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ii In Brief American Council of the Blind Browse by subject on BARD honors NLS Director BARD allows you to quickly pull up all In early July NLS participated in the books in a given subject category through virtual American Council for the Blind its “Browse by subject” feature—and the (ACB) Annual Convention, where Karen list of searchable subjects is growing. In Keninger, Director of the National Library July, NLS added LGBTQ+ as a searchable for the Blind and Print Disabled, received category. If you haven’t browsed by subject the Robert S. Bray Award. Established in lately, visit BARD and see if one of your 1975, the award honors the memory of the favorite subjects is now available as a drop- late chief of the Division for the Blind and down search term. Physically Handicapped, the precursor to NLS. ACB gives the award to a person who has contributed to improving library Pandemic continues to affect technology or communication devices, braille production expanding access for blind people, or The COVID-19 pandemic continues to making opportunities within the mainstream delay the distribution of new hardcopy media. In nominating Keninger for the braille books. The pandemic has not halted award, former ACB president Kim Charlson the transcription of books into BRF files, wrote, “Along with her devoted Seeing Eye and many new ebraille titles can be found dog, Jimi, she travels all over the globe to on BARD through the “Recently added promote access to information and literacy books and magazines” feature. However, for all people—regardless of their abilities these books are not yet available in or disabilities. . . . [S]he exemplifies what hardcopy braille. the award is all about—access, empower- NLS intends to distribute these books in ment, and advocacy in the field of library hardcopy to network libraries as soon as the science.” necessary facilities reopen. As these items NLS also broadcast four 30-minutes cannot currently be ordered in hardcopy, interviews with key staff members talking we will not be listing them in Braille Book about initiatives of specific interest to ACB Review. Because of the lack of new braille members on ACB Radio. Those segments titles to announce, we will not be releasing are now available as MP3s on the NLS a large-print or HTML version of Braille website. Listeners can learn more about Book Review for September/October 2020. the ins and outs of the NLS collection at This braille version of Braille Book Review https://go.usa.gov/xfpNE, the work we do September/October 2020 contains only to enhance accessibility of books and maga- the abridged descriptions of talking books zines at https://go.usa.gov/xfpNy, the latest released during this period. We sincerely progress of the braille eReader project at hope that this issue will be resolved soon https://go.usa.gov/xfpNd, and updates to and apologize for the inconvenience to BARD at https://go.usa.gov/xfpNw. hardcopy braille readers.

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iv Books for Adults All books listed in this issue of Talking Adult Fiction Book Topics (TBT) have been distributed to cooperating libraries, though TBT does not Family include every book that has been produced The Weight of a Piano by NLS. The complete collection, con- DB93545 9 hours 57 minutes taining a wide range of fiction and nonfic- by Chris Cander tion books, including biographies, classics, read by Cassandra Campbell As an eight-year-old girl in the Soviet westerns, mysteries, and romances, can be Union, Katya is bequeathed a Blüthner found by visiting www.loc.gov/nls. piano. She loves it dearly, but loses it in Registered users may also download all a frantic move to America. Years later, titles and magazines from the NLS Braille after being dumped yet again, Clara and Audio Reading Download (BARD) Lundy searches for an apartment, which service at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. The free is complicated by an old gift. Unrated. BARD Mobile app is available from the Commercial audiobook. 2019. App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s The Second Life of Ava Rivers Appstore for reading talking books on your DB92800 8 hours 56 minutes personal smart phone or tablet. To learn by Faith Gardner more about the collection or to sign up read by Kristin Allison for BARD, contact your local cooperating Eighteen-year-old Vera is eager to start library. Regional library telephone numbers college and escape the misery her family and email addresses are listed on the last has endured ever since her twin Ava’s dis- pages of this magazine. appearance on Halloween twelve years Books within the headings Adult Fiction earlier. But Vera’s world turns upside and Adult Nonfiction are listed alphabeti- down again when Ava suddenly returns. cally by subject category, author last name, Some strong language. For senior high and and title. For example the title War and older readers. 