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ID: 620719

Title: Gospel-Shaped Marriage: Grace for Sinners to Love Like Saints

Author: Chad Van Dixhoorn, Emily Van Dixhoorn

Narrator: Marcus Jackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:36:09

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

A Gracious, Biblical Model for Marriage

Married Christians, and those preparing for marriage, know that they're sinnersand that their sin threatens God's great purposes for their union, including mutual support, companionship, and intimacy. But how often do believers recognize that they are also saints, equipped through God's power to create a healthy, loving marriage?

InGospel-Shaped Marriage, Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn encourage couples with how Christ calls and enables them to love their spouse. They give a brief assessment of the biblical design for marriage while offering practical, proven advice for husbands and wives. Drawing from Scripture and the writings of Puritan minister William Gouge, their advice also prepares churches, friends, and others to support married couples in their lives.

- Comprehensive and Theological:Includes a summary of marriage in redemptive history, recommended Bible verses with each chapter, and prayer prompts

- Accessible:Offers guidance for singles preparing for marriage, young and mature couples, struggling couples, and those who want to strengthen their relationship

- Practical Advice:Written by a pastor and his wife, this concise, easy-to-understand guide includes discussion questions for each chapter

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ID: 599932

Title: Lord's Work in the Lord's Way and No Little People

Author: Francis A. Schaeffer

Narrator: Ray Ortlund

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:17:19

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Christians serving the Lord can fall into two traps: depending too heavily on their own power or underestimating their God-given purpose. In this collection of classic sermons, renowned theologian and philosopher Francis A. Schaeffer teaches believers how to rely on the Holy Spiritnot personal effort or statusin matters of service and leadership.

This short audiobook includes an excerpt from Schaeffer's sermon, 'The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way,' plus 2 sermons from the bookNo Little People. Covering topics including humility and servanthood, Christian office, spiritual battles, and trusting God's methods, Schaeffer encourages pastors, students, and church members to live as consecrated people, working humbly for God's approval instead of human praise.

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ID: 545589

Title: Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD: A Novel

Author: Jonas Jonasson

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:05:48

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

The beloved author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominate our time and holds lessons about what is truly important in life

Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin, his sort-of-son; Agneta, a wronged and penniless ex-wife; and Johan, an unscrupulous Stockholm ad-man whose company specializes in revenge services.

As Agneta and Kevin seek revenge against a gallery owner who has wronged them, this funny and philosophical novel takes off on a madcap journey that spans five continents and whirls around a colourful cast of characters, including a goat called Molly and the Pope.

As hes done in his previous novels, Jonas Jonasson acts as a travel guide through time, drops in a few lessons on colonialism and art history, and pokes fun at capitalism and the art world, supplying plenty of laughs along the way.

Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.

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ID: 596534

Title: Life of God in the Soul of Man

Author: Henry Scougal

Narrator: Angus King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-31-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Writing to a friend who was disillusioned by religion, minister and theologian Henry Scougal created what would become a classic text on Christian living. Compassionately explaining what true religion is and isn't, Scougal shares biblical practices that lead to real spiritual transformation.

InThe Life of God in the Soul of Man, Scougal cuts through false ideas about religion and demonstrates how to pursue true unity with God. He explains that religion shouldn't be primarily focused on restraining or dictating outward behavior, but living a divine life characterized by faith, a love for God and others, purity, and humility. As it did for the recipient of Scougal's original letter, this audiobook challenges believers to turn from empty religion and allow the Holy Spirit to conform them into Christ's glorious image.

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ID: 546571

Title: Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Author: Jody Rosen

Narrator: Amanda Carlin, Fred Sanders, Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:50:09

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Science & Technology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world

“Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker

The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike—and nearly everyone does.

In Two Wheels Good, journalist and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity’s life and dream life—and a flash point in culture wars—for more than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen’s book sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle’s saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a “green machine,” an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle-rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world’s fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.

Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle’s past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling’s connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel—a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.

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ID: 548817

Title: You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories

Author: Maggie Shipstead

Narrator: Alex Mckenna, Ari Fliakos, George Newbern, Kyla Garcia, Mark Bramhall, Mark Deakins, Rebecca Lowman, Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:40:22

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range

A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple’s Romanian honeymoon goes ominously awry, and, in the mesmerizing title story, a former child actress breaks with her life in a Hollywood cult.

