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ID: 359192

Title: Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

Author: Andrew Smith

Narrator: Matt Jamie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:08:46

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, North America, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, History & Culture

Summary:

In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smiths book, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.

Smiths book succeedsbecause he bungee-cords together so many intriguing digressions.New York Times

The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys and were indelibly marked by it, for better or for worse. Journalist Andrew Smith tracks down the nine surviving members of this elite group to find their answers to the question ''Where do you go after you've been to the Moon?''

A thrilling blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Moondust rekindles the hopeful excitement of an incandescent hour in America's past when anything seemed possible as it captures the bittersweet heroism of those who risked everything to hurl themselves out of the known worldand who were never again quite able to accept its familiar bounds.

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ID: 365778

Title: How to Read a Book

Author: Kwame Alexander

Narrator: Kwame Alexander

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:05:20

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, General

Summary:

2020 Audie Awards Finalist - Young Reader 

Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander narrates the audiobook version of his How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading.

Find a treea

black tupelo or

dawn redwood will doand

plant yourself.

(Its okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.)

With these words, an adventure begins. Kwame Alexanders evocative poetry takes listeners on a sensory journey between the pages of a book.

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ID: 360580

Title: In Pain: A Bioethicists Personal Struggle with Opioids

Author: Travis Rieder

Narrator: Travis Rieder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:57:08

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, History & Culture

Summary:

A bioethicists eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawala harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for government but medicine itself, revealing the lack of crucial resources and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.

Travis Rieders terrifying journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began with a motorcycle accident in 2015. Enduring half a dozen surgeries, the drugs he received were both miraculous and essential to his recovery. But his most profound suffering came several months later when he went into acute opioid withdrawal while following his physicians orders. Over the course of four excruciating weeks, Rieder learned what it means to be dope sickthe physical and mental agony caused by opioid dependence. Clueless how to manage his opioid taper, Traviss doctors suggested he go back on the drugs and try again later. Yet returning to pills out of fear of withdrawal is one route to full-blown addiction. Instead, Rieder continued the painful process of weaning himself.

Rieders experience exposes a dark secret of American pain management: a healthcare system so conflicted about opioids, and so inept at managing them, that the crisis currently facing us is both unsurprising and inevitable. As he recounts his story, Rieder provides a fascinating look at the history of these drugs first invented in the 1800s, changing attitudes about pain management over the following decades, and the implementation of the pain scale at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He explores both the science of addiction and the systemic and cultural barriers we must overcome if we are to address the problem effectively in the contemporary American healthcare system.

In Pain is not only a gripping personal account of dependence, but a groundbreaking exploration of the intractable causes of Americas opioid problem and their implications for resolving the crisis. Rieder makes clear that the opioid crisis exists against a backdrop of real, debilitating painand that anyone can fall victim to this epidemic.

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ID: 355798

Title: You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise

Author: Wanda T. Wallace

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:20:14

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Make the move from star contributor to exceptional leader in this long overdue hands-on guide.

Todays organizations are packed full of experts in every area from marketing to sales to IT. Many of these people are also leaders, heading teams or departments. They lead because they know more than the rest of their group. They are followed because of their credibility as experts.

Yet, the toughest transition in business comes when expert leaders are asked to move beyond their expertise and lead a larger group, they struggle with how to span a broad area without trying to become the expert in every aspect. In Wanda Wallaces experience, this movefrom expert to spanning leaderrequires a new mindset about how to lead.

Wallace explains what few people understandhow to add value as a leader when youre spanning an ever growing set of responsibilities. In You Cant Know It All, Wallace presents the coaching model she has developed to address this challenging transition. She provides tools and strategies for individuals to navigate their new roles and learn to combine their expertise with their leadership responsibilities. She also offers essential advice on the fundamental change in mindset that this requires.

Not just for novice managers, this invaluable audio handbook offers human resources professionals and mentors insights into why their companys star performer may be suddenly floundering, and offers essential tools to guide them.

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ID: 355782

Title: Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

Author: Jerry Colonna

Narrator: Jerry Colonna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:35:19

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

One of the start-up worlds most in-demand executive coacheshailed as the CEO Whisperer (Gimlet Media)reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.

Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeedmolding them into highly accomplished individualsyet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being. Now, this venture capitalist turned executive coach shares his unusual yet highly effective blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk to help leaders overcome their own psychological traumas. Reboot is a journey of radical self-inquiry, helping you to reset your life by sorting through the emotional baggage that is holding you back professionally, and even more important, in your relationships.

