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ID: 369859

Title: Push the Rock: Second Chances on the Road to Kilimanjaro

Author: R.W. Long

Narrator: R.W. Long

Format: Abridged

Length: 6:27:37

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Travel, Africa

Summary:

Living the American Dream at the pinnacle of his life, R.W. Long had it all: a loving family, a promising career, and a multitude of blessings. All of this was cut short with the diagnosis of an incurable disease. In the prime of life, he lost nearly everything he had worked for and felt he was given a life sentence and incarcerated in his own bodya body that no longer obeyed his commands and that would fail him in new ways daily.

For eight years, the struggle wore him down, nearly to the point of no return. Then came the phone call in the dead of night from a war-torn country half a world away.

Dad, I dont think Im going to make it out of here alive.

These words set in motion the most important mission of Longs life: Learning to walk again in order to meet his son. What was once considered an impossibility was transformed into a goal and a mission.

Set against the backdrop of the quest for Kilimanjaros summit,Push the Rockis the true story of faith, second chances, and the power of family to overcome lifes greatest challenges.

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ID: 355103

Title: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

Author: Feminista Jones

Narrator: Melanie Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:11:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-19

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

A treatise of Black women’s transformative influence in media and society, placing them front and center in a new chapter of mainstream resistance and political engagement

In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals, some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black women’s innovations, from well-known movement-building hashtags (#BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, and #BlackGirlMagic) to the now ubiquitous use of threaded tweets as a marketing and storytelling tool. For some, these online dialogues provide an introduction to the work of Black feminist icons like Angela Davis, Barbara Smith, bell hooks, and the women of the Combahee River Collective. For others, this discourse provides a platform for continuing their feminist activism and scholarship in a new, interactive way.

Complex conversations around race, class, and gender that have been happening behind the closed doors of academia for decades are now becoming part of the wider cultural vernacular—one pithy tweet at a time. With these important online conversations, not only are Black women influencing popular culture and creating sociopolitical movements; they are also galvanizing a new generation to learn and engage in Black feminist thought and theory, and inspiring change in communities around them.

Hard-hitting, intelligent, incisive, yet bursting with humor and pop-culture savvy, Reclaiming Our Space is a survey of Black feminism’s past, present, and future, and it explains why intersectional movement building will save us all.

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ID: 344137

Title: What If It's True?: A Storytellers Journey with Jesus

Author: Charles Martin

Narrator: Charles Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-19

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Biblical Studies

Summary:

See the Bible come to life before your eyes as New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin uses his storyteller imagination to present the Bible as a novel to help you engage with your faith in new ways.

 Years ago, Charles Martin cracked open his Bible and began wrestling with a few fundamental questions: What if every single word of Scripture is absolutely true and I can trust it? How do I respond? Something in me should change, but what? How? This book is the result of that exploration.

In What If It’s True? Martin brings key moments from the life and ministry of Jesus to life through his descriptive, novelistic words. This unique book:

- Fosters a stronger appreciation, love, and respect for Jesus

- Covers topics including rejection, sexual sin, generational curses, and forgiveness

- Draws on Old and New Testament references as well as cultural background information

- Includes a prayer at the end of each chapter

Martin shares key moments from his own journey as a disciple—and bondservant—of Christ and a mentor to others. The result is an exploration of truth that will help you not just think differently but live differently—starting today.

Includes a song written by Charles Martin’s son, only available in the audiobook edition. Appendices that include topical verses from Scripture are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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ID: 366755

Title: Corregidora

Author: Gayl Jones

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-19

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Black Literature

Summary:

The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.

A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones’s powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery. Jones masterfully tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Portuguese slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present.

Selected and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is “the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women,” (James Baldwin) and “a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps.” (Maya Angelou).

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ID: 345686

Title: Some of My Friends Are.: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships

Author: Deborah Plummer

Narrator: Melanie Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-19

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society.

In a U.S. national survey conducted for this book, 70% of respondents strongly agreed that friendships across racial lines are essential to making progress toward improving race relations. However, further polling found that most Americans tend to gravitate towards friendships within their own racial category.

Psychologist, Deborah L. Plummer tells us why that is so. She examines how factors such as leisure, politics, humor, faith, social media, and education influence the nature and intensity of cross-racial friendships. With engaging stories and inspiring anecdotes drawn from national focus groups, interviews, and analyses of survey results of contemporary patterns of adult friendships, she provides insights into the fears and discomforts associated with cross-racial friendships. Through these narratives and social analyses of friendship patterns, Plummer explores how we make connections to form solid bonds, and why it is so challenging to do so across a racial divide. She discusses how we cross that divide and get beyond the prickly uncomfortable moments and have meaningful, enlightening, empathetic conversations about race. With the inclusion of personal stories, this book stirs up authentic racial discourse, prompts readers to examine their own friendship patterns, and encourages us all to create a better path toward a more enlightened future by crossing racial lines in friendship and deepening the strength of current cross-racial friends.

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ID: 368063

Title: Voyage of the White Cloud

Author: M. Darusha Wehm

Narrator: Darusha Wehm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:12:31

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-19

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

Can home be a place youve never been, a place no one has ever been?