2018. Peace by Leo Tolstoy would be listed in Picture Us in the Light DB93310 13 hours 5 minutes Adult Fiction under the Classics subject by Kelly Loy Gilbert category and by the last name Tolstoy. read by Andy Pyle Note: A notice may appear immediately Rhode Island School of Design hopeful following the book description to indicate Danny Cheng grapples with a dangerous occurrences of violence, strong language, revelation about his Chinese parents’ past, or descriptions of sex. The word “some” his plans for the future, and his feelings for before any of these terms indicates an occa- his best friend, Harry Wong. 2018. sional or infrequent occurrence, as in “some Dual Citizens strong language.” Commercial audiobooks DB95627 9 hours 46 minutes for which NLS does not have access to the by Alix Ohlin print book may display the notice “unrated,” read by Thérèse Plummer which means that the book may or may Half sisters Lark and Robin have little in not contain violence, strong language, or common besides being named after birds, descriptions of sex. but they form a formidable team while

1 Adult Fiction Family, Fantasy growing up in Montreal. When Lark heads Former grifter Nahri embraces her heri- to America to attend college, Robin fol- tage and power while watched over by a lows and ends up attending Juilliard. But djinn king who holds the throne that once difficulties dog their relationship. Unrated. belonged to her family. Meanwhile, Ali Commercial audiobook. 2019. is exiled to the copper sands, and a new threat approaches Daevabad. Sequel to Fantasy The City of Brass (DB89895). Unrated. The Wicked King Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB93596 10 hours 24 minutes The True Queen by Holly Black DB95687 12 hours 27 minutes read by Caitlin Kelly by Zen Cho As seneschal to High King Cardan, Jude read by Jenny Sterlin must fight to keep control of the Faerie Sisters Muna and Sakti wake on a beach throne while her younger brother, Oak, with no memories, cursed by an enchanter. enjoys the childhood she never knew. When Sakti starts to fade away, their only Sequel to The Cruel Prince (DB89978). hope is in Britain, where the Sorceress Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For Royal has started an academy to train senior high and older readers. 2019. women in magic. Sequel to Sorcerer to the The Lost Coast Crown (DB83550). Unrated. Commercial DB95724 8 hours 49 minutes audiobook. 2019. by Amy Rose Capetta Ghosts of the Shadow Market read by various narrators DB95942 17 hours 27 minutes After they cast a spell to bring her close, by Cassandra Clare Danny discovers the Grays, a group of read by various narrators and others queer teenage witches. But something is Collection of ten short stories set in the very wrong in the forest of her new home, Shadowhunters world, featuring Jem and whatever it is, it can kill. Unrated. Carstairs as he travels through the many Commercial audiobook. For senior high Shadow Markets around the globe, and older readers. 2019. searching for a relic from his past. Some Roar of Sky stories were previously published in other DB95268 12 hours 20 minutes media. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. by Beth Cato For senior high and older readers. 2019. read by Faith Potts Stepsister After escaping Ambassador Blum in Call DB95491 12 hours 56 minutes of Fire (DB89468), geomancer Ingrid by Jennifer Donnelly is injured and on the run. With compan- read by Jayne Entwistle ions Cy and Fenris, she heads to Hawaii, After mutilating her foot to fit into Ella’s hoping for help from Madam Pele, god- glass slipper, stepsister Isabelle realizes dess of volcanoes, whom Ingrid suspects is that she will never be what her Maman her grandmother. Some violence. 2018. wishes. She is a plain, stubborn girl in The Kingdom of Copper a world that values beauty, and “ugly” DB93701 23 hours 17 minutes is the sword that cuts you free. Unrated. by S.A. Chakraborty Commercial audiobook. For senior high read by Soneela Nankani and older readers. 2019. 2 Adult Fiction—Fantasy King of Fools of a tailor) and service at the court of a DB95722 17 hours 33 minutes ruling count known as the Beast. Unrated. by Amanda Foody Commercial audiobook. 2019. read by Saskia Maarleveld All of Us with Wings With bounties on their heads, Enne con- DB95633 10 hours 35 minutes tinues to play the role of both a lady and a by Michelle Ruiz Keil street lord while Levi forms a partnership read by Maria Liatis with the son of a member of the Mafia. Seventeen-year-old Xochi’s life changed Sequel to Ace of Shades (DB94842). when she became governess to preco- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For cious twelve-year-old Pallas. Xochi’s senior high and older readers. 2019. past and present collide when she and Evermore Pallas unintentionally summon a pair of DB93387 9 hours 4 minutes ancient creatures determined to right the by Sara Holland wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence. Unrated. read by Eileen Stevens Commercial audiobook. For senior high Jules Ember, the Alchemist, is wanted and older readers. 2019. for a murder she didn’t commit. Caro, a We Set the Dark on Fire cold-blooded Sorceress, is the true culprit, DB95751 9 hours 56 minutes and she is intent on destroying Jules for by Tehlor Kay Mejia stealing her heart twelve lifetimes ago. read by Kyla Garcia Sequel to Everless (DB87989). Unrated. At the Medio School for Girls, distin- Commercial audiobook. For senior high guished young women are trained for and older readers. 