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ID: 495651

Title: Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

Author: Jamie Merisotis

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:30:08

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

We are living through a time of upheaval and social unrest, with increasing threats to global health, democratic institutions, and the worlds economies. But behind the alarming headlines is another issue that must be quickly addressed: the role of workers is being transformedand often rendered obsoleteby automation and artificial intelligence.

As Jamie Merisotis, the president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, argues in Human Work In the Age of Smart Machines, we canand mustrise to this challenge by preparing to work alongside smart machines doing that which only humans can: thinking critically, reasoning ethically, interacting interpersonally, and serving others with empathy.

In Human Work, Merisotis, author of the award-winning 2015 book America Needs Talent, offers a roadmap for the large-scale, radical changes we must make in order to find abundant and meaningful work in the twenty-first century. His vision centers on developing our unique capabilities as humans through a lifetime of learning opportunities that are easy to navigate, deliver fair results, and offer a broad range of credentialsfrom college degrees to occupational certifications. By shifting long-held ideas about how the workforce should function and expanding our concept of work, he argues that we can harness the populations potential, encourage a deeper sense of community, and erase a centuries-long system of inequality.

As the headlines blink red, now is the time to redesign education, training, and the workplace as a whole. Yes, many jobs will be lost to technology, but if we promote peoples deeper potential, engaging human work will always be available.

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ID: 427280

Title: Earthlings: A Novel

Author: Sayaka Murata

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

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

Summary:

As a child, Natsuki doesnt fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in the forest, a place that couldnt be more different from her grey commuter town. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to Natsuki that he is an extraterrestrial and that every night he searches the sky for the spaceship that might take him back to his home planet. Natsuki wonders if she might be an alien too.

Back in her city home, Natsuki is scolded or ignored and even preyed upon by a young teacher at her cram school. As she grows up in a hostile, violent world, she consoles herself with memories of her time with Yuu and discovers a surprisingly potent inner power. Natsuki seems forced to fit into a society she deems a baby factory, but even as a married woman she wonders if there is more to this world than the mundane reality everyone else seems to accept. The answers are out there, and Natsuki has the power to find them.

Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world and cements Sayaka Muratas status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.

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ID: 495650

Title: Sicilian Method

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:07:29

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Thriller & Horror, International Mystery

Summary:

In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play

Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the womans husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors.

Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with, as well as strange notebooks full of figures and dates and names. Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanottis dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters, and the notes on his last drama, Dangerous Cornerthe theater is where hell find the answer.

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ID: 495398

Title: Captain Clive's Dreamworld

Author: Jon Bassoff

Narrator: Richard Smalls

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:09:06

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Noir

Summary:

After becoming the suspect in the murder of a young prostitute, Deputy Sam Hardy is vanished to a temporary post as the sole police officer in Angels and Hope, an idyllic town located in the middle of the desert, miles from any other sign of life. Hardy soon learns that Angels and Hope was constructed as a company town to support a magnificent amusement parkone to rival Disneylandknown as Captain Clives Dreamworld. When he arrives, however, Hardy notices some strange happenings. The park is essentially empty of customers. None of the townsfolk ever seem to sleep. And girls seem to be going missing with no plausible explanation.

As Hardy begins investigating, his own past is drawn into question by the people in town, and he finds himself becoming more and more isolated. Soon his phone line mysteriously goes dead. His cars tires get slashed. And he is being watched constantly by neighbors. The truthabout the town and himselfwill lead him to understand that theres no such thing as a clean escape.

Straddling the line between genre fiction and something more bizarre, Captain Clives Dreamworld is a terrifying vision of the collapse of the American mythos.

