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ID: 516048

Title: My Contrary Mary

Author: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:18:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genres: Teen, Romance, Historical

Summary:

Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary, Queen of Scots.  

Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens?

Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when shes a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom where Verities rule. Its a secret that could cost her a heador a tail. 

Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king meets a suspicious end. Thrust onto the throne, Mary and Francis face a vipers nest of conspiracies, traps, and treason. And if Marys secret is revealed, heads are bound to roll.

With a royally clever sense of humor, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn history on its head in this YA fantasy thats perfect for fans of A Gentlemans Guide to Vice and Virtue.

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ID: 489770

Title: Can't Knock the Hustle: Inside the Season of Protest, Pandemic, and Progress with the Brooklyn Nets' Superstars of Tomorrow

Author: Matt Sullivan

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:13:06

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Basketball, Business Development

Summary:

Brilliantly audaciouswritten with the profundity of a sage baller and the acuity of a seasoned journalist.Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy 

An award-winning journalist's behind-the-scenes account from the epicenter of sports, social justice, and coronavirus, Can't Knock the Hustle is a lasting chronicle of the historic 2019-2020 NBA season, by way of the notorious Brooklyn Nets and basketball's renaissance as a cultural force beyond the game.

The Nets were already the most intriguing startup in the NBA: a team of influencers, entrepreneurs and activists, starring the controversial Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But this dynasty-in-the-making got disrupted by the unforeseen. One tweet launched an international scandal, pitting the team's Chinese owner and the league's commissioner against its players and LeBron James. The sudden death of Kobe Bryant, after making his final public appearance in Brooklyn, sent shockwaves through a turbulent season.

Then came the unimaginable. A global pandemic and a new civil-rights movement put basketball's trend-setting status to the ultimate test, as business and culture followed the lead of the NBA and its empowered stars. No team intersected with the extremes of 2020 quite like the Brooklyn Nets, and Matt Sullivan had a courtside view.

Can't Knock the Hustle crosses from on the court, where underdogs confront A-listers like Jay-Z and James Harden, to off the court, as players march through the streets of Brooklyn, provoke Donald Trump at the White House, and boycott the NBA's bubble experiment in Disney World. 

Hundreds of interviewswith Hall-of-Famers, All-Stars, executives, coaches and power-brokers across the worldprovide a backdrop of the NBA's impact on social media, race, politics, health, fashion, fame and fandom, for a portrait of a time when sports brought us back together again, like never before. 

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ID: 515381

Title: Topaz

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:53:34

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

A Perilous Pursuit

Kate Love is an ambitious reporter on the trail of a swindler who has been preying on elderly blacks. But when her investigation leads her into danger, she is snatched by Dix Wildhorse, a Black Seminole Marshal from Oklahomans Indian country. Kate has no choice but to flee with the daring knight her father sent to rescue her. Despite the warm simmering fire Dixs bronzed, muscled embrace ignites, she is determined to hold on to her independence, challenging him at every turn. Yet even as their battle of wills intensifies, the heat of their passion blazes with unmatched furya wildfire of love that can only be answered in the sweet ecstasy of surrender.

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ID: 508384

Title: What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

Author: Emma Dabiri

Narrator: Emma Dabiri

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:12:20

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.

Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be agents of change in the fight against racism and the establishment of a more just and equitable world. In this affecting and inspiring collection of essays, Emma Dabiri draws on both academic discipline and lived experience to probe the ways many of us are complacent and complicitand can therefore combatwhite supremacy. She outlines the actions we must take, including:

Stop the Denial

Interrogate Whiteness

Abandon Guilt

Redistribute Resources

Realize this shit is killing you too . . . 

To move forward, we must begin to evaluate our prejudices, our social systems, and the ways in which white supremacy harms us all. Illuminating and practical, What White People Can Do Next is essential for everyone who wants to go beyond their current understanding and affect realand lastingchange.

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ID: 515380

Title: Jewel

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:54:49

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

A proposal she had no choice but to accept . . . 

Though Eli Grayson is one of the most handsome, charming, and intelligent men in Grayson Grove, no one will take a chance on a confirmed bachelor. Unwilling to give up his dreams, Eli convinces his friend Jewel to pose as his wife. Their masquerade is to last just one night . . . but when word gets out, Eli and Jewel must tie the knot to save his careerand her reputation.

Became a love she never expected . . . 

Angry at being forced to turn her life upside down, Jewel never imagined that a white-hot passion would consume her once she and Eli became husband and wife. Sharing a bed has turned their prim friendship into a sensuous love affair . . . but when a woman from Eli's past returns to stir up trouble, he and Jewel will learn just how far they'll go to protect the precious gem of their newfound passion.

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ID: 518090

Title: Home Stretch: A Novel

Author: Graham Norton

Narrator: Graham Norton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:46:33

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Family Life

Summary:

In this compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner (Sunday Times), the New York Times bestselling writer and acclaimed television host explores the aftermath of a tragedy on a small-town to illuminate the shame and longing that can flow through generationsand how the secrets of the heart cannot stay be buried forever.

