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ID: 586460

Title: Saint Sebastian's Abyss

Author: Mark Haber

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:05:54

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the others deathbed for unknown reasons by a relatively short nine-page email, spends his flight to

Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastians Abyss, the work that established both men as important art critics and also destroyed their relationship. A darkly comic

meditation on art, obsession, and the enigmatic power of friendship, Saint Sebastians Abyss stalks the museum halls of Europe, feverishly seeking salvation, annihilation, and the meaning of belief.

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ID: 573245

Title: Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America

Author: Marcus M. Witcher, Rachel S. Ferguson

Narrator: Andrea Gallo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:53:55

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, World, North America

Summary:

If we face Americas racial history squarely, will it mean that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American project is a worthy endeavor, do we have to lie, downplay, or equivocate about our past?

In this book, we use the classical liberal lens to ask Americans on the political right to seriously reckon with Americas deep racial painmuch of which arises from violations of rights that conservatives say they deeply value. We ask those on the left to take a hard look at the failed paternalism, and in some cases, thoroughgoing racism of past progressive policy. All Americans are asked to apply their concern for individual rights and constitutional order fairly to our historical record. What readers will find are deep injustices against black Americans. But they will also find black entrepreneurs overcoming amazing obstacles and a black community that has created flourishing institutions and culture.

Exhausted by extremism on both left and right, a majority of Americansblack and whitelove this country and want to do right by all of its citizens. In Black Liberation Through the Marketplace, readers will come away with a better understanding of black history and creative ideas for how to make this nation truly one with liberty and justice for all.

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ID: 579922

Title: Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

Author: Gail Jarrow

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:14:02

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Teen, Historical, Biography & Memoir, Tough Topics

Summary:

James Garfield has only been the United States president for a few days when a

stranger begins stalking him. Who is this man? And what does he want from the

president? For weeks, the threat to Garfield grows, undetected, until a sudden

violent encounter catches Washington by surprise.

In this gripping thriller, Sibert Honor-winner Gail Jarrow continues her Medical

Fiascoes series by exploring events from the summer of 1881. Anxious Americans

intently follow news reports in the aftermath of the strangers shocking attack on

Garfield. Can the presidents doctors save him? Have their mistakes put him in

new danger? Jarrow uncovers these answers and more in the haunting true story

about a fiasco that changed the course of political and medical history.

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ID: 589647

Title: Barbed Wire Baseball

Author: Marissa Moss

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:17:04

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Barbed Wire Baseball tells the awe-inspiring tale of Kenichi Zeni Zenimura, who never gave up hope or let go of a dream. As a young boy in Hawaii, Zeni knew that he wanted to be a baseball player, even though most people thought he was too

small to play. As he grew older, his parents suggested other careers for him, like medicine or law. But Zeni kept playing baseball and grew up to be a successful player and manager, eventually playing in games with baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

But after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni, his wife, and their two sons, along with more than 100,000 other American citizens of Japanese descent, were sent to internment camps in the American Midwest and West. They were

imprisoned not for any wrongdoing but simply because of their ancestry.

At the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona, Zeni did not allow his situation to overcome him. Instead, with his sons and friends, he built a baseball field that gave all the imprisoned a sense of pride and hope for the future.

The life of Kenichi Zenimura, who was later named the father of Japanese American baseball, offers an inspiring true story from a little discussed segment of American history.

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ID: 573232

Title: High Spirits

Author: Camille Gomera-Tavarez

Narrator: Coral Pena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:12:11

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, by debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.

It is a book centered on one extended familythe Belénsacross multiple generations.

It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpaand Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too.

It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magicaland the stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity.

But most importantly, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille GomeraTavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new voices to emerge in years.

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ID: 576044

Title: Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Erica Chenoweth

Narrator: Erica Chenoweth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:45:17

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or threatening to harm an opponent. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. It was been a central form of resistance in the 1989 revolutions and in the Arab Spring, and it is now being practiced widely in Trump's America. If we are going to understand the manifold protest movements emerging around the globe, we need a thorough understanding of civil resistance and its many dynamics and manifestations.

In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, Erica Chenoweth-one of the world's leading scholars on the topic-explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance. Featuring both historical cases of civil resistance and more contemporary examples such as the Arab Awakenings and various ongoing movements in the United States, this book provides a comprehensive yet pithy overview of this enormously important subject.

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ID: 566119

Title: Dating While Vegan

Author: Toni Meyer

Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:38:52

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Tessa is left with a broken heart when she finds her fiancé in the arms of another woman. Meeting someone new and just as perfect as her ex isnt easy when youre a card carrying vegan. When he shows back up in her life shes determined

to prove shes moved on quite nicely. Shes desperate and has no choice but to date like an omnivore and worry about the consequences later.

Wes Carter, a sexy, handsome, employee at the local Gourmet Foods, makes her an offer she cant refuse. With him cooking a hearty meat lovers meal for her date, shes sure to find the man of her dreams. Instead of simply cooking and

going away Wes decides to put his hat in the ring. Never mind their sticky obstacle of meat versus veggies. True love has no limits and neither does Wes when it comes to getting what he wants.

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ID: 573246

Title: Black Moses: The Hot-Buttered Life and Soul of Isaac Hayes

Author: Mark Ribowsky

Narrator: Beresford Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:18:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm.

Within the stoned soul picnic of Black music icons in the 60s and 70s, only one could bill himself without a blush as Moses, demanding liberation for Black men with his notions of life and selfIsaac Lee Hayes Jr., the beautifully sheen, shaded, and chain-spangled acolyte of cool, whose high-toned lounge music and proto-rap was souls highest orderheard on twenty-two albums and selling millions of records. Hayess stunning self-portraits, his obsessive pleas about love, sex, and guilt bathed in lush orchestral flights and soul-stirring bass lines, drove other soul men like Barry White to libidinous license. But Hayes, who called himself a renegade, was a man of many parts. While he thrived on soulful remakes of pop standards, his biggest coup was writing and producing the epic soundtrack to Shaft, memorializing the black private dick as a complicated man, as coolly mean and amoral as any white private eye.

This new musical and cultural coda delivered Hayes the first Oscar ever won by a Black musician, as well as the Grammy for Best Song. Yet, few know Hayess remarkable achievements. In this compelling buffet of sight and sound, acclaimed music biographer Mark Ribowskywho has authored illuminating portraits of such luminaries as Stevie Wonder, Little Richard, and Otis Reddinggallops through the many stages of Hayess daring and daunting life, starting with Hayess difficult childhood in which his mother died young and his father abandoned him. Ribowsky then takes readers through Hayess rise at Memphiss legendary soul factory, Stax Records, first as a piano player on Otis Redding sessions then as a songwriter and producer teamed with David Porter. Tuned to the context of soul music history, he created crossover smashes like Sam & Daves Soul Man, Hold on Im Comin, and I Thank You, making soul a semi-religion of Black pride, imagination, and joyful emotion.

Hayess subsequent career as a solo artist featured studio methods and out-of-the-box ideas that paved the way for soul to occupy the top of the album charts alongside white rock albums. But his prime years ended prematurely, both as a consequence of Staxs red ink and his own self-destructive tendencies. In the 90s he claimed he had finally found himself, as a minion of Scientology. But Scientology would cost him the gig that had revived himthe cartoon voice of the naively cool Chef on South Parkafter he became embroiled in controversy when South Parks creators parodied Scientology in an episode that caused the cults leaders to order him to quit the show. Although Hayes was honored by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, the brouhaha came as his seemingly perfect body finally broke down. He died in 2008 at age sixty-eight, too soon for a soul titan. But if only greatness can establish permanence in the cellular structure of music, Isaac Hayes long ago qualified. His influence will last for as long as there is music to be heard. And when we hear him in that music, we will by rote say, We can dig it.

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ID: 546483

Title: Unstable

Author: Alexandra Ivy

Narrator: Hannah Cabell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:56:56

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Romance, Mystery

Summary:

WHEN IT COMES TO KILLING

A dead man in a cemetery isnt newsunless hes found on top of a grave, with a bullet through his head. The body belongs to Jude Henley, who was supposed to be buried below. Instead, the grave contains the remains of Staci Gale, thought to

have run away nearly three decades ago. Then an old VCR tape arrives at the sheriff station, showing Staci before her deathbound and terrifiedwith a note, claiming to be from the killers apprentice

PRACTICE

Rachel Fishers job in cold case files has brought her back to Pike, Wisconsinwhere shell be working alongside her ex-husband, Zac Evans. As Pikes interim sheriff, Zac expected a low-key assignment. Instead, he and Rachel are racing to

solve serial murders from decades past while a new monster goads them with a chilling promise. Every week therell be another old tapeand a fresh victim

MAKES PERFECT

In this small town a killer walkstwisted, ruthless, determined to continue his masters work. And unless Rachel and Zac can find a way to get ahead of him, the nightmare will never end.

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ID: 590312

Title: Reign Supreme

Author: Reese Nicole

Narrator: Lynn Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:15:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-22

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Reign, Serenity, and Myra have the same goal: To make it out of Indianapolis and into the music industry.

Reign, a rapper from the eastside ghetto, will do anything to protect her family, her man, and her goals with everything she is. For her, this isnt just a dream, this is her destiny, and shes willing to take out anybody who gets in the way of that.

Serenity is a singer and, with her best friend Reign, is trying to make it big, but her love life with Kalvin, a very prominent man in the hood, becomes more important than her goals and dreams. If she will do anything for Kalvin, what will she do for fame?

Myra, another rapper with big dreams, has been scamming her whole life, but now, shes scamming for her mothers health. She cant confide in anybody but her partner and her lovers. This is more than rapping, its a chance for a better life not only for her, but for her mother too.

With different struggles and hustles, who will make it out and who will succumb to the pressure?

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