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Title: Mooncussers
Author: Eli Brown
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:45:00
Language: English
Release date: 07-01-2025
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:
With the help of magical Oddities, like a Pistol that never misses, Clover and her friends face a new danger, the ravenous Underking, in this riveting sequel to Oddity. Despite Clover's victory over the destructive Seamstress, war continues to rage between the fledgling Unified States and Napoléon Bonaparte. Clover and Nessa, former snake-oil salesgirl, join the Women's Service League expecting to dole out soup and socks to invalids and orphans. Instead, under the direction of the wealthy and mysterious Miss Yamada, they're tasked with rooting out the last of the pestilential Vermin--vicious creatures animated by magic, such as squirrel skins stuffed with nails, who have been terrorizing the countryside. But when the group is attacked by a new kind of monster--a sharp-toothed harehound with bloodshot eyes--they discover a much greater threat lurks: the grotesque Underking and his army of twisted creatures. With the help of a Paper-Doll Witch, an elegantly dressed skeleton, a girl bearing a Quilt with threatening properties, and Susanna the bad-tempered Doll, Clover and Nessa must defeat the Underking before he conquers the whole land. This follow-up to Oddity is a wildly imaginative and engrossing dark fantasy set in an alternate American past.

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Title: Far from Home
Author: Danielle Steel
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:15:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-2025
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:
A thoughtful new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers.

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Title: Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History
Author: J. C. D. Clark
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 23:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 12-17-2024
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: History, World

Summary:
There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept. The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present. It argues that the degree of commonality between social and intellectual movements in each—and, more broadly, between the five societies—has been overstated for polemical purposes. Clark shows that the concept of 'the Enlightenment' was not widely adopted in those societies until the mid-twentieth century; indeed, that it was unknown in the eighteenth. Without the concept, people at the time were unable to act in ways that would have created the Enlightenment as a coherent movement. Since the conventional account has held that the Enlightenment was a phenomenon, the idea could be used as a component of what has been called a 'civil religion': a summing up of the myths of origin, aims, and essential values of a society from which dissent is not permitted. An appreciation that it was instead a historiographical concept undermines, in turn, the idea that there was any great transition to what came to be called 'modernity'.

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Title: Moth to a Flame
Author: Michael Omer
Narrator: Sarah Puckett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:41:48
Language: English
Release date: 05-14-2024
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller, Paranormal

Summary:
I was almost killed by a delusional murderer five months ago. Since then, the recurring nightmares, creepy hallucinations, and overpowering fear are gone. That's good, right? I mean, no one in their right minds wants to feel like that. I am starting to wonder if I'm in my right mind anymore . . . When a lady in my neighborhood died, I couldn't help but stick my nose in, to see what happened. I should just get on with things-I've got some new friends, and a cool boy named Chris has taken an interest in me. Everyone is telling me to just leave this weird murder alone. But I can't stop myself. The more I find out about her death, the more twisted everything is. I think there's a predator in Narrowdale. And now it's hunting me . . . What have I gotten myself into?

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Title: Wasteland Chronicles: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set
Author: Kyle West
Narrator: Graham Halstead
Format: Unabridged
Length: 50:02:29
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:
The entire Wasteland Chronicles series No one expected Ragnarok. The miles-wide meteor fell from the sky in 2030, taking most of humanity with it. The lucky ones took refuge in the Bunkers. The unlucky ones had to deal with the meteor's aftermath . . . and the alien virus it unleashed. Now, that virus is evolving, creating an army of mutants and monsters, mixing Earth genetics with something . . . not Earth. As humanity struggles in the wastelands of what's left, it might already be too late . . . . . . unless a band of young heroes can rise up, and fight.

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Title: Mirror Season
Author: Anna-Marie Mclemore
Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:22:05
Language: English
Release date: 06-14-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Teen, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:
Graciela Cristales's whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. And Ciela is haunted by what happened to her and what happened to the boy whose name she never learned. But when the boy, Lock, shows up at Ciela’s school, he has no memory of that night and no clue that a single piece of mirrored glass is tearing his life apart. Ciela decides to help him, which means hiding the truth about that night. Because Ciela knows who assaulted her—and him. And she knows that their survival depends on no one finding out what really happened.

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Title: Go Further
Author: Paul Myers
Narrator: Christina Delaine, Keith Sellon-Wright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:27:08
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Non-Fiction, Art & Music

Summary:
Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go Further, editors Paul Myers and S. W. Lauden have a whole new crop of writers going deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate it, Go Further is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades. Featuring: Ira Robbins on Priming The Power Pop Pump; Alex Segura on the Ramones & the Archies; Mary E. Donnelly on Shoes; Pat DiPuccio on Greg Shaw & Bomp Records; John Borack on the Shivvers; Dave Hill on Glitter And Glue; Will Birch on the Records; S. W. Lauden on 20/20; Jordan Oakes on Power Pop's first fanzine, Yellow Pills; Brian Vander Ark on Andy Partridge/XTC; Anne K. Ream & R. Clifton Spargo on Teenage Fanclub; Chip Jacobs on Squeeze; Bill DeMain's Greetings From Pop Music City, USA; Thierry Côte on Pag; Doug Brod on Into The Arena; Jim Lindberg on the Replacements; Balin Schneider on The Material Issue story; Mike Randle on Baby Lemonade & Love; Butch Walker on Marvelous 3; Andrea Warner on Puffy AmiYumi; Paul Myers on Los Anglophiles; and Rex Broome's Ode on a Rickenbacker.