 

In these and other stories, knockout after knockout, Maggie Shipstead delivers another “extraordinary” (New York Times) work of fiction and seals her reputation as a writer of “breathtaking range and skill” (Kirkus Reviews). Rich in imagination and dazzling in its shapeshifting style, You Have a Friend in 10A excavates the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways unsparing and hilarious, sharp-eyed and tender.

 

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ID: 543949

Title: Serious Face: Essays

Author: Jon Mooallem

Narrator: Jon Mooallem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:31:37

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

From the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews

Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California’s deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first day of freedom after twenty-one years in prison, and more—all with a deep conviction that it’s our vulnerability, not our victories, that connect us.

Mooallem’s powers of perception have established him as one of the most distinctive, empathic, and clear-sighted narrative journalists working today. The Wall Street Journal has called his writing “as much art as it is journalism,” and Jia Tolentino has praised his “grace and command.” In Serious Face, Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays form an idiosyncratic tapestry of human experience: our audacity and fallibility, our bumbling and goodwill. In moments of calamity and within the extreme absurdity of everyday life, can we learn to love the people we really are, behind the serious faces we show the world?

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ID: 605664

Title: How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward Is Not the Answer

Author: Brian S. Rosner

Narrator: Brian S. Rosner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:22:39

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

In the 21st-century West, identity is everything. Never has it been more important, culturally speaking, to know who you are and remain true to yourself. Expressive individualismthe belief that looking inward is the way to find yourselfhas become the primary approach to identity formation, and questioning anyone's 'self-made self' is often considered a threat or attack.

Prompted by his own past crisis of identity, Brian Rosner challenges the status quo by arguing that, while knowing yourself is of some value, it cannot be the sole basis for one's identity. He provides an approach to identity formation that leads to a more stable and satisfying sense of self. This approach looks outward to othersacknowledging that we are social beingsand looks upward to God to find a self who is intimately known and loved by him.How to Find Yourselfequips readers from a variety of backgrounds to engage sympathetically with some of the most pressing questions of our day.

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ID: 429264

Title: We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Author: Simu Liu

Narrator: Simu Liu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:10:27

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-22

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Marvels newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, ranging from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battled everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggled to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.

Our story begins in the city of Harbin, where Simus parents have left him with his grandparents while they seek to build a future in Canada. One day, a mysterious stranger shows up; its Simus father, who whisks him away from the only home he has ever known to the land of opportunity and maple syrup. 

Life in the new world, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be. Simus new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to. Although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language and values. 

As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the ideal son well, getting As at school, crushing national math competitions and making his parents proud. But as time goes on, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the expectations placed on his shoulders, and finds it harder and harder to keep up the charade. Barely a year out of college, he hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Unemployed, riddled with shame and with nothing left to lose, Simu sees an ad on Craigslist that will send him on a wildly unexpected journey into the mysterious world of show business. Through a swath of rejections and comical mishaps, Simus determination leads him to succeed as an actor and to open the door to reconciling with his parents.

We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoirits a story about growing up between cultures, finding your family and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstances.

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ID: 509094

Title: Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

Author: Julia Baird

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:08:44

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

THE NEW YORK TIMES • ESQUIRE • THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

“Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird’s exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)

When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape, and the British Empire was commanding ever larger tracts of the globe. In a world where women were often powerless, during a century roiling with change, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand.

Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. As a girl, she defied her mother’s meddling and an adviser’s bullying, forging an iron will of her own. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped the crown and relished the freedom it brought her. At twenty, she fell passionately in love with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eventually giving birth to nine children. She loved sex and delighted in power. She was outspoken with her ministers, overstepping conventional boundaries and asserting her opinions. After the death of her adored Albert, she began a controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. She survived eight assassination attempts over the course of her lifetime. And as science, technology, and democracy were dramatically reshaping the world, Victoria was a symbol of steadfastness and security—queen of a quarter of the world’s population at the height of the British Empire’s reach.

Drawing on sources that include fresh revelations about Victoria’s relationship with John Brown, Julia Baird brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning.

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