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ID: 408815

Title: Under Pressure: A Lucas Page Novel

Author: Robert Pobi

Narrator: Will Damron

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

'This knotty thriller is all the more absorbing because of narrator Will Damron, who captures the quirkiness and humor of its brilliant protagonist, Dr. Lucas Page...This fast-paced fiction will absorb the listener.' -- AudioFile Magazine

A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page in Robert Pobi's Under Pressure.

On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendeeyet the damage to the building itself was minimal.

An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team -- but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders? That many victim files is a staggering amount of data to sort through and Brett Kehoe, Special Agent in Charge of Manhattan, decides that he can't do this without more computational power.

Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is uniquely gifted for the task at handhe can visualize a crime scene as if he was a bystander and can break down any set of data at a glance. Even though Page wants nothing to do with the FBI, with his city under attack and his family at risk, he steps in to find a killer in a haystack before they strike again.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

'Robert Pobis second thriller featuring the mathematician-astrophysicist Dr. Lucas Page, starts with a big bang....Each of the characters in Mr. Pobis complexly plotted book is skillfully drawn, but Lucas Page is one of a kind' -- Wall Street Journal

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ID: 408825

Title: Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

Author: Catherine Cho

Narrator: Catherine Cho

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, History & Culture, Parenting

Summary:

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when she's involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis.

This program is read by the author.

When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trips end, she develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not real. In desperation, her husband admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity.

In this unwaveringly honest, insightful, and often shocking memoir Catherine reconstructs her sense of self, starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants, moving through a traumatic past relationship, and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to her husband, James. She masterfully interweaves these parts of her past with a vivid, immediate recounting of the days she spent in the ward.

The result is a powerful exploration of psychosis and motherhood, at once intensely personal, yet holding within it a universal experience of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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ID: 408871

Title: Why Visit America: Stories

Author: Matthew Baker

Narrator: Peter Ganim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope.

The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldnt happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Bakers brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection Why Visit America.

The audiobook opens with a seemingly traditional story in which the speculative element is extremely minimalthe narrator has a job that doesnt actually exista story that wouldnt seem much out of place in a collection of literary realism. From there the stories get progressively stranger: a young man breaks the news to his family that he is going to transitionfrom an analog body to a digital existence. A young woman abducts a childher ownfrom a government-run childcare facility. A man returns home after committing a great crime, his sentence being that his memoryhis entire lifeis wiped clean.

As the audiobook moves from universe to universe, the stories cross between different American genres: from bildungsroman to rom com, western to dystopian, including fantasy, horror, erotica, and a noir detective mystery. Together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of the true nature of the United States and a Through the Looking-Glass reflection of who we are as a country.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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ID: 408816

Title: Being Lolita: A Memoir

Author: Alisson Wood

Narrator: Alisson Wood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Women

Summary:

This program is read by the author.

A dark romance evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.

Have you ever read Lolita?

So begins seventeen-year-old Alissons metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writingand in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North.

Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a connection that blooms from a simple crush into a forbidden romance. But as Mr. Norths hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of their narrative is actually a disturbing fiction.

In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and again with the story of her past, from rereading Lolita in college to working with teenage girls to becoming a professor of creative writing. It is only with that distance and perspective that she understands the ultimate power language has had on herand how to harness that power to tell her own true story.

Being Lolita is a stunning coming-of-age memoir that shines a bright light on our shifting perceptions of consent, vulnerability, and power. This is the story of what happens when a young woman realizes her entire narrative must be rewrittenand then takes back the pen to rewrite it.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

'Being Lolita is an unflinching depiction of grooming and a searing indictment of exploitative teachers, but most of all its an act of redemptiona powerful realization of Woods vow 'to do the little I can to make sure what happened to me doesnt happen again.'' Susan Choi, author of the National Book Award-winning Trust Exercise

'Wood reminds us that stories still have the power to change the world. This is a fascinating story of survival and purpose, yet it is also a story of interpretation. How we read the world changes how we live in it. A fantastic debut.' Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased

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ID: 408892

Title: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy

Author: Edward Ball

Narrator: Edward Ball

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:26:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science

Summary:

Named a best book of the summer by Literary Hub

The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Awardwinner Edward Ball

Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his familys anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail.

Sifting through family lore about our Klansman as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampagesall part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by our Klansman and his comrades, and shares their stories.

For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished.

