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ID: 536394

Title: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

Narrator: Anderson Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:50:46

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Business, North America, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynastyhis mothers family, the Vanderbilts.

When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his fathers small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empiresone in shipping and another in railroadsthat would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by the Commodore, subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakersthe seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Corneliuss grandson and namesake had builtthe family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.

Now, the Commodores great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the familys empire, basked in the Commodores wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.

Written with a unique insiders viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

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ID: 501834

Title: Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales

Author: Soman Chainani

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:07:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

You think you know these stories, dont you?

You are wrong.

You dont know them at all.

Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life . . . and death.

A prince has a surprising awakening . . .                           

A beauty fights like a beast . . .

A boy refuses to become prey . . .

A path to happiness is lost. . . . then found again.

New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani respins old stories into fresh fairy tales for a new era and creates a world like no other. These stories know you. They understand you. They reflect you. They are tales for our times. So read on, if you dare. 

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ID: 532095

Title: Wolf's Curse

Author: Jessica Vitalis

Narrator: Emily Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:59:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

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

Summary:

I am obsessed with this story!Erin Entrada Kelly, author of the Newbery Honor Book We Dream of Space

Boldly tells readers to take a closer look at the stories theyre toldnot to mention at the wolves that might be lurking in the shadows. A clear-eyed, big-hearted fable of compassion, friendship, and love.Anne Ursu, author of The Real Boy

A lyrical tale of loss and survival, tradition and belief, in which tension and secrets build like a towering wave.Diane Magras, author of The Mad Wolfs Daughter

A fable as polished and timeless as a fine wooden toy.Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of the Newbery Honor Book The Book of Boy

Shunned by his fearful village, a twelve-year-old apprentice embarks on a surprising quest to clear his name, with a mythicand dangerouswolf following closely at his heels. Jessica Vitaliss debut is a gorgeous, voice-driven literary fantasy about family, fate, and long-held traditions. The Wolfs Curse will engross readers of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and A Wish in the Dark.

Gauges life has been cursed since the day he cried Wolf and was accused of witchcraft. The Great White Wolf brings only death, Gauges superstitious village believes. If Gauge can see the Wolf, then he must be in league with it.

So instead of playing with friends in the streets or becoming his grandpapas partner in the carpentry shop, Gauge must hide and pretend he doesnt exist. But then the Wolf comes for his grandpapa. And for the first time, Gauge is left all alone, with a bounty on his head and the Wolf at his heels.

A young feather collector named Roux offers Gauge assistance, and he is eager for the help. But soon the twoboth recently orphanedare questioning everything they have ever believed about their village, about the Wolf, and about death itself.

Narrated by the sly, crafty Wolf, Jessica Vitaliss debut novel is a vivid and literary tale about family, friendship, belonging, and grief. The Wolfs Curse will captivate readers of Laurel Snyders Orphan Island and Molly Knox Ostertags The Witch Boy.

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ID: 532096

Title: Insiders

Author: Mark Oshiro

Narrator: Avi Roque

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:07

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Title for Young Readers

Three kids who dont belong. A room that shouldnt exist. A year that will change everything.

Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Meg Medina, this debut middle grade novel from award-winning author Mark Oshiro is a hopeful and heartfelt coming-of-age story for anyone whos ever felt like they didnt fit in.

San Francisco and Orangevale may be in the same state, but for Héctor Muñoz, they might as well be a million miles apart. Back home, being gay didnt mean feeling different. At Héctors new school, he couldnt feel more alone.

Most days, Héctor just wishes he could disappear. And he does. Right into the janitors closet. (Yes, he sees the irony.) But one day, when the door closes behind him, Héctor discovers hes stumbled into a room that shouldnt be possible. A room that connects him with two new friends from different corners of the countryand opens the door to a life-changing year full of friendship, adventure, and just a little bit of magic.

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating, but always full of heart, The Insiders carves out a space for us all to be our true selves. Kwame Mbalia, New York Times bestselling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

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ID: 513382

Title: Catch Us When We Fall: A Novel

Author: Juliette Fay

Narrator: Piper Goodeve

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:51:57

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you wont want to miss this newest book about second chances, redemption, and the power of hope from USA Today bestselling author of Shelter Me, Juliette Fay.

On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person shed ever known. They partied their way through their twenties, slowly descending into a bleak world of binge-drinking and broken promises, inebriated for most of a decade. Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scaredand pregnant.

Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Bens baby, Cass has to find a way to stop drinking and build a stable life for herself and her child. But with no money, skills, or sober friends or family, the task seems insurmountable. At wits end, Cass turns to the only person with the means to help her: Bens brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own.

The two make a deal that neither one of them is sure they can live up to. As Cass struggles to take control of her life and to ask for help when she needs it, Scott begins to realize theres a life for him beyond the baseball diamond.

By turns heartbreaking and humorous, with its message that change is possible, that forgiveness can be freely given, and that life, though imperfect, is worth embracing, Catch Us When We Fall is a story of human connectedness and hope.

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ID: 521689

Title: Olga: A Novel

Author: Bernhard Schlink

Narrator: Nathalie Buscombe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:51:31

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlinks] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.Booklist

A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.Evening Standard

A sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.

Abandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men.

When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. While Herbert indulges his thirst for exploration and adventure, Olga is limited by her gender and circumstance. Her love for Herbert goes against all odds and encounters many obstacles, but even when they are separated, it endures

Unfolding across decadesfrom the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuryand across continentsfrom Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-westOlga is an epic romance, and a wrenching tale of a womans devotion to a restless man in an age of constant change. Though Olga exists in the shadows of others, she pursues life to the fullest and her magnetic presence shinesrevealing a woman complex, fascinating, and unforgettable.

 Told in three distinct parts, brilliantly shifting from different points of view and narrative formats, Bernhard Schlinks magnificent novel is a rich, full portrait of a singular woman and her world.

Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins 

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ID: 509160

Title: Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova: A Novel

Author: Ruth Hogan

Narrator: Nina Wadia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:55:27

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Paranormal, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Thingsan uplifting, slightly magical story about how its never too late to find out who you really are.

''Ruth Hogan is the queen of uplifting fiction and Madame Burova reminds us why. The writing crackles with humor and warmth. I can't imagine a better book in which to lose yourself at the moment. Stunning, immersive and absolutely wonderful.'' --Annie Lyons, author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

Madame Burovabeloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyantis retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront.

After inheriting her mothers fortune-telling business as a young woman, Imelda Burova has spent her life on the Brighton pier practicing her trade. She and her trusty pack of Tarot cards have seen the lovers and the liars, the angels and the devils, the dreamers and the fools. Now, after a lifetime of keeping other peoples secrets, Madam Burova is ready to have a little piece of life for herself. But she still has one last thing to doto fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.

In London, it is time for another woman to make a fresh start. Billie has lost her university job, her marriage, and her place in the world when a sudden and unlikely discovery leaves her very identity in question. Determined to find answers, she must follow a trailwhich leads to Brighton, the pier, and directly to Madame Burovas door.

In a story spanning over fifty years, Ruth Hogan has conjured a magical world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, eccentrics, heroes and villains, the lost and the found. Young people will make careless choices which echo down the years.but its never too late to put things right. 

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ID: 519929

Title: Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump

Author: Jennifer Rubin

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:50:19

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insiders look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more. 

In a compelling narrative, bookended by Donald Trumps 2016 victory and his 2020 defeat, Rubin delivers an absorbing analysis of the womens counter-Trump revolution. Resistance tracks a set of dynamic women voters, activists and politicians who rose up when Donald Trump took the White House and fundamentally changed the political landscape. From the first Womens March the day after Trumps inauguration to the Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms to the flood of female presidential candidates in 2020 to the inauguration of Kamala Harris, women from across the ideological spectrum entered the political arena and became energized in a way America had not witnessed in decades. They marched, they organized, they donated vast sums of cash, they ran for office, they made new alliances. And they defeated Donald Trump.

Democratic women candidates learned that they could win in large numbers, even in red districts. Black women voters in 2020 surged in Georgia and in suburbs in key swing states. Women across the country voted in greater numbers than in any previous election, flipped the Senate, and ensured victory for the first female Vice President in the nations history. While Democrats recorded impressive victories, Republican women delivered critical victories of their own.

From the White House to Congress, from activists to protestors, from liberals to conservatives, Resistance delivers the first comprehensive portrait of womens historic political surge provoked by the horror of President Trump. This is the indelible story of how American women transformed their own lives, vanquished Trump, secured unprecedented positions of power and redefined US politics decades to come.

Resistance is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the role women played in redesigning modern politics. 

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ID: 514346

Title: Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

Author: Scott Gottlieb

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:35:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Medicine, Public Policy

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Uncontrolled Spread is everything you'd hope: a smart and insightful account of what happened and, currently, the best guide to what needs to be done to avoid a future pandemic.' -Wall Street Journal

"Informative and well paced."-The Guardian

"An intense ride through the pandemic with chilling details of what really happened. It is also sprinkled with notes of true wisdom that may help all of us better prepare for the future."-Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent, CNNP

hysician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America's COVID-19 catastrophe taught us anything?

In Uncontrolled Spread, he shows how the coronavirus and its variants were able to trounce America's pandemic preparations, and he outlines the steps that must be taken to protect against the next outbreak. As the pandemic unfolded, Gottlieb was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and diagnostic industries. He provides an inside account of how level after level of American government crumbled as the COVID-19 crisis advanced.

A system-wide failure across government institutions left the nation blind to the threat, and unable to mount an effective response. We'd prepared for the wrong virus. We failed to identify the contagion early enough and became overly reliant on costly and sometimes divisive tactics that couldn't fully slow the spread. We never considered asymptomatic transmission and we assumed people would follow public health guidance. Key bureaucracies like the CDC were hidebound and outmatched. Weak political leadership aggravated these woes. We didn't view a public health disaster as a threat to our national security.

Many of the woes sprung from the CDC, which has very little real-time reporting capability to inform us of Covid's twists and turns or assess our defenses. The agency lacked an operational capacity and mindset to mobilize the kind of national response that was needed. To guard against future pandemic risks, we must remake the CDC and properly equip it to better confront crises. We must also get our intelligence services more engaged in the global public health mission, to gather information and uncover emerging risks before they hit our shores so we can head them off. For this role, our clandestine agencies have tools and capabilities that the CDC lacks.

Uncontrolled Spread argues we must fix our systems and prepare for a deadlier coronavirus variant, a flu pandemic, or whatever else nature -- or those wishing us harm -- may threaten us with. Gottlieb outlines policies and investments that are essential to prepare the United States and the world for future threats.

THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.

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ID: 532671

Title: Pinkalicious: Treasuretastic

Author: Victoria Kann

Narrator: Jayla Nicholas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:05:29

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Animals & Nature, Sports

Summary:

Pinkalicious goes treasure hunting in the woods in this new Pinkalcious Level One I Can Read Story, brought to you by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann.

When Pinkalicious and Peter play treasure hunters on the family hike, what they find is even better than what they expectedits treasuretastic!

Pinkalicious: Treasuretastic is a Level One I Can Read, which means its perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.

Readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peter on the pinkamazing PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific!

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