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ID: 418380

Title: Sucker Punch

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Narrator: Kimberly Alexis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:26:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned—but what if the wrong person is about to be killed? 

When a fellow U.S. Marshal asks Anita Blake to fly to a tiny community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on an emergency consult, she knows time is running short. When she arrives, there is plenty of proof that a young wereleopard killed his uncle in the most gruesome and bloody way possible. As the mounting evidence points to him, a warrant of execution is already under way.

But something seems off about the murder, and Anita has been asked for her expert opinion on the crime scene. Despite escalating pressure from local cops and the family’s cries for justice for their dead patriarch, Anita quickly realizes that the evidence doesn’t quite add up.

Time is against Anita, as the tight-knit community is up in arms and its fear of supernaturals is growing. She races to uncover the truth and determine whether the Marshals have caught the killer or are about to execute an innocent man—all in the name of justice.

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ID: 393930

Title: Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop

Author: Roselle Lim

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Contemporary Women, Asian American Literature

Summary:

From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris.

 

Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves.

 

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.

 

After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can't truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to California and bonjour to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts and realizes one thing to be true: knowing one's destiny isn't a curse, but being unable to change it is.

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ID: 408960

Title: Who Was Celia Cruz?

Author: Meg Belviso, Pam Pollack

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:03:37

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

How did a working-class girl from Cuba become a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban Americans and the 'Queen of Salsa'? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!

Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting her career in 1950, Celia grew increasingly popular as the new lead singer of the Cuban band Sonora Matancera. Her exceptional vocal range and flashy costumes made fans fall in love with her.

Celia's talent took her all around the world, including the United States. After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, she wasn't allowed to return to her native country. She and other Cubans who were exiled used their music to express their love for their homeland.

Celia rose to the top of the charts in a genre that was dominated by men. She become an award-winning singer and the most popular Latin artist of the twentieth century. Azucar! indeed!

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ID: 415670

Title: Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

Author: Tehlor Kay Mejia

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:13:47

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents author Tehlor Kay Mejia and her thrilling fantasy adventure based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona (the Crying Woman).

Space-obsessed 12-year-old Paola Santiago and her two best friends, Emma and Dante, know the rule: Stay away from the river. It's all they've heard since a schoolmate of theirs drowned a year ago. Pao is embarrassed to admit that she has been told to stay away for even longer than that, because her mother is constantly warning her about La Llorona, the wailing ghost woman who wanders the banks of the Gila at night, looking for young people to drag into its murky depths.

Hating her mother's humiliating superstitions and knowing that she and her friends would never venture into the water, Pao organizes a meet-up to test out her new telescope near the Gila, since it's the best stargazing spot. But when Emma never arrives and Pao sees a shadowy figure in the reeds, it seems like maybe her mom was right. . . .

Pao has always relied on hard science to make sense of the world, but to find her friend she will have to enter the world of her nightmares, which includes unnatural mist, mind-bending monsters, and relentless spirits controlled by a terrifying force that defies both logic and legend.

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ID: 408172

Title: This Is My America

Author: Kim Johnson

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:34:40

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

'Incredible and searing.' --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin

The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a 'thug' on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present?

Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.

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ID: 410927

Title: Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again

Author: Janet S. Klosko, Jeffrey E. Young

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:39:35

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviors that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough program.

Do you...

• Put the needs of others above your own?

• Start to panic when someone you love leaves—or threatens to?

• Often feel anxious about natural disasters, losing all your money, or getting seriously ill?

• Find that no matter how successful you are, you still feel unhappy, unfulfilled, or undeserving?

Unsatisfactory relationships, irrational lack of self-esteem, feelings of being unfulfilled—these are all problems that can be solved by changing the types of messages that people internalize. These self-defeating behavior patterns are called “lifetraps,” and Reinventing Your Life shows you how to stop the cycle that keeps you from attaining happiness.

Two of America's leading psychologists, Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., and Janet S. Klosko, Ph.D., draw on the breakthrough principles of cognitive therapy to help you recognize and change negative thought patterns, without the aid of drugs or long-term traditional therapy. They describe eleven of the most common lifetraps, provide a diagnostic test for each, and offer step-by-step suggestions to help you break free of the traps. Thousands of men and women have seen the immediate and long-term results of the extraordinary program outlines in this clear, compassionate, liberating book. Its innovative approach to solving ongoing emotional problems will help you create a more fulfilling, productive life.

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ID: 408196

Title: Must I Go: A Novel

Author: Yiyun Li

Narrator: Alex Mckenna, Jane Alexander, John Rubinstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

“One of our major novelists” (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.

“Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I Go is an extraordinary book.”—Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion and The Interestings

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND ESQUIRE

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.

Increasingly obsessed with Roland's intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own rather different version of events, revealing the surprising, long-held secrets of her past. She returns inexorably to the memory of her daughter Lucy. This is a novel about life in all its messy glory, and of a life lived, by the extraordinary Lilia, absolutely on its own terms. With great candor and insight, Yiyun Li navigates the twin poles of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, that compass a human heart.

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ID: 408191

Title: Far Out Man: Tales of Life in the Counterculture

Author: Eric Utne

Narrator: Eric Utne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

The founder of Utne Reader chronicles his adventures on the frontlines of American culture—from the Vietnam era to the age of Trump—as a spiritual seeker, antiwar activist, and minor media celebrity.

Far Out Man is the story of a life-long seeker who was occasionally a finder as well. In 1984, Eric Utne founded Utne Reader, a digest of new ideas and fresh perspectives percolating in the arts, culture, politics, business, and spirituality. With the tag line “The Best of the Alternative Press,” the magazine was twice a finalist for a National Magazine Award and grew to more than 300,000 paid circulation. In the nineties, the magazine promoted the Neighborhood Salon Association to revive the endangered art of conversation and start a revolution in people’s living rooms. More than 18,000 people joined, comprising nearly 500 salons across North America. Utne devoted the magazine to bringing people together to help make the world a “little greener and a little kinder.”

Far Out Man serves as a chronicle of both an individual life and a generation, covering the conflicts of the Vietnam era, the hopes and excesses of the sexual revolution and the Me Decade, the idealism and depredations of the entrepreneurial eighties and nineties, and the promise and perils of the digital age. Ultimately, Far Out Man is the story of Eric Utne’s lifelong search for hope, how he lost it, and what he found on the other side that sustains him in his darkest moments. It is a book dedicated to helping all seekers become finders.

Cover Photo: John Danicic Jr., courtesy of Utne Family Archives

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ID: 413168

Title: Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Evolution

Author: Brian Freeman

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller, Espionage

Summary:

America's most enduring hero, Jason Bourne, returns in a propulsive, fresh story for the Bourne canon that tests old skills--and uncovers new ones.

After the death of his lover in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems. Worse, he believes that Treadstone--the agency that made him who he is, that trained him--is behind the killing. Bourne goes rogue, leaving Treadstone behind and taking on a new mission to infiltrate and expose an anarchist group, Medusa.

But when a congresswoman is assassinated in New York, Bourne is framed for the crime, and he finds himself alone and on the run, hunted by both Treadstone and the tech cabal that had hired him. In his quest to stay one step ahead of his enemies, Bourne teams up with a journalist, Abbey Laurent, to figure out who was behind the frame-up, and to learn as much as he can about the ever-growing threat of the mysterious Medusa group.

As more and more enemies begin to hunt Bourne, it's a race against the clock to discover who led him into a trap...and what their next move may be.

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ID: 406495

Title: Love and Theft: A Novel

Author: Stan Parish

Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

'A breathless adventure both starry-eyed and cool-blooded, both charming and diabolical.' --A.J. FINN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

'Crackling with full-throttle tension . . . An electrifying novel.' --ROBERT CRAIS, author of the bestselling Elvis Cole novels

An epic Vegas heist.

A high-octane international romance.

A charismatic thief forced to orchestrate one final, treacherous job to save his family.

When Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison meet at a party in Princeton, New Jersey, the chemistry between them is instant and undeniable. She's a single mother, local fixture, and owner of a successful catering company. He's a single father and weekend homeowner -- and leader of an armed-robbery crew that just pulled off a record-breaking, precision jewel heist in Las Vegas. Neither one realizes that their lives have overlapped before, and that the shared history they uncover will threaten everyone they love.

Swept up in their burgeoning relationship, Diane joins Alex at his beach house in Tulum, where Alex decides to leave his life of crime behind. It begins as a postcard-perfect weekend until an entanglement with a powerful cartel forces Alex to mastermind one final and unthinkably dangerous job. What ensues is an explosive, adrenaline-soaked journey through the moneyed landscapes of Mexico and Europe, where ghosts from the past collide with unexpected perils in the present. As Alex and Diane fight for their lives, they discover that they're not the only ones with secrets--and that those closest to us pose the greatest danger of all.

Propulsive, deeply suspenseful, and layered with mesmerizing twists, Love and Theft is a sophisticated thriller about the illusion of control and the high price of past transgressions.

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