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ID: 563706

Title: Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes from Spirit

Author: Richard Wagamese

Narrator: Christian Baskous

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

A new curated collection of Richard Wagameses short writings

Richard Wagamese, one of Canadas most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.

Following the success of Embers, which has sold over seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagameses nonfiction works, curated by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific authors short writingsmany for the first time in printand celebrates his ability to inspire.

Drawing from Wagameses essays and columns, along with preserved social media and blog posts, this beautifully designed collection is a tribute to Wagameses literary legacy.

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ID: 563663

Title: Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White

Author: Samuel R. Delany

Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:03:56

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism

Summary:

In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction.

Science fiction dwells mostly in the realm of possibility, where mysteries proliferate nevertheless, meaning is never static, and time and history have convinced us that things are not as they seem. So too does all language, argues Samuel Delany, in his vigorous justification for the writing life.

Chronicling his struggle with dyslexia, the evolution of his gay and Black identity during the AIDS crisis, and his experiences and relationships through five decades as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, Delany is a longtime observer of languages inner workings. For Delany, the reasons to write are inextricably linked with the habits of reading. Like the number of galaxies in the multiverse, the possibilities are endless; but in the last analysis, we write to discover our own worlds in the worlds of othersand to promote an illusion of their sharing.

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ID: 563665

Title: Damocles Agenda

Author: Jeff Edwards

Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:39:12

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, War & Military

Summary:

CIVILIZATION HAS AN OFF SWITCH

The Russians call it Lunnaya Pesnya. Moon Song. They bring the device aboard the International Space Station disguised as an experimental electromagnetic propulsion system. Just a harmless EmDrive prototype, ferried into space for testing in microgravity. But the device is not what it appears to be and its far from harmless.

When military cosmonauts hijack the ISS, Russias plans of global conquest are revealed. Moon Song is a game-changing electromagnetic pulse weapon, capable of attacking any location on Earth from orbit.

The first target is Kennedy Space Center. Uncounted kiloteslas of electromagnetic force slash through the atmosphere like an unseen swordwiping out microchips, transistors, digital storage devices, and electronic circuits of all kinds. In an instant, Cape Canaveraland the surrounding areas of Cocoa Beach, Rockledge, Titusville, and Patrick Air Force Baseare stripped of every necessity of modern existence.

Throughout the target zone, microchips are fried; credit cards are slicked; hard drives are erased. Electronic systems of all kinds suffer catastrophic failure, taking out cell phones, landlines, radios, vehicles, aircraft, and every electrical component within the footprint of the EMP beam.

A single pulse of energy has driven the U.S. manned space program into the dark ages.

Now, Russia holds the high ground. From orbit, they can detect and neutralize any attempt to attack the ISS. The destruction of Canaveral shows what will happen to any nation that challenges Russian supremacy. With the world literally held hostage, theres no way to fight back.

Or is there?

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ID: 563708

Title: Undoctrinate: How Politicized Classrooms Harm Kids and Ruin Our Schoolsand What We Can Do about It

Author: Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:46:55

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

Were used to assuming that politics stop at the classroom door. Those days are over.

Are your kids being indoctrinated in school?

Unfortunately, its increasingly likely. From social justice to critical race theory, and from advocacy and activism campaigns to planned action weeks, teachers and schools nationwide are abandoning neutrality in the classroom, embracing political agendas and partisan aims, and expecting students to get on board.

Meanwhile, students with doubts or misgivings decline to voice objections due to fears of lowered grades, impacted college recommendation letters, social ostracism, cancellation, public shaming, ridicule, and other formal and informal means of correcting them and making them toe the ideological line.

Is this what we want for our kids? Will this kind of education produce able citizens or independent thinkers capable of self-government?

The range of opinion has been narrowing in higher education for some time; now, heavy-handed thought constriction and chilled speech are choking our secondary, middle, and even elementary schools. The situation is direand America urgently needs a response.

This book provides the tools we need to confront and remove hidden agendas, to uproot and reject educational biases, and to restore balance and integrity to Americas classrooms.

Its time to undoctrinate our schools!

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ID: 563705

Title: Dark Things I Adore

Author: Katie Lattari

Narrator: Jim Meskimen, Nicol Zanzarella, Stacey Glemboski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:46

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees.

Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay.

1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. Theyre the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed.

2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégés remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web.

Only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Maxs secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it wont be easy, Audra knows someone must pay.

A searing psychological thriller of trauma, dark academia, complicity, and revenge, Dark Things I Adore unravels the realities behind campfire legendsthe horrors that happen in the dark, the girls who become cautionary tales, and the guilty who go unpunished. Until now.

