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ID: 777406

Title: Water, Water: Poems

Author: Billy Collins

Narrator: Billy Collins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.

'[Billy] Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions.'—The New York Times

In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it begins in clarity but ends with a whiff of mystery.

In Water, Water, Collins combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight. Common and uncommon events are captured here with equal fascination, be it a cat leaning to drink from a swimming pool, a nurse calling a name in a waiting room, or an astronaut reciting Emily Dickinson from outer space. With his trademark lyrical informality, Collins asks us to slow down and glimpse the elevated in the ordinary, the odd in the familiar. It’s no surprise that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both call Collins one of America’s favorite poets.

The Monet Conundrum

Is every one of these poems

different from the others

he asked himself,

as the rain quieted down,

or are they all the same poem,

haystack after haystack

at different times of day,

different shadows and shades of hay?

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ID: 800977

Title: If I Built a House

Author: Chris Van Dusen

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

The much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning If I Built a Car

In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack dreamed up a whimsical fantasy ride that could do just about anything. Now he's back and ready to build the house of his dreams, complete with a racetrack, flying room, and gigantic slide. Jack's limitless creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors to imagine their own fantastical designs.

Chris Van Dusen marries retro appeal with futuristic style as he, once again, gives listeners a delightfully rhyming text that absolutely begs to be listened to.

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ID: 765680

Title: Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 193546

Author: Jack Kerouac

Narrator: Andrew Eiden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man.

This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack DuluozKerouacs alter egobeginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in small-town New England and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jacks glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. The more he experiences, the more he realizes the limits of his former plans and decides to and return to New York, where he collides with the start of the Beat movementand a riot of drugs, sex, and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouacs final work published before his death in 1969.

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ID: 809333

Title: Worth the Fall

Author: J. Sterling

Narrator: Ehlen Valentine, Ryan Lee Dunlap

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

Thomas OGrady is the unofficial King of Sugar Mountain. Hes always been untouchable; the kind of man you admire from afar, but dont get to be close to. So imagine my surprise when I get offered a job working underneath him at his resort. Its a dream come true until it isnt. Hes grumpy, opinionated and judgemental. I want to tell him exactly where he can shove it, but then I meet his daughter

Nothing matters more to me than my little girl. My world stops and starts with her. Running my familys resort is a job. Being Claras dad is a gift. I wasnt looking for a relationship, but when Brooklyn walked into my office with her firey red hair and matching personality, all bets were off. Ive tried to keep it professional, but that woman pushes every single button Ive got. And hell, I sort of love her for it.

So what am I going to do about it?

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ID: 800981

Title: If I Built a School

Author: Chris Van Dusen

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

In this exuberant companion to If I Built a Car, a boy fantasizes about his dream school--from classroom to cafeteria to library to playground.

My school will amaze you. My school will astound.

By far the most fabulous school to be found!

Perfectly planned and impeccably clean.

On a scale, 1 to 10, it's more like 15!

And learning is fun in a place that's fun, too.

If Jack built a school, there would be hover desks and pop-up textbooks, skydiving wind tunnels and a trampoline basketball court in the gym, a robo-chef to serve lunch in the cafeteria, field trips to Mars, and a whole lot more. The inventive boy who described his ideal car and house in previous books is dreaming even bigger this time.

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ID: 799655

Title: Broke Heart Blues: A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Barton Caplan, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Finlay Stevenson, Fred Berman, Joyce Carol Oates, Linda Jones, Vas Eli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates

IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor.

But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville’s teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town’s soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart’s bedroom—and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville’s rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth.

Over the course of thirty years, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall—and the ultimate call to reckoning— of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing, the novel explores loneliness, and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.

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ID: 761412

Title: Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out

Author: Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Narrator: Jenn Lee

Format: Abridged

Length: 11:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:

From the women who pounded the pavement selling their songs in Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the twentieth century; to the women who broke new ground writing shows during the Great Depression; to the women who penned protest musicals fighting for social justice during the 1970s; to those who are revitalizing the landscape of American musicals today, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out is the first-ever book to tell the story of the over three hundred inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.

