment.

In A Life of Ones Own, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another?

This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women tooktheir pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths. 

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ID: 552626

Title: Look Both Ways: A Novel

Author: Linwood Barclay

Narrator: Ako Mitchell, Linwood Barclay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:05:43

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Inspired by his decades-long love of cars, internationally bestselling author Linwood Barclay envisions a world in which automotive technology outpaces our wildest dreamsand our darkest nightmaresin a gripping new novel of action and suspense

These headlights are watching you

The media have descended on Garrett Island, a small, isolated community that is the setting of a visionary experiment. All the residents cars were sent to the mainland and for the past month the islanders have been driving the Arrival, a revolutionary autonomous vehicle. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go and, because the fleet is networked and aware of one another, car travel is now 100% safe. The future, it seems, has arrived.

As the excitement reaches a fever pitch, Sandra Montroseislander, single mom, and public relations executiveprepares for Arrival Inc.s flashy press event. Sandra is more than ready for this new world. Her husband died after falling asleep at the wheel and shes relieved that her two teens, Archie and Katie, will never need drivers licenses.

But as the celebratory day gets underway, disaster strikes. A visiting journalist has vanished, possibly murdered. Before long, the Arrivals run amok, no longer taking orders from their passengers. Theyre starting to organize. Theyre beginning to hunt. And they seem hell-bent on killing any human they encounter.

Is this all just a tragic accident, a technological malfunction with deadly consequences? Or were the vehicles programmed to act this way in a cruel act of corporate sabotage? Or could it be that the Arrivals have a mind of their own?

Fasten your seatbeltsits going to be a bumpy ride

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ID: 618153

Title: Ruby Lost and Found

Author: Christina Li

Narrator: Katharine Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:05:39

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

For fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girls quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown. Winner of the APALA Youth Literature Award!

Thanks to her Ye-Yes epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyonefrom her best friends to her older sisteris abandoning her.

After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nais friends for company. When a new boy from Rubys grade, Liam Yeung, starts showing up too, Rubys humiliation is complete.

But Nai-Nai, her friends, and Liam all surprise Ruby. She finds herself working with Liam, who might not be as annoying as he seems, to help save a historic Chinatown bakery thats being priced out of the neighborhood. And alongside Nai-Nai, who is keeping a secret that threatens to change everything, Ruby retraces Ye-Yes scavenger hunt maps in an attempt to find a way out of her griefand maybe even find herself. 

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ID: 616330

Title: Lose You to Find Me

Author: Erik J. Brown

Narrator: Kirt Graves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:57:19

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

USA Today bestseller!

A romantic, heartfelt, and hilarious queer coming-of-age story from All That's Left in the World author Erik J. Brown, perfect for fans of What If Its Us and If This Gets Out.

Tommy Dees is in the weedsrestaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. Hes been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And to make his application shine, he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. But in exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditionsincluding training the new hire.

What he doesnt expect is for the newbie to be an old crush: Gabe, with the dimples and kind heart, who Tommy fell for during summer camp at age eleven and then never saw again. Unfortunately, Gabe doesnt remember Tommy at all. The training proves distracting as old feelings resurface and the universe seems to be conspiring against them.

With the application deadline looming and Gabe on his mind, Tommy is determined to keep it all togetherbut what if life isnt meant to follow a recipe?

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ID: 616787

Title: Only This Beautiful Moment

Author: Abdi Nazemian

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Iman Nazemzadeh, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:41

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Stonewall Book Award Winner * A Best Book of the Year from the Guardian, ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage

From the awardwinning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and Darius the Great Is Not Okay. 

2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself.

1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the countrys burgeoning revolution, they send him to safety in America, a country Saeed despises. And even worsehes forced to live with the American grandmother he never knew existed.

1939. Bobby, the son of a calculating Hollywood stage mother, lands a coveted MGM studio contract. But the fairy-tale world of glamour hes thrust into has a dark side.

Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this tale of intergenerational trauma and love is an ode to the fragile bonds of family, the hidden secrets of history, and all the beautiful moments that make us who we are today.

A CCBC 2024 Choices for the Fiction for Young Adult category!

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ID: 616788

Title: Cursed Crowns

Author: Catherine Doyle, Katherine Webber

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon, Ell Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:16:03

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Romance

Summary:

The second book in the swoony and high-stakes fantasy rom-com series that began with Twin Crowns, about twin princesses separated at birthfrom bestselling authors Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber.

Twin queens Wren and Rose have claimed their crownsbut not everyone is happy about witches sitting on Eanas throne.