2018. one of two roles in their society. Daniela The Plastic Magician Vargas is the top student, but her pedi- DB94700 9 hours 22 minutes gree is a lie and circumstances present by Charlie N. Holmberg a new, rebellious opportunity. Unrated. read by Barbara Rappaport Commercial audiobook. For senior high Alvie Brechenmacher arrives in London and older readers. 2019. in 1905 to apprentice in Polymaking, the Nocturna magical discipline of bespelling plastic. DB95588 14 hours 50 minutes Studying under world-renowned magi- by Maya Motayne cian Marion Praff, Alvie hopes to create a read by Kyla Garcia device that will change Polymaking and Faceshifter Finn, caught in a compro- possibly even the world, but a rival wants mising position, must steal a royal treasure to steal her invention. 2018. or face the consequence of being stripped A Brightness Long Ago of her magic—her only disguise and DB95623 14 hours 13 minutes protection—forever. Unrated. Commercial by Guy Gavriel Kay audiobook. For senior high and older read by Simon Vance readers. 2019. A man looks back on his youth and the The Merciful Crow people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra’s DB95920 13 hours 0 minutes intelligence won him entry to a renowned by Margaret Owen school (although he was only the son read by Amy Landon

3 Adult Fiction Fantasy, General Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a Maren, desperate to save her kidnapped lowly caste of mercy killers, must rely on girlfriend, plans to steal one of the her wits and bone magic to smuggle the emperor’s dragons and storm the Aurati crown prince of Sabor to safety. Unrated. stronghold. But her success depends on Commercial audiobook. For senior high becoming an apprentice dragon trainer— and older readers. 2019. which proves to be a dangerous venture. Vow of Thieves Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For DB96425 14 hours 53 minutes senior high and older readers. 2019. by Mary E. Pearson Last Things read by various narrators DB95546 9 hours 2 minutes Just when they plan to start their new by Jacqueline West life together, Kazi and Jase are violently read by various narrators attacked and torn apart—and each is When strange things in the Minnesota thrust into their own new hell. Sequel to woods threaten Anders, the front man of Dance of Thieves (DB91720). Unrated. the metal band Last Things, Thea, the new Commercial audiobook. For senior high girl in town, says she’s there to protect and older readers. 2019. him. But is that the whole truth? Unrated. Dreadful Company: A Dr. Greta Commercial audiobook. For senior high Helsing Novel and older readers. 2019. DB96397 11 hours 25 minutes by Vivian Shaw General read by Suzannah Hampton The Dakota Winters Greta Helsing, doctor to the supernat- DB93385 8 hours 41 minutes ural community of London, is called to by Tom Barbash present at a medical conference in Paris. read by Jim Meskimen Unfortunately, Paris is infested with a In 1979, the Winter family lives in the coven of vampires who take Greta captive. Dakota, New York’s famed apartment Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. building. Anton Winter, back from the Peace The Evil Queen Corps after a bout of malaria, is drawn DB95771 20 hours 32 minutes into his father Buddy’s efforts to reignite by Gena Showalter his career as a late-night talk show host. read by Caitlin Kelly Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Raised in the mortal realm, Everly has Queenie no idea she’s a fairy-tale princess until DB94294 9 hours 48 minutes she manifests an ability to commune by Candice Carty-Williams with mirrors. Soon a horrifying truth is read by Shvorne Marks revealed: she is fated to be Snow White’s Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican greatest enemy, the Evil Queen. Unrated. British woman living in London and Commercial audiobook. For senior high working at a national newspaper. She feels and older readers. 2019. she straddles two cultures without ever Shatter the Sky fitting in. After a messy break up from her DB96412 9 hours 22 minutes long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks by Rebecca Kim Wells comfort in all the wrong places. Unrated. read by Catherine Ho Commercial audiobook. 2019. 4 Adult Fiction—General Life of David Hockney her and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is DB96306 5 hours 22 minutes arrested on obscenity charges, changing by Catherine Cusset the course of both of their lives. Unrated. read by Robert Sams Commercial audiobook. 