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ID: 605354

Title: Ritual: Magical Celebrations of Nature and Community from Around the World

Author: Nikki Van De Car

Narrator: Leslie Howard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:55:29

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes an inspiring, illustrated collection of magical celebrations of nature from around the world—with rituals for incorporating them into your own practice. 

Nature is what gives us life—it is the source of all magic and power in the world. That is something that humans have understood since the beginning of time, and it is a constant among cultures around the world. However, the ways in which we celebrate it can vary wildly. Bulgarian Baba Marta Day welcomes the arrival of Spring with Martenitsas, little talismans of red and white string, while in Southeast Asia, that same yearly event is celebrated during Holi, a joyful, riotous dance of colors. Yalda, Soyal, Saturnalia, Dong Zhi, and St.Lucia's Day (from Iran, Arizona, Ancient Rome, China, and Scandinavia) are all very different—but they all honor the Winter Solstice. 

 

Each of these celebrations is a ritual, a form of magic created by community and tradition. And while their differences can help us understand their various cultural identities, their similarities can create a bond that reaches across space and time. In this beautifully illustrated book from bestselling magical author Nikki Van De Car readers will learn the history and meaning behind 40 of these ritual celebrations, organized by season. Each ritual will include suggestions for participating in and appreciating these storied rituals, while honoring their origins and the cultures from which they come.

 

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ID: 620213

Title: Stateless

Author: Elizabeth Wein

Narrator: Moira Quirk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:38:01

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Historical

Summary:

In this historical thriller from the bestselling author of Code Name Verity, Stella North enters an air race competition as the only woman—and finds herself thrown into a mystery she must solve before it kills her.

When Stella North is chosen to represent Britain in Europe’s first air race for young people, she knows all too well how high the stakes are. As the only participating female pilot, it’ll be a constant challenge to prove she’s a worthy competitor. But promoting peace in Europe, the goal of the race, feels empty to Stella when civil war is raging in Spain and the Nazis are gaining power—and when, right from the start, someone resorts to cutthroat sabotage to get ahead of the competition.  

The world is looking for inspiration in what’s meant to be a friendly sporting event. But each of the racers is hiding a turbulent and violent past, and any one of them might be capable of murder—including Stella herself.

Agatha Christie meets Karen McManus in this thrilling mystery, packed with adventure, intrigue, love, and betrayal, from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth Wein.

 

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ID: 605361

Title: I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir

Author: Debra Lee

Narrator: Debra Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:08:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Business Development

Summary:

A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black woman executive in the entertainment industry.

As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and storytelling for decades. Now she’s telling her own story, in an intimate and eye-opening tale about the triumphant and tricky moments of a career in entertainment.

I Am Debra Lee is a page-turner, filled with deeply personal revelations, juicy celebrity intel, and electrifying behind-the-scenes stories that reveal how she went from a girl raised in the segregated South to leading the first Black company traded on the New York Stock Exchange and how she juggled social responsibility while managing a company targeted toward the Black community. In a rousing narrative, Lee writes: “I don’t just love Black culture—the magic in our hair, the swagger in our steps, the particular way we can say ‘alright now’ to fit our changing moods—Black culture saved me.” In her exciting debut, she answers all of our questions about building an unapologetically Black enterprise as a Black woman. What to do when you’re forced to attend a board meeting eight weeks after a C-section. How to manage a team of men when you’re the first female CEO at the company. How she learned the hard way to say no to those in power when their vision didn’t align with her purpose.

I Am Debra Lee tackles lessons that women CEOs rarely dare to. She addresses her personal struggles with motherhood and “having it all,” navigating reproductive choice, fertility, and #MeToo while achieving great professional success. Being Black and a woman in corporate life isn’t easy for anyone. But Lee shows how she evolved from a shy girl who dreaded public speaking to becoming a force to be reckoned with as she helped build the leading entertainment company for Black audiences and consumers of Black culture globally.

​I Am Debra Lee is a must-read for all strivers in any industry. Lee is a truthteller about the critical choices that Black leaders face. As she has done her whole career, in this book, she opens the door for others to come after her, by sharing the truth behind her own inspiring story of power, perseverance, and success.

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ID: 610985

Title: You Don't Have to Carry It All: Ditch the Mom Guilt and Find a Better Way Forward

Author: Paula Faris

Narrator: Paula Faris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:45:12

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Management & Leadership, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

Award-winning journalist and mom-of-three Paula Faris gives insightful and practical steps for better working, momming, and living to millions of overwhelmed working moms.

