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ID: 529546

Title: Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World

Author: Prem Rawat

Narrator: Prem Rawat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:54:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

New York Times Bestseller

Rawats deep wisdom is a breath of fresh air; Hear Yourself gives the gift of peace and gratitude in a time we sorely need it.Ian Morgan Cron, author of The Story of You and co-author of The Road Back to You

Hear Yourself invites us to take a journey from the outside world we live in everyday to the world of peace within us. I highly recommend this inspiring book to anyone ready to take that journey.Bill McCarthy, Founder and President of The Unity Foundation

The renowned teacher and author of the internationally bestselling Peace Is Possible shows us how to quiet the noise of our busy lives to hear our own unique authentic voicethe source of peace.

The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to hear ourselvesto listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly hear ourselves and the voice of peace within, then we can hold on to that as we face all the noise of the world.

The culmination of a lifetime of study, Hear Yourself lays out the crucial steps we can use to focus on the voice within. Take a walk in nature and listen for the sounds of harmony, Prem Rawat suggests, or set aside a few minutes each day to feel gratitude, which comes from the core of our being. He challenges us to embrace our thirst for peace and let go of expectations for how it should feel. With one straightforward yet deeply profound question, he helps us to focusto be present: Am I conscious of where I am today and what I want to experience in this world? 

If we allow ourselves to listen, what we hear is the extraordinary miracle of existencean experience that transforms our relationship to life and everything in it. Packed with powerful insights and compelling stories, Hear Yourself introduces readers to an ancient line of practical wisdom that enlightens us to a simple way to listen. By doing so, Prem Rawat reveals, we can profoundly change our understanding of ourselves, those around us, and our lives. 

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ID: 518750

Title: You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

Author: Gabrielle Union

Narrator: Gabrielle Union

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:08:42

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Women

Summary:

Funny, tender, and so good. Mindy Kaling, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided Were Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this round, the stakes get higher as the conversation goes deeper.

So. Where were we?

Right, you and I left off in October 2017, when my first book came out. The weeks before were filled with dreams of loss. Pets dying. My husband leaving me. Babies not being born. My therapist told me it was my soul preparing for my true self to emerge after letting go of my grief. I had finally spoken openly about my fertility journey. I was having second thoughtsin fact, so many thoughts they were organizing to go on strike. But I knew I had to be honest because I didnt want other women going through IVF to feel as alone as I did. I had suffered in isolation, having so many miscarriages that I could not give an exact number. Strangers shared their own journeys and heartbreak with me. I had led with the truth, and it opened the door to compassion.

When I released Were Going to Need More Wine, the response was so great people asked when I would do a sequel. The New York Times even ran a headline reading Were Going to Need More Gabrielle Union. Frankly, after being so open and honest in my writing, I wasnt sure there was more of me I was ready to share. But life happens with all its plot twists. and new stories demand to be told. This time, I need to be more vulnerablenot so much for me, but anyone who feels alone in what theyre going through.

A lot has changed in four yearsI became a mom and Im raising two amazing girls. My husband retired. My career has expanded so that I have the opportunity to lift up other voices that needs to be heard. But the world has also shown us that we have a lot we still have to fight foras women, as black women, as mothers, as aging women, as human beings, as friends. In You Got Anything Stronger?, I show you how this ever-changing life presents challenges, even as it gives me moments of pure joy. I take you on a girls night at Chateau Marmont, and I also talk to Isis, my character from Bring It On. For the first time, I truly open up about my surrogacy journey and the birth of Kaavia James Union Wade. And I take on racist institutions and practices in the entertainment industry, asking for equality and real accountability.

You Got Anything Stronger? is me at my most vulnerable. I have recently found true strength in that vulnerability, and I want to share that power with you here, through this book. 

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ID: 520859

Title: Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

Author: Christopher Mims

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:23:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Science & Technology, Sales & Retail, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for grantedArriving Todayin this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management.

We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen.

In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumers demand for arriving today gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shiftinto the worlds busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazons automated warehousesto explore how the promise of arriving today is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines. 

The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the systems vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as we hurtle toward a fully automated systemand what it will mean when we are there.

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ID: 530748

Title: Stick Dog Comes to Town

Author: Tom Watson

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:02:50

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Holidays

Summary:

Perfect for fans of Big Nate, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the previous Stick Dog books, Tom Watsons hilarious series continues with Stick Dog and his pals after something even more exciting than food: Santa Claus!

Weird things are happening in Stick Dogs snow-covered neighborhood. Strangely shaped pinecones hang from trees. Humans sing merry songs all over town. And an odd man is making a list and checking it twice.

Mutt, Karen, Stripes, and Poo-Poo have tons of questions. And for the first time, Stick Dog doesnt have answers. But their good friend Lucy does.

So when the dogs learn all about Santa Claus, their hilarious quest to celebrate the holiday begins.

The bestselling Stick Dog series is perfect for fans of such series as The Last Kids on Earth, Dog Man, Big Nate, Timmy Failure, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. A favorite of readers ages 6 to 12, both avid and less so, Stick Dog is a winner for those looking for their next funny middle grade book series.

Other favorites in the series include Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog, Stick Dog Chases a Pizza, and many more!

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ID: 520857

Title: Mama Bear: One Black Mothers Fight for Her Childs Life and Her Own

Author: Shirley Smith

Narrator: Tovah Ott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:08:17

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Parenting

Summary:

Brave. Compelling. Provocative. Gabrielle Union Wade, actress and New York Times bestselling author

In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to surviveusing her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black maternal and infant health and pay tribute to Black womens resilience.