It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony, a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, are involved in an accident. Three survive. Three are killed.

The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them ripple throughout the small town. Connor survived, but living among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as carrying the shame of having been the driver. He leaves the only place he knows for another life, taking his secrets with him. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, he eventually makes a homeof sortsfor himself in New York, where he finds shelter and the possibility of forging a new life.

But the secretsthe unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behindwill not be silenced. Before long, Connor will have to confront his past.

A powerful and timely novel of emigration and return, Home Stretch demonstrates Nortons keen understanding of the power of stigma and secrecyand their devastating effect on ordinary lives.

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ID: 515388

Title: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Author: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:18:17

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, Business Development

Summary:

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR.

A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classica masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship.

The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glorya story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come.

Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.

At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. It's his secret plan to buy out the company that sets the frenzy in motion, attracting the country's leading takeover players: Henry Kravis, the legendary leveraged-buyout king of investment firm KKR, whose entry into the fray sets off an acquisitive commotion; Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton and Johnson's partner, who needs a victory to propel his company to an unchallenged leadership in the lucrative mergers and acquisitions field; the fiercely independent Ted Forstmann, motivated as much by honor as by his rage at the corruption he sees taking over the business he cherishes; Jim Maher and his ragtag team, struggling to regain credibility for the decimated ranks at First Boston; and an army of desperate bankers, lawyers, and accountants, all drawn inexorably to the greatest prize of their careersand one of the greatest prizes in the history of American business.

Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, Barbarians at the Gate is present at the front line of every battle of the campaign. Here is the unforgettable story of that takeover in all its brutality. In a new afterword specially commissioned for the story's 20th anniversary, Burrough and Helyar return to visit the heroes and villains of this epic story, tracing the fallout of the deal, charting the subsequent success and failure of those involved, and addressing the incredible impact this storyand the book itselfmade on the world.

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ID: 516035

Title: Something Like Love

Author: Beverly Jenkins

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:21:55

Language: English

Release date: 06-22-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western, Black Literature

Summary:

Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever. This is the story that readers have been waiting for.

He was a wanted man. But no one wanted him more than she did.

Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west. She dreams of setting up her own seamstress shop in Henry Adams, a small all Black town in Kansas. But her plans are derailed when her train is robbed by Neil July and his notorious band of outlaws.

Neil is enchanted by the headstrong and lovely Olivia. No woman has ever set his blood on fire before, and he suspects no other woman ever will. When they meet again, Olivia is the town's newly elected mayor and Neil is still the wanted outlaw. With bounty hunters on his trail, he would be wise not to linger, yet he can't seem to leave her. Will Neil be able to convince Olivia to ride off into the sunset with him? Or will he finally lay down his guns for love?

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ID: 516037

Title: Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals

Author: Luisah Teish

Narrator: Luisah Teish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:02:35

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

A refreshed edition of Jambalaya: The Natural Womans Book of Personal Charms and Practical Ritualsupdated with a note from the author sharing the changes that have occurred in the 30 years since its original publication. 

''A book of startling remembrances, revelations, directives, and imperatives, filled with the mysticism, wisdom, and common sense of the African religion of the Mother. It should be read with the same open-minded love with which it was written.''Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

Since its original publication in 1985, Jambalaya has become a classic among Womens Spirituality Educators, practitioners of traditional Africana religions, environmental activists, and cultural creatives. A mix of memoir, spiritual teachings, and practices from Afro-American traditions such as Ifa/Orisha, and New Orleans Voudou, it offers a fascinating introduction to the world of nature-based spirituality, Goddess worship, and rituals from the African diaspora. More relevant today than it was 36 years ago, the wisdom of Jambalaya reconnects us to the natural and spiritual world, and the centuries-old traditions of African ancestors, whose voices echo through time, guiding us and blending with our own.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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ID: 513387

Title: Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

Author: Kristin Neff

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:34:31

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Philosophy, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously popular first book, Self-Compassion. Now, ten years and many studies later, she expands her body of work to explore a brand-new take on self-compassion. Although kindness and self-acceptance allow us to be with ourselves as we are, in all our glorious imperfection, the desire to alleviate suffering at the heart of this mindset isn't always gentle, sometimes it's fierce. We must also act courageously in order to protect ourselves from harm and injustice, say no to others so we can meet our own needs, and motivate necessary change in ourselves and society.  Gender roles demand that women be soft and nurturing, not angry or powerful.  But like yin and yang, the energies of fierce and tender self-compassion must be balanced for wholeness and wellbeing. 

Drawing on a wealth of research, her personal life story and empirically supported practices, Neff demonstrates how women can use fierce and tender self-compassion to succeed in the workplace, engage in caregiving without burning out, be authentic in relationships, and end the silence around sexual harassment and abuse. Most women intuitively recognize fierceness as part of their true nature, but have been discouraged from developing it. Women must reclaim their power in order to create a healthier society and find lasting happiness. In this wise, caring, and enlightening book, Neff shows women how to reclaim balance within themselves, so they can help restore balance in the world.

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