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ID: 659211

Title: Sparkle

Author: Lakita Wilson

Narrator: Tyla Collier

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:08:02

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

After twelve-year-old aspiring superstar, Sparkle Moore, is diagnosed with alopecia, she must navigate family, friends, and her own self-esteem with the added challenge of losing her hair. Perfect for fans of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! and From the Desk of Zoe Washington.

Sparkle Moore is destined to be a star. Her mother is determined to turn her and her younger sister, Nova, into social media influencers and budding superstars. And after her dad has lost work as a sitcom actor, Sparkle wants to do whatever she can to help her family financially, too.

But at the onset of middle school, Sparkle begins losing her hair—first her lashes, then her eyebrows, and then small circular bald spots appear in various sections on her head. It’s hard enough having to go to school and hide her diagnosis from her friends—all while they’re trying out for big roles in the school play—but Sparkle quickly has to deal with weird medications, itchy wigs, and lost opportunities her mom has wrangled, including a big shampoo commercial.

Despite everything she might do to hide what’s happening, and all her work keeping her friends together, when Sparkle’s secrets start coming to the surface—Sparkle has to come to terms with the changes in her life and show her classmates and her family what she can do with or without hair.

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ID: 660462

Title: Pizza and Taco: Too Cool for School

Author: Stephen Shaskan

Narrator: Rene Ruiz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:12:59

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Health & Family, Comics & Graphic Novels

Summary:

New backpacks? Check! Besties Pizza and Taco are ready to head back to school, but are they ready to meet the cool new kid?

B.L.T. wears sunglasses--even in school! He's not even worried about being late to class. SO COOL! I mean, 'whatever.' Pizza and Taco quickly pick up on what's cool--and what's not--by watching B.L.T.'s every move. Will that spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e for Pizza and Taco with their teacher, Mr. Apple? 

Readers will devour all the books in the series:

Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?

Pizza and Taco: Best Party Ever!

Pizza and Taco: Super-Awesome Comic!

Pizza and Taco: Too Cool For School

Pizza and Taco: Rock Out!

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ID: 660459

Title: Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?

Author: Stephen Shaskan

Narrator: Rene Ruiz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:13:23

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Health & Family, Comics & Graphic Novels

Summary:

The first in a hilarious young graphic novel series, adapted for audio, about Pizza and Taco. Two best friends, lots of toppings...but only one of them can be the BEST, right? Fans of Narwhal and Jelly will eat this book up...and be hungry for more!

Best friends are the BEST! But WHO is the BEST? Is it Pizza or Taco? The question is debatable! They both love water slides. They both are friends with Hot Dog and Hamburger. In fact, maybe they should have a debate and get their friends to VOTE for who's the best! Can their friendship survive the race for top spot on the popularity food chain? Cast your VOTE!

Readers will devour all the books in the series:

Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?

Pizza and Taco: Best Party Ever!

Pizza and Taco: Super-Awesome Comic!

Pizza and Taco: Too Cool For School

Pizza and Taco: Rock Out!

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ID: 666366

Title: Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

Author: Cleo Wade

Narrator: Cleo Wade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:17:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

From the beloved, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Talk, a collection of prose and poetry that explores how we can find light in periods of lostness, love for ourselves after heartbreak, okay-ness in the midst of change, and strength in letting go.

How do we find steadiness within ourselves in the midst of dizzying personal and global change? 

 

At a time when many of us feel overwhelmed by fear and isolation, Cleo Wade’s Remember Love offers intimate, uplifting words that anchor, nurture, and make us feel less alone.

 

She shares that the heart work we do for ourselves is not done to avoid the tough stuff—periods of lostness, self-doubt, depression, grief, heartbreak, and anxiety. Wade instead suggests that to live is to get lost, and it’s our task, our great privilege, to learn to love ourselves so that we can handle these periods and our discomfort does not block our healing. Remember Love reminds us that lostness is not our permanent state but a starting point for self-discovery, connection, and growth.

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ID: 670766

Title: Sweeten the Deal

Author: Katie Shepard

Narrator: Savannah Peachwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:30

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

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

Summary:

She's lonely, rich, and ten years too young for him—but she’s also his 'sugar daddy,' and they couldn't have less in common. Opposites attract in this charming new romance by Katie Shepard.

 

MBA student Caroline Sedlacek knows her personal balance sheet is a little lopsided. On the asset side, at twenty-two she’s got an NCAA trophy, a great education...and the two million dollars she unexpectedly inherited. Liabilities? She's never had friends, a boyfriend, or any life experiences away from the tennis court or the classroom. She'd love to invest herself in everything else, but 'everything else' never came easily for her.

 

In the ten years since he left art school as a vaunted prodigy, Adrian Landry has won shows and major prizes—and done his best to shed his reputation as a pretty man who makes pretty paintings. Though currently broke and sleeping off a bad break-up on his college roommate’s couch, he knows this is the chance to get his life back on track at thirty-three—he just needs the money to find a new gallery. 

