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ID: 397477

Title: Mezzanine: Poems

Author: Zoe Hitzig

Narrator: Zoe Hitzig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:43:23

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

An inventive and assured debut from an exciting new voice in poetry.

In her striking collection of poems, Zoë Hitzig investigates how we seek certitude, power, and domination over the natural world and one another. Hitzig brings a scientific rigor to her poetry, as well as a raucous energy and willingness to allow her work to exist in states of uncertainty and precariousness. The result is an original voice that is incisive and unsparing, but also passionate and tender. Her poems probe the authority of language, exploring the surprising and powerful resonances that can be found among words and ideas.

Urgent in its creation of a new way of looking at our social and natural worlds, Mezzanine is an insightful and visceral debut collection from a poet whose work is poised to leave a lasting mark.

 

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ID: 398641

Title: Perfect Happiness: A Novel

Author: Kristyn Kusek Lewis

Narrator: Candace Thaxton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:07:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

From the beloved author of Half of What You Hear, a perceptive and poignant novel about a woman discovering that her expertise can only get her so far in matters of the heart.

Charlotte McGanley knows happiness. Just ask anyone whos read Perfect Happiness, her bestselling book about how she, a busy mother and professor, used her no-nonsense positive psychology research to brighten her own life. She always pictured her career beginning and ending in the halls of academia, but now shes become a bit of a self-help guru. No one is more surprised by this than Charlotte herself, who has secretly never been more miserable. 

Though her husband of many years, Jason, is her partner in all things, she finds more gratification most evenings in a glass (or three) of Chardonnay or another scroll through her Instagram feed. Meanwhile, their daughter, Birdie, is feeling the pressure of being her high schools star tennis player, keeping up her GPA, and having her first boyfriendand Charlotte, despite all her expertise, has no idea how to help her. 

As Charlotte preaches the gospel of happiness to her undergraduate students, audiences across the country, and her own online followers, shes faced with some tough questions: What is happiness when the family youve nurtured starts to fall apart in front of your eyes? When your daughter seems determined to self-destruct? When the man you thought youd spend the rest of your life withand took for granted because of itgets fed up? When all of the tools that you push to your loyal followers just dont seem to work?

In this bittersweet family love story, Kristyn Kusek Lewis explores how easy it is to lose connection with the people closest to us, and what happens when we try to find our way back.

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ID: 408125

Title: Superpower Showdown: How the Battle between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War

Author: Bob Davis, Lingling Wei

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:40:15

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Global Politics

Summary:

This is the inside story of the USChina trade war, how relations between these superpowers  unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in Chinas Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else. 

The trade battle between China and the U.S. didnt start with Trump and wont end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The two countries have a long and fraught political and economic history which has become more contentious over the past three yearsan escalation that has negatively impacted both countries' economies and the world at largeand holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption.

 How did this stand-off happen? How much are U.S. presidents and officials who haven't effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and U.S. business leaders who for decades acted as Beijings lobbyists in Washington, played in driving tensions between the two countries?

 Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad. Uniquely positioned to tell the story, Davis and Wei have conducted hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over the seven years they have worked together writing for the Wall Street Journal. Analyzing U.S.-China relations, they explain how we have reached this tipping point, and look at where we could be headed. Vivid and provocative, Superpower Showdown will help readers understand the context of the trade war and prepare them for what may come next.

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ID: 398404

Title: Glitch

Author: Laura Martin

Narrator: Ramon De Ocampo, Tara Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:23:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

From the critically acclaimed author of Float comes a new whirlwind adventure about a pair of kids who must break all the rules of time travel, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and John David Anderson.

Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitcherspeople who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regans future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know.

Will they be able to set aside their past in order to save the future?

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ID: 396870

Title: Dance Away with Me: A Novel

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrator: Nicole Poole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:06:24

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:

At long last, the legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with a heartfelt novel of womanhood, a wild heart, and the healing power of love.

Run, run, as fast as you can!

When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. 

But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and a town suspicious of outsiders, especially one as headstrong as Tess. Just as headstrong, is Ian North, a difficult, gifted man with a tortured soula man who makes Tess question everything. 

In running away to this new life, Tess wonders Has she lost herself . . . or has she found her future? 

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ID: 398406

Title: Summer and July

Author: Paul Mosier

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:34:53

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Sports

Summary:

From the critically acclaimed author of Train I Ride and Echos Sister comes a moving story of friendship between two girls looking for some happiness in a world that can be a little cruel. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Ali Standish, and Erin Entrada Kelly.

Twelve-year-old Juillet is preparing for the worst summer ever. She and her mom are staying in the seaside neighborhood of Ocean Park, California, for a month, where her mom will be working at the local hospital and Juillet will be on her own, like always.

Her dad is off in Europe with his new girlfriend, and her best friend, Fern . . . well, Juiller isnt allowed to talk to Fern anymore. Fern took the blame for Juillets goth-girl clothes and not-real fears, like sharks and rip currents and the number three.

