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ID: 681470

Title: Black Boys Like Me: On Race, Identity, and Belonging

Author: Matthew R. Morris

Narrator: Matthew R. Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:33:47

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Advocacy

Summary:

*INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

*LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD*

“Black Boys Like Me ignited parts of me I honestly didn't believe any book could ever know. . . . Seldom do incredibly titled books earn their titles. Matthew R. Morris earns this classic title with a classic book about our insides.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

Startlingly honest, bracing personal essays from a perceptive educator that bring us into the world of Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and learning.

This is an examination of the parts that construct my Black character; from how public schooling shapes our ideas about ourselves to how hip-hop and sports are simultaneously the conduit for both Black abundance and Black boundaries. This book is a meditation on the influences that have shaped Black boys like me.

What does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother, teaching in a school system that historically has held an exclusionary definition of success?

In eight illuminating essays, Matthew R. Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and perception. After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective.

Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him—his parents, coaches, and teachers—received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self.

With the wide-reaching scope of Desmond Cole’s The Skin We’re In and the introspective snapshot of life in Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Boys Like Me is an unflinching debut that invites readers to create braver spaces and engage in crucial conversations around race and belonging.

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ID: 703162

Title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Author: Blaine Harden

Narrator: Blaine Harden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:44:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Asia, Social Science, History & Culture

Summary:

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did.

In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.

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ID: 730878

Title: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

Author: Anton Chekhov

Narrator: Jim Frangione

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:41:14

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

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

Summary:

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life.

 

Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as “The Huntsman” and the tour de force “A Boring Story,” to his best-known stories such as “The Lady with the Little Dog” and his own personal favorite, “The Student,” Chekhov’s short fiction possesses the transcendent power of art to awe and change the reader. This monumental edition, expertly translated, is especially faithful to the meaning of Chekhov’s prose and the unique rhythms of his writing, giving readers an authentic sense of his style and a true understanding of his greatness.

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ID: 705350

Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Impact Funds: A Feminist's Guide to Changing the World with Your Money

Author: Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen, Camilla Falkenberg, Emma Due Bitz

Narrator: Charlotte Gosling

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:17:21

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-24

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Personal Finance, Home & Garden

Summary:

What if building your own personal wealth didn't have to come at the expense of the planet?

Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to handling your finances and join the Female Invest trio on a mission to investigate sustainable stocks and funds, angel investing, and empowering initiatives - for both you and the planet.

Cutting through the noise, this trusted resource will rationalize the vast scope of the term 'sustainable investing', and consider how investments, funds, stocks, and shares can be responsible, ethical, green, and impactful - enabling you to partake in a truly circular economy. Ditching the jargon shrouding finance, this audiobook will assess the pros and cons behind crowdfunding and crowdlending, navigate around the many pitfalls of greenwashing, and make building a more sustainable portfolio - that prioritises the issues you really care about - accessible to everyone.

Camilla Falkenberg, Emma Due Bitz and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen are the founders of Female Invest, Europe's largest financial educator targeting women. Through their subscription business, they school women in the essentials of personal finance and investing. Their mission is to close the economic gender gap by arming women with the tools they need. They are the authors of Danish bestseller Ready, Set, Invest and the winners of Cartier Women's Initiative, the world's biggest start up competition. In 2020 they ranked on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, and have found global fame with their work, reaching members in 50 countries.

© 2023 Camilla Falkenberg, Emma Due Bitz, and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen © 2023 DK Audio

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ID: 746002

Title: Becoming You: Becoming the Person God Made You to Be

Author: Peter Sondergeld

Narrator: Peter Sondergeld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:07:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

You have a problem with your self.

We all do. It is a long standing problem from which no one is exempt. We have all become less than we were made to be. We have all been dehumanised by sin.

You may have tried some tips, techniques, self-help strategies, and life hacks to reverse it. And they were probably helpful to a point. But they just didnt go deep enough. You discovered, as most of us have, that they never go deep enough. Who you are and what is wrong with you is deep, deeply personal. What you need is someone who is powerful and loving who can walk with you through all of the places you have been dehumanised and restore you to your true self.

In this book Peter will show you how Jesus desires to walk with you in deeply personal ways which will lead to your personal restoration. As you get closer to Jesus, you will become the person God made you to be.

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ID: 705094

Title: Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

Author: Yaroslav Trofimov

Narrator: David Furr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:56

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-24

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: History, Military, Global Politics, Russia

Summary:

“Our Enemies Will Vanish achieves the highest level of war reporting: a tough, detailed account that nevertheless reads like a great novel. One is reminded of Michael Herr's Dispatches . . . Frankly, it's what we have all aspired to. I did not really understand Ukraine until I read Trofimov's account.” —Sebastian Junger

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world’s great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer and annex Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, redrawing the map of Europe in a few short weeks with seismic geopolitical consequences. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of the epic bravery of the Ukrainian people—people Trofimov knows very well.

