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ID: 500577

Title: Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls

Author: Kaela Rivera

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:34:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

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

Summary:

When a powerful desert spirit kidnaps her sister, Cece Rios must learn forbidden magic to get her back, in this own voices middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of The Storm Runner and Aru Shah and the End of Time. 

Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when powerful spirits roam the desert and threaten humankind. But Cecelia Rios has always believed there was more to the criaturas, much to her familys disapproval. After all, only brujashumans who capture and control criaturasconsort with the spirits, and brujeria is a terrible crime.

When her older sister, Juana, is kidnapped by El Sombrerón, a powerful dark criatura, Cece is determined to bring Juana back. To get into Devils Alley, though, shell have to become a bruja herselfwhile hiding her quest from her parents, her town, and the other brujas. Thankfully, the legendary criatura Coyote has a soft spot for humans and agrees to help her on her journey.

With him at her side, Cece sets out to reunite her familyand maybe even change what it means to be a bruja along the way.

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ID: 438566

Title: Second Chances: A Marine, His Dog, and Finding Redemption

Author: Craig Grossi

Narrator: Craig Grossi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:55:08

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

The author of the heartwarming Craig and Fred tells the deeply emotional and inspiring story of the next phase of their lives together: working closely with prison inmates in Maine who raise and train puppies to become service dogs.

Former US Marine Craig Grossi and his dog Fred appeared on the ''Today Show' and 'Rachael Ray', and in schools, bookstores, and military bases across America as they told the uplifting story of how Craig found Fred, a stray, while serving in Afghanistan--and brought him home. During their travels, Craig was invited to speak at Maine State Prisonthe penitentiary that inspired Stephen Kings famous Shawshank. While there, he met a group of very special inmates, participants in a program run by the non-profit Americas Vet Dogs.

Craig discovered that many of the prisoners are veteransformer soldiers serving their country in an entirely different way: by transforming purebred Labrador Retrievers from floppy puppies into indispensable companions for disabled vets. These service dogs literally and figuratively open doors for men and women, offering hope and a renewed sense of freedom. 

Yet these disabled vets are not the only lives changed by these dogs. The inmates who train them are given a purpose, theyre given experience, and most importantly theyre given a sense of self-worth, Craig explains. The men at Maine State are given a second chancesomething that I believe everyone deserves. For Craig, the visit had a profound impact. There was something special going on inside its walls and it was calling out to me. I quickly realized that the program and its men had something to show the world.

In this emotionally powerful book, he introduces these men and challenges us to look deeper, to see them as human beings deserving of a new shot at life. Were quick to give second chances to celebrities, politicians and famous athletes when they screw up, Craig reminds us, but when it comes to those whove been convicted for their mistakes, we too often dismiss them as forever lost. Second Chances poignantly shows that no life is irredeemable and that each of us can make a difference if given the opportunity.

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ID: 500571

Title: Cinders and Sparks #1: Magic at Midnight

Author: Lindsey Kelk

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:13:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Humor

Summary:

Cinders & Sparks is a fresh, funny, and fabulous take on Cinderella for everyone who loves series like Whatever After and Grimmtastic Girls.

Cinders isnt supposed to know how to do magic. Her dog, Sparks, isnt supposed to talk. And theyre definitely not supposed to go to the fancy palace ball....

But with a fairy godmother named Brian, do we really think thats going to stop them?

Bestselling author Lindsey Kelk makes her childrens debut with the first book in a ridiculously entertaining trilogy filled with adventure, talking dogs, and pure comic silliness. Perfect for readers age 812.

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ID: 431168

Title: Permission to Dream

Author: Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas

Narrator: Chris Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:25:25

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your one day into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece lifefrom the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.

On a winters day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North beyond the wall into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their livesand ours.   Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left? After five years, he feels an urgencywhat he calls, Atomic Time in which every second countsto find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become President of the United States, he knows its time to reclaim his own permission to dream.

Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success. 

At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true lifeeven during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous careerfrom a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it.  His tools include the new 3 Rsor the Rep, the Rap and the Rolodexwhich reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of othersso all can still have access to the American Dream. 

Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time its never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will beto go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers. 

A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into actionbeginning right now.

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ID: 497865

Title: All the Children Are Home: A Novel

Author: Patry Francis

Narrator: Kimberly Woods, Mia Barron, Nora Hunter, Patrick Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:03:29

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreakfrom the author of The Orphans at Race Point.

Set in the late 1950s through 1960s in a small town in Massachusetts, All the Children Are Home follows the Moscatelli familyDahlia and Louie, foster parents, and their long-term foster children Jimmy, Zaidie, and Jonand the irrevocable changes in their lives when a six-year-old indigenous girl, Agnes,  comes to live with them.

When Dahlia decided to become a foster mother, she had a few caveats: no howling newborns, no delinquents, and above all, no girls. A harrowing incident years before left her a virtual prisoner in her own home, forever wary of the heartbreak and limitation of a girls life.

Eleven years after they began fostering, Dahlia and Louie consider their family complete, but when the social worker begs them to take a young girl who has been horrifically abused and neglected, they cant say no.

Six-year-old Agnes Juniper arrives with no knowledge of her Native American heritage or herself beyond a box of trinkets given to her by her mother and dreamlike memories of her sister. As the years pass and outside forces threaten to tear them apart, the children, now young adults, must find the courage and resilience to save themselves and each other. Heartfelt and enthralling, All the Children Are Home is a moving testament to the enduring power of love in the face of devastating loss.

