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ID: 557017

Title: Glacier's Edge: A Novel

Author: R. A. Salvatore

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:43:50

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes the follow-up to Starlight Enclave and thrilling second novel in his newest trilogy, The Way of the Drow, expanding the Forgotten Realms through the adventures of Drizzt, Catti-brie, Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Zaknefeinand a society of drow unlike one any elf from Menzoberranzan could possibly imagine.

Theres a lot that Jarlaxle doesnt know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape the ice caverns and get help for his friends?

However, what Jarlaxle does know is that if he plans to come backif Catti-brie, Entreri, and Zaknafein are to have any hope of survivinghes going to have to bring back far more firepower. An army of aevendrow seems unlikely, so he must go home and pull together a team with great skill and unimaginable power.

But how will he get home? Will such a collection of warriors and mages come to his aid? And even if he manages all that, will it be enough? For Jarlaxle has seen the slaadis power and their god in a most personal and terrifying way.

Trapped in the ice while the world is on fire, Jarlaxle is in a race against timeand burdened with a magical secretto save a peaceful city and his companions.

And hes running out of tricks in his bag of holding

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ID: 555933

Title: Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Author: Alec Nevala-Lee

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:04:56

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, North America, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped Americas idea of the future.

During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems using a radically unconventional set of strategies, which he based on a mystical conception of the universes geometry. His views on sustainability, as embodied in the image of Spaceship Earth, convinced him that it was possible to provide for all humanity through the efficient use of planetary resources. From Epcot Center to the molecule named in his honor as the buckyball, Fullers legacy endures to this day, and his belief in the transformative potential of technology profoundly influenced the founders of Silicon Valley.

Inventor of the Future is the first authoritative biography to cover all aspects of Fullers career. Drawing on meticulous research, dozens of interviews, and thousands of unpublished documents, Nevala-Lee has produced a riveting portrait that transcends the myth of Fuller as an otherworldly generalist. It reconstructs the true origins of his most famous inventions, including the Dymaxion Car, the Wichita House, and the dome itself; his fraught relationships with his students and collaborators; his interactions with Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, Clare Boothe Luce, John Cage, Steve Jobs, and many others; and his tumultuous private life, in which his determination to succeed on his own terms came at an immense personal cost. In an era of accelerating change, Fullers example remains enormously relevant, and his lessons for designers, activists, and innovators are as powerful and essential as ever.

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ID: 540236

Title: Fault Tolerance: A Novel

Author: Valerie Valdes

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:14:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Space Opera

Summary:

From the author of the critically acclaimed Prime Deceptions and Chilling Effect, the hilarious new novel about the adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra.

Nothing wrecks Captain Eva Innocentes vacation plans quite like an anonymous threat to vaporize billions of people. Hundreds of monoliths have suddenly materialized in space, broadcasting the same looped message: surrender or be exterminated. Is the universe being epically spammed?

Surrender to whom? Exterminated when? And how is Eva, commander of a beat-up cargo ship, supposed to prevent it? As panic spreads, a mystery message sends Eva to find answers, in a system that hasnt been explored in all of recorded history.

With the crew of La Sirena Negra, a score of psychic cats, a feline-phobic robot, and a superweapon she has no clue how to use, Eva prepares to battle the unknown. But first, she has to defeat the known: mercenary Tito Santiago, whose idea of a clean fight is a shower before kill time. His mission is to ensure Eva doesnt succeed at hers.

If anything goes wrong, the universe is doomed. But if everything goes according to Evas planswait, when does that ever happen?

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ID: 557769

Title: Reckoning: An FBI Thriller

Author: Catherine Coulter

Narrator: Pete Simonelli, Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:50:54

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Agents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulters #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.

When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarians parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why. She assumes the identity of E.N.Eliot Nessand gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savichs help. Savich brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the young detective whod saved Kirra years before.

Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, she was saved by her adoptive father, San Francisco federal judge Ramsey Hunt. Now a twelve-year-old with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she narrowly saves herself from a would-be kidnapper at Davies Hall in San Francisco. Worried for her safety, Emmas entire family joins her for her next performance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Sherlock and officers from METRO are assigned to protect her, but things dont turn out as planned

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ID: 551272

Title: When We Were Bright and Beautiful: A Novel

Author: Jillian Medoff

Narrator: Marin Ireland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:39:36

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Legal Thriller, Coming of Age, Family Life

Summary:

Two parts Gone Girl, two parts Notes on a Scandal. . .will play with your expectations about whos the villain and whos the victim.  Jennifer Weiner, USA Today

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction

The acclaimed, bestselling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yetan electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattans glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty, and the high cost of truth.

You can have everything, and still not have enough. 

Cassie Quinn may only be twenty-three, but she knows a few things. One: money cant buy happiness, but its certainly better to have it. Two: family matters most. Three: her younger brother Billy is not a rapist.

When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie races home to Manhattan to join forces with her big brother Nate and their parents, Lawrence and Eleanor. The Quinns scramble to hire the best legal minds money can buy, but Billy fits the all-too-familiar sex-offender profilewhite, athletic, and privilegedthat makes headlines and sways juries.

Meanwhile, Cassie struggles to understand why Billys ex Diana would go this far, even if the breakup was painful. And she knows how the end of first love can destroy someone: Her own years-long affair with a powerful, charismatic man left her shattered, and shes only recently regained her footing.   

As reporters converge outside their Upper East Side landmark building, the Quinns gird themselves for a media-saturated trial, and Cassie vows shell do whatever it takes to save Billy. But what if that means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world?

Lightning-paced and psychologically astute as it rockets toward an explosive ending, When We Were Bright and Beautiful is a dazzling novel that asks: who will pay the price when the truth is revealed? 

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ID: 545093

Title: After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politicsand How to Fix It

Author: Will Bunch

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:12:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Current Affairs, Social Science, Education

Summary:

From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of collegethe great political and cultural fault line of American life

Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ''This book is simply terrific.'' Heather Cox Richardson | ''Ambitious and engrossing.'' New York Times Book Review | ''A must-read.'' Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains

Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribesthe resentful non-college crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversariesseem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called knowledge economy'' of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of Americas commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat.

In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand the college question, there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair.

From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., from the landmark GI Bill through the culture wars of the 60s and 70s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itselfand how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over againwhat, and who, is college even for?and pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans.

The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic divisionand charts a path forward for America.

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ID: 554030

Title: Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story

Author: Lis Smith

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:33:19

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Politics, Current Affairs, Political Ideologies

Summary:

New York Times Bestseller

An irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most sought-after operatives in the Democratic Party

Lis Smith isnt your average political strategist and Any Given Tuesday isnt your typical political memoir. At once a revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate portrayal of a sometimes rocky personal journey, it breaks all the rules. Smith doesnt pretend to be perfectshe owns the controversial choices that landed her in the tabloids, as well as the unorthodox ones that have paid off and defined her successful career.

 Any Given Tuesday follows Smith from her earliest experiences as a college-aged intern to her days as a trusted adviser and confidante to some of the most high-profile politicians in the countryincluding her star turn as senior adviser on Pete Buttigiegs 2020 presidential campaign. Animated by Smiths love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics and sustained by her deeply-held belief that its still possible to effect positive change, its an odyssey full of highs and lows and larger-than-life characters. Throughout, Smith shows what its really like behind the curtain: what happens when the lights go down and the cameras turn off, how it feels to be in the eye of the political media storm, and how the people responsible for heady, life and death decisions are as flawed as the rest of us.

While the journey hasnt always been smooth, Lis Smith has seen and learned a lotand she shares it all in this eye-opening, entertaining memoir.

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ID: 551321

Title: Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:44:39

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War Ithe women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. 

