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ID: 603501

Title: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Author: Talia Hibbert

Narrator: Amina Koroma, Jonathan Andrew Hume

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors—and each other.

Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine.

 

Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed. Social media followers eat up her takes on everything from UFOs to holiday overconsumption—yet, she’s still not cool enough for the popular kids’ table. Which is why Brad abandoned her for the in-crowd years ago. (At least, that’s how Celine sees it.)

These days, there’s nothing between them other than petty insults and academic rivalry. So when Celine signs up for a survival course in the woods, she’s surprised to find Brad right beside her.

Forced to work as a team for the chance to win a grand prize, these two teens must trudge through not just mud and dirt but their messy past. And as this adventure brings them closer together, they begin to remember the good bits of their history. But has too much time passed . . . or just enough to spark a whole new kind of relationship?

This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of the glossary from the book.

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ID: 630063

Title: Retirement Watch: The Essential Guide to Retiring in the 2020s

Author: Bob Carlson

Narrator: Dave Arlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:23:49

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance

Summary:

America’s #1 retirement adviser offers tried and true investment strategies for before and after retirement. Sound guidance from the creator of RetirementWatch.com and the author of Where’s My Money?: Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Your Social Security.

The 2020s are likely to be among the worst times to be nearing retirement or in the early years of retirement. This audiobook first explains the forces that are coming together to make it more difficult to create and maintain financial security and independence in retirement.

The middle of the Baby Boomer generation will increase the pressure on every aspect of retirement. The early boomers began reaching 65 in 2011. Since then about 10,000 Boomers per day have been hitting 65. But the middle section of the Boomers is larger than the early Boomers. Beginning in 2024, an estimated 12,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 each day.

Already the foundations of retirement, Social Security and Medicare, are under stress. The rapid increase in the number of Boomers enrolling in these systems will increase the strain. 

In addition, the high returns in stocks and other investments since 2009 (and especially since 2017) make it likely that investment returns will be below their long-term averages during most of the 2020s. Further, interest rates on traditional retirement income investments, such as certificates of deposit, short-term government bonds, and money market funds, are the lowest they’ve been in U.S. history and are likely to remain below their historic averages.

In addition, taxes imposed by all levels of government are likely to increase during the 2020s. A longstanding myth is that a person’s tax burden will decline in retirement. That hasn’t been true for some time, and in the 2020s retirees are likely to face a range of tax increases.

For a long time, many retirees left a lot of money on the table by making less-than-optimum decisions about Social Security, Medicare, IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, long-term care, and other key retirement issues. For example, a recent study done for United Income concluded that only four percent of Social Security beneficiaries made the optimum decision about when to claim retirement benefits.

For the most part, the Boomers mistakes were bailed out by high stock market returns and low inflation. Retirees in the 2020s aren’t likely to be so fortunate. 

Peak Boomers have to make the right decisions about all aspects of their retirement finances. This book will cover each of the key retirement planning issues faced in the five years before retirement and the first five years of retirement and guide readers to making the right decisions for them.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains graphs and charts from the book.

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ID: 603678

Title: Rhinos at Recess

Author: Mary Pope Osborne

Narrator: Mary Pope Osborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:02:45

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

The #1 bestselling Magic Tree House series is ready to whisk you away across the world with Jack and Annie--this time to the African savanna!

Jack and Annie are on the playground at recess when they feel the magic tree house calling them. They sneak away and are whisked off on an adventure in South Africa, where a majestic rhino needs saving!  There are a swooping helicopter, strict park rangers, and--most terrifying of all--poachers. How do you hide one of the largest land mammals in the flat terrain of the African savanna? Jack and Annie are going to need a little bit of magic for this mission!

Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?

Magic Tree House: Perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books

Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader

Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

If you're looking for Merlin Mission #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn, it was renumbered as Merlin Mission #9 when the series was rebranded in 2017.

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ID: 587664

Title: You Should Have Told Me

Author: Leah Konen

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:45:10

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

A new mother chases the secrets her partner left behind after his sudden disappearance in this pulse-pounding domestic thriller from the author of The Perfect Escape.

Janie needs a break: her baby won’t sleep, she’s struggling with motherhood, and a secret from her past threatens to tear her new family apart. So when her partner, Max, offers to do their baby’s feedings that night so she can finally get some sleep, she jumps at the chance. But when Janie wakes up at three a.m., her daughter is screaming alone in her bassinet … Max has vanished.