Author Jennifer Ashley Tepper offers here the definitive book on the topic, covering prolific and celebrated writers in the theatre canon like Betty Comden and Jeanine Tesori, to women who wrote musicals but gained fame elsewhere like Dolly Parton and Sara Bareilles, to figures youve never heard ofbut definitely should have. Among the gems shared here:

The story of Clara Driscoll, who saved the Alamo, and also wrote a Broadway musical

The first all-female writing team for a musicalin 1924!

The career of Micki Grant who, in 1972, became the first Black woman to write book, music, and lyrics for the musical Dont Bother Me, I Cant Cope, which became a giant hit

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ID: 798094

Title: Steal the Key

Author: Maz Maddox

Narrator: Kirt Graves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A necromancer, an incubus and a vampire walk into a bar . . .

My life's one bad joke after another.

I'm in a race against time to steal a Death Goddess's key before it falls into the wrong hands. There's also a good chance the ruthless family I left behind are hot on my heels—and vying for the very same key that I'm planning to destroy.

Saving the world is tricky enough, but doing it while chronically broke is another thing entirely. I don't have time to worry about paying my rent—even if I am late. Yet again.

And I don't have time for romance, even if my heart has other ideas. Especially when it comes to a beautiful but distant incubus, and a vampire bodyguard I have no business finding attractive . . . Talk about complicated.

But the clock's ticking. Somehow, I've got to steal the key, avoid my family, and figure out my love life before things go to hell in a hand-basket. Oh, and I need to stay alive. Can't forget that.

All I've got are my shaky necromancy powers, an awkward sense of humor in the face of danger, and an empty wallet to assist me. Piece of cake . . . right?

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ID: 763097

Title: Great Library of Tomorrow

Author: Rosalia Aguilar Solace, Steve Aoki

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-24

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

AFTERWORD BY DJ STEVE AOKI

Fueled by the same collaborative heart and boundless imagination that dazzle millions of devoted Tomorrowland followers and festivalgoers every year, The Great Library of Tomorrow is a stunningly original epic fantasy about a band of heroes who must defeat a malevolent enemy bent on destroying the openness, love, and creativity that sustain their many realms.

Helia has served as the Sage of Hope for the Great Library of Tomorrow for centuries. She is one of the chosen few who embody and protect the values of humanity across the numerous realms of Paperworld, which are connected within the Library itself via magical portals controlled by the Book of Wisdom.

But even her hope is tested when she and her partner, Xavier, the Sage of Truth, are attacked while visiting the famous Rose Garden in the realm of Silvyra. Wounded and in shock amid a storm of fire, they are confronted by a deadly figure known to them as the Ash Man. With the Garden destroyed and its dragon protector missing, Xavier sacrifices his life so that Helia can return home to warn the other Sages.

But there she finds the Book of Wisdomalways a guide to the Sageseerily silent. With the Ash Man gaining strength, Helia soon finds herself in a race against time, searching for clues to the origins of their foeand any possible way to defeat him.

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ID: 809048

Title: Eye in the Door

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Simon Russell Beale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

In this haunting second installment of the Regeneration Trilogy, a World War I officer grapples with the complex realities of PTSD, identity, sexuality, and society’s perceptions of mental illness.

 

It is the spring of 1918, and Britain is faced with the possibility of defeat by Germany. A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals. Many are jailed, others lead dangerous double lives, the “the eye in the door” becomes a symbol of the paranoia that threatens to destroy the very fabric of British society.

Central to this novel are such compelling, richly imagined characters as the brilliant and compassionate Dr. William Rivers; his most famous patient, the poet Siegfried Sassoon; and Lieutenant Billy Prior, who plays a central role as a domestic intelligence agent. With compelling, realistic dialogue and a keen eye for the social issues that have gone overlooked in mainstream media, The Eye in the Door is a triumph that equals Regeneration and the third novel in the trilogy, the 1995 Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road, establishing Pat Barker's place in the very forefront of contemporary novelists.

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