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ID: 421779

Title: We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

Author: Natalie Baszile

Narrator: Tina Lifford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:41:55

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, North America, Essays & Anthologies, Social Science

Summary:

From the author of Queen Sugarnow a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernaycomes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. 

In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black peoples connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The ''Returning Generation''young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations. 

These farmers are joined by other influential voices, including noted historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel, and award-winning author Clyde W. Ford, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and James Beard Award-winning writers and Michael Twitty, reflects on black culinary tradition and its African roots. Poetry and inspirational quotes are woven into these diverse narratives, adding richness and texture. 

As Baszile reveals, black farming informs crucial aspects of American culturethe family, the way our national identity is bound up with the land, the pull of memory, the healing power of food, and race relations. She reminds us that the land, well-earned and fiercely protected, transcends history and signifies a home that can be tended, tilled, and passed to succeeding generations with pride. We Are Each Others Harvest elevates the voices and stories of black farmers and people of color, celebrating their perseverance and resilience, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil.

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ID: 499009

Title: They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: The Truth About Disaster Liberalism

Author: Jason Chaffetz

Narrator: Jason Chaffetz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:13

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: American Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jason Chaffetz is back to blow the lid off the Democrats' attempts to spend unparalleled trillions and rewrite our election laws while never letting us get back to normal.

Why did the left think they could solve the pandemic with burning cities, closed beaches, blue state budget bailouts, and mail-in ballots nobody asked for?

The coronavirus has been a disaster for America, but it's been an unprecedented opportunity for the left. In They Never Let a Crisis Goes to Waste, Jason Chaffetz delves into progressive efforts to leverage crises to force their priorities into law. Whether the crisis is legitimate, fabricated, or exaggerated, the solution is always the same: more government, less individual freedom, higher spending, higher taxes.

He explores how disaster liberalism subjugates individual freedoms to political expediency in times of crisis, and how Republicans need to be ready for next time.  Because when we allow government power to become unlimited in a crisis, the crises will become unlimited. 

Across the board, Democrat leaders exploited the pandemic to achieve their agenda, invoking disaster liberalism to justify unpopular and unconstitutional power grabs. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed a gun control bill on April 10-three weeks into pandemic-because he wouldn't have to put up with tens of thousands of protestors. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced he was making it a criminal offense to attend church or go to work, only to see his overreach struck down by the state supreme court. Nancy Pelosi rammed through a $3 trillion liberal wish list filled with proposals unrelated to COVID-19, that immediately died in the Senate.

If not for the courts and local media, many of the Democrats' schemes would have successfully been implemented. As it was, many were-and many of the most egregious violations of Americans' rights were celebrated across the left.

In They Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste, Chaffetz uncovers Democrats' game plan and calls upon all Americans to protect ourselves against future incursions. If we don't pay attention, the left will use every crisis to implement its radical plan, steadily eroding the freedoms we all hold dear. Only the American people have the power to stop the left's next power grab, as Chaffetz shows in this powerful, thoroughly-researched call to action.

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ID: 445589

Title: Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power

Author: Brooke Baldwin

Narrator: Brooke Baldwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:13:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Social Science

Summary:

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of huddling, when women lean on one anotherin politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendshipsto provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Whether they are facing adversity (like workplace inequity or a global pandemic) or organizing to make the world a better place, women are a highly potent resource for one another.

Through a mix of journalism and personal narrative, Baldwin takes readers beyond the big headline-making huddles from recent years (such as the Womens March, #MeToo, Times Up, and the record number of women running for public office) and embeds herself in groups of women of all ages, races, religions and socio-economic backgrounds who are banding together in America. HUDDLE explores several stories including:

- The benefits of all-girls learning environments, such as Karlie Klosss Kode with Klossy and Reese Witherspoons Filmmaker Lab for Girls in which young women are given the freedom to make mistakes, and find their confidence.

- The tactics employed by huddles of women who work in male-dominated industries including a group of US veterans/Democratic Congresswomen, a huddle of African-American judges in Harris County, Texas, and an all-female writers room in Hollywood.

- The wisdom of huddling from trusted pioneers such as Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Madeleine Albright as well as contemporary trailblazers like Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay. 

- How professionals such as Chef Dominique Crenn and sports agent Lindsay Colas use their success to amplify other women in their fields. 

- The ways huddles of women are dedicated to making seismic change, including a look at Indigenous women saving the planet, the women who founded Black Lives Matter, the mothers fighting for sensible gun laws, Americas favorite female athletes (Megan Rapinoe, Hilary Knight, and Sue Bird to name a few) agitating for equal pay, and female teachers rallying to improve their working conditions.

- The bond between women who practice self-care and trauma healing together, including the women who courageously survived sexual abuse, and the women who heal together in The Class and GirlTrek.

- The ways women are becoming more intentional about the life-saving power of friendship, including the bonds between military wives, new moms, and nurses getting through the time of Covid.

