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ID: 506903

Title: Maps for the Getaway: A Novel

Author: Annie England Noblin

Narrator: Sarah Naughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:03:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

If you love Susan Mallery, you wont want to miss this novel of three high school friends who find themselves emotionally fractured when tragedy strikes, so they go on a road trip theyll never forget and rediscover what made them best friends forever.

It was the road trip of their lives . . . and they did it without a map.

When they posed for a photo at their high school graduation, they vowed theyd be friends forever, but teenage promises are so easily broken, and now, thirty years later, theyre practically strangers.

Cicistuck in a rut, married to a cheating husband.

Geniecaring for her ailing father but never getting any thanks.

Kateeveryone knows people who look perfect on Instagram are not.

And Lauriethe most successful of them allnow tragically gone.

So, to celebrate Lauries life,  three former friends in a 1962 red Lincoln Continental convertible take the road trip of their livesencountering male strippers, a boy band that has seen better days, crazy motel rooms, adopting a so-ugly-its-cute stray dogand discovering that its never too late to live the wild life.

Because, sometimes, to find yourself you have to get away. 

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ID: 504888

Title: Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero

Author: Amanda Kloots, Anna Kloots

Narrator: Amanda Kloots

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

Performed by the author featuring original music by Nick Cordero.

Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.

In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nicka young father and otherwise healthy manwould return home. After an eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 that led to Nicks being placed on a ventilator, Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. Her updates quickly captivated millions, inspiring people around the globe to dance each day to Nicks song Live Your Life and offer positive thoughts and prayer. When he passed away after ninety-five grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved for Amanda, her infant son, Elvis, and the future COVID-19 had snatched away from them.

Live Your Life is the story of Nick and Amandas life togetherof their beautiful relationship, of Nicks dramatic fight for survival, of those sudden tragic months that permanently changed her world and oursand of their interrupted future as a family. From the confusing early days of his illness to searching for signs of hope in every update from the doctors to the healing sound of Elviss laughter, Amanda details how she approached even the most devastating moments with the personal optimism and faith that have shaped her life. Written with her sister Anna Kloots, who was with her every step of this journey, Live Your Life explores how Amandas willingness to accept help from an entire community of peoplefriends, family, and even total strangersplayed a vital role in enduring this hardship. In the process, she offers a touching meditation on how even the worst times have silver linings that deepen our connections to the world around us and to the people who matter most.

What emerges is an inspiring and unexpectedly uplifting message for life in the time of COVID, a vision of courage for anyone coping with overwhelming loss or the collective trauma of what the pandemic has taken from us. A poignant reflection on love, hope, motherhood, and the transformational power of music, Live Your Life is a love letter to Nick and a reminder that, sometimes, celebrating life today is the only path through tomorrows darkness.

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ID: 514452

Title: Stars of Whistling Ridge

Author: Cindy Baldwin

Narrator: Reba Buhr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:05:03

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: Quill Tree Books

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

Summary:

This enchanting story about magic, family, and the meaning of home from the award-winning author of Where the Watermelons Grow is perfect for fans of Corey Ann Haydu and Natalie Lloyd.

Ivy Mae Bloom is almost thirteen years old, her name is almost a complete sentence, and her familys RV is almost a home. Thats one too many almosts for Ivy. She desperately wants a place to put down roots, but its her mamas job as a fallen star to tend the magic underpinning the worlda job thats kept Ivys family living on the road since before Ivy was born.

After Ivy steals Mama's entire supply of wish jars in the hopes of finding a place to call home, disaster strands her family in Whistling Ridge, North Carolina, with Mama's star sisters. Ivy falls for Whistling Ridge immediatelyshe just needs to convince her parents to stay.

But something is draining the magic from the town, and the star sisters can't pinpoint it. Ivy and her new friends find a clue in Whistling Ridge's history that might explain the mysterious threat...but if Whistling Ridges magic is fixed, Mama will need to move on. Ivy is faced with an impossible decision: How can she help the star sisters lift the curse if it means losing her best chance at a forever home?