In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Balls family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ID: 408814

Title: Forest of Stars

Author: Heather Kassner

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:20:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

In this mysterious and mesmerizing fantasy novel, perfect for fans of Splendor and Glooms and Circus Mirandus, a windswept girl who can float among the stars searches for her long-lost father at a shadow-filled carnival.

'Kassners writing dazzles . . . a tale of hope, courage, and friendship.' Newbery Honor winner Ingrid Law

Left all alone after her mother passes away, twelve-year-old Louisa LaRoche watches the sky for her father. Long ago, a powerful gust of wind swept through town, stealing him away on the wings of his untamed magicthe same magic that stirs within Louisa. As if she is made of hollow bones and too much air, her feet never quite touch the ground.

But for all her sky gazing, Louisa finds her fortune on the leaf-strewn street when she spots a gleaming black-and-gold invitationa ticket to the Carnival Beneath the Stars. If her father fits in nowhere else, maybe shell find him there, dazzling crowds alongside the other strange and wonderful feats. Only, soon after she arrives, a tightrope act ends disastrouslyand suspiciously. As fate tugs Louisa closer to the stars, she must decide if shes willing to slip into the injured performers role, despite the darkness plucking at the carnivals magical threads.

In The Forest of Stars, Heather Kassner weaves a spectacle of wondrous magic, unexpected friendship, and dark secrets.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

'A dark and dazzling tale, glistening with marvels, mysteries and the magic of friendship.' Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs

'Woven together with atmospheric, lyrical language, this is a sparkling tale about grief, hope, and found families. The magic of this book will touch your heart and send it soaring.' Amanda Foody, author of Ace of Shades

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ID: 408830

Title: Quintessence

Author: Jess Redman

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:40

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you.

Find the Elements. Grow the Light. Save the Starling.

Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they havent stoppedeven though shes told her parents that they have. Shes homesick and friendless and every day she feels less and less like herself.

But one day she finds a telescope in the towns junk shop, and through its lens, she watches a stara star that looks like a childfall from the sky and into her backyard. Alma knows what its like to be lost and afraid, to long for home, and she knows that its up to her to save the star. And so, with the help of some unlikely new friends from Astronomy Club, she sets out on a quest that will take a little bit of science, a little bit of magic, and her whole self.

This title has Common Core connections.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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ID: 408831

Title: Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power

Author: John Yoo

Narrator: James Edward Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:29:13

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Current Affairs, American Politics

Summary:

In Defender in Chief, celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes a provocative case against Donald Trump's alleged disruption of constitutional rules and norms.

Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitutionhe's its greatest defender.

Ask any liberaland many moderate conservativesand they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian White House decisions nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates have rushed to accuse Trump of destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.

Yoo argues that this charge has things exactly backwards. Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton would have seen Trump as returning to their vision of presidential power, even at his most controversial. It is instead liberal opponents who would overthrow existing constitutional understanding in order to unseat Trump, but in getting their man would inflict permanent damage on the office of the presidency, the most important office in our constitutional system and the world.

This provocative and engaging work is a compelling defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions.

A Macmillan Audio production from All Points Books

'An engaging, completely original, and superbly researched and argued analysis from one of Americas top legal minds that elevates the debate through Yoos mastery of history, jurisprudence, and dispassionate scholarship.'--Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Case for Trump

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ID: 408790

Title: Crossings: A Novel

Author: Alex Landragin

Narrator: Barrie Kreinik, Raphael Corkhill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24:24:56

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

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

Summary:

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debuta novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.

*To listen to this novel straight through, just play the program from the beginning. To listen to the Baroness Sequence, start with Download Part 2 at 12 hours, 21 minutes.*

On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be listened to one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence.

The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations.

With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

'A high-concept speculative adventure novel executed with intelligence and grace, Australian writer Landragins debut contains a story within a story within a story. Crossings is an invigorating puzzle of a book that reads like a complete, intricate work of genre-defying fiction rather than just a cool gimmick.' -- Vulture

'A sparkling debut. Landragins seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling.' Publishers Weekly

'Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel.' Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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ID: 382661

Title: Deal with the Devil: A Mercenary Librarians Novel

Author: Kit Rocha

Narrator: Lidia Dornet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, General, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:

Deal with the Devil is Orphan Black meets the post-apocalyptic Avengers by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author duo Kit Rocha.

Nina is an information broker with a missionshe and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America.

Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive.

Theyre on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process

Or they could do the impossible: team up.

This is the first audiobook in a near-future science fiction series with elements of romance.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

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