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ID: 550092

Title: Midnight Angel

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:54:24

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Romantica

Summary:

A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lordwho must defy society to keep her safe . . . and overcome a tragic past to claim her as his own.

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ID: 550080

Title: Chandler Legacies

Author: Abdi Nazemian

Narrator: Abdi Nazemian, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:14:58

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-22

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

From the Stonewall Honorwinning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover appeal for readers of Donna Tartts The Secret History and Curtis Sittenfelds Prep.

Beth Kramer is a townie who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah.

But Sarah Brunson knows theres more to that story.

Amanda Priya Spence Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah.

Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran, only to suffer brutal hazing under the guise of tradition in the boys dorms.

And Freddy Bello is the senior whos no longer sure of his future but knows he has to stand up to his friends after what happened to Ramin.

At Chandler, the elite boarding school, these five teens are brought together in the Circle, a coveted writing group where life-changing friendships are bornand secrets are revealed. Their professor tells them to write their truths. But is the truth enough to change the long-standing culture of abuse at Chandler? And can their friendship survive the fallout?

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ID: 540230

Title: Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity

Author: Angela Velez

Narrator: Adriana Santos, Sol Madariaga

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:08:28

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Booksmart meets Never Have I Ever in this Latinx road trip adventurea big-hearted, voice-driven YA about two sisters who couldnt be more different, but become begrudging partners on their schools cross-country college tripfrom debut author Angela Velez. Perfect for fans of Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Han, and Sandhya Menon. 

Overachiever Luz Lulu Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan. First up: nail her interview for a dream internship at Stanford, the last stop on her schools cross-country college road trip. The only flaw in her plan is Clara, her oldest sister, who went off to college and sparked a massive fight with their overprotective Peruvian mom, who is now convinced that out-of-state-college will destroy their family. If Lulu cant fix whatever went wrong between them, the whole tripand her futurewill be a waste.

Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip. Then a spot opens up on the trip just as her own spring break plans (Operation Dont Die a Virgin) are thwarted, and she hops on the bus with her glittery lipsticks, more concerned about getting back at her ex than she is about schools or any family drama. But the trip opens her eyes about possibilities shed never imagined for herself. Maybe she is more than the boy-crazy girl everyone seems to think she is.

On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations, uncover Claras secrets, and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood.

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ID: 538793

Title: Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture

Author: Caroline Dooner

Narrator: Caroline Dooner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:31:07

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Mental Health

Summary:

Blending memoir and blistering social observations, the author of The F*ck It Diet looks back at her desperate attempts to heal her hunger, anxiety, and imperfections through extreme diets, culty self-help methods, and melodramatic bargains with the universe. 

Offering a frank and funny critique of the cultural forces that are driving us mad, Caroline Dooner examines how treating ourselves like never ending self-improvement projects is a recipe for burnout. We have become unknowingly complicit in perpetuating our own exhaustion because we are treating ourselves like machines. But even phones need to f*cking recharge.

Caroline takes a good hard look at the dark side of self-help, and explains how she eventually used a radical period of rest to push back against cultural expectations and reclaim some peace.

Tired As F*ck empowers us to say no to the things that exhaust us. It inspires us to carve out time to slow down, feel okay about doing less, and honor our humanity. 

This is not a self-help book, its a cautionary tale. Its an honest look at the dogma of wellness and spiritual self-improvement culture and revels in the healing power of rest and letting shit go.

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ID: 550048

Title: How to Host a Viking Funeral: The Case for Burning Your Regrets, Chasing Your Crazy Ideas, and Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be

Author: Kyle Scheele

Narrator: Kyle Scheele

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:37:56

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

An inspiring speaker and artist asked 20,000 people around the world to share the regrets they wanted him to burn in a mock Viking ship. 

This is the story of what he learned about letting go of the pain of the past and embracing the future with hope.

Turning 30, artist and speaker Kyle Scheele wanted to do something unusual to mark this milestone. Instead of a birthday bash, he decided to hold a funeral to memorialize the decade of his life that was ending. Building a 16-foot Viking ship out of cardboard, he invited friends to help him set it on firea symbolic farewell to his 20s and all the grief, regret, and mistakes that accompanied those years. 

When video of his Viking funeral went viral, it encouraged many others to let go of past hurts as well. Moved by the response he received, Kyle planned a second funeral (this time with a 30-foot cardboard Viking ship) and asked people to share the things they carriedthe bad choices, disappointments, heartaches, and negative thinking that they wanted to lay to rest. He received more than 20,000 responses from around the worldstories both heartbreaking and hilarious, painful and inspiring. 

In this entertaining and wise book, Kyle reflects on what he discovered about freeing ourselves from the pain of the past, interweaving anecdotes from those who participated with the story of his own journey of renewal. This story involves multiple Viking funerals, thousands of square feet of cardboard, and enough hot glue to supply your mother-in-law's craft night for the rest of time, he writes. But it also involves regret, self-doubt, insecurity, and ultimately, redemption. So buckle up. It's about to get bumpy.

How to Host a Viking Funeral is the story of letting go of the people we used to be, but no longer want to be. Its about renewal; where there was once regret there is now blank spacean opportunity for a fresh start.

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ID: 538248

Title: Nightshift: A Novel

Author: Kiare Ladner

Narrator: Olivia Darnley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:52:36

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Coming of Age

Summary:

''Once again, we have arrived at our favorite topic: fraught female friendship. This time it's young women working nights at crappy jobs in 90s London. You'll rip through this, reading through the night, as fixated on the story as Ladner's characters are fixated on each other.'' Glamour

A riveting debut novel of complex female friendship and obsession, following one young womans decision to abandon her normal life and join the otherworldly, nocturnal existence of Londons nightshift workers.

