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ID: 408121

Title: Dark August: A Novel

Author: Katie Tallo

Narrator: Piper Goodeve

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:18:34

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.  Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The Winters

An electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mothers deathand last casethan she ever could have imagined.

Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmotherher last living relativehas just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmothers possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But thats not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.

When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she cant resist following her mothers clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mothers investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent familys devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. 

But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever? 

Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.

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ID: 405850

Title: Daring and the Duke: The Bareknuckle Bastards Book III

Author: Sarah MacLean

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:59:14

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the much-anticipated final book in her Bareknuckle Bastards series, featuring a scoundrel duke and the powerful woman who brings him to his knees.

Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of Londons darkest corners. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best...until the man she once loved returns. 

Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. A long-ago gamble may have lost her forever, but Ewan will go to any lengths to win Grace backand make her his duchess. 

Reconciliation is the last thing Grace desires. Unable to forgive the past, she vows to take her revenge. But revenge requires keeping Ewan close, and soon her enemy seems to be something else altogethersomething she cant resist, even as he threatens the world she's built, the life she's claimedand the heart she swore he'd never steal again.

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ID: 397986

Title: Thin Girls: A Novel

Author: Diana Clarke

Narrator: Jayme Mattler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:52:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships, written by a talented protégé of Roxane Gay.

Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each others emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, theyve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to foodor notto battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. when Rose stops eating, Lily startsconsuming everything Rose wont or cant.

Within a few years, Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, her sole visitor, is the only thing tethering her to a normal life.

But Lily is struggling, too. A kindergarten teacher, she dates abusive men, including a students married father, in search of the close yet complicated companionship she lost when she became separated from Rose. 

When Lily joins a cult diet group led by a social media faux feminist, whose eating plan consists of consuming questionable non-caloric foods, Rose senses that Lily needs her help. With her sisters life in jeopardy, Rose must find a way to rescue herand perhaps, save herself.

Illuminating some of the most fraught and common issues confronting women, Thin Girls is a powerful, emotionally resonant story, beautifully told, that will keep you turning the pages to the gratifying, hopeful end.

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ID: 408609

Title: Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Journey

Author: Paolo Cognetti

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:31:53

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, General, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international bestselling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas.

Why climb a mountain without ever reaching the summit?

In 2017, Paolo Cognetti returned to Nepal, not to conquer the mountains but to journey through the high valleys of the Dolpo with a copy of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard in hand. Drawing on memories of his childhood in theAlps, Cognetti explored the roots of life in the mountains, truly getting to know the communities and the nature that forged this resilient, almost mythical region. 

Accompanying him was Remigio, a childhood friend who had never left the mountains of Italy, and Nicola, a painter he had recently met. Joined by a stalwart team of local sherpas, the trio started out in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal. From there, a journey of self-discovery shaped by illness, human connection, and empathy was born.

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ID: 398398

Title: Losing Clementine: A Novel

Author: Ashley Ream

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:04:19

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Soon to be a major motion picture!

''[Losing Clementine] is poignant and insightful and also surprisingly funny, thanks to its nasty, charming narrator.'' Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

A smart, sharp and moving debutby turns hilarious and tragic Losing Clementine follows a famous artist as she gives herself one month to get her messy affairs in order before turning out the lights on her own life.

World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard is done. Years of therapy and medication have gifted her with little more than sweaty palms and gastric upset. Now, after flushing away a cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends (finish one final painting, make nice with her ex-husband, find a home for her cat) and enjoy one last month of art-world parties, road trips and outrageous acts.

What Clementine doesn't expect is to uncover secrets surrounding the decades-old tragedy that befell her mother and sister. With the date of her carefully planned demise fast approaching, can she dive back into the messy business of family and life? Does she want to?

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ID: 404858

Title: Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You

Author: Christiane Lemieux, Duff McDonald

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:21:10

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance, Business Development

Summary:

Serial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of frictionless to beat their competitors.   

Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commercemade possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own storylessons learned, failures absorbedat the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside.  

Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Topas well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene. 

Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrows mind set and competitive advantage.

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ID: 405860

Title: Mistress of Mourning: A Novel

Author: Karen Harper

Narrator: Ana Clements

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper blends history with gripping suspense and romance in this brilliant novel of secrets and political intrigue.

Varina Westcott is a young widow and a talented candle maker for the royal court and church. At a time of great political unrest in 1501, Varina is conscripted for a secret project by Queen Elizabeth of York. Her task? To carve wax figures of four dead children: two of the queen's children who passed away in infancy and the queen's two brothers, the two Princes of the Tower, who disappeared without a trace in 1483. Losing a child herself, Varina has a sympathetic bond with the queen and does the clandestine deed willingly -- and with Nicholas Sutton, the ambitious and handsome assistant to the royals.

