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ID: 565565

Title: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

Author: Dimitris Xygalatas

Narrator: Neil Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:15:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Social Science, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a journey through the rich tapestry of human ritual—showing how and why our most irrational behaviors are a key driver of our success. “Important . . . and a true delight to read.” (Paul Bloom, author of Against Empathy)

 

Ritual is one of the oldest, and certainly most enigmatic, threads in the history of human culture. It presents a profound paradox: people ascribe the utmost importance to their rituals, but few can explain why they are so important. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society, from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we ever learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples to perform elaborate rites and ceremonies. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery—until now.

 

In Ritual, pathfinding scientist Dimitris Xygalatas leads us on an enlightening tour through this shadowy realm of human behavior. Armed with cutting-edge technology and drawing on discoveries from a wide range of disciplines, he presents a powerful new perspective on our place in the world. In birthday parties and coronations, in silent prayer, in fire-walks and terrifying rites of passage, in all the bewildering variety of human life, Ritual reveals the deep and subtle mechanisms that bind us together.

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ID: 617197

Title: Sinkhole: The Legacy of a Suicide

Author: Juliet Patterson

Narrator: Lindsey Dorcus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:23:25

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Women

Summary:

A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family. This stunning elegy that vividly enacts Emily Dickinsons dictum to tell it slant, Sinkhole richly layers personal, familial, political, and environmental histories to provide not answers but essential, heartbreaking truth.

In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her fathers father had taken his own life; so had her mothers. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?

In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her fathers death, she struggles to make sense of the losssifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning. As the spring thaw comes, she and her mother depart Minnesota for her fathers burial in her parents hometown of Pittsburg, Kansas. A once-prosperous town of promise and of violence, against people and the land, Pittsburg is now literally undermined by abandoned claims and sinkholes. There, Patterson carefully gathers evidence and radically imagines the final days of the grandfathersone a fiery pro-labor politician, the other a melancholy businessmanshe never knew. And finally, she returns to her father: to the haunting subjects of goodbyes, of loss, and of how to break the cycle.

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ID: 565581

Title: Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence

Author: Vivek Ramaswamy

Narrator: Timothy Pabon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:42:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Politics, History, Current Affairs, Political Ideologies

Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture.

Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism are at the heart of American identity, and the disappearance of these ideals in our country leaves a deep moral and cultural vacuum in its wake.

 

But the solution isn’t to simply complain about it. It’s to revive a new cultural movement in America that puts excellence first again.

 

New York Times bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy makes the case from firsthand experience that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically—no matter your skin color or where your parents came from.

 

Leaders have called Ramaswamy “the most compelling conservative voice in the country” and “one of the towering intellects in America,” and this book reveals why: he spares neither left nor right in this scathing indictment of the victimhood culture at the heart of America’s national decline.

Following the success of his instant bestseller Woke Inc., Ramaswamy explains in his new book that we’re a nation of victims now. It’s one of the few things we still have left in common—across black victims, white victims, liberal victims, and conservative victims. Victims of each other, and ultimately, of ourselves.

 

This fearless, provocative book is for readers who dare to look in the mirror and question their most sacred assumptions about who we are and how we got here. Intricately tracing history from the fall of Rome to the rise of America, weaving Western philosophy with Eastern theology in ways that moved Jefferson and Adams centuries ago, this book describes the rise and the fall of the American experiment itself—and hopefully its reincarnation.

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ID: 578998

Title: In the Shadow Garden

Author: Liz Parker

Narrator: Christian Drerup, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Nancy Linari, Patrick Zeller, Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:12:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, General, Contemporary

Summary:

The richly atmospheric and luminous debut about three generations of women whose magic is as much a part of life as love, death, and the rich, dark earth beneath their feet--perfect for fans of Practical Magic and Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe. 

There’s something magical about Yarrow, Kentucky. The three empathic witches of the Haywood family are known for their shadow garden—from strawberries that taste like chocolate to cherry tomatoes imbued with the flavors of basil and oregano. Their magic can cure any heartache, and the fruits of their garden bring a special quality to the local bourbon distillery. On one day every year, a shot of Bonner bourbon will make your worst memory disappear. But the Haywoods will never forget the Bonners’ bitter betrayal.

Twenty years ago, the town gave up more than one memory; they forgot an entire summer. One person died. One person disappeared. And no one has any recollection of either.

As events from that fateful summer start to come to light, there must be a reckoning between the rival Haywood and Bonner families. But untangling the deep roots of this town’s terrible secrets will expose more than they could ever imagine about love, treachery, and the true nature of their power.

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ID: 557000

Title: American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

Author: David Corn

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:32:35

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: History, Politics, North America, Current Affairs, Political Ideologies

Summary:

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers readers a brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Party’s interactions with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and thoroughly-researched narrative, Corn reveals the hidden history of how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks, racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear, anger, and resentment to win elections—and how this led to Donald Trump’s triumph and the transformation of the GOP into a Trump personality cult that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous excesses of the right.

 

The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. American Psychosisshows it was a continuation of the long and deep-rooted Republican practice of boosting and weaponizing the rage and derangement of the right.

