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ID: 788092

Title: Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite

Author: Laysha Ward

Narrator: Laysha Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-25

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Psychology

Summary:

A groundbreaking, inspiring, and holistic new approach to leadership from one of the top woman C-suite executives in the nation

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER

We all want a healthy and happy personal life, financial security, and to do meaningful work. We don’t want to lose sight of our values and, in pursuit of financial security and career success, get sucked into a dead-end job. We want a life filled with purpose and to leave behind a meaningful legacy. But how do we do all these things, especially in today’s divisive times?

In Lead Like You Mean It, Laysha Ward draws on her storied career as one of the nation’s top Black female C-suite executives to show readers the answer: leading with meaning.

Leading with meaning entails viewing your life and career as part of the same puzzle, acting from your purpose, making intentional choices, nurturing relationships, and championing and sustaining yourself and others. When you lead with meaning, you are taking a holistic approach that blends your life and career. You are part of something that’s bigger than yourself, staying aligned with your purpose no matter what life throws at you or how your purpose evolves. You are stepping into, rather than shying away from, new relationships, even with people from completely different backgrounds. And you are committing to bettering yourself and being of service to others.

As you learn to focus on self-care and total well-being, navigate the highs and lows of life and career, and shape a legacy that leaves people and things better off than you found them, you’ll discover that leading with meaning—at any age—is the key to a well-lived life.

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ID: 788099

Title: Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays

Author: Edgar Gomez

Narrator: Edgar Gomez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-25

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual

“Edgar Gomez is a young writer of deep talent and enormous grace. Alligator Tears speaks for the lost tribes of “other,” those who serve our food, do our taxes, and mind our children. They walk the earth among us, invisible, without a voice. I am so glad that Gomez has given them one.” —James McBride, New York Times bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

In Florida, one of the first things you’re taught as a child is that if you’re ever chased by a wild alligator, the only way to save yourself is to run away in zigzags. It’s a lesson on survival that has guided much of Edgar Gomez’s life.

Like the night his mother had a stroke while he and his brother stood frozen at the foot of her bed, afraid she’d be angry if they called for an ambulance they couldn’t afford. Gomez escaped into his mind, where he could tell himself nothing was wrong with his family. Zig. Or years later, as a broke college student, he got on his knees to put sandals on tourists’ smelly, swollen feet for minimum wage at the Flip Flop Shop. After clocking out, his crew of working-class, queer, Latinx friends changed out of their uniforms in the passenger seats of each other’s cars, speeding toward the relief they found at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Zag. From committing a little bankruptcy fraud for the money for veneers to those days he paid his phone bill by giving massages to closeted men on vacation, back when he and his friends would Venmo each other the same emergency twenty dollars over and over. Zig. Zag. Gomez survived this way as long as his legs would carry him.

Alligator Tears is a fiercely defiant memoir-in-essays charting Gomez’s quest to claw his family out of poverty by any means necessary and exposing the archetype of the humble poor person for what it is: a scam that insists we remain quiet and servile while we wait for a prize that will always be out of reach. For those chasing the American Dream and those jaded by it, Gomez’s unforgettable story is a testament to finding love, purpose, and community on your own terms, smiling with all your fake teeth.

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ID: 789734

Title: Dead Happy

Author: Josh Silver

Narrator: Huw Parmenter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-25

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Tough Topics

Summary:

The experiment continues in the dark and disturbingly thrilling conclusion to the HappyHead duology where Seb will find the secret to escaping is more heart-wrenching than he ever imagined.

 

Seb was sure surviving the experimental health center of HappyHead would be enough to send him home. But now he joins the top ten contestants in the next stage of the testing, which will take place on a remote island, under the watchful eye of a mysterious couple. 

 

Unsure if Finn is dead or alive, Seb reluctantly teams up with Eleanor again as the pair are forced to compete in a series of ever stranger trials to prove their connection and get their lives back. But Seb can’t stop thinking about Finn and how he may have been too much of a threat to the program.  

 

Determined to find him, Seb’s search uncovers an even darker reality…and the only way to escape the island will be to expose the sinister truth behind HappyHead once and for all. 

 

 

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ID: 788083

Title: Memorial Days: A Memoir

Author: Geraldine Brooks

Narrator: Geraldine Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-25

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Women

Summary:

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz – just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy – collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha’s Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.

Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony’s death.

A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

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ID: 792986

Title: Red Clay

Author: Charles B. Fancher

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Black Literature

Summary:

An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.

In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slaveon the morning following his funeralhis family hardly knows what to expect after she utters the words a lifetime ago, my family owned yours. Adelaide Parker has a story to tellone of ambition, betrayal, violence, and redemptionthat shaped both the fate of her family and that of the late Felix H. Parker.

