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ID: 523527

Title: Rise Up from the Embers

Author: Kristen Simmons, Sara Raasch

Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Stacey Glemboski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-21

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Gladiator in this epic duology conclusion about two elemental gladiators swept up in an ancient war between immortals and humansfrom Sara Raasch, the New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series, and Kristen Simmons, acclaimed author of Pacifica and The Deceivers. Perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes, And I Darken, and The Winners Curse.

Two gods are dead. The Mother Goddess has returned. War is rising.

Fleeing the ruins of Deimos, Ash and Madoc sail across the ocean toward their only possible allies: the water and plant gods. But when Anathrasa attacks on the way, Ash leaps to the defenseby using a power she didnt know she had.

When Madoc made the fire and earth gods mortal, he inadvertently transferred their magic to Ash. Now, if Ash can get energeias from the other four gods, she will be powerful enough to end Anathrasa once and for all.

But not all the gods want the Mother Goddess defeated. To stop her, Madoc will have to become the obedient son his mother always wanted, and Ash will have to take a merciless place among the gods.

To defeat an immortal, Ash and Madoc must fight like godseven if it means sacrificing their humanity.

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ID: 519920

Title: Her Turn: A Novel

Author: Katherine Ashenburg

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:08:09

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

A delightful novel in the vein of Younger and The Unbreakables, with a hint of Nora Ephron, about a journalist who stumbles into an unusual relationship with the woman married to her former husband.

A journalist in Washington, DC, Liz has turned lemons into lemonade after her husband walked out on her a decade ago. She likes her lifeshes the editor of My Turn, a weekly column in which readers write about their lives, has a few romantic nibblessome better than othersa good relationship with her teen-aged son, and has come to terms with the shock and heartbreak of her divorce. 

Or so she thinks.

One day at work, she receives a letter for the column she cant ignore, because its written by her ex-husbands current wifeAKA the other woman. It is the beginning of an unexpected correspondence between the two womenbut only Liz knows the truth about their connection. Could it be she still cares? How far will she take this unusual relationship? And what happens if the truth comes out?

Her Turn is an immensely readable, joyful novel about fidelity and forgiveness that explores one womans second act in life, and the ties that still bind her to the first. 

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ID: 498484

Title: Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II

Author: Kaia Alderson

Narrator: Shayna Small

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:07:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Black Literature, War & Military

Summary:

Kaia Aldersons debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Womens Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II.

Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. 

As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with more than just army bureaucracyeveryone is determined to see this experiment fail. For two northern women, learning to navigate their way through the segregated army may be tougher than boot camp. Grace and Eliza know that there is no room for error; they must be more perfect than everyone else.

When they finally make it overseas, to England and then France, Grace and Eliza will at last be able to do their parts for the country they love, whatever the risk to themselves.

Based on the true story of the 6888th Postal Battalion (the Six Triple Eight), Sisters in Arms explores the untold story of what life was like for the only all-Black, female U.S. battalion to be deployed overseas during World War II.

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ID: 522008

Title: Breathe: A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:44

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life

Summary:

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATES

Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey.  At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. 

In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him and that his death is beyond her comprehension.  A love that refuses to be surrendered at deathis this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized?

Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

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ID: 522371

Title: Then She Vanishes: A Novel

Author: Claire Douglas

Narrator: Katie O'flynn, Nathalie Buscombe, Olivia Dowd, Sian Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:05:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Then She Vanishes lifts the stone on a cold case disappearance and asks chilling questions about friendship, loyalty, love, and obsession.New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan

A twisty, compulsive thriller full of jolting shocks and startling secrets involving two sisters, a disappearance, a double murder, and a reporter determined to find the truth from the bestselling author of Local Girl Missing, Last Seen Alive, and Do Not Disturb.

Everything changed the night she disappeared . . .

On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town without a trace. Their hearts shattered, Floras mother, her sister Heather, and Heathers best friend Jess had to somehow carry on not knowing what happened.

Twenty-five years later, tragedy strikes again when Heather walks into a stranger's house and allegedly kills two people in cold blood.

