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ID: 569460

Title: Symmetry of Fish

Author: Su Cho

Narrator: Su Cho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

“All hits no skips. I was incredibly moved by these poems.” —Roxane Gay, via Goodreads

From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family’s lexicon

Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families—not diluted over time, but distilled into potency over generations. In this way, a family's language is not lost but continuously remade, hitched to new associations, and capable of blooming anew, with the power to cut across space and time to unearth buried memories. The poems in The Symmetry of Fish insist that language is first and foremost a bodily act; even if our minds can't recall a word or a definition, if we trust our mouths, expression will find us—though never quite in the forms we expect.

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ID: 588814

Title: Return of the Christmas Witch

Author: Aubrey Plaza, Dan Murphy

Narrator: Aubrey Plaza

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:50:16

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Holidays

Summary:

In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling The Legend of the Christmas Witch, Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza and creative partner Dan Murphy's fiery heroine has returned. . . and this time she's taking on Christmas.

By now you’ve heard the legend, all but forgotten, of Santa Claus’s twin sister. Many years ago, this shadowy figure followed in Santa’s footsteps, searching for him while leaving odd gifts of her own. One fateful night, they finally came face-to-face, and she hasn’t been heard from since. Until now . . .

The Christmas Witch has returned.

After centuries trapped in her icy chamber, the snow is finally melting, and Kristtörn awakens. She finds that the holiday she loved is now controlled by the mysterious Kringle Corporation. She embarks on a journey to a world unknown to her, where she meets the inventive young Poppy and sweet old reindeer Donner, who agree to help her restore Christmas to its former glory. Little do they know that she wants more than order . . . she wants revenge.

In the highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling The Legend of the Christmas Witch, award-winning producer and actress Aubrey Plaza and her creative partner Dan Murphy give the true spirit of Christmas a modern and wonderfully witchy twist.

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ID: 589920

Title: This Is a Prototype: The Curious Craft of Exploring New Ideas

Author: Scott Witthoft

Narrator: Scott Witthoft

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:34:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness, Architecture & Design

Summary:

A practical guide to prototyping as a way to revolutionize your work and creative life, from Stanford University's world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka the d.school.

Prototyping is a way to test an idea to see if it can be successful before investing too much time and too many resources. But it's not only designers who 'prototype' as they work. A skateboarder tries a new trick; that's a prototype experience. A chef experiments with a new dish and new ingredients; that's a prototype experience, too. Once a prototype is made, the creator gains knowledge about what worked and what didn't, what should be used again and what should be trimmed from the experience.

 

This is a book about becoming better at prototyping by building things and experiences that will help you learn from your attempts, no matter what you're aiming to achieve. Readers will learn how to not only create prototypes but also how to reflect on the success and failure of those attempts. Scott Witthoft, who teaches courses in design and prototyping to students around the world, introduces a comprehensive number of tools and materials for prototyping, including digital platforms and physical objects. And he breaks down real-life examples of prototype experiments with accompanying photographs for the reader to observe large- and small-scale prototyping in action.

 

With Witthoft as your guide, you'll put the principles of design into practice and bring your vision to life—one prototype at a time.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of visual references and illustrations from the book

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ID: 580535

Title: Righteous Prey

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:47:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories

Summary:

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in this thrilling novel in the beloved series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.

“We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.”

So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure.

After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.

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ID: 568883

Title: Balladz

Author: Sharon Olds

Narrator: Sharon Olds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:33:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called 'a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down' (San Francisco Chronicle).

'At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: 'she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me') and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) 'flushed exalted at Punishment time'; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden.

It is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it.

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ID: 597897

Title: Helping Hands

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:42:44

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Jules and Josh are so excited when their parents hire ponies to attract customers to their sidewalk sale. But the Vet Volunteers notice that the ponies don't seem to be very healthy, and after an examination, they learn that the handler, Gus, has been mistreating them. Can the Vet Volunteers help the ponies get well and find a better life for them?

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ID: 597895

Title: New Beginnings

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrator: Heather Corrigan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:35:08

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

An all-new, original book featuring two new Vet Volunteers!

Meet Jules and Josh, the new twins in town! While Josh adapts quickly to Ambler, Jules accidentally makes an enemy of Maggie. Hoping a pet will help her feel better, Jules adopts the class rabbit, Chewie, but things go downhill when there are complications with Chewie's spay surgery. With Dr. Mac out on a call, it's up to Jules to work with Maggie to help the rabbit - and maybe even prove that she and Josh are worthy of becoming Vet Volunteers.

This brand-new book in the beloved Vet Volunteers series brings all the kids together for another exciting animal adventure!

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ID: 568871

Title: All I Want for Christmas

Author: Maggie Knox

Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Sophie Amoss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:01:26

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Holidays

Summary:

A pitch-perfect holiday rom com about two oil-and-water reality-star country singers who must fake a relationship in order to win the opportunity of a lifetime, perfect for fans of Sally Thorne's The Hating Game and Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze.

Will they hit the right notes this holiday season?

When Sadie and Max are selected as contestants on the famed reality singing show Starmaker, each thinks they’ve finally gotten their big Nashville break. But then they’re paired up for duet week and stun the world with their romantic onstage chemistry. With fans going wild for #Saxie the network demands that they remain a duo on and offstage, or exit the competition. Faking a relationship until their final performance in the Starmaker holiday special shouldn't be too hard, except for one small problem—Sadie and Max can’t stand each other. 

But with their dreams just within reach, they agree to the ruse. Will their fake relationship be exposed before they can win? Or might their phony connection turn real by the Christmas finale?

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ID: 597898

Title: Treading Water

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrator: Julia Farhat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:48:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

When the Vet Volunteers find some abandoned ducklings, they know there's no time to lose. Without a mother, the ducklings must learn to swim on their own. But where did they come from? When Brenna and the rest of the Volunteers learn that the ducklings are abandoned Easter pets, they hatch a plan to educate their community about baby animals--but they also must teach the ducklings to swim before it's too late.

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ID: 568036

Title: Mad Honey: A Novel

Author: Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Carrie Coon, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult, Key Taw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:12:35

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Sagas

Summary:

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She’s Not There

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business.

 

Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. 

 

And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . .

 

Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.

 

Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of recipes from the book

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