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Title: Flame in Hali
Author: Deborah J. Ross
Narrator: Peter Bradbury
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16:42:00
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, King Carolin of Hastur and his friend Keeper Varzil Ridenow work selflessly to put an end to the destruction caused by the long-range weapons of the magical matrix Towers. But Eduin Deslucido—who once called Carolin brother—has been consumed with a vengeful rage and will stop at nothing to destroy the king and his plan for peace.

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Title: Night Came With Many Stars
Author: Simon Van Booy
Narrator: Courtney Patterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:53:03
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Family Life, Sagas

Summary:
In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his thirteen-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. 'What you give in this world,' an old man tells his grandson, 'will be given back to you.' Those words illuminate the actions within this unforgettable novel and its connected characters. A young man survives two nearly fatal accidents. A black family saves an orphaned white boy. A pregnant teenager is rescued by the side of the road. An autistic teenager is given his first job. Each incident grows in meaning and power over many decades as we see connections sometimes felt but not always apparent to the people themselves. 'Everything was moving,' observes Samuel (Carol's grandson) in the Kentucky woods. 'An invisible force that was everywhere, and made everything touch.' Told by a master storyteller, Night Came with Many Stars is a rare novel that reveals how wondrous, mysterious, and magically connected life can be-the light Simon Van Booy creates in this novel illuminates our own lives.

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Title: Changing Face of the Workplace
Author: Fast Company's Editors And Writers
Narrator: Jill Bernstein
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:06:04
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, HR & Office Administration

Summary:
In The Changing Face of the Workplace, the editors of Fast Company examine how work and the workplace will be forever changed by the pandemic. Through engaging interviews with business thought leaders, CEOs, technologists, workplace experts, and human behavior researchers, listeners learn how societal and demographic shifts—and the evolving relationship between companies and employees—are shaping the workforce. Among other key issues, the audiobook also explores how even the most progressive employers must fight to ensure that the changes wrought by COVID-19 don’t disenfranchise workers. In a future workplace where many coworkers use hybrid work setups, or operate entirely remotely, how do companies collaborate or recreate the kind of serendipity that has led to so much ingenuity? What shape will these critical gatherings take in the future? How do leaders ensure that the future of work—with its patchwork of in-person and remote options and its push to deeper automation of entry-level tasks—fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and even thriving environment? The Changing Face of the Workplace addresses these questions and more as the editors of Fast Company explore what the workplace of tomorrow will look like—and how leaders in innovation, productivity, and creativity see the road map ahead.

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Title: Sea is Salt and So am I
Author: Cassandra Hartt
Narrator: Lori Gardner, Nick Mills, Tom Picasso
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:27:51
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Teen, Tough Topics

Summary:
West Finch is one hurricane away from falling into the sea. Yet sixteen-year-old Harlow Prout is determined to save her small Maine hometown. If only she could stop getting in her own way and find someone—anyone—willing to help. But her best friend, Ellis MacQueen, “fixes” problems by running away from them—including his broken relationship with his twin brother, Tommy. And Tommy’s depression has hit a new low, so he’s not up for fixing anything. In the wake of the town’s latest devastating storm, Tommy goes out for a swim that he doesn’t intend to survive. It’s his unexpected return that sets into motion a sea change between these three teens. One that tests old loyalties, sparks new romance, and uncovers painful secrets. And nothing stays secret in West Finch for long. Exquisitely honest and shimmering with emotion, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I is a captivating multi-POV story that probes the depths of what it means to love and trust—both ourselves and others.

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Title: Gourmet Detective
Author: Peter King
Narrator: David Baker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:41:18
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
From sourcing rare ingredients to solving crimes, 'this appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor' (People). They call him the gourmet detective; the only thing sharper than his mind is his palate. When chefs need a rare ingredient, an ancient wine, or simply a new idea to gain that extra Michelin-star boost, they come to the detective's cozy London office and plead for his help. For top-notch cooking, he is always happy to lend his taste buds to the cause. Now Raymond Lefebvre, executive chef at one of London's finest French restaurants, has asked for the detective's help with a bit of kitchen espionage. Lefebvre's crosstown rival is winning international accolades cooking a dish called Oiseau Royal, and Lefebvre wants the recipe. Getting it takes the detective deep into the Circle of Careme, where the most elite chefs in Britain gather to swap recipes, techniques, and gossip. But when the chefs of Careme start to die, the detective starts to salivate. There is no finer appetizer than murder.