But there are gaps in her knowledge, and shes come to Red Clay seeking answers from a family with whom she shares a name and a history that neither knows in full. In an epic saga that takes us from Red Clay to Paris, to the Côte dAzur and New Orleans, human frailties are pushed to their limits as secrets are exposed and the line between good and evil becomes ever more difficult to discern. Red Clay is a tale that deftly lays bare the ugliness of slavery, the uncertainty of the final months of the Civil War, the optimism of Reconstruction, and the pain and frustration of Jim Crow.

With a vivid sense of place and a cast of memorable characters, Charles B. Fancher draws upon his own family history to weave a riveting tale of triumph over adversity, set against a backdrop of societal change and racial animus that reverberates in contemporary America. Through seasons of joy and unspeakable pain, Fancher delivers rich moments as allies become enemies, and enemiesto their great surprisefind new respect for each other.

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ID: 812512

Title: Ghosts and Goblins and Murder

Author: Patti Larsen

Narrator: Holly Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-25

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery, Paranormal

Summary:

A Séance kind of evening

It was almost as if someone wrapped the room in a cold hand, chill in the air triggering goosebumps on my skin. I caught motion in the corner of my eye, turned in time to see a glowing, ghostly figure float through the pocket door and come to a halt at the far end of the table. This time, rather than a static image, the young man raised both arms, eyes black pits of emptiness, mouth gaping open as he reached for Emelia. Who screamed and reached back. 'Manuel!'

I'd be nominating Sadie for an Oscar for this performance. Right after my terror at this new and utterly believable trick allowed me to breathe.

When the psychic leading the seance she's attending ends up dead, Fee can't help but feel like her bad luck yet again put her in the wrong place at the wrong time. With Sheriff Crew Turner ordering her to stay out of it or else, her father, retired from the force or not, egging her on and a string of murders begging to be solved, she can either go home and be a good B&B owner or find out whodunit!

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ID: 783494

Title: Going Home: A Novel

Author: Tom Lamont

Narrator: Jot Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-25

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss

Téo Erskine, now in his thirties, has moved on from childish things: He has a good job, a slick apartment in London, and when he heads back to the suburbs on the occasional weekend to visit his old friends, he makes sure everyone knows he can afford to pick up the tab. So what if he asks a few too many questions about Lia, the girl of their group, wondering if she will come out, if she’s seeing anyone, if she might give him another shot? Téo is hazily aware that something possibly happened between Lia and Ben Mossam, Téo’s closest friend and his greatest annoyance, but he can’t bring himself to ask. Lia, meanwhile, has no time to indulge their rivalry. She’s now the single mother of a toddler son, a kid named Joel that Téo occasionally (and halfheartedly) offers to babysit.

Téo is home for one such weekend when the unthinkable happens—a tragedy in the heart of their group—and he suddenly finds himself the unlikely guardian for little Joel. Together with his father, Vic, Ben Mossam, and Sybil, Lia’s beguiling rabbi, they bide time until they can find a proper home for Joel, teaching him to play video games, plying him with chicken nuggets and waffles, and learning to sing him lullabies at night. But when a juvenile mistake leads to a terrible betrayal, Téo must decide what kind of man he wants to be. Wise, relatable, and blissfully laugh-out-loud funny, Going Home is a captivating first novel that explores the mysterious ways children can force us to grow up fast while simultaneously keeping us young forever.

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ID: 783764

Title: Operation Sisterhood: Stealing the Show!

Author: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Narrator: Kristen Ariza

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-25

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

The Operation Sisterhood series continues as the four sisters decide to put on a community musical! The creative sister Sunday is the director and writer, but she has lost her spark. Can she find her shine again before everyone calls it quits?

'This ode to Black girlhood and the communities that serve them offers humor, tenderness, and charm.' –Renée Watson, New York Times bestselling author

Sisters Sunday, Bo, Lee, and Lil are four sisters from a patchwork family. Bonded by their love of music, these sisters formed a musical babysitting band business Operation Sisterhood that just planned the best garden wedding party their Harlem community has seen. 

Imaginative Sunday impulsively announces her next big community project—staging an original musical—everybody’s counting on her, especially her sisters, Bo and the Twins, Lil and Lee. Then, disaster: Sunday has lost her creative mojo just when she most want to impress her new neighbor, TV star Talitha Thomas. Soon there will be more drama offstage than on!

Can Bo and the Twins use what they learn about New York City communities past and present and their band babysitting business to help Sunday find her shine and her love of storytelling again? It’s Operation Sisterhood to the rescue!

Award-winning author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich delivers a heartwarming sequel to Operation Sisterhood. Includes a New York City map to follow along on the sisters' journey!

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ID: 803956

Title: Chaos Theory, Volume Two: The Junior Novelization

Author: Steve Behling

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-25

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Get ready for more dinosaur adventures in this second Junior Novelization based on the exciting new Jurassic World animated series Chaos Theory!

Get ready for more dinosaur adventures in this second Junior Novelization based on the exciting new Jurassic World animated series Chaos Theory!

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ID: 811888

Title: Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

Author: James C. Scott

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance.Natalie Zemon Davis

Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deceptionthe powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed.

In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stagewhat he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects.

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