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  • What Sleeps within the Cove - Harper L. Woods

    What Sleeps within the Cove - Harper L. Woods
    Aug 15 2025
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    Title: What Sleeps within the Cove
    Author: Harper L. Woods
    Narrator: Ava Lucas, Liam Dicosimo
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 08-15-2025
    Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
    Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

    Summary:
    Go back to where it all began in the fourth stunning entry to Of Flesh and Bone.
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    11 ore
  • Uplifted: Stories of Climbing with Friends in High Places - Sonnie Trotter

    Uplifted: Stories of Climbing with Friends in High Places - Sonnie Trotter
    Apr 15 2025
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    Title: Uplifted: Stories of Climbing with Friends in High Places
    Author: Sonnie Trotter
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-15-2025
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Outdoor Recreation

    Summary:
    How is a person changed by commitment to their passion, and how does their commitment change over time? These are questions that esteemed climber Sonnie Trotter asks as he reflects on the most thrilling adventures of his sport and his life. Trotter has been dangling from astonishingly high places for over 25 years, more than half his life. He’s been at the forefront of the sport for most of that time, specializing in first ascents on rock faces most people cannot imagine scaling. In Uplifted, Sonnie recounts the most memorable moments of his career but also the rich relationships, including with epic climbers such as Tommy Caldwell ('Dawn Wall') and Alex Honnold ('Free Solo'), that are the spine of the sport, as well as the psyche that draws one to and evolves as one grows into and through this unique and challenging endeavor. From learning to climb in an ancient grain silo in southern Ontario, to mastering some of the hardest, tallest rock climbs on Earth, Sonnie shares entertaining but candid tales about life on the road, living in the dirt, overcoming obstacles, and changing within his sport. He writes as if he is sharing stories around the campfire at the end of a great day, when you are bone-tired but loving the camaraderie, so much so that you don’t want to retire to your tent. He embodies a “humble masculinity” in what is perceived as a high-adrenaline, hard-charging sport, but reveals that it is very much about careful consideration, insightful reflection, and balancing challenge and risk. Sonnie speaks openly about how his attitude towards the risks climbing demands has changed as he has aged and changed his life’s circumstances. Now married with two young children), he describes how he has reconciled these parts of his life and his identity. This is a crossroads that many – whether from commitment to a sport or through other circumstances of life – have faced and will relate.
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    9 ore
  • There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - Brian Goldstone

    There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - Brian Goldstone
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
    Author: Brian Goldstone
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 14:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

    Summary:
    Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one. In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country’s “Black Mecca” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation’s working homeless. Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.
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    14 ore
  • Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook - Ned Johnson

    Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook - Ned Johnson
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook
    Author: Ned Johnson
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Education

    Summary:
    From the authors of The Self-Driven Child, a workbook of vital practices and step-by-step resources for parents striving to raise self-motivated, secure, and joyfully driven children A guide to move from understanding the science and value behind nonanxious parenting to developing and sharpening the essential skills parents need to be a trusted resource for growing kids. Authors William Stixrud and Ned Johnson have watched firsthand as the crisis around education and the mental health crisis in childhood have converged in the postpandemic years. Their book The Self-Driven Child was ahead of the curve in addressing the way these forces converge in adolescents at pivotal moments as children develop their sense of autonomy, ambition, self-discipline, and learning style. As the authors have continued to lecture on the book’s subject, parents have again and again homed in on the value of the model dialogues and practice prompts. Using material from their current work with parents and children, and pulling essential principles from the science in The Self-Driven Child, this workbook guides parents to develop the practice of being a nonanxious presence in children’s lives, as well as introducing essential skills for navigating the pressure cooker of school. With prompts to help parents diagnose and rewire their instinctual response​s to stressful situations, exercises to give them the language to communicate clearly and calmly, and lists to keep anxiety responses in check and big-picture goals in view, this workbook will bring peace and clarity to parents and educators seeking to support the unique path each child traverses on the road to growing up.
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    6 ore
  • Lucky Night: A Novel - Eliza Kennedy

    Lucky Night: A Novel - Eliza Kennedy
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: Lucky Night: A Novel
    Author: Eliza Kennedy
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life

    Summary:
    A masterful novel—blistering in suspense and humor—about marriage, infidelity, love, and a blazing hotel room Nick Holloway is forty-six. A successful partner at a law firm, he has a gorgeous wife, a precious daughter, and a big house. If he also has gnawing disappointments, secret yearnings, and a creeping sense of opportunities wasted, well, that’s nobody’s fault but his own. Jenny Parrish is forty. She has two lovely sons, a devoted if somewhat hapless husband, and recently is hugely successful in her dream vocation. It’s a perfect life! So perfect, she can’t help but wonder sometimes whether it’s all going to come crashing down. For the past six years, Nick and Jenny have been meeting at least once a month and having sex. Lots of sex. Great sex. They do not discuss their spouses, they never spend the night, and they never ever talk about what their relationship means. Because this thing they have? It’s casual. Uncomplicated. When Nick books a night at a fancy new hotel, the two decide to break one of their rules and spend the whole night together. It’s business as usual—until a fire alarm goes off. At first they think it’s a false alarm. But as the fire closes in, fear strips away their defenses and justifications, forcing Jenny and Nick to be honest, with each other and with themselves, about how they ended up in this room, and what these six years have really meant. A meditation on whether it’s possible to live an authentic life, and whether we can ever show our true selves, Eliza Kennedy’s Lucky Night is a literary triumph.
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    11 ore
  • Trauma Plot: A Life - Jamie Hood

