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ID: 519308

Title: Secondhand Dogs

Author: Carolyn Crimi

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:44:42

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A heartwarmingand heart-tuggingmiddle grade novel about love, loyalty, and what it means to be part of a familyfrom author Carolyn Crimi,. Perfect for fans of A Dogs Life and Because of Winn-Dixie.

Miss Lotties home was for second chances.

When she adopted Gus, Roo, Tank, and Moon Pie, Miss Lottie rescued each member of the packincluding herself, her helper, Quinn, and her reclusive cat, Ghostand turned them into a family. But when a new dog, Decker, arrives and tries to hoard Miss Lotties heart and home for himself, the packs future is threatened.

At first, Gus, the insecure pack leader, only notices little things, like tiny Moon Pie being kicked out of the bed and Ghost acting spooked (then againGhost is a cat). But things soon go from bad to worse as Deckers presence causes disharmony in the group.

When Decker convinces Moon Pie to embark on an impossible journey, its up to Gus to gather his courage, rally his splintered pack, and bring the little dog home. And with coyotes and cars on the loose, the pack must push through obstacles and dangers to reunite with Moon Pie before he can get hurtor, nearly as bad, get his heart broken.

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ID: 518087

Title: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

Author: John Philip Newell

Narrator: Angus King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:17:33

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Naturopathy & New Age, Home & Garden

Summary:

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spiritualitylistening to the sacred around us and inside of uscan help us heal the earth, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect with ourselves.

John Philip Newell shares the long, hidden tradition of Celtic Christianity, explaining how this earth-based spirituality can help us rediscover the natural rhythms of life and deepen our spiritual connection with God, with each other, and with the earth. Newell introduces some of Celtic Christianitys leading practitioners, both saints and pioneers of faith, whose timeless wisdom is more necessary than ever, including:  

Pelagius, who shows us how to look beyond sin to affirm our sacredness as part of all Gods creation, and courageously stand up for our principles in the face of oppression.

Brigid of Kildare, who illuminates the interrelationship of all things and reminds us of the power of the sacred feminine to overcome those seeking to control us.

John Muir, who encourages us to see the holiness and beauty of wilderness and what we must do to protect these gifts.

Teilhard de Chardin, who inspires us to see how science, faith, and our future tell one universal story that begins with sacredness.

By embracing the wisdom of Celtic Christianity, we can learn how to listen to the sacred and see the divine in all of creation and within each of us. Human beings are inherently spiritual creatures who intuitively see the sacred in nature and within one another, but our culturesand at times even our faithshave made us forget what each of us already know deep in our souls but have learned to suppress. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul offers a new spiritual foundation for our lives, once centered on encouragement, guidance, and hope for creating a better world. 

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ID: 509151

Title: Give My Love to the Savages: Stories

Author: Chris Stuck

Narrator: Korey Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Short Stories

Summary:

A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diazs Drown.

A Black mans life, told in scenesthrough every time hes been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the 92 riots begin. A Black Republican, coping with a skin disease that has turned him white, is forced to reconsider his life. A young Black man, fetishized by an older white woman hes just met, is offered a strange and tempting proposal. 

The nine tales in Give My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance.

Setting these stories across America, from Los Angeles, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest, to New York and Washington, DC, to the suburbs and small Midwestern towns, Stuck uses place to expose the absurdity of race and the odd ways that Black people and white people converge and retreat, rub against and bump into one another.

Ultimately, Give My Love to the Savages is the story of America. With biting humor and careful honesty, Stuck riffs on the dichotomy of love and barbaritythe yin and yang of racial experienceand the difficult and uncertain terrain Black Americans must navigate in pursuit of their desires.

Give My Love to the Savages contains the following reprinted with permission. 

And Then We Were The Norrises, American Literary Review

Cowboys, Callaloo

Every Time They Call You Nigger, Meridian

Give My Love to the Savages, Bennington Review and The

Pushcart Prize Anthology XLV

This Isnt Music, Natural Bridge

How to Be a Dick in the Twenty-First Century, StoryQuarterly

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ID: 502626

Title: Incense and Sensibility: A Novel

Author: Sonali Dev

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:33:37

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women

Summary:

''Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next. This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your chest where the characters will live on. Yash and Indias story will stick with me for a long time. Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read

Yash Raje, Californias first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always known exactly what he wantsand how to use his privileged background to get it. He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world. But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend, Yashs easy life suddenly feels like a lie, his control an illusion. When he tries to get back on the campaign trail, he blacks out with panic.

Desperate to keep Yashs condition from leaking to the media, his family turns to the one person they trusthis sisters best friend, India Dashwood, Californias foremost stress management coach. Raised by a family of yoga teachers, India has helped San Franciscos high strung overachievers for a decade without so much as altering her breath. But this manwith his boundless ambition, simmering intensity, and absolute faith in his political beliefsis like no other.

Yash has spent a lifetime repressing everything to succeed, including their one magical night ten years agoa too brief, too bright passion that if rekindled threatens to destroy the dream hes willingly shouldered for his family and community . . . until now.

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ID: 518089

Title: Vessel: A Memoir

Author: Chongda Cai

Narrator: Ewan Chung

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:31:33

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general. -- Library Journal (starred review)

''Chongda paints a tantalizing portrait of a changing China in his dazzling English-language debut. [Vessel] shines with the bright talent of an excellent storyteller.'' -- Publishers Weekly

An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.

Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his fathera former communist gang leader turned gas station ownerhas a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son. 

Assuming his new role as head of the family, Cai toils alongside his mother and older sister to pay the medical bills that have become a part of a rapidly changing Chinese society. As Cai works his way through university and moves to Beijing, eventually becoming the editorial director of GQ China, he finds his life increasingly at odds with the family he supports but has left behind.

Like The Glass Castle and Hillbilly Elegy, Vessel neither romanticizes nor condemns the people and circumstances that shaped a young mans life, but instead offers a way forward, revealing how tradition can enrich modern life. 

Translated from the Chinese by Dylan Levi King

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ID: 519310

Title: Muse Squad: The Mystery of the Tenth

Author: Chantel Acevedo

Narrator: Kyla Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

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

Summary:

The finale of an action-packed middle grade fantasy duology about a young Cuban American girl who discovers that shes one of the nine muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpents Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

Callie Martinez-Silva is finally getting the hang of this whole goddess within thing. Six months after learning she was one of the nine muses of ancient myth, she and the other junior muses are ready for new adventures. Except first Callie has to go to New York City for the summer to visit her dad, stepmom, and new baby brother.

Then the muses get startling news: an unprecedented tenth muse has been awakened somewhere in Queens, putting Callie in the perfect position to help find her. And shell have helpthanks to a runaway mold problem in London, Muse Headquarters is moving to the New York Hall of Science.

But balancing missions and family-mandated arts camp proves difficult for Callie, especially once mysterious messages from spiders (yikes!) begin to weave a tale of ancient injustice involving Callies campmate Ari.

Now Callie and her friends have to make a choice: follow orders and find the tenth muse or trust that sometimes fate has other plans.

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ID: 502525

Title: Capture the Crown

Author: Jennifer Estep

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:30:09

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Apocalyptic & Dystopian, Epic Fantasy, Romantasy

Summary:

Bestselling author Jennifer Estep returns to her Crown of Shards world with an all-new trilogy and a bold new heroine who protects her kingdom from magic, murder, and mayhem by moonlighting as a spy. 

Gemma Ripley has a reputation for being a pampered princess who is more interested in pretty gowns, sparkling jewelry, and other frivolous things than learning how to rule the kingdom of Andvari. But her carefully crafted persona is just an act to hide the fact that Gemma is a powerful mind magierand a spy. 

Gemma is undercover, trying to figure out who is stealing large amounts of tearstone from one of the Ripley royal mines when she encounters Prince Leonidas Morricone of Mortaher mortal enemy. Gemma tries to steer clear of the handsome prince, but when she finds herself behind enemy lines, she reluctantly joins forces with Leo. Also coming to Gemmas aid is Grimley, her beloved gargoyle.

Despite the fact that Andvari and Morta are old, bitter enemies, a dangerous attraction sparks between Gemma and Leo. Further complicating matters is Leos murderous family, especially Queen Maeven Morricone, the mastermind behind the infamous Seven Spire massacre.

The closer Gemma gets to the stolen tearstone, the more deadly plots she uncovers. Everyone is trying to capture the crown, but only one queen can sit on the throne  

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ID: 523528

Title: Lost and Found Family: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Ryan

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:14:26

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

If you love Jill Shalvis, Lori Wilde, and Susan Mallery, then you won't want to miss New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Ryans riveting new novel about family, secrets, and a woman ready to embrace who she really is by facing down her past.

As Sarah Anderson drives up to the house in Carmel, she knows shes on an impossible quest to make peace with the one person who truly hates her. For years, Sarah has hidden the truth about her late husbands lies from their children and their grandmother. When her mother-in-law, Margaret, threatens her with legal action to see the boys, Sarah strikes a bargain: shell bring them for a six-week visit, hoping the boys, at least, will find connection and happiness with their extended family.

It doesnt help that attorney and part-time rancher Luke Thompson lives right next door, and as an old friend of the familys hes agreed to investigate Sarahs past. Luke doesnt feel comfortable poking around in the very successful tech CEOs private life. What he finds is a truth very different from the one hes been led to believe. Far from being cold and unloving, Sarah is devoted to her boys and as at home on the ranch as she is in a boardroom. 

All Sarah ever wanted was a family, and all Luke wants now is her love. The time has come to reveal the terrible secrets that have been kept for so long. In losing the past, a new loveand familycan be found.

 

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ID: 489206

Title: Island Queen: A Novel

Author: Vanessa Riley

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:16:57

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Own Voices

Summary:

Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. 

Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedomand that of her sister and her motherfrom her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.

Vanessa Rileys novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.

From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of Londons elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.

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ID: 495123

Title: All Our Shimmering Skies: A Novel

Author: Trent Dalton

Narrator: Ruby Rees

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:02:45

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure, Coming of Age

Summary:

From the internationally bestselling and beloved author of the critically acclaimed Boy Swallows Universe, a mesmerizing, uplifting novel of adventure and unlikely friendships in World War II Australiacalling to mind The Wizard of Oz as directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot whos abandoned his post. 

With messages from the skies above to guide them towards treasure, but foes close on their trail, the trio will encounter the beauty and vastness of the Northern Territory and survive in ways they never thought possible. 

A story about the gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth, and secrets we bury inside ourselves, Trent Daltons brilliantly imagined novel is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue heavens. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking upa buoyant and magical tale, filled to the brim with warmth, wit, and wonder.

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