Why would this loving wife and doting new mother commit such a heinous crime? Jess, now a reporter, returns to the hometown she left behind to cover the case and dig for answers. But this isnt like any other story. Jess was like a sister to the Powell girls, until the summer that tore them all apart.

What happened to the girl she used to know? 

The question haunts Jess and propels her to find the key that may unlock the mysteries involving both sisters. But the search may reveal more . . . a darker side to this idyllic place she thought she knew.

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ID: 514347

Title: Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond

Author: Halimah Marcus

Narrator: Almarie Guerra, Amanda Dolan, Carolina Hoyos, Charley Flyte, Christine Tawfik, Dahlia Salem, Eileen Stevens, Imani Parks, Jaime Lamchick, Jolene Kim, Marisha Tapera, MW Cartozian Wilson, Piper Goodeve, Roxana Ortega, Samantha Quan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:46:15

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse countrythese essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity. Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term horse girl, broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.

As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus imagination. When she wasnt around horses she was pretending to be one, cantering on two legs, hands poised to hold invisible reins. To her classmates, girls like Halimah were known as horse girls, weird and overzealous, absent from the social worlds of their peers. 

Decades later, when memes about horse girl energy, began appearing across social mediaHalimah reluctantly recognized herself. The jokes imagine girls as blinkered as carriage ponies, oblivious to the mockery behind their backs. The stereotypical horse girl is also white, thin, rich, and straight, a daughter of privilege. Yet so many riders dont fit this narrow, damaging ideal, and relate to horses in profound ways that include ambivalence and regret, as well as unbridled passion and devotion.

Featuring some of the most striking voices in contemporary literatureincluding Carmen Maria Machado, Pulitzer-prize winner Jane Smiley, T Kira Madden, Maggie Shipstead, and Courtney MaumHorse Girls reframes the iconic bond between girls and horses with the complexity and nuance it deserves. And it showcases powerful emerging voices like Braudie Blais-Billie, on the connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage; Sarah Enelow-Snyder, on growing up as a Black barrel racer in central Texas; and Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, on the colonialist influence on horse culture in Pakistan.

By turns thought-provoking and personal, Horse Girls reclaims its titular stereotype to ask bold questions about autonomy and desire, privilege and ambition, identity and freedom, and the competing forces of domestication and wildness.

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ID: 509806

Title: Go Where There Is No Path: Stories of Hustle, Grit, Scholarship, and Faith

Author: Christopher Gray, Mim Eichler Rivas

Narrator: Amir Abdullah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:06:19

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your worldfrom a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity. 

Gray, the son of a single working mother who had him at age fourteen, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top collegeexcept for the financial means. Desperate, Gray headed off the beaten path, searching online to apply for every scholarship he could find.  His hustle resulted in awards of 1.3 million dollars and became his call to action to help other students win their own schollys. It inspired him to start up Scholly, an app that matches college applicants with millions of dollars in outside scholarships that often go unclaimed. 

When he was a senior at Drexel University, he appeared onShark Tankas CEO of Scholly.In the most heated fight in the shows history, the sharks challenged Gray as to whether his app was a charity or a profitable business.  Both, he insisted, proposing a new paradigm for social entrepreneurship and netting deals from Lori Grenier and Daymond John.   

    At the time Schollys subscriber base was 90,000 users. Today the app has 4 million subscribers who have won scholarships totaling more than $100 million. Meanwhile, Graywithout help from the mostly all-white boys club of Silicon Valleyhas emerged as a tech startup superhero now tackling the crisis of student debt with innovative, unrivaled strategies. 

Grays premise is that when you lead with the goodconfronting issues such as poverty and racismthe money will follow.  His story is proof that when you develop a mindset for success, you turn disadvantages into gold. And when you create opportunities for others, you enrich the marketplace for yourself too.   

Gray shows us, we can carve out new paths to better days and leave trails for others. 

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ID: 497860

Title: Her Heart for a Compass: A Novel

Author: Sarah Ferguson

Narrator: Ell Potter, Sarah Ferguson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:02:17

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Read by Sarah Ferguson and Ell Potter

From one of the most famous former members of the British royal family, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, cowritten with the acclaimed historical novelist, Marguerite Kayea mesmerizing novel of a young noblewomans coming-of-age that richly details both high society and low in Victorian England.