2019. Biographical novel of artist David Everything Under Hockney. David grows up in England, DB93481 7 hours 42 minutes not understanding how poor his family is by Daisy Johnson other than his desire for paper to draw on. read by Jill Fox David’s relationships, romantic and pla- In this reimagining of the myth of tonic, influence his art.Translated from the Oedipus, Gretel gets a voicemail from 2018 French edition. Strong language and the mother who abandoned her sixteen descriptions of sex. 2019. years ago. She remembers her childhood The Cook on the canals of Oxford, England, and the DB95527 2 hours 31 minutes runaway boy they sheltered one winter, by Maylis de Kerangal Marcus. Some violence, some strong lan- read by Deborah Desmone guage, and some descriptions of sex. 2018. Mauro is a gifted self-taught French chef Unmarriageable who has loved food from an early age. DB93544 10 hours 54 minutes Each chapter follows him through his culi- by Soniah Kamal nary life, from baking cakes in his family’s read by Soniah Kamal kitchen in Paris through his work around A retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and the world. Translated from the 2016 Prejudice (DB50549) set in modern-day French edition. Some strong language. Pakistan. Alys Binat comes from a family 2019. that has suffered a reversal of fortune Faith Fox and has an abundance of daughters. DB94031 12 hours 38 minutes She has sworn to never marry, until she by Jane Gardam meets Mr. Darsee at a wedding. Unrated. read by Jill Fox Commercial audiobook. 2019. After Faith Fox’s mother died giving birth The Day the Sun Died to her, Faith’s overworked physician father DB94697 13 hours 12 minutes couldn’t raise his daughter alone. Luckily, by Yan Lianke a motley crew of family and friends get read by Brit Herring involved. These include her uncle Jack, Fourteen-year-old Li Niannian lives in a minister running an experimental com- the mountains with his parents, who run mune in Yorkshire. Some strong language a funeral parlor. One night he notices his and some descriptions of sex. 1996. neighbors have begun dreamwalking in Feast Your Eyes the streets, acting out desires they would DB95621 9 hours 20 minutes hide in the day. Translated from the 2015 by Myla Goldberg Chinese edition. Some violence and some read by various narrators strong language. 2018. Lillian Preston defies her family’s expec- Spring tations and moves to New York City in DB96015 7 hours 4 minutes 1955 to become a photographer. When a by Ali Smith gallery exhibits partially nude pictures of read by Juliette Burton 5 Adult Fiction General, Historical Fiction British director Richard is mourning his Death and Other Holidays longtime collaborator Paddy. During an DB94698 2 hours 39 minutes incident on a Scottish train platform, he by Marci Vogel is helped by Brit, a security guard at a read by Kimberly Schraf migrant detention center, and Florence, Over the course of a year, curatorial assis- a young girl with remarkable persuasive tant April grapples with a variety of per- power. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. sonal losses. As she mourns her beloved 2019. stepfather after he dies of cancer, she The Lager Queen of Minnesota thinks back on her father’s suicide when DB95922 11 hours 15 minutes she was a child. Some strong language. by J. Ryan Stradal 2018. read by Judith Ivey Siblings are split when their father leaves Historical Fiction his farm entirely to his younger daughter, Insurrecto Helen. With the proceeds, Helen builds DB93700 7 hours 1 minute a successful brewery, while older sister by Gina Apostol Edith struggles to make a living baking read by Justine Eyre pies. But when Helen is in trouble, she Magsalin has returned to Manila for needs Edith’s help. Unrated. Commercial a vacation from New York when she audiobook. 2019. receives a request for a translator. She Mrs. Miniver ends up taking the job and escorting film- DB95329 4 hours 27 minutes maker Chiara through the Philippines. by Jan Struther They create dueling scripts examining an read by Gabriella Cavallero incident in 1901 during the Philippine- Collection of short stories originally pub- American War. Unrated. Commercial lished as newspaper columns exploring audiobook. 2018. the world of the fictional Mrs. Miniver as Mad Boy: An Account of Henry Phipps in she goes through life in pre-World War II the War of 1812; A Novel Britain. As war looms closer, the everyday DB94699 9 hours 9 minutes adventures gain darker overtones. Basis by Nick Arvin for 1942 film of the same name. 1939. read by Ryan Dalusung Women Talking Henry Phipps is shocked by news of his DB94485 5 hours 56 minutes brother’s death and the fatal farm acci- by Miriam Toews dent that claims his mother. She makes read by various narrators him promise to bury her at sea with the In a remote Mennonite settlement, the remaining family surrounding her. As women have been waking up bruised and he tries to fulfill her wish, he becomes bloody for years. When they learn it is not involved in the War of 1812. Violence. the work of demons as they thought, but 2018. because they have been drugged and raped The Novel of Ferrara by the men of their community, the women DB93942 37 hours 44 minutes gather together. Unrated. Commercial by Giorgio Bassani audiobook. 2019. read by Laura Giannarelli

