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ID: 358568

Title: Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putins Spies

Author: Gordon Corera

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:49:39

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, North America

Summary:

With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russias espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present

Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putins escalating espionage campaign in the West, the Russian deep cover spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to capture them. This book also details the recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked inside the heart of Russian intelligence. In this thrilling account Corera tracks not only the history, but the astonishing evolution of Russian espionage, including the use of cyber illegals who continue to manipulate us today and pose a significant threat to the 2020 election.

Like a scene from the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper agents were arrested. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and ten people, including Anna Chapman, were swapped for four people held in Russia. At the time it was seen simply as a throwback to the Cold War. But that would prove to be a costly mistake. It was a sign that the Russian threat had never gone away and more importantly, it was shifting into a much more disruptive new phase. Today, the danger is clearer than ever following the poisoning in the UK of one of the spies who was swapped, Sergei Skripal, and the growing evidence of Russian interference in American life.

 Russians Among Us describes for the first time the story of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and riveting detail, it reveals new information about todays spiesas well as those trying to catch them and those trying to kill them.

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ID: 391069

Title: New David Espinoza

Author: Fred Aceves

Narrator: Christian Barillas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:51:23

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

This story from the acclaimed author of The Closest Ive Come unflinchingly examines steroid abuse and male body dysmorphia. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña.

David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bullys slap goes viral at the end of junior year, David vows to use the summer to bulk up do what it takes to become a manand wow everyone when school starts again the fall.

Soon David is spending all his time and money at Iron Life, a nearby gym thats full of bodybuilders. Frustrated with his slow progress, his life eventually becomes all about his muscle gains. As it says on the Iron Life wall, What does not kill me makes me stronger.

As David falls into the dark side of the bodybuilding world, pursuing his ideal body at all costs, hell have to grapple with the fact that it could actually cost him everything. 

A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction Selection

A Banks Street Best Children's Book of the Year

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ID: 384276

Title: Dead to Her: A Novel

Author: Sarah Pinborough

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:32:57

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

For fans of Liane Moriarty, Liv Constantine and Lisa Jewell, a twisty psychological thriller about a savvy second wife who will do almost anything to come out on top from the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes.

Being the second wife can be murder . . . 

''Once a cheat, always a cheat,'' they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isnt easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.

So, when Jasons boss brings home a hot new wife from his trip to London, the young Mrs William Radford IV isnt quite the souvenir everyone expected. Sexy, drop-dead gorgeous and blackKeisha quickly usurps Marcies place as the beautiful second wife. But when Marcie sees the extra spark in the room when Keisha and Jason are together and their obvious, magnetic attraction, the gloves come off.

Revenge is best served cold, but in the steamy Savannah heat, blood runs so hot that this summer it might just boil over into murder.

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ID: 406443

Title: Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape!

Author: Jory John

Narrator: Dan Bittner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:09:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Holidays

Summary:

Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book sensation The Good Egg, Jory John and Pete Oswald present: The Great Eggscape!

The Great Eggscape is when the Good Egg and his pals escape their carton and drop into the store for a morning of fun, enjoyed by everybody.

Well, almost everybody.

Shel (an egg) isnt a huge fan of group activities, especially when hes made to be It for a game of hide-and-seek. Nevertheless, Shel doesnt want to let his friends down, so he reluctantly plays, anyway. But after a morning of hiding and seeking, somebodys still missing. Will the dozen eggs friends ever be reunited?

Find out in this hilarious egg hunt adventure that reminds us to break out of our shells and help our friends in need!

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ID: 382838

Title: Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street

Author: Lauren Oliver

Narrator: Reba Buhr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:08:20

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

From the bestselling author of E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book Liesl & Po comes a timely and relevant adventure story about monsters of all kindsand a girl brave enough to save them.

Cordelia Clay loves the work she and her father do together: saving and healing the remarkable creatures around Boston at the end of the nineteenth century. Their home on Cedar Street is full to the brim with dragons, squelches, and diggles, and Cordelia loves every one of them.

But their work must be kept secretothers arent welcoming to outsiders and immigrants, so what would the people of Boston do to the creatures they call monsters?

One morning, Cordelia awakens to discover that her father has disappearedalong with nearly all the monsters.

With only a handful of clues and a cryptic note to guide her, Cordelia must set off to find out what happened to her father, with the help of her new friend Gregory, Iggy the farting filch, a baby dragon, and a small zuppy (zombie puppy, that is).

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ID: 382291

Title: In the Land of Men: A Memoir

Author: Adrienne Miller

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:51:32

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

One of Vogues Most Anticipated Books of 2020

One of Parades Most Anticipated Books of 2020

One of Esquires 15 Best Books of the Winter

One of Bitch Magazines 17 Memoirs Feminists Should Read in 2020

One of Macleans 10 Books to Watch in 2020

The memoir Ive been waiting for: a bold, incisive, and illuminating story of a woman whose devotion to language and literature comes at a hideous cost. Its Joanna Rakoffs My Salinger Year updated for the age of She Said: a literary New York now long past; an intimate, fiercely realist portrait of a mythic literary figure; and now, a tender reckoning with possession, power, and what Jia Tolentino called the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man. A poised and superbly perceptive narration of the problems of working with men, and of loving them. Eleanor Henderson, author of 10,000 Saints

A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster Wallace

A naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-centurythe martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kingsGQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a mans world. Three years later, she forged her own path, becoming the first woman to take on the role of literary editor of Esquire, home to the male writers who had defined manhood itself Hemingway, Mailer, and Carver. Up against this old world, she would soon discover that it wanted nothing to do with a mere girl. 

