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ID: 702322

Title: City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

Author: Megan Kimble

Narrator: Megan Kimble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:25:52

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Science & Technology, Social Science, Public Policy, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward

“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History

Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas. In Houston, Dallas, and Austin, residents and activists are fighting against massive, multi-billion-dollar highway expansions that will claim thousands of homes and businesses, entrenching segregation and sprawl.

In City Limits, journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of ordinary people impacted by our failed transportation system. In Austin, hundreds of families will lose child care if a preschool is demolished to expand Interstate 35. In Houston, a young Black woman will lose her brand-new home to a new lane on Interstate 10—just blocks away from where a seventy-four-year-old nurse lost her home in the 1960s when that same highway was built. And in Dallas, an urban planner has improbably found himself at the center of a national conversation about highway removal. What if, instead of building our aging roads wider and higher, we removed those highways altogether? It’s been done before, first in San Francisco and, more recently, in Rochester, where Kimble traces how highway removal has brought new life to a divided city.

With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, City Limits exposes the enormous social and environmental costs wrought by our allegiance to a life of increasing speed and dispersion, and brings to light the people who are fighting for a more sustainable, connected future.

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ID: 697230

Title: Reappearance of Rachel Price

Author: Holly Jackson

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:34:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen’s search for the truth about her mother’s shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary.

Lights. Camera. Lies.   

Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.  

 

But the case is dredged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

 

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And—could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . . 

 

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.

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ID: 727365

Title: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Author: Ethan Mollick

Narrator: Ethan Mollick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:38:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Business Development, Computers, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI

Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. 

In Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill. 

Mollick challenges us to utilize AI's enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.

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ID: 765024

Title: Outside Man

Author: Don Bentley

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:14:57

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller, Action & Adventure, Espionage

Summary:

The fight for freedom has sent Matt Drake to some of the world's most dangerous spots. This time the war is coming to his front door in an electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Target Acquired and Hostile Intent.

Broad daylight on an Austin, Texas, street and DIA operative Matt Drake is fighting for his life against a highly trained team of assassins. Who are they? Why do they want him dead? How will he protect those closest to him?

The answers will take him into some of the most dangerous spots in the Middle East and will put him in the clutches of an old foe known simply as the Devil. It's a world of double crosses, with no boundaries between the guilty and the innocent. It will take all of Drake's wiles to get out alive.

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ID: 718436

Title: First Contact: Eclipsed Evolution: Phase 1

Author: Kim Harrison

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:27:08

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

In the wake of the solar eclipse, a portal between our world and a paranormal realm opens—and a scientist’s life will never be the same, in this thrilling serialized adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hollows.

Dr. Renee Caisson knows there are worse things than an attractive man in uniform drafting her into a secret government project—especially when Major Jackson makes it clear that he isn’t bothered by her questionable past. But when her labs come back with decidedly odd results, the Major is forced to come clean over who the government is actually studying. Renee is shocked to learn her subjects are demonic-looking beings who call themselves “Neighbors”—refugees from a dying world, who arrived during the nation-wide solar eclipse.

The Neighbors’ technology is unlike anything Renee’s ever encountered. At first, she dismisses an injury that inexplicably heals as “just one of those things”. And surely August, the most gregarious Neighbor, begins to speak English overnight because of the team linguist’s skills?

Not until August begins evolving in real time to withstand Earth’s brighter, dryer atmosphere does she admit that the Neighbors’ “tech” feels less like science and more like magic—the same magic that brought them here in the first place, and the same they’re trying to rekindle with a mysterious labyrinth in order to return home and save their world.

At least, that’s what August claims they came for…

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ID: 760958

Title: Hard to Be a God

Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Narrator: Matt Addis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:12:43

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.

It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play?

Hard to Be a God has inspired a computer role-playing game and two movies, including Aleksei German’s long-awaited swan song. Yet until now the only English version (out of print for over thirty years) was based on a German translation, and was full of errors, infelicities, and misunderstandings. This new edition—translated by Olena Bormashenko, whose translation of the authors’ Roadside Picnic has received widespread acclaim, and supplemented with a new foreword by Hari Kunzru and an afterword by Boris Strugatsky, both of which supply much-needed context—reintroduces one of the most profound Soviet-era novels to an eager audience.

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ID: 705093

Title: No Escape

Author: Maren Stoffels

Narrator: Elena Rey, Graham Halstead, Lisa Flanagan, Philip Hernandez, Victoria Villarreal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:03:10

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

Following the success of her unputdownable debut, Escape Room, Maren Stoffels is back with a new standalone horror novel about a twisted game master who has no intention of letting their players go.

“You have been chosen to participate in a new Escape Room. You can bring one person. The one you trust the most. Your very best friend.”

When Lexi receives an invitation to participate in a brand-new escape room, along with her best friend Tess, she’s thrilled. They could both use the distraction after a recent tragedy. 

But once inside, they learn that they must compete against one another.

What do you do when your best friend suddenly becomes your biggest adversary, and every choice you make puts her in danger? How far will you go to win?

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ID: 776036

Title: Black Lamb

Author: Simon Lamb

Narrator: Renee Fay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:02:46

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-24

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music, Education, Travel Tips

Summary:

From child abuse to drug abuse, from dealing with death to dealing in life, join award-winning film maker Simon Lamb on the off the rails rollercoaster ride thats been his story so far. Its a true sex, drugs and rock n roll adventure, as Simon moves on from being sexually abused at school to modelling alongside some of the worlds sexiest women. From there he works the doors of the worlds best known clubs, shamelessly consuming the drugs he confiscates from others, before going on to work security for some of the biggest names in music like Madonna and U2. Things take a turn when Simon is forced to confront his own demons of depression and mental health. But its death he also needs to face up to when his brothers killed in a tragic Swiss Alps skiing accident. This leads he and his mother on a cathartic journey to retrieve the body and its through documenting that story, and the countless tales of others that Simon has brought to the fore through his film making that he finally comes to terms with telling his own trippy tale in its entirety. So dont miss out as this story teller of others finally turns the spotlight on himself, and shares with you his Memoirs of a Black Lamb.

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ID: 770240

Title: It's Not You, It's Me!: A Chronic Overthinker's Guide To Self Reflection

Author: Rosemary Gattuso

Narrator: Rosemary Gattuso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:31:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

In Its Not You, Its Me! Rosemary Gattuso, a seasoned mediator for the Family Court of Australia, unveils a ground-breaking transformative approach that reframes overthinking into a powerful tool for mindful introspection and personal growth.

Drawing on her extensive experience observing individuals navigating conflict and personal challenges, Rosemary presents an evidence-based and trauma-informed approach that empowers readers to harness their strengths and foster their resilient and authentic true self.

Rosemarys unique perspective allows readers to not only understand the patterns of their overthinking but also to use them as stepping stones towards growth and inner strength. The book's easy-to-read style promotes self-guided learning, complemented by self-paced reflection tasks that encourage readers to apply these transformative principles to their own lives.

Throughout the pages of Its Not You, Its Me! readers will find a compassionate guide in Rosemary, who understands the intricacies of managing adversity and personal challenges.

For those seeking a transformative approach to personal growth, Its Not You, Its Me! is a beacon of inspiration. With Rosemary as your guide, learn to turn overthinking into a powerful force that propels you towards a life filled with self-awareness, strength, and purpose. This book is not just a roadmap to overcoming challenges; it's a manual for building a life that reflects the true essence of who you are.

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ID: 674775

Title: Lest We Forgive

Author: Phillipa Nefri Clark

Narrator: John Wood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:38:18

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-24

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

A late night. An icy road. A car wrapped around a tree.

When Detective Liz Moorland stares at the lifeless faces of her ex-colleagues daughter and son-in-law, she knows it is enough to push Vince Carter over the edge.

Vince, a bitter and reclusive retired cop, was once a hero to many. But in his eyes, he has failed those he most loved. Estranged from his daughter before her death, the enormity of his loss is immeasurable.

While Lizs hands are full chasing an escaped criminal, Vincealongside his fight for custody of Melanie, his eight-year-old granddaughter and sole survivor of the wreckpieces together a compelling theory that the crash was no accident.

Vinces theory provides Liz with an unexpected connection to her case and simultaneously raises concerns over Melanies safety and what she saw that fateful night.

Those concerns are justified. One person knows what the little girl saw.

The killer.

Narrated by Aussie TV icon John Wood.

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