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ID: 369336

Title: Citizen Outlaw: One Mans Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper

Author: Charles Barber

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:12

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Law & Politics, Social Science

Summary:

A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America.

When he was in his early twenties, William Juneboy Outlaw III was sentenced to eighty-five years in prison for homicide and armed assault. The sentence brought his brief but prolific criminal career as the head of a forty-member cocaine gang in New Haven, Connecticut, to a close. But behind bars, Outlaw quickly became a feared prison shot caller with 150 men under his sway.

Then everything changed: his original sentence was reduced by sixty years. At the same time, he was shipped to a series of the most notorious federal prisons in the country, where he endured long stints in solitary confinementand where transformational relationships with a fellow inmate and a prison therapist made him realize that he wanted more for himself.

Upon his release, Outlaw took a job at Dunkin Donuts, volunteered in the New Haven community, and started to rebuild his life. He now is an award-winning community advocate, leading a team of former felons who negotiate truces between gangs on the very streets that he once terrorized. The homicide rate in New Haven has dropped 70 percent in the decade that hes run the teama drop as dramatic as in any city in the country.

Written with exclusive access to Outlaw himself, Charles Barbers Citizen Outlaw is the unforgettable story of how a gang leader became the catalyst for one of the greatest civic crime reductions in America, and an inspiring argument for love and compassion in the face of insurmountable odds.

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ID: 369343

Title: Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream

Author: Aaron Glantz

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance, Business Development

Summary:

In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into Americas housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle classamong them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy, he said. But our future president wasnt alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homestheir profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers, they often used taxpayer moneyand the Obama administrations promise to cover their losses.

In Homewreckers, Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage products that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldnt be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. Homewreckers also brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.

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ID: 369744

Title: Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop: A Novel

Author: Jenny Colgan

Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Fans of Debbie Macomber and Jojo Moyes will love this warm, funny, moving holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Christmas at the Cupcake Café and Little Beach Street Bakery.

A nip in the air, chiming bells and carolers, and the genial glow of love and family. But for this English village, its going to be a Christmas to remember in ways it never expected...

In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with Englands first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephens relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.

But when a devastating tragedy strikes at the heart of the close-knit town, plans for a cozy Christmas are suddenly in danger of melting away. Its going to take Rosies indomitable spirit, the embrace of family and friends, and the resilient good will of a community to turn it all around and make this a holiday to be thankful for.

Soulful, emotional, uplifting, and complete with recipes for delicious wintry treats, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins Sweetshop is a perfect gift for listeners.

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ID: 374994

Title: Case Against Socialism

Author: Rand Paul

Narrator: Kelley Paul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Global Politics, General

Summary:

A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know?

Socialism has killed millions, but its now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ideology manifests itself in starry-eyed calls for free-spending policies like Medicare-for-all and student loan forgiveness.

In The Case Against Socialism, Rand Paul outlines the history of socialism, from Stalins gulags to the current famine in Venezuela. He tackles common misconceptions about the utopia of socialist Europe. As it turns out, Scandinavian countries love capitalism as much as Americans, and have, for decades, been cutting back on the things Bernie loves the most.

Socialisms return is only possible because many Americans have forgotten the true dangers of the twentieth-centurys deadliest ideology. Paul reveals the devastating truth: for every college student sporting a Che Guevara T-shirt, theres a Venezuelan child dying of starvation. Desperate refugees flee communist Cuba to escape oppressive censorship, rationed food and squalid hospitals, not free healthcare. Socialist dictatorships like the Peoples Republic of China crush freedom of speech and run massive surveillance states while masquerading as enlightened modern nations. Far from providing economic freedom, socialist governments enslave their citizens. They offer illusory promises of safety and equality while restricting personal liberty, tightening state power, sapping human enterprise and making citizens dependent on the dole.

If socialism takes hold in America, it will imperil the fate of the worlds freest nation, unleashing a plague of oppressive government control. The Case Against Socialism is a timely response to that threat and a call to action against the forces menacing American liberty.

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ID: 374996

Title: Your House Will Pay: A Novel

Author: Steph Cha

Narrator: Glenn Davis, Greta Jung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:51:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Asian American Literature

Summary:

With Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeless violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understandingof the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. Its a touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city. Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird

In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as its been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. Shes distraught that her sister hasnt spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Graces understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale.

But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.

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ID: 369750

Title: It Would Be Night in Caracas

Author: Karina Sainz Borgo

Narrator: Ana Osorio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:45:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one womans desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future.

In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her motherthe only family Adelaida has ever known.

Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every nightto prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping in. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. It is the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But as fate would have it, Adelaida is given a gruesome choice that could secure her escape.

Filled with riveting twists and turns, and told in a powerful, urgent voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

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ID: 369748

Title: Finding Christmas: A Novel

Author: Karen Schaler

Narrator: Bailey Carr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:40:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

From the writer of the Netflix sensation, A Christmas Prince, and Christmas Camp, the movie and novel, comes a heartwarming new Christmas story, Finding Christmas, showing how sometimes the detour in your journey is the path to true love.

