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ID: 417243

Title: Firebird

Author: Misty Copeland

Narrator: Misty Copeland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:47

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

In her debut book, Misty Copeland tells the story of a young girl--an every girl--whose confidence is fragile and who is questioning her own ability to reach the heights that Misty has reached. Misty encourages this young girl's faith in herself and shows her exactly how, through hard work and dedication, she too can become Firebird.

Lyrical and affecting text makes Firebird perfect for aspiring ballerinas everywhere.

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ID: 436594

Title: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

Author: Rod Dreher

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:09:08

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Christianity, Political Ideologies

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers.

For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of 'soft' totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are increasingly seen as a threat to 'safety'. Progressives marginalize conservative, traditional Christians, and other dissenters. Technology and consumerism hasten the possibility of a corporate surveillance state. And the pandemic, having put millions out of work, leaves our country especially vulnerable to demagogic manipulation.

In Live Not By Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents--clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe--who offer practical advice for how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time. Following the model offered by a prophetic World War II-era pastor who prepared believers in his Eastern European to endure the coming of communism, Live Not By Lies teaches American Christians a method for resistance:

  •  SEE: Acknowledge the reality of the situation.

  •  JUDGE: Assess reality in the light of what we as Christians know to be true.

  •  ACT: Take action to protect truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can't happen in their country. Many American Christians are making that mistake today, sleepwalking through the erosion of our freedoms. Live Not By Lies will wake them and equip them for the long resistance.

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ID: 415080

Title: Planet Omar: Unexpected Super Spy

Author: Zanib Mian

Narrator: Waleed Akhtar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:55:25

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Religious & Inspirational, Humor

Summary:

Omar is back with a big mystery to solve in the second installment of this imaginative middle-grade series.

When Omar hears that his family's favorite mosque is at risk of shutting down due to lack of funds, he knows he has to do something. And with the help of his best friend Charlie and another unlikely ally, a great idea is born--a school talent contest!

Omar and his friends are super excited about their plan, that is until Omar's sister, Maryam, decides she and her friends are going to raise money, too, and the competition is on. The boys' talent show is a huge success but disaster strikes right at the end--all the money goes missing. Omar has no choice but to become a super spy to track down a foe much more wily than his sister.

Omar's amazing imagination brings the second story in his adventures to life as he navigates more of life's ups and downs. From sibling brawls to speaking to the scary principal and becoming a community activist, cheeky dialogue shows how Omar perseveres through serious and silly adversity.

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ID: 426075

Title: Elbow Grease: Fast Friends

Author: John Cena

Narrator: John Cena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Holidays

Summary:

There's a new truck on the block in superstar entertainer John Cena's third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Elbow Grease series, featuring the truck who never gives up!

Elbow Grease and his monster truck brothers are hardly prepared when they meet Chopper, a speedy, purple monster motorcycle. Chopper wants to be friends with the brothers, who are more than impressed with her epic skills! But when the trucks start to get jealous of her talents, they must learn to overcome their frustrations and welcome a new friend into the group--especially when it's up to them to work together to save the day! Elbow Grease and gang are back in another rip-roaring adventure, in John Cena's third installment in the series!

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ID: 430535

Title: Greats

Author: Deborah Ellis

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:07:02

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Tough Topics

Summary:

With the unexpected help of a giant prehistoric sloth, ghostly grandfathers return to help a suicidal teenager.

Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store?

Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living?

Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy - who claims to be his great-great-grandfather ...

Meanwhile, across town, the pride of Guyana, the life-sized exhibit of a giant prehistoric sloth named Gather, disappears overnight from the Guyana National Museum. While museum officials argue over who is responsible for the disappearance and who is in charge of getting the sloth back, only Mrs. Simson, a museum cleaner, seems to understand what needs to be done.

And so begins a strange and marvelous journey, as Jomon is sentenced to a youth detention facility, and a succession of his dead grandfathers appears, each one of them a suicide victim. As the grandfathers argue among themselves and blame each other for their own fates, they keep a watch out for Jomon, to try to make sure he does not continue their family tradition.

In this short, fable-like story, Deborah Ellis comes at the timely and difficult issue of child suicide with restraint, compassion, and freshness, as the grandfathers overcome their own fraught histories to help their grandson, who in the end is aided by the appearance of a wondrous giant rodent, busy enjoying her own return to earthly existence.

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ID: 441968

Title: Dunfords Travels Everywheres

Author: William Melvin Kelley

Narrator: Jay Smooth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:25:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Satire

Summary:

WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.

'[A] lost giant of American Literature.' —The New Yorker

Ride on out with Rab and Turt, two o'New Afriqueque's toughfast, ruefast Texnosass Arangers, as they battle Chief Pugmichillo and ricecure Mr. Charcarl Walker-Rider. Cut in on Carlyle Bedlowe, wrecker of marriage, saver of souls.

Or just along with Chig Dunford, product of Harlem and private schools, on the circular voyage of self-discovery that takes him from Europe's Café of One Hand to Harlem's Jack O'Gee's Golden Grouse Bar & Restaurant.

Beginning on an August Sunday in one of Europe's strangest cities, Dunfords Travels Everywheres but always returns back to the same point—the 'Begending'—where Mr. Charcarl's dream becomes Chig Dunford's reality (the 'Ivy League Negro' in the world outside the Ivory Tower).