Throughout her examination of this fascinating huddle phenomenon, Baldwin learns about the periods of huddle droughts in America, as well as the ways that Black women have been huddling for centuries. She also uncovers how huddling can be the secret sauce that makes many things possible for women: success in the workplace, effective grassroots change, confidence in girlhood, and a better physical and mental health profile in adulthood. Along the way, Baldwin takes readers through her own personal journey of growing up in the South and climbing the ladder of a male-dominated industry. Like so many women in her field, she encountered many sharp elbows on her career path, but became an early believer in adding more seats to the table and huddling with other women for strength and solidarity.

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ID: 500579

Title: Greystone Secrets #3: The Messengers

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:08:56

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

In the dazzling conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, must team up to save the alternate worldbefore both worlds are lost. All secrets are revealed in this page-turning, suspenseful story that shows the importance of teamwork, telling your story, and taking action when it matters most.

As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie. But no one believes the danger is past.

Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the Greystones father was working on before he died. And with the right touch, those symbols transform into words: PLEASE LISTEN. And FIND US, SEE US, HELP US. . . .

The coins are messengers, telling the Greystones and their allies that their friends in the alternate world are under attackand that the cruel, mind-controlling forces are now invading the better world, too.

After another spinning, sliding journey across worlds, the Greystone kids must solve mysteries that have haunted them since the beginning: what happened when the Gustanos were kidnapped, what created the alternate world, and how a group of mismatched kids can triumph once and for all against an evil force that seems to have total control.

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ID: 500911

Title: You Belong Here Now: A Novel

Author: Dianna Rostad

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:55:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

Its so hard to believe that this is a debut novel! Its an historic novel. Talk about hitting me on so many good points. John Busbee, The Culture Buzz, weekly on www.KFMG.org

Set against the harsh backdrop of Montana, You Belong Here Now is a novel as straightforward and powerful as the characters who populate it. I love this book, and I guarantee you wont find a finer debut work anywhere.  William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land

You Belong Here Now distills the essence of the American spirit in this uplifting story. Perfect for book clubs looking to discuss the true meaning of family. Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House

In this brilliant debut reminiscent of William Kent Krueger's This Tender Land and Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours, three orphans journey westward from New York City to the Big Sky Country of Montana, hoping for a better life where beautiful wild horses roam free.

Montana 1925: Three brave kids from New York board the orphan train headed west. An Irish boy who lost his whole family to Spanish flu, a tiny girl who wont talk, and a volatile young man who desperately needs to escape Hells Kitchen. They are paraded on platforms across the Midwest to work-worn folks and journey countless miles, racing the sun westward. Before they reach the last rejection and stop, the kids come up with a daring plan, and they set off toward the Yellowstone River and grassy mountains where the wild horses roam.

Fate guides them toward the ranch of a family stricken by loss. Broken and unable to outrun their pasts in New York, the family must do the unthinkable in order to save them. 

Nara, the daughter of a successful cattleman, has grown into a brusque spinster who refuses the kids on sight. Shes worked hard to gain her fathers respect and hopes to run their operation, but if the kids stay, shell be stuck in the kitchen.

Nara works them without mercy, hoping theyll run off, but they buck up and show spirit, and though Nara will never be motherly, she begins to take to them. So, when Charles is jailed for freeing wild horses that were rounded up for slaughter, and an abusive mother from New York shows up to take the youngest, Nara does the unthinkable, risking everything she holds dear to change their lives forever.

From the moment the reader steps on the train with these orphaned children, You Belong Here Now shows how beauty can emerge from even the darkest places. Erika Robuck, national bestselling author of Hemingways Girl

Rostads bighearted debut is full of surprises, and warm with wisdom about what it means to be family. Meg Waite Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London

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ID: 396231

Title: Oculta

Author: Maya Motayne

Narrator: Kyla Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:08:36

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

The exhilarating sequel to the #1 Sunday Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller Nocturna, about a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must reunite when a deadly enemy threatens their kingdoms chance at establishing a global peace. An epic fantasy perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Sabaa Tahir, and Stephanie Garber.

After joining forces to save Castallan from an ancient magical evil, Alfie and Finn havent seen each other in months. Alfie is finally stepping up to his role as heir and preparing for an International Peace Summit, while Finn is traveling and reveling in her newfound freedom from Ignacio.

That is, until shes unexpectedly installed as the new leader of one of Castallans powerful crime syndicates. 

Just when Finn finds herself back in San Cristobal, Alfies plans are also derailed. The mysterious organization responsible for his brothers murder has resurfacedand their newest target is the summit. And when these events converge, Finn and Alfie are once again forced to work together to follow the assassins trail and preserve Castallans hopes for peace with Englass. 

But will they be able to stop these sinister foes before a new war threatens their kingdom?

