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ID: 584137

Title: Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All

Author: Daniel Dockery

Narrator: Veronica Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:26:05

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development, Hobbies & Games

Summary:

The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at why Pokémon's evolution from a single Japanese video game to global powerhouse captured the world's attention, and how the "gotta catch 'em all" mentality of its fanbase shaped pop culture—and continues to do so today. 

More than just a simple journey through the history of Pokémon, Daniel Dockery offers an in-depth look at the franchise’s many branches of impact and influence. With dozens of firsthand interviews, Monster Kids covers its beginnings as a Japanese video game created to recapture one man's love of bug-collecting as a child before diving into the decisions and conditions that would ultimately lead to that game's global domination. With its continued growth as television shows, spin-off video games, blockbuster movies, trading cards, and toys, Pokémon is a unique and special brand that manages to continue to capture the attention and adoration of its eager fanbase 25 years after its initial release.

Whether it was new animated shows like Digimon, Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh!; the rise of monster-catching video games and trading card games; and more, Pikachu, the king of pop culture in the '90s, opened the doors in America to those hoping to capture some of Pokémon's dedicated fans. In Monster Kids, Dockery combines the personal stories of the people who helped bring Pokémon to the global stage with affection and humor, making this book the ultimate look at the rise of the franchise in Japan and then North America, but also the generation of kids whose passion for "catching them all" created a unique cultural phenomenon that continues to make a profound impact today.

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ID: 573763

Title: Why Managers Matter: The Perils of the Bossless Company

Author: Nicolai J Foss, Peter G Klein

Narrator: Jorge Luis Pallo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:57:16

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

A manifesto on managers and hierarchy that bucks the trend of the lean, flat, leaderless organization

As business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and make an organization tick. It’s tempting to be seduced by futurist fantasies where every company has the culture of a startup, and where employees in wacky, whimsical office settings, liberated from hierarchies and bosses that oppress them, are the foundation for breakthrough performance.

“Get real,” warn Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein. These fads ironically lead to micromanaging and, often, to disaster. Companies and societies, they show, need authority and hierarchy to coordinate work, including creative work. And, counterintuitively, Foss and Klein illustrate how the creative use of authority and hierarchy helps companies to be more agile and flexible, enabling educated, motivated people and teams to thrive.

And not a moment too soon: Foss and Klein provide evidence that global challenges such as the proliferation of artificial intelligence, economic disruption, empowered knowledge workers, and black swan events such as the pandemic actually make hierarchy and the job of the manager more important than ever.

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ID: 621981

Title: Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries

Author: Greg Melville

Narrator: Will Tulin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:41:43

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, World, North America, Europe

Summary:

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead

The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melvilles lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead.

Melvilles Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as influenced architectural styles. Theyve inspired and motivated some of our greatest poets and authorsEmerson, Whitman, Dickinson. Theyve been used as political tools to shift the countrys discourse and as important symbols of the United States' ambition and reach.

But they are changing and fading. Embalming and burial is incredibly toxic, and while cremations have just recently surpassed burials in popularity, theyre not great for the environment either. Over My Dead Body explores everythinghistory, sustainability, land use, and moreand what it really means to memorialize.

Locales visited in Over My Dead Body

Shawsheen Cemetery Bedford, Massachusetts

The 1607 Burial Ground Historic Jamestowne, Virginia

Burial Hill Plymouth, Massachusetts

Colonial Jewish Burial Ground Newport, Rhode Island

Monticellos African American Graveyard Charlottesville, Virginia

Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge, Massachusetts

Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York

Laurel Grove Cemetery Savannah, Georgia

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Concord, Massachusetts

Central Park New York, New York

and Many More!

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ID: 624866

Title: Blue Castle

Author: L.M. Montgomery

Narrator: Erin Bateman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:51:22

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

From the creator of Anne of Green Gables, get ready to be swept away by this tale of true love against all odds.

Twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling is unmarried and still lives at home with her mother. Her day-to-day life seems dull compared to her favorite books by John Forster and her fantasies of the Blue Castle. When she receives a devastating diagnosis and is only given one year to live, Valancy escapes from her family to make the most of the time she has left.

Valancy moves in with an old friend, Cissy Gay, who is also gravely ill. Everyone else in the town had abandoned Cissy because she had a child out of wedlock. But Barney Snaith, who understands what its like to be an outcast, still comes to visit. Although rumored to be a dangerous criminal and even the father of Cissys illegitimate child, Barney is simply a friend of the family. He also becomes Valancys romantic interest.

After Cissys death, Valancy does not want to stay at Cissys house with her alcoholic father, but she doesnt want to return home to her own family either. Instead, she proposes to Barney, and they move back to his hometown on a remote island. The quiet woods remind her of the setting of John Forsters books and the Blue Castle she always dreamed of. But Valency knows she is on borrowed time. One day, her shoe gets caught in the train tracks and she sees the train speeding towards herbut is this the end of her life, or just the beginning?

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ID: 630681

Title: I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Author: Lynn Melnick

Narrator: Lynn Melnick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:44:30

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

A moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon.

The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she had been the victim of rape, abuse, and trauma, and her path to healing would be long. But in Partons words and music, she recognized a fellow survivor.

