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ID: 408834

Title: Mysterious Messenger

Author: Gilbert Ford

Narrator: Lori-Felipe Barkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:34:44

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:

The Mysterious Messenger is a rich middle grade urban fantasy debut starring young psychic Maria de la Cruz, by the award-winning artist Gilbert Ford.

Eleven-year-old Maria de la Cruz is trapped under the thumb of Madame Destine, her pseudo-psychic mother. Destine is a bona fide con artist who will stop at nothing to swindle her customers into believing she can communicate with the dead. But Maria, unlike her mother, has a big secretshe really can communicate with the dead, most frequently with a ghost named Edward who has been her only friend since she was a child.

Its not long before this clairvoyant young sleuth gets wrapped up in an epic journey that combines bookish mystery with the literary movement of the Beat poets and art and jazz history. Maria may have the power to unlock extraordinary secrets, but can she find the treasure Edward sends her clues about? More importantly, can she find true friendship?

This smart, big-hearted debut novel is perfect for fans of Book Scavenger, Winterhouse, and The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.

Christy Ottaviano Books

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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ID: 408840

Title: South of the Buttonwood Tree

Author: Heather Webber

Narrator: Hallie Ricardo, Stephanie Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:

USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber's South of the Buttonwood Tree is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.

Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, shes happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree.

Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the right thing, but her own mother would disown her if she ever learned half of Sarah Graces secrets.

The unexpected discovery of the newborn baby girl will alter Blues and Sarah Graces lives forever. Both women must fight for what they truly want in life and for who they love. In doing so, they uncover long-held secrets that reveal exactly who they really areand what theyre willing to sacrifice in the name of family.

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books

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ID: 408837

Title: I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

Author: Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg

Narrator: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:54:38

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade.

When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealerone that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited some of Americas greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic masculinity, and hypersegregation.

In the upside-down world of the GTTF, cops were robbers and drug dealers were the perfect victims, because no one believed them. When the federal government finally arrested the GTTF for robbery and racketeering in 2017, the stories of victims began to come out, revealing a vast criminal enterprise operating within the Baltimore Police Department.

Cops planted heroin to cover up a fatal crash that resulted from a botched robbery. They stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, faked video evidence, and forged a letter trying to break up the marriage of one of their victims to keep his wife from paying a lawyer. And a homicide detective was killed the day before he was scheduled to testify against the crooked cops.

I Got a Monster is the shocking history of the rise and fall of the most corrupt cops in America from Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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ID: 408909

Title: Reaper: Drone Strike: A Sniper Novel

Author: A. J. Tata, Nicholas Irving

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:39:34

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, War & Military

Summary:

Nicholas Irving's Reaper: Drone Strike is the next audiobook in the explosive thriller series by the former special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper.

On a classified mission to help the Israeli Defense Forces stop a Syrian and Hezbollah invasion to seize the Golan Heights, Ranger sniper Vick Harwood and his spotter go deep undercover. Operating with limited support from the American and Israeli governments, Vick is out on the edge.

Alessandra Cavezza, Director of Operations in Syria for the Italian UN Commission for Refugees, is moving families out of an embattled neighborhood. The nearly vacant suburb has been a haven for anti-Assad forces, ISIS militants, and Russian private military contractors. As she crawls into the basement of a home to help find a young girls doll, she finds a secret room that has detailed descriptions of unthinkable attacks on the United States, and falls into the hands of a madman: Jasar Tankian, Lebanese mastermind behind the plots.

As Syrian tanks attempt to push through Israeli defenses at the border, Team Reaper picks off Syrian tank commanders as they battle Israeli tanks, jets, and infantrymen. Combat intensifies as Vick goes black on ammunition. Commandeering a cargo drone to deliver Team Reaper to a landing zone near the coordinates, Vick becomes Alessandrasand Americasonly hope for survival.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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ID: 408897

Title: Trouble the Saints: A Novel

Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson

Narrator: Neil Shah, Shayna Small

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical

Summary:

'Narrators Shayna Small and Neil Shah transport listeners to 1940s New York in this dark fantasy set against a backdrop of racial tension and brewing war...Both narrators also excel at a range of accents, making this audiobook a fully immersive experience.' -- AudioFile Magazine

The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II.

Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where shes hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens.

Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everythingnot just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams.

Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her sideand history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before its too lateis there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice?

Trouble the Saints is a dazzling, daring novela magical love story, a compelling exposure of racial fault linesand an altogether brilliant and deeply American saga.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story...in a word: awesome. N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author of The Fifth Season

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ID: 408836

Title: Axiom's End: A Novel

Author: Lindsay Ellis

Narrator: Abigail Thorn, Stephanie Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:59:53

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.

Truth is a human right.

Its fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasnt spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the governmentand with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her fathers leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with himuntil she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades.

Realizing the extent to which both she and the public have been lied to, she sets out to gather as much information as she can, and finds that the best way for her to uncover the truth is not as a whistleblower, but as an intermediary. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication. Their otherworldly connection will change everything she thought she knew about being humanand could unleash a force more sinister than she ever imagined.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

'Axioms End is one of the most unique science fiction novels in years. Its a heartfelt story of alien first contact, but, luckily, unlike so many big idea sci-fi books, its utterly unpretentious.' --SYFY.com

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ID: 406970

Title: More Than Maybe: A Novel

Author: Erin Hahn

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan, Rachel L. Jacobs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:42:28

Language: English

Release date: 07-21-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance

Summary:

'Like your favorite song, More Than Maybe burrows inside your heart and stays there. Vada and Luke's story of music, family, and first love will shoot to the top of your book playlist. A rich, sweet, rock and roll ride.' - Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends With the Dark

Growing up under his punk rocker dads spotlight, eighteen-year-old Luke Greenly knows fame and wants nothing to do with it. His real love isnt in front of a crowd, its on the page. Hiding his gift and secretly hoarding songs in his bedroom at night, he prefers the anonymous comfort of the locally popular podcast he co-hosts with his outgoing and meddling, far-too-jealousy-inspiringly-happy-with-his-long-term-boyfriend twin brother, Cullen. But thats not Lukes only secret. He also has a major un-requited crush on music blogger, Vada Carsewell.

Vadas got a five year plan: secure a job at the Loud Lizard to learn from local legend (and her moms boyfriend) Phil Josephs (check), take over Phils music blog (double check), get accepted into Berkeleys prestigious music journalism program (check, check, check), manage Ann Arbors summer concert series and secure a Rolling Stone internship. Luke Greenly is most definitely NOT on the list. So what if his self-deprecating charm and out of this world music knowledge makes her dizzy? Or his brother just released a bootleg recording of Luke singing about some mystery girl on their podcast and she really, really wishes it was her?

In More Than Maybe, Erin Hahns swooniest audiobook yet, Luke and Vada must decide how deep their feelings run and what it would mean to give love a try.

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books

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ID: 408854

Title: Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Author: Kate Greene

Narrator: Kate Greene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:07:50

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

This program is read by the author

When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like?

In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASAs first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory.

In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanitys broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life, of the standard, able-bodied astronaut and Greenes brothers disability, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple, of departure and return.

By asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe, Greene has written a remarkable, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now, as a pre-Mars species, poised on the edge, readying for launch.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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ID: 408847

Title: Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel

Author: S. A. Cosby

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:08:34

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-20

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

'Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling.' -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A husband, a father, a son, a business ownerAnd the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Beauregard Bug Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows theres no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.

He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.

Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying.

Like Oceans Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosbys Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

Sensationally goodnew, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended. Lee Child

'A fast-paced, fresh take on noir that tears through the underbelly of Virginia.' New York Times

'If youre looking for dark, gritty, nuanced heist thriller that feels like The Fast and the Furious + The Italian Job + the Starz show Power but set in the south with fantastic, immersive narration, pick this up.' -- Book Riot

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ID: 399482

Title: Utopia Avenue: A Novel

Author: David Mitchell

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-20

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post

 

“A sheer pleasure to read . . . Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever . . . Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.”—Slate

 

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • USA Today • The Guardian • The Independent • Kirkus Reviews • Men’s Health • PopMatters

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68.

David Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music, madness, and idealism. Can we really change the world, or does the world change us?

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