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Title: Bitten By Her
Author: Annabelle Jacobs
Narrator: Antony Ferguson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:04:11
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Paranormal

Summary:
Brought together by fate, torn apart by family. Rachel Tregarrak, Penwith pack beta and daughter of the alpha, has always called the rugged Cornish coast her home. With its beautiful landscapes, bracing sea air, and vast spaces to run, she can't imagine living anywhere else. After years of living with her mother in her grandfather's pack, Sara Gallen returns to Penzance to be with her alpha father and her brothers. She wants to build their relationships, get to know the rest of her family better than occasional visits allow. When their paths cross on the full moon, the attraction is immediate and instinctive. But Sara's father refuses to allow such a union and forbids any further contact. Sara finds solace with her grandmother in her alpha council residence, and Rachel is sent to a London pack to keep her out of trouble. Both women feel the desperate ache of an uncompleted bond, but unless they find a way to be together, it'll fade to nothing and their connection will be lost. Contains mature themes.

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Title: Don’t Stop Believing: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel
Author: Eve Langlais
Narrator: Nicole Poole
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:44:30
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Paranormal, Contemporary Women, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:
The weirdest thing about my life isn't the fact my cat started talking to me. I had it all. Awesome, blossoming business. A cute boyfriend who gave me butterflies. My kids living at home and reconnecting with me. Plus, I was a witch. There, I said it out loud. I'm a sorceress who can do magic. Not bad for a woman my age. I should have known better to get so cocky. The other shoe dropped, bounced, and hit me in the face, then bounced again and whacked me in the shin. It proceeded to ricochet once more and- What should have been the most amazing night turns into a disaster. I'm crushed, in more ways than one. When I recover, it's to find my reality has shifted. My cat can speak. Some of the townsfolk appear to be possessed by demons, and I'm supposed to be sacrificed to free magic. Seriously? I just wanted my damned happily ever after. And I will fight to get it. Contains mature themes.

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Title: Archangels of Funk
Author: Andrea Hairston
Narrator: January Lavoy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:22:44
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-2024
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:
Run from your past. Hide from your future. Protect your present. The Water Wars have scrambled the world. Flood refugees are on the run. Disrupters and the nostalgia militia roam the roads wreaking havoc. Invisible Darknet Lords troll the internet, solidifying their power, while Cinnamon, her three Circus-Bots, and two dogs work with a community of farmers, Motor Fairies, and Wheel-Wizards to provide housing, health care and education for flood refugees. As Cinnamon confronts threats from the Darknet Lords and the nostalgia militia, she must determine how best to honor her elders and her history while building a future for herself and her charges. It’s not going to be easy. “Andrea Hairston creates original, layered, complex worlds that are a treat to explore, but what I love most is the people she creates for them. Archangels of Funk is brimming with characters who face adversity with love, hope, art, stories, history, and their bonds with each other. It's a celebration of radiant creativity as a bulwark against despair.”?Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries

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Title: Spiced to Death
Author: Peter King
Narrator: David Baker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:57:21
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
'This appealing detective serves up nuggets of culinary trivia and wry food humor' (People). In the days of Marco Polo, men risked their lives for spices. And in an age when black pepper was so valuable that it was sold one peppercorn at a time, there was no spice more valuable than the legendary Ko Feng. Known as the Celestial Spice, it supposedly vanished five centuries ago, and its name lives on only as culinary myth. But now a sack of it has turned up in New York City, and the leading experts of world cuisine will kill for a taste. When London's finest gourmet detective proclaims the mysterious spice authentic, this sack of weeds becomes the most valuable substance on earth, worth thousands of dollars per gram. But soon the spice vanishes, one of his colleagues is murdered, and the detective is forced to dive into New York's culinary underworld. His palate may be refined, but this gourmet knows how to fight dirty.

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Title: Dying on the Vine
Author: Peter King
Narrator: David Baker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:38:09
Language: English
Release date: 06-08-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
'Frolic through the vineyards and fine restaurants of Provence' in this delectable mystery set in French wine country, where the time is ripe for murder (Publishers Weekly). The vineyards of the Willesford Wine Group occupy a particularly choice section of French wine country. From the grapes of Provence, the owners of this impeccably managed syndicate have squeezed international fame and fortune. Next to their spectacular estate lies the petite Peregrine Winery, whose shadowy owners suddenly make repeated requests to buy Willesford's property-raising their offer each time. Unable to discern Peregrine's motive for these persistent attempts, the Willesford group sends for London's gourmet detective, a sleuth with impeccable reasoning and an even finer palate. When he arrives in Provence, he doesn't even have time to sample the pâte before he finds a dead man leaning against a cart, dripping blood into the fine French terroir. For the winemakers of Provence, this will be an excellent year for murder.

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Title: Along a storied Trail
Author: Ann H. Gabhart
Narrator: Jeanine Bartel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:42:27
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:
Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it—or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky as the soil around her small cabin. Long ago she thought she could love, but when the object of her affection up and married someone else, she stopped giving too much of herself away to others. As is so often the case, it's easier to see what's best for others than to see what's best for oneself, and Perdita knows who Tansy should choose, but why would anyone listen to the romantic advice of an old spinster?

