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ID: 612783

Title: Queens of Wonderland: A Novel

Author: Gama Ray Martinez

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:20:55

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Historical, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

Enter through the looking glass into Queens of Wonderland, Book Two in the Defenders of Lore series, in which Knights of the Round Vanessa and Michael must follow Captain Hook into Wonderland alongside Alice to crush his treacherous plan and deal with an ongoing war between power-hungry queens

After saving reality and overcoming the numerous challenges that Neverland threw at her, Vanessa has been tasked to save Michael Darling from himself: hes grown obsessed in his role as a Knight of the Round and will stop at nothing to find the ghost of James Hook, nearly getting expelled from the Knights in the process. Its up to Vanessa to keep him safe, she cant lose her partner to Hooks sword.

So together its off to Wonderland in pursuit of the pirate.

Except, unlike Neverland, neither Vanessa nor Michael have ever been there before. But someone they know has: the Lady who leads the Knightswho turns out to be none other than the legendary Alice. Her extensive knowledge about the land could change the game and bring them one step closer to finding Captain Hookand in a world where games are taken quite seriouslyand no less than six queens are vying for powerit will take them putting all their heads together to make it through.

Or they just might find them lopped off.

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ID: 616335

Title: One and Only Ruby

Author: Katherine Applegate

Narrator: Imani Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:05:22

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!

From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob.

Rubys story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Rubys caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob.

In the timeless way that only Katherine Applegate could craft, this highly anticipated novel in verse is the perfect mix of heartfelt and humorous, poignant and sweet. Artist Patricia Castelao returns to the world of Ivan and his friends with gorgeous black-and-white interior illustrations to complete the story.

The One and Only Ruby features first-person narrative; author's use of literary devices (personification, imagery); and story elements (plot, character development, perspective).

This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 8, for independent reading, homeschooling, and sharing in the classroom.

Dont miss the film adaptation of The One and Only Ivan, now streaming on Disney+!

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ID: 616343

Title: Imogen, Obviously

Author: Becky Albertalli

Narrator: Caitlin Kinnunen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:33:51

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

A Stonewall Honor Book A New York Times and Indie bestseller!

A bighearted, deeply vulnerable, love-bubbly tumble through self-discovery. Casey McQuiston, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Kissed Shara Wheeler

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship in this timely new novel.

Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but shes got the Worlds Greatest Ally title locked down.

She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's Lilinewly out and newly thriving with a cool new squad of queer college friends.

Imogen's thrilled for Lili. Any ally would be. And now that she's finally visiting Lili on campus, she's bringing her ally A game. Any support Lili needs, Imogen's all in.

Even if that means bending the truth, just a little.

Like when Lili drops a tiny queer bombshell: She's told all her college friends that Imogen and Lili used to date. And none of them know that Imogen is a raging heteronot even Lilis best friend, Tessa.

Of course, the more time Imogen spends with chaotic, freckle-faced Tessa, the more she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with. . . .

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ID: 614333

Title: Rogue's Rules for Seduction

Author: Eva Leigh

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:44:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

In USA TODAY bestselling author Eva Leigh's final Last Chance Scoundrels novel, a young lady and her former betrothed get a second chance at love when theyre stranded at a remote country house 

After Dominic Kilburn left Lady Willa Ransom at the altar, she vowed never to reveal how badly she was hurt. Following a year abroad, Willa wants to move on with her life, so she accepts an invitation to a house party. She's determined to leave her humiliation behind, as well as the scorching attraction she still feels for the man who jilted her.

When dark secrets from his past surfaced right before his wedding, Dom knew he didnt deserve Willa. So, he bolted. But he still burns for the only woman who ever claimed his heart. To escape the memories of all he lost, Dom heads to a friends estate on an isolated Scottish isle. Yet one of the other guests is the very woman who haunts his every thought and makes him wish for the impossible.

Thrown together by well-meaning family and friends, Willa and Dom try to resist the fiery pull between them. Soon the line between love and loathing begins to blur, and their attraction explodes. But Doms past lurks on the edge of their rekindled passion and Willa fears shell be devastated all over again. Can these star-crossed lovers find their happily ever after, or will everything detonate a second time?  

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ID: 614336

Title: Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Author: Simon Winchester

Narrator: Simon Winchester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:19:17

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, World

Summary:

A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.   New York Times

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classesthis is award winning writer Simon Winchesters brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds.

With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be stripping all value from the idea of knowing thingsno need for math, no need for map-reading, no need for memorizationare we risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one day be incapable of thoughtfulness?

Addressing these questions, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography, and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusionfrom the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google, and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundanaeum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium.

Studded with strange and fascinating details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom? Does Rene Descartess Cogito, ergo sumI think therefore I am, the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted since the Enlightenmentstill hold?

And what will the world be like if no one in it is wise?

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ID: 414747

Title: Antelope Woman: A Novel

Author: Louise Erdrich

Narrator: Louise Erdrich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:17:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrichs 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, and a new foreword by the authora riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures.

Audacious and surprising. . . . One of Americas most distinctive fictional voices.Boston Globe

When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawanos mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized himand soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.

