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ID: 410050

Title: Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran

Author: Terence Ward

Narrator: Gibson Frazier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:04:40

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of Iranian culture and the sweep of its history, and transcends today’s news headlines to remind us of the humanity that connects us all.

Growing up in Tehran in the 1960s, Terence Ward and his brothers were watched over by Hassan, the family’s cook, housekeeper, and cultural guide. After an absence of thirty years and much turmoil in Iran, Ward embarks on a quixotic pilgrimage with his family in search of their lost friend. However, as they set out on this improbable quest with no address or phone number, their only hope lies in their mother’s small black and white photograph taken decades before.

Crossing the vast landscape of ancient Persia, Ward interweaves its incredibly rich past, while exploring modern Iran’s deep conflicts with its Arab neighbors and our current administration. Searching for Hassan puts a human face on the long-suffering people of the Middle East with this inspirational story of an American family who came to love and admire Iran and its culture through their deep affection for its people. The journey answers the question, “How far would you go for a friend?”

Including a revised preface and epilogue, this new and updated edition continues to demonstrate that Searching for Hassan is as relevant and timely as ever in shaping conversations and ways of thinking about different cultures both in the US and around the world.

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ID: 393446

Title: Higher Frontier

Author: Christopher L. Bennett

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure featuring James T. Kirk!

Investigating the massacre of a telepathic minority, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise confront a terrifying new threat: faceless, armored hunters whose extradimensional technology makes them seemingly unstoppable. Kirk must team with the powerful telepath Miranda Jones and the enigmatic Medusans to take on these merciless killers in an epic battle that will reveal the true faces of both enemy and ally!

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ID: 406574

Title: Keeper of Wild Words

Author: Brooke Smith

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Health & Family

Summary:

A touching tale of a grandmother and her granddaughter exploring and cherishing the natural world.

Words, the woods, and the world illuminate this quest to save the most important pieces of our language—by saving the very things they stand for.

When Mimi finds out her favorite words—simple words, like apricot, blackberry, buttercup—are disappearing from the English language, she elects her granddaughter Brook as their Keeper. And did you know? The only way to save words is to know them.

• With its focus on the power of language and social change, The Keeper of Wild Words is ideal for educators and librarians as well as young readers.

• For any child who longs to get outside and learn more about nature and the environment

• A loving portrait of the special relationship that grandparents have with their grandchildren

For children who love such books as Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature, And Then It's Spring, and Finding Wild.

Brooke Smith is a poet and children's book author. She lives in Bend, Oregon, at the end of a long cinder lane. Brooke writes daily from her studio, looking at the meadow and many of the wild words she cherishes.

Madeline Kloepper is a Canadian artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Major in Illustration from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work is influenced by childhood, nostalgia, and the relationships we forge with nature. She lives in Prince George, British Columbia.

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ID: 386401

Title: When Heaven Calls

Author: Matt Fraser

Narrator: Matt Fraser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:53:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Arts & Entertainment, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

America’s top psychic medium reflects on his life of speaking to Spirit and the lessons he’s learned along the way—from both the living and the dead.

Matt Fraser is just an ordinary guy…who happens to talk to dead people.

Born into a psychic family, Matt carries on the legacy passed down from his late Grandmother Mary by connecting people to their dearly departed loved ones and delivering messages from the other side. His sold-out live group readings, television appearances, and private readings have allowed him to bring hope and healing to fans from around the world.

But people who are not in the habit of talking with the dead have a hard time imagining what his day-to-day life is like. Based on the questions he gets, they seem to think he spends most of his time sitting cross-legged in a trance, maybe hovering a few inches off the ground, leaving his physical body behind as he journeys across the veil to the spirit realm. But it’s not like that at all.

Now, in When Heaven Calls, Matt opens up about it’s really like to be a psychic medium—including how he discovered his spiritual gift, what it’s like to connect with souls on the other side, what communicating with the dead has taught him about embracing life, and how you can tap into your own intuitive awareness to manifest your dreams, goals, and desires.

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ID: 386411

Title: In Five Years: A Novel

Author: Rebecca Serle

Narrator: Megan Hilty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:45:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick

“In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

​Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers.

She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.

But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.

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ID: 507512

Title: Judy Moody and Friends Collection 3: Judy Moody, Tooth Fairy; Not-So-Lucky Lefty; Searching for Stinkodon; Prank You Very Much

Author: Megan McDonald

Narrator: Amy Rubinate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Holidays

Summary:

JUDY MOODY AND FRIENDS

Everyone’s favorite moody third-grader is now starring in a series just right for newly independent readers.

