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ID: 535241

Title: Midnight

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:09:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Beverly Jenkins enthralls romance readers once again with Midnighta heart-soaring African American historical romance novel set during Americas turbulent Revolutionary War.

In a time of peril, she fears nothingexcept the forbidden passions of her heart.

In Boston, revolution is in the windyet none would ever suspect Faith Kingston of treason. But under cover of darkness, the beautiful daughter of a Tory tavern owner becomes the notorious spy Lady Midnight, passing valuable secrets to the rebels. Dedicated to fighting British tyranny, shell let nothing distract heruntil a dark, mesmerizing stranger enters her life.

A reckless, worldly adventurer, Nicholas Grey has returned to troubled Massachusetts seeking revenge for the death of his rebel father. He suspects a local innkeeper, but its the mans breathtaking, ebony-skinned daughter who has truly captured his interest. Nicholas burns for the sensuous, secretive ladyand Faith cannot mask her own blazing desires. But when destiny unites their causes, the passion that draws Midnight into Nicholass arms is as dangerous as it is gloriousand it could spell disaster for them both.

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ID: 535240

Title: Captured

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:50:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Black Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A high-stakes historical romance from Beverly Jenkins, award-winning author of Night Song and Jewel, in which a stunning young slave and a roguish privateer share forbidden passion on the high seas.

She was the most irresistible treasure of all . . .

Dominic LeVeq, the most notorious privateer ever to command the high seas, has just captured a coveted prize: a British frigate. On a dangerous mission against the Crown, Dominic should be thinking only of his ship's safety. But the rebel captain is utterly entranced by Clare Sullivan, the stunning slave on board. Consumed by desire, desperate to have her, Dominic offers Clare her freedom in exchange for a forbidden night in his beda night he assures her will be most pleasureable indeed.

Clare believes that Dominic is nothing more than a seductive rogue used to getting what he wants. But she too feels a tantalizing passion between them, and so she submits to just one night of bliss. She'll soon realize that Dominic has captured more than her body. He's captured her heart . . . and she doesn't want him to ever let go.

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ID: 538568

Title: Any Sign of Life

Author: Rae Carson

Narrator: Amy Landon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:32:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back.Wesley Chu, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the War Arts Saga

A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA.Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able.Kirkus Reviews

When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her townmaybe in the whole worldshe must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Timesbestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shustermans Dry.

Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the futuretheyre gone.

But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.

New York Timesbestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Powers Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandels Station Eleven.

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ID: 538578

Title: Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Author: Anne Ursu

Narrator: Elise Arsenault

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:47:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Walden Pond Press

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

From the acclaimed author of The Real Boy and The Lost Girl comes a wondrous and provocative fantasy about a kingdom beset by monsters, a mysterious school, and a girl caught in between them.

If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And thats because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a sorcerer.

The Lupus might be from a small village far from the capital city of Illyria, but that doesnt matter. Every young boy born in in the kingdom holds the potential for the rare ability to wield magic, to protect the country from the terrifying force known only as the Dread. 

For all the hopes the family has for Luka, no one has any for Marya, who can never seem to do anything right. But even so, no one is prepared for the day that the sorcerers finally arrive to test Luka for magical ability, and Marya makes a terrible mistake. Nor the day after, when the Lupus receive a letter from a place called Dragomir Academya mysterious school for wayward young girls. Girls like Marya.

Soon she is a hundred miles from home, in a strange and unfamiliar place, surrounded by girls shes never met. Dragomir Academy promises Marya and her classmates a chance to make something of themselves in service to one of the countrys powerful sorcerers. But as they learn how to fit into a world with no place for them, they begin to discover things about the magic the men of their country wield, as well as the Dread itselfthings that threaten the precarious balance upon which Illyria is built.

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ID: 509867

Title: Small Pleasures: A Novel

Author: Clare Chambers

Narrator: Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:59:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchettan astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion.

''With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details.''--The New York Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. Its a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape.

That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchens gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life.

Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their liveswith unimaginable consequences.

Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable. 

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ID: 520856

Title: To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

Author: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney

Narrator: Bret Baier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:41:44

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, North America, Political Ideologies

Summary:

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Fox News Channels Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant

''To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book.'' Douglas Brinkley

An epic history spanning the battlegrounds of the Civil War and the violent turmoil of Reconstruction to the forgotten electoral crisis that nearly fractured a reunited nation, Bret Baiers To Rescue the Republic dramatically reveals Ulysses S. Grants essential yet underappreciated role in preserving the United States during an unprecedented period of division.

Born a tanners son in rugged Ohio in 1822 and battle-tested by the Mexican American War, Grant met his destiny on the bloody fields of the Civil War. His daring and resolve as a general gained the attention of President Lincoln, then desperate for bold leadership. Lincoln appointed Grant as Lieutenant General of the Union Army in March 1864. Within a year, Grants forces had seized Richmond and forced Robert E. Lee to surrender.

Four years later, the reunified nation faced another leadership void after Lincolns assassination and an unworthy successor completed his term. Again, Grant answered the call. At stake once more was the future of the Union, for though the Southern states had been defeated, it remained to be seen if the former Confederacy could be reintegrated into the countryand if the Union could ensure the rights and welfare of African Americans in the South. Grant met the challenge by boldly advancing an agenda of Reconstruction and aggressively countering the Ku Klux Klan. 

In his final weeks in the White House, however, Grant faced a crisis that threatened to undo his lifes work. The contested presidential election of 1876 produced no clear victory for either Republican Rutherford B. Hayes or Democrat Samuel Tilden, who carried most of the former Confederacy. Soon Southern states vowed to revolt if Tilden was not declared the victor. Grant was determined to use his influence to preserve the Union, establishing an electoral commission to peaceably settle the issue. Grant brokered a grand bargain: the installation of Republican Hayes to the presidency, with concessions to the Democrats that effectively ended Reconstruction. This painful compromise saved the nation, but tragically condemned the South to another century of civil-rights oppression.

Deep with contemporary resonance and brimming with fresh detail that takes readers from the battlefields of the Civil War to the corridors of power where men decided the fate of the nation in back rooms, To Rescue the Republic reveals Grant, for all his complexity, to be among the first rank of American heroes.

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ID: 525029

Title: San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Author: Michael Shellenberger

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:12:26

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of Americas faltering cities. 

Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.

Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.

What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.

San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isnt a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.

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ID: 515382

Title: Death at Greenway: A Novel

Author: Lori Rader-Day

Narrator: Moira Quirk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:45

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christies holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.

Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway Housethe beloved holiday home of Agatha Christiein disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Priscas Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz.

Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggest mystery might be the other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Brideys anxieties and griefif Greenway were not situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war.

When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they each harbor dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writers home as their unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of death . . .

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ID: 509152

Title: No One Will Miss Her: A Novel

Author: Kat Rosenfield

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Sophie Amoss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

''Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original  a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you.'' A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window

''Clever and surprising...The superb character-driven plot delivers an astonishing, believable jolt.''Publishers Weekly (starred review)

''Deserves two big thumbs up. Readers will be gripped by this astonishing story in which one gasp-inducing twist follows on the heels of another. A unique page-turner that just begs to be turned into a movie.'' Booklist (starred review)

''Sly, sinister...a white-knuckled read. There are gasp-worthy surprises, of course, and the exquisite and lurid twists will reveal themselves in time.''--Vanity Fair

A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader.

On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is deadwith her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Birds inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzies tiny lake house as a country getawayeven though Copper Falls is anything but a resort town.

As Adriennes connection to the case becomes clear, so too does her connection to Lizzie, who narrates their story from beyond the grave. Each woman is desperately lonely in her own way, and they navigate a relationship that cuts across class boundaries: transactional, complicated, and, finally, deadly. A Gone Girl for the gig economy, this is a story of privilege, identity, and cunning, as two devious women from opposite worlds discover the dangers of coveting someone elses life.

 ''Both amusingly satirical and darkly bloody.''The Washington Post

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ID: 544599

Title: Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration

Author: Sofija Stefanovic

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller, Feodor Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:38:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Social Science, History & Culture

Summary:

A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what its like to be an immigrant in America.

America would not be America without its immigrants. This anthology, adapted from storytelling event This Alien Nation, captures firsthand the past and present of immigration in all its humor, pain, and weirdness. Contributorssome well-known, others regular (and fascinating) peopleshare moments from their lives, reminding us that immigration is not just a word dropped in the news (simplified to something you are for or against), but a worldrich with unique voices, perspectives, and experiences.

Travel from the Central Park playground where tattle-tales among nannies inspire Christine Lewiss activism to an Alexandrian garden half a century ago courtesy of writer André Aciman. Visit a refugee camp in Gaza as described by actress and comedian Maysoon Zayid, and follow Intersex activist Tatenda Ngwaru as she flees Zimbabwe with dreams of meeting Oprah. Witness efforts from comedian Aparna Nancherla's mother to make Aparna less shy, and Orange is the New Black's Laura Gómez makes an unlikely connection in a bed-and-breakfast. 

Compelling and inspirational, Alien Nation is a celebration of immigration and an exploration of culture shock, isolation and community, loneliness and hope, heartbreak and promiseits a poignant reminder of our shared humanity at a time we need it greatly, and a thoughtful, entertaining tribute to cultural diversity.

Whether you're an immigrant yourself or simply interested in the history and culture of immigration in the United States, Alien Nation by Sofija Stefanovic is a must-read. This anthology of stories and essays offers a diverse and nuanced look at the immigrant experience, with contributions from writers of color, LGBTQ authors, and undocumented immigrants.

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