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ID: 563709

Title: One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York

Author: Marc J. Straus

Narrator: Scott Wallace

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:41:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

Its June 1953, and ten-year-old Marc Straus is in his mothers car, getting sick from her cigarette smoke on his way to a Hebrew lesson. He and his younger brother, Stephen, are transferring from public school to a Yeshiva. His parents havent said why theyre transferringthe family isnt religious. So all Marc knows is hell have to protect his brother. Stephens a delicate kid other kids pick on. Marcs a street fighter who knows how to wall off the pain.

So begins One-Legged Mongoose, Marc Straus vivid, compelling, you-are-there memoir of two years in the life of a precocious, scrappy Jewish kid carrying a dark secret as he embarks on the journey to young manhood in 1950s New York. When school starts, Marc begins commuting four hours daily to a different world, where kids are smart like him and fight with words instead of fists, and a caring principal takes the troubled truant under his wing. Marc works at his dad's textile store on Sundays, learning about honor and hard work from his immigrant father. At home, he faces his volatile mother.

Straus encounters Anti-Semitism in public school, in the community, and even in the Boy Scouts. And its the Scouts that lend the book its titlea nod to a campfire story about a half-man, half-mongoose predator thats almost the height of a full-grown man, and that Straus and the other boys of Troop 300 are tasked with locating. But, as Straus explains, I was willing to face it. I know all about monsters.

Marc starts rethinking his risk-taking way of life, often sidelined by injuries to his eye, polio, and a near-fatal hit-and-run. A voracious reader, he looks to books for insightsWhat would Santiago do?and comes to accept that hes not invulnerable. Life will wound him, but the rest is up to him.

An unflinching look at child abuse and one boys ability to rise above it, One-Legged Mongoose reminds us of the bonds between siblings and the power of family secrets.

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ID: 563666

Title: Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology

Author: Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Emily St. John Mandel, Preston Grassmann, Ramsey Campbell

Narrator: Alex Boyles, Chelsea Stephens, Heath Miller, Helen Lloyd, James Anderson Foster, Kevin Kenerly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:10

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more

This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?

Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso, Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas, and D.R.G. Sugawara.

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ID: 563707

Title: Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy

Author: Michael Levitin

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:23:38

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy

Summary:

From the fight for a fifteen-dollar minimum wage to the nationwide teacher strikes, from Bernie Sanders to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, Generation Occupy reveals the lasting impacts of the Occupy movement on American politics and culture.

On the ten-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, Generation Occupy sets the historical record straight about the movements lasting impacts. Far from a passing phenomenon, Occupy Wall Street marked a new era of social and political transformation, reigniting the labor movement, remaking the Democratic Party, and reviving a culture of protest that has put the fight for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice at the forefront of a generation.

The movement changed the way Americans see themselves and their role in the economy through the language of the 99 versus the 1 percent.

But beyond that, in its demands for fairness and equality, Occupy reinvigorated grassroots activism, inaugurating a decade of youth-led resistance movements that have altered the social fabric, from Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock to March for Our Lives, the Global Climate Strikes, and #MeToo.

Bookended by the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, Generation Occupy attempts to help us understand how we got to where we are today and how to draw on lessons from Occupy in the future.

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ID: 563662

Title: Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

Author: George Makari

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:04:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobiaand what they mean for us today.

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the ideas origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called xenophobia arose not so long ago.

Coined by late nineteenth-century doctors and political commentators and popularized by an eccentric stenographer, xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. In this groundbreaking work, the author investigates these forces alongside the writings of figures such as Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, and Richard Wright, and innovators like Walter Lippmann, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon. In the end, Of Fear and Strangers pulls together the most critical contributions, to help us comprehend the New Xenophobia we now face.

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ID: 562595

Title: You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters

Author: Vanessa Bohns

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:24:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:

An original investigation of our hidden power to persuade, and how to wield it wisely.

If youve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you werent actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have for how our words, actions, and even our mere presence affect other people.

In You Have More Influence Than You Think social psychologist Vanessa Bohns draws from her original research to illustrate why we fail to recognize the influence we have, and how that lack of awareness can lead us to miss opportunities or accidentally misuse our power.

Weaving together compelling stories with cutting edge science, Bohns answers the questions we all want to know (but may be afraid to ask): How much did she take to heart what I said earlier? Do they know they can push back on my suggestions? Did he notice whether I was there today? Will they agree to help me if I ask?

Whether attending a meeting, sharing a post online, or mustering the nerve to ask for a favor, we often assume our actions, input, and requests will be overlooked or rejected. Bohns and her work demonstrate that people see us, listen to us, and agree to do things for us much more than we realizefor better, and worse.

You Have More Influence Than You Think offers science-based strategies for observing the effect we have on others, reconsidering our fear of rejection, and even, sometimes, pulling back to use our influence less. It is a call to stop searching for ways to gain influence you dont have and to start recognizing the influence you dont realize you already have.

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