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ID: 390244

Title: Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital

Author: Maurice Benard

Narrator: Maurice Benard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:08:59

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Arts & Entertainment, Mental Health

Summary:

''This shocking true story is General Hospital on anabolic steroids.''  Mehmet Oz, M.D., Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show

The Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoiran inspiring story of success, show business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness.

Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career. For twenty-five years, he has played one of the most well-known characters on daytime television: General Hospitals Michael Sonny Corinthos, Jr. In his life outside the screen, he is a loving husband and the father of four. But his path has not been without hardship. When he was only twenty, Maurice was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

In Nothing General About It, Maurice looks back to his youth in a small town and his tenuous relationship with his father. He describes how his bipolar disorder began to surface in childhood, how he struggled to understand the jolting mood swings he experienced, and how a doctor finally saved his life. For years Maurice was relentless in his goal to be a successful actor. But even after he made it, he still grappled with terrifying lows, breakdowns, and setbacks, all while trying desperately to maintain his relationship with his wife, who endured his violent, unpredictable episodes. Maurice holds nothing back as he bravely talks about what it was like to be medicated and institutionalized, and of how he learned to manage his manic episodes while on the set of GH.

Nothing General About It is also an incredible love story about an enduring marriage that demonstrates what those vowsfor better, for worse, in sickness and in healthtruly mean. Maurice also pays tribute to the community that has been there for him through thick and thin, and ruminates on the importance of both inherited and created family.

A shocking, riveting, and utterly candid memoir of love, adversity, and ultimately hope, Nothing General About It offers insights and advice for everyone trying to cope with mental illness, and is a motivational story that offers lessons in perseveranceof the importance of believing in and fighting for yourself through the darkest times.

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ID: 392079

Title: Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyleand Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health

Author: Dr. Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, Megan Ramos

Narrator: Brian Nishii, Courtney Patterson, Piper Goodeve

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:37:19

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition

Summary:

Take the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with real-life and expert advice.

In recent years, intermittent fastingrestricting calorie intake for a set number of hours or dayshas become an increasingly popular diet strategy. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous fad, recent research not only validates the safety of fasting for weight loss but also offers compelling evidence of wide-ranging health benefits, from reversal of diabetes and other metabolic disorders to enhanced cognitive function and increased longevity.

But for many who are eager to try out fasting, the regimen can feel a bit intimidating. After all, abstaining from food doesnt sound like much fun. People rightly wonder: How often can I eat? Will I be able to focus at work? Will I have enough energy to exercise? And perhaps the most concerning question of all: Wont I be hungry all the time?!

Enter Dr. Jason Fungworld-renowned fasting experthis colleague, Megan Ramos, and Eve Mayer, who has experienced the life-changing benefits of fasting through Dr. Fungs program. Together, theyve teamed up to write a one-of-a-kind guide that answers the most common questions people have about fastingand offers a customizable program that provides real results.

In Life in the Fasting Lane, Dr. Fung, Ramos, and Mayer take the reader by the hand and walk them through the basics of a fasting lifestylefrom the science behind fasting as a health and weight loss strategy to the real-life choices and dilemmas people commonly encounter. While Dr. Fung and Ramos explain the fundamentals of fasting and offer a customizable approach, Mayer shares her in-the-trenches perspective and hard-won knowledge as a success story who turned her life around with fasting.

With chapters that address everything from meal planning to mental strategies; exercise to socializing, Life in the Fasting Lane is a unique and accessible guide to developing a sustainable and beneficial fasting routine that offers dramatic, lifelong results.

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ID: 390252

Title: Broken

Author: Don Winslow

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith, Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:27:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

One of Americas greatest storytellers. Stephen King

Winslow, whose work includes a dozen of the finest crime novels written in the last 20 years, displays all of his strengths, including propulsive narration, compelling characters and a tight, staccato writing style, in 'Broken,' a collection of six remarkable novellas.  Bruce De Silva, Associated Press

No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . . 