An eye-opening and detailed novel about remarkable female soldiers. . . Chiaverini weaves the intersecting threads of these brave womens lives together, highlighting their deep sense of pride and duty.Kirkus Reviews

 In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed telephone operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet, since the calls often conveyed classified information.

At the time, nearly all well-trained American telephone operators were womenbut women were not permitted to enlist, or even to vote in most states. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them.

More than 7,600 women responded, including Grace Banker of New Jersey, a switchboard instructor with AT&T and an alumna of Barnard College; Marie Miossec, a Frenchwoman and aspiring opera singer; and Valerie DeSmedt, a twenty-year-old Pacific Telephone operator from Los Angeles, determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium.

They were among the first women sworn into the U.S. Army under the Articles of War. The male soldiers they had replaced had needed one minute to connect each call. The switchboard soldiers could do it in ten seconds.

Deployed throughout France, including near the front lines, the operators endured hardships and risked death or injury from gunfire, bombardments, and the Spanish Flu. Not all of them would survive.

The women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps served with honor and played an essential role in achieving the Allied victory. Their story has never been the focus of a noveluntil now. 

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ID: 551320

Title: Sister Mother Warrior: A Novel

Author: Vanessa Riley

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:50:25

Language: English

Release date: 07-12-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Black Literature

Summary:

Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti. 

Gran Toya: Born in West Africa, Abdaraya Toya was one of the legendary minoswomen called Dahomeyan Amazons by the Europeanswho were specially chosen female warriors consecrated to the King of Dahomey. Betrayed by an enemy, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, Toya wound up in the French colony of Saint Domingue, where she became a force to be reckoned with on its sugar plantations: a healer and an authority figure among the enslaved. Among the motherless children she helped raise was a man who would become the revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines. When the enslaved people rose up, Toya, ever the warrior, was at the forefront of the rebellion that changed the course of history.

Marie-Claire: A free woman of color, Marie-Claire Bonheur was raised in an air of privilege and security because of her wealthy white grandfather. With a passion for charitable work, she grew up looking for ways to help those oppressed by a society steeped in racial and economic injustices. Falling in love with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an enslaved man, was never the plan, yet their paths continued to cross and intertwine, and despite a marriage of convenience to a Frenchman, she and Dessalines had several children.

When war breaks out on Saint Domingue, pitting the French, Spanish, and enslaved people against one another in turn, Marie-Claire and Toya finally meet, and despite their deep differences, they both play pivotal roles in the revolution that will eventually lead to full independence for Haiti and its people.

Both an emotionally palpable love story and a detail-rich historical novel, Sister Mother Warrior tells the often-overlooked history of the most successful Black uprising in history. Riley celebrates the tremendous courage and resilience of the revolutionaries, and the formidable strength and intelligence of Toya, Marie-Claire, and the countless other women who fought for freedom. 

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ID: 551778

Title: Circling Back to You: A Novel

Author: Julie Tieu

Narrator: Natalie Naudus, Reuben Uy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:44:01

Language: English

Release date: 07-12-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Multicultural & Interracial, Own Voices

Summary:

Julie Tieu, an exciting new and diverse voice in contemporary romance, returns with a hilarious and sexy new novel about colleagues who decide to take their relationship outside the office.

Cadence Lim has transformed from behind-the-scenes number cruncher to an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. But despite moving up the corporate ladder, her complicated relationship with her estranged elderly father weighs heavily and she cant seem to shake the desire for a new beginning.

At least Cadence can always lean on her favorite co-worker and co-conspirator, Matt Escanilla. A top broker with an unsuccessful love life, the forever single Matt is constantly being nagged by his loving Filipino family to settle down.

Their relationship takes a turn when a business trip lands them both in their hometown and Matt enlists Cadence as a pretend girlfriend for a family gathering. The new after-hours setting forces the two friends to see each other in a new light, and their previously buried feelings rise quickly to the surface. When competing promotions threaten to separate Cadence and Matt, these office besties must work together to round up their ambitions and families to pursue their overdue romance.

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