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ID: 512527

Title: Get Tusked: The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac's Most Anticipated Album

Author: Hernan Rojas

Narrator: Sheree Wichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:49:56

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Macs epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time. Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didnt get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the bands Grammy-winning sound. Hernan Rojass story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General Pinochets coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved. Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.

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ID: 392351

Title: Noel Killing

Author: M.L. Longworth

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:17:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-19

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, International Mystery

Summary:

Christmastime in the south of France is as beautiful as ever, but when a shady local businessman drops dead in the middle of the festivities, Verlaque and Bonnet must solve the case while keeping the holiday spirit alive.

Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town of Aix-en-Provence, doesn't like Christmas. The decorations appear in the shops far too early, festive tourists swarm the streets, and his beloved Cours Mirabeau is lined with chalets selling what he regards as tacky trinkets. But his wife and partner Marine Bonnet is determined to make this a Christmas they can both enjoy, beginning with the carol sing at the Cathedral Saint Sauveur, a beautiful service in a packed church.

Just as the holiday cheer is in full swing, a man is poisoned, sending the community into a tailspin. The list of suspects, Verlaque and Bonnet quickly discover, almost fills the church itself, from the visiting vendors at the Christmas fair to the victim's unhappy wife and his disgruntled business partner. With the help of an ever-watchful young woman named France, the pair must solve the murder while the spirit of the season attempts to warm Verlaque's stubborn heart.

Contains mature themes.

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ID: 393546

Title: Killing Light

Author: Myke Cole

Narrator: Michi Barall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:49:49

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

The thrilling conclusion to Myke Cole's Sacred Throne trilogy

Heloise and her allies are marching on the Imperial Capital. The villagers, the Kipti, and the Red Lords are united only in their loyalty to Heloise, though dissenting voices are many and they are loud.

The unstable alliance faces internal conflicts and external strife, yet theyre united in their common goal. But when the first of the devils start pouring through a rent in the veil between worlds, Heloise must strike a bargain with an unlikely ally, or doom her people to death and her world to ruin.

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ID: 512597

Title: Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters

Author: Mike Edison

Narrator: Mike Edison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:54:50

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Arts & Entertainment, Art & Music

Summary:

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rushcapturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they livedand a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house. Charlie Watts, the anti-rock staran urbane jazz fan with a dry wit and little taste for the limelightwas witness to the most savage years in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet. With his easy swing and often loping, uneven fills, he found nuance in a music that often had little room for it, and along with his greatest ally, Keith Richards, he gave the Stones their swaggering beat. While others battled their drums, Charlie played his modest kit with finesse and humility, and yet his relentless grooves on the nastiest hard-rock numbers of the era ('Gimme Shelter,' 'Street Fighting Man,' 'Brown Sugar,' 'Jumpin' Jack Flash,' etc.) delivered a dangerous authenticity to a band that on their best nights should have been put in jail. Author Mike Edison, himself a notorious raconteur and accomplished drummer, tells a tale of respect and satisfaction that goes far beyond drums, drumming, and the Rolling Stones, ripping apart the history of rock'n'roll, and celebrating sixty years of cultural upheaval. He tears the sheets off of the myths of music making, shredding the phonies and the frauds, and unifies the frayed edges of disco, punk, blues, country, soul, jazz, and R&Bthe soundtrack of our lives.Highly opinionated, fearless, and often hilarious, Sympathy is as an unexpected treat for music fans and pop culture mavens, as edgy and ribald as the Rolling Stones at their finest, never losing sight of the sex and magic that puts the roll in the rock the beat, that crazy beat!and the man who drove the band, their true engine, the utterly irreplaceable Charlie Watts.

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ID: 396993

Title: Novice Dragoneer

Author: E. E. Knight

Narrator: Nicole Poole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-19

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

In the first book in an exciting new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the Age of Fire series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of dragonriders, but her path won't be as easy or as straightforward as she expected.

Fourteen-year-old Ileth grew up in an orphanage, and thanks to her stutter was never thought to be destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning. But she's dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its female dragoneer. For years she waits, and as soon as she is old enough to join, Ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human-dragon fortress of the Serpentine.

While most of her fellow apprentices are from rich and influential families, Ileth must fight for her place in the world, even if it includes a duel with her boss at the fish-gutting table. She's then sent off to the dragon-dancers after a foolish kiss with a famously named boy and given charge of a sickly old dragon with a mysterious past. But she finds those trials were nothing when she has to take the place of a dead dragoneer and care for his imprisoned dragon in enemy lands . . .