The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another.

In this remarkable novel, Erdrich weaves an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption that is at once modern and eternal.

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ID: 612779

Title: Blood Gift

Author: N. E. Davenport

Narrator: Jeanette Illidge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:07:40

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

In this stunning conclusion to N. E. Davenports fast-paced, action-packed sci-fantasy duology, elite warrior Ikenna and her rogue cohort must outrun bounty hunters, their former comrades, and a megalomaniacal demi-god, all in the hopes of saving their friends and enemies from the racist and misogynistic oppression that threatens the continents from all sides.

After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareens Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head.

Yet, somehow, thats the least of her worries.

Her grandfathers longtime allies refuse to offer help, and the Blood Emperors Warlord is tracking her. Shes also struggling to control the enormous power she was granted by the Goddess of Blood Ritesand come to terms with the promises she made to get such power.

Amidst all of this, the Blood Emperor wages a full-scale invasion against Mareen and leaves a trail of decimated cities, war crimes, and untold death in his wake. As the horrors increase, Ikenna and her team realize they must assassinate the Blood Emperor and quickly end the war. But the price to do so is steep and has planet-shattering consequences.

The price to do nothing, though, is annihilation.

War has erupted. Alliances are fracturing. And Ikenna is torn between her loyalties, her desires for revenge, and the power threatening to consume her. With the world aflame, only one thing is certain: blood will be spilled.

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ID: 576858

Title: America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Travelled

Author: Blythe Roberson

Narrator: Kendra Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:39:16

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Travel Tips, Women

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Best Book of the Year NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N

''America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could've tagged along in the back seat.''  Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You. and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

The author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men examines Americans obsession with freedom, travel, and the open road in this funny, entertaining travelogue that blends the humorous observations of Bill Bryson with the piercing cultural commentary of Jia Tolentino.

For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchells travel album Hejira, before you too, are itching to take off. Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who only decide to go the desert to see what having problems feels like?

To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit Americas national parks.

America the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generations funniest writers. Borrowing her Midwestern stepfathers Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. Along the way she meets new friends on their own personal quests, learns to cope with abstinence while missing the comforts of home, and comes to understand the limitsand possibilitiesof going to nature to prove to yourself and your Instagram followers that you are, in fact, free.

The result is a laugh-out-loud-while-occasionally-raging-inside travelogue, filled with meditations and many, many jokes on ecotourism, conservation, freedom, traffic, climate change, and the structural and financial inequalities that limit so many Americans movement. Ultimately, Roberson ponders the question: Is quitting society and going on the road about enlightenment and libertyor is it just selfish escapism?

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ID: 612317

Title: Sharp Edge of Silence

Author: Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

Narrator: David Lee Huynh, Ferdelle Capistrano, James Fouhey, Marisa Blake

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:20:20

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-23

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Tradition meets People Like Us in this timely and haunting YA contemporary standalone that tackles the contagious nature of toxic masculinity at an elite New England boarding school clinging to its past, and the sexual assault that changes everything.

WHO WILL YOU BE AT LYCROFT PHELPS?

This is the question all Lycroft applicants want to be asked. It means theyve been accepted to one of the most prestigious private high schools in the nation.

Over 150 years is plenty of time for traditions to bake into the campuss bricks and ivy. Ceremonies. Athletic rivalries. Secret societies. Pranks taken too far. But navigating it all will make Charlotte (perfect, straight-A student), Max (scholarship kid and STEM whiz), and Quinn (artist, dreamer, Lycroft legacy) question all they thought they knew about themselvesand the school.

Especially when Quinns sexual assault becomes public and implicates one of the top-tier athletes on campus.

Told in alternating perspectives, this gripping, fast-paced narrative is perfect for readers looking for their next empowering #MeToo read.

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ID: 589909

Title: Coronation Year: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Robson

Narrator: Karen Cass, Susan Vinciotti Bonito, Vidish Athavale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:53

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Summary:

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novelas the lives of three very different residents of Londons historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeths Coronation.

It is Coronation Year, 1953, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel.

Edie Howard, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach will pass by the hotels front door, allowing Edie to charge a fortune for rooms and, barring disaster, save her beloved home from financial ruin. Edies luck might just be turning, all thanks to a young queen about her own age. 

Stella Donati, a young Italian photographer and Holocaust survivor, has come to live at the Blue Lion while she takes up a coveted position at Picture Weekly magazine. London in celebration mode feels like a different world to her. As she learns the ins and outs of her new profession, Stella discovers a purpose and direction that honor her past and bring hope for her future.

James Geddes, a war hero and gifted artist, has struggled to make his mark in a world that disdains his Indian ancestry. At the Blue Lion, though, he is made to feel welcome and worthy. Yet even as his friendship with Edie deepens, he begins to suspect that something is badly amiss at his new home.

When anonymous threats focused on Coronation Day, the Blue Lion, and even the queen herself disrupt their mood of happy optimism, Edie and her friends must race to uncover the truth, save their home, and expose those who seek to erase the joy and promise of Coronation Year.

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