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ID: 680526

Title: Atlas of Us

Author: Kristin Dwyer

Narrator: Alexandra Hunter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:38:39

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-24

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page. Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna

Utterly compelling and impossible to put down. Rachel Griffin, New York Times bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight

Ive never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heartpowerful, poignant, and true. Axie Oh, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and XOXO

Atlas has lost her way.

In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, shes working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dads favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is.

Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her teamBooks, Sugar, Junior, and Kingshe heads into the wilderness. As she sheds the lies shes built up as walls to protect herself, she realizes that four strangers might know her better than anyone has before. And with the end of the trail racing to meet them, Maps is left counting down the days until she returns to her old lifewithout her new family, and without King, whos become more than just a friend.

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ID: 622318

Title: Five Bad Deeds: A Novel

Author: Caz Frear

Narrator: Beth Eyre, Chris Harper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:55:29

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

''An involving, layered, and thrilling story of secrets, lies, and revenge, Five Bad Deeds takes us far beneath the surface of suburban bliss into the dark heart of human desire. . . . Riveting!'' Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

[A] devastating suspense novel. . . . A must-read for fans of Tana French and Gillian Flynn. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Acclaimed, internationally bestselling author Caz Frear ratchets up the suspense in this outstanding standalone psychological thrillera gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful home in town.

Ellen Walsh has done something very, very bad. If only she knew what it was . . .

Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job-hunting to finally renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse. Amidst the chaos, an ominous note arrives in the mail, declaring:

People have to learn there are consequences, Ellen.

And Im going to teach you that lesson.

Right under your nose.

Why would someone send her this? Ellen has no clue. Shes no angela white lie here, an occasional sharp tongue therebut nothing to incur the wrath of an anonymous enemy. Shed never intentionally hurt anyone.

But intention doesnt matter to someone. Someone blames this supposed good person for all the bad theyve experienced. And maybe they have reason to? Because few of us get through life without leaving a black mark on someone elses. Could the five bad deeds that come to haunt Ellen explain why things have gone so horribly wrong? 

As she races to discover whos set on destroying her reputation and her future, Ellen continues to receive increasingly threatening messages . . . each one hitting closer to everything she cherishes.

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ID: 679133

Title: Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

Author: Anthony Veasna So

Narrator: Keong Sim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:58:12

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race 

The late Anthony Veasna Sos debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice silenced too soon (Fresh Air). And he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays, published in n+1, The New Yorker, and The Millions.

Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine his youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more. And in linked fiction following three Cambodian American cousins who stand to inherit their late aunts illegitimate loan-sharking business, So explores community, grief, and longing with inimitable humor and depth.

Following one of the most exciting contributions to Asian American literature in recent years (Vulture), Songs on Endless Repeat is an astonishing final expression by a writer of extraordinary achievement and immense promise (The New Yorker).

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ID: 625249

Title: Tastes Like Shakkar: A Novel

Author: Nisha Sharma

Narrator: Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:13:31

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary

Summary:

In the hilarious follow-up to the breakout rom-com Dating Dr. Dil, Nisha Sharma adds shakkar and mirch to Shakespeares iconic comedy Much Ado About Nothing for one sweet and spicy love story.

Bobbi Kaur is determined to plan a celebration to remember for her best friends wedding. But she has two problems that are getting in her way:

1. The egotistical, and irritatingly sexy, chef Benjamin Bunty Padda is supposed to help her with the menu since hes the grooms best friend, and

2. Someone is trying to sabotage the wedding.

With aspirations of taking over her familys event planning business, Bobbi knows that one misstep in managing the Kareena Mann and Prem Verma (#Vermann) party, along with the other weddings on her plate, will only give her uncle another reason not to promote her. That means Kareenas big day and Bobbi's future career are on the line.

Bunty will do anything for his best friend, even though he has his hands full in finding a new location for his next restaurant while also playing mediator between his brother and father, the celebrated Naan King. When Prem asks Bunty to help with the wedding menu, he agrees, especially since it puts him in close proximity to the delicious Bobbi Kaur. When a mystery shaadi saboteur starts leaving threatening notes, and cancelling cake orders, Bunty and Bobbi have no choice but to call a truce and face the volatile attraction they have for each other.

Through masquerade fundraisers and a joint bachelor-bachelorette trip to Vegas, this chef and wedding planner explore their growing connection all while trying to plan a wedding at Messina Vineyards in a time crunch. But once the shaadi saboteur is caught and the wedding is over, will their love story have a happily ever after?

With the return of the meddling aunties (who are scary good at finding information) and a lot of hilarity and hijinks, Bobbi and Buntys romance is an event you dont want to miss.

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ID: 631147

Title: Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong

Author: Jerry Colonna

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell, Jerry Colonna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Building on the success of Reboot and the concept of radical self-inquiry, executive coach Jerry Colonna encourages leaders to consider the ways they have been complicit in, and benefitted from, the conditions in the world they say theyd like to change and shows them the path to creating new systems of inclusion for everyone.

We all want to belong. For executives and managers, to be better leadersand peoplewe must create welcoming environments in which ourselves and others feel recognized and have a place. But to do so, we must first face our own need for belonging and how that need is often thwarted. Colonna argues that only through radical self-inquiry can we come home to ourselves and others and, in doing so, create systemic belonginghomesfor everyone.

