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ID: 538564

Title: Summer Island: A Novel

Author: Shelley Noble

Narrator: Marni Penning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:53:10

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble pens a heartwarming story of a mother-daughter road trip to the beach and to self-discovery.

When reporter Phoebe Adams loses her job and her fiancé on the same day, it never occurs to her that shell also have to support her mother, Ruth, through her divorce from Phoebes father after thirty-five years of marriage. They both need a safe haven, and Phoebe knows just the placeSummer Island where Grandma Alice still rules the roost from the big New England beach house Phoebe and Ruth once called home.

But home has changed. Theres a trendy new look downtown. Large beach houses are replacing the old; the Harken house next door is in disrepair.

Phoebes plan for a peaceful retreat is quickly hijacked when globe-trotting Great Aunt Vera makes an unannounced pit stop. With Vera around, no one can stay morose for long, not even Lars, the grumpy widower next door, or his son Ty, formerly geeky middle child all grown up into a handsome and enigmatic man. Soon theyre all enjoying things they used to do and discovering new ones. Each adventure opens a part of themselves theyve neglected for too long and brings them closer together.

But when an accident threatens to destroy the tenuous tie between them, Phoebe realizes how fragile life can be, and that she has some serious choices to make about her own life. It will take the support of her newly awakened family and the magic of Summer Island for Phoebe to embrace the challenge of an unexpected future and to trust her own heart.

In Summer Island, Shelley Noble once again creates a thought-provoking and life-affirming beach read that will stay with you long after the last tan of summer fades.

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ID: 550070

Title: Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles

Author: Mark Rozzo

Narrator: Jason Culp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:09:45

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Haywarda tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak

Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life. Brooke Hayward

Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible coupleDennis Hopper and Brooke Haywardlived out the emblematic love story of 60s L.A.

The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves and their family at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills became the eras unofficial living room, a kaleidoscopic realmfurnished like an amusement park, Andy Warhol saidthat made an impact on anyone who ever stepped into it. Hopper and Hayward, vanguard collectors of contemporary art, packed the place with pop masterpieces by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Warhol, and welcomed a whos who of visitors, from Jane Fonda to Jasper Johns, Joan Didion to Tina Turner, Hells Angels to Black Panthers. In this house, everything that defined the 1960s went down: the fun, the decadence, the radical politics, and, ultimately, the danger and instability that Hopper explored in the project that made his career, became the cinematic symbol of the period, and blew their union apartEasy Rider.

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy is at once a fascinating account of the Hopper and Hayward union and a deeply researched, panoramic cultural history. Its the intimate saga of one couple whose own rise and fallfrom youthful creative flowering to disorder and chaosmirrors the very shape of the decade. 

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ID: 554571

Title: Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

Author: Minnie Driver

Narrator: Minnie Driver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:48:40

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesnt.

In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphsfrom being the only student in her acting school not taken on by an agent to being discovered at a rave in a muddy field in the English countryside; shooting to fame in one of the most influential films of the 1990s and being nominated for an Academy Award; and finding the true light of her life, her son. She chronicles her unconventional career path, including the time she gave up on acting to sell jeans in Uruguay, her journey as a single parent, and the heartbreaking loss of her mother. 

Like Lena Dunham in Not That Kind of Girl, Gabrielle Union in Were Going to Need More Wine and Patti Smith in Just Kids, Driver writes with razor-sharp humor and grace as she explores navigating the depths of failure, fighting for success, discovering the unmatched wonder and challenge of motherhood, and wading through immeasurable grief. Effortlessly charming, deeply funny, personal, and honest, Managing Expectations reminds us of the way life works outeven when it doesnt.

Also included at the end of this audiobook is a conversation between Minnie Driver her friend Emma Forrest.

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ID: 551440

Title: Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl

Author: Joya Goffney

Narrator: Angel Pean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:50:34

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

Joya Goffney, author of the acclaimed Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, delivers a powerful second novel about a preachers daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving herself and her body, filled with heart, humor, family drama, and a dynamic love triangle. Perfect for fans of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles and Calling My Name by Liara Tamani!

Powerful, boundary pushing, and charmingly funny. Camryn Garrett, author of Full Disclosure and Off the Record

''Deeply empowering, sweet yet candid. A fearless story about the path to self acceptance. Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant and Save Steve

A heartfelt, funny, and irresistible readsmart, sex-positive, and positively terrific. Kirkus (starred review)

A compassionate novel that encourages teens to prioritize the control, safety, and comfort of their own bodies. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Monique is a preachers daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically cant have sex.

After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with straight-laced church girl Sashawho is surprisingly knowledgeable about Moniques conditionas well as Reggie, the misunderstood bad boy who always makes a ruckus at church, and together they embark upon a top-secret search for the cure.

