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ID: 672531

Title: Grandmother Begins the Story

Author: Michelle Porter

Narrator: Alison Deon, Bernard Starlight, Brefny Caribou, Dakota Ray Hebert, Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers, Jacob Macinnis, Jani Lauzon, Jenny Pudavick, Kiawentiio , Lisa Cromarty, Michelle Porter, Monique Mojica, Tantoo Cardinal, Tara Sky, Wesley French, Yolanda Bonnell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:51:32

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Multicultural & Interracial

Summary:

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures.

Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.

Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her join her ancestors in the Afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons before the fire inside burns her up, with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the Afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward.

This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, funny, wise, confused, struggling characters—including descendants of the bison that once freely roamed the land—heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

Audiobook is Read by a Full cast: 

- Mamé - Tantoo Cardinal (she/her)

- Geneviève - Jani Lauzon (she/her)

- Velma - Tara Sky (she/they)

- Lucie - Monique Mojica (she/her)

- Allie - Lisa Cromarty (she/her)

- Carter - Jenny Pudavick (she/her)

- Bio Sister - Kiawentiio (she/her)

- Solin - Michelle Porter (she/her)

- Dee - Alison Deon (she/her)

- Tell - Jacob MacInnis (they/them)

- Grasslands - Elle-Màijà Tailfeathers (she/her)

- Perkins - Bernard Starlight (he/him)

- Lottery - Dakota Ray Hebert (she/her)

- Bets (the Volvo) - Yolanda Bonnell (they/she)

- Slavko - Wesley French (he/him)

- Pam - Brefny Caribou (she/her)

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ID: 665550

Title: Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed

Author: Donald Bogle

Narrator: Donald Bogle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:32

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, North America, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive and lavish biography of Hollywood’s first African American movie goddess.

Lena Horne’s life and career are truly remarkable in American film history. She was the first Black performer to become a true star—to receive the kind of glamour treatment at the fabled MGM that the studio had previously given to the likes of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner. At the same time, Horne dealt with endless indignities, not the least of which was the fact that her roles in films was often as a musical performer, which allowed her numbers to be easily stripped out of films without affecting the narrative when played to audiences that would find her presence undesirable.

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At long last, Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed gives the star her due. Through a highly informed and insightful narrative based on interviews, press accounts, studio archives, and decades of research, the book sheds new light on the star's compelling life and complicated career: her activism; her accomplishments and heady triumphs in movies, television, and nightclubs as she broke down long-standing barriers for Black individuals—especially Black women—and her solemn, sometimes bitter disappointments, both professional and personal. Illustrated by stunning photos (some published for the first time), this is the ultimate book on the icon.

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ID: 684224

Title: How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictionsand the Art of Knowing When Not To

Author: Kit Yates

Narrator: Kit Yates

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:42:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

A “vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide” (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding how and why predictions go wrong, with practical tips to give you a better chance of getting them right 

How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever since the dawn of human civilization, we have been trying to make predictions about what the world has in store for us. For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. In How to Expect the Unexpected, mathematician Kit Yates uncovers the surprising science that undergirds our predictions—and how we can use it to our advantage.    

From religious oracles to weather forecasters, and from politicians to economists, we are subjected to poor predictions all the time. Synthesizing results from math, biology, psychology, sociology, medicine, economic theory, and physics, Yates provides tools for readers to understand uncertainty and to recognize the cognitive biases that make accurate predictions so hard to come by.   

This book will teach you how and why predictions go wrong, help you to spot phony forecasts, and give you a better chance of getting your own predictions correct. 

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ID: 665569

Title: In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

Author: Kim Cross

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:24:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information, this book embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas.

On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover with two friends, while her mother slept soundly in the room next door. This rarest of all kidnappings—a stranger abduction from the home—triggered one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.   

New York Times bestselling author Kim Cross has written the first comprehensive account of what happened on that fateful night in October, as well as how the case forever transformed the Bureau’s approach to solving crimes. With unprecedented access to case files, crime scene photos, a videotaped murder confession, and inside sources, In Light of All Darkness follows the investigators who pieced together the evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of the kidnapper—and made the victim a household name and a girl who will never be forgotten.  

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ID: 670974

Title: Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning

Author: Xi Van Fleet

Narrator: Ava Wong, James Lindsay, Xi Van Fleet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:56:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Global Politics, Political Advocacy

Summary:

An inspiring survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. 

Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years later, Xi disturbingly sees signs of the same Cultural Marxism that ravaged her birth country of China threatening to destroy the America she now calls home.

​This is her dire warning to the United States.

Xi compellingly tells the story of two Cultural Revolutions: one driven by Mao and the Chinese Communist Party during her childhood and the one unfolding in today’s America from the progressive left. With captivating personal stories and extensive historic research, Xi reveals the stunning similarities of these two revolutions. This fascinating book shows readers that both revolutions:

 

- Use Marxist tactics of division, indoctrination, deception, coercion, cancelation, subversion and violence.

- Aim to destroy the foundation of the traditional culture to replace it with Marxist ideologies.

- Weaponize youth, using them as their means to an end.

- Share the same goal of achieving absolute power at the expense of the people.

- Lead to the same ending: loss of freedom and totalitarian rule.