Being a working mom should work. Instead, it is a thankless, incredibly difficult job, marked by impossible contradictions and unreachable expectations.

American moms are more burned out now than at any other time in history. We believed we could have it all— fulfilling work, and a healthy and happy family. We pick up responsibilities wherever we go— on the job, at home, in our communities. We try to carry it all—and we can. Because moms are superheroes with superpowers! But at some point, our shoulders grow tired tired from carrying around the expectations and the mental load, tired from juggling the constant conflict between working and momming, tired of how our work— whether at home or at the office—isn’t valued equally, and tired of workplaces that treat us like risks instead of assets. 

Paula Faris offers a declaration of hope to all working moms— things are going to get better! There is another way forward that frees us from the barbaric conflict of mom-guilt and the bone-weary exhaustion of carrying it all and feeling like we’re failing everywhere. Through the lens of her personal experience and interviews with working women, men, leaders, and experts across the country, Faris dismantles the cultural expectations and toxic traps that American moms experience. She also gathers insightful and actionable steps toward a better way of working, momming, and living.  The problems we have as a country and culture are not insurmountable.  Besides, we’ve got working moms on this job. And there are literally no hands more capable than ours!

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ID: 605364

Title: What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Author: Claire Jimenez

Narrator: Claire Jimenez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:59:53

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Family Life

Summary:

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.

Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize · March Indie Next Pick · Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick 

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time?

The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It’s 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store.

After seeing maybe‑Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long‑lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future—with or without Ruthy in it.

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle • USA Today • Today.com • Ms. Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Bustle • The Week • Goodreads • Bookriot • Pop Culturely • SheReads • Litreactor • Electric Lit • The Mary Sue • People Español • Zibby Mag • Debutiful • Her Campus

 

Best Books of March by Shondaland • Ms. Magazine • Popsugar • Bookriot • Debutiful • Powell’s Book Blog • TIME 100 must-read book of 2023 • Booklist Top 10 debut of 2023

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ID: 605374

Title: Foxglove King

Author: Hannah Whitten

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:08:54

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Epic Fantasy, Romantasy

Summary:

In this lush, romantic epic fantasy series from a New York Times bestselling author, a young woman’s secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court.

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in the ten years since, she’s lived by one rule: don’t let them find you. Easier said than done, when her death magic ties her to the city.

 

Mortem, the magic born from death, is a high-priced and illicit commodity in Dellaire, and Lore’s job running poisons keeps her in food, shelter, and relative security. But when a run goes wrong and Lore’s power is revealed, she’s taken by the Presque Mort, a group of warrior-monks sanctioned to use Mortem working for the Sainted King. Lore fully expects a pyre, but King August has a different plan. Entire villages on the outskirts of the country have been dying overnight, seemingly at random. Lore can either use her magic to find out what’s happening and who in the King’s court is responsible, or die.

 

Lore is thrust into the Sainted King’s glittering court, where no one can be believed and even fewer can be trusted. Guarded by Gabriel, a duke-turned-monk, and continually running up against Bastian, August’s ne'er-do-well heir, Lore tangles in politics, religion, and forbidden romance as she attempts to navigate a debauched and opulent society.

 

But the life she left behind in the catacombs is catching up with her. And even as Lore makes her way through the Sainted court above, they might be drawing closer than she thinks.

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ID: 605375

Title: But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films

Author: Kristen Lopez

Narrator: Tanis Parenteau

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:48:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism

Summary:

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that served as their inspiration. 

 

“I love that movie!”

 

“But have you read the book?”

 

Within these pages, Turner Classic Movies offers an endlessly fascinating look at 52 beloved screen adaptations and the great reads that inspired them. Some films, like Clueless—Amy Heckerling’s interpretation of Jane Austen’s Emma—diverge wildly from the original source material, while others, like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, shift the point of view to craft a different experience within the same story. Author Kristen Lopez explores just what makes these works classics of both the page and screen, and why each made for an exceptional adaptation—whether faithful to the book or exemplifying cinematic creative license.  