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ID: 499010

Title: Love in Case of Emergency: A Novel

Author: Daniela Krien

Narrator: Mary Jane Wells

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:03:16

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

''Fans of Sarah Dunn, Elisabeth Egan, and Isabel Gillies will relate to the multifaceted lives of Kriens characters, brilliantly rendered in her vivid voice.'' -- Booklist

Writing with the wry realism of Sally Rooney, one of Germany most promising literary talents demonstrates her incisive understanding of the complexities of relationships and the depths of the human heart in this witty and compulsively readable novel about five very different women whose lives intersect.

What happens when women fulfill their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters, and daughters? What comes next? Award-winning author Daniela Krien explores these questions in this powerful novel of friendship, love, loss, and everything in between. 

Krien explores the hopes, ambitions, challenges, and disappointments that shape modern womens lives, offering intimate insights on motherhood and childlessness, bereavement, infidelity, and divorce. At the heart of the novel are five very different women who find themselves hurtling towards a new way of living without knowing quite how they got there.

A fresh take on womens lives, Love in Case of Emergency is a punchy yet sensitive novel that takes the notion of aspiring to find happiness and connection to new and exhilarating heights.

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch 

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ID: 489209

Title: Good Company: A Novel

Author: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Narrator: Marin Ireland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:59:06

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

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

Summary:

''Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp!  Treat yourself to some Good Company.'' Maria Semple, author of Today Will Be Different

A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia DAprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest

Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husbands wedding ringthe one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.

Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julians small theater companyGood Companyafloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?

With Cynthia DAprix Sweeneys signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us. 

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ID: 486718

Title: Mother May I: A Novel

Author: Joshilyn Jackson

Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:51:51

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Contemporary Women

Summary:

''Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against time.'' Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills

''A master of domestic suspense.'' Entertainment Weekly

The New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Never Have I Ever builds on her success with this addictive novel of domestic suspense in which a mother must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her child and the life she lovesa chilling and thoughtful tale of power, privilege, lies, revenge, and the choices we make, ones that transform our lives in unforeseen ways.

Revenge doesnt wait for permission.

Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat was warned by her single mother that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mothers fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Having married into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree now has all a woman could ever dream of: a loving lawyer husband, two talented teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world.

Until the day she awakens and sees a witch peering into her bedroom windowan old gray-haired woman dressed all in black who vanishes as quickly as she appears. It must be a play of the early morning light or the remnant of a waking dream, Bree tells herself, shaking off the bad feeling that overcomes her.

Later that day though, she spies the old woman again, in the parking lot of her daughters private school . . . just minutes before Brees infant son, asleep in his car seat only a few feet away, vanishes. It happened so quicklyBree looked away only for a second. There is a note left in his place, warning her that she is being is being watched; if she wants her baby back, she must not call the police or deviate in any way from the instructions that will follow.

The mysterious woman makes contact, and Bree learns she, too, is a mother. Why would another mother do this? What does she want? And why has she targeted Bree? Of course Bree will pay anything, do anything. Its her child.

To get her baby back, Bree must complete one smallbut criticaltask. It seems harmless enough, but her action comes with a devastating price, making her complicit in a tangled web of tragedy and shocking secrets that could destroy everything she loves. It is the beginning of an odyssey that will lead Bree to dangerous places, explosive confrontations, and chilling truths.

Bree will do whatever it takes to protect her familybut what if the cost tears their world apart?

Joshilyn Jackson does it again with this explosive, white-knuckle read about a mother who will stop at nothing to protect her family. Terrifying, timely and thought-provoking.Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs.

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ID: 459566

Title: I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope

Author: Emily Grodin, Valerie Gilpeer

Narrator: Sara Morsey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:50:24

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Parenting

Summary:

A remarkable memoir by a mother and her autistic daughter whod long been unable to communicateuntil a miraculous breakthrough revealed a young woman with a rich and creative interior life, a poet, whod been trapped inside for more than two decades.

I have been buried under years of dust and now I have so much to say.

These were the first words twenty-five-year-old Emily Grodin ever wrote. Born with nonverbal autism, Emilys only means of communicating for a quarter of a century had been only one-word responses or physical gestures. 

That Emily was intelligent had never been in questionfrom an early age shed shown clear signs that she understood what was going on though she could not express herself. Her parents, Valerie and Tom, sought every therapy possible in the hope that Emily would one day be able to reveal herself. When this miraculous breakthrough occurred, Emily was finally able to give insight into the life, frustrations, and joys of a person with autism. She could tell her parents what her younger years had been like and reveal all the emotions and intelligence residing within her; she became their guide into the autistic experience.

Told by Valerie, with insights and stories and poetry from Emily, I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust highlights key moments of Emilys childhood that led to her communication awakeningand how her ability rapidly accelerated after she wrote that first sentence. As Valerie tells her familys story, she shares the knowledge shes gained from working as a legal advocate for families affected by autism and other neurological disorders. 

A story of unconditional love, faith in the face of difficulty, and the grace of perseverance and acceptance, I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust is an evocative and affecting mother-daughter memoir of learning to see each other for who they are.

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