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ID: 420854

Title: Ain't She Sweet?

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:31

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, New Adult, Contemporary Women

Summary:

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, now she's come home -- broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.

The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. When the Seawillows, Sugar Beth's former girlfriends, get the chance to turn the tables on her, they don't hesitate. And Winnie Davis, Sugar Beth's most bitter enemy, intends to humiliate her in the worst possible way.

Then there's Colin Byrne...Fifteen years earlier, Sugar Beth had tried to ruin his career. Now he's rich, powerful, and the owner of her old home. Even worse, this modern-day dark prince is planning exactly the sort of revenge best designed to bring a beautiful princess to her knees.

But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way. Ain't She Sweet? is a story of courage and redemption...of friendship and laughter...of love and the possibility of happily-ever-after.

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ID: 396866

Title: These Women: A Novel

Author: Ivy Pochoda

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:00:42

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

AN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE, MYSTERY & THRILLER FINALIST * AN INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS FINALIST, BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL * A MACAVITY BEST MYSTERY NOVEL FINALIST

A Recommended Book From

The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * Elle * People * Marie Claire * Vulture * The Minneapolis Star-Tribune * LitHub * Crime Reads * PopSugar * AARP * Book Marks * South Florida Sun Sentinel

From the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like youve never seen beforea literary thriller of female empowerment and social change

In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, theyre referred to as these women. These women on the corner  These women in the club These women who wont stop asking questions These women who got what they deserved  

In her masterful new novel, Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. Theyre connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not all of them know that yet. Theres Dorian, still adrift after her daughters murder remains unsolved; Julianna, a young dancer nicknamed Jujubee, who lives hard and fast, resisting anyone trying to slow her down; Essie, a brilliant vice cop who sees a crime pattern emerging where no one else does; Marella, a daring performance artist whose work has long pushed boundaries but now puts her in peril; and Anneke, a quiet woman who has turned a willfully blind eye to those around her for far too long. The careful existence they have built for themselves starts to crumble when two murders rock their neighborhood.

Written with beauty and grit, tension and grace, These Women is a glorious display of storytelling, a once-in-a-generation novel.

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ID: 397478

Title: Summer at Meadow Wood

Author: Amy Rebecca Tan

Narrator: Kelsey Navarro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:31:09

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Sports

Summary:

From the author of A Kind of Paradise comes a beautiful and heartfelt middle grade novel for fans of Ali Standish and Sally J. Pla, about a girl who finds comfort in the warm traditions and unexpected friendships of summer camp.

Vic Brown did not want to go to camp this summer.

Even though its nice being back with her friends at Meadow Wood, Vic still cant forget about the secret reason her mom wanted her and her brother out of the houseor how much her family is going to change. When her home life is blowing up, it can be hard to focus on campfires and canoeing.

But there is something about summer and surprises that go together like blueberry pancakes and maple syrup. And soon, Vic starts to feel likejust maybea summer at Meadow Wood was exactly what she needed.

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ID: 396863

Title: My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

Author: Bakari Sellers

Narrator: Bakari Sellers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:09:33

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Political Advocacy

Summary:

What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst  and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of Americas forgotten black working-class men and women.

Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.

Anchored in in Bakari Sellers hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain that continues to fertilize the soil of one of the poorest states in the nation. He traces his fathers rise to become, friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King, a civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , to explore the plight of the South's dwindling rural, black working classmany of whom can trace their ancestry back for seven generations.

In his poetic personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other Forgotten Men & Women, who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without succumbing to despair. 

My Vanishing Country is also a love letter to fatherhoodto Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy.

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ID: 404856

Title: How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need: Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You

Author: Judith Matloff

Narrator: Tonya Cornelisse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:25:19

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Instructional & How To, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

As we have seen with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, disaster preparedness is not a luxury. 

Everyone from Louis Pasteur to the Girl Scouts has championed the motto Be Preparedbut what does that mean in todays constantly changing world? In this age of anxiety, when reports of mass shootings, political unrest, the threat of nuclear war, devastating natural disasters, and digital attacks dominate the news and are transforming our lives, we yearn for some control. We want to make sensible decisions to help keep us on track when everything seems to be going off the rails. We want to be readyto the best of our abilitiesfor the worst that can happen.