JUDY MOODY, TOOTH FAIRY: When Judy Moody and her friends overhear a fifth-grade rumor, Judy is determined to prove it wrong. All she needs is one loose tooth. Open wide, Stink! But what if the real Tooth Fairy is a no-show? Judy Moody to the rescue! Judy Moody fans will happily sink their teeth into this cavity-free caper full of surprises!

NOT-SO-LUCKY LEFTY: Left-handers are creative. Left-handers are geniuses. Half of all cats are lefties. Or so says Stink. But Judy is a righty, and Judy is feeling left out. Tomorrow is Left Handers Day, and Stink and Dad, the southpaws in the Moody family, are celebrating with a trip to the pretzel factory. Judy is allowed to come along on one condition: she has to be left-handed the whole entire day. It’s on! Judy Moody fans will be cheering for this righty-to-lefty switcheroo.

SEARCHING FOR STINKODON: He’s on a dig, dig, digging quest in his backyard to find a tooth from a saber-toothed cat, otherwise known as a Smilodon. Why not? Two kids in Michigan found a mastodon bone in a backyard stream, and a girl in Great Britain found a pterosaur bone. It could happen! But Judy thinks the chances of finding a saber-toothed anything in the Moody backyard are one in a gazillion million! Will Stink make a discovery before their whole yard caves in? Judy Moody fans will smile like Smilodons!

PRANK YOU VERY MUCH: The Summer Science Showdown is just around the corner, and Stink is positive he has the recipe for A-plus success. Soon he’s acting like a mad scientist while visions of super tomatoes dance in his head.

Judy takes one look at her busy brainiac brother and sees a situation ripe for a little mischief! As everyone knows, Judy has never met a practical joke she doesn’t like. Soon she is cooking up her own recipe for an A-plus prank. From Megan McDonald comes a Judy Moody story just right for newly independent readers — an epic match of wits!

“It’s hard to imagine a mood Judy couldn’t improve.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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ID: 400556

Title: City Spies

Author: James Ponti

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:51:32

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

A New York Times bestseller!

A GMA3 Summer Reading Squad Selection!

“Ingeniously plotted, and a grin-inducing delight.” —People

“Will keep young readers glued to the page…So when do I get the sequel?” —Beth McMullen, author of Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls

In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called “a must-read,” Edgar Award winner James Ponti brings together five kids from all over the world and transforms them into real-life spies—perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency.

Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they’re not attending the local boarding school, they’re honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can’t.

Before she knows what she’s doing, Sara is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school’s computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain…all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team.

No one said saving the world was easy…

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ID: 507511

Title: Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey

Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:02:53

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-20

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, History

Summary:

After a chance meeting in the pub, Roger Morgan-Grenville and his friend Duncan decide to take up beekeeping. Their enthusiasm matched only by their ignorance, they are pitched into an arcane world of unexpected challenges.

Coping with many setbacks along the way, they manage to create a colony of beehives, finishing two years later with more honey than anyone knows what to do with. By standing back from their normal lives and working with the cycle of the seasons, they emerge with a new-found understanding of nature and a respect for the honeybee and the threats it faces.

Wryly humorous and surprisingly moving, Liquid Gold is the story of a friendship between two unlikely men at very different stages of their lives. It is also an uplifting account of the author’s own midlife journey: coming to terms with an empty nest, getting older, looking for something new.

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ID: 406401

Title: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Author: Deborah Feldman

Narrator: Rachel Botchan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:40:29

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Religious & Inspirational, Women

Summary:

Now a Netflix original series!

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman whose stolen moments reading about the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott helped her to imagine an alternative way of life among the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, regardless of the obstacles, she would have to forge a path—for herself and her son—to happiness and freedom.

Remarkable and fascinating, this “sensitive and memorable coming-of-age story” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is one you won’t be able to put down.

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ID: 386503

Title: Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

Author: Dan Heath

Narrator: Dan Heath

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:48:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

Wall Street Journal Bestseller

New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers.

So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. Cops chase robbers, doctors treat patients with chronic illnesses, and call-center reps address customer complaints. But many crimes, chronic illnesses, and customer complaints are preventable. So why do our efforts skew so heavily toward reaction rather than prevention?

Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream—including “problem blindness,” which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have overcome these obstacles and scored massive victories by switching to an upstream mindset. One online travel website prevented twenty million customer service calls every year by making some simple tweaks to its booking system. A major urban school district cut its dropout rate in half after it figured out that it could predict which students would drop out—as early as the ninth grade. A European nation almost eliminated teenage alcohol and drug abuse by deliberately changing the nation’s culture. And one EMS system accelerated the emergency-response time of its ambulances by using data to predict where 911 calls would emerge—and forward-deploying its ambulances to stand by in those areas.

Upstream delivers practical solutions for preventing problems rather than reacting to them. How many problems in our lives and in society are we tolerating simply because we’ve forgotten that we can fix them?

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