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ID: 495431

Title: Snow Raven

Author: Connie Dial

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:16:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, Historical

Summary:

Narcotics Detective Josie Corsino thrives in this decadent world chasing drug dealers, destroying crack houses, and raiding opium dens until the early morning hours. Her desire to do this consuming job makes family life nearly impossible. Her husband and son need her, and she needs to be on the street. The detectives in her squad dont fit the spit and polish image of the Adam 12 LAPD. Theyre grubby, unshaven, disrespectful to authority, and generally do police work in an effective, if not by-the-book way. Shes comfortable balancing on the edge of legality to make a good arrest until one night an informant tells her and her partner that a Hollywood cop has stepped over the line and is selling rock cocaine. In Josies mind theres nothing worse than dirty cops. She learns the hard way that they can be vicious, clever, and determined to do anythingincluding murderto avoid capture.

The search to find the traitor in blue nearly kills her best friend and puts Josie in the middle of a drug war involving an organized crime family. Finding the corrupt cop is the only way she and her partner can salvage their reputations and keep the killer from striking again.

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ID: 495430

Title: Short Stories: The Autobiography of Columbus Short

Author: Columbus Short

Narrator: Columbus Short

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The life of actor, choreographer, and musician Columbus Short has been punctuated with trauma that extends well beyond the plot lines of his previous role on the hit series Scandal. Short has lived many lives packed into onefrom a family filled with turmoil to tumultuous love affairs and enough scandals of his own. But somewhere in the middle, Shorts realization that there has to be a better way comes into full view. Short Stories not only details Columbus Shorts journey from childhood to Hollywood, it shows how even the most checkered of pasts can create a different person with the right amount of will and drive, especially when it comes to fulfilling your true destiny.

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ID: 495393

Title: Ask the Brains, Part 2: 62 Answers to Common Questions on the Mind

Author: Scientific American

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:06:33

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

From irrational phobias to a midlife crisis, weve all experienced moments of utter confusion about the nature of our own behavior, emotions, or perception of reality. In this audiobook, neurologists and other scientists share what they know about how the mind works, including some of these baffling psychological experiences.

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ID: 495436

Title: Turncoat

Author: Siegfried Lenz

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:15:51

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

Previously unpublished, this German postwar classic is one of the best books of this major writer, who died in 2014.

The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest on the border with Ukraine and Belarus. In this swampy region, a handful of menstunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own troops in the face of the Resistancemust also submit to the increasingly absurd and inhuman orders of their superior. Time passes, and the soldiers isolate themselves, haunted by madness and the desire for death. An encounter with a young Polish partisan, Wanda, makes Proska further doubt the validity of his oath of allegiance, and he seeks to answer the questions that obsess him: When conscience and duty clash, which is more important? Is it possible to take any action without becoming guilty in some way? And where is Wanda, this woman from the Resistance he cant forget?

A posthumous triumph, The Turncoat, written in 1951, is Siegfried Lenzs second novel. Rejected by his publisher, who thought that the story of a German soldier defecting to the Soviet side would be unwelcome in the context of the Cold War, the manuscript was forgotten for nearly seventy years before being rediscovered after the authors death.

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ID: 495399

Title: Chocolate Cure

Author: Roxanne Snopek

Narrator: Felicity Munroe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:15:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

No more chocolate! No more meddling! No more men!

New Years resolutions are great. Announcing them in a crowded bar, with a chocolate martini in her hand? Not Maddie Cashs finest moment. Its time this new realtor got serious about her life and this time, she means it.

But when hospital volunteering lands her at the bedside of bruised and battered Mick Meyer, who has no knowledge of Maddies reputationand no memory of the kiss he begged from her during that long, pain-filled night, her best-laid plans are put in jeopardy. Its not just his sweet tooth thats tempting her.

The hunky bush pilot with the concussion has an old family property to unload. Making this sale could rejuvenate Maddies dying career. But when Mick turns on the charm, shes in danger of forgetting all her best intentions on chocolate on meddling and especially on men.

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ID: 438978

Title: Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale

Author: Liz Braswell

Narrator: Lorna Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:49:35

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-20

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?

Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. Shed rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivians lively salon, ignoring her sisters wishes that she stop all that nonsense and become a respectable member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss. Yaos teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. Shes also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because shes curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.

But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjectsthe Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. Theres something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of alla badly injured dark-haired girl asking for Alices help. Mary Ann.

Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so before the End of Time?

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