But soon, news comes to the court: the queen's eldest child, heir to the throne, Arthur, Prince of Wales, has died. Deep in her grief, Elizabeth of York does not believe her son died of natural causes or because of a sudden illness -- she believes he was murdered by the king's enemies. Elizabeth turns to Varina and Nicholas for another secret task, this time much bigger than simple wax figures.

Varina now must travel to Wales and investigate Arthur's death, turning up any and everything that will prove there was a crime. But as the pair unearth clues, each more unsettling than the last, Varina and Nicholas fear that the conspiracy they've come across is much bigger than the queen had ever imagined. . . and the Tudor dynasty is at risk for complete and utter destruction.

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ID: 390249

Title: Seduce Me at Sunrise: A Novel

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:06:28

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

A story of fate, passion, secrets, and the enduring power of lovethe second book in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypass timeless Victorian romance series, featuring the eccentric and lovable Hathaways, revised and updated for audio

Starstruck lovers cursed by fate . . .

No one can envision a match between the brooding, powerful Kev Merripen and luminous beauty Winnifred Hathaway. They seem as different as fire and ice . . . but underneath the surface, their shared passion will burn until the end of time.

A woman who defies all the odds

A long-ago battle with scarlet fever has left Win in fragile health, but her force of will is as strong as ever. Determined to get well again, she spends a year at a clinic in France, and returns fully recovered and glowing with health. Now nothing can keep her apart from Kev . . . except Kev himself.

A man with a secret destiny

The mystery of Kevs origins has haunted him for most of his life. Knowing its best for Win if he stays away, he steels himself to endure the torture of watching her be courted by another man. After a twist of fate sheds light on Kevs true identity, he seizes the chance to claim the woman he loves, now and forever. And when it becomes clear the Hathaways have unknowingly been harboring an enemy, Kev and Win move heaven and earth protect the family they love.

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ID: 386278

Title: Lot Six: A Memoir

Author: David Adjmi

Narrator: Micky Shiloah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:06:23

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, General

Summary:

David Adjmi has written one of the great American memoirs, a heartbreaking, hilarious story of what it means to make things up, including yourself. A wild tale of lack and lies, galling humiliations and majestic reinventions, this touching, coruscating joy of a book is an answer to that perennial question: how should a person be?  Olivia Laing, author of Crudo and The Lonely City

In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art.

Brooklyn, 1970s. Born into the ruins of a Syrian Jewish family that once had it all, David is painfully displaced. Trapped in an insular religious community that excludes him and a family coming apart at the seams, he is plunged into suicidal depression. Through adolescence, David tries to suppress his homosexual feelings and fit in, but when pushed to the breaking point, he makes the bold decision to cut off his family, erase his past, and leave everything he knows behind. There's only one problem: who should he be? Bouncing between identities he steals from the pages of fashion magazines, tomes of philosophy, sitcoms and foreign films, and practically everyone he meetsfrom Rastafarians to French preppiesDavid begins to piece together an entirely new adult self. But is this the foundation for a life, or just a kind of quicksand?

Moving from the glamour and dysfunction of 1970s Brooklyn, to the sybaritic materialism of Reagans 1980s to post-9/11 New York, Lot Six offers a quintessentially American tale of an outsider striving to reshape himself in the funhouse mirror of American culture. Adjmis memoir is a genre bending Künstlerroman in the spirit of Charles Dickens and Alison Bechdel, a portrait of the artist in the throes of a life and death crisis of identity. Raw and lyrical, and written in gleaming prose that veers effortlessly between hilarity and heartbreak, Lot Six charts Adjmis search for belonging, identity, and what it takes to be an artist in America.

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ID: 426799

Title: Two Rogues Make a Right: Seducing the Sedgwicks

Author: Cat Sebastian

Narrator: Joel Leslie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:59:59

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance, LGBTQ

Summary:

Will Sedgwick cant believe that after months of searching for his oldest friend, Martin Easterbrook is found hiding in an attic like a gothic nightmare. Intent on nursing Martin back to health, Will kindly kidnaps him and takes him to the countryside to recover, well away from the world.

Martin doesnt much care where he is or even how he got there. Hes much more concerned that the man hes loved his entire life is currently waiting on him hand and foot, feeding him soup and making him tea. Martin knows hes a lost cause, one he doesnt want Will to waste his life on.

As a lifetime of love transforms into a tender passion both men always desired but neither expected, can they envision a life free from the restrictions of the past, a life with each other?

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