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ID: 525366

Title: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Author: Eva Jurczyk

Narrator: Hannah Cabell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:40:33

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

What holds more secrets in the librarythe ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who preserve them?

Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, quietly managing details to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a

stroke and shes left to run things, she discovers that the librarys most prized manuscript is missing.

Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book but is told repeatedly to keep quiet, to keep the doors open and the donors happy. But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work. Liesl must

investigate both disappearances, unspooling her colleagues pasts like the threads of a rare book binding as it becomes clear that someone in the department must be responsible for the theft. What Liesl discovers about the dusty manuscripts she

has worked among for so longand about the people who care for and revere themshakes the very foundation on which she has built her life.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a sparkling debut novel about a woman struggling to step out from behind the shadows of powerful andunreliable men and reveals the dark edge of obsession running through the most devoted bookworms.

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ID: 566227

Title: Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest

Author: Rolundus R. Rice

Narrator: Arnell Powell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:47:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, History & Culture

Summary:

When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, 'Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us.'

In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local

activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on 'Bloody Sunday.'

Williams played the role of enforcer in SCLC, always ready to deploy what he called his 'arsenal of agitation.' While his hard-charging tactics may have seemed out of step with the more diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice suggests that it was precisely this contrast in styles that made the organization so

successful. Rice also follows Williams's career after King's assassination, as Williams moved into local Atlanta politics. While his style made him loved by some and hated by others, readers will come to appreciate the central role that Williams played in the most successful nonviolent revolution in American history.

Andrew Young Jr., former SCLC executive director, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.

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ID: 525480

Title: Heavy Sinners MC: Dare to Ride

Author: Rae B. Lake

Narrator: Ace Bentley, Ebony Mendez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Marcus Heavy is the founder of the Heavy Sinners Motorcycle Club. They specialize in the drug game, prostitution, blackmail, and murder. You cross any member of the club, and thats the end of your life.

Marcus son, Darius, was supposed to take up the mantle as leader of the club, but Darius doesnt want that life. Hes seen the devastation it brings to his family and everyone around them. So, Darius gets a college degree and a good job and

claws his way out of the hood. The life hes chosen couldnt be more different than that of his homicidal fathersuntil unknown enemies show up at his door, shoot Darius in the head, and kidnap his child.

He wakes up in the hospital to find his father hovering over him, wanting to know what Darius plans to do for revenge. No one attacks the Heavy name and lives to tell the story. Darius resists, but as weeks go by and officials focus more on

smearing Darius than they do on searching for his child, he feels desperate.

With his back to the wall and no official help in sight, Darius turns to the group he once rejected. Marcus always knew his son would come back to the Heavy Sinners MC. He hands over the VP patch to Darius, who suddenly has a seat at the table in

the organization he never wanted to be a part of. Desperate to find his child, he tears through the city, going after anyone who might have had a hand in the attack on his family. He never imagined himself as a violent person, yet soon

Darius discovers that not only is he capable of it, but hes good at it. When Dhariaenters his orbit, she puts a spark to the desire in him that had burned out months ago, igniting a fire of passion. Will he be able to return to his true self, or is the legacy of the Heavy Sinners MC too strong to resist?

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ID: 563202

Title: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become an American

Author: Wajahat Ali

Narrator: Wajahat Ali

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:22:11

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Comedy, Essays & Memoirs, Social Science

Summary:

Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis. Go back where, exactly? Fremont, California, where he grew up, but now an unaffordable place to live? Or

Pakistan, the country his parents left behind a half-century ago?

While living the American Dream, young Wajahat devoured comic books (devoid of brown superheroes) and fielded well-intentioned advice from uncles and aunties (Become a doctor!). He had turmeric stains under his fingernails, was

accident-prone, suffered from OCD, and wore Husky pants. That is, he was as American as his neighbors, with roots all over the world. Then, while Ali was studying at University of California, Berkeley, 9/11 happened. Muslims replaced

Communists as Americas enemy #1, and he became an accidental spokesman and ambassador of all ordinary, unthreatening things Muslim-y.

Now a middle-aged dad, Ali has become one of the foremost and funniest public intellectuals in America. In Go Back to Where You Came From, he tackles the dangers of Islamophobia, white supremacy, and chocolate hummus, peppering

personal stories with astute insights into national security, immigration, and pop culture. In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive, and delicious America.

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ID: 566043

Title: Philly Girl 2

Author: Marcus Weber

Narrator: Lynn Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Philly Girl 2 will have you re-evaluating the bonds of friendship and love. It will make you think twice about chasing street money, as loyalty is put to the test with drugs, murder, sex, and mayhem in the mix. This quick thriller will have your jaw dropping.

Born and raised in the slums of West Philadelphia, Rita is no stranger to the street life. In fact, she indulges in the fast life, getting money from selling drugs just as hard as the men she competes with. Its no surprise that her financial growth

brings on the drama of having to protect her money from the many wolves bred in the city of Philly. But Rita has no idea what shes getting herself into when she falls for a man she met only 24 hours ago.

Rita doesnt know the true meaning of loyalty before she meets Dave, a man who, when it comes down to it, would choose loyalty first and make love work second. Thats a decision he will have to make when it turns out the woman hes falling in love with is also the woman he is supposed to kill.

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ID: 566171

Title: Streets Keep Pulling Me Back

Author: Brittani Williams

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:57:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Go on a roller coaster ride with Tank, a man who battled a tortured past to become a made man, determined to win no matter what he must do, or who he must hurt in the process

From the day he was born, Martavious Tank Young had to fight for what was his. No parents, no family, mentally and physically abused throughout his childhood. The challenges he endured only made him stronger and soon, the man

who grew up with nothing had it all. Now, Tank is the man running the streets and the city, both legal and illegal. His money is long, his patience is short, and his reach is far.

Finally at the pinnacle of the game, hes decided the time has come to leave the streets alone and retire, enjoying the life of luxury hes worked hard to achieve. But, when vengeance rears its ugly head and Tank is the target, it almost costs him everything, including his life.

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ID: 566085

Title: Terrors of the Forest: A GameKnight999 Adventure

Author: Mark Cheverton

Narrator: Nick Walther

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure

Summary:

This book is not authorized or sponsored by Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB, Notch Development AB or Scholastic Inc., or any other person or entity owning or controlling rights in the Minecraft name, trademark, or copyrights.

Minecraft mods are covering the tracks of a mysterious new villain!

Gameknight999 reenters Minecraft to find it completely changed. Villages are larger than ever and more heavily fortified; life inside the game has become much more dangerous. Even Gameknights old friends are acting differently, and the changes are not for the better.

Outside of Crafters village, a strange user named Entity303 is spotted with Weaver, a young NPC Gameknight knows from Minecrafts past. He realizes that Weaver has somehow been kidnapped, and returning him to the correct time is the only way to fix things.

The User-that-is-not-a-user races to catch Entity303 and rescue his friend, but they quickly disappear into a strange portal that leads to the Twilight Forest modded version of the game. How can there be mods here in the vanilla Minecraft? Just how dangerous is this new user to Minecraft, and what are his

plans for Weaver? Only Gameknight999 will be able to find out.

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ID: 565012

Title: Fighter

Author: Bianca Laveau

Narrator: Lee Samuels, Samantha Brentmoor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:58:06

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Wren Delorynes life has never been easy. Coming from a broken wreckage of a childhood, hes never had much hope for anything and knows hes the only person he can rely on. And finding a woman to satisfy his baser needs has always been easy as pie, despite his dark past, and as far as he sees it the only thing that matters is surviving since everything hes ever gotten came from

busting his knuckles. Catapulted into street fighting since his teens, hes knocked his way through and made it to the height of fame. But, once you made it to the top, there was always someone waiting to knock you back down. And, as fate would have it, a woman has finally caused his walled-up heart to feel.

Alaira Saintarys, event planner: all she wants is to be successful at her own enterprise. Hoping to plan a fighting fundraiser, Alaira finds herself in an interesting business position, but nothing is as amusing as the enticingly mysterious Wren, who instantly steals her attention. But then, Wrens left with amnesia after being peculiarly attacked, leaving Alaira to question everything

about her future and the man who's struck her to the core.

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ID: 525496

Title: Tides

Author: Sara Freeman

Narrator: Amy Rutherford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:21:52

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Henfield Prizewinner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in

the ocean at night. As her money runs out and the tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job at the local wine store. There, she meets Simon, the shops soft-spoken owner, a man whose loneliness she immediately recognizes as a

mirror to her own. Confronted with the possibility of connection with Simon and the slow return of her desires and appetites, the reasons for her flight begin to emerge.

Reminiscent of works by Rachel Cusk, Jenny Offill, and Marguerite Duras, Tides is a spare, visceral novel about the nature of selfhood, intimacy, and the private narratives that shape our lives. A shattering and unforgettable debut.

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ID: 525502

Title: Colliding Worlds: How Cosmic Encounters Shaped Planets and Life

Author: Simone Marchi

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:17:53

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Social Science

Summary:

Some 4.6 billion years ago, a planetary system was born from a disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star.

Specks of dust, pushed into dense clumps, collided, stuck together, and grew. While the gas disappeared, the growing bodies clashed in a final violent phase, leaving a series of planets, and much debris. The planets jostled and moved around as they sought a stable

arrangement, knocking many small fragments out of the system altogether while others formed a distant icy fringe. The massive violent collisions of this time gouged out vast craters from the newborn planets, and sometimes created moons.

Such was the birth of our Solar System. Only recently have scientists begun to find subtle clues of these ancient, violent times. Remarkably, they are still there, if we look carefully at the Earths oldest rocks, at Mars and the Moon with their ancient surfaces, and at the

asteroids, which are themselves startlingly varied small worlds. Clues are also to be found in the meteorites that have landed on Earth. From such splinters, from the precious collection of lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts, and the information

gleaned by spacecraft and the Mars rovers, we are slowly building up a picture of the early days of the planets.

Simone Marchi, a planetary scientist involved with several space missions including Dawn, captures the excitement of these discoveries. We learn of the evidence for an early dramatic rearrangement of the big planets; for a once warm and wet Mars where life

perhaps still lurks today; and for the huge collisions that have shaped our own planet and affected lifes trajectory upon it. For all their destructive power, cosmic collisions have played a critical role in creation.

Without them, we would not exist.

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