Readers will be captivated by the riveting personal story of a Chinese immigrant to the United States who overcame fear and reluctance to get involved in the movement to save America. Her political activism begins with a school board speech in 2021 against Critical Race Theory in Loudoun County, Virginia that unexpectedly goes viral and ignites national media attention. Xi now devotes her life to educating the American public on the shocking parallels between these two revolutions.

Because only when Americans understand what is really happening will they rise up and resist the communist takeover of America. 

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ID: 665556

Title: Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

Author: Harry Dunn

Narrator: Harry Dunn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:31:01

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases

Summary:

The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and essential voices regarding the truth of that day.

 

Walking the halls of democracy as a Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn was a man slowly experiencing an awakening. It sparked after the election of our first Black president. It grew as his belief in the bravery and honor of law enforcement was shaken by Ferguson and countless other cases of police brutality towards the Black community. It continued to burn brighter as he watched members of Congress, many of whom he had befriended, lose their way to partisanship, as political extremism intensified. And it exploded into a blaze when he fought side by side with his fellow officers on January 6th, when democracy and their lives were threatened.

Standing My Ground provides a crucial, definitive firsthand account of what happened on that day our country was shocked to its core. But it will also share the story of a man who refused to stay quiet when he learned that some of the men and women he had risked his life protecting, who knew him by name, would deny the horrors they faced. That’s when he chose to speak up and to seek out what his hero John Lewis once termed “good trouble.” Dunn’s ongoing story as a witness willing to meaningfully engage with the media, lawmakers, and the public provides a backdrop for examining the political and racial divide in this country—one that we must overcome in order to demand accountability and preserve our precious democracy.

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ID: 665583

Title: Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

Author: Peter Sarris

Narrator: Mark Elstob

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:37:10

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Ancient Civilizations, History & Culture

Summary:

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian  

 

Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change, in an era of geopolitical threats, climate change, and plague. From the eastern Roman—or Byzantine—capital of Constantinople, Justinian’s armies reconquered lost territory in Africa, Italy, and Spain. But these military exploits, historian Peter Sarris shows, were just one part of a larger program of imperial renewal. From his dramatic overhaul of Roman law, to his lavish building projects, to his fierce persecution of dissenters from Orthodox Christianity, Justinian’s vigorous statecraft—and his energetic efforts at self-glorification—not only set the course of Byzantium but also laid the foundations for the world of the Middle Ages.  

 

Even as Justinian sought to recapture Rome’s past greatness, he paved the way for what would follow.  

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ID: 675922

Title: It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On

Author: Malaika Jabali

Narrator: Malaika Jabali

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:20:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, North America, Global Politics, General

Summary:

A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s time to dump their toxic ex (Capitalism) and try something finer. Journalist Malaika Jabali debunks myths, centers forgotten socialists of color who have shaped our world, and shows socialism is not all Marx and Bernie Bros—it can be pretty sexy.

We’ve all dated someone who took control of the relationship—you know, someone who makes you feel like you’re unhappy because you’re just not putting in the work, or it’s all in your head. But when you think about trying to meet new people, it feels terrifying. Like, have you looked at Tinder recently? It’s rough out there!

Your tough-love new best friend, award-winning journalist, policy attorney, and life-long socialist Malaika Jabali is here to say: we are all in a generations-long toxic relationship with Capitalism, and it is time to get the h*ll out of there and move ALONG.

She gives you everything you need to know about what a healthy relationship could actually look like, issue by issue—from healthcare and housing to the whole concept of American democracy—with our new boo: Socialism. And no, Socialism isn’t the boring, grey, authoritarian, Cold-War-era monster that you’ve heard about. 

With accessible explanations and illustrations, often surprising graphs and stats, and some Drake memes, this book will show you that we NEED to build a world that’s safer, kinder, cleaner, healthier, and more equal. And that this isn’t a utopian dream – it’s within our grasp, if we collectively decide to call out Capitalism for what it really is and wake up to a better future.

 

Fun, smart, and inspiring, It’s Not You It’s Capitalism is the hottest new relationship in your life!

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ID: 665588

Title: Homer and His Iliad

Author: Robin Lane Fox

Narrator: Steve John Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:44:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Ancient Civilizations, Literary Criticism

Summary:

A groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful 

The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but great questions remain: Where, how, and when was it composed and why does it endure? 

Robin Lane Fox addresses these questions, drawing on a lifelong love and engagement with the poem. He argues for a place, a date, and a method for its composition—subjects of ongoing controversy—combining the detailed expertise of a historian with a poetic reader’s sensitivity. Lane Fox considers hallmarks of the poem; its values, implicit and explicit; its characters; its women; its gods; and even its horses. 

Thousands of readers turn to the Iliad every year. Drawing on fifty years of reading and research, Lane Fox offers us a breathtaking tour of this magnificent text, revealing why the poem has endured for ages. 

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ID: 665542

Title: Mary's Voice: Advent Reflections to Contemplate the Coming of Christ

Author: Amy Orr-Ewing

Narrator: Amy Orr-Ewing

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:48:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Find guidance through the advent season with the mother of Jesus and central figure in the story of Christmas, Mary.

At Christmastime we remember that an ordinary, young, poor, oppressed woman was chosen to play a significant and breakthrough role in the redemption of the world. It is no mistake that a woman gets to be a part of all this, and that her voice, her questions, her fears, and her actions matter.

 

Mary’s faith and her wisdom form an astonishing aspect of the story of how God became a person for the love of this world. And in our weary world that is waiting and longing for light, meaning, peace, and love, we can do as Mary did when she “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.”

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