While on their quest, Monique discovers the value of a true friend and the wonders of a love that accepts her for who she is. Despite everyones opinions about her virtue, she learns to live for herself, inspiring us all to reclaim our bodies and unapologetically love ourselves.

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2022 List Nominee

A triumph in not just dynamite contemporary fiction but also in critiquing purity culture and the harm it can do. Buzzfeed

[Monique's] journey toward recognizing her own value is hard-won, and her awareness of her own worth, when it comes, feels like a true victory. An empowering read. Booklist

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ID: 551306

Title: Isn't Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music

Author: Cheryl Wills

Narrator: Tracey Leigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:56:22

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

A unique tribute to often overlooked women who have left an indelible mark on Gospel Musicpowerful talents who overcame racism and sexism to define the genre, establish its sound, and set the standard for good sangin for generations.

Nothing in the world soothes the soul better than Gospel music. From the foot-stomping, hand-clapping melodies of yesterday to the head-bobbing, bass-thumping hits of today, Gospel music ignites the spirit and delivers the inspiration that takes us from the rough side of the mountain to the peak of Gods love and grace. That feeling of joy, peace, love, and contentment is amplified when its ringing through the voice of a sister who can SANG, Cheryl Wills reminds us. The remedy for a tough day at work can be alleviated with Mary Marys uplifting jam Shackles, the answer to your hearts desires can be found in the harmonies of The Clark Sisters Name It, Claim It, and if you need a reminder of Gods love, there is nothing more timeless that Aretha Franklins stirring rendition of Amazing Grace.

Some talented performers, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe have faded from history, while singers like Yolanda Adams are at the top of her game. During the twentieth century, Willie Mae Ford spent most of her life encouraging and uplifting Christians both in church and on stage and composed more than 100 Gospel songs, yet it was men like her co-writer, Thomas A. Dorsey, who received the accolades and fame. Many women in the Gospel music industry go unnoticed, unpaid, and under-appreciated for their contributions, yet it is these women who are often the bedrock for songwriting, arranging, directing, and developing singers. 

Cheryl Wills, the granddaughter of a Gospel singer, at last shines a spotlight on these spectacular women of song. The only book of its kind, Isnt Her Grace Amazing! showcase the talents, gifts, and skills of women in the Gospel music industry. It celebrates these heroines, chronicles their journeys from the choir loft to the worlds largest stages, and reveals how they revolutionized this sacred music that is beloved worldwide. From the matriarchs of this movement to todays chart-topping divas, Wills offers in-depth portraits of twenty-five amazing women of Gospel musicbased on interviews and extensive researchbehind-the-scenes stories of favorite gospel hits, and illuminates what makes each of them shine. 

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ID: 550063

Title: Patience Is a Subtle Thief: A Novel

Author: Abi Ishola-Ayodeji

Narrator: Liz Femi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:28:06

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Own Voices

Summary:

Hope and circumstance define a young womans life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature. 

For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. Patience lives a sheltered life within the secure walls of the familys mansion in Ibadan, but finds no comfort from her distant father and stepmother Modupe. Her only ally is her younger sister, yet even Margarets love and support cannot overcome Patiences insecurity and uncertainty.

More than anything, Patience wants to know why her father and uncle banished her mother from their compound years agoand whether her mother is even alive. Determined to discover the truth, Patience embarks on a desperate search to find her mother. Answers begin to surface when she moves to Lagos for university and unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin Kash.

Kash and his friend Emeka are petty thieves with an opportunity to make a big score. To pull it off they need helpand enlist Patience and Emekas straight-arrow brother, Chike, to become partners in their scheme. The thieves plan is to quit after this job. But unforeseen events lead to unexpected consequencesand demand a price from Patience that may be too steep to pay.

Suspenseful and evoking the subtleties of Nigerian life in an fresh and unexpected way, Patience Is a Subtle Thief is a heart-wrenching story of one young womans precarious journey to adulthood, and the risks and sacrifices it takes to follow her heart.

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ID: 551353

Title: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad)

Author: Tracy Dennis-Tiwary

Narrator: Eleanor Caudill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:03:52

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Psychology, Mental Health

Summary:

A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be.

We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to eradicate it like we do any diseaseprevent it, avoid it, and stamp it out at all costs. Yet cutting-edge therapies, hundreds of self-help books, and a panoply of medications have failed to keep debilitating anxiety at bay. A third of us will struggle with anxiety disorders in our lifetime and rates in children and adults continue to skyrocket.

Thats because the anxiety-as-disease story is falseand its harming us.

In this radical reinterpretation, Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although its related to stress and fear, its uniquely valuableallowing us to imagine the uncertain future and compelling us to make that future better. Thats why anxiety is inextricably linked to hope.

