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ID: 528398

Title: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Author: Thomas Frank

Narrator: Thomas Frank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:57:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:

The New York Times bestseller, praised as 'hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests' (Molly Ivins).

**Unabridged for the first time with a new introduction**

This program is read by the author.

Hailed as 'dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic' (Chicago Tribune), 'very funny and very painful' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'in a different league from most political books' (The New York Observer), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansasa place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most eager participants in the culture wars. Charting what he calls the 'thirty-year backlash'the popular revolt against a supposedly liberal establishmentFrank reveals how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.

A brilliant analysisand funny to bootWhat's the Matter with Kansas? is a vivid portrait of an upside-down world where blue-collar patriots recite the Pledge while they strangle their life chances; where small farmers cast their votes for a Wall Street order that will eventually push them off their land; and where a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs has managed to convince the country that it speaks on behalf of the People.

A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books

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ID: 539961

Title: Face

Author: Joma West

Narrator: André Santana, Patricia Santomasso

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

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

Summary:

In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.

How much is your Face worth?

Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Facerich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society.

But in SchAddies household, cracks are beginning to appear. Schuyler is bored and taking risks. Maddie is becoming brittle, her happiness ever more fleeting. And their menial is fighting the most bizarre compulsions.

In Face, skin color is an aesthetic choice designed by professionals, consent is a pre-checked box on the path to social acceptance, and your online profile isnt just the most important thingits the only thing.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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ID: 539871

Title: Beating Heart Baby

Author: Lio Min

Narrator: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Jensen Silvio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:05:45

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Lio Mins Beating Heart Baby is a dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy Suwa, who doesnt think Santi has what it takes to be in the band.

But Santi and Suwa share painful pasts, and when they open up to each other, a tentative friendship begins. And soon, that friendship turns into something more. . . .

Will their fresh start rip at the seams as Suwa seeks out a solo spotlight, and both boys come to terms with what it'll take, and what they'll have to let go, to realize their dreams?

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

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ID: 539874

Title: In the Middle of Hickory Lane

Author: Heather Webber

Narrator: Hallie Ricardo, Stephanie Willis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:24:54

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

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

Summary:

From the USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe comes Heather Webber's next charming novel, In the Middle of Hickory Lane!

Emme Wynn has wanted nothing more her whole life than to feel like part of a family. Having grown up on the run with her con artist mother, shes been shuffled from town to town, drawn into bad situations, and has learned some unsavory habits that shes tried hard to overcome. When her estranged grandmother tracks her down out of the blue and extends a job offerhelping to run her booth at an open-air marketplace in small-town Sweetgrass, AlabamaEmme is hopeful that shell finally be able to plant the roots shes always dreamed of. But some habits are hard to break, and she risks her newfound happiness by keeping one big truth to herself.

Cora Bee Hazelton has her hands full with volunteering, gardening, her job as a color consultant and designer, and just about anything she can do to keep her mind off her painful past, a past that has resulted in her holding most everyone at arms length. The last thing she wants is to form close relationships only to have her heart broken yet again. But when shes injured, she has no choice other than to let people into her life and soon realizes its going to be impossible to keep her heart safeor her secrets hidden.

In the magical neighborhood garden in the middle of Hickory Lane, Emme and Cora Bee learn some hard truths about the past and themselves, the value of friends, family, and community, and most importantly, that true growth starts from within.

A Macmillan Audio production from Forge Books.

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ID: 584516

Title: Putin

Author: Philip Short

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29:34:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Russia

Summary:

'In a deep, resonant voice, Jonathan Keeble gives a splendid narration of this long and well-researched biography of Vladimir Putin.'- AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by award-winning actor Jonathan Keeble.

The first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years

Vladimir Putin is the worlds most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story.

Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Shorts biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day. To the fullest extent anyone has yet been able, Short cracks open the strongmans thick carapace to reveal the man underneath those bare-chested horseback rides. In this deeply researched account, listeners meet the Putin who slept in the same room as his parents until he was twenty-five years old, who backed out of his wedding right beforehand, and who learned English in order to be able to talk to George W. Bush.

Vladimir Putin is wreaking havoc in Europe, threatening global peace and stability and exposing his fellow citizens to devastating economic countermeasures. Yet puzzlingly many Russians continue to support him. This audiobook is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the many facets of the man behind the mask that Putin wears on the world stage.

Putin will be the last word for years to come.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

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ID: 539844

Title: Master of Iron

Author: Tricia Levenseller

Narrator: Emily Ellet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:29:44

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

In Master of Iron, the conclusion to Tricia Levensellers exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.

Eighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sisters life.

When the events that follow lead to Ziva and Kellyns capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation shes been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination.

The forge has always been Zivas safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and shes not sure just how much of herself shell have to sacrifice to save Kellyn and take center stage in the very war shes been trying to stop.

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends

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ID: 517947

Title: Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

Author: Antonio Padilla

Narrator: Antonio Padilla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics

Summary:

This program is read by the author.

A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality.

For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe?

In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works. These strange numbers include Grahams number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrenceresetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atomin other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe.

Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Padilla explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constantthat the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a combination of popular and cutting-edge scienceand a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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ID: 539875

Title: Strange and Stubborn Endurance

Author: Foz Meadows

Narrator: James Fouhey, Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, LGBTQ, Romantasy

Summary:

Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.Jacqueline Carey

'...the heart of the audiobook is Velasin's journey toward recovery and learning to trust his new husband.'- AudioFile on A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

'Narrator Vikas Adam expressively reads Vels first-person narration, bringing out Vels sensitivity and portraying his growing strength and confidence. James Fouhey narrates the part of Cae with a maturity and stolidity that hints at his soldierly background.'- Library Journal

Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.

Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears hes ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intendeds brother instead.

Caethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock.

With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. Survival is one thing, but loveas both will learnis quite another.

Byzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry. Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. It is an audiobook that will live in your heart long after you finish listening.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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ID: 539872

Title: Accomplished: A Georgie Darcy Novel

Author: Amanda Quain

Narrator: Deva Marie Gregory

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Romance, Tough Topics

Summary:

Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Amanda Quain's Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped frat boy.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with Wickham Foster last year at least if you ask any of her Pemberley Academy classmates. She may have escaped expulsion because of her family name, but she didnt escape the disappointment of her big brother Fitz, the scorn of the entire school, or, it turns out, Wickhams influence.

But shes back for her junior year, and she needs to prove to everyone Fitz, Wickham, her former friends, and maybe even herself that shes more than just an embarrassment to the family name. How hard can it be to become the Perfect Darcy? All she has to do is:

- Rebuild her reputation with the marching band (even if it kills her)

- Forget about Wickham and his lies (no matter how tempting they still are), and

- Distract Fitz Darcy helicopter-sibling extraordinaire by getting him to fall in love with his classmate, Lizzie Bennet (this one might be difficult)

Sure, it's a complicated plan, but so is being a Darcy. With the help of her fellow bandmate, Avery, matchmaking ideas lifted straight from her favorite fanfics, and a whole lot of pancakes, Georgie is going to see every one of her plans through. But when the weight of being the Perfect Darcy comes crashing down, Georgie will have to find her own way before she loses everything permanentlyincluding the one guy who sees her for who she really is.

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.

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ID: 539873

Title: Half-Built Garden

Author: Ruthanna Emrys

Narrator: Kate Handford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:51:34

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-22

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach.

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarmand stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force.

But the watershed networks that rose up to save the planet from corporate devastation aren't ready to give up on Earth. Decades ago, they reorganized humanity around the hope of keeping the world livable. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal our wounded planet.

Now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if anyone accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. With everyones eyes turned skyward, the future hinges on Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

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