Shirley Smith and her husband, NBA champion J. R. Smith, looked forward to the birth of their second child, Dakota, as they celebrated New Years Eve with family at home. After dinner, Shirley felt a sharp pain that worsened through the night. Only 21-weeks pregnant, she was in labor. Mama Bear is the story of her 141-day ordeal, from entering a hospital emergency room on New Years morning and giving birth to her premature newborn, to taking her daughter home for the first time the following May.

In telling her story, written with Zelda Lockhart, Shirley shines a spotlight on the dangers Black women face during pregnancy. Black mothers are twice as likely as their white counterparts to go into labor prematurely and lose their babiesand almost four times as likely to die giving birth. Neither socioeconomic status nor access to quality healthcare seem to matter. Tennis champion Serena Williams experienced life-threatening complications during childbirth, and Beyoncé suffered toxemia with her premature twins. 

Shirley chronicles the emotional and physical battle she and J. R. endured to save their daughter, and her continual struggles to support her family while nurturing herself. Like many Black women, Shirley was raised to believe that pain is a sign of weakness. The one who kept it together for everybody, she had always put herself second. She parallels this difficult journey to her childhood growing up with an addict mother, and having to raise herself and her brother from a very young age. 

A chronicle of pain, loss, and infidelity, Mama Bear is ultimately a story of lovea celebration of community, family, faith, healing, the maternal bond, and one womans indomitable spirit. 

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ID: 513380

Title: Left for Dead: A Novel

Author: Sean Parnell

Narrator: Stephen Mendel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:54:28

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, War & Military

Summary:

Special Operative Eric Steele battles a renegade group of bioterrorists armed with a devastating virus in the fourth pulse-pounding military thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon. 

On a remote mountaintop in western China, Doctor Ai Liang is about to risk everything and defy the Chinese Communist Party. She and her team have created a terrifying new coronavirus, even more deadly than COVID-19, called C-62 that is capable of killing a person in twenty minutes. But her conscience tells her she must destroy the deadly bioweapon before it can bring devastation to millions. The doctors heroic plans are interrupted when mysterious commandos swarm the lab, kill everyone in sight, and take off with the C-62 virus.

Meanwhile, Eric Steele is on a cleanup mission, about to exact revenge on the group responsible for killing numerous alphas and forcing the Program to disband. When justice is served, Steele can turn his thoughts to other pressing mattersnamely his long lost father and his estranged girlfriend, Meg Harden.

But when news of CCP plans to attack US forces reach the United States, the President calls for the revival of the Program to deal with this new threat. Steele is back in action, and soon learns that the supposed CCP attack is related to a much more complex plot involving a fanatical Chinese Imperialist groupand the stolen C-62 bioweapon. Its up to Steele and his team to find out who the real threat is and stop them before they can unleash another pandemic in the form of the deadly C-62 virus on the entire world.

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ID: 522373

Title: System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

Author: Jeremy M. Weinstein, Mehran Sahami, Rob Reich

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:28:40

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Science & Technology, Public Policy, Business Development, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

''System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated.''  Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America

A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professorsexperts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decadeswhich reveals how big techs obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.

In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technologys liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein.

It doesnt need to be this way.

System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big techs relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us.

Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professorsa philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)reveal how we can hold that power to account.

Troubled by the values that permeate the universitys student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrows technologists approach their profession. Now, as the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.

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ID: 529452

Title: Chester and Gus

Author: Cammie McGovern

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:58:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Critically acclaimed author Cammie McGovern presents a heartwarming and humorous middle grade novel about the remarkable bond that forms between an aspiring service dog and an autistic boy in need of a friend. Joyful, inspiring, and completely winning, Chester and Gus is unforgettable, proclaimed Katherine Applegate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Medal winner The One and Only Ivan.

Chester has always wanted to become a service dog. When he fails his certification test, though, it seems like that dream will never come trueuntil a family adopts him. They want him to be a companion for their ten-year-old son, Gus, who has autism. But Gus acts so differently than anyone Chester has ever met. He never wants to pet Chester, and sometimes he doesnt even want Chester in the room. Chesters not sure how to help Gus since this isnt exactly the job he trained forbut hes determined to figure it out. Because after all, Gus is now his person.

In the spirit of beloved classics like Because of Winn-Dixie, Shiloh, and Old Yeller, Cammie McGoverns heartfelt noveltold from Chesters point of viewexplores the extraordinary friendship between a child and a dog with a poignant and modern twist.

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ID: 532099

Title: Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night: A Novel

Author: Jon Kalman Stefansson

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:48:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, General

Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK!

Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger.

SUMMER LIGHT AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT is a profound and playful masterwork from one of Icelands most beloved authors that explores the dreams and desires of ordinary people in a rural town.

In a village of only four hundred inhabitants, life could seem unremarkable. Yet in this remote town, a new road to the city has change on everyones minds.

There is the beautiful, elusive Elisabet who cuts a surprisingly svelte path at The Knitting Company. Neighbors Kristin and Kjartan who seemnormal, but for their explosive passion that bewilders even themselves (and ignites the spectacular revenge of Kjartans wife). And then the most successful businessman in town decides to ditch his Range Rover and glamorous wife in exchange for Latin books and stargazing.

Unexpected, warm, and humorous, Stefansson explores the dreams and desires of these everyday people, and reveals the magic of life in all of its progress, its complacency, its ugliness and, ultimately, beauty.

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE

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ID: 513389

Title: Fault Lines: A Novel

Author: Emily Itami

Narrator: Lydia Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:23:17

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

''What is the cost of a mothers desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy.'' -- New York Times Book Review

''The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami.'' -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome

Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. Its everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.

Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two livesand in the end, we can choose only one.

Funny, provocative, and startlingly honest, Fault Lines is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and asked, who am I and how did I get here? A bittersweet love story and a piercing portrait of female identity, it introduces Emily Itami as a debut novelist with astounding resonance and wit.

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