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ID: 545097

Title: Chasing Lakes: Love, Science, and the Secrets of the Arctic

Author: Katey Walter Anthony

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:04:13

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

An aquatic ecologist and permafrost scientist recalls her captivating adventures across the Arctic studying climate change, her quest to find belonging and family, and her journey of faith in a world of science in this poignant, eye-opening, and hopeful memoir in the spirit of Lab Girl, Educated, and Finding the Mother Tree.

Katey Walter Anthonys enchantment with lakes began when she was growing up amid the Sierra Nevada mountains. Today, her love for these bodies of water have taken her to the deepest reaches of Alaska and Siberia, where she is undertaking pioneering research on methane emissions. Chasing Lakes is her story: one-part adventurecomplete with shipwrecks and treacherous treks through Arctic storms by helicopter, snowmobile, and foot to measure greenhouse gasespart coming-of-age tale, as she searches for belonging in the wake of a broken childhood, and part spiritual quest to find a wholeness science cannot fill.

Somewhere between the remote, frozen landscapes of Siberia and her rough cabin in Alaska, she discovers her spiritual and emotional home when she meets Peter, a bright and humble Minnesota farmer who reinvigorates her faith and helps ground her. Yet finding love and fulfillment brings its own challenges. The closer she gets to having the family shes always wanted, the further shes pushed from the important field work that is her passion.

Chasing Lakes is a chronicle of a woman seeking truth, adventure, scientific discovery, family, love, and grace. Both an eye-opening look from the frontlines of the climate crisis and an intimate portrait of a brilliant scientist, Chasing Lakes is memoir writing at its finest: beautiful, complex, revelatory, and moving.

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ID: 538562

Title: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Author: Angela Garbes

Narrator: Angela Garbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:21:44

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Social Science

Summary:

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.

The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregiversand the lack of a social safety net to support themwriter Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? 

In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global contextthe invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. 

Garbes contends that while the labor of raising children is devalued in America, the act of mothering offers the radical potential to create a more equitable society. In Essential Labor, Garbes reframes the physically and mentally draining work of meeting a child's bodily and emotional needs as opportunities to find meaning, to nurture a deeper sense of self, pleasure, and belonging. This is highly skilled labor, work that impacts society at its most foundational level.

Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative, Essential Labor is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering.

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ID: 538558

Title: Dear Friends

Author: Lisa Greenwald

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:34:40

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

From Lisa Greenwald, the beloved author of the TBH and Friendship List series, comes a novel about one girls mission to revisit her top 5 friendship fails and prove shes totally best friend material! 

Eleni is the kind of person whos always had a BFFan automatic, guaranteed by-her-side personat home, at school, and at camp. And since before she was even born, her very best friend has been Sylvie Bank.

But when Sylvies end-of-summer birthday party becomes the end of their friendship, Eleni cant picture starting middle school without her BFF by her side. She cant picture anything without her BFFespecially the looming school overnight. Who will she even room with?

So before the big overnight, Eleni sets out on a mission: to figure out where her friendships went wrong, whats wrong with her, and what makes a good friend. But if shes totally honest, theres only one real goal: to win back Sylvie Bank!

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ID: 548480

Title: Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

Author: A. J. Verdelle

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:26:45

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique. Kirkus (starred review)

''Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that deserves to be amen'd forever. Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

''Verdelle gives us the greatest giftour beloved ancestor returned to usgenerous and alive, remembered and revered. So grateful for this book in the world. Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn

''If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recognize the woman who emerges.''

from Miss Chloe

Toni Morrison, born Chloe A Wofford, was a towering figure in the world of literature when she entered A.J. Verdelles life. Their literary friendship was a young writers dreamsimultaneously exhilarating, intimidating, fulfilling, and challenging. The relationship crossed generations, spanned several cycles in life, exhibited high and low notes, reached and dipped and found its way. Like many women friends, these two writers imagined and built a relationship that was responsive, inventive, and engaged.