Then Juillet meets Summer, a local surfer girl who knows the coolest people and places around town. With free-spirited and adventurous Summer, Juillet begins to come out of her shell and face the things weighing her down. But when Summer reveals her own painful secret, its Juillets turn to be the strong and supportive friend.

Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Childrens Books of the Year!

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ID: 404938

Title: Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

Author: Matthew B. Crawford

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:23:33

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, History & Culture, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by ''one of the most influential thinkers of our time'' (Sunday Times)

''Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to independence, making the case that freedom of motion is essential to who we are as a species. ... We hope you'll read it.'' Road & Track

Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy self-driving future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think.

Ten years ago, in the New York Times-bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, philosopher-mechanic Matthew B. Crawforda University of Chicago PhD who owned his own motorcycle shopmade a revolutionary case for manual labor, one that ran headlong against the pretentions of white-collar office work. Now, using driving as a window through which to view the broader changes wrought by technology on all aspects of contemporary life, Crawford investigates the drivers seat as one of the few remaining domains of skill, exploration, playand freedom. 

Blending philosophy and hands-on storytelling, Crawford grounds the narrative in his own experience in the garage and behind the wheel, recounting his decade-long restoration of a vintage Volkswagen as well as his journeys to thriving automotive subcultures across the country. Crawford leads us on an irreverent but deeply considered inquiry into the power of faceless bureaucracies, the importance of questioning mindless rules, and the battle for democratic self-determination against the surveillance capitalists. A meditation on the competence of ordinary people, Why We Drive explores the genius of our everyday practices on the road, the rewards of folk engineering, and the existential value of occasionally being scared shitless.

Witty and ingenious throughout, Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the irrepressible human spirit.

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ID: 399531

Title: Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power

Author: Jennifer Worley

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:40:55

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

A riveting true story of a young womans days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. 

When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors, in platform heels, and not much else. So began Jennys career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego Polly alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasnt your run-of-the-mill strip clubit was a peepshow populated by free-thinking women who talked feminist theory and swapped radical zines like lipstick.

As managements discriminatory practices and the rise of hidden cameras stir up tension among the dancers, Jenny rallies them to demand change. Together, they organize the first strippers union in the world and risk it all to take over the club and run it as a co-operative. Refusing to be treated as sex objects or disposable labor, they become instead the rulers of their kingdom. Jennys elation over the Lusty Ladys revolution is tempered by her evolving understanding of the toll dancing has taken on her. When she finally hangs up her heels for good to finish her Ph.D., neither Jenny nor San Francisco are the samebut she and the cadre of wild, beautiful, brave women who run the Lusty Lady come out on top despite it all. 

A first-hand account as only an insider could tell it, Neon Girls paints a vivid picture of a bygone San Francisco and a fiercely feminist world within the sex industry, asking sharp questions about what keeps women from fighting for their rights, who benefits from capitalizing on desire, and how we can change entrenched systems of power.

 

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ID: 397142

Title: Five Things About Ava Andrews

Author: Margaret Dilloway

Narrator: Joy Osmanski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:28:36

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

A heartfelt and funny story about a shy eleven-year-old who learns to manage her anxiety through improv classesand discovers her activist voice. From Margaret Dilloway, author of Summer of a Thousand Pies, and perfect for fans of Sharon Draper, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, and Holly Goldberg Sloan.

Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesnt talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition.

Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Avas Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about social issues, she withdraws further. So Ava is shocked when her writing abilities impress her classmates and they invite her to join their improv group, making up stories onstage. Determined to prove she can control her anxiety, she joinsand discovers a whole new side of herself, and what it means to be on a team.

But as Avas self-confidence blossoms, her relationship with Zelia strains, and she learns that it isnt enough just to raise your voiceits how and why you use it that matters.

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ID: 397987

Title: Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Author: Dick Lehr

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:55:29

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Military

Summary:

The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as ''Operation Vengeance'' -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor.

 AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL. At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.s entry into World War II.

Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge that deadly strike a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Expertly crafting this ''hunt for Bin Laden''-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies frontline moments loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts.

Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot from the tiny hamlet of Enid, Mississippi who was tasked with conceiving a flight route, literally to the second, for the only U.S. fighter plane on Guadalcanal capable of reaching Yamamoto hundreds of miles away the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with its fabled cone of fire.

Given unprecedented access to Mitchells personal papers and hundreds of private letters, Lehr reveals for the first time the full story of Mitchells wartime exploits up to the face-off with Yamamoto, along with those of key American pilots Mitchell chose for the momentous mission: Rex Barber, Thomas Lanphier Jr., Besby Holmes, and Ray Hine. The spotlight also shines on their enemy target Admiral Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic commander in chief of Japans Combined Fleet, whose complicated feelings about the U.S.he studied at Harvardadd rich complexity. In this way Dead Reckoning offers at once a fast-paced recounting of a crucial turning point in the Pacific war and keenly drawn portraits of its two main protagonists: Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, and John Mitchell, the architect of the Yamamotos demise.

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