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ID: 697173

Title: American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

Author: Steven Kurutz

Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:24:43

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” —Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)

“American Flannel is a wonderful book--surprising, entertaining, vivid and personal, but also enlightening on the largest questions of America's economic and social future.” —James Fallows, co-author of Our Towns

 

The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States.

 

For decades, clothing manufacture was a pillar of U.S. industry. But beginning in the 1980s, Americans went from wearing 70 percent domestic-made apparel to almost none. Even the very symbol of American freedom and style—blue jeans—got outsourced. With offshoring, the nation lost not only millions of jobs but also crucial expertise and artistry.

 

Dismayed by shoddy imported “fast fashion”—and unable to stop dreaming of re-creating a favorite shirt from his youth—Bayard Winthrop set out to build a new company, American Giant, that would swim against this trend. New York Times reporter Steven Kurutz, in turn, began to follow Winthrop’s journey. He discovered other trailblazers as well, from the “Sock Queen of Alabama” to a pair of father-son shoemakers and a men’s style blogger who almost single-handedly drove a campaign to make “Made in the USA” cool. Eye-opening and inspiring, American Flannel is the story of how a band of visionaries and makers are building a new supply chain on the skeleton of the old and wedding old-fashioned craftsmanship to cutting-edge technology and design to revive an essential American dream.

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ID: 719952

Title: My Block Looks Like

Author: Janelle Harper

Narrator: Jasminne Mendez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:05:33

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family

Summary:

A love letter to the hustle, the bustle, the joy, and the grit of city life by debut author and Bronx native, Janelle Harper.

'My block looks like

a collision of cultures

a melting pot of cool

a burst of life

my favorite groove

. . .No matter what happens

I’ve seen it for myself

my block looks like

the coolest place

I’ve ever been.'

A lyrical and proud picture book, adapted for audio, that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance. Perfect for fans of I Am Every Good Thing and Last Stop on Market Street, My Block Looks Like offers kids a reaffirming message to celebrate and uplift their communities in an energetic text that begs to be read aloud.

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ID: 697189

Title: Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience

Author: Marc D. Hauser

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:35

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Marriage & Family, Psychology

Summary:

A new, hopeful pathway to understanding children’s trauma and providing effective interventions to build healthier communities

Each year at least a billion children around the world are victims of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that range from physical abuse to racial discrimination to neglect and food deprivation. The brain plasticity of our most vulnerable makes the adverse effects of trauma only that much more damaging to mental and physical development. Those dealt a hand of ACEs are more likely to drop out of school, have a shorter life, abuse substances, and suffer from myriad mental health and behavioral issues.

    The crucial question is: How do we intervene to offer these children a more hopeful future? Neurobiologist and educator Dr. Marc Hauser provides a novel, research-based framework to understand a child’s unique response to ACEs that goes beyond our current understanding and is centered around the five Ts—the timing during development when the trauma began, its type, tenure, toxicity, and how much turbulence it has caused in a child’s life. Using this lens, adults can start to help children build resilience and recover—and even benefit—from their adversity through targeted community and school interventions, emotional regulation tools, as well as a new frontier of therapies focused on direct brain stimulation, including neurofeedback and psychedelics.

    While human suffering experienced by children is the most devastating, it also presents the most promise for recovery; the plasticity of young people’s brains makes them vulnerable, but it also makes them apt to take back the joy, wonder, innocence, and curiosity of childhood when given the right support. Vulnerable Minds is a call to action for parents, policymakers, educators, and doctors to reclaim what’s been lost and commit ourselves to our collective responsibility to all children.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of charts and graphs from the book

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ID: 730860

Title: Save Me from the Waves: An adventure from sea to summit

Author: Jessica Hepburn

Narrator: Jessica Hepburn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:25:51

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, General

Summary:

Includes BBC RADIO 4 DESERT ISLAND DISCS clips by Maya Angelou, Emma Thompson, Edmund Hillary and many more

'A breathtaking adventure of a truly inspirational woman' – Maxine Peake

An adventure story – with a difference. From sea to summit. Fully soundtracked.

Jessica Hepburn is an unlikely athlete – she was labelled the ‘arty’ not the ‘sporty’ one in school. She hates exercise and believes the only reason to do it is for food, booze and box-sets on the sofa.