In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway.

With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction.

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ID: 390401

Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Author: Christopher R. Browning

Narrator: Kevin Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:53

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Europe, Military, Social Science

Summary:

A remarkableand singularly chillingglimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.''Newsweek 

Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Brownings shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jewsnow with a new afterword and additional photographs.

Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of  RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.

While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.  

Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.  

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ID: 390254

Title: Something She's Not Telling Us: A Novel

Author: Darcey Bell

Narrator: Carly Robins, Nancy Peterson, Pete Simonelli, Vivienne Leheny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:29:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Named most anticipated book of the year by Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, She Reads, and Sassy Sarah Reads.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Simple Favor comes an electrifying domestic thriller of how one womans life is turned upside down when her brother brings his new girlfriend to visitand no one is telling the truth about who they really are.

Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could be The One. Daisy seems to love Ruth, and she cant be any worse than the klepto Rocco brought home the last time. At least, thats what Charlotte keeps telling herself. But as Rocco and Ruths relationship becomes more serious, Ruths apparent obsession with Daisy grows more obvious. Then Daisy is kidnapped, and Charlotte is convinced theres only one person who could have taken her.

Ruth has never had much, but now shes finally on the verge of having everything shes ever dreamed of. A stable job at a start-up company, a rakish, handsome boyfriend with whom she falls more in love with every dayand a chance at the happy family shes always wanted, adorable niece included. The only obstacle standing in her way is her boyfriends sister Charlotte, whose attitude swerves between politely cold and outright hostile. Rebuffing Ruths every attempt to build a friendship with her and Daisy, Charlotte watches over her daughter with a desperate protectiveness that sends chills down Ruths spine. Ruth knows that Charlotte has a deeply-buried secret, the only question is: what? A surprise outing with Daisy could be the key to finding out, and Ruth knows she must take the chance while she has itfor everyones sake.

As the two women follow each other down a chilling rabbit hole, unearthing winding paths of deceit, lies, and trauma, a family and a future will be completelyand irrevocablyshattered.

From its very first page, Something Shes Not Telling Us takes hold of readers imagination in a harrowing, unforgettable thriller that dives deep into the domestic psyche and asks the question: Is anyone ever really who they say they are?

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ID: 390398

Title: Rules for Being a Girl

Author: Candace Bushnell, Katie Cotugno

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:03:57

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Candace Bushnell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sex and the City, and Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days, team up to write a fierce, propulsive novel about a girl who is preyed upon by a manipulative teacher and finds the power to fight back. Perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Laurie Halse Anderson.

It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . .

Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marins future seems brightand her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.

But when Bex takes things too far and comes on to Marin, shes shocked and horrified. Had she somehow led him on? Was it her fault?

When Marin works up the courage to tell the administration what happened, no one believes her. Shes forced to face Bex in class every day. Except now, he has an ax to grind.

But Marin isnt about to back down. She uses the school newspaper to fight back and she starts a feminist book club at school. She finds alliesand even romancein the most unexpected people, like Gray Kendall, who shed always dismissed as just another lacrosse bro.

As things heat up at school and in her personal life, Marin must figure out how to take back the power and write her own rules.

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ID: 387253

Title: Pop Star Goddesses: And How to Tap Into Their Energies to Invoke Your Best Self

Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Narrator: Lisa Negron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:32:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

A compendium of forty incredible female pop stars whose energies, virtues, and vices make them the ideal role models for our agepowerful women who can teach us all how to discover our own inner goddess.

We are living in the age of the music goddess: Beyoncé. Lady Gaga. Taylor Swift. Katy Perry. Britney. Nicki Minaj. Cardi B. Pink. Madonna. Rihanna. Gwen Stefani. Alicia Keys. Kelly Clarkson.

