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ID: 582379

Title: Keeping Your Children's Ministry on Mission: Practical Strategies for Discipling the Next Generation

Author: Jared Kennedy

Narrator: Jared Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Jared Kennedy shares a four-fold strategy for gospel-centered, missional childrens ministry.

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ID: 582380

Title: Gospel-Centered Discipleship: Revised and Expanded

Author: Jonathan K. Dodson

Narrator: Jonathan K. Dodson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:08:45

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-22

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

Biblical discipleship emphasizes encouragement, repentance, and spiritual growthessential parts of the Christian life. However, well-meaning believers often struggle to follow Jesus, unaware their views are too legalistic, licentious, or individualistic. How can churches and Christians develop a healthy, successful path to disciple-making?

In this second edition of Gospel-Centered Discipleship, Jonathan Dodson presents an effective, Spirit-led model for sanctification. Reminding readers that real discipleship is imperfect yet transformational, Dodson encourages Christians to engage more authentically with others as they grow in faith. Drawing from his own failures and successes while following Jesus, Dodson defines discipleship, describes the heart of a disciple, and gives practical guidance for mentor and peer-based discipleship as Jesus intended.

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ID: 547474

Title: Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

Author: Elizabeth Williamson

Narrator: Elizabeth Williamson, Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:25:48

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Science & Technology, Social Science, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Slate, '25 Best Crime Books, Podcasts, and Documentaries of All Time'

Vanity Fair’s “Books We Can't Stop Thinking About”

Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023

The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022

Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022

Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022

Slate Best Books 2022

Chicago Tribune Best Books 2022

Los Angeles Times Best Books 2022

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, Sandy Hook is Elizabeth Williamson’s landmark investigation of the aftermath of a school shooting, the work of Sandy Hook parents who fought to defend themselves, and the truth of their children’s fate against the frenzied distortions of online deniers and conspiracy theorists. 

On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Ten years later, Sandy Hook has become a foundational story of how false conspiracy narratives and malicious misinformation have gained traction in society.

 

One of the nation’s most devastating mass shootings, Sandy Hook was used to create destructive and painful myths. Driven by ideology or profit, or for no sound reason at all, some people insisted it never occurred, or was staged by the federal government as a pretext for seizing Americans’ firearms. They tormented the victims’ relatives online, accosted them on the street and at memorial events, accusing them of faking their loved ones’ murders. Some family members have been stalked and forced into hiding. A gun was fired into the home of one parent. 

Present at the creation of this terrible crusade was Alex Jones’s Infowars, a far-right outlet that aired noxious Sandy Hook theories to millions and raised money for the conspiracy theorists’ quest to “prove” the shooting didn’t happen. Enabled by Facebook, YouTube, and other social media companies’ failure to curb harmful content, the conspiracists’ questions grew into suspicion, suspicion grew into demands for more proof, and unanswered demands turned into rage. This pattern of denial and attack would come to characterize some Americans’ response to almost every major event, from mass shootings to the coronavirus pandemic to the 2020 presidential election, in which President Trump’s false claims of a rigged result prompted the January 6, 2021, assault on a bastion of democracy, the U.S. Capitol.

The Sandy Hook families, led by the father of the youngest victim, refused to accept this. Sandy Hook is the story of their battle to preserve their loved ones’ legacies even in the face of threats to their own lives. Through exhaustive reporting, narrative storytelling, and intimate portraits, Sandy Hook is the definitive book on one of the most shocking cultural ruptures of the internet era.

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ID: 551793

Title: Mindful of Murder: A Novel

Author: Susan Juby

Narrator: Lisa Larsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:45:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-22

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Meet Helen Thorpe. Shes smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families in the world, she is called back to a spiritual retreat where she used to work, the Yatra Institute, on one of British Columbias gulf islands. The owner of the lodge, Helens former employer Edna, has died while on a three-month silent self-retreat, leaving Helen instructions to settle her affairs.