 

The gripping tale in American Psychosis covers the last seven decades. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism. This powerful and important account explains how one political party has harnessed the worst elements in politics to poison the nation’s discourse and threaten American democracy.

"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern history of the right...We just need smart, digestible history about this stuff right now...[American Psychosis] is perfectly timed...Relevant history for where we are right now." —Rachel Maddow, host, The Rachel Maddow Show

"With American Psychosis, David Corn 'did the full homework to take us all the way back to where it really begins.’" —Lawrence O'Donnell, host, The Last Word

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ID: 565560

Title: Blowback

Author: Brendan Dubois, James Patterson

Narrator: Erin Bennett, Zachary Webber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:50:20

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The President Is Missing, America has elected its most brilliant president ever, but he’s also a psychopath—and about to start a world war with our most dangerous enemy.

US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences.   

Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  

When the threat comes directly from the Oval Office, that’s where the blowback begins.

“Pure Patterson… Blowback asks us to imagine what would happen if a narcissistic psychopath were elected to the White House [and] to experience the terror of the world hanging in the balance at a moment when only a handful of determined patriots can save us.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post

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ID: 614429

Title: Magical Energy of the Early Morning

Author: Kap Lai

Narrator: Lauren Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:59:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-22

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Ever since the release of Hal Elrod's internationally best-selling 'The Miracle Morning' there has been more inspiration for the population to start being happy morning risers, making use of their extra, peaceful time - Including me! As I began to practice this miracle morning routine, I just sensed that there was some other unknown presence. Another element in the atmosphere. Some kind of well, without sounding cheesy some kind of magic!! And the more aware I was of this mysterious force (or power) lurking in the early morning hours, the more eager I was to explore further on this skeptical subject. Finding interesting information along the way inspired me to write this book. 'The Magical Energy of the Early Morning' aims to give you more knowledge on the spiritual aspect of things, giving you facts and advice to help you impact your mornings positively. We also compare different religions, re-visit quotes from some of history's influential characters and dive into the subject of the law of attraction.

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ID: 612476

Title: Weary Blues

Author: Langston Hughes

Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:58:16

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, Poetry, North America

Summary:

Langston Hughes is a widely celebrated African American writer and important leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Deeply inspired by the great poet Walt Whitman, Hughes own writings gave voice to the Black community in the American literary canon. His assertion that I, too, sing America echoes through history and continues to be a battle cry in the fight for fair representation and equality.

The Weary Blues, published in 1926, was Hughes first collection of poetry. He was only twenty-four years old at the time, but his insights carry wisdom beyond his years. Hughes made his literary debut at the height of Jim Crow when racial segregation ran deep through American society. Through the pain and hardship, there is also an unshakable pride in his African American heritage.

Enjoy the rich notes and rhythms of Hughes distinct jazz poetry style, brought to life in this extraordinary InAudio production.

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ID: 615350

Title: Second Chance Summer: Blue Harbor, Book 2

Author: Olivia Miles

Narrator: Amy J. Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:22

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

From the USA Today bestselling master of small-town sagas comes the second installment in the Blue Harbor seriesa second-chance romance about finding love when you least expect it.

Amelia Conway spent the past twelve years doting on her widowed father and playing mother hen to her younger sistersand conveniently hiding her heart from love after her high school sweetheart moved away. Now the owner of a charming café, she realizes she has no excuse to shy away from the possibility of a happily ever after, and not just because her family doesnt need her so much anymore. Amelias first love has returned to Blue Harbor, and suddenly the summer looks full of more than sunshine.

Matt Bradford never felt settled after leaving his hometown, but his fondness for it is overshadowed by the reasons behind his family losing their business. Now an architect, Matt is back in Blue Harbor to pitch a full-service resort that will not only secure his future, but also right past wrongs. But he didnt expect to meet resistance along the way, or to discover that he still has feelings for his old girlfriend. Leave it to Amelia to remind him of the boy he used to beand the memories he has tried to forget.

When Matts plans clash with Amelias beloved café, she will have to convince him that Blue Harbor is perfect just as it is, and that maybe, there can be a second chance for both of them to find lasting happiness in this town.

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ID: 612657

Title: Bad Girls

Author: Camila Sosa Villada

Narrator: Sena Bryer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:08:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans womans coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.

Camila Sosa Villadas extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community: their romantic relationships, friendships and squabbles, difficulties at work, aspirations and disappointments. It bears witness to these lives constantly haunted by the specter of deathby disease or more violent means at the hands of customers, boyfriends, or the policeyet full of passion, empathy, and insight.

Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but begins to identify from an early age as a girl. She is well aware that shes different from other children and reacts to her oppressive, poverty-stricken home life, with a cowed mother and abusive, alcoholic father, by acting outwith swift consequences. Deeply intelligent, she eventually leaves for the city to attend university, slipping into prostitution to make ends meet. And in Sarmiento Park, in the heart of Córdoba, she discovers the strange, wonderful world of the trans sex workers who dwell there.

Taken under the wing of Auntie Encarna, the 178-year-old eternal whose house shelters this unconventional extended family, Camila becomes a part of their storiesof a Headless Man who fled his countrys wars, a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, an abandoned baby boy who brings a twinkle to your eye.

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