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ID: 533280

Title: What the Dead Leave Behind

Author: David Housewright

Narrator: Brent Hinkley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:55:28

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesnt have it in him to refuse. Even though it sounds like a very bad idea right from the start.

The father of Malcolm Harris, a college friend of Ericas, was found murdered a year ago in a park in New Brighton, a town just outside the Twin Cities. With no real clues and all the obvious suspects with concrete alibis, the case has long since gone cold. As McKenzie begins poking around, he soon discovers another unsolved murder thats tangentially related to this one. And all connections seem to lead back to a group of friends the victim was close with. But all McKenzie has is a series of odd, even suspicious, coincidencesuntil someone decides to make it all that more serious and personal.

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ID: 531598

Title: 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories

Author: Craig Rice

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin, Johnny Heller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:17:43

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

From Hollywoods Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true-crime profiles by the grand dame of mystery (Ed Gorman)

Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. Among them

A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Years fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkley; an aspiring starlet tortured, bisected, and dumped in a vacant LA lot; and a New York couple poisoned to death by the mysterious Veiled Murderess, a convicted killer who never revealed her motivesor her true identity.

Culled from Rices work as a crime reporter, the stories in 45 Murderers have withstood time as a century-spanning, cross-country tour of the sinister underbelly of the American Dream (Jeffrey Marks, author of Who Was That Lady?).

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ID: 494237

Title: My Own Blood: A Memoir of Special-Needs Parenting

Author: Ashley Bristowe

Narrator: Ashley Bristowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:43:53

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, History & Culture, General, Parenting

Summary:

Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing all you've got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother's voice like no other we've heard.

When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won't walk, or even talk--that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so new it's just been named--Kleefstra Syndrome--and she finds little hope and a maze of obstacles. Then she comes across the US-based 'Institutes,' which have been working to improve the lives of brain-injured children for decades. Recruiting volunteers, organizing therapy, juggling a million tests and appointments, even fundraising as the family falls deep into debt, Ashley devotes years of 24/7 effort to running an impossibly rigorous diet and therapy programme for their son with the hope of saving his life, and her own. The ending is happy: he will never be a 'normal' boy, but Alexander talks, he walks, he swims, he plays the piano (badly) and he goes to school.

This victory isn't clean and it's far from pretty; the personal toll on Ashley is devastating. 'It takes a village,' people say, but too much of their village is uncomfortable with her son's difference, the therapy regimen's demands and the family's bottomless need. The health and provincial services bureaucracy set them a maddening set of hoops to jump through, showing how disabled children and their families languish because of criminally low expectations about what can be done to help.

My Own Blood is an uplifting story, but it never shies away from the devastating impact of a baby that science couldn't predict and medicine couldn't help. It's the story of a woman who lost everything she'd once been--a professional, an optimist, a joker, a capable adult--in sacrifice to her son. An honest account of a woman's life turned upside down.

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ID: 483732

Title: Avengers: Endgame

Author: Steve Behling

Narrator: Tom Taylorson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:41:19

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, General, Action & Adventure

Summary:

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos actions and restore balance to the universe. Our beloved heroes will truly understand how fragile this reality is, and the sacrifices that must be made to uphold it. It is a story of friendship, teamwork, and setting aside our differences to overcome an immense obstacle.

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ID: 497880

Title: Not on My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon

Author: Alexandra Morton

Narrator: Katie Ryerson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:45:08

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

 

Alexandra Morton has been called 'the Jane Goodall of Canada' because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.

Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother.

     Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her fisherman neighbours asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government explaining the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast.

     Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.

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ID: 495130

Title: Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest

Author: Trina Moyles

Narrator: Trina Moyles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:50:43

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Women

Summary:

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.

While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. How could you isolate yourself for that long? she wondered. 'I could never do it,' she told herself.

Craving a deeper sense of purpose, she left northern Alberta to pursue a decade-long career in global humanitarian work. After three years in East Africa, and newly engaged, Trina returned to Peace River with a plan to sponsor her fiance, Akello's, immigration to Canada. Despite her fear of being alone in the woods, she applied for a seasonal lookout position and got the job.

Thus begins Trina's first summer as one of a handful of lookouts scattered throughout Alberta, with only a farm dog, Holly--labeled 'a domesticated wolf' by her former owners--to keep her company. While searching for smoke, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship--and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. Through megafires, lightning storms, and stunning encounters with wildlife, she learns to survive at the fire tower by forging deep connections with nature and with an extraordinary community of people dedicated to wildfire detection and combat. In isolation, she discovers a kind of self-awareness--and freedom--that only solitude can deliver. Lookout is a riveting story of loss, transformation, and belonging to oneself, layered with an eyewitness account of the destructive and regenerative power of wildfire in our northern forests.