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Title: Thanks A Lot, Universe
Author: Chad Lucas
Narrator: Mark Sanderlin, Ruffin Prentiss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:03:23
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:
He went silent again, until he asked the question I knew was coming. Why are you doing this? I took a breath before I replied. Because you’re my friend. Brian has always been anxious, whether at home or in class or on the basketball court. His dad tries to get him to stand up for himself, and his mom helps as much as she can, but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, Brian starts having panic attacks. And he doesn’t know if things will ever be “normal” again … Ezra’s always been popular. He’s friends with most of the kids on his basketball team—even Brian, who usually keeps to himself. But now, some of his friends have been acting differently, and Brian seems to be pulling away. Ezra wants to help, but he worries if he’s too nice to Brian, his friends will realize that he has a crush on him … But when Brian and his brother run away, Ezra has no choice but to take the leap and reach out. Both boys have to decide if they’re willing to risk sharing parts of themselves they’d rather hide. But if they can be brave, they might just find the best in themselves—and each other.

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Title: Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies
Author: Alexander Betts
Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19:23:17
Language: English
Release date: 06-01-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:
We live in an age of displacement. Refugee numbers are increasing due to a proliferation of fragile states, and this problem will be exacerbated by climate change and the impact of COVID-19. And yet, rising populist nationalism has undermined the political willingness of rich countries to accept migrants and asylum seekers. Given these contradictory trends, how can we create sustainable refugee policies that enable displaced people to live in safety and dignity, while operating at scale? The Wealth of Refugees draws upon a decade of original qualitative and quantitative research to offer practical solutions. Focusing on refugees in camps and cities in Africa, it identifies approaches that can be effective in improving the welfare of refugees, increasing social cohesion between refugees and host communities, and reducing the need for onward migration. The book argues that the key lies in unlocking the potential contributions of refugees themselves. Refugees bring skills, talents, and aspirations and can be a benefit rather than a burden to receiving societies. Realizing this potential relies upon moving beyond a purely humanitarian focus to fully include refugees in host-country economies, build economic opportunities in refugee-hosting regions, and navigate the ambiguous politics of refugee protection.

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Title: Man in the Arena: Vanguard Founder John C. Bogle and His Lifelong Battle to Serve Investors First
Author: Knut A. Rostad
Narrator: Basil Sands
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:15:51
Language: English
Release date: 05-31-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Business

Summary:
The importance of the life's work of mutual fund pioneer and investing legend John C. Bogle The Man in the Arena offers the essence of John C. Bogle's thinking and the meaning of his life's work, which transformed individual investing to benefit tens of millions of investors. Through Bogle's own words - as well as the voices of others whose hearts and minds he touched - the book touches on topics he cares about most deeply: Vanguard, indexing, corporate governance, and a fiduciary society. From Vanguard shareholders to true giants in finance, one cannot hear their words without being struck by their sheer intensity. Bogle's parade of admirers is passionate. It is led by, arguably, the two most acclaimed leaders of our day - in the world of investing and the public life of the world - Warren Buffett and President Bill Clinton. The book is a first take at putting Bogle's life work into a broader context. It includes some of Bogle's classic essays and leads to an agenda of reform Bogle feels is essential to preserve our democratic republic. It features insight on the man from such commentators as Arthur Levitt, Burton Malkiel, Paul Volcker, and many more. -Features wisdom and commentary on the career and life of legendary investor John C. Bogle -Presents a summary of Bogle's prominent and successful career, as well as his investing strategies -Includes commentary from a Who's Who of top investors

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Title: Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
Author: Danielle Dreilinger
Narrator: Rachel Perry
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:18:40
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, World, Social Science, Women

Summary:
The term 'home economics' may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist, and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women-and they were mostly women-became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages.

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Title: Platinum Persuasion
Author: India
Narrator: Madison C. Marie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:44:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:
A woman with tragic beginnings finds love and her voice on her way to stardom...will the spotlight dim her hard-earned shine? From the day Layani Cherise Bell was born, the world was betting against her. Born four months premature, the doctors didn't expect her to make it, but she did. At the age of six, Layani was diagnosed with leukemia. Again, the doctors gave her a death sentence, but she survived. As if that weren't enough, at the ripe age of thirteen, she lost mother and father in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. With no family willing to step up and care for her, she was put into foster care. Alone and afraid, Layani befriends and later falls in love with Micah Jones, another kid forced into the system after tragedy strikes his family. Not one to cry over spilled milk, Micah passes his time away in foster care by making beats for local artists and daydreaming about becoming a super producer. After hearing Layani sing better than some of the greats, he devotes all his time and energy to making her a star. With hard work, dedication, and his encouragement, she's destined for greatness. After a chance encounter with the charismatic CEO of a major record label promising to fulfill Layani's wildest dreams, it seems that she and Micah are well on their way to the top. However, the label has no room for another producer. Micah convinces his woman to go on to superstardom without him, and Layani is famous overnight. She has the world at her fingertips, and everything is perfect until living life in the spotlight hits her like a ton of bricks. Can she remain grounded surrounded by lies, drugs, and scandal...or is she willing to lose who she is to become who she's always wanted to be?