A novel-in-stories, following the many generations who make the journey, The Voyage of the White Cloud asks how you can find meaning as a slave to destiny, a mere stepping-stone in history.

These are the stories of the most ordinary people on a most extraordinary journey.

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ID: 355678

Title: Child of the Holocaust: A Jewish Child in Christian Disguise

Author: Jack Kuper

Narrator: Alex Poch-Goldin, Jack Kuper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-19

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World

Summary:

Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest.

Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language, and abandon his religion in order to survive. Jack wanders through Nazi-occupied Poland for four years with no place to hide and no one to trust.

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ID: 344183

Title: In the Shadow of Croft Towers: A Regency Romance

Author: Abigail Wilson

Narrator: Laura Kirman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:57

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-19

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Historical Romance, Religious Fiction, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Nothing—and no one—at Croft Towers is what they claim in this Gothic Regency romance.

When Sybil Delafield’s coach to Croft Towers was robbed by highwaymen, she should have realized that her new position as companion to old Mrs. Chalcroft would be no ordinary job. Upon Sybil’s arrival, Mrs. Chalcroft sneaks into her room in the dark of night, imploring her to relay messages to town that are to stay hidden from the rest of the family. Who exactly is she working for and what do the messages contain?

When fellow passengers of the robbed coach are later murdered, Sybil’s hunt for the truth takes on a new urgency. The only person she can rely on is Mr. Sinclair, Mrs. Chalcroft’s godson, but under all his charms he too leads a double life. Sybil must decide if he is the one honest voice she can trust, or if he is simply using her for his own advances.

Croft Towers holds more than its share of secrets . . . and Sybil is determined to uncover them all.

Praise for In the Shadow of Croft Towers

“In the Shadow of Croft Towers is everything I love in a novel: a classic gothic feel, a regency setting, a mysterious hero . . . and secrets abounding!” —Dawn Crandall, award-winning author of the Everstone Chronicles series

“Shades of Gothic romance in a portrait of Regency England . . . if Jane Austen ever met Jane Eyre, it would be at Croft Towers!” —Kristy Cambron, author of Castle on the Rise

'Blending the unputdownable Regency flair of Georgette Heyer with the intricate plotting of Julie Klassen, Wilson not only places herself competently amidst beloved authors but carves out a unique place of her own.' —Rachel McMillan, author of the Van Buren and DeLuca Mysteries

'Beautifully written, suspenseful, and satisfyingly romantic.' —Jennifer Beckstrand, author of Home on Huckleberry Hill

- Full-length Regency romance with a murder mystery (c. 95,000 words)

- Perfect for fans of Sarah Ladd, Deanna Raybourn, Julie Klassen, Tasha Alexander, and Lauren Willig

- Also by Abigail Wilson:

- Midnight on the River Grey

- Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey

- The Vanishing at Loxby Manor (available January 2021)

- Includes discussion questions for book clubs

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ID: 360918

Title: We're All in This Together

Author: Amy Jones

Narrator: Ruth Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-19

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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

Summary:

Winner of Northern Lit Award

Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour

Quill & Quire 'Books of the Year 2016'

Globe & Mail 'Best Canadian Fiction of 2016'

A Penguin Book Club Pick

A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into meltdown—life is about to get a lot more complicated for the Parker family.

Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel—a feat captured on a video that goes viral—it's Kate's family who tumbles into chaos under the spotlight. Her prodigal daughter returns to town. Her 16-year-old granddaughter gets caught up in an online relationship with a man she has never met. Her husband sifts through their marriage to search for what sent his wife over the falls. Her adopted son fears losing the only family he's ever known. Then there is Kate, who once made a life-changing choice and now fears her advancing dementia will rob her of memories from when she was most herself. Set over the course of four calamitous days, Amy Jones's big-hearted first novel follows the Parkers' misadventures as catastrophe forces them to do something they never thought possible—act like a family.

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ID: 343403

Title: None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed , and the Criminalization of Educators

Author: Anna Simonton, Shani Robinson

Narrator: Lisa Renee Pitts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-19

Publisher: Beacon Press

Genres: History, North America

Summary:

An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal which scapegoated black employees for problems caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly a proxy for corporate greed.

In March of 2013, thirty-five black educators in Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy—the same charges used to bring down the American mafia—for allegedly changing students’ answers on standardized tests. The youngest of the accused, Shani Robinson had taught for only three years and was a new mother when she was wrongfully convicted and faced up to 20 years in prison.

In None of the Above, Robinson and journalist Anna Simonton explore how racist policies and practices cheated generations of black children out of opportunities long before some teachers tampered with tests. Examining the corporate education reform movement, hyper-policing in black communities, cycles of displacement and gentrification, and widening racial and economic disparities in Atlanta, they reveal how the financially powerful have profited from privatization and the dismantling of public education. Against this backdrop, they cast the story of the cheating scandal in a new light, illuminating a deeply flawed investigation and a circus-like trial spun into a media sensation that defied justice.

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