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ID: 497869

Title: Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

Author: Stephen Walker

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, World, Astronomy & Physics

Summary:

This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling.It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched.               (The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review)

Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road

09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Unions most powerful intercontinental ballistic missileoriginally designed to carry a nuclear warheadand blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history.

Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hourten times faster than a rifle bulletGagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity the first human to leave the planet.

Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.

Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanitys greatest adventures to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

 

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ID: 501819

Title: Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good

Author: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Narrator: Kimberly Ann Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:18:42

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Women's Health

Summary:

From trauma educator and somatic guide Kimberly Ann Johnson comes a cutting-edge guide for tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the body to rewire the nervous system, heal from trauma, and live fully.

In an increasingly polarized world where trauma is often publicly renegotiated, our nervous systems are on high alert. From skyrocketing rates of depression and anxiety to physical illnesses such as autoimmune diseases and digestive disorders, many women today find themselves living out of alignment with their bodies.

Kimberly Johnson is a somatic practitioner, birth doula, and postpartum educator who specializes in helping women recover from all forms of trauma. In her work, shes seen the same themes play out time and again. In a culture that prioritizes executive function and mind over matter, many women are suffering from deeply unresolved pain that causes mental and physical stagnation and illness.

In Call of the Wild, Johnson offers an eye-opening look at this epidemic as well as an informative view of the human nervous system and how it responds to difficult events. From the small t traumas of getting ghosted, experiencing a fall-out with a close friend, or swerving to avoid a car accident to the capital T traumas of sexual assault, an upending natural disaster, or a life-threatening illnessJohnson explains how the nervous system both protects us from immediate harm and creates reverberations that ripple through a lifetime.

In this practical, empowering guide, Johnson shows readers how to metabolize these nervous system responses, allowing everyone to come home to their deepest, most intuitive and whole selves. Following her supportive advice, readers will learn how to move from wholeness, tapping into the innate wisdom of their senses, soothing frayed nerves and reconnecting with their animal selves.

While we cannot cure the painful cultural rifts inflicting our society, there is a path forwardthrough our bodies.

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ID: 500912

Title: Last Windwitch

Author: Jennifer Adam

Narrator: Emily Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:08:36

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperCollins

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

Summary:

Fans of Shannon Hale and Kelly Barnhill will delight in this charming and richly imagined middle grade fantasy debut, featuring a wicked queen, magical animals, a henchman with a golden heart, and a small girl with a great destiny.

Many years ago, in the kingdom of Fenwood Reach, there was a powerful Windwitch who wove the seasons, keeping the land bountiful and the people happy. But then a dark magic drove her from the realm, and the world fell into chaos.

Brida is content in her small village of Oak Hollow. There, shes plenty occupied trying to convince her fickle magic to actually do what its meant to in her work as a hedgewitchs apprenticeuntil she accidentally catches the attention of the wicked queen.

On the run from the queens huntsman and her all-seeing Crow spies, Brida discovers the truth about her family, her magic, and who she is destined to beand that she may hold the power to defeating the wicked queen and setting the kingdom right again.

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ID: 502622

Title: Little Pieces of Me: A Novel

Author: Alison Hammer

Narrator: Piper Goodeve, Sarah Naughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:24:32

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself.

When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her mothers past and her own feelings of being the odd child out growing up, Paige begins to question everything she thought she knew. Could this be why Paige never felt like she fit in her family, and why her mother always seemed to keep her at an arms length? And what does it mean for Paiges memories of her father, a man she idolized and whose death she is still grieving?

Back in 1975, Betsy Kaplan, Paiges mom, is a straightlaced sophomore at the University of Kansas. When her sweet but boring boyfriend disappoints her, Betsy decides she wants more out of life, and is tired of playing it safe. Enter Andy Abrams, the golden boy on campus with a potentially devastating secret. After their night together has unexpected consequences, Betsy is determined to bury the truth and rebuild a stable life for her unborn child, whatever the cost.

When Paige cant get answers from her mother, she goes looking for the only other person who was there that night. The more she learns about what happened, the more she sees her unflappable, distant mother as a real person faced with an impossible choice. But will it be enough to mend their broken relationship?

Told in dual timelines, Little Pieces of Me examines identity and how the way we define ourselves changes (or not) through our life experiences. 

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ID: 466380

Title: Caul Baby: A Novel

Author: Morgan Jerkins

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:07

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Black Literature

Summary:

Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins's fiction debut,  an electrifying novel for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. 

Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power.

When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage. What she doesnt know is that a baby will soon be delivered in her familyby her niece, Amara, an ambitious college studentand delivered to the Melancons to raise as one of their own. Hallow is special: shes born with a caul, and their matriarch, Maman, predicts the girl will restore the familys prosperity.

Growing up, Hallow feels that something in her life is not right. Did Josephine, the woman she calls mother, really bring her into the world? Why does her cousin Helena get to go to school and roam the streets of New York freely while shes confined to the familys decrepit brownstone?

As the Melancons thirst to maintain their status grows, Amara, now a successful lawyer running for district attorney, looks for a way to avenge her longstanding grudge against the family. When mother and daughter cross paths, Hallow will be forced to decide where she truly belongs. 

Engrossing, unique, and page-turning, Caul Baby illuminates the search for familial connection, the enduring power of tradition, and the dark corners of the human heart.

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