When Adrian’s roommate lists him on a thinly veiled escort site, Caroline is not the patron he expected. She’s way too young, way too naive, and loudly uninterested in having sex with him. Instead, they’re both going to get exactly what they want: a little culture on her side, and a lot of cash on his. Aside from their sugar baby arrangement, they’ve got nothing in common. But as they reel from the symphony to the Haymarket, they learn that what they want and what they need might be two very different things.

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ID: 660464

Title: Pizza and Taco: Dare to Be Scared!

Author: Stephen Shaskan

Narrator: Rene Ruiz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:12:20

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Ages 5 & Under, Health & Family, Comics & Graphic Novels

Summary:

Flashlights? Check! Scary movies? Check! Ghost Peppers?! Pizza and Taco are ready to prove they're brave as can be in their latest graphic chapter book, adapted for audio! Nothing scares these besties...or so they say.

Pizza and Taco aren't afraid! To prove it, they dare each other to be scared. Dark closets and scary movies are a piece of cake—kind of. They're ready for the ultimate test—Ghost Pepper hunting! Pizza and Taco are sure they won't get scared...they made a list, after all! 

Readers will also love the first five books in the series:

Who's the Best?

Best Party Ever!

Super-Awesome Comic!

Too Cool for School

Rock Out!

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ID: 667407

Title: Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Author: Dolly Parton

Narrator: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, Rebecca Seaver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:21:23

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.

 

Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton’s life and career, this audiobook spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now. The sky-high heels, famous wigs, bold makeup, eye-catching stage clothes—she shares them all. Along the way, Parton discusses memorable outfits from her past and the daring styles that continue to entertain and inspire today. 

 

Filled with candor, humor, and lots and lots of rhinestones, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones is a shining tribute to one of the most beloved musicians in history, a treasured keepsake for anyone who loves Dolly Parton, and an indispensable guide to forging your own path to beauty and confidence.

 

Includes a Bonus PDF with exclusive images from Dolly’s private costume archive

 

This audio is narrated by the authors with contributions from many of Dolly’s lifelong fashion collaborators:

Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren, Rebecca Seaver, Allister Ann, Ann Roth, Art Streiber, Aurelia, Bobbe Joy, Cheryl Riddle, Debra McGuire, Fran Strine, Iisha Lemming, Jason Pirro, Jim Herrington, Randee St Nicholas, Riley Hanratty, Robert Behar, Stacia Lang, Stacie Huckeba, Steve Summers, Timothy White, and Vance Nichols

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ID: 657068

Title: Ready, Set, Dough!

Author: Kelly J. Baptist

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:55:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

From Kelly J. Baptist, the award-winning author of Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero, comes a story about Zoe Sparks, an over-enthusiastic cookie-dough seller who wishes to win a laptop from her school fundraiser. Of course, there's unexpected competition, bad music, strained friendships, and over-the-top ideas that go horribly wrong.

Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams—to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It’s the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough seller in her class, but is winning the prize really worth it?

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ID: 692325

Title: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Author: Rachel Maddow

Narrator: Rachel Maddow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:09:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Politics, North America, Political Ideologies

Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.

 

“A ripping read—well rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same punch and assurance that she brings to a broadcast. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it. It was a sophisticated and shockingly well-funded campaign to undermine democratic institutions, promote antisemitism, and destroy citizens’ confidence in their elected leaders, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. government and installing authoritarian rule.

 

That effort worked—tongue and groove—alongside an ultra-right paramilitary movement that stockpiled bombs and weapons and trained for mass murder and violent insurrection.

 

At the same time, a handful of extraordinary activists and journalists were tracking the scheme, exposing it even as it was unfolding. In 1941 the U.S. Department of Justice finally made a frontal attack, identifying the key plotters, finding their backers, and prosecuting dozens in federal court.

 

None of it went as planned.

 

While the scheme has been remembered in history—if at all—as the work of fringe players, in reality it involved a large number of some of the country’s most influential elected officials. Their interference in law enforcement efforts against the plot is a dark story of the rule of law bending and then breaking under the weight of political intimidation.

 

That failure of the legal system had consequences. The tentacles of that unslain beast have reached forward into our history for decades. But the heroic efforts of the activists, journalists, prosecutors, and regular citizens who sought to expose the insurrectionists also make for a deeply resonant, deeply relevant tale in our own disquieting times.

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ID: 666331

Title: How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Author: Deb Chachra

Narrator: Kathe Mazur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:25:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-23

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Public Policy, Architecture & Design

Summary:

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

'Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us

Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.

A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden reservoirs, transformers, sewers, cables, and pipes that deliver water, energy, and information to wherever we need it. When these systems work well, they hide in plain sight. Engineer and materials scientist Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, just how much we rely on them—but also whom they work well for, and who pays the costs.

Across the U.S. and elsewhere, these systems are suffering from systemic neglect and the effects of climate change, becoming unavoidably visible when they break down. Communities that are already marginalized often bear the brunt of these failures. But Chachra maps out a path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable. The cost of not being able to rely on these systems is unthinkably high. We need to learn how to see them—and fix them, together—before it’s too late.

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