The second daughter of the Queens close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But Margaret is an impulsive and outspoken girl in a repressive society where women are, quite literally, caged in corsets and required to conform.

When Lady Margarets parents arrange a society marriage for her, she tries to reconcile herself to the match. But shortly before her betrothal is announced, Margaret flees, leaving her parents to explain her sudden absence to an opulent ballroom stuffed with two hundred distinguished guests.

Banished from polite society, Margaret throws herself into charitable work and finds strength in a circle of female friends like herselfwomen intent on breaking the mold, including Queen Victorias daughter Princess Louise. Margaret resolves to follow her hearta journey of self-discovery that will take her to Ireland, America, and then back to Britain where she finds the life she was always meant to lead.

A bold and thoughtful story about a rebellious woman finding herself and her voice in an age of astounding technological change and great social unrest, Her Heart for a Compass is a delicious costume drama rich in atmosphere, history, and color that will thrill fans of Victoria and Bridgerton. 

Includes a Q&A with Sarah Ferguson and her editor.

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ID: 493753

Title: Down Range: A Garrett Kohl Novel

Author: Taylor Moore

Narrator: Jeremy Arthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:31

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Action & Adventure

Summary:

A riveting thriller with a family in crisis at the core. It's my kind of book. Brad Taylor, bestselling author of American Traitor

In this action-packed debut thriller for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr, DEA agent Garrett Kohl fights to protect his home on the Texas High Plains when a vicious criminal enterprise comes after his family

From a former CIA intelligence officer and consultant for the Department of Defense comes the first in a series following a decorated undercover DEA special agent. Garrett Kohl has traveled the worldand fought in most of itbut its the High Plains of northwest Texas he calls home and dreams of returning to one day. Kohl is in the middle of an assignment in Afghanistan when his commander orders him back to Texas on a short mission expected to take a week at most. But Kohl is unsettled to discover that hes moved from one kind of war to another.

The once-peaceful ranching community he loves is under attack by a band of criminals who have infiltrated law enforcement, corrupted local businesses, and are now terrorizing Kohls own family. Hoping to prevent bloodshed, Kohl tries to resolve matters peacefully. But when the group strikes first, he has no choice but to go on the attack.

Unfortunately for the criminal crew, besides being an elite undercover officer for the DEA, Garrett Kohl is a battle-hardened Green Beret who spent the better part of his career hunting terrorists. Although outnumbered and outgunned, Kohl knows the wild and forsaken Llano Estacado region of Texas better than anyone. And like so many trespassers before them, these murderers will find out the hard way that the only thing tougher than this land is the people who call it home.

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ID: 513384

Title: Starlight Enclave: A Novel

Author: R. A. Salvatore

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:49:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

From New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes a new trilogy and adventure of Drizzt and fantasys beloved characters from Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms.

After the settling dust of the demon uprising and two years of peace, rumblings from the Menzoberranzan drow have Jarlaxle nervous. Worried his allies may be pulled into a Civil War between the great Houses, he is eager to ensure Zaknafein is armed with weapons befitting his skill, including one in particular: Khazidhea. A powerful artifact, the sword known as Cutter has started wars, corrupted its users, and spilled the blood of many, many people. Nonethelessor maybe because of thatthe rogue Jarlaxle and a small group of friends will go on an expedition looking for the weapons last wielder, Doumwielle, in the freezing north, for she may be the key to unlocking the swords potentialand perhaps the key to preventing the bloodshed looming over the Underdark.

And as they explore the top of the world, Drizzt is on a journey of his ownboth spiritual and physical. He wants to introduce his daughter Brie to Grandmaster Kane and the practices that have been so central to his beliefs. But, having only recently come back from true transcendence, the drow ranger is no longer sure what his beliefs mean anymore. He is on a path to determining the future, not just for his family, but perhaps the entire northlands of the Realms themselves.

Two different roads. On one, Jarlaxle and Zaknefein are on a quest to find pieces that could offer salvation to Menzoberranzan. On the other, Drizzt seeks answers that could offer salvation to not just his soul, but all souls.

And no matter the outcome of either journey, the Realms will never be the same again.

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