For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. With deep empathy and local understanding, Trofimov tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. He blends their brave and tragic stories with expert military analysis, providing unique insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership and mapping out the decisive stages of what has become a perilous war for Ukraine, the Putin regime, and indeed, the world.

This brutal, catastrophic struggle is unfolding on another continent, but the United States and its NATO allies have become deeply implicated. As the war drags on, it threatens to engulf the world. We cannot look away. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, Our Enemies Will Vanish is a riveting, vivid, and first-hand account of the Ukrainian refusal to surrender. It is the story of ordinary people fighting not just for their homes and their families but for justice and democracy itself.

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ID: 743871

Title: Malta: A Childhood Under Siege

Author: Linda Peek

Narrator: Linda Peek

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:50:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Military, General

Summary:

Air raid warning, air raid warning. Shut your doors and windows.

The Rediffusion blared out in English and then in Maltese, at 6:55am on the morning of 11 June 1940.

This was the first of many times we would hear that warning. The day our lives changed.

Margaret Staples was nine years old at the beginning of 1939 when her father was posted to the British colony of Malta with the Royal Engineers. Swimming every day, with blue skies and balmy weather; Margaret and her siblings thought they were in paradise.

Everything changed when the Second World War broke out. Hitler wanted to take control of Malta for its strategic position, right in the middle of the Mediterranean. To this end, the Axis powers dropped more bombs on this tiny island than anywhere else on the planet. When that didnt work, they decided to sink all the supply ships going to the island and force capitulation through starvation.

This is Margarets story of survival, told by her daughter Linda.

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ID: 690796

Title: 12 Questions for Love: A Guide to Intimate Conversations and Deeper Relationships

Author: Topaz Adizes

Narrator: Sonya Renee Taylor, Topaz Adizes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:35:40

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-24

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Intimacy & Sex, Marriage & Family

Summary:

Could one conversation improve your relationship forever?

 

We all crave connection. But sometimes we need help getting there. By having a conversation with your partner, guided by these thought-provoking questions, you’ll discover the strength in having mindful, meaningful conversations and unlock a deeper level of lasting intimacy.

 

Author Topaz Adizes invites you to bravely explore the heart of your relationship

through 12 carefully crafted questions drawn from thousands of candid conversations with real couples featured in his Emmy Award-winning documentary series {THE AND}.

 

In today’s fast-paced world, it is easier than ever to feel isolated, disconnected, and idling in surface-level relationships. Having observed a decade’s worth of extraordinary conversations unfold, Topaz explores the key to feeling closer, more secure, and more connected with your partner. 

 

This essential, inclusive guide includes:

- Powerful tools to create a safe, transformative space for connection

- 12 questions proven to nurture authentic intimacy, and examples from people who've been there

- Strategies for staying connected in the midst of conflict

- Confidence to craft better, stronger questions of your own (hint: you’ll get better answers)

Make every conversation count, and you’ll uncover the magic that awaits when you dare to be vulnerable, go deeper, and love like never before.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing the Further Questions and the Video Reference QR Codes from the book.

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ID: 701034

Title: Royal Conundrum (The Misfits)

Author: Lisa Yee

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:02:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-24

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious series from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee!

“For any kid who’s felt like a misfit, this crackling adventure packs a wallop!” —Lincoln Peirce, creator of Big Nate and Max & the Midknights

Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that's now a “reforming arts school”!

But nothing could’ve prepared Olive for RASCH (not “rash”). There, she’s lumped with a team of other kids who never quite fit in, and discovers that the academy isn’t what it seems—and neither is she. In fact, RASCH is a cover for an elite group of misfits who fight crime . . . and Olive has arrived just in time.

Turns out that RASCH is in danger of closing, unless Olive’s class can stop the heist of the century. And as Olive falls in love with this wacky school, she realizes it’s up to her new team to save the only home that’s ever welcomed them.

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ID: 740555

Title: Fairy Wren

Author: Ashley Capes

Narrator: Shane Emmett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:15:31

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

From the moment a fairy wren drops his lost wedding ring at his feet, Paul realises there's more magic to the world than he thought...

When Paul Fischer receives a strange phone call asking for help, from a woman who might be his estranged wife Rachel, he's drawn into a mysterious search that threatens not only his struggling bookstore, but long-buried dreams too.

Unfortunately, the only help comes from a shady best friend, an Italian runaway and a strange blue fairy wren that seems to be trying to tell him something - yet the further he follows the clues it leaves the less sense the world seems to make. Is he on the verge of a magical, beautiful discovery or at the point of total disaster?

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