Never before have so many women dominated their industry and pop culture itself with such creativity, passion, and force. Visionary and ferociously talented, these women are reshaping our society and our lives. In this stunningly designed compendium, Jennifer Armstrong offers an intimate, up-close look at forty of pop musics most revered goddesses, analyzing their performances, songs, videos, interviews, social media, activism, and personal lives to illuminate their significance for both critics and fans.

These divas post astounding album sales, enjoy millions of radio plays, YouTube views, and social media followings, and sell out stadiums. While we are awed and inspired by their success, we worship them for so much more. Beyoncés work ethic. Nicki Minajs no-bullshit attitude. Taylor Swifts relatability. Pinks sense of social justice. Jennifer Lopezs transformation from Jenny from the block to fashion icon. Each of these goddesses speaks to us in her own unique way. Beyoncé is our superhuman alter ego; Britney is our survival instinct.

Armstrong pairs each pop star goddess with a corresponding goddess from ancient cultures, and offers advice on how to invoke the pop star goddesss energy in your own life, providing journal prompts and a Power Song List that allows you harness the power of a particular pop goddesss energy when you need it.

Filled with information, advice, insights, and playlists, Pop Star Goddess will help you tune in and turn on your own divine energy.

The Pop Star Goddesses are: Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, M.I.A., Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Lady Gaga, Carla Bruni, Pink, JLo, Kesha, Rihanna, Janelle Monae, Gwen Stephani, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey, Adele, Missy Elliott, Shakira, Solange, Miranda Lambert, Celine Dion, Sia, Queen Latifah, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Laura Jane Grace, Ariana Grande, Carly Rae Jepsen.

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ID: 390402

Title: Valentine: A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Wetmore

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:22:06

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Coming of Age

Summary:

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.

Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .

Its February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the towns men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow.

In the early hours of the morning after Valentines Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whiteheads ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil fieldan act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.

Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the readers heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates womens strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.

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ID: 388867

Title: We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

Author: Jessica Care Moore

Narrator: Jessica Care Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:01:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Social Science

Summary:

A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.

Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black womens creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny, criminalization, hatred, stereotypes, sexual assault, objectification, patriarchy, and death threats.

We Want Our Bodies Back is an explorationand defiant stance againstthese many attacks.

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ID: 390755

Title: Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution

Author: Jared Diamond

Narrator: Joe Farinacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Sports & Recreation, Career Development, Baseball

Summary:

''This is the best baseball book Ive read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas.''  Sam Walker, author of The Captain Class

From the Wall Street Journals national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.

We are in a historic era for the home run. The 2019 season saw the most homers ever, obliterating a record set just two years before. It is a shift that has transformed the way the game is played, contributing to more strikeouts, longer games, and what feels like the logical conclusion of the analytics era. In Swing Kings, Wall Street Journal national baseball writer Jared Diamond reveals that the secret behind this unprecedented shift isnt steroids or the stitching of the baseballs, its the most elemental explanation of all: the swing. In this lively narrative romp, he tracks a group of baseballs biggest starsincluding Aaron Judge, J.D. Martinez, and Justin Turnerwho remade their swings under the tutelage of a band of renegade coaches, and remade the game in the process.

 These coaches, many of them baseball washouts who have reinvented themselves as swing gurus, for years were one of the games best-kept secrets. Among their ranks are a swimming pool contractor, the owner of a billiards hall, and an ex-hippie whose swing insights draw from surfing and the technique of Japanese samurai. Now, as Diamond artfully charts, this motley cast has moved from the baseball margins to its center of power. They are changing the way hitting is taught to players of all ages, and major league clubs are scrambling for their services, hiring them in record numbers as coaches and consultants. And Diamond himself, whose baseball career ended in high school, enlists the tutelage of each swing coach he profiles, with an aim toward starring in the annual Boston-New York media game at Yankee Stadium.

 Swing Kings is both a rollicking history of baseballs recent past and a deeply reported, character-driven account of a battle between opponents as old as time: old and new, change and stasis, the establishment and those who break from it. Jared Diamond has written a masterful chronicle of Americas pastime at the crossroads.

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