Other featured works include:

Children of Men · The Color Purple · Crazy Rich Asians · Dr. No · Dune · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes · Kiss Me Deadly · The Last Picture Show · Little Women · Passing · The Princess Bride · The Shining · The Thin Man · True Grit · Valley of the Dolls · The Virgin Suicides · Wuthering Heights

 

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ID: 647526

Title: Friendly Fire: Nik Byron Investigation, Book 2

Author: Mark Pawlosky

Narrator: Andrew Tell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:25:24

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

In the tradition of the best legal and political thrillers, Friendly Fire is an explosive tale of greed, revenge, treason, and murder.

When Geoffrey Tate, one of the worlds richest individuals and the CEO of Yukon, the countrys preeminent artificial intelligence company, is shot and killed by his young trophy wife, its going to grab headlines. And seasoned Newshound reporter Nik Byron intends to be the one generating them. But Niks investigation quickly leads him down a treacherous path he didnt foresee.

The sensational trial that follows Tates death threatens to derail Bullwhipthe militarys next generation of AI-inspired war machinesand scramble the fortunes of political heavyweights and Pentagon brass alike. His journalistic instincts aroused, Nik embarks on an uncertain hunt for the truth that takes him deep into the murky worlds of Washington lobbyists, the military-industrial complex, and the Saudi intelligence apparatus.

Undermined by a vindictive boss and a jealous rival reporter, Nik turns to trusted Newshound colleagues, Mia Landry and Patrick Mo Morganas well as a Pentagon whistleblowerto land his story and unravel the mystery surrounding Tates death. But in doing so Nik risks alienating Samantha Whyte, the chief investigator for the Northern Virginia County Sheriffs Department and his lover. Worse still, the story puts him in the sights of a contract killer.

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ID: 654893

Title: Tell the Rest: A Novel

Author: Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Narrator: Hayden Bishop, Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Two estranged childhood friends find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.

Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy programa dubious, unscientific Christian practice meant to change a persons sexuality. After witnessing a close friend suffer a devastating tragedy in the hands of the camp counselors, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes.

They have no idea how each have fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self-possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast university and loses her wife to another woman in rapid succession, she returns to her hometown of Rockside, Oregon to coach the girls basketball team at her high school alma mater.

Ernest, meanwhile, is a renowned poet in New York City whos left behind his loving husband for a temporary teaching job in Portland, Oregon. His work has always been boundary-pushing, fearless. But the poem hes most wanted to writeabout his dangerous escape from Celebration Campremains stubbornly out of reach.

Both remain on a mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again, they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in ones truthno matter how slippery that can be. Tell the Rest is a powerful novel about coming to termswith family, history, violence, loss, sexuality, and ultimately, with love.

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ID: 605362

Title: Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game

Author: Kate Fagan, Seimone Augustus

Narrator: Kate Fagan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:29:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-23

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science, Basketball

Summary:

“In vibrant color and style, Hoops Muses tells the vital stories that celebrate the history and tradition of our game.” —Sue Bird, WNBA legend

Hoops Muses is an homage to the game, bringing style and flair to all the details, moments, and people who have shaped the collective world of (women’s) hoops.

Hoops Muses will take us through time – literally. We begin in the future, in 2072, on the night of the WNBA’s 75th Anniversary, as New York Liberty phenom Jacklyn Jones is paid a visit by one of basketball’s long-ago (wink, wink) greats. This unlikely duo then goes on a sweeping, roundtrip adventure through basketball history, starting at the very beginning: Springfield, 1891. As the years pass, they learn the roots of the game (think: the first-ever collegiate game between Stanford and Cal, where men scaled the walls for a peek inside, or, the legend of Chicago’s Club Store Co-Eds, the all-Black barnstorming squad of the 1930s). AND as the early 20th century morphs into modern times, they see the game grow, the milestones reached. On their journey, they learn about the teams and the women (along with a few men) who helped build the foundation on which The Future will be built:

-Fort Shaw and the 1904 World Championship

-Pat Summitt and the early years of the Lady Vols 

-Delta State, featuring Margaret Wade and Lusia Harris

-Cheryl Miller and Hollywood’s USC Trojans

-UConn-Tennessee and the “Sliding Doors” moment that sparked their rivalry

Plus, they have front-row seats to a whole lot of quirky, blissful fandom, including …

The Movies That Should Have Been

WNBA Jam

The Moments

The Shots

To be a (women’s) hooper is to be part of a long and proud tradition … but one not often celebrated in popular culture. Hoops Muses is here to change that.

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