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ID: 400562

Title: Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

Author: Amanda Yates Garcia

Narrator: Amanda Yates Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:39:42

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

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

Summary:

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this 'gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring' (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft.

An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia's mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old, Amanda's real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own.

Descending into the underworlds of poverty, sex work, and misogyny, Initiated describes Amanda's journey to return to her body, harness her power, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows, seduced by magicians, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy, Amanda's quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch's trials - healing ancient wounds, chafing against cultural expectations, creating intimacy - all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart, this book speaks to the question: is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it's dying?

Declaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their wands: stand up, be brave, describe the world they want, then create it like a witch.

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ID: 398295

Title: Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

Author: H. W. Brands

Narrator: Matt Kugler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:13:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, North America, History & Culture

Summary:

'Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope' (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond.

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.

Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.

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ID: 397464

Title: Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business

Author: Pamela Newkirk

Narrator: Tracey Leigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:13:09

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2019: An award-winning journalist shows how workplace diversity initiatives have turned into a profoundly misguided industry—and have done little to bring equality to America's major industries and institutions.

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Diversity has become the new buzzword, championed by elite institutions from academia to Hollywood to corporate America. In an effort to ensure their organizations represent the racial and ethnic makeup of the country, industry and foundation leaders have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to commission studies, launch training sessions, and hire consultants and diversity czars. But is it working?

In Diversity, Inc., award-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk shines a bright light on the diversity industry, asking the tough questions about what has been effective—and why progress has been so slow. Newkirk highlights the rare success stories, sharing valuable lessons about how other industries can match those gains. But as she argues, despite decades of handwringing, costly initiatives, and uncomfortable conversations, organizations have, apart from a few exceptions, fallen far short of their goals.

Diversity, Inc. incisively shows the vast gap between the rhetoric of inclusivity and real achievements. If we are to deliver on the promise of true equality, we need to abandon ineffective, costly measures and commit ourselves to combatting enduring racial attitudes.

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ID: 398472

Title: Believe It or Snot: The Definitive Field Guide to Earth's Slimy Creatures

Author: Dani Rabaiotti, Nick Caruso

Narrator: Joe Hempel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, General Comedy

Summary:

From the scientist duo behind the New York Times bestselling sensation Does It Fart? and their excremental follow up True or Poo?, Believe It Or Snot explores the myriad variety of slime in the animal and plant kingdoms.

Your little brother isn't the only nose-picking animal.

What is hyena butter and would it be appropriate to spread on toast? Why is giraffe saliva such a good lubricant? How does some mollusk mucus work like a fishing pole? And what's the deal with pygmy sperm whales' 'anal syrup?'

In Believe It or Snot, scientists and bestselling authors Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti detail the slimy secrets of 80 organisms that ooze, drip, dribble, and splatter. Not quite a solid but firmer than a liquid, slime is used by plants and animals for defense, respiration, movement, feeding, communication, and even reproduction. Slime, you might say, is the glue that holds our world together.

But that leaves an important question: which creature is earth's slimiest?

In this book, the authors dive into the goo and come up with a definitive ranking of earth's slimiest creatures-while offering up a plethora of facts about the natural world's ooze, gunge, sludge, gunk, and goop.

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ID: 400764

Title: Women Who Made New York

Author: Julie Scelfo

Narrator: Tracey Leigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:11:05

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, North America, Social Science

Summary:

An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world

Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world.

But that's not the whole story.

The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.

Paired with striking, contemporary illustrations by artist Hallie Heald, The Women Who Made New York offers a visual sensation -- one that reinvigorates not just New York City's history but its very identity.

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ID: 397502

Title: Strangers

Author: David A. Robertson

Narrator: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:52:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

When Cole Harper is compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and re-emerging questions about Cole's role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community? Strangers is the first novel in The Reckoner series by David Alexander Robertson, award-winning writer, and author of HighWater Press' acclaimed children's book When We Were Alone. Strangers is the winner of the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction at the 2018 Manitoba Book Awards.

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ID: 399573

Title: Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate

Author: Mike Giglio

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:58:07

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Politics, Middle East, Military, Political Ideologies

Summary:

Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it.

The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes readers to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict, capturing the essence of a modern war.

At its peak, ISIS controlled a self-styled 'caliphate' the size of Great Britain, with a population cast into servitude that numbered in the millions. Its territory spread across Iraq and Syria as its influence stretched throughout the wider world.

Giglio tells the story of the rise of the caliphate and the ramshackle coalition--aided by secretive Western troops and American airstrikes--that was assembled to break it down village by village, district by district. The story moves from the smugglers, traffickers, and jihadis working on the ISIS side to the victims of its zealous persecution and the local soldiers who died by the thousands to defeat it. Amid the battlefield drama, culminating in a climactic showdown in Mosul, is a dazzlingly human portrait of the destructive power of extremism, and of the tenacity and astonishing courage required to defeat it.

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ID: 399542

Title: Curious Toys

Author: Elizabeth Hand

Narrator: Carol Monda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Historical

Summary:

An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in 'this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike' (Sarah McCarry).

In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble.

Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred.

The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.

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ID: 397504

Title: Ghosts

Author: David A. Robertson

Narrator: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:29:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out. This is the final novel in David A. Robertson's The Reckoner trilogy.

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ID: 397503

Title: Monsters

Author: David A. Robertson

Narrator: Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:55:57

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-19

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

Cole Harper is struggling to settle into life in Wounded Sky First Nation. He may have stopped a serial killer but the trouble is far from over. A creature lurks in the shadows of Blackwood Forest, the health clinic is on lockdown by a mysterious organization, and long-held secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. Can Cole learn the truth about his father's death? Why won't Choch give him a straight answer? Where the heck is Jayne? Oh, and high school sucks. Monsters is the second novel in David A. Robertson's The Reckoner trilogy.

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