“Among the most innovative and exciting novelists in the history of international literature, the opportunity to honor William Melvin Kelley with the American Book Award is a great privilege. Before Columbus Foundation is elated to welcome his work back into print, thanks to Anchor Books. It is a unique thrill to see Dunfords Travels Everywheres now illustrated in it’s new edition by Aiki Kelley, whom we also honor with this year’s Award. The majesty of William Melvin Kelley’s vital contribution to international letters remains urgent and evermore medicinal in its cosmic scope and unifying embrace. The total arc and panorama of human experience, embodied in the mythologies we share from antiquity to the present are fully illuminated in William Melvin Kelley’s artistry. An absolute virtuoso of the language, with Dunfords Travels Everywheres, William Melvin Kelley ignites the spiritual imagination, reviving and resuscitating images of our journey with wit and grace. His masterwork is truly a wonder to behold. Vivid, charismatic, mercurial, musical, Dunfords Travels Everywheres stands as one of the great contributions to the art of the novel. Laughing to keep from crying, living life not dying, this new illustrated edition sings a joyous, uplifitng song.” —Justin Desmangles, citation from the American Book Award

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ID: 414760

Title: Great Escape

Author: Kate Biberdorf

Narrator: Georgette Perna, Kate Biberdorf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

The second installment of the Kate the Chemist series that shows kids that everyone can be a scientist! Perfect for fans of the Girls Who Code series.

What do magnetic slime, a secret code, and the periodic table have in common? They're all part of the science-themed escape room that Kate's science teacher puts on for their class. Will Kate and her friends be able to use their science know-how to crack the code before time runs out?

 

From Kate the Chemist, chemistry professor and science entertainer as seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Wendy Williams Show, and The Today Show, comes a clever and fun middle grade series that is the perfect introduction to STEM for young readers!

Make Your Own Magnetic Slime! Experiment Inside!

 

Praise for Kate the Chemist: Dragons vs. Unicorns:

'Proves that science and fun go together like molecules in a polymer.'--School Library Journal

'It's a great introduction to the basics of Chemistry that is readily accessible to a variety of ages . . . . The way the everyday chemistry is blended in is done seamlessly, and has [me and my ten-year-old son] noticing how we are all doing a little bit of science everyday.' --GeekMom.com

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ID: 428427

Title: On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light: Poems

Author: Marge Piercy

Narrator: Marge Piercy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:36:01

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

A bountiful group of poems--direct, honest, and revelatory--that reflect on language, nature, old age, young love, Judaism, and our current politics, from one of our most read and admired poets

'Words are my business,' Marge Piercy begins her twentieth collection of poetry, a glance back at a lifetime of learning, loving, grieving, and fighting for the disenfranchised, and a look forward at what the future holds for herself, her family and friends, and her embattled country. In the opening section, Piercy tells of her childhood in Detroit, with its vacant lots and scrappy children, the bike that gave her wings, her ambition at fourteen to 'gobble' down all knowledge, and a too-early marriage ('I put on my first marriage / like a girdle my skinny body / didn't need'). We then leap into the present, her 'twilight zone,' where she is 'learning to be quiet,' learning to give praise despite it all. There are funny poems about medicine ads with their dire warnings, and some possible plusses about being dead: 'I'll never do another load of laundry . . .' There is 'comfort in old bodies / coming together,' in a partner's warmth--'You're always warm: warm hands / smooth back sleek as a Burmese cat./ Sunny weather outside and in.'

Piercy has long been known for her political poems, and here we have her thoughts on illegal immigrants, dying languages, fraught landscapes, abortion, President-speak. She examines her nonbeliever's need for religious holidays and spiritual depth, and the natural world is appreciated throughout. On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light is yet more proof of Piercy's love and mastery of language--it is moving, stimulating, funny, and full of the stuff of life.

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ID: 421802

Title: Breathless

Author: Jennifer Niven

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:56:11

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places comes a compulsively readable novel about a teen girl determined to write her own story--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all.

'A coming-of-age story that will make your heart ache.' —PopSugar

With high school coming to an end, Claudine Henry is focused on four things: sex, starting college, becoming a famous writer, and... sex. But when her parents announce they're splitting up, her entire world begins to fall apart. The epic road trip she planned with her best friend is cancelled, and she finds herself stuck on a remote island off the coast of Georgia with her mom - an island with no WiFi, no cell service and no friends.

Until she meets the free spirited, mysterious, and beautiful Jeremiah. He infuriates and intrigues her. Their chemistry takes her by surprise, and when Claude decides he should be her first, she tells herself it's just sex. Exactly what she wanted, right? They both know that what they have can't last forever, but maybe the time they have can be enough.

'Romantic and sexy.' —Judy Blume, acclaimed author of Forever

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ID: 417244

Title: Bunheads

Author: Misty Copeland

Narrator: Misty Copeland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:08:20

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

The first in a series of books inspired by premier ballerina and author Misty Copeland's own early experiences in ballet.

From prima ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland comes the story of a young Misty, who discovers her love of dance through the ballet Coppélia--a story about a toymaker who devises a villainous plan to bring a doll to life. 

Misty is so captivated by the tale and its heroine, Swanilda, she decides to audition for the role. But she's never danced ballet before; in fact, this is the very first day of her very first dance class!

Though Misty is excited, she's also nervous. But as she learns from her fellow bunheads, she makes wonderful friends who encourage her to do her very best. Misty's nerves quickly fall away, and with a little teamwork, the bunheads put on a show to remember. 

Bunheads is an inspiring tale for anyone looking for the courage to try something new.

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