As a seasoned war correspondent with more than thirty years of experience working in crisis zones and a pioneering safety consultant, Judith Matloff knows about personal security and risk management. In How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need, she shares her tried-and-true methods to help you confidently handle whatever challenges comes your way.

Learn how to:

- Perform emergency first aid

- Create a bunker

- Keep yourself safe when traveling

- Keep yourself safe from online hacks

- and dozens of other invaluable tips to stay safe in any circumstances

Blending humorous stories and anecdotes with serious advice, Matloff explains how to remain upright in stampedes, avoid bank fraud, prevent sexual assault, stay clean in a shelter, and even be emotionally prepared for loss. From cyber security, active shooter situations, and travel, to natural disasters and emotional resilience, she shares tips that will give even the most anxious person a sense of control over lifes unpredictable perils. Unfortunately, we cant anticipate all the crises of our lives. But with How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need, youll find the skills and confidence you need to weather an emergency.

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ID: 400786

Title: How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea

Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Narrator: Sandy Rustin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:53:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Health & Family

Summary:

This is how history should be told to kidswith captivating storytelling.

From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti and in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in America comes the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Womens March of 1913.

Bartoletti spins a story like few othersdeftly taking readers by the hand and introducing them to suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Paul and Burns met in a London jail and fought their way through hunger strikes, jail time, and much more to win a long, difficult victory for America and its women.

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ID: 405832

Title: Dream a Little Dream

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrator: Anna Fields

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:33:08

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A Desperate Young Mother

Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car's that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter. And she'll do anything to keep her child safeeven take on. . .

A man With No Heart

Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beautiful outcast who's invaded his property. She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back bad memories. Yet Rachel's feisty spirit might just be heaven-sent to save a tough, stubborn man.

Dare To Dream

Welcome to Salvation, North Carolinawhere a man who's forgotten what tenderness means meets a woman with nothing to lose. here two endearing lovers will set off on a funny, touching journey of the heart. . .to a place where dreams just might come true.

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ID: 397564

Title: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Author: Matt Ridley

Narrator: Matt Ridley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:34:50

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.

Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.

Matt Ridley argues in this book that we need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, not a matter of lonely genius. It is gradual, serendipitous, recombinant, inexorable, contagious, experimental and unpredictable. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modelled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

Ridley derives these and other lessons, not with abstract argument, but from telling the lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or in some cases failed. He goes back millions of years and leaps forward into the near future. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertiliser, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, faddish diets, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright and evena biological innovationlife itself.

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ID: 418866

Title: Paula: A Memoir

Author: Isabel Allende

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell, Isabel Allende

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:28:26

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.Los Angeles Times

In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkable familys past.

When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allendes first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale. 

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ID: 397475

Title: How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't)

Author: Ross Ellenhorn

Narrator: Nathan Agin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:09:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness, Mental Health

Summary:

A paradigm-shifting, instant classic in the making that challenges our assumptions about change by encouraging us to understand and embrace our resistance to it.

We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit or negative behavior pattern, we feel a sense of failure when we dont succeed. This often sets off a cascade of negative feelings and discouragement, making it even harder to change. The voice in our head tells us: Why bother?

Successful change depends far more on understanding why we dont change, psychotherapist and sociologist Ross Ellenhorn insists. His decades-long career as a pioneer in helping people overcome extreme psychiatric experiences and problematic substance use issuesespecially those whom the behavioral healthcare system has failedespecially those whom the mental healthcare system has failedhas lead him to develop an effective, long-term method to achieve transformation, from the simplest shifts to the most profound. In How We Change, Ellenhorn looks to the evolutionary imperatives driving us. We are wired to double down on the familiar because of what he calls the Fear of Hopethe act of protecting ourselves from further disappointment. He identifies the 10 Reasons Not to Change to help us see why we behave the way we do, making it clear that there is nothing broken inside usits how were built. By addressing this little known reality, he gives us hope and helps us work toward the change we seek. 

Ellenhorn speaks to the core of our insecurities and fears about ourselves, with a humor and kindness. By turning our judgements about self-destructive behaviors into curious questions about them, he teaches us to think about our actions to discover what we truly wanteven if were going about getting it in the wrong way. How We Change is a brilliant approach that will forever alter our perspectiveand help us achieve the transformation we truly seek.

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