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ID: 504142

Title: Pops: Learning to Be a Son and a Father

Author: Craig Melvin

Narrator: Craig Melvin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:39:54

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:

A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBCs Today show. 

For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and despair but also transformation and redemption; and to explore the challenges facing all dads--including Craig himself, a father of two young children.

Growing up in Columbia, South Carolina, Craig had a fraught relationship with his father. Lawrence Melvin was a distant, often absent parent due to his drinking as well as his job working the graveyard shift at a postal facility. Watching sports and tinkering on Lawrence's beloved (but unreliable) 1973 Pontiac LeMans were two ways father and son connected, but as Lawrence's drinking spiraled out of control, their bond was stretched to the breaking point. Fortunately, Craig had a loving, fiercely protective mother who held the family together. He also had a series of surrogate father figures in his life--uncles, teachers, workplace mentors--who by their examples helped him figure out the kind of person and father he wanted to be.

Pops is the story of all these men--and of the inspiring fathers Craig has met reporting his ''Dads Got This Series'' on the Today show. Pops is also the story of Craig and Lawrence Melvin's long journey to reconciliation and understanding, and of how all these experiences and encounters have informed Craig's understanding of his own role as a dad. 

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ID: 519313

Title: Scandal in Spring: The Wallflowers, Book 4

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:35:07

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she cant find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hatesthe ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift.

Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone . . . anyone . . . other than Matthew. What she doesnt count on, however, is Matthews unexpected charm, or the blazing sensuality that soon flares beyond both their control. And Daisy discovers that the man she has always hated just might turn out to be the man of her dreams.

But when a scandalous secret is uncovered, it could destroy both Matthew and a love more passionate and irresistible than Daisys wildest fantasies.

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ID: 516042

Title: Devil in Winter: The Wallflowers, Book 3

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:35:44

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

''I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.''

Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London.

A marriage of convenience is the only solution.

No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Evie is a woman of hidden strengthand Sebastian desires her more than any woman he's ever known.

Determined to win her husband's elusive heart, Evie dares to strike a bargain with the devil: If Sebastian can stay celibate for three months, she will allow him into her bed.

When Evie is threatened by a vengeful enemy from the past, Sebastian vows to do whatever it takes to protect his wife . . . even at the expense of his own life.

Together they will defy their perilous fate, for the sake of all-consuming love.

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ID: 514461

Title: Krondor: Tear of the Gods: Book Three of the Riftwar Legacy

Author: Raymond E. Feist

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:03:27

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, General, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The vile sorcerer Sidi plans to strike the kingdom a fatal blow, setting the murderous pirate Bear upon the high seas in pursuit of the vessel that is transporting Midkemia's most holy object; the Tear of the Gods. From this miraculous stone all magic power is believed to flow. And if the Tear becomes the mage's trinket, the future will hold only terror, death and unending night. For Squire James, Lieutenant William, and the able magician Jazhara, the race is on to rescue the remarkable artifact. For all manner of dark creatures are gathering with one unspeakable purpose: to breed the chaos that will hasten the destruction of Squire James and his brave companions . . . and bring about the total corruption of the Tear of the Gods.

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ID: 495491

Title: Box in the Woods

Author: Maureen Johnson

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:12:50

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Historical

Summary:

After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.

Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, shes back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer.

But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Fallsthe site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies left in a gruesome display. The new owner offers Stevie an invitation: Come to the camp and help him work on a true crime podcast about the case.

Stevie agrees, as long as she can bring along her friends from Ellingham Academy. Nothing sounds better than a summer spent together, investigating old murders.

But something evil still lurks in Barlow Corners. When Stevie opens the lid on this long-dormant case, she gets much more than she bargained for. The Box in the Woods will make room for more victims. This time, Stevie may not make it out alive.