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ID: 459038

Title: Animals

Author: Will Staples

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission to take down the animal-trafficking syndicate from the inside. Meanwhile, in Florida, insurance investigator Randall Knight is called to a private roadside zoo, where a new tiger cub of suspect lineage brought a virus that wiped out all the zoos tigers. The disease is just one species jump away from erupting into a deadly global human pandemic. What starts as a simple insurance claim leads Knight to discover a shocking new evolution in the business of illicit animal trafficking. Both mens journeys take them from the darkest corners of Southeast Asia to the VIP gambling rooms of Macau, where they must stay alive long enough to stop a vicious international triad from ending wildlife as we know it.

Animals is set in the world of global animal trafficking and follows converging story lines into a dark maze of corruption and organized crime, and through the journeys of the main characters, the novel explores the factors driving the exploitation and ruin of the natural world.

Though the story is fiction, the characters, locations, and plot points are almost entirely rooted in fact. They are the product of hundreds of conversations with everyone from Jane Goodall to the CIA, to Damien Mander (an ex-mercenary turned animal activist). To experience the issue firsthand, Will Staples took a month-long research trip spanning three continents and seven countries. The journey was a profoundly transformative, life-altering experience.

The authors goal with this novel is to expose this issue to as many people as possible. To that end, all his income from this book will be donated to nonprofit organizations dedicated to protecting wildlife.

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ID: 530134

Title: On the Run with Love

Author: J. M. Benjamin

Narrator: Khalid Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:04:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Freddie Holmes couldve written the book on how to be a player. With his good looks, gift of gab, his Jersey swag, and his ability to put it down in the bedroom, his only source of income is the women he manipulates. After meeting Simone, however, he is ready to hang up his womanizing gloves, or so he says.

Slug is a stick-up kid/hustler from the Dirty South. After losing his drug connect, he uses his trip to New Jersey for a funeral as an opportunity to link up with his cousin Freddie, in hopes of finding a new supplier. Freddie wants to show his cousin a good time, Jersey style, while hes visiting, only he chooses the wrong place and the wrong time to do so. At the end of the night, two people are left in their own blood. One is the younger brother of a known drug dealerthe other is a cop.

Freddie is forced to make some quick decisions. To evade his situation, he takes his cousin up on his offer, relocates to North Carolina, and changes his profession, but not without his soon-to-be-wife Simone. She gives up everything to go on the run with her man, all in the name of love, and soon gets a dose of reality. She has no idea what she had signed up for until she takes a good look at her life with Freddie.

See how Freddie Holmes learns the hard way that you can run, but you cant hide forever.

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ID: 530136

Title: Backstabbers

Author: Rahsaan Ali

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:05:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Tall, good-looking, and arrogant, Tracy Kane is the top male model for a hip-hop clothing line by designer Christian Elijah. When Tracy punches an African bootlegger in the face for pirating the clothing line he models, hes arrested and his life takes a turn for the worse. For while Christian, who bails him out of jail, claims to have Tracys best interests at heart, all hes really interested in is making more money. Soon, the designer is playing a dangerous game that could leave both of their lives at risk.

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ID: 528901

Title: Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love

Author: Joe Biel

Narrator: Kate Mulligan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:05:21

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Psychology

Summary:

Ever since he came out as autistic, Joe Biel has been contacted by people wanting to share their stories and ask questions. The most common question by far is: How do I find a romantic partner?

Dr. Faith G. Harper, author of Unf*ck Your Brain and Unf*ck Your Intimacy, joins autistic publisher and author Joe Biel to offer hard-won guidance on a wide range of topics about friendships, dating, and romance and answer a ton of questions. What do you want out of a relationship? What is the difference between flirting and harassment? How do you have a fun date and get to know someone when eye contact and prolonged conversation arent your strengths? How do you change a casual acquaintance into friendship or dating? How do you express your needs and make sure youre hearing your partner when they express theirs? How do you maintain a healthy, happy long-term relationship?

Autistic listeners will find valuable answers and perspectives in this audiobook, whether they are just getting ready to jump into dating, are seeking to forge closer friendships, or are looking to improve an existing partnership or marriage.

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