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ID: 704930

Title: Happiness According to Humphrey

Author: Betty G. Birney

Narrator: Mark Sanderlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:02:02

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Everyone's favorite classroom pet is unsqueakably thrilled to be in a NEW-NEW-NEW novel to celebrate the Humphrey series’ 20th anniversary!

Humphrey is unsqueakably excited—a special guest is coming to Room 26! But when he sees who it is, he’s SHOCKED-SHOCKED-SHOCKED. The guest is a big dog! And Mrs. Brisbane doesn’t seem worried at all!

Luckily, this dog is very gentle. His name is Happy, and he’s come to help Humphrey’s classmates with their reading. Then they hear about more dogs—a friendly one who can do tricks and sing, and a beloved pet who has gone missing. Of course everyone wants to help find her.

Good thing Humphrey is so good at helping kids solve their problems. And he pawsitively loves to solve a mystery—even one involving a dog!

With a fresh voice and an engaging hamster’s-eye view of school, families, and treats to hide in a cheek pouch, Betty G. Birney’s Humphrey will elicit laughter and a new appreciation for classroom hamsters everywhere.

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ID: 702311

Title: My First Book

Author: Honor Levy

Narrator: Honor Levy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:02:05

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub

“We count on our best young fiction writers to bring us news from the digital nervous system. Honor Levy . . . does so with special bite and élan.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare

Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy’s uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z. Never far from a digital interface, her characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched society on the brink of collapse.

Inventive, ambitious, and frequently surreal, the stories of My First Book are a mirrorball onto the world as it is. Levy illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked, and completely sincere. One protagonist accompanies a girl with too many teeth through an abortion, while another discovers the infinite nature of love, a third reminisces about other sunsets that were “pinker, like way pinker,” and another encounters God in a downtown arcade.  To find and keep faith is the order of the day—but how?

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ID: 768823

Title: United States Constitution Simplified

Author: Timothy Harper

Narrator: Robert G. Slade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:37:13

Language: English

Release date: 05-14-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: American Politics, Global Politics

Summary:

One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the US Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. But how many of us know its history and the impact it has on guiding our ever-evolving nation?

This book provides you with a clear look at the one single document that defines America, including the birth of the Constitution and the history and details of its amendments.

This revision will also include recent court rulings related to the Constitution and how those decisions have ramifications for everyday Americans. If you've never fully read the Constitution before, this guide will give you an opportunity to learn about the greatest document in US history.

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ID: 784561

Title: Enticed by the Enemy

Author: Leighton Greene

Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A mafia Underboss. A federal agent. A forbidden affair that could destroy them both.

Special Agent Baxter Flynn's master's thesis on the Morelli Family Underboss was supposed to be the start of a promising career. Instead, his fixation on the mysterious Angelo Messina is starting to blur the lines between attraction and obsession.

After a series of slayings in Central Park are blamed on the Morelli Family, Bax is determined to uncover the truth behind the notorious mobster's legendary reputation. But a tense late-night encounter in the Park turns into an assassination attempt on oneor maybe bothof them.

Forced into an uneasy alliance against a twisted killer with a deadly agenda, Bax and Angelo are drawn to each other despite everythingtheir age gap, their conflicting morals, and the fact that they're supposed to be enemies.

But with corrupt cops, old vendettas, and their own inner demons to conquer, will the path to a happily ever after be paved with blood?

***

Enticed by the Enemy is a M/M mafia romance set in the world of the Morelli Crime Family. It can be enjoyed as a standalone, but it's even more fun to experience the series in order. Characters and events from previous books are referenced.

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ID: 707071

Title: It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

Author: Lisa-Jo Baker

Narrator: Lisa-Jo Baker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:04:56

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Religious & Inspirational, Women

Summary:

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended

“Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review

“Important. Riveting. Unforgettable . . . a profoundly captivating story that can profoundly change your own story.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of WayMaker

Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children—a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America’s own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past.

Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family’s and a nation’s pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward—to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—we must first go back.

With a story that stretches from South Africa’s outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they’re too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker’s story shows that it’s never too late to be free.

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ID: 707088

Title: Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Author: Lucy Jones

Narrator: Lucy Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:48:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Parenting

Summary:

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR

'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer

'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.

There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such dramatic change-other than adolescence. And yet this life-altering transition has been sorely neglected by science, medicine and philosophy. Its seismic effects go largely unrepresented across literature and the arts. Speaking about motherhood as anything other than a pastel-hued dream remains, for the most part, taboo.