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Title: Audacity of Sara Grayson
Author: Joani Elliott
Narrator: Libby Mcknight
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:06:28
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:
What happens when your mother's dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in the hands of her unstable, neurotic daughter, who swears she’s not a real writer? Sara Grayson is a thirty-two-year-old greeting card writer about to land the toughest assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother—a world-famous suspense novelist—Sara learns that her mother’s dying wish is for her to write the final book in her bestselling series. Sara has lived alone with her dog, Gatsby, ever since her husband walked out with their Pro Double Waffle Maker and her last shred of confidence. She can’t fathom writing a book for thirty million fans—not when last week’s big win was resetting the microwave clock. But in a bold move that surprises even herself, Sara takes it on. Against an impossible deadline and a publisher intent on sabotaging her every move, Sara discovers that stepping into her mother’s shoes means stumbling on family secrets she was never meant to find—secrets that threaten her mother’s legacy and the very book she’s trying to create.

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Title: Real Hoodwives of Detroit 2: Motor City Mayhem
Author: India
Narrator: Sable Lyn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:30:39
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:
What up, doe! Welcome back to the mean streets of Detroit. With all the drama going down in Motown, I knew your nosy self couldn't stay away. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. We pick up the story right where we left off in The Real Hoodwives of Detroit part one. If you thought your first visit to the Motor City was crazy, you ain't seen nothing yet. Nikki, Gucci, and Chloe have been waiting for you, and boy do they have some fire! Lies have been told, relationships have been tested, and these women are out for blood. The heat amongst this group is real. This ain't no television show. No one sits in a director's chair and yells, 'cut!' This drama is official. This is how the real, raw, and certified hoodwives from the Dirty Glove get down. We don't bump our gums; instead, we let our pistols do the talking. The way we live ain't for the weak-hearted. Where we come from, it's survival of the fittest, and only the strong survive. Scared? You should be. Welcome back to Detroit for round two!

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Title: América del Norte
Author: Nicolás Medina Mora
Narrator: Andre Bellido
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:22:39
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-2024
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General

Summary:
Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa's MFA program. But Sebastián's life is shaken by the Trump administration's restrictions on immigrants, his mother's terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father's forced resignation at the hands of Mexico's new president. As he struggles through the Trump and Lopez Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his father's role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the seventeenth-century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience. Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.

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Title: Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism
Author: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrator: Jen Gunter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:04:48
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science

Summary:
The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond. Menopause is not a disease-it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like puberty, we should be educated on what's to come years in advance, rather than the current practice of leaving people on their own with bothersome symptoms and too much conflicting information. Knowing what is happening, why, and what to do about it is both empowering and reassuring. Frank and funny, Dr. Jen Gunter debunks misogynistic attitudes and challenges the over-mystification of menopause to reveal everything you really need to know about: perimenopause, hot flashes, sleep disruption, sex and libido, depression and mood changes, skin and hair issues, outdated therapies, breast health, weight and muscle mass, health maintenance screening, and much more. Filled with practical, reassuring information, this essential guide will revolutionize how women experience menopause-including how their lives can be even better for it!

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Title: After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Narrator: David Shih
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:36:52
Language: English
Release date: 05-25-2021
Publisher: Kalorama
Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy, Political Ideologies

Summary:
In his 1992 bestselling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity's political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama revisits his classic thesis. A series of in-depth interviews between Fukuyama and editor Mathilde Fasting, After the End of History offers a wide-ranging analysis of liberal democracy today. Drawing on Fukuyama's work on identity, biotechnology, and political order, the book provides essential insight into the rise of authoritarianism and the greatest threats faced by democracy in our present world. Diving into topics like the surprise election of Donald Trump, the destruction of social and political norms, and the rise of China, Fukuyama deftly explains the plight of liberal democracy and explores how we might prevent its further decline. He also covers personal topics, reflects on his life and career, the evolution of his thinking, and some of his most important books. Insightful and important, After the End of History grants unprecedented access to one of the greatest political minds of our time.

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Title: Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
Author: Lesley Newson
Narrator: Mike Cooper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:03:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:
In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. We now know much more about the problems our ancestors faced, the solutions they found, and the trade-offs they made. Our species' unique capacity for culture began to evolve millions of years ago, but it only really took off in the last few hundred thousand years. This capacity allowed our ancestors to survive and raise their difficult children during times of extreme climate chaos. Understanding how this has evolved can help us understand the cultural change and diversity that we experience today. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures. Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future.

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Title: Album of Dr. Moreau
Author: Daryl Gregory
Narrator: Luis Moreno
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4:27:31
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:
Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by H. G. Wells with the panache of a classic murder mystery and the spectacle of a beloved boy band. It’s 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world’s hottest boy band, and definitely the world’s only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the “boyz” are the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (“the cute one”), Matt the megabat (“the funny one”), Tim the pangolin (“the shy one”), Devin the bonobo (“the romantic one”), or Tusk the elephant (“the smart one”)? Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ’ journey first began—a place they used to call home.