    Trauma Plot: A Life - Jamie Hood
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: Trauma Plot: A Life
    Author: Jamie Hood
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Literary Criticism

    Summary:
    From a rising literary star and the author of How to Be a Good Girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival 'Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders.'—Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot, Hood draws on disparate literary forms to tell the story that lurked in Good Girl’s margins—of three decades marred by sexual violence and the wreckage left behind. With her trademark critical remove, Hood interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable, invoking some of art’s most infamous women to have played the role: Ovid’s Philomela, David Lynch’s Laura Palmer, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who captured Judith’s wrath. In so doing, she asks: What do we as a culture demand of survivors? And what do survivors, in turn, owe a world that has abandoned them? Trauma Plot is a scalding work of personal and literary criticism. It is a send-up of our culture's pious disdain for “trauma porn,” a dirge for the broken promises of #MeToo, and a paean to finding life after death.
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    9 ore
  • Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It - Jenny Wood

    Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It - Jenny Wood
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It
    Author: Jenny Wood
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness

    Summary:
    A bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want from an executive who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google. What if the traits you need to get ahead are the exact opposite of what you’ve been told? To be successful you need to be Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless, and Bossy. And that takes courage. As a former Google leader and top career coach who chased an attractive stranger off the subway and later married him, Jenny Wood knows her way around courage. In this book, Wood shatters conventional wisdom about achieving your goals. She gives you permission to ditch your fear and chase after what you want, unapologetically. Wood reclaims nine traits from their negative shackles and teaches you how to apply them in a savvy and sane way to supercharge your success, whether you’re trying to impress your new boss, snag a stretch promotion, or land a life-changing deal. Wild Courage will teach you how to be: Weird: Win as you or lose as “who?” Selfish: Be your own champion Shameless: Kick impostor syndrome to the curb and self-promote with ease. Obsessed: Push, persist, and perform at your highest level. Nosy: Get curious to network confidently and learn from others Manipulative: Build influence with empathy and manage up like a pro. Brutal: Draw lines and stick to them. Embrace the power of no. Reckless: Err on the side of action and take healthy risks. Bossy: Steer others to success, even if you’re not in charge yet. Wild Courage coaches you to smash through your fear of discomfort, failure, and the judgement of others, to embrace your boldest self in pursuit of what you want. To be successful, you need to have courage. Wild amounts of it.
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    9 ore
  • Sons and Daughters: A Novel - Chaim Grade

    Sons and Daughters: A Novel - Chaim Grade
    Mar 25 2025
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    Title: Sons and Daughters: A Novel
    Author: Chaim Grade
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 21:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-25-2025
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction, Family Life

    Summary:
    From “one of the great—if not the greatest—of living Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march of modernity “It is me the prophet laments when he cries out, ‘My enemies are the people in my own home.’” The Rabbi ignored his borscht and instead chewed on a crust of bread dipped in salt. “My greatest enemies are my own family.” Rabbi Sholem Shachne Katzenellenbogen’s world, the world of his forefathers, is crumbling before his eyes. And in his own home! His eldest, Bentzion, is off in Bialystok, studying to be a businessman; his daughter Bluma Rivtcha is in Vilna, at nursing school. For her older sister, Tilza, he at least managed to find a suitable young rabbi, but he can tell things are off between them. Naftali Hertz? Forget it; he’s been lost to a philosophy degree in Switzerland (and maybe even a goyish wife?). And now the rabbi’s youngest, Refael’ke, wants to run off to the Holy Land with the Zionists. Originally serialized in the 1960s and '70s, in New York–based Yiddish newspapers, Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters is a precious glimpse of a way of life that is no longer—the rich Yiddish culture of Poland and Lithuania that the Holocaust would eradicate. We meet the Katzenellenbogens in the tiny village of Morehdalye, in the 1930s, when gangs of Poles are beginning to boycott Jewish merchants and the modern, secular world is pressing in on the shtetl from all sides. It’s this clash, between the freethinking secular life and a life bound by religious duty—and the comforts offered by each—that stands at the center of Sons and Daughters. With characters that rival the homespun philosophers and lovable rouges of Sholem Aleichem and I. B. Singer—from the brooding Zalia Ziskind, paralyzed by the suffering of others, to the Dostoyevskian demon Shabse Shepsel—Grade’s masterful novel brims with humanity and with heartbreaking affection for a world, once full of life in all its glorious complexity, that would in just a few years vanish forever.
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    21 ore