Jerry has taught CEOs and their top teams to realize their potential by using the raw material of their lives to find meaning, to build healthy interpersonal bonds, and to become more compassionate and bold leaders. In Reboot, he inspires everyone to hold themselves responsible for their choices and for the possibility of truly achieving their dreams.

Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self, Jerry firmly believes. What we need, sometimes, is a chance to reset our goals and to reconnect with our deepest selves and with each other. Reboot moves and empowers us to begin this journey.

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ID: 381447

Title: Flashback Four #4: The Hamilton-Burr Duel

Author: Dan Gutman

Narrator: Mark Turetsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:39:49

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Historical, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

In this jaw-dropping final installment of New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutmans action-packed series, four risk-taking friends travel back in time to record the most infamous duel in American history.

Billionaire Miss Z might be out of the picture, but a top-secret agency wants to send Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel on one final mission. This time, the Flashback Four are headed to Weehawken, New Jerseyin 1804to videotape the fateful duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

But once they arrive, the team faces a question of historic proportions: Should they capture the tragic details of the duel or try to change them?

The Hamilton-Burr Duel tells the story of one of historys fiercest rivalries from a fun and fresh new angle.

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ID: 356495

Title: Girl in the Rearview Mirror: A Novel

Author: Kelsey Rae Dimberg

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:47:47

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Political Thriller

Summary:

The young nanny for a prominent political family gets drawn into a web of deadly liesincluding her ownin this stunning debut thriller with the menacing twists of Megan Abbott and the exquisite suspense of Laura Lippman.

They are Phoenixs First Family: handsome Philip Martin, son of the sitting Senator, an ex-football player who carries himself with an easy grace and appears destined to step into his fathers seat when the time is right; his wife Marina, the stylish and elegant director of Phoenixs fine arts museum; and their four-year-old daughter Amabel, beautiful and precocious and beloved.

Finn Hunt is working a dull office job to pay off her college debt when she meets Philip and charms Amabel. She eagerly agrees to nanny, thinking shes lucked into the job of a lifetime. Though the glamour of the Martins lifestyle undeniably dazzles Finn, her real pleasure comes from being part of the family: sharing quick jokes with Philip in the kitchen before he leaves for work; staying late when Marina needs a last-minute sitter; and spending long days with Amabel, who is often treated more like a photo op than a child.

But behind every façade lurks a less attractive truth. When a young woman approaches Finn, claiming a connection with Philip and asking Finn to pass on a message, Finn becomes caught up in a web of deceit with the senate seat at its center. And Finn isnt exactly innocent herself: she too has a background she has kept hidden, and under the hot Phoenix sun, everything is about to be laid bare. . . . 

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ID: 368557

Title: Playing Days: A Novel

Author: Benjamin Markovits

Narrator: Zach Villa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:34:28

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Available for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovitss Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the authors season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another players estranged wife that ushers him into adulthood.

Growing up in Texas, Ben experienced basketball as a mostly solitary pursuit, one he gave up after riding the bench in high school. But as his college classmates prepare for the real world, Ben is seized by an idea. All he needs is a video camera, an empty court, and his mothers German citizenship.

Improbably, he lands a roster spot on a lower division pro team in Landshut, forty-five minutes outside of Munich. Its Bens first taste of competition in years, not to mention his first job. And like most jobs, its defined by repetition, boredom, and gossip. Theres Charlie, the trash-talking mercenary from Chicago; the coach, Herr Henkel, a recently retired player anxious to justify his paycheck; and Karl (based on the authors real life relationship with Dirk Nowitski), a gangly teenage prodigy flashing the raw talent that will make him an NBA star. As a group of men learn how to navigate one another, Ben falls in love with the young mother of a teammates child, and begins an affair that will change his life.

Wry, poignant, and tenderly observed, Playing Days is an evocative meditation on the joys of youth, the triumphs and terrors of post-college life, and one of the best books ever written about what basketball can mean to an American man.

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ID: 360571

Title: Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

Author: Edward Dolnick

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:04:52

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.

On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantisand as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona.

Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the Wests last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroesall these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.

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ID: 355791

Title: Grand Dark

Author: Richard Kadrey

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:15:41

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-19

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:

A stand-alone heavy hitter thats more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendigs upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilsons The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynchs pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically it resembles the near-future dystopias of Cory Doctorow or China Miéville [] Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author whos punching above his weight in terms of worldbuildingand winning.

-- Kirkus (starred review)

From the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrisona subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos.

The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the wars horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonismdrugs and sex and endless partiesdistracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria cant mask.

Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the citys streets and its secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotionand maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets.

But dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a vision of life very different from Largos, and they will use any methods to secure control. And in behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.

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