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Title: Let it Be Me
Author: Becky Wade
Narrator: Barbara Mcculloh
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:10:01
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:
The one woman he wants is the one he cannot have. Former foster kid Sebastian Grant has leveraged his intelligence and hard work to become a pediatric heart surgeon. But not even his career success can erase the void he’s tried so hard to fill. Then he meets high school teacher Leah Montgomery and his fast-spinning world comes to a sudden stop. He falls hard, only to make a devastating discovery—Leah is the woman his best friend set his heart on months before. Leah’s a math prodigy who’s only ever had one big dream—to earn her PhD. Raising her little brother put that dream on hold. Now that her brother will soon be college bound, she’s not going to let anything stand in her way. Especially romance … which is far less dependable than algebra. When Leah receives surprising results from the DNA test she submitted to a genealogy site, she solicits Sebastian’s help. Together, they comb through hospital records to uncover the secrets of her history. The more powerfully they’re drawn to each other, the more strongly Sebastian must resist, and the more Leah must admit that some things in life—like love—can’t be explained with numbers.

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Title: Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Author: Linda Colley
Narrator: Susan Ericksen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:12:37
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: History, World, Global Politics

Summary:
A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world. She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel.

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Title: Simulated
Author: Nova Mcbee
Narrator: Laura Knight Keating
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:23:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:
From Young-Adult author Nova McBee comes the second book in the gritty, action-filled Calculated series. Jo Rivers, safely back in Seattle, asks the same question daily—how does a math genius go from taking down international criminals and saving the world economy to living a normal teenage life? The only answer she can come up with is—she doesn’t. With an overprotective father on her back and Kai on the other side of the world, Jo accepts an offer from Prodigy Stealth Solutions (PSS), who may have found a way to get her gift back. Using a newly developed technology, PSS tries a simulation process on Jo to restore her abilities, but during the attempt, PSS is hacked and a blacklist file containing some of PSS’s most sensitive secrets is stolen. Meanwhile, a mysterious caller who seems to know more than he should delivers a warning to Jo about Kai, who then goes missing. Despite her father’s concerns, Jo sets off on a risky trip to Tunisia with a PSS team of teen prodigies to find an urgently needed solution for PSS and locate Kai. All the while, Jo has to trust the mysterious informant who, frighteningly, is like no one she has ever met before.

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Title: Five Wounds: A Novel
Author: Kirstin Valdez Quade
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:44:07
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, General, Family Life

Summary:
It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tive, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo doesn't think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as 'legitimate masterpieces' (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the book's conclusion, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

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Title: White Magic: Essays
Author: Elissa Washuta
Narrator: Kyla García
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:26:34
Language: English
Release date: 05-18-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, History & Culture

Summary:
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, 'starter witch kits' of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life-Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham-to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.

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Title: Dark Alpha’s Obsession
Author: Donna Grant
Narrator: Victoria Mcgloven
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:54:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-17-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, General, Paranormal

Summary:
There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, I'm coming for you . . . When Erith directs me to infiltrate the enemy and topple them from within, I immediately accept the challenge. I figure it'll be easy until a stunning warrior goddess crosses my path and diverts my attention. The problem? She's in league with those I was sent to take down. However, I soon discover there is more to her than meets the eye and quickly find my mission divided: disband this new group of Fae Others and save the gorgeous Light from her family-and herself. All it takes is one look, one conversation to know that she's mine, and I will chance Death's displeasure to make it so. But the risks are great. Because when you fall in love with the enemy, more than your heart is on the line. Contains mature themes.

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Title: Speedrunning the Multiverse 3: A LitRPG Cultivation Adventure
Author: Adastra339
Narrator: Graham Halstead
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18:23:44
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-2024
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
This is Dorian’s final run, and the fate of the Multiverse hangs in the balance. Dorian is royally screwed. He’s stuck in Hell. He’s lost access to all his past lives’ Godking bodies. He’s being hunted by an arch nemesis who’s rapidly devouring the Multiverse. And if he dies, that’s it. No more respawns. He has to gain enough power to rival the strongest force the Multiverse has ever seen—in record time. While being chased across Hell by some of the most nefarious bounty hunters in the Multiverse. He’ll have to battle demon Empires, wade through impenetrable monster-infested swamps, and steal the crown jewel of Hell’s most powerful merchant’s kingdom right out from under their noses. And all he has on his side is a happy-go-lucky monkey-girl more interested in food than fighting. … Admittedly, it’s not looking good. Then again. Dorian’s at his best with the odds stacked against him. Book three of this exciting LitRPG cultivation adventure about an ancient God who's reached the apex of his power progression and has decided to reincarnate multiple times to try and speedrun the Dao and reach the peak of cultivation.

