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ID: 410010

Title: Fighting Words

Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:31:15

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

*Newbery Honor Book*

*Odyssey Honor Audiobook*

 

A candid and fierce middle grade novel about sisterhood and sexual abuse, by two-time Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times best seller Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, author of The War that Saved My Life

Kirkus Prize Finalist

Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Booklist Best Book of the Year

Kirkus Best Book of the Year

BookPage Best Book of the Year

New York Public Library Best Book of the Year

Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year

Golden Kite Honor Book

Rise: Feminist Book Project Selection

ALSC Notable Book

Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choices Selection

Junior Library Guild Selection

 

'Fighting Words is raw, it is real, it is necessary, a must-read for children and their adults--a total triumph in all ways.' —Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s

Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf--her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet where it counts. Then Suki tries to kill herself, and Della's world turns so far upside down, it feels like it's shaking her by the ankles. Maybe she's been quiet about the wrong things. Maybe it's time to be loud.

In this powerful novel that explodes the stigma around child sexual abuse and leavens an intense tale with compassion and humor, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley tells a story about two sisters, linked by love and trauma, who must find their own voices before they can find their way back to each other.

 

'Della’s matter-of-fact narration manages to be as funny and charming as it is devastatingly sad. . . . This is a novel about trauma and the scars it leaves on bodies, minds and hearts. But more than that, it’s a book about resilience, strength and healing.' —New York Times Book Review

'One of the most important books ever written for kids.'—Colby Sharp of Nerdy Book Club

'One for the history books....One of the best of the year.'—Betsy Bird for A Fuse #8 Production/SLJ

'Gripping. Life-changing...I am awe-struck.'—Donna Gephart, author of Lily and Dunkin

'Compassionate, truthful, and beautiful.'—Elana K. Arnold, author of Damsel

'I am blown away. [This] may be Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's best work yet.'—Barbara Dee, author of Maybe He Just Likes You

'A book that lets [kids] know they have never been alone.

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ID: 424439

Title: Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Breathe Like a Bear

Author: Kira Willey

Narrator: Kira Willey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:04:49

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Health & Family

Summary:

This guided mindfulness exercise featuring a sweet bear cub will help kids feel calm, wherever they are.

 

Kids will learn to breathe deeply and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in hibernation! Written and read by Kira Willey, winner of three Parents' Choice Gold Awards, this audiobook can be listened to anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at rest time at school. 

 

Mindfulness Moments for Kids are easy-to-follow exercises kids can use to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions.

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ID: 393929

Title: Little Bit of Grace

Author: Phoebe Fox

Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:06

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Family Life, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A heartfelt story about family, forgiveness, and starting over when the happy ending ends—and handling it all with a little bit of grace.

Family is everything—Grace Adams McHale's mom must have said it to her a thousand times before she died. Before Grace's dad ran off with an aspiring actress half his age. Before only-child Grace found out she was unable to have children of her own. Before Brian—her childhood best friend, business partner, and finally her husband—dropped a 'bombshell' on her in the form of her stunning new replacement.

Which means Grace now has...nothing.

Until she receives a letter from a woman claiming to be a relative Grace never knew she had, sending her on a journey from the childhood home she had to move back into, to a Florida island to meet a total stranger who embraces her as family. There, Grace starts to uncover answers about the eccentric woman her family never mentioned: a larger-than-life octogenarian who is the keeper of a secret held for more than fifty years, and the ultimate inspiration to always be true to yourself. As Grace gets to know this woman and picks up the pieces of her own shattered life, she is forced to question whether she can find forgiveness for the unforgivable.

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ID: 424446

Title: Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Three Calming Activities

Author: Kira Willey

Narrator: Kira Willey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:08:26

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Health & Family

Summary:

Written and read by Kira Willey, winner of three Parents' Choice Gold Awards, kids can use these three mindfulness activities to manage their bodies, breath, and emotions.

 

With Breathe Like a Bear, kids will learn to breathe deeply and soothe themselves slowly to sleep, just like a bear in hibernation.

 

With Bunny Breaths, kids learn how to replenish their energy with quick, focused breaths—no matter how blah they feel. 

 

With Listen Like an Elephant, kids learn to slow down, listen to the world around them, and focus their minds—no matter how messy life becomes.