But Ednas will is more detailed than most, and getting things in order means Helen must run the retreat for a select group to determine which of Ednas relatives will inherit the institute. Helens classmates, newly minted butlers themselves, decide they cant let her go it alone and arrive to help Helen pull things off. After all, is there anything three butlers cant handle? As Helen carries out the wills instructions, she begins to think that someone had reason to want Edna dead. A reluctantly suspicious investigator, Helen and her band of butlers find themselves caught up in the mystery.

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ID: 533225

Title: Imagine If . . .: Creating a Future for Us All

Author: Kate Robinson, Ken Robinson

Narrator: Kate Robinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:40:02

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Education

Summary:

A call to action that pulls together all of Sir Ken Robinson’s key messages and philosophies, and that challenges and empowers readers to re-imagine our world, and our systems, for the better.

Sir Ken Robinson changed the lives of millions of people. The embodiment of the prestigious TED conference, his TED Talks are watched an average of 17,000 times a day--a figure that Chris Anderson, Head of TED, says is the equivalent of selling out the Millennium Dome every night for fifteen consecutive years. A New York Times bestselling author, Sir Ken’s books have been translated into twenty four languages.

 

In his final years, Sir Ken was working on a book that would serve as his manifesto. This book was being written for both new and dedicated audiences alike as a coherent overview of the arguments that he dedicated his life to, and as a pivotal piece of literature for the education revolution he began. When Sir Ken received his cancer prognosis in August 2020 he asked his daughter and collaborator, Kate Robinson, to finish writing this manifesto and continue his work.

 

At its core, Sir Ken’s work is a love letter to human potential--a celebration of what we as a species are capable of doing, and of being, if we create the right conditions. It is a rallying cry to revolutionize our systems of education, and the ways in which we run our businesses and structure our social systems, so that they bring out the best in each and every person. Sir Ken often observed that what separates us from the rest of life on Earth is our power of imagination: the ability to bring to mind things that are not present to our senses. It is imagination that allows us to create the world in which we live, rather than just exist in it. It also gives us the power to recreate it. 

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ID: 444497

Title: Confessions of a Class Clown

Author: Arianne Costner

Narrator: Jacob Mcnatt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:06:44

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Humor

Summary:

This middle-school class clown's hilarious online videos might get thousands of views . . . but is fame worth the price of friendship? A heartfelt story with multiple perspectives about the challenges of social media.

Meet Jack Reynolds. Making people laugh is his life's work. Jack's wacky MyTube channel is really starting to take off. The only problem is, for the truly epic posts, he needs a collaborator. And, well, he doesn't exactly have any friends. So Jack has to swallow his pride and join the new afterschool club, Speed Friendshipping. But who would make the best partner in comedy?

- Brielle, Miss Perfect candidate for student body president?

- Mario, whose mom won't even let him have a smart phone?

- Or Tasha, the quiet, mysterious girl with a shaved head and a crocheted hat for every day of the week?

One of these kids could help catapult Jack to internet fame . . . or even become a true friend. But what will it cost him to go viral?

This middle school novel explores themes of friendship, belonging, and the ways social media can put pressure on today's kids.

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ID: 531778

Title: Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison

Author: Daniel Genis

Narrator: Daniel Genis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:36:18

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-22

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the 'Apologetic Bandit'

In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in the press, given his habit of expressing regret to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years—ten with good behavior, a decade he survived by reading 1,046 books, taking up weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with his fellow inmates, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him.

 

Genis describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system. In his journey from Rikers Island and through a series of upstate institutions, he encounters violence on an almost daily basis, while learning about the social strata of gangs, the “court” system that sets geographic boundaries in prison yards, how sex was obtained, the workings of the black market in drugs and more practical goods, the inventiveness required for everyday tasks such as cooking, and how debilitating solitary confinement actually is—all while trying to preserve his relationship with his wife, whom he recently married.

