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ID: 666828

Title: Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

Author: Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Narrator: Kevin R. Free, Natalie Duke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:20

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science

Summary:

*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*

*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*

"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York

An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its dynamic role, from the Jazz Age to Drag Race, in queer liberation and urban life

From the lush feather boas that adorned early female impersonators to the sequined lip syncs of barroom queens to the drag kings that have us laughing in stitches, drag has played a vital role in the creative life of New York City. But the evolution of drag in the city—as an art form, a community and a mode of liberation—has never before been fully chronicled.

Now, for the first time, journalist and drag historian Elyssa Maxx Goodman unearths the dramatic, provocative untold story of drag in New York City in all its glistening glory. Goodman ducks beneath the velvet ropes of Harlem Renaissance balls, examines drag’s crucial role in the Stonewall Uprising, traces drag's influence on disco and punk rock as well as its unifying power during the AIDS crisis and 9/11, and culminates in the era of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Informed by meticulous research and archival work, as well as original interviews with high-profile performers, Glitter and Concrete is a significant contribution to queer history and an essential read for anyone curious about the story that echoes beneath the heels.

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ID: 653615

Title: Name Drop

Author: Susan Lee

Narrator: Greta Jung, Keong Sim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

"Susan Lee always writes the exact book I want to read!" —Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

New from the author of Seoulmates comes a story of mistaken identities, the summer of a lifetime, and a love to risk everything for.

When Elijah Ri arrives in New York City for an internship at his father’s massive tech company, Haneul Corporation, he expects the royal treatment that comes with being the future CEO—even if that’s the last thing he wants. But instead, he finds himself shuffled into a group of overworked, unpaid interns, all sharing a shoebox apartment for the summer.

When Jessica Lee arrives in New York City, she’s eager to make the most of her internship at Haneul Corporation, even if she’s at the bottom of the corporate ladder. But she’s shocked to be introduced as the new executive-in-training intern with a gorgeous brownstone all to herself.

It doesn’t take long for Elijah and Jessica to discover the source of the mistake: they share the same Korean name. But they decide to stay switched—so Elijah can have a relaxing summer away from his controlling dad while Jessica can make the connections she desperately needs for college recommendations.

As Elijah and Jessica work together to keep up the charade, a spark develops between them. Can they avoid discovery—and total disaster—with their feelings and futures on the line?

Praise for Seoulmates

"The perfect childhood friends-to-lovers story—full stop." —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and The Soulmate Equation

"Adorable, heartfelt, and guaranteed to bring a smile to your face!" —Gloria Chao, author of American Panda and Rent a Boyfriend 

"A deliciously swoony romance." —Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author of The Heart Principle

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ID: 653603

Title: Unsleeping Witch

Author: Alexandra Overy

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:44

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Sleeping Beauty is about to wake up.

Maud may be made of gingerbread—plus a spark of magic—but she’s a real witch! Even if she’s still learning, and has a habit of making messes…and might have accidentally unleashed the hundred-year-old Class IV sleeping curse that envelops a princess’s bramble-covered castle. Oops.

Maud has her friends Gretel, Ludo, and Nuss the hazelnut mousse squirrel to help her fix this. But it won’t be easy to find the sleeping princess’s true love, and the curse might end up being the least of their problems…

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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ID: 711325

Title: Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

Author: Mark Beaver

Narrator: Mark Beaver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:23:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. 'We were very wired,' Tucker later testified, 'and we was looking for something to do.' Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two peopleone a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.

Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who'd committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelismPat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among themwere urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver's father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush.

Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America's evangelical community. It's a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It's also a deeply personal reflection on how a father's request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.

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ID: 653613

Title: Bound by Passion

Author: Brenda Jackson

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:10:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Contemporary

Summary:

To control or to be controlled...

Attorney Royce Parker has had the hots for Michelle Kincaid for a couple of years and decides it's time to do something about it. He books a cruise through her travel agency and talks her into joining him as nothing more than a friend. Once together on the high seas, they discover their biggest challenge is fighting the powerful attraction trying to overtake their senses.

