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ID: 694459

Title: Underdogs of Upson Downs

Author: Craig Silvey

Narrator: Genevieve Hegney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:15:51

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

A heartwarming and hilarious story about a girl and her dog, and of kindness, friendship, hurdles, tunnels, see-saws, and—most importantly—bringing out the best in yourself and others.

Annie Shearer lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt. The two share a very special bond.

After years evading capture, Runt is remarkably fast and agile, perfect for herding runaway sheep. But when a greedy local landowner puts her family's home at risk, Annie directs Runt's extraordinary talents toward a different pursuit--winning the Agility Course Grand Championship at the lucrative Krumpets Dog Show in London.

However, there is a curious catch: Runt will only obey Annie's commands if nobody else is watching.

With all eyes on them, Annie and Runt must beat the odds--and the fastest dogs in the world--to save her farm.

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ID: 697176

Title: Headshot: A Novel

Author: Rita Bullwinkel

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:24:26

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024

Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle, Vulture, and The Guardian

“Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition

An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. Through a series of face-offs that are raw, ecstatic, and punctuated by flashes of humor and tenderness, prizewinning writer Rita Bullwinkel animates the competitors’ pasts and futures as they summon the emotion, imagination, and force of will required to win.

Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer physical pleasure that motivate young women to fight—even, and perhaps especially, when no one else is watching.

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ID: 694456

Title: ChupaCarter and the Screaming Sombrero

Author: George Lopez, Ryan Calejo

Narrator: Giordan Diaz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:54:52

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

George Lopez does it again in his next laugh-out-loud ChupaCarter adventure! Jorge and his chupacabra chum Carter are hot on the trail of the legendary El Dorado gold . . . but so are some wicked treasure hunters who will stop at nothing to find it!

A cursed Aztec dagger. A five-hundred-year-old witch's riddle. And a . . . screaming sombrero? 

These are the ancient artifacts that mysteriously hold the answer to the location of the priceless El Dorado treasure hidden in New Mexico—not far from where Jorge and Carter live. When their friend Ernie's dad is accused of stealing the artifacts, it's a race against time to clear his name. They find help from the unlikeliest—and loudest—source they've ever met: a sombrero that SCREAMS! 

Together with brainy Liza, the oddball heroes discover the real culprits are a devilish ring of thieves who are after El Dorado's treasure. The pals lay a cunning trap to make the thieves confess, but they realize too late that they're the ones being trapped . . . and there's no one left to save them!

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ID: 684372

Title: How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Author: Lyn Slater

Narrator: Lyn Slater

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:49:03

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Aging & Longevity, Arts & Entertainment, Social Science

Summary:

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.

When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and take major risks at any stage of their life. Youth is not the only time we can be experimental.

How to Be Old tells the ten-year story of Lyn’s sixties, the sometimes-glamorous, sometimes-turbulent decade of Accidental Icon. This memoir is about the hopeful and future-oriented process of reinvention. It shows readers that while you can’t control everything, what you can control is the way you think about your age and the creative ways you respond to the changes in your mind and body as they happen. Rather than trying to meet standards of youth and beauty as a measure of successful aging, Lyn promotes a more inclusive and empowering standard to judge our older selves by.

In this paradigm-shifting memoir, Lyn exemplifies that even with its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning in your life and can be the best and most invigorating of all of life’s phases, full of rebellion and reinvention, connection and creativity.

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ID: 694473

Title: In and Out the Window

Author: Jane Yolen

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:22:14

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

The largest single anthology of Jane Yolen's poetry, containing more than one hundred poems for all occasions.

Our Kitchen

Smells of mornings,

blueberry muffins,

hot chocolate, tea.

It smells of bacon

and of eggs.

It smells of family.

For the first time, legendary author Jane Yolen gathers the largest single anthology of her poetry celebrating childhood. At home or at school, playing sports or practicing music, enjoying the holidays or delighting in each season, Jane Yolen’s masterful collection shows just how lively it is to be a kid. This collection of more than one hundred poems is a classic that children are sure to return to again and again.

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ID: 689489

Title: Just Another Epic Love Poem

Author: Parisa Akhbari

Narrator: Elena Rey, Nikki Massoud

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:33:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance.

'The heartache and longing of witnessing a beloved character pine hopelessly over her best friend has never brought me this much unadulterated joy.' –National Book Award Finalist Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Over the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book—a dogeared moleskin she and Bea have been filling with the stanzas of an epic, never-ending poem since they were 13.