By distilling the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, including her own, combining it with real-world stories and personal narrative, Dennis-Tiwary shows how we can acknowledge the discomfort of anxiety and see it as a tool, rather than something to be feared and reviled. Detailing the terrible cost of our misunderstanding of anxiety, while celebrating the lives of people who harness it to their advantage, she argues that we canand mustlearn to be anxious in the right way.

Future Tense blazes the way for a paradigm shift in how we relate to and understand anxiety in our day-to-day livesa fresh set of beliefs and insights that allow us to explore and leverage even very distressing anxiety rather than to be overwhelmed by it. Through this new prism of thinking, even anxiety disorders can be alleviated. Achieving a new mindset will not fix anxiety itselfbecause the emotion of anxiety is not broken; the way we cope with it is. By challenging our long-held assumptions about anxiety, this book provides a concrete framework for how to reclaim it for what it has always beena gift rather than a curse, and a source of inner strength, joy, and ingenuity. 

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ID: 550031

Title: After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost its Soul

Author: Tripp Mickle

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:42:47

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Management & Leadership, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

From the Wall Street Journals Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenantsJony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEOand how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.

Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his spiritual partner at Apple. The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobss spirit, the man who designed the products adopted by hundreds of millions the world over: the iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, the iMac G3, and the iPhone. In the wake of his close collaborators death, the chief designer wrestled with grief and initially threw himself into his work designing the new Apple headquarters and the Watch before losing his motivation in a company increasingly devoted more to margins than to inspiration.

In many ways, Cook was Ives opposite. The product of a small Alabama town, he had risen through the ranks from the supply side of the company. His gift was not the creation of new products. Instead, he had invented countless ways to maximize a margin, squeezing some suppliers, persuading others to build factories the size of cities to churn out more units. He considered inventory evil. He knew how to make subordinates sweat with withering questions.

Jobs selected Cook as his successor, and Cook oversaw a period of tremendous revenue growth that has lifted Apples valuation to $2 trillion. He built a commanding business in China and rapidly distinguished himself as a master politician who could forge global alliances and send the worlds stock market into freefall with a single sentence.

Author Tripp Mickle spoke with more than 200 current and former Apple executives, as well as figures key to this period of Apples history, including Trump administration officials and fashion luminaries such as Anna Wintour while writing After Steve. His research shows the companys success came at a cost. Apple lost its innovative spirit and has not designed a new category of device in years. Ives departure in 2019 marked a culmination in Apples shift from a company of innovation to one of operational excellence, and the price is a company that has lost its soul.

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ID: 550030

Title: Tear Down the Throne

Author: Jennifer Estep

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:29:14

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Epic Fantasy, Romantasy

Summary:

Bestselling author Jennifer Estep continues her Gargoyle Queen epic fantasy series where magic reigns, alliances are tested, and a dangerous attraction could tear down a throne. . .

Crown princess. Clever spy. Powerful mind magier. Gemma Ripley of Andvari is all those thingsand determined to stop an enemy from using magical tearstone weapons to conquer her kingdom.

Gemmas quest for answers leads her to a trade Summit between the various kingdoms. Among the other royals in attendance is Queen Maeven Morricone of Morta and her son, Prince LeonidasGemmas charming and dangerous nemesis.

Gemma knows that Maeven always has a long game in motion, and sure enough, the cunning queen invokes an arcane tradition that threatens the fragile truce between Andvari and the other kingdoms. Despite her best intentions, Gemma once again finds herself thrown together with Leo and battling her growing feelings for the enemy prince.

When a series of deadly attacks shatters the Summits peaceful negotiations, Gemma realizes that someone wants to tear the royals down from their thronesand that this enemy just might succeed.

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ID: 554570

Title: Fierce Love: A Memoir of Family, Faith, and Purpose

Author: Sonya Curry

Narrator: Sonya Curry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:35:10

Language: English

Release date: 05-03-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Parenting

Summary:

Sonya Curry chronicles the never-before-shared story of raising her children and her lifelong devotion to education, family, and faith.

Sonya Currys journey, like those of her extraordinary sons and daughter, was filled with defeats and hard-fought victories, but hers took place out of the limelight, without the eyes of the world watching, cheering, or drawing inspiration from her example. Until now.

In this inspiring memoir, Sonya tells her story for the first time, beginning with her childhood in rural Virginia and moving through the peaks and valleys of an incredible lifefrom raising her immensely gifted but sometimes headstrong children, to becoming an educator and founding a Montessori school, to discovering a profound, life sustaining connection to God and faith.

Fierce Love is a wise and illuminating story of family, faith, and purpose. With something for everyoneseekers, sports fans, people of faith, lovers of memoir its one strong mothers gift to all who wonder how, where, and whether theyll find the strength.

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