Michelle Kincaid has issues. The main one is her domineering attitude that extends to the bedroom. For that reason, she only dates men who will accept her controlling nature. She knows Royce is not a man to let any woman have control over him. For that reason, she avoids him at all cost. When she sees that avoiding him doesn't work, she comes up with a plan to change his way of thinking.

Will she change his way of thinking? Or in the end, will Royce be the one changing hers?

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ID: 653614

Title: Voluptuous Woman Series

Author: Brenda Jackson

Narrator: Ron Butler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:06:31

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Bare Essentials

Voluptuous Orlando judge Dominique Kincaid finds lust at first sight in the form of a handsome morning jogger who fuels her fantasies. But when he steps into her courtroom as a hotshot attorney, she finds it hard to remain the Honorable Judge Kincaid.

As far as Jordan Prescott is concerned, Dominique Kincaid gives the phrase, "Here comes the judge" all-new meaning. She is everything he wants in a woman and is determined to teach her the bare essentials of lust and love, and in a way that she will never forget.

Bound by Passion

Attorney Royce Parker has had the hots for Michelle Kincaid for a couple of years and decides it's time to do something about it. He books a cruise through her travel agency and talks her into joining him as nothing more than a friend. Once together on the high seas, they discover their biggest challenge is fighting the powerful attraction trying to overtake their senses.

Michelle Kincaid has issues. The main one is her domineering attitude that extends to the bedroom. For that reason, she only dates men who will accept her controlling nature. She knows Royce is not a man to let any woman have control over him. For that reason, she avoids him at all cost. When she sees that avoiding him doesn't work, she comes up with a plan to change his way of thinking.

Will she change his way of thinking? Or in the end, will Royce be the one changing hers?

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ID: 737135

Title: Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh

Author: William J. Miller Jr.

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Abridged

Length: 12:31:37

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industriesCarnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouseare names we still know today.

Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his fathers wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood, confirms his choice to be a journalist, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburghs business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburghs business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nations largest industry: steel.

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ID: 813799

Title: Fire at the Exhibition

Author: T E Kinsey

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:21:45

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery, Historical

Summary:

May 1912. After the previous years deadly heatwave, its been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal ladys maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the villages inaugural art exhibitionand bicycle raceto look forward to.

But at the exhibition opening, theres a panicked shout of Fire! In the confusion, the main attractionan extremely expensive bookis stolen from under everyones nose, as is a valuable painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud. Then the race, which starts as a charming day out, ends in a shocking death. And to top it all off, the Farley-Strouds reveal theyre in debt and might lose their house.

The sleuthing duo soon find themselves torn between a murder investigation, an art theft mystery, and trying to help their pals. All with a suspicious figure from Flos past, a supercilious insurance investigator, and a pair of rather bizarre treasure hunters on the loose

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ID: 666826

Title: Herc: A Novel

Author: Phoenicia Rogerson

Narrator: Full Cast , Gary Turner, Jay Lafayette Valentine, Kristin Atherton, Loreece Harrison, Marlowe Chan-Reeves, Maryam Grace, Sebastian Humphreys, Theo Solomon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:26

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Classics

Summary:

A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne.

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures… everyone’s favorite hero, right?

Well, it’s not.

This is the story of everyone else:

- Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere)

- Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)

- Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage)

- Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)

- His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims

It’s time to hear their stories.

Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.

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ID: 669620

Title: Chronicles of the Juice Man: A Memoir

Author: Juicy J, Soren Baker

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:17:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: HarlequinAudio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

A memoir by the Oscar-winning, platinum-selling rapper and producer for fans of Rick Ross’s Hurricanes and The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

The hustle still continues for hip-hop OG Juicy J as he shares his invaluable story as an unwavering force in the music industry. Jordan Houston’s rise to stardom was never easy. He began his journey on the streets of Memphis in the ’80s, always inspired by music and with big dreams of becoming a superstar rapper. Jordan stuck to his plan with determination, on a never-ending grind to greatness. From a young, poor, ambitious kid to an Academy Award–winning and Grammy-nominated recording artist and entrepreneur, the Juice Man offers his wisdom as one of the most influential tastemakers in the game.

A raw, intentional portrait of artistry and a never-before-seen look into the making of a respected musical veteran, Chronicles of the Juice Man is an essential read for creatives everywhere.

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