For introverted Mitra, The Book is one of the few places she can open herself completely and where she gets to see all sides of brilliant and ebullient Bea. There, they can share everything—Mitra’s complicated feelings about her absent mother, Bea’s heartache over her most recent breakup—nothing too messy or complicated for The Book.

Nothing except the one thing with the power to change their entire friendship: the fact that Mitra is helplessly in love with Bea.

Told in lyrical, confessional prose and snippets of poetry Just Another Epic Love Poem takes readers on a journey that is equal parts joyful, heartbreaking, and funny as Mitra and Bea navigate the changing nature of I love you.

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ID: 697181

Title: Victim: A Novel

Author: Andrew Boryga

Narrator: Anthony Rey Perez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:02:21

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Comedy, Satire & Parody, Literary Fiction

Summary:

MOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE • A BBC BEST BOOK OF 2024 • There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the odd currency of identity.

'A crowning achievement.' —New York Times Book Review  • 'You will burn through Victim and find your hands scalded when you are done…Pitch perfect.' —Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming

Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background—murdered drug dealer dad, single cash-strapped mom, best friend serving time for gang activity—can be a key to doors he didn’t even know existed. This kind of story, molded in the right way, is just what college admissions committees are looking for, and a full academic scholarship to a prestigious university brings Javi one step closer to his dream of becoming a famous writer.

As a college student, Javi embellishes his life story until there’s not even a kernel of truth left. The only real connection to his past is the occasional letter he trades with his childhood best friend, Gio, who doesn’t seem to care about Javi’s newfound awareness of white privilege or the school-to-prison pipeline. Soon after Javi graduates, a viral essay transforms him from a writer on the rise to a journalist at a legendary magazine where the editors applaud his “unique perspective.” But Gio more than anyone knows who Javi really is, and sees through his game. Once Gio’s released from prison and Javi offers to cut him in on the deal, will he play along with Javi’s charade, or will it all come crumbling down?

A satirical sendup of tear-jerking trauma plots with a tender portrait of friendship at its core, Victim asks what real diversity looks like and how far one man is willing to go to make his story hit the right notes.

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ID: 697177

Title: Happily Never After

Author: Lynn Painter

Narrator: Helen Laser, Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:39:33

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

Their name? The objectors.

Their job? To break off weddings as hired.

Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.

 

When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show up at weddings and proclaim the words no couple (usually) wants to hear at their ceremony: “I object!”

 

During anti-wedding festivities that night, Sophie learns more about Max the Objector’s job. It makes perfect sense to her: he saves people from wasting their lives, from hurting each other. He’s a modern-day hero. And Sophie wants in.

 

The two love cynics start working together, going from wedding to wedding, and Sophie’s having more fun than she’s had in ages. She looks forward to every nerve-racking ceremony saving the lovesick souls of the betrothed masses. As Sophie and Max spend more time together, however, they realize that their physical chemistry is off the charts, leading them to dabble in a little hookup session or two—but it’s totally fine, because they definitely do not have feelings for each other. Love doesn’t exist, after all.

 

And then everything changes. A groom-to-be hires Sophie to object, but his fiancée is the woman who broke Max’s heart. As Max wrestles with whether he can be a party to his ex’s getting hurt, Sophie grapples with the sudden realization that she may have fallen hard for her partner in crime.

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ID: 697197

Title: Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Author: Katie Gee Salisbury

Narrator: Caroline Mclaughlin, Katie Gee Salisbury

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:36:40

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World, Women

Summary:

“Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See

Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.

One of Entertainment Weekly's 'Books We Are Excited to Read in 2024'

 

Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest.

 

Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across several nations, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film.

 

Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.

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ID: 694470

Title: You Will Always Belong

Author: Matthew Paul Turner

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:07:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Religious & Inspirational, Health & Family

Summary:

A joyous reminder that every child was created by God with infinite beauty and purpose, told in fun-to-hear rhymes with a powerful message—from the New York Times bestselling author of When God Made You

All that God saw when God designed you was beauty and purpose and everything true.

In a loud and confusing world, every child needs to know they belong, they always have belonged, and they always will belong. This audiobook encourages children to recognize their belonging so deeply that they are free to be their most authentic selves, certain that God created everyone exactly as they are supposed to be.

In You Will Always Belong, children will discover:

• The truth that we matter to God and were designed with purpose

• Encouragement towards acceptance and contentment

• The gentle reminder that the people who truly love us love ALL parts of us

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