6 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction Collection of stories set in the Italian town Chimes of a Lost Cathedral of Ferrara before, during, and after World DB95848 27 hours 47 minutes War II. Individual members of the Jewish by Janet Fitch community examine the dichotomy of read by Yelena Shmulenson closeness and estrangement. Translated After the events of The Revolution from the 1980 Italian edition. Some strong of Marina M. (DB89619), Marina language and some descriptions of sex. Makarova must find a way to survive in 2018. post-revolution Russia. She returns to After the Party Petrograd and finds purpose in caring for DB95207 10 hours 38 minutes the orphans who haunt the streets. But her by Cressida Connolly trials aren’t over. Unrated. Commercial read by Terry Donnelly audiobook. 2019. 1938. Phyllis, her husband Hugh, and their The Poison Bed children return to stay with her sister in DB95820 13 hours 26 minutes England after living abroad. Phyllis and by Elizabeth Fremantle Hugh become involved with followers of read by Catherine Byers fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley and 1615. Robert and Frances Carr are impris- are invited to a party. There, a moment of oned in the Tower of London as they await vulnerability leads to tragic consequences. trial on charges of murder. Many watch for 2019. their downfall because Robert is a favorite Whiter than Snow of the king and Frances hails from the DB94234 8 hours 4 minutes powerful Howard family. Strong language, by Sandra Dallas some violence, and some descriptions of read by Ali Ahn sex. 2019. Colorado, 1920. After an avalanche strikes Meet Me in Monaco the town of Swandyke, the residents’ DB96117 9 hours 35 minutes lives are changed forever. The survivors by Hazel Gaynor meditate and reflect on their previous read by various narrators and lives and what is possible for the future. Heather Webb Estranged sisters Lucy and Dolly Patch Cannes, 1955. Struggling perfumer Sophie face the betrayal in their past. Unrated. Duval is ready to close her shop when Commercial audiobook. 2010. a young American woman takes refuge Zama inside. It is the glamorous actress Grace DB94263 8 hours 44 minutes Kelly, trying to escape British paparazzo by Antonio Di Benedetto James Henderson. Sophie bonds with read by Ryan Dalusung Grace and is intrigued by James. Unrated. 1790. Don Diego de Zama, an adminis- Commercial audiobook. 2019. trator in service to the Spanish crown, has The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella been posted to Asunción. He schemes to Fortuna be transferred to Buenos Aires but con- DB95239 16 hours 59 minutes stantly faces setbacks. Translated from the by Juliet Grames 1956 Spanish edition. Some violence and read by Lisa Flanagan some descriptions of sex. 2016. From the time she was a child in the Calabrese town of Ievoli, Stella Fortuna 7 Adult Fiction Historical Fiction has survived seven, possibly eight, near- The Stationery Shop death experiences. With every one, she DB96357 9 hours 16 minutes grows stronger—a quality needed as she by Marjan Kamali immigrates to America and reunites with read by Mozhan Marnò her overbearing father on the eve of World In 1953 Tehran, Roya is an idealistic War II. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. teenager who finds refuge in Mr. Fakhri’s 2019. book and stationery shop. Sensing a pos- The Ragged Edge of Night sible romance, Mr. Fakhri introduces her DB95447 12 hours 16 minutes to Bahman. But the revolution tears them by Olivia Hawker apart, until sixty years later, Roya has read by Gary Tipton a chance to discover the truth. Unrated. 1942. Anton, a former Franciscan friar, Commercial audiobook. 2019. travels to rural Germany to marry widow Independent People Elisabeth and help raise her children. He DB95714 20 hours 58 minutes seeks forgiveness for failing those in his by Halldor Laxness care and works to be the best husband and read by Michael Page father. When he joins the Resistance, his Bjartur of Summerhouses has put down work endangers his new family. Some vio- the first payment for his own land after lence. 2018. working for eighteen years as a shepherd. The Underground City He dreams of living a quiet life, beholden DB94912 41 hours 50 minutes to no one. But his daughter longs for her by H.L. Humes own freedom. Translated from the 1935 read by Catherine Byers Icelandic edition. Unrated. Commercial In post-WWII France a man named audiobook. Nobel Prize. 1946. Théophile Dujardin, who was a decorated Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French member of the Resistance, has been sen- Revolution tenced to death for treason. Elsewhere, DB95595 15 hours 26 minutes American John Stone is being investigated by Michelle Moran as a suspected Communist. Their shared read by Rosalyn Landor histories are slowly revealed. Some vio- Paris, 1788. Marie Tussaud is experi- lence. 1958. encing success with the wax museum A Change of Time she runs with her uncle when she is sum- DB94919 5 hours 5 minutes moned to the palace to tutor Princess by Ida Jessen Elisabeth. Marie comes to the attention read by Faith Potts of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie 1927. When the town doctor dies, his Antoinette, but revolution looms. Unrated. widow must figure out what her role in Commercial audiobook. 2011. society is now. She writes in her diary of Swimming between Worlds the conversations she has while she strug- DB96140 12 hours 34 minutes gles to come to terms with her new life. