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ID: 660907

Title: Folklorn

Author: Angela Mi Young Hur

Narrator: Catherine Ho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:15:50

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Asian American Literature

Summary:

A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families.

Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friendan achingly familiar, spectral woman in the

snowcomes to claim her at last.

Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate: the mental illness and generational trauma that run in her immigrant family, a

sickness no less ravenous than the ancestral curse hunting her.

When her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes, Elsa must return to her childhood home in California. There, among family wrestling with their own demons, she unravels the secrets hidden in the handwritten pages of her mothers dark stories: of womens desire and fury; of magic suppressed,

stolen, or punished; of the hunger for vengeance.

From Sparks Fellow, Tin House alumna, and Harvard graduate Angela Mi Young Hur, Folklorn is a wondrous and necessary exploration of the myths we inherit and those we fashion for ourselves.

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ID: 660944

Title: Black Was the Ink

Author: Michelle Coles

Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:42:07

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

Malcolm Williams hasn't been okay for a while. He's angry and despondent and feels like nothing good ever happens for teens like him in D.C. All he wants is to be left alone in his room for the summer to draw or play video gamesbut no such luck. With growing violence in his neighborhood,

his mother ships him off to his fathers family farm in Mississippi, and Malcolm is anything but pleased.

A few days after his arrival, his great-aunt tells him that the State is acquiring the farm to widen a highway. It's not news Malcolm is concerned about, but someone plans to make it his concern. One minute Malcolm is drawing in the farmhouse attic, and the next he's looking through the eyes

of his ancestor Cedric Johnson in 1866.

As Cedric, Malcolm meets the real-life Black statesmen who fought for change during the Reconstruction era: Hiram Revels, Robert Smalls, and other leaders who made American history. But even after witnessing their bravery, Malcolm's faith in his own future remains shaky, particularly since he knows

that the gains these statesmen made were almost immediately stripped away. If those great men couldn't completely succeed, why should he try?

Malcolm must decide which path to take. Can Cedrics experiences help him construct a better future? Or will he resign himself to resentments and defeat?

Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Nic Stone, Black Was the Ink is a powerful coming-of-age story and an eye-opening exploration of an era that defined modern America.

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ID: 660951

Title: Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

Author: Finn Murphy

Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:22:50

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Business Development

Summary:

The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune in hemp.

After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in the Hemp Space. When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado

became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Figuring hed harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything.

Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. He battles with

freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of trimmigrantsspecialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams.

Pretty soon, Murphy is burning through his cash and skirmishing with the mercurial denizens who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market.

Told with Murphys trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights intothe hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneurs misadventures.

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ID: 630315

Title: Port Mortuary

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: Kate Burton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:30:54

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The worlds bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally.

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy'a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionize forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently

from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpettas home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked in the cooler.

When the revolutionary 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, she realizes that this is a case of murderand that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before

more people die. But that time is running out

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ID: 660605

Title: Surviving Sky

Author: Kritika H. Rao

Narrator: Pranshu Mishra, Sharmila Devar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:24:20

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanityplant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanitys survival reliant on a privileged few.

If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below.

Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist wife, they are a method to suppress nonarchitects. Their marriage is thorny and fraughtyet when a jungle expedition

goes terribly wrong, jeopardizing their careers, Ahilya and Iravan must work together to save their reputations. But as their city begins to plummet, their discoveries threaten not only their marriage, but their entire civilization.

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ID: 660872

Title: Ride or Die

Author: Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu

Narrator: Jasmin Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:40:37

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Tough Topics

Summary:

Best friends Loli Crawford and Ryan Pope have earned their nickname, the

Bonnie and Clyde of Woolridge High. From illegal snack swapping in

kindergarten to reckless car surfing in high school, they have been causing trouble

in their uptight California town forever. But everyone knows that the mischief

starts with Loli; when it comes to chasing thrills, drama, and adventure, no one is

on her level.

At least until Loli throws the wildest party Woolridge High has ever seen and

meets X, a strange, unidentified boy in the coat closet who challenges her to a

game she cant refuseone that promises to put her love of danger to the

ultimate test.

Loli and X begin an anonymous correspondence, exchanging increasingly risky

missions. Lolis fun has always been free and easy, but things spin out of control as

she attempts to one-up Xs every move. As Loli risks losing everythingincluding

her oldest friendshell face the biggest danger of all: falling for someone she

shouldnt.

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ID: 660950

Title: Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports

Author: Bruce Schoenfeld

Narrator: Bruce Schoenfeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, Sports & Recreation, World, Baseball, Other

Summary:

The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of professional sports.

In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis, and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around.

In todays game, everyone from the owners to the marketing staff is using informationdatato give their team an edge. For analysts, an edge is their currency. Figuring out that bunting hurts your offense? Thats an edge. So is discovering metrics that can predict the career arc of your free agent shooting guard. Or combing through a decade of ticket-buying data to target persuadable fans.

These small, incremental steps move a sports franchise from merely ordinary to the leading edge. Franchises today are more than just sports; they integrate a whole suite of other businessestelevision and digital content, gambling and real estate, fashion and apparel, entertainment, catering and concessions, and much more. But an optimized franchise cant afford to be sentimental. Teams must do what the numbers say, reducing the element of chance, limiting those random moments of athletic heroism that make sports thrilling to watch. Optimization also means the franchises main goal isnt championships anymore; its keepingyou, the viewer, engaged with the product.

Drawing on extensive interviews with franchise owners, general managers, executives, and players, Bruce Schoenfeld introduces dynamic leaders who are radically reimagining the operations of these decades-old teamsand producing mind-boggling valuations. He joins the architects of the Golden State Warriors

dynasty for an exclusive reception before tip-off. He stands among the faithful at Anfield, watching Liverpools analytics guru assess a prized midfielder. And he watches the president of the Chicago Cubs break ground on a new DraftKings gambling parlor at Wrigley Field, not ten miles from the site of the original Black Sox betting scandal.

Essential reading for anyone interested in sports, business, or technology, Game of Edges explores a world where winning the game is only the beginning.

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ID: 630225

Title: Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Weglyn

Author: Ken Mochizuki

Narrator: Traci Kato-Kiriyami

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Teen, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

In 1968, Michiko Nishiura Weglyn heard the U.S. attorney general declare on national television that there had never been concentration camps in the United States.

Michi was the daughter of Japanese immigrants. In 1942, when she was fifteen, she had been sent to such a camp and imprisoned during World War II along with other Americans of Japanese ancestry. Her family lost everythingbut Michi asserted herself as a student leader in high school and, against the wishes of

her family, went on to college; then to New York, where she forged a career as a costume designer, dressing some of the most popular show business personalities of the day.

At the time the attorney general made his remark, the existence of the camps was unacknowledged by both the government and much of the Japanese American community. Michi chose to rock this boat: she left behind her career and set out to document the story of the camps. Her book, Years of Infamy, used the

governments own records to account for the camps existence and for the racism and political calculation that led to their creation. It became a milestone in Japanese American history and a catalyst for the governments eventual acknowledgment of its discrimination toward its citizens of Japanese ancestry.

In Michi Challenges History, groundbreaking childrens book author Ken Mochizukiweaves a captivating portrait of a woman who defied cultural and political constraints to fight for justice and to uncover the truth of her peoples historyand her own.

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ID: 660675

Title: Her Only Wish

Author: Shelley Shepard Gray

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:34:02

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Return to Pinecraft, Florida, for a Sweet Amish Romance

Sheltered yet adventurous, Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things in life. She's got a list--a life list. What better place to start than with her friends in beautiful Pinecraft, Florida?

From the moment Betsy walks into the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. Betsy is a mass of contradictions--beautiful yet awkward, outgoing yet unsure, joyful yet hesitant. She's like no one he's ever met before, and

as the only child of missionary parents, he's met a lot of people.

As Betsy and August embark on a month of enjoying life to the fullest, they'll encounter several reasons to back off and play it safe. But playing it safe has its own consequences. This tender romance reminds us that life--and love--requires a fair amount of risk.

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ID: 660915

Title: Indigo Isle

Author: T.I. Lowe

Narrator: Justis Bolding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-23

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Religious & Inspirational, General

Summary:

'Storms show up and there aint a thing we can do to stop them.'

Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now shes a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her bosss demands, she has little

time to think about the past until her latest gig lands her a stones throw from everything she left behind.

Searching off the coast of Charleston for a secluded site to film a key scene, Sonny wanders onto a private barrier island and encounters its reclusive owner, known by locals as the Monster of Indigo Isle. What she finds is a man much more complex than the myth.

Once a successful New York attorney, Hudson Renfrows grief has exiled him to his island for several years. He spends his days alone, tending his fields of indigo, then making indigo dyeand he has no interest in serving the intrusive needs of a film company or yielding to Sonnys determined curiosity.

But when a hurricane makes landfall on the Carolina coast, stranding them together, an unlikely friendship forms between the two damaged souls. Soon the gruff exterior Hudson has long hidden behind crumblesexposing the tender part of him thats desperate for forgiveness and a second chance.

A story of hanging on and letting go, of redemption and reconciliation, and of alove that heals the deepest wounds, from the author of the breakout bestseller Under the Magnolias.

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