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Title: Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America
Author: David Horowitz
Narrator: Rick Adamson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:47:36
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Kalorama
Genres: Politics, Political Ideologies

Summary:
Throughout history, the United States has faced deadly enemies from across the globe. But today, our biggest enemies lie within our own country, enemies determined to tear our very country apart with ugly passions and irreconcilable conflicts. Legendary conservative firebrand David Horowitz argues that America's fundamental principles are under attack, and the progressive left will do anything to see those principles revoked and replaced with their own radical agenda. In The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement Is Destroying America, bestselling author David Horowitz presents a harrowing account of our internal enemies and battles, including the leaders of the Women's March, the Senate Judiciary Committee's brutal treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination, and the Southern Poverty Law Center's 'watch list.' In each case, these enemies of freedom suppress anyone whose views don't align with their far-left agenda. The progressive assault on America is not unlike the attempts of other totalitarian movements around the globe, warns Horowitz. What should be different, he adds, is our response as American citizens and patriots.

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Title: Top Rankin’: A Punk/Ska Noir Novel
Author: Howard Paar
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:59:06
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Fiction, General, Noir

Summary:
It's the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything's changing. James Dual, inspired by the racially integrated punky ska revival in England, starts the ON Klub, a ska, soul, and reggae club at the rough and ready pre-gentrified Silver Lake end of Sunset Blvd. He and partner in crime, Drea Dresden, try their best to make the transition out of the '70s in one piece. A journalist friend brings a mob related music man connected to Bob Marley to visit the club, who becomes obsessed with the charismatic young Jamaican singer Loraine Sulley, who is performing that night. He lures James with promises to bring in iconic ska and reggae artists to perform at the club if James convinces Loraine to sign to Marshall's planned new record label. In the meantime, James and Drea are threatened by two corrupt Sheriff's homicide detectives who are still trying to nail an innocent James for the death of a band member that occurred soon after he first arrived in LA. Top Rankin' is populated with real-life characters from the music world in Los Angeles, New York, and London, and leads listeners on a tour of the dangers and importance of providing refuge on the precipice of major political upheaval.

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Title: Hiss H for Homicide
Author: T. C. Lotempio
Narrator: Amy Rubinate
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:01:07
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
Nick and Nora are back in a tantalizing new mystery that's far more dangerous than a game of cat and mouse . . . Never one to turn away from a challenge-even when it goes against her better judgment-Nora Charles can hardly say no when an old friend of her mother's comes to town seeking her help. The author of steamy romances has learned that her writing partner is severing their relationship and threatening to reveal dark and dirty secrets in a tell-all, and she pleads with Nora to intervene. Reluctantly agreeing to help, Nora pays a visit to the writing partner, ready to make her case-right up until the moment she discovers the woman's lifeless body. With the police convinced that Nora's friend is the culprit, she and Nick begin delving into the dead woman's past and her provocative tell-all. It soon becomes apparent that the woman had a knack for digging up dirt and wasn't shy about exposing skeletons in closets, and before long Nora has a seemingly endless list of suspects who were at risk of having their darkest secrets revealed. With a police force intent on throwing the book at Nora's friend and time running out, she and Nick must outwit a dangerous killer before they take their own secrets to the grave . . .

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Title: Zandru's Forge
Author: Deborah J. Ross
Narrator: Peter Bradbury
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17:17:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover.

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Title: Baby & Solo
Author: Lisabeth Posthuma
Narrator: Nick Walther
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:35:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Teen, Historical, Tough Topics

Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist: a part-time job, the first step toward the elusive Normal life he’s been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It’s the perfect fresh start—he even gets a new name. Dubbed “Solo” after his favorite Star Wars character, Joel works his way up the not-so-corporate ladder without anyone suspecting What Was Wrong With Him. That is, until he befriends Nicole “Baby” Palmer, a smart-mouthed coworker with a chip on her shoulder about … well, everything, and the two quickly develop the kind of friendship movie montages are made of. However, when Joel’s past inevitably catches up with him, he’s forced to choose between preserving his new blank slate persona and coming clean—and either way, he risks losing the first real friend he’s ever had. Set in a pop-culture-rich 1990s, this remarkable story tackles challenging and timely themes with huge doses of wit, power, and heart.

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Title: To All Who Call in Truth
Author: Michael B. Oren
Narrator: Graham Winton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:15:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:
In Michael Oren’s beautifully rendered novel, an unsuspecting coach and guidance counselor gets drawn into an illicit relationship and a macabre murder mystery in 1970s suburbia. Sandy Cooper lives an uneventful life as a guidance counselor and coach in a suburban junior high school. Uneventful, that is, until a word of advice to a troubled student embroils him in a forbidden relationship and the exposure of a twisted murder. In this compulsively readable novel reminiscent of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, Michael Oren evokes a time of racial, political, and social turmoil in the 1970s.

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Title: Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Author: Nick Lloyd
Narrator: Mark Elstob
Format: Unabridged
Length: 20:40:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: History, World, Military

Summary:
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles. From the trenches where men as young as seventeen suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter.