However, in her forties, following a succession of hard and sad life experiences she started to try and exercise her way out of heartbreak. She has now become one of the world’s most extraordinary endurance athletes. The first and only woman (currently) on the planet to have completed the ‘Sea, Street, Summit Challenge’ – which is to swim the English Channel, run the London Marathon and climb Mount Everest (which she calls Chomolungma – the mountain’s original Sherpa name). And possibly the only woman (although this can’t be officially certified) to have listened to eighty years and over 3,000 episodes of her favourite radio programme – Desert Island Discs.

Save Me from the Waves is an inspirational story of physical and mental endurance which starts on the streets of London and culminates on top of the world, fuelled by song. It explores the redemptive power of music and mountains. How family and friends can be lost and found in the most unusual places. And encourages everyone to live big and bravely when life doesn’t go to plan. Because sometimes we all need saving from the waves. And whether it’s high and far away or closer to home and in your head, an adventure will always change your life for the better.

Features the voices of Marlene Dietrich, Emma Thompson, Maya Angelou, Rob Brydon, Stephen King, Tim Robbins…. and many more from Desert Island Discs.

 

Features audio clips from Desert Island Discs castaways, including:

 

Jimmy Carr

Clive James

Kelly Holmes

Paul Weller

Kay Mellor

Peter Bull

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Emma Thompson

James Blades

Alan Plater

Alfred Wainwright

Jo Brand

Rob Brydon

Gillian Clarke

Lemn Sissay

Tim Minchin

Anne-Marie Du 

Christina Dodwell

Marlene Dietrich

Liz Lochhead

Jilly Cooper

Bill Morris

Tim Robbins

Robert Macfarlane

Sue Townsend

Jill Balcon

Stephen King

Alice Walker

Kelsey Grammer

Mervyn King

Betty Driver

Wangari Maathai

Edna Adan Ismail

Ali Smith

Stella McCartney

Penelope Wilton

Simon Reeve

Alicia Markova

Edmund Hillary

Winnie Byanyima

Dave Brubeck

Alan Titchmarsh

Isabella Tree

David Nott

Richard Doll

Ruth Westheimer

Ruth Jones

Marisa Robles

Winston Graham

David Mitchell

Ruthie Henshall

Sonita Alleyne

Louis Armstrong

Conrad Anker

Akram Khan

A. H. Halsey

Amanda Khozi Mukwashi

Helen Fielding

Rose Hudson-Wilkin

Nick Webbon

Sheryl Sandberg

Joe Simpson

Maya Angelou

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ID: 702316

Title: Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel

Author: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrator: Dorje Swallow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:10:30

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

'A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations.' – The New York Times

“A metatextual masterpiece.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or Borges…A dizzying, dazzling romp.” —Kirkus Reviews

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague

In Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.

For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it’s being read and who’s doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie’s past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends’ different accounts of the past reach a new level.

An adventurous, kaleidoscopic novel, Parasol Against the Axe considers the lines between illusion and delusion, fact and interpretation, and weighs the risks of attaching too firmly to the stories of a place, or a person, or a shared history. How much is a tale influenced by its reader, or vice versa? And finally, in a battle between friends, is it better to be the parasol or the axe?

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ID: 734236

Title: Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls - And How We Can Take it Back

Author: Kara Alaimo

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Social Science, Computers

Summary:

This essential audiobook is a rallying cry for women to recognize and reject the ways social media is being weaponized against us — and instead wield it to empower ourselves.

In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls—from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is an audiobook about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought—whether you’re constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you’re likely to get fewer followers if you’re a woman. She explains how fake news is crafted to prey on women’s vulnerabilities. She reveals why so much of the content we find in our feeds is specifically designed to hold us back. And she explains how social media has made the offline world an uglier place for women.

But we can change this. Alaimo offers up brilliant advice for how to get over the influence—how to handle our daughters’ use of social media, use dating apps to find the partners we’re looking for, use social networks to bolster our careers, and protect ourselves from sextortionists, catfishers, and trolls. She also explains what we need to demand from lawmakers and tech companies.

Over the Influence calls on women to recognize and call out the subtle (and not-so-subtle) sexism and misogyny we find online, reject misinformation that is targeted to us because of our gender, and use our platforms to empower ourselves and other women.

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ID: 758848

Title: Dinosaur Club: Avoiding the Allosaurus

Author: Rex Stone

Narrator: Matthew Jacobs Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:34:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Travel through time to the world of the dinosaurs in this exciting prehistoric fiction series for children.

Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils. Jamie is a member of the Dinosaur Club-a network of kids around the world who love all things prehistoric. Jamie takes his tablet everywhere just in case he needs to contact the Club.