* Cosmopolitan Best YA Books of 2021 * People Magazine Best Books of Summer 2021*

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ID: 416242

Title: Steve Kerr: A Life

Author: Scott Howard-Cooper

Narrator: Roger Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:51:59

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Basketball

Summary:

The definitive biography of Steve Kerr, the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State Warriors

Few individuals have had a career as storied, and improbable, as Steve Kerr. He has won eight NBA titlesfive as a player and three as a coachfor three different franchises. He played alongside the best players of a generation, from Michael Jordan to Shaquille ONeal to Tim Duncan, and learned the craft of basketball under four legendary coaches. He was an integral part of two famed NBA dynasties. Perhaps no other figure in basketball history has had a hand in such greatness.

In Steve Kerr, award-winning sports journalist Scott Howard-Cooper uncovers the fascinating life story of a basketball legend. Kerr did not follow a traditional path to the NBA. He was born in Beirut to two academics and split his childhood between California and the Middle East. Though he was an impressive shooter, the undersized Kerr garnered almost no attention from major college programs, managing only at the last moment to snag the final scholarship at the University of Arizona. Then, during his freshman season at Arizona, tragedy struck. His father, Malcolm, then the president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated in Lebanon by terrorists. Forged by the crucible of this family saga, Steve went on to chart an unparalleled life in basketball, on the court and on the sidelines.

The only coach other than Red Auerbach to lead a team to the Finals five consecutive seasons, Kerr seems destined for the Basketball Hall of Fame. Steve Kerr is his incredible story, offering insights into the man and what it takes to beand makea champion. Drawing upon Scott Howard-Coopers years covering Warriors, deep archival research, and original interviews with more than one hundred of the central characters in Kerrs life, this is basketball biography at its finest.

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ID: 497436

Title: Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir

Author: Ursula Burns

Narrator: Ursula Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:39:45

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Social Science

Summary:

The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles shes conquered being Black and a woman.

I am a black woman, I do not play golf, I do not belong to or go to country clubs, I do not like NASCAR, I do not listen to country music, and I have a masters degree in engineering. I, like a typical New Yorker, speak very fast, with an accent and vernacular that is definitely New York City, definitely Black. So when someone says Im going to introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the options are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one voted off the island.  

In 2009, when she was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox Corporation, Ursula Burns shattered the glass ceiling and made headlines. But the media missed the real story, she insists. It should have been how did this happen? How did Xerox Corporation produce the first African American woman CEO? Not this spectacular story titled, Oh, my God, a Black woman making it.

In this smart, no-nonsense book, part memoir and part cultural critique, Burns writes movingly about her journey from tenement housing on Manhattans Lower East Side to the highest echelons of the corporate world. She credits her success to her poor single Panamanian mother, Olga Racquel Burnsa licensed child-care provider whose highest annual income was $4,400who set no limits on what her children could achieve. Ursula recounts her own dedication to education and hard work, and how she took advantage of the opportunities and social programs created by the Civil Rights and Womens movements to pursue engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York.

 Burns writes about overcoming the barriers she faced, as well as the challenges and realities of the corporate world. Her classmates and colleaguesalmost all white malescouldnt comprehend how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. They made a developed category for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could accept me. Her thirty-five-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, from cutting millions to save the company from bankruptcy to a daring $6 billion acquisition to secure its future. Ursula also worked closely with President Barack Obama as a lead on his STEM initiative and Chair of his Export council, where she traveled with him on an official trade mission to Cuba, and became one of his greatest admirers.

Candid and outspoken, Ursula offers a remarkable look inside the c-suites of corporate America through the eyes of a Black womansomeone who puts humanity over greed and justice over power. She compares the impact of the pandemic to the financial crisis of 2007, condemns how corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy, and worries about the workers whose lives are being upended by technology. Empathetic and dedicated, idealistic and pragmatic, Ursula demonstrates that, no matter your circumstances, hard work, grit and a bit of help along the way can change your lifeand the world. 

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