Many people in power fall into the trap of toxic leadership. But this toxicity can be overcome. Colonna guides us on a journey of reunification with the disowned parts of ourselves, the myths and truths of our ancestors, as well as a deeper connection with those most affected by systems of exclusion. He shows how to apply radical self-inquiry (How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?) and broaden it to include How have I been complicit in maintaining systems of oppression that I say I dont want? And, more important, What do I need to give up that I love in order to have the systems of belonging that I want?

The necessary first step is for leaders and others who hold power to see themselves clearly. The vital second step is to see and alter the effects of ones untended, unhealed wounds and beliefs on those we are tasked to lead.

Doing so, we are then able to reimagine businesses as collectives where a shared sense of belonging thrives. Doing so will cause a reckoning with the accepted definitions of leadership, success, and value.

With its unusual blend of poetry, quotes, and examples from Colonnas own life as well as the lives of his clientsReunion is a life-altering guide for todays complex and divisive world. Its wise insights and practical advice will help create an inclusive and welcoming workspace, discover the best of who we are, and nurture and support those whom we are privileged to lead.

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ID: 650870

Title: Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Author: Max Marshall

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:29:57

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Social Science

Summary:

Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night Lights

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life.

When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of Greek life lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble.

Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisures Most Beautiful Campus in America, Marshall traces several C of C boys journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murderone that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests.

An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrows American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.

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ID: 659860

Title: On the Line: My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette

Author: Jennifer Jones, Lissette Norman

Narrator: Robin Eller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:13:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Health & Family

Summary:

''Though this tale explores painful emotions, its focus on Jennifers personal experience and the pleasure she found in dance make it an absolute delight.''Kirkus Reviews

From the first Black Radio City Rockette dancer, Jennifer Jones, comes an inspiring autobiography perfect for fans of trailblazers like Misty Copeland, Mae Jemison, and more.

Dancing has always made her feel free, like she can do anything. But when Jennifer was a child, some people didnt think that she had a future as a dancer because of the color of her skin.

With the support of her family, especially her mother, she proved that anything is possible when you believe you belong.

On the Line is a captivating true story about manifesting your dreams.

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ID: 659000

Title: Bamboo Kingdom #4: The Dark Sun

Author: Erin Hunter

Narrator: Lillie Ricciardi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:09:19

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Explore the secrets of the Bamboo Kingdom in the fourth installment of this thrilling new series from bestselling Warriors author Erin Hunter, perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Endling.

The Bamboo Kingdom is once again safely led by guidance of a real Dragon Speakerthree Dragon Speakers, in fact!

But a troubling vision from the Great Dragon warns of a Dark Sun coming soon. And while Rain, Leaf, and Ghost argue amongst themselves about what it means, the monkeys are hatching a plan to use this moment of uncertainty to their best advantage

Unless the pandas learn to trust each other, their biggest challenges may still lurk on the horizon...

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ID: 657087

Title: Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

Author: John Guy, Julia Fox

Narrator: Stephanie Racine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:09:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Annes triumph and tragedy.'' Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review

A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by the harsh reality of politics.Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIIIs long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.

Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIIIs obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn changed him and his country forever. John Guy and Julia Fox, two of the most acclaimed and distinguished historians of this period, have joined forces to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways. By closely examining the most recent archival discoveries, and peeling back layers of historical myth and misinterpretation and distortion, Guy and Fox are able to set Anne and Henrys tragic relationship against the major international events of the time, and integrate and reinterpret sources hidden in plain sight or simply misunderstood. Among other things, they dispel lingering and latently misogynistic assumptions about Anne which anachronistically presumed that a sixteenth-century woman, even a queen, could exert little to no influence on the politics and beliefs of a patriarchal society. They reveal how, in fact, Anne was a shrewd, if ruthless, politician in her own right, a woman who steered Henry and his policies, often against the advice he received from his male advisersand whom Henry seriously contemplated making joint sovereign.

 Hunting the Falcon sets the factsand some completely new findsinto a far wider frame, providing an appreciation of this misunderstood and underestimated woman. It explores how Anne organized her side of the royal court on novel and (in male eyes) subversive lines compared to her queenly predecessors, adopting instead French protocol by which the sexes mingled freely in her private chambers. Men could share in the womens often sexually charged courtly pastimes and had liberal access to Anne, and she to themencounters from which she gained much of her political intelligence and extended her authority, and which also sowed the seeds of her own downfall.

 An exhilarating feat of historical research and analysis, Hunting the Falcon is also a thrilling and tragic story of a marriage that has proved of enduring fascination over the centuries. But in the hands of John Guy and Julia Fox, even the most knowledgeable reader will encounter this story as if for the first time.

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ID: 655141

Title: Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Tanisha Ford

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering ''Beaux Arts Ball, the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty yearsa glamorous event rivalling todays Met Gala, drawing Americas wealthy and cultured, both Black and white.

Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlookedthe powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movementthe luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller.

No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country.

Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her timea woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollies larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews, including with Mollies daughter and namesake.

Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Whos Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint todays activists can emulate.

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