With all the glittering decorations, twinkling lights, snow angels, gingerbread men and mistletoe, Christmas is Emmies first love.

This year, she cant wait to share her favorite Christmas traditions with her boyfriend, Grant. She thinks hes the one. So when Grants hectic work schedule has him more Bah Humbug than Ho, Ho, Ho, Emmie creates a holiday-themed scavenger hunt to help him find his Christmas spirit. At the end of the journey, Grant will arrive at the charming town of Christmas Point where shes planned a romantic weekend filled with holiday activities.

But Emmies plan backfires when a mix-up has the wrong guy following her clues! Sam, a best-selling mystery writer, thinks Emmies clever Christmas riddles are from his agent, who is trying to help him get over his epic writers block.

When he arrives at Christmas Point and finds the stunned Emmie, he immediately feels shes someone special, but she cant see beyond the fact that the wrong guy has shown up. Inspired by the small, charming town, Sam decides to stay and convinces Emmie to join him in a little holiday fun while she waits for Grant.

When Grant finally shows up, Emmie is disappointed to discover hes not enjoying the activities she planned and cant help wonder if hes really the one for her. She also cant get Sam out of her mind and all the great times they had together. With Christmas coming fast, Emmie will need the magic of the season to help steer her in the direction of true love

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ID: 385648

Title: Never Tilting World

Author: Rin Chupeco

Narrator: Amy Landon, Anthony Rey Perez, Emily Rankin, Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:33:41

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Tough Topics

Summary:

A world split between day and night. Two sisters who must unite it. The author of The Bone Witch kicks off an epic YA fantasy duology perfect for fans of Furyborn.

Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeonuntil one sisters betrayal split their world in two. A Great Abyss now divides two realms: one cloaked in eternal night, the other scorched beneath an ever-burning sun.

While one sister rules the frozen fortress of Aranth, her twin rules the sand-locked Golden Cityeach with a daughter by their side. Now those young goddesses must set out on separate, equally dangerous journeys in hopes of healing their broken world. No matter the sacrifice it demands.

Told from four interweaving perspectives, this sweeping epic fantasy packs elemental magic, star-crossed romance, and incredible landscapes into a spectacular adventure with the fierce sisterhood of Frozen and the breakneck action of Mad Max: Fury Road.

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ID: 360979

Title: Escaping Exodus: A Novel

Author: Nicky Drayden

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo, Cherise Boothe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:12

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

''Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.''

 - Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish City

The Compton Crook awardwinning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel, set in deep space, in which the fate of humanity rests on the slender shoulders of an idealistic and untested young womana blend of science fiction, dark humor, and magical realism that will appeal to fans of Charlie Jane Anders, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nnedi Okorafor.

Earth is a distant memory. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. For generations, humanity has been clinging to survival by establishing colonies within enormous vacuum-breathing space beasts and mining their resources to the point of depletion.

Rash, dreamy, and unconventional, Seske Kaleigh should be preparing for her future role as clan leader, but her people have just culled their latest beast, and shes eager to find the cause of the violent tremors plaguing their new home. Defying social barriers, Seske teams up with her best friend, a beast worker, and ventures into restricted areas for answers to end the mounting fear and rumors. Instead, they discover grim truths about the price of life in the void.

Then, Seske is unexpectedly thrust into the role of clan matriarch, responsible for thousands of lives in a harsh universe where a single mistake can be fatal. Her claim to the throne is challenged by a rival determined to overthrow her and take controlher intelligent, cunning, and confident sister.

Seske may not be a born leader like her sister, yet her unorthodox outlook and incorruptible idealism may be what the clan needs to save themselves and their world.

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ID: 355095

Title: Contender

Author: William J. Mann

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:00:04

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Based on new and revelatory material from Brandos own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before.

The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their craft. His approach was natural, honest, and deeply personal, resulting in performancesmost notably in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfrontthat are without parallel. Brando was heralded as the American Hamletthe Yank who surpassed British stage royalty Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Ralph Richardson as the standard of greatness in the mid-twentieth century.

Brandos impact on American culture matches his professional significance; he both challenged and codified our ideas of masculinity and sexuality. Brando was also one of the first stars to use his fame as a platform to address social, political, and moral issues, courageously calling out Americas deeply rooted racism.

William Manns brilliant biography of the Hollywood legend illuminates this culture icon for a new age. Mann astutely argues that Brando was not only a great actor but also a cultural soothsayer, a Cassandra warning us about the challenges to come. Brandos admonitions against the monetization of nearly every aspect of the culture were prescient. His public protests against racial segregation and discrimination at the height of the Civil Rights movementgetting himself arrested at least oncewere criticized as being needlessly provocative. Yet those actions of fifty years ago have become a model many actors follow today.

Psychologically astute and masterfully researched, based on new and revelatory material, The Contender explores the star and the man in full, including the childhood traumas that reverberated through his professional and personal life. It is a dazzling biography of our nations greatest actor that is sure to become an instant classic.

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