Miss Chloe powerfully situates the risks writers face and the freedom they find when they put Black womens lives into words. Verdelle chronicles her grief at Morrisons passing, and finds comfort in Morrisons astute advicewisdom Verdelle didnt always recognize at the time. In this pensive and intricately lyrical book, Verdelle honors Morrison among the cultural greats, while illuminating and celebrating the power of language, legacy, and genius.

A. J. Verdelle is the award-winning author of the novel, The Good Negress. She teaches Creative Writing at Morgan State University and at the MFA program at Lesley University. 

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ID: 538554

Title: Camp Famous

Author: Jennifer Blecher

Narrator: Ferdelle Capistrano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:21:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Sports

Summary:

Camp Famous expertly blends the joys of summer camp with the struggles of not fitting in. It's a fun and uplifting read!Janae Marks, author of From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Like the best camp friends, this heartfelt story will stay with you for a long time.Stacy McAnulty, author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

The Princess Diaries meets Harriet the Spy when Abbythe most ordinary girl in the worldfinds herself undercover at a summer camp for famous kids. From acclaimed author Jennifer Blecher, Camp Famous is an accessible and fun summertime adventure about fitting in, being brave, and letting others see who you truly are. Camp Famous is pitch-perfect for anyone who loves Disneys Camp Rock.

Eleven-year-old Abby Herman is beyond excited that her parents are letting her go to summer camp for the first time ever. Maybe camp will be the place shell finally find what shes always wanted: a best friend. Butsurprise!shes not going to just any summer camp, shes going to Camp Famous, the one exclusively for famous kids escaping the spotlight.

Desperate to fit in with the pop stars, princesses, and geniuses, Abby creates a fake identity as a famous author. Everything goes as planned: the other girls welcome her, she participates in camp activities, and she even inspires a pop star! But as camp comes to a close, Abby finds herself torn between who she has pretended to be and who she truly is.

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ID: 538563

Title: Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do

Author: Tracy Dawson

Narrator: Kendra Hoffman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:26:20

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, World, General Comedy

Summary:

In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women.

This book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger you on the lengths women have had to go to pursue their dreams. Tracy has such a gift for storytelling and making history leap off the page. Her book has a wit that suggests it was written by a man since everyone knows women aren't this funny.Kay Cannon, writer, producer, director (the Pitch Perfect films, Cinderella)

A smart, funny journey through history that introduces us to the rule breakers who made history worth traveling through.Patton Oswalt, comedian, actor and author

I came up with Tracy as a fellow sketch comedian on the vomit-soaked stages of the Toronto comedy scene. And like the brilliant, resourceful, rule-breaking, damn-well-stubborn sisters in Let Me Be Frank, Tracy is someone who gets the job done, and gets it done well.Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 

Let Me Be Frank illuminates with a wry warmth the incredible stories of a diverse group of women from different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds who have defied the patriarchy, refusing to allow men or the status quo to define their lives or break their spirit. An often sardonic and thoroughly impassioned homage to female ingenuity and tenacity, the women profiled in this inspiring anthology broke the rules to reach their goals and refused to take no for an answer. These women took matters into their own hands, dressingsometimes literally, sometimes figurativelyas men to do what they wanted to do. This includes competing in marathons, publishing books, escaping enslavement, practicing medicine, tunneling deep in the earth as miners, taking to the seas as pirates and serving on the frontlines in the military, among many other pursuits. Not only did these women persist, many unknowingly made history and ultimately inspired later generations in doing so. This compendium is an informative and enthralling celebration of these revolutionary badasses who have changed the world and our lives.

WOMEN PROFILED INCLUDE: Jeanne Baret * Anne Bonny and Mary Read * Christian Caddell * Ellen Craft * Catalina De Erauso * Louise Augustine Gleizes * Hatshepsut * Annie Hindle and Florence Hines* Pili Hussein * Joan of Arc * Rena Rusty Kanokogi * Margaret King * Dorothy Lawrence * Tarpé Mills * Hannah Snell * Kathrine Switzer * Maria Toorpakai * Dr. Mary Edwards Walker * Cathay Williams

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ID: 538538

Title: Layla, the Last Black Unicorn

Author: Jerdine Nolen, Tiffany Haddish

Narrator: Tiffany Haddish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:09:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family, Humor

Summary:

From beloved comedian, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Tiffany Haddish comes Layla, the Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, original book about a lovable but awkward unicorn who learns why her uniqueness is her biggest strength.

Its not easy to fit in when you stand out. When Layla arrives for her first day of school at Unicornia, the school for unicorns, she realizes that shes not like the other kids there. Theyre all pastel colors and know the rules to Horn Ball and none of them come from the Woods like Layla does. Try as she might to make friends, Laylas just . . . different. But when her class gets lost during a field trip to the Fiddle Dee Deep Forest, its up to Layla to step up and save the day.

Layla, the Last Black Unicorn is a hilariously heartwarming book about self-acceptance, self-esteem, and standing up for standing out by New York Times bestselling author, Grammy Award-winning comedian, and actress Tiffany Haddish and Jerdine Nolen, author of the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Thunder Rose.

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ID: 538552

Title: Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Author: Jen Ferguson

Narrator: Julie Lumsden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:08:50

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Heartdrum

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel about a Métis girl living on the Canadian prairies, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful story about rage, secrets, and all the spectrums that make up a personand the sweetness that can still live alongside the bitterest truth. A William C. Morris Award Honor Book and a Stonewall Award Honor Book!

Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. Shell be working in her familys ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriendwhose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfortand her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word.

But when she gets a letter from her biological fathera man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his lifeLou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists.

While Kings friendship makes Lou feel safer and warmer than she would have thought possible, when her familys business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she cant ignore her father forever.

The Heartdrum imprint centers a wide range of intertribal voices, visions, and stories while welcoming all young readers, with an emphasis on the present and future of Indian Country and on the strength of young Native heroes. In partnership with We Need Diverse Books.

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ID: 538579

Title: Overboard: A Novel

Author: Sara Paretsky

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:41:02

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

''Readers can find comfort in the dedication V.I. gives the cries for help she hears from friends, neighbors, and strangers... Very few series authors deliver as masterfully as Sara Paretsky.  San Francisco Book Review

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicagos weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawskis dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts to find her, the detective uncovers an ugly consortium of Chicago powerbrokers and mobsters who are prepared to kill the girl. And now V.I.s own life is in jeopardy as well.

Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Overboard lays bare the dark secrets and corruption buried in Chicagos neighborhoods in a masterly fashion.

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ID: 550075

Title: Some Mistakes Were Made

Author: Kristin Dwyer

Narrator: Heath Miller, Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Sarah Dessen meets Adam Silvera in the debut YA romance everyone is talking about!

A breathtaking tour de force of angst and longing. Heartbreaking, painfully romantic, and deeply human. STEPHANIE GARBER, #1 bestselling author of Caraval

A novel you can make yourself at home in, with characters so real it feels like youve known them for ages. JENNA EVANS WELCH, bestselling author of Love & Gelato

This book comes with its own aching heartbeat. Be forewarned, its stronger than it looks. STACEY LEE, award-winning author of The Downstairs Girl

Ellis and Easton have been inseparable since childhood. But when a rash decision throws Elliss lifeand her relationship with Eastoninto chaos, shes forced to move halfway across the country, far from everything shes ever known.

Now Ellis hasnt spoken to Easton in a year, and maybe its better that way; maybe eventually the Easton-shaped hole in her heart will heal.

But when Eastons mom invites her home for a visit, Ellis finds herself tangled up in the web of heartache, betrayal, and anger she left behind . . . and with the boy she never stopped loving.

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