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ID: 393547

Title: To the Land of Long Lost Friends

Author: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrator: Lisette Lecat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:06:48

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance and finds that family relationships are always a tricky propositioneven for Botswana's premier female detective.

Mma Ramotswe has reconnected with an old friend who has been having problems with her daughter. Though Precious feels compelled to lend a hand, she discovers that getting involved in family affairs is always a delicate affair. The young woman appears to be involved with a charismatic preacher. But are his ministrations entirely of a godly nature?

Elsewhere, Charlie is also struggling with a tricky matter of the heart. He wishes to propose to his girlfriend, Queenie-Queenie, but he's struggling to come up with a bride price that will impress her father. When Queenie-Queenie's brother offers to help by giving him a job, the offer may not be quite what Charlie expected.

As always, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni will offer wise counsel, Mma Makutsi will weigh in with her opinions, and Mma Potokwane will be there with her welcome fruit cake. But in the end it will be up to Mma Ramotswe to reflect on love, family, and the nature of men and women in order to resolve family dramas and remind everyone about all the good things they have in lifeso many, in fact, that it would take far too long to count them.

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ID: 359807

Title: Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

Author: Jason Reynolds

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin, Chris Chalk, David Sadzin, Guy Lockard, Heather Alicia Simms, January LaVoy, Jason Reynolds, JD Jackson, Kevin R. Free

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:59:07

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-19

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

UK Carnegie Medal winner

A National Book Award Finalist

Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book

An NPR Favorite Book of 2019

A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019

A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019

A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019

A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019

A School Library Journal Best Middle Grade Book of 2019

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019

“As innovative as it is emotionally arresting.” —Entertainment Weekly

From National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids’ walks home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy—

Talking about boogers.

Stealing pocket change.

Skateboarding.

Wiping out.

Braving up.

Executing complicated handshakes.

Planning an escape.

Making jokes.

Lotioning up.

Finding comfort.

But mostly, too busy walking home.

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

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ID: 453599

Title: Second City Sinners: True Crime from Historic Chicago's Deadly Streets

Author: Jon Seidel

Narrator: Andrew Tell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:45:04

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-19

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime

Summary:

Countless criminals havemade their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities. Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jon Seidel takes readers back in time to the days when H. H. Holmes lurked in his 'Murder Castle' and guys named Al Capone and John Dillinger ruled the underworld.Drawing upon years of reporting, and withspecial access to the ChicagoDaily News and Chicago Sun-Times archives, Jon Seidel explainshow men like Nathan Leopold, Richard Loeb, and Richard Specktried to getaway with historys most disturbing crimes.

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ID: 370263

Title: Harp of Kings

Author: Juliet Marillier

Narrator: Alex Wyndham, Frazer Douglas, Moira Quirk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:31:13

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A young woman is both a bard-and a warrior-in this thrilling historical fantasy from the author of the Sevenwaters novels. Eighteen-year-old Liobhan is a powerful singer and an expert whistle player. Her brother has a voice to melt the hardest heart, and is a rare talent on the harp. But Liobhan's burning ambition is to join the elite warrior band on Swan Island. She and her brother train there to compete for places, and find themselves joining a mission while still candidates. Their unusual blend of skills makes them ideal for this particular job, which requires going undercover as traveling minstrels. For Swan Island trains both warriors and spies. Their mission: to find and retrieve a precious harp, an ancient symbol of kingship, which has gone missing. If the instrument is not played at the upcoming coronation, the candidate will not be accepted and the kingdom will be thrown into disarray. Faced with plotting courtiers and tight-lipped druids, an insightful storyteller, and a boorish Crown Prince, Liobhan soon realizes an Otherworld power may be meddling in the affairs of the kingdom. When ambition clashes with conscience, Liobhan must make a bold decision-and the consequences may break her heart.

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ID: 382524

Title: Vanderbeekers to the Rescue

Author: Karina Yan Glaser

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:13:06

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-19

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

For the Vanderbeekers, a large biracial family living on Harlems 141st Street, spring break couldnt be off to a better start. Isa has a whole week to prepare for a violin audition, Oliver is building an epic treehouse, and Laney, Jessie, and Hyacinth are excited to help their mother get ready

for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to star in a popular lifestyle magazine.

What the Vanderbeekers do not expect to do is single-handedly destroy their mothers baking business. As the kids secretly race against the clock to fix their epic mistake, mysterious packages arrive at their door and threaten to ruin everything.

In a heartwarming family novel full of humor and wisdom, Karina Yan Glaser shows how even when life falls apart there is always a path forward, always a way to show kindness and love.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

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