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ID: 124410

Title: Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

Author: Rachel Simon

Narrator: Rachel Simon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-13-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Parenting

Summary:

In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved by their story. Now, in an updated edition with fifty pages of new content, Rachel Simon reflects on changes in her life, Beth's life, and the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The highlight is Beth's update, which is in her own words. A new Reader's Guide is also included. Join these two unforgettable sisters on their journey, this time in an even deeper and richer way.

Rachel Simon's sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully. Beth, who has an intellectual disability, spends her days riding the buses in her unnamed Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. One day, Beth asks Rachel to accompany her on the buses for an entire year. This wise, funny, deeply affecting true story is the chronicle of that remarkable time. Rachel, a writer and college teacher whose hyperbusy life camouflaged her emotional isolation, had much to learn in her sister's extraordinary world. Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is 'a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life' (Boston Herald).

Elegantly woven throughout the odyssey are riveting memories of terrifying maternal abandonment, fierce sisterly loyalty, and astonishing forgiveness. Rachel Simon brings to light the almost invisible world of adults with developmental disabilities, finds unlikely heroes in everyday life, and, without sentimentality, portrays Beth as the endearing, feisty, independent person she is. This heartwarming memoir about the unbreakable bond between two very different sisters takes the reader on an inspirational journey at once unique and universal.

Riding the Bus with My Sister was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie starring Rosie O'Donnell and Andie McDowell, and directed by Anjelica Huston.

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ID: 119916

Title: Wild Thing: A Novel

Author: Josh Bazell

Narrator: Robert Petkoff, Stephanie Wolfe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody

Summary:

It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers -- not to mention the occasional lake monster -- are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.

Facing new and old monsters alike, Dr. Brnwa's story continues in this darkly funny and lightning-paced follow up to Josh Bazell's bestselling debut.

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ID: 120677

Title: Pure

Author: Julianna Baggott

Narrator: Casey Holloway, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Julianna Baggott presents her beautifully written, riveting, breakout novel, PURE, the first volume in her new post-apocalypse thriller trilogy.

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .

Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .

There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

 

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ID: 198355

Title: Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life

Author: Ken Blanchard, Mark Miller

Narrator: Chris Patton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:33:00

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

What is the secret to lasting as a leader? In the words of Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller, “Our capacity to grow determines our capacity to lead.” Leadership must be a living process, and life means growth.   In Great Leaders Grow, a woman named Debbie Brewster becomes a mentor to a young man named Blake, as he embarks on his own career. Together, they explore four ways that leaders must keep growing, both on the job and off. Within their story are valuable lessons for anyone who desires both professional success and personal fulfillment.

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ID: 198358

Title: Obedience

Author: Jacqueline Yallop

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The thought of him was irresistible, a mystery. It made her feel beautiful. And, while it lasted, it gave her a glimpse of paradise.A once bustling convent in the south of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced for the first time to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, one of those nuns, Sister Bernard, struggles to reconcile her uncertain faith with the passionate, impulsive actions of her youth. The young Sister Bernard is slow-witted, dreamy, and tormented by the voice of a judgemental God. Only when one of the young Nazi soldiers starts showing her attention is she given a reprieve from God’s voice. Soon she is meeting him in secret and breaking her vow of chastity with disturbing ease. Illicit love leads her into a far worse betrayal, one she fully understands only when it is too late, and a horror that endures in the memories of the villagers in the decades that follow.With an elegant, devastatingly effective style, this story of one woman’s forbidden love, uncertain faith, and guilt-ridden past is told in alternating vignettes, bridging her imminent, present-day reckoning with the complex emotions behind her misdeeds of the past.

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ID: 120811

Title: Why Jesus?: Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality

Author: Ravi Zacharias

Narrator: Ravi Zacharias

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-12

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have combined like a 'perfect storm' to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this 'storm' by discussing the 60s-70s 'Age of Aquarius,' actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors.

Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible.

The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.

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ID: 198359

Title: Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable-to domestic and international decline and unregulated greed.   Speaking from decades of experience, Brzezinski considers the implications of the changing distribution of global power, ponders why America’s global appeal is waning, speculates on the likely geopolitical consequences if America declines by 2025 (will China assume America’s central role in world affairs?), and describes a vision of a resurgent America: responsive to challenges, strategically deliberate, and historically enlightened in its global engagement with the new East.

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ID: 198362

Title: Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea

Author: Morgan Callan Rogers

Narrator: Luci Christian

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-12

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham’s idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she’d been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine: watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father’s lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But with her mother gone, the heart falls out of Florine’s life and she and her father are isolated as they struggle to manage their loss.  Both sustained and challenged by the advice and expectations of her family and neighbors, Florine grows up with her spirit intact. And when her father’s past comes to call, she must accept that life won’t ever be the same while keeping her mother vivid in her memories.  With Fannie Flagg’s humor and Elizabeth Stroud’s sense of place, this debut is an extraordinary snapshot of a bygone America through the eyes of an inspiring girl blazing her own path to womanhood.

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ID: 247675

Title: Ghost Warrior

Author: Lucia St. Clair Robson

Narrator: Kris Faulkner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:00:22

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

For more than a century, Apaches have kept alive the memory of their hero Lozen. This beautiful, valiant warrior and revered shaman fought alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and her own brother, Victorio, holding out against the armies of both the United States and Mexico. Lozen has known since childhood that the spirits have chosen her to defend Apache freedom. As the U.S. Army prepares to move her people to an Arizona reservation, Lozen forsakes marriage and motherhood to fight among the men. Rafe Collins is a young adventurer and a veteran of the Mexican War. On a dangerous journey between El Paso and Santa Fe, he builds an unlikely but enduring rapport with Lozen. Together they must undertake a perilous course that will change their lives and American history forever.

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ID: 247298

Title: Colorado

Author: Gary McCarthy

Narrator: Maynard Villers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:27:13

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-12

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western

Summary:

When the rest of the West was already won...the mountains remained unspoiled and deadly. The men and women who tamed this savage land were tough, lawless and, when necessary, as mean as the traps they carried. They lived by a private code of proud honor and swift justice. Burly, Isaac Beard was the living embodiment of that mountain code. To survive, he fought his way to a safe haven near Spirit Lake in the Colorado upcountry, forged an alliance with the untamed Ute Indians and made a place where generations of Beards resided in safety.

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