Coolheaded Rose plans a royal tour to establish goodwill throughout the kingdom. But Wren balkshow can they gallivant around Eana when their grandmother Banba is imprisoned in Gevra?

Impatient Wren steals away on a ship to the icy north, where King Alarik offers a deadly magical bargain in exchange for Banbas freedom. Desperate, Wren agrees. But her spell has unexpected consequences.

Meanwhile, when Rose's royal tour is interrupted by a mysterious stranger claiming to be from the long-lost Sunkissed Kingdom, the strands of destiny pull her south to the ancient Amarach Towers, where only the Seers of Eana know why the Restless Sands are eruptingand why Shen-Lo himself might hold the key.

But back in Anadawn, rebellion is brewing. And if Eana is to stand a chance at peace, the sisters will need to reunite once more and convince their people to forsake old loyalties for new ones.

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ID: 616789

Title: American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Bodys Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life

Author: Jennifer Lunden

Narrator: Anna Caputo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:46:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Harper Wave

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Medicine, History & Culture, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the authors quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice Jamesultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life in America.

When Jennifer Lunden became chronically ill after moving from Canada to Maine, her case was a medical mystery. Just 21, unable to hold a book or stand for a shower, she lost her job and consigned herself to her bed. The doctor she went to for help told her she was just depressed.

After suffering from this enigmatic illness for five years, she discovered an unlikely source of hope and healing: a biography of Alice James, the bright, witty, and often bedridden sibling of brothers Henry James, the novelist, and William James, the father of psychology. Alice suffered from a life-shattering illness known as neurasthenia, now often dismissed as a fashionable illness.

In this meticulously researched and illuminating debut, Lunden interweaves her own experience with Alices, exploring the history of medicine and the effects of the industrial revolution and late-stage capitalism to tell a riveting story of how we are a nation strugglingand failingto be healthy.

Although scienceand the politics behind its fundinghas in many ways let Lunden and millions like her down, in the end science offers a revelation that will change how readers think about the ecosystems of their bodies, their communities, the country, and the planet.

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ID: 616803

Title: Absolutely, Positively Natty

Author: Lisa Greenwald

Narrator: Caroline Sorunke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:37:57

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Natty deals with moving after her moms departure by pulling a Ted Lasso and starting a pep squad in this standalone middle-grade novel about friendship and toxic positivity by the author of TBH and the Friendship List series.

When Nattys mom kind of takes a break from her dad and sort of the whole family, Natty and her dad move to his childhood hometown of Miller Creek. Now shes starting middle school for the second time, this time in Miller Creekwithout her momor her BFF. But Nattys doing great! Really. Anything is possible. And whats the point of dwelling on the stuff that stinks when theres so much good stuff to think about?

Natty is absolutely, positively sure that she can turn it all around. Like 1,000 percent sure. As long as she stays absolutely positive! Shell get her dad off the couch, make her tons of new friends, and even convince her mom to come live with them in Miller Creek. First step? Starting a pep squad to spread the good vibes.

But what happens when the leader of the pep squad has no more cheer to give?

From Lisa Greenwald comes a heartfelt and reassuring novel about the pros and cons of always looking on the bright side, the ups and downs of making a fresh start, and the power of friendship.

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ID: 618165

Title: When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

Author: Ashlee Vance

Narrator: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Business Development, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk

In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives.

With the launch of SpaceXs Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Silicon Valley began to realize that the universe itself was open for business. Now, Vance tells the remarkable, unfolding story of this frenzied intergalactic land grab by following four pioneering companiesAstra, Firefly, Planet Labs, and Rocket Labas they build new space systems and attempt to launch rockets and satellites into orbit by the thousands.

With the public fixated on the space tourism being driven by the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, these new, scrappy companies arrived with a different set of goals: to make rocket and satellite launches fast and cheap, thereby opening Earths lower orbit for business. Vance has had a front-row seat and singular access to this peculiar and unprecedented moment in history, and he chronicles it all in full color: the top-secret launch locations, communes, gun-toting bodyguards, drugs, espionage investigations, and multimillionaires guzzling booze to dull the pain as their fortunes disappear.

Through immersive and intimate reporting, When the Heavens Went on Sale reveals the spectacular chaos of the new business of space, and what happens when the idealistic, ambitious minds of Silicon Valley turn their unbridled vision toward the limitless expanse of the stars. This is the tale of technologys most pressing and controversial revolution, as told through fascinating characters chasing unimaginable stakes in the race to space.

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