In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Partons dual identities as a feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the authors own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice. Each chapter engages with the artistry and impact of one of Partons songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, misogyny, creativity, parenting, friendship, sex, love, and the consolations and cruelties of religion. Bold and inventive,

Ive Had to Think Up a Way to Survive gives us an accessible and memorable framework for understanding our times and a revelatory account of survival, persistence, and self-discovery.

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ID: 565570

Title: Sisterhood of Sleuths

Author: Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Narrator: Moriah Martel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:08:01

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

A clever and thought-provoking mystery that pays homage to classic Nancy Drew stories, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Trenton Lee Stewart. 

Maizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother, Jacuzzi. So when a box full of vintage Nancy Drew books gets left at her mom’s thrift store, Maizy is surprised to find an old photo of her grandmother and two other women tucked beneath the collection. Stranger still, when Maizy shows the photo to Jacuzzi she feigns ignorance, insisting the woman is someone else. Determined to learn the truth — and inspired by the legacy of Nancy Drew — Maizy launches her own investigation with the help of new friends, Nell and Cam. What they discover not only points to the origins of the iconic series, but uncovers a truth from the past that will lead to self-discovery in the present, connecting three generations of women.  

This intergenerational mystery filled with literary history, friendship, and family secrets delivers a captivating tribute to the world’s most famous girl detective. 

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ID: 573760

Title: To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II

Author: George Weigel

Narrator: Steven Arthur

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:41:50

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world's

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled.

In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel explains the necessity of Vatican II and explores the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness. The Council’s texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.

Written with insight and verve, To Sanctify the World recovers the true meaning of Vatican II as the template for a Catholicism that can propose a path toward genuine human dignity and social solidarity.

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ID: 565591

Title: Cat Cafe Christmas

Author: Codi Gary

Narrator: Felicity Munroe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:58:59

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Holiday, Contemporary

Summary:

A laugh-out-loud, opposites attract romance about three of the world’s most beloved C’s: Christmas, Coffee, and Cats.

Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls needs a Christmas miracle. Opening the Meow and Furrever Cat Café to find loving homes for adorable, adoptable cats was a dream come true—but with more cats than customers, it’s quickly turning into a nightmare. If Kara can’t figure out some way to get the café out of the red, it won’t last past the holidays.

Marketing guru Ben Reese may be annoyingly smart and frustratingly bossy, but when he hatches a plan to put the café in the “green” by Christmas, Kara realizes that she’d be a fool to turn down his help. And so what if he turns out to be an excellent problem solver and nerdy-hot—he can’t even handle fostering one little kitten. She needs to keep their relationship professional and focus on saving the cafe.

But if Ben and Kara can set aside their differences—and find homes for all the cats by Christmas—they might discover that, by risking their hearts, they’ll have their own purr-fect holiday . . . together.

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ID: 621078

Title: Just Visiting

Author: Dahlia Adler

Narrator: Lori Felipe-Barkin, Shaina Summerville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:03:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

Reagan and Victoria are sure about two things in their future: theyre going to be college roommates, and theyre going to get out of Charytan, Kansas, together. But as they go on a series of college visits, the two begin to realize their visions of the future may not align, and as the secrets theyve been keeping from the other slowly come to light, they learn theyre not exactly the yin and yang they thought they were. Suddenly, neither one is sure what the next four years hold, or whether theyll be spending them together at all.

Reagan Forrester wants out - out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas.

Victoria Reyes wants in - in to a fashion design program and a sorority, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn't go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won't stand out for being Mexican.

One thing the polar-opposite best friends do agree on is that wherever they go, they're going together. But when they set off on a series of college visits at the start of their senior year, they quickly see that the future doesn't look quite like they expected. After two years of near-solitude following the betrayal of the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, Reagan falls hard and fast for a Battlestar Galactica-loving, brilliant smile-sporting pre-med prospective... only to learn she's set herself up for heartbreak all over again. Meanwhile, Victoria realizes everything she's looking for might be in the very place they've sworn to leave.

As both Reagan and Victoria struggle to learn who they are and what they want in the present, they discover just how much they don't know about each other's pasts. And when each learns what the other's been hiding, they'll have to decide whether their friendship has a future.

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ID: 573739

Title: Endless Summer: Stories

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:12:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

The "queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) presents nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket—and days that last forever—to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off.

Inside the collection, you'll find:

• Three years after Mallory Blessing's death (in 28 Summers), her friends gather for another eventful Labor Day celebration on Nantucket in "The Sixth Wedding."

• The marriage at the heart of Beautiful Day enters uncertain territory when Margot Carmichael encourages her husband to reunite with his ex-girlfriend in "The Surfing Lesson."

• In "The Tailgate" the weekend of a Harvard/Yale football game recharts the course of "Matchmaker" Dabney Kimball's first—and abiding—true love.

•  In "Summer of '79," the three Levin sisters reunite after a decade after the summer that changed everything.

•  And more . . . 

With a foreword by Elin Hilderbrand about the writer's reluctance to leave treasured characters behind and a prefatory, "behind-the-scenes" note included with each story, this book answers the prayers of both new and seasoned readers everywhere who, like the Kirkus reviewer, "would rather be living in an Elin Hilderbrand novel."

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