RECOMMENDED BY GLAMOUR * NYLON * BUSTLE * THE MILLIONS * LIT HUB * DEBUTIFUL * CRIMEREADS

When twenty-three-year-old Meggie meets her distant and enigmatic new coworker Sabine, she recognizes in her the person she would like to be. Meggie is immediately drawn to worldly, beautiful, and uninhibited Sabine; and when Sabine announces shes switching to the nightshift, Meggie impulsively decides to follow her. Giving up her daytime existence, her reliable boyfriend, and the trappings of a normal life, Meggie finds a liberating sense of freedom as she indulges her growing preoccupation with Sabine and plunges into another existence, immersing herself in the transient and uncertain world of the nightshift worker.

While the city sleeps, she passes the hours at work clipping crime stories from the next days newspapers. The liminal hours between night and day are spent haunting deserted bars and nightclubs with her eclectic coworkers and going on increasingly wild adventures with Sabine. Yet the closer she gets to Sabine, the more Sabine seems to push her away, leaving Meggie desperately trying to hold on to their intense friendship while doubting if she truly knows her friend at all.

A fresh twist on the coming of age story and a dark love letter to city life, Nightshift explores the thin line between self-invention and self-destruction, as Meggies sleep deprivation, drinking, and fixation with Sabine gain a momentum all their own. Vividly set in late-nineties London and framed by Meggies present-day reflections, Nightshift is a captivating and moving debut that asks profound questions about who we are and if we can truly escape ourselves.

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ID: 549503

Title: God Is a Black Woman

Author: Christena Cleveland

Narrator: Robin Eller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:40:41

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Christianity, Social Science

Summary:

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural whitemalegod and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence.

For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God shed been implicitly taught to worshipa white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. 

Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped  by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how Americas collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.

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ID: 546762

Title: Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

Author: Heather Havrilesky

Narrator: Heather Havrilesky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:11:44

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

Full of razor-sharp, big-hearted wisdom. Couples should read this book aloud to each other instead of writing vows. People who never want to get married should read this book anyway. Leslie Jamison

An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky

If falling in love is the peak of human experience, then marriage is the slow descent down that mountain, on a trail built from conflict, compromise, and nagging doubts. Considering the limited economic advantages to marriage, the deluge of other mate options a swipe away, and the fact that almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce anyway, why do so many of us still chain ourselves to one human being for life?

In Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky illustrates the delights, aggravations, and sublime calamities of her marriage over the span of fifteen years, charting an unpredictable course from meeting her one true love to slowly learning just how much energy is required to keep that love aflame. This refreshingly honest portrait of a marriage reveals that our relationships are not simply happy or unhappy, but something much murkierat once unsavory, taxing, and deeply satisfying. With tales of fumbled proposals, harrowing suburban migrations, external temptations, and the bewildering insults of growing older, Foreverland is a work of rare candor and insight. Havrilesky traces a path from daydreaming about forever for the first time to understanding what a tedious, glorious drag forever can be.

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ID: 548849

Title: Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

Author: Ranjay Gulati

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:56:15

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022

The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022

Thinkers50 Top 10 Best New Management Books for 2022

Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business Ethics

A distinguished Harvard Business School professor offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right.

Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent years than the notion of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose, or a reason for being, as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about what purpose is and conflate it with strategy and other concepts like mission, vision, and values. Even well-intentioned leaders dont understand purposes full potential and engage half-heartedly and superficially with it. Outsiders spot this and become cynical about companies and the broader capitalist endeavor.

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. Moreover, he shows how companies can embed purpose much more deeply than they currently do, delivering impressive performance benefits that reward customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and communities alike. To get purpose right, leaders must fundamentally change not only how they execute it but also how they conceive of and relate to it. They must practice what Gulati calls deep purpose, furthering each organizations reason for being more intensely, thoughtfully, and comprehensively than ever before.

In this authoritative, accessible, and inspiring guide, Gulati takes readers inside some of the worlds most purposeful companies to understand the secrets to their successes. He explores how leaders can pursue purpose more deeply by

navigating the inevitable tradeoffs more deliberately and effectively to balance between short- and long-term value;

building purpose more systematically into every key organizational function to mobilize stakeholders and enhance performance;

updating organizations to foster more autonomy and collaboration, which in turn allow individual employees to work more purposefully;

using powerful storytelling to communicate a reason for being, arousing emotions and building a community of inspired and committed stakeholders; and

building cultures that dont merely support purpose, but also allow employees to link the corporate purpose to their own personal reasons for being.

As Gulati argues, a deeper engagement with purpose holds the key not merely to the well-being of individual companies but also to humanitys future. With capitalism under siege and relatively low levels of trust in business, purpose can serve as a radically new operating system for the enterprise, enhancing performance while also delivering meaningful benefits to society. Its the kind of inspired thinking that businessesand the rest of usurgently need.

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ID: 548844

Title: Dream, Annie, Dream

Author: Waka T. Brown

Narrator: Sophie Oda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:01

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.

As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, shes channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school play.

So when Annie lands an impressive role in the production of The King and I, shes thrilled . . . until she starts to hear grumbles from her mostly white classmates that she only got the part because its an Asian play with Asian characters. Is this all people see when they see her? Is this the only kind of success theyll let her haveone that they can tear down or use race to belittle?

Disheartened but determined, Annie channels her hurt into a new dream: showing everyone what shes made of.

Waka T. Brown, author of While I Was Away, delivers an uplifting coming-of-age story about a Japanese American girls fight to make space for herself in a world that claims to celebrate everyones differences but doesnt always follow through.

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