Jamie is exploring Ammonite Bay when he meets Tess, a member of Dinosaur Club who lives in Ammonite Bay, too. Tess shows Jamie her favorite place-a secret cave with fossils all over the walls. They go through a tunnel at the back and discover some dinosaur footprints. When they walk along them, the two new friends find themselves back in the time of the dinosaurs! It's amazing, but dangerous, too-they'll need help from Dinosaur Club...

In this fun, action-packed adventure, Jamie, and Tess head to the Jurassic period to try to discover a new dinosaur that nobody has ever seen before, but their plans change when they run into a dangerous Allosaurus! (AL-oh-SORE-us)

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ID: 758849

Title: Dinosaur Club: Catching the Velociraptor

Author: Rex Stone

Narrator: Matthew Jacobs Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:33:58

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Travel through time to the world of the dinosaurs in this exciting prehistoric fiction series for children.

Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils. Jamie is a member of the Dinosaur Club - a network of kids around the world who share dinosaur knowledge, help identify fossils, post dino discoveries, and chat about all things prehistoric. Jamie takes his tablet everywhere, just in case he needs to contact the Club.

Jamie is exploring Ammonite Bay when he meets Tess. Tess is a member of Dinosaur Club who lives in Ammonite Bay too. She shows Jamie around, including her favourite place - a secret cave with fossils all over the walls. But what's that strange tunnel at the back? Together they go through the tunnel and they discover some dinosaur footprints. Jamie and Tess walk along them...and the two new friends find themselves back in the time of the dinosaurs! It's amazing, but dangerous too - and they'll definitely need help from the Dinosaur Club...

In this adventure, Jamie and Tess encounter a herd of Triceratops and hitch a ride on the dinosaur's backs. But something goes wrong and the Triceratops begin to charge! Can Jamie and Tess hang on?

 

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ID: 723128

Title: Swift and Saddled: A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel

Author: Lyla Sage

Narrator: Teddy Hamilton, Vanessa Edwin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:21:12

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Historical Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway.

From the author of the BookTok sensation Done and Dusted comes the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance featuring opposites attract and forced proximity.

“Tender, relatable, and brimming with delicious tension.”—USA Today bestselling author Elsie Silver

The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her. Not anymore. After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage, Ada clawed her way up from her rock bottom. Now, the only person she trusts is herself, and that has gotten her further than ever before. She has her own business, and one of the largest ranches in Wyoming just hired her for the most important project of her career.

When Ada arrives in Meadowlark, she finds herself in a dive bar where she can’t seem to shake the eyes of a handsome cowboy. When she leads him to the back of the bar, he leaves her with a kiss that most people can only fantasize about. She almost regrets that she’ll never see him again . . . except it turns out he’s her new boss.

Weston Ryder is a happy guy. Even happier now that the mystery woman from the bar is the interior designer for his dream project on his family’s ranch. He feels like he hit the jackpot. It’s too bad she wants absolutely nothing to do with him outside of work. Ada is convinced the pull she feels toward Wes will go away, but Wes can’t stop thinking about her. Even though walls are coming down around Rebel Blue, Ada’s walls are firmly in place.

Can they make it through this project without giving in? Or will they both put their dreams on the line for a chance at love?

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ID: 758844

Title: Dinosaur Club: Saving the Stegosaurus

Author: Rex Stone

Narrator: Matthew Jacobs Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:34:46

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Travel through time to the world of the dinosaurs in this exciting prehistoric fiction series for children.

Jamie has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famed for its fossils. Jamie is a member of the Dinosaur Club - a network of kids around the world who share dinosaur knowledge. They help each other identify fossils, post new dino discoveries, and chat about all things prehistoric. Jamie takes his tablet everywhere, just in case he needs to contact the Club.

Jamie is exploring Ammonite Bay when he meets Tess. Tess is a member of Dinosaur Club who lives in Ammonite Bay too. She shows Jamie around, including her favourite place - a secret cave with fossils all over the walls. But what's that strange tunnel at the back? Together they go through the tunnel and they discover some dinosaur footprints. Jamie and Tess walk along them...and the two new friends find themselves back in the time of the dinosaurs! It's amazing, but dangerous too - and they'll definitely need help from the Dinosaur Club...

In this adventure, Jamie and Tess find themselves caught in a terrible storm. During the chaos, a stegosaurus egg is swept away downriver. It's up to Jamie and Tess to recover the egg and return it to its mother before it's too late.

 

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