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ID: 604513

Title: Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons from Slate.coms Beloved Advice Column

Author: Daniel M. Lavery

Narrator: Daniel M. Lavery

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:52:21

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

Based on the long-running Slate advice column, a collection of the most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative installments during Daniel M. Laverys tenure as the titular Prudence.

Every week, millions of readers visit Slate for the irresistible Dear Prudence, an advice column that promises a healthy dose of reality and good humor alongside its indispensable suggestions and life lessons. The ever-hilarious and insightful Danny Lavery was one of Dear Prudences most beloved columnists, and he recounts his time as Prudie in this side-splitting, candid collectioncomplete with new commentary and exclusive storiesdrawing out the broader themes of his informative, unfailingly illuminating guidance.

 From guilt and blame (Am I in the Wrong Here?) to downright confusion (Maybe This Is All a Misunderstanding), from recently discovered wrenches-in-the-machine (The Other Shoe Just Dropped) to the travails of parenthood (My Kids Are Growing Up. Can Someone Please Stop This?), Dear Prudence isnt afraid to go the extra mile in its search for the much-needed corrective, gentle reminder, or tough love. This is the go-to guide for anyone whos just trying to figure it all outwith a helpful nudge.

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ID: 618167

Title: Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

Author: Joan Biskupic

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, American Politics

Summary:

New York Times Editor's Choice

''Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper message of 'Nine Black Robes' is that even with a new president in office we remain captive to the Age of Trump... A quiet urgency ripples through this informative, briskly paced and gracefully written book.'' New York Times Book Review

''Biskupic opens a window onto the opaque, insular world of the justices to show an institution sinking gradually into crisis . . . Biskupic is a longtime chronicler of the court, and ''Nine Black Robes'' puts on display her connections within its chambers.'' Washington Post

''[Biskupic] knows how to make news and illuminate the personalities atop the judicial org chart . . . The book reveals unseen sausage-making . . .'' Wall Street Journal

''Fascinating and informative . . . [Biskupic's] long experience covering the court . . . has put her in an incomparable position to comment on its make-up, historical positions and direction. It has also made her privy to many significant, little-known secrets about Supreme Court personalities and their historical behaviors.'' The National Book Review

CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade, based on access to all the key players.

Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of womens abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Todays benchwith its conservative majorityis desperately ideological. The Court has been headed rightward and ensnared by its own intrigues for years, but the Trump appointments hastened the modern transformation. With unparalleled access to key players, Biskupic shows the tactics of each justice and reveals switched votes and internal pacts that typically never make the light of day, yet will have repercussions for generations to come.

Nine Black Robes is the definitive narrative of the countrys highest court and its profound impact on all Americans.

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ID: 604512

Title: Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation

Author: Nancy Schoenberger

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:17

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, History & Culture

Summary:

A penetrating consideration of Tennessee Williamss most enduring characterBlanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desirewritten by the co-author of The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters and Furious Love.

Ever since Jessica Tandy glided onto the stage in Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desire at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1947, Blanche DuBois has fascinated generations of audiences worldwide and secured a place in the history of literature, theater, and film. One of Williamss greatest creations, Blanche has bedazzled, amused, and broken the hearts of generations of audiences. Before the Covid pandemic, the stage classic was performed somewhere in the world every hour. It has been adapted into a ballet and an opera, and it was satirized in an episode of The Simpsons. The final twelve words Blanche utters at the plays endI have always depended on the kindness of strangershave taken on a life of their own. Endlessly fascinating, this indelible figment of one of Americas greatest midcentury playwrights garners nearly universal interestbut why?

In Blanche, Nancy Schoenberger searches for the answer. An exploration of the cultural impact of Blanche DuBois, Schoenbergers absorbing study examines Tennessee Williams's most enduring creation through the performances of seven brilliant actresses who have taken on the roleJessica Tandy, Vivien Leigh, Ann-Margret, Jessica Lange, Patricia Clarkson, Cate Blanchett, and Jemier Jenkinsas well as the influence of the playwright's tragic sister, Rose Williams, the person he was most haunted and inspired by. In examining various Blanches from throughout the decades and their critical reception, Schoenberger analyzes how our perception and understanding of this mesmerizing figure has altered and deepened over time. Exploring themes of womanhood, sexuality, mental illness, and the idealized South, Blanche is an engrossing cultural history of a rich and complex character that sheds light on who we are.