 

Alone with a newborn and desperate for answers, Janie searches for Max, but the more she learns about the man she loves, the more she wonders how well she knew him at all. When a woman is murdered and Max becomes the prime suspect, Janie must face her partner’s secrets—and her own—if she ever wants her daughter to see her father again.

 

An endlessly suspenseful and surprising look at both the beauty and darkness of modern motherhood, You Should Have Told Me is a roller-coaster of a thriller with family at its heart.

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ID: 583263

Title: Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

Author: Deepti Kapoor

Narrator: Vidish Athavale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:28:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR!

“Dazzling...Finally free from the book’s grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked.”— The Washington Post

“A page-turning social novel…It stirs the pulse while digging into the entrenched and evolving structures and contradictions of modern India.” —NPR

“Cinematic…As a storyteller, Kapoor is a natural.”—The New York Times

 

New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold.

Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family -- loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all.

In the shadow of lavish estates, extravagant parties, predatory business deals and calculated political influence, three lives become dangerously intertwined: Ajay is the watchful servant, born into poverty, who rises through the family’s ranks. Sunny is the playboy heir who dreams of outshining his father, whatever the cost. And Neda is the curious journalist caught between morality and desire. Against a sweeping plot fueled by loss, pleasure, greed, yearning, violence and revenge, will these characters’ connections become a path to escape, or a trigger of further destruction? 

Equal parts crime thriller and family saga, transporting readers from the dusty villages of Uttar Pradesh to the urban energy of New Delhi, Age of Vice is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and lovers, false friendships, forbidden romance, and the consequences of corruption. It is binge-worthy entertainment at its literary best.

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ID: 580537

Title: For You When I Am Gone: A Journal: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your Ethical Will

Author: Steve Leder

Narrator: Steve Leder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:17:21

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

A beautiful keepsake journal inspired by For You When I Am Gone to help you create your own ethical will.

In For You When I Am Gone, Rabbi Steve Leder taught us how to write an ethical will, a letter to our loved ones that helps them understand what we have learned about how to live a meaningful life. Now, in this beautiful journal, Rabbi Leder provides prompts, exercises, and inspirational quotes to help us write our own ethical wills. As a helpful companion to the previous book or a complete stand-alone, this journal will show each of us how to create a lasting, meaningful legacy while enjoying the process of examining our lives.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF containing journal pages with prompts from the printed book.

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ID: 590726

Title: Grime: A Novel

Author: Sibylle Berg

Narrator: Kwame Augustine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:37:41

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual revolt…

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ID: 580540

Title: How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times

Author: Chris Bailey

Narrator: Chris Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:03:40

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

From the author of Hyperfocus, a treasure trove of practical, science-backed strategies that reveal how the key to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, is a calm state of mind

“After rebounding from his own burnout, Bailey devised a clear-eyed, concise method that marries science and self-help; he’s equally proficient in probing the roles of serotonin and endorphins while charting concrete steps in chapters titled ‘The Mindset of More’ and ‘Heights of Stimulation.’ Slow down, breathe, and submerge into these pages.” —Oprah Daily

A PENGUIN LIFE BOOK

It took an on-stage panic attack for productivity expert Chris Bailey to recognize how critical it is to invest in calm at the same time that we invest in becoming more productive. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as vital that we develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own mind—we build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day. The pursuit of calm ultimately leads us to become more engaged, focused, and deliberate—while making us more satisfied with our lives. And because calm saves us time by making us more productive, we don’t even need to feel guilty about the time we spend investing in it.

How to Calm Your Mind is our crucial guide to achieving calm, navigating anxiety, and staving off burnout. It explains how our digital world drains us, and what we can do to abate the hidden sources of stress that burden our days. Bailey has learned to embrace the analog world and “stimulation fasts,” to use the science of “savoring” to become more focused and present, and to relax without guilt—and he shows us how we can reclaim calm, too. In an anxious world, investing in calm might be the best productivity strategy around.

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ID: 580527

Title: Love from Llama Llama

Author: Anna Dewdney

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:01:50

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Kids, Romance, Holidays

Summary:

Discover the different kinds of love with Llama Llama!

Llama Llama talks about all the reasons why love is great and how that special someone makes every day a little brighter. A must-have for fans of the New York Times bestselling series Llama Llama!

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ID: 580531

Title: What Was Reconstruction?

Author: Sherri L. Smith

Narrator: Phil Corin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:07:23

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Historical

Summary:

In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.

Learn about a pivotal time in American history and its momentous effects on civil rights in America in this enlightening title about Reconstruction.

Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn’t last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. Find out what went wrong in this fascinating overview of a troubled time.

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