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ID: 376589

Title: Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Author: William H. McRaven

Narrator: William H. McRaven

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.

Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.

Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II -- the place where a young Bill McRaven learned the value of a good story. Sea Stories is an unforgettable look back on one man's incredible life, from childhood days sneaking into high-security military sites to a day job of hunting terrorists and rescuing hostages.

Action-packed, inspiring, and full of thrilling stories from life in the special operations world, Sea Stories is a remarkable memoir from one of America's most accomplished leaders.

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ID: 382331

Title: Bossed Up: A Grown Woman's Guide to Getting Your Sh*t Together

Author: Emilie Aries

Narrator: Emilie Aries

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:52:47

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Management & Leadership

Summary:

In this candid, refreshing guide for young women to take with us as we run the world, Emilie Aries shows you how to own your power, know your worth, and design your career and life accordingly.

Young women today face an uncertain job market, the pressure to ascend at all costs, and a fear of burning out. But the landscape is changing, and women are taking an assertive role in shaping our careers and lives, while investing more and more in our community of support.

Bossed Up teaches you how to:

- Break out of the 'martyrdom mindset,' and cultivate your Boss Identity by getting clear on what you really want for your career and life without apology;

- Hone the self-advocacy skills necessary for success;

- Understand the differences between being assertive (which is part of being a leader) and being aggressive (which is more like being a bully) - and how that clarity can transform your trajectory;

- Beat burnout by identifying how the warning signs may be showing up in your life and how to prioritize bringing more rest, purpose, agency, and community to your day-to-day life;

- Unpack the steps to cultivating something more than just confidence; a boss identity, which will establish your ability to be the boss of your life no matter what comes your way.

Drawing from timely research, and with personal stories, and spotlights on a diverse group of women from the Bossed Up community, this book will show you how to craft a happy, healthy, and sustainable career path you'll love.

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ID: 376448

Title: Cari Mora: A Novel

Author: Thomas Harris

Narrator: Thomas Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:09:29

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs, a "master still at the top of his strange and chilling form" (Wall Street Journal).

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.

Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.

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ID: 381103

Title: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Author: George Chauncey

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:43:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

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

Summary:

The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century

Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Called 'monumental' (Washington Post), 'unassailable' (Boston Globe), 'brilliant' (The Nation), and 'a first-rate book of history' (The New York Times), Gay New Yorkforever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.

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ID: 381654

Title: Deception Cove

Author: Owen Laukkanen

Narrator: Courtney Patterson, Kevin Stillwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

A rescue dog, an ex-Marine, and an ex-convict are caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless gang in remote Washington state in this 'first-rate thriller' (Associated Press) for 'fans of CJ Box and Michael Koryta' (Booklist).

Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a broken-down house, a medical discharge for PTSD, and a loyal dog named Lucy. The only thing she actually cares about is that dog, a black-and-white pit bull mix who helps her cope with the devastating memories of her time in Afghanistan.

After fifteen years -- nearly half his life -- in state prison, Mason Burke owns one set of clothes, a wallet, and a photo of Lucy, the service dog he trained while behind bars. Seeking a fresh start, he sets out for Deception Cove, Washington, where the dog now lives. As soon as Mason knocks on Jess's door, he finds himself in the middle of a standoff between the widow and the deputy county sheriff. When Jess's late husband piloted his final 'fishing' expedition, he stole and stashed a valuable package from his drug dealer associates. Now the package is gone, and the sheriff's department has seized Jess's dearest possession: her dog. Unless Jess turns over the missing goods, Lucy will be destroyed.

The last thing Mason wants is to be dragged back into the criminal world. The last thing Jess wants is to trust a stranger. But neither of them can leave a friend, the only good thing in either of their lives, in danger. To rescue Lucy, they'll have to forge an uneasy alliance. And to avoid becoming collateral damage in someone else's private war, they have to fight back -- and find a way to conquer their doubts and fears.

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ID: 381796

Title: Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

Author: Michael Azerrad

Narrator: Colin Meloy, Corey Taylor, Dave Longstreth, Fred Armisen, Jeff Tweedy, Jon Wurster, Jonathan Franzen, Laura Jane Grace, Merrill Garbus, Michael Azerrad, Phil Elverum, Sharon Van Etten, Stephin Merritt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:09:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever.

Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right.

The bands profiled include:

- Sonic Youth

- Black Flag

- The Replacements

- Minutemen

- Husker Du

- Minor Threat

- Mission of Burma

- Butthole Surfers

- Big Black

- Fugazi

- Mudhoney

- Beat Happening

- Dinosaur Jr.

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ID: 381294

Title: Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art

Author: Michael Shnayerson

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:40:42

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Business

Summary:

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes.

The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival.

Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities. He has spoken to all of today's so-called mega dealers -- Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne and Marc Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth -- along with dozens of other dealers -- from Irving Blum to Gavin Brown -- who worked with the greatest artists of their times: Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and more.

This kaleidoscopic history begins in the mid-1940s in genteel poverty with a scattering of galleries in midtown Manhattan, takes us through the ramshackle 1950s studios of Coenties Slip, the hipster locations in SoHo and Chelsea, London's Bond Street, and across the terraces of Art Basel until today. Now, dealers and auctioneers are seeking the first billion-dollar painting. It hasn't happened yet, but they are confident they can push the price there soon.

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ID: 381293

Title: How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

Author: Jeremy Wade

Narrator: Jeremy Wade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:09:32

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Outdoor Recreation

Summary:

The star of the Discovery Channel's River Monsters and author of the bestselling River Monsters shares a meditation on fishing--and life.

In his bestselling first book, Jeremy Wade, the star of the hit TV series River Monsters, memorably recounted his adventures on six continents in pursuit of fish of staggering proportions and terrifying demeanor. Now 'the greatest angling explorer of his generation' (Independent on Sunday) returns to delight readers with a book of an entirely different sort, the book he was always destined to write--the distillation of a life spent fishing. Thoughtful and funny, brimming with wisdom and above all, adventure, these are pitch-perfect reflections that anyone who has ever fished will identify with, for ultimately it touches on what fishing teaches us all about life.

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ID: 374079

Title: Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile: Booktrack Edition

Author: Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

Narrator: Bryan Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:47:37

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Humor

Summary:

Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!

The sequel to James Patterson's Treasure Hunters is another hilarious, hair-raising adventure for the First Family of Action!   Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after their father was lost at sea, but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates. Their search for a rescue plan takes them down the Nile river in Africa, where they'll have to navigate everything from Egyptian pyramids in the desert to wet-and-wild jungles—not to mention life-threatening encounters with wilderness diseases, angry hippos and some seriously bad guys—in order to find the treasure and save the day.

*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

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ID: 381107

Title: Bend in the Stars

Author: Rachel Barenbaum

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Therese Plummer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:12:49

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-19

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries.

In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much?

Before they have time to make their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri's fiancé. Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both. As the eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only the safety of Miri's own family but the future of science itself hangs in the balance.

Grounded in real history -- and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914 -- A Bend in the Stars offers a heart-stopping account of modern science's greatest race amidst the chaos of World War I, and a love story as epic as the railways crossing Russia.

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