 

Written with empathy and wit, Sentence is a strikingly powerful memoir of the brutalities of prison and how one man survived them, leaving its walls with this book inside him, “one made of pain and fear and laughter and lots of other books.”

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ID: 520844

Title: Golden Boys

Author: Phil Stamper

Narrator: Briggon Snow, Graham Halstead, Karissa Vacker, Michael Crouch, Shawn K. Jain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:46:20

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

National bestselling author Phil Stamper crafts the perfect summer friendship story, starring four queer boys with big hearts and even bigger dreams.

It’s the summer before senior year. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small, rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. But they have plans for the summer, each about to embark on a new adventure.

Gabriel is interning at an environmental nonprofit in Boston.

Reese is attending design school in Paris.

Sal is volunteering on Capitol Hill for a senator.

Heath is heading to Florida, to help out at his aunt’s boardwalk arcade.

What will this season of world-expanding travel and life-changing experiences mean for each of them—and for their friendship?

Phil Stamper treats readers to an emotionally resonant summer story, full of aspirational experiences, sweet romance, and joyously affirming friendship.

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ID: 449892

Title: Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted

Author: Jeremy W. Peters

Narrator: Jeremy W. Peters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:46:59

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-22

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: History, Politics, North America, Political Ideologies

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From an acclaimed political reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics.

“A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an anti-democratic cancer that attacked the U.S. Capitol.”—Joe Scarborough

An epic narrative chronicling the fracturing of the Republican Party, Jeremy Peters’s Insurgency is the story of a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped foment—right up until it suddenly couldn’t. How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party?

The answer is a tale traced across three decades—with new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were there—of populist uprisings that destabilized the party. The signs of conflict were plainly evident for anyone who cared to look. After Barack Obama’s election convinced many Republicans that they faced an existential demographics crossroads, many believed the only way to save the party was to create a more inclusive and diverse coalition. But party leaders underestimated the energy and popular appeal of those who would pull the party in the opposite direction. They failed to see how the right-wing media they hailed as truth-telling was warping the reality in which their voters lived. And they did not understand the complicated moral framework by which many conservatives would view Trump, leading evangelicals and one-issue voters to shed Republican orthodoxy if it delivered a Supreme Court that would undo Roe v. Wade.

In this sweeping history, Peters details key junctures and episodes to unfurl the story of a revolution from within. Its architects had little interest in the America of the new century but a deep understanding of the iron will of a shrinking minority. With Trump as their polestar, their gamble paid greater dividends than they’d ever imagined, extending the life of far-right conservatism in United States domestic policy into the next half century.

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ID: 551795

Title: When We Lost Our Heads: A Novel

Author: Heather O'Neill

Narrator: Jeanna Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:21:34

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-22

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The #1 national bestseller  

Marvelous . . . viciously funny and acutely intelligent (Macleans), When We Lost Our Heads is the spellbinding story of two young women whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the course of history  

Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At age twelve, with her pile of blond curls and unparalleled sense of whimsy, shes the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, the affluent strip of nineteenth-century Montreal where powerful families live. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly and brilliant, moves to the neighbourhood.

Marie and Sadie are immediately inseparable. United by their passion and intensity, they attract and repel each other in ways that set them both on fire. Marie, with her bubbly charm, sees all the pleasure of the world, whereas Sadies obsession with darkness is all-consuming. Soon, their childlike games take on the thrill of danger and then become deadly.

Forced to separate, the girls spend their teenage years engaging in acts of alternating innocence and depravity, until a singular event unites them once more, with devastating effects. After Marie inherits her fathers sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the citys gritty underworld, the working class begins to foment a revolution. Each woman will play an unexpected role in the events that upend their citythe only question is whether they will find each other once more.

From the beloved Giller Prize-shortlisted author who writes like a sort of demented angel with an uncanny knack for metaphor (Toronto Star), When We Lost Our Heads is a page-turning novel that explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying strength of the human heart when it cant let someone go. 

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