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ID: 603561

Title: Selfless: The Social Creation of You

Author: Brian Lowery

Narrator: Aaron Goodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:50:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential ''self''our selves are social creations of those with whom we interact exploring what that means for who we can be and who we allow others to be.

Theres nothing we spend more time with, but understand less, than ourselves. Youve been with yourself every waking moment of your life. But whoor, rather, whatare you? In Selfless, Brian Lowery argues for the radical idea that the self as we know itthat voice in your headis a social construct, created in our relationships and social interactions. We are unique because our individual pattern of relationships is unique. We change because our relationships change. Your self isnt just you, its all around you.

Lowery uses this research-driven perspective of selfhood to explore questions of inequity, race, gender, politics, and power structures, transforming our perceptions of how the world is and how it could be. His theory offers insight into how powerful people manage their environment in sophisticated, often unconscious, ways to maintain the status quo; explains our competing drives for deep social connection and personal freedom; and answers profound, personal questions such as: Why has my sense of self evolved over time? Why do I sometimes stop short of changes that I want to make in life?

In Selfless, Lowery persuasively breaks down common assumptions and beliefs; his insights are humbling. Despite what many may think, we arent islands unto ourselves; we are the creation of the many hands that touch us. We dont just exist in communities, we are created and shaped by them. Our highs and lows are not only our own but belong to others as well. By recognizing that we are products of relationshipsfrom fleeting transactions to deep associationswe shatter the myth of individualism and free ourselves to make our lives and the world accordingly. 

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ID: 550107

Title: Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

Author: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

Narrator: Jeff Forshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:20:43

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics

Summary:

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. 

At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes.

Today, across the universe, at the heart of every galaxy, and dotted throughout, mature black holes are creating chaos. And in a quiet part of the universe, the Swift satellite has picked up evidence of a gruesome death caused by one of these dark powers. High energy X-ray flares shooting out from deep within the Draco constellation are thought to be the dying cries of a white dwarf star being ripped apart by the intense tides of a supermassive black hole heating it to millions of degrees as it is shredded at the event horizon.

They have the power to wipe out any of the universes other inhabitants, but no one has ever seen a black hole itself die. But 1.8 billion light years away, the LIGO instruments have recently detected something that could be the closest a black hole gets to death. Gravitational waves given off as two enormous black holes merge together. And now scientists think that these gravitational waves could be evidence of two black holes connecting to form a wormhole a link through space and time. It seems outlandish, but todays physicists are daring to think the unthinkable that black holes could connect us to another universe.

At their very heart, black holes are also where Einsteins Theory of General Relativity is stretched in almost unimaginable ways, revealing black holes as the key to our understanding of the fundamentals of our universe and perhaps all other universes.

Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universes most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting to be discovered.

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ID: 603566

Title: Max Wilde's Cowboy Heart: A Wyoming Wilde Novel

Author: Jennifer Ryan

Narrator: Tim Paige

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:43:25

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance, Mystery, Contemporary

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryan returns to the Wyoming Wilde series as the third Wilde brother finds himself entangled with his ex-girlfriend after shes witness to a murder and the killers next target. Perfect for fans of authors like Maisey Yates, Joanne Kennedy and Carolyn Brown as well as Diana Palmer, Linda Lael Miller, and BJ Daniels.

Theyre tough, tenacious, and sometimes tormented; theyre the Wildes of Wyoming, three brothers whose family ties are as strong as their wills.

And when Max Wilde reunites with his lost love, hell do anything to keep her safe and in his arms

Max Wilde lived up to his last name and then some. Years ago, he fell hard and fast for Kenna Baker, thinking they had a love that would last for all time. When a horrible misunderstanding drove them apart, Max thought his chance to find the kind of love his brothers have is gone forever. He changed his bad boy ways, but he never got over the one who got away.

Now, their lives have collided once again, as Kenna is the only witness to a murder and needs a place to hide while in protective custody. Max is determined to keep her safe on the ranch, and also maintain an emotional distance, but as they spend more time together, the lies and half-truths that once drove them apart are also uncovered, bringing them closer than ever.

Kenna has always laid claim to Maxs heartand soulbut will he be able to save herand their love...before its too late?

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ID: 595299

Title: Community Board: A Novel

Author: Tara Conklin

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:57:52

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.

Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your lifethe mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted minutiae that once filled every second of every daysuddenly disappear? Where does one go in such dire and unexpected circumstances?

I went home, of course.

MURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD

FREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load.

REMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. Im looking at you Peter Luflin.

REMINDER: monthly Select Board meeting this Friday. Agenda items: 1) sludge removal; 2) upkeep of chime tower; 3) ice rink monitor thank you gift. Questions? Contact Hildegard Hyman, [email protected]

Darcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined.

But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcys first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings. As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return?

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ID: 602550

Title: Strangers in the Night: A Novel of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner

Author: Heather Webb

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Chris Andrew Ciulla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:58:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Family Life

Summary:

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home.

In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would defineand defyan era

She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination.

Avas star is rising just as Franks careerand public image as a family manis taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds herself gracing the front page of every tabloid in America. Jealousy and cheating abound, and when the two succumb to their temperaments and their vices, their happiness is threatened at every turn.

As the pair ride the rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, they both wonder if the next turn will be the end of their careers, and most devastating of allthe end of all theyve shared.

A captivating novel with a star-studded cast spanning continents and decades, Strangers in the Night brings to life the most riveting love story of the twentieth century.

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ID: 602188

Title: While You Were Dreaming

Author: Alisha Rai

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:27:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-23

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

In this debut contemporary YA romance by bestselling author Alisha Rai, a girl with undocumented family members goes viral after saving her crushs life in disguise. A must read for fans of Sandhya Menon and Nicola Yoon. 

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick!

Its a classic story: girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, boy finally notices girl when he sees her in a homemade costume. At least, thats what Sonia Patil is hoping for when she plans to meet her crush at the local comic-con in cosplay.

But instead of winning her crush over, Sonia rescues him after he faints into a canal and, suddenly, everything changes. Since she was in disguise, no one knows who the masked do-gooder was . . .but everyone is trying to find out. Sonia cant let that happenher sister is undocumented, and the girls have been flying under the radar since their mother was deported back to Mumbai.

Sonia finds herself hiding from social media detectives and trying to connect with her crush and his family. But juggling crushes and a secret identity might just take superpowers. Can Sonia hide in plain sight forever?

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ID: 415752

Title: Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War

Author: Andreas Killen

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:52:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, North America, Military, Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.

The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, and psychology achieved dramatic breakthroughs in the treatment of illnesses like epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as the understanding of such faculties as memory and perception. Memory was the site of particularly startling discoveries. As one researcher wrote to another in the middle of that decade, Memory was the sleeping beauty of the brainand now she is awake. Collectively, these advances prefigured the emergence of the field of neuroscience at the end of the twentieth century.

But the 1950s also marked the beginning of the Cold War and a period of transformative social change across Western society. These developments resulted in unease and paranoia. Mysterious new afflictionsnone more mystifying than brainwashingalso appeared at this time. Faced with the discovery that, as one leading psychiatrist put it, the human personality is not as stable as we often assume, many researchers in the sciences of brain and behavior joined the effort to understand these conditions. They devised ingenious and sometimes transgressive experimental methods for studying and proposing countermeasures to the problem of Communist mind control. Some of these procedures took on a strange life of their own, escaping the confines of the research lab to become part of 1960s counterculture. Much later, in the early 2000s, they resurfaced in the War on Terror.

These stories, often told separately, are brought together by the historian Andreas Killen in this chronicle of the brains mid-twentieth-century emergence as both a new research frontier and an organ whose integrity and capacitiesespecially that of memorywere imagined as uniquely imperiled in the 1950s. Nervous Systems explores the anxious context in which the mid-century sciences of the brain took shape and reveals the deeply ambivalent history that lies behind our contemporary understanding of this organ.

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