But this was also a unique moment in history that saw the rise of a new literary movement, as exemplified by McSweeneys and the work of David Foster Wallace. A decade older than Miller, the mercurial Wallace would become the defining voice of a generation and the fiction writer she would work with most. He was her closest friend, confidantand antagonist. Their intellectual and artistic exchange grew into a highly charged professional and personal relationship between the most prominent male writer of the era and a young woman still finding her voice. 

This memoira rich, dazzling story of power, ambition, and identityultimately asks the question How does a young woman fit into this male culture and at what cost? With great wit and deep intelligence, Miller presents an inspiring and moving portrayal of a young womans education in a land of men.

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ID: 381208

Title: Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

Author: Cokie Roberts, Tonya Bolden

Narrator: Lisa Renee Pitts, Prentice Onayemi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:05:21

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir, Historical

Summary:

''A wide-ranging collection of speeches and a worthwhile resource for students of American history.'' Booklist

''A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand the U.S.and the worlddo better.'' Kirkus

''An important addition to American history collections.'' School Library Journal

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didnt, at significant times in American history. Read the original wordssometimes abridged and sometimes in their entiretythat have shaped our cultural fabric.

Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following:

- Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

- George Washington, Farewell Address

- Red Jacket, We Never Quarrel about Religion

- Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

- Sojourner Truth, I Am a Womans Rights

- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

- Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself

- Lou Gehrig, Farewell to Baseball

- Langston Hughes, On the Blacklist All Our Lives

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, We Choose to Go to the Moon

- Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream

- Fannie Lou Hamer, I Question America

- Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984

- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Womens Rights Are Human Rights

Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez.

Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.

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ID: 382837

Title: Beginners Welcome

Author: Cindy Baldwin

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

The acclaimed author of Where the Watermelons Grow is back with a story perfect for fans of Lynda Mullaly Hunt and Ali Benjamin, about finding friendship after a tragic loss.

Its been eighty-three days since Annie Lees daddy died, but she still sees reminders of him everywhere. His record player mysteriously plays his favorite songs, theres shaving cream in the sink every morning, and the TV keeps flipping to the Duke basketball games he loved.

She knows Mama notices it too, but Mamas been working around the clock to make ends meet. To make matters worse, Annie Lees friends ditched her over the summer. She feels completely aloneuntil she meets Mitch.

Though Mitch is tough and confident on the outside, she may need a friend just as badly as Annie Lee. But after losing so much, Annie Lee is afraid to let anyone get too close.

And Mitch isnt the only friend trying to break through Annie Lees defenses. Ray, an elderly pianist who plays at a local mall, has been giving her piano lessons. His music is pure magic, and Annie Lee hopes it might be the key to healing her broken heart. But when Ray goes missing, searching for him means breaking a promise to Mitch.

Faced with once again losing those who mean the most to her, Annie Lee must make a choice: retreat back into her shell, or risk admitting how much she needs Mitch and Rayeven if it means getting hurt all over again.

Just like in her debut, Where the Watermelons Grow, Cindy Baldwin brings her signature twist of magic to this authentically heartfelt story.

A Whitney Award finalist

An AML Award finalist

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ID: 384468

Title: Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

Author: Madeline Levine

Narrator: Abby Craden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:25:06

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Parenting

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how todays parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain futureand how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health and happiness.

In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Continuing to address the mistaken notions about what children need to thrive in Teach Your Children Well, Levine tore down the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. In Ready or Not, she continues the discussion, showing how these same parenting practices, combined with a desperate need to shelter children from discomfort and anxiety, are setting future generations up to fail spectacularly.

Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down on the pressure-filled parenting style that pushes children to excel. Yet these daunting expectations, combined with the stress parents feel and unwittingly project onto their children, are leading to a generation of young people who are overwhelmed, exhausted, distressedand unprepared for the future that awaits them. While these damaging effects are known, the world into which these children are coming of age is not. And continuing to focus primarily on grades and performance are leaving kids more ill-prepared than ever to navigate the challenges to come.

But there is hope. Using the latest developments in neuroscience and epigenetics (the intersection of genetics and environment), as well as extensive research gleaned from captains of industry, entrepreneurs, military leaders, scientists, academics, and futurists, Levine identifies the skills that children need to succeed in a tumultuous future: adaptability, mental agility, curiosity, collaboration, tolerance for failure, resilience, and optimism. Most important, Levine offers day-to-day solutions parents can use to raise kids who are prepared, enthusiastic, and ready to face an unknown future with confidence and optimism.

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ID: 386274

Title: Daughter from the Dark: A Novel

Author: Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:10

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-20

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Religious Fiction

Summary:

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostraa ''dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics'' (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy.

Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave.

A game of cat-and-mouse has begun.

Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster.

Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, shell leave himand this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.

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