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Title: Exhale: Hope, Healing, and Life in Transplant
Author: David Weill M.D.
Narrator: David Weill M.D.
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:23:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Medicine, History & Culture

Summary:
Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives—until it was time to step back and reassess his own life. A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by several hospitals. A kid who was considered not “smart enough” to be worthy of a transplant. A young mother dying on the waiting list in front of her two small children. A father losing his oldest daughter after a transplant goes awry. The nights waiting for donor lungs to become available, understanding that someone needed to die so that another patient could live. These are some of the stories in Exhale, a memoir about Dr. Weill’s ten years spent directing the lung transplant program at Stanford. Through these stories, he shows not only the miracle of transplantation, but also how it is a very human endeavor performed by people with strengths and weaknesses, powerful attributes, and profound flaws. Exhale is an inside look at the world of high-stakes medicine, complete with the decisions that are confronted, the mistakes that are made, and the story of a transplant doctor’s slow recognition that he needed to step away from the front lines. This book is an exploration of holding on too tight, of losing one’s way, and of the power of another kind of decision—to leave behind everything for a fresh start.

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Title: Bitten By the Alpha
Author: Annabelle Jacobs
Narrator: Antony Ferguson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:29:17
Language: English
Release date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Paranormal

Summary:
Gareth's heart is set on Cam, but Cam's heart broke a long time ago. As alpha of the Regent's Park Pack, Cam's focus is always centred on its members-his personal life pushed aside after the death of his wife. Now that his pack has merged with the Primrose Hill shifters, he can't afford any distractions. Gareth's been in love with his alpha for years, but his position as beta complicates matters. Added to the fact Cam still mourns his late wife, Gareth knows his feelings will never be reciprocated, so he buries them deep. With the two packs already struggling to unite under one alpha, they get a surprise addition-one who causes more tension within the ranks. Under such strain, long-kept secrets are forced into the open. Gareth and Cam must deal with the aftermath, while also keeping the pack's best interests at heart. Contains mature themes.

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Title: Hot Shot
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Narrator: Nicole Poole
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-2021
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Romance, General

Summary:
From New York Times bestseller Susan Elizabeth Phillips comes a glorious, heart-stopping love story as a woman called Hot Shot discovers a passion so rich, so tender, that she will be utterly and forever transformed. She jumped on the back of a bad boy's Harley and followed his renegade dream … In a single, impulsive act, Susannah Faulconer, the daughter of one of the country's most powerful industrialists, follows her heart and finds herself severed from her family and everything familiar. As a cool San Francisco socialite, she'd known exactly how to behave, but now she's a lone woman in a world of men … and there's no etiquette book in the world that can teach her how to survive. The men are rebels, determined to take on corporate America with daring and vision, and they aren't going to let her play by good girls' rules. There's Sam, the charismatic visionary, on a rocket-driven ride to glory. And Mitch, the troubled corporate genius with no time for a rich socialite, no matter how beautiful. Together, they will force Susannah into the biggest challenge of her life as she tests her courage—and her love—in a bold experiment that will change them all forever.

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Title: Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Renée Bergland
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:04:29
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-2024
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Business & Economics, Accounting & Finance

Summary:
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical-and too dangerous for women. Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminary nineteenth-century minds whose thought and writings captured the awesome possibilities of the new sciences and at the same time strove to preserve the magic of nature. Just as Darwin's work was informed by his roots in natural philosophy and his belief in the interconnectedness of all life, Dickinson's poetry was shaped by her education in botany, astronomy, and chemistry, and by her fascination with the enchanting possibilities of Darwinian science. Casting their two very different careers in an entirely fresh light, Renee Bergland brings to life a time when ideas about science were rapidly evolving, reshaped by poets, scientists, philosophers, and theologians alike. She paints a colorful portrait of a remarkable century that transformed how we see the natural world.

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Title: Friends & Dark Shapes
Author: Kavita Bedford
Narrator: Cat Gould
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:29:02
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-2021
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:
Losing a father isn't easy. Neither is the split existence you live afterwards when you can still conjure up the past where he was alive and yet have to live in the present where he is not. Grief is universal and eternal, yet how we deal with it-or how it deals with us-depends on who is grieving, when, and with whom. On the outside, the protagonist of this stylish debut novel seems to have it all together, but the grief she is still feeling after the loss of her father her to live a a divided existed and constructs a barrier between between the day-to-day reality of what she's experiencing with people her age, this life that she's leading, and a feeling of estrangement, grief, and need? The world these characters inhabit-rent is nuts, nobody is getting younger, and everyone remains unsatisfied, always wanting something more-the emotions they struggle to understand (and even feel), their ambivalence and confusion about the future, work, the political issues of the day, relationships, and each other all weave together to create the background for a poignant story about loss.

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Title: Flowers of Mold: Stories
Author: Ha Seong-Nan
Narrator: Cindy Kay, David Shih
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:20:59
Language: English
Release date: 05-04-2021
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:
On the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In ten captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals-male and female, young and old-who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world. The latest in the trend of brilliant female Korean authors to appear in English, Ha cuts like a surgeon, and even the most mundane objects become menacing and unfamiliar under her scalpel.