In this ground-breaking, deeply personal investigation, acclaimed journalist and author Lucy Jones brings to light the emerging concept of 'matrescence'. Drawing on new research across various fields - neuroscience and evolutionary biology; psychoanalysis and existential therapy; sociology, economics and ecology - Jones shows how the changes in the maternal mind, brain and body are far more profound, wild and enduring than we have been led to believe. She reveals the dangerous consequences of our neglect of the maternal experience and interrogates the patriarchal and capitalist systems that have created the untenable situation mothers face today.

Here is an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood, which seeks to unshackle all parents from oppressive social norms. As it deepens our understanding of matrescence, it raises vital questions about motherhood and femininity; interdependence and individual identity; as well as about our relationships with each other and the living world.

Cover image: Pregnant Woman, 2008, by Louise Bourgeois © 2024 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Cristopher Burke

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ID: 710482

Title: Diary of a Dying Girl: Adapted from Salt in My Soul

Author: Mallory Smith

Narrator: Mara Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:08:53

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:

This collection of one girl's real, unflinching diary entries about slowly dying of a terminal illness is an unparalleled exploration of the human spirit and what it means to truly live.

Many of the feelings I write about are too difficult to share while I'm alive, so I'm keeping everything in my journal password-protected until the end.

Mallory Smith was no ordinary girl, and this is no ordinary story. At age three, Mallory was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis--a disease that attacks the internal organs and would eventually kill her.

    Despite living on borrowed time, Mallory pursued her passions: volleyball; writing; the environment; her boyfriend, family, and friends. Most importantly, every day she chose to embody the mantra 'live happy.'

    Mallory also had her struggles--everything from love and sex to living with illness and just being a human on this planet. And she chronicled every bit of it, writing thousands of diary entries before her death in her twenties.

    This is the poignant, true story of a young woman who refused to be defined by chronic illness. Her light and her life are shared here in her own words to encourage everyone to live life to the fullest, as she did, even as she was dying.

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ID: 707067

Title: Cinema Love: A Novel

Author: Jiaming Tang

Narrator: Samantha Tan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:39:18

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Asian American Literature, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick

“Exceptional, moving, and not to be missed.”—Alice Hoffman

“Gentle and fierce, heartbreaking without sacrificing its sense of humor . . . I have never read anything like it.”—Robert Jones, Jr.

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.

For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love.

 

While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found intimacy in the screening rooms. In the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men, guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist. But when Old Second’s passion for his male lover is revealed, a series of haunting events unfold, propelling these characters toward an uncertain future in America.

 

Spanning three timelines—post-socialist China, 1980s Chinatown, and contemporary New York—Cinema Love is an “exceptional' and 'moving” (Alice Hoffman) epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships; the weight of secrets; and the way memory forever haunts the present.

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ID: 710468

Title: Born Naughty: My Childhood in China

Author: Jin Wang, Tony Johnston

Narrator: Jin Wang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:59:21

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Health & Family

Summary:

Share in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming memoir for young middle grade listeners.

Growing up in Inner Mongolia, Jin Wang was rambunctious and boisterous and did not always listen to her Ma. Jin and her family were poor, but like kids everywhere, she still found a way to have fun and get into lots of mischief climbing trees, digging for mushrooms, and even looking for wolves.

This early middle grade memoir invites listeners to join Jin and her family in the outskirts of Inner Mongolia to remind us that though we all have different customs and traditions, we are more alike than not, and that mischief lives within all of us.

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ID: 703204

Title: Witches of Brooklyn: S'More Magic

Author: Sophie Escabasse

Narrator: Amin El Gamal, Blaire Chandler, Ej Lavery, Emana Rachelle, Erin Bennett, Ian James Corlett, Jade Wheeler, Jeff Ebner, Mirai , Sara Matsui-Colby, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Sean Patrick Hopkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:35:29

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Comics & Graphic Novels

Summary:

You can take a witch out of Brooklyn . . . and put her in the woods? As if learning magic wasn’t hard enough, now Effie has to go to SUMMER CAMP! The hit middle-grade graphic novel series, adapted for audio, continues with this new adventure that's filled to the brim with magic and mayhem!

School’s out, and Effie is ready for SUMMER! Too bad she’s being sent off to the wilderness for boring old summer camp. Nothing says “exciting new adventure” like being stuck in nature with mosquitoes. Sure, other witches might be there. And maybe she’ll learn some cool new magic.

But Effie would rather spend time with the friends she already has. She’s always relied on them for help. . . . What will happen when she heads off to camp all by herself?

Sophie Escabasse brings us more magic in this new volume of Witches of Brooklyn!

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