 

These exercises for calm and focus can be done anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or at a child's desk at school.

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ID: 408985

Title: I Give It to You: A Novel

Author: Valerie Martin

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

An 'immensely satisfying” story (The Guardian) of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from the bestselling, award-winning author of Property.

When Jan Vidor, an American writer and academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the summer, she plans to spend her break working on a novel about Mussolini. Instead, she finds herself captivated by her aristocratic landlady, the elegant, acerbic Beatrice Salviati Bartolo Doyle, whose family has owned Villa Chiara for generations. Jan is intrigued by Beatrice’s stories of World War II, particularly by the tragic fate of her uncle Sandro, who was mysteriously murdered in the driveway of the villa at the conclusion of the war. Day by day, Beatrice makes Jan privy to her family history. 

 

As years go by and the friendship is sustained by infrequent meetings, Jan finds she can’t resist writing Beatrice’s story. But as she works on the novel, it becomes clear that the villa itself is at risk and that Beatrice is incapable of saving it. Jan understands that she is telling the story of a catastrophe her friend might prefer to conceal. She presses on.

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ID: 410941

Title: Finna: Poems

Author: Nate Marshall

Narrator: Nate Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:36:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its intimacy

“Terrific . . . illuminates life in this country in a strikingly original way.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Tordotcom

Definition of finna, created by the author: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow

These poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, how the Black vernacular, expands our notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope:

nothing about our people is romantic

& it shouldn’t be. our people deserve

poetry without meter. we deserve our

own jagged rhythm & our own uneven

walk towards sun. you make happening happen.

we happen to love. this is our greatest

action.

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ID: 427398

Title: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:24:58

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Politics, World, Current Affairs

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future.

 

“Essential, absorbing . . . a graceful, authoritative guide . . . a radicalized moderate’s moderate case for radical change.”—The New York Times Book Review

During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all-powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests, and leaving the huge majority of Americans with dwindling economic prospects and hope.

Why and how did America take such a wrong turn? In this deeply researched and brilliantly woven cultural, economic, and political chronicle, Kurt Andersen offers a fresh, provocative, and eye-opening history of America’s undoing, naming names, showing receipts, and unsparingly assigning blame—to the radical right in economics and the law, the high priests of high finance, a complacent and complicit Establishment, and liberal “useful idiots,” among whom he includes himself.

Only a writer with Andersen’s crackling energy, deep insight, and ability to connect disparate dots and see complex systems with clarity could make such a book both intellectually formidable and vastly entertaining. And only a writer of Andersen’s vision could reckon with our current high-stakes inflection point, and show the way out of this man-made disaster.

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ID: 410040

Title: Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife

Author: Ariel Sabar

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author comes the gripping true story of a sensational religious forgery and the scandal that shook Harvard.

In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star religion professor at Harvard, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage, sex, and women’s leadership, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. 

 

Award-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’s dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors, Veritas is an exhilarating, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout—and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible.

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ID: 413179

Title: We Are All the Same in the Dark: A Novel

Author: Julia Heaberlin

Narrator: Catherine Taber, Jenna Lamia, Kirby Heyborne, Macleod Andrews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological, Contemporary Women

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEOPLE PICK • OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION • The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans

“If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers

It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru’s brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.

When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.

Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.

In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.

Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark

“This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.”—The Times (South Africa)

“[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘What’s coming is always unimaginable,’ Odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ That’s true for this novel, too.”—The Dallas Morning News

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ID: 410016

Title: Choppy Water

Author: Stuart Woods

Narrator: Tony Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

In this exhilarating new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington must go up against an enemy with deadly intentions--and ideologies.

Stone Barrington and his friends are vacationing in Maine when their leisure is suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. To make matters worse, the inclement conditions allow for a menacing adversary to sneak in unnoticed and deliver a chilling message. Soon it becomes clear that the target of the incident is one of Stone's closest companions, and that these enemies have a grander scheme in mind.

From the bustling streets of New York City to the sun-drenched shores of Key West, Stone intends to nab the criminals that appear behind him at every step. But his search only leads him further down a trail of peril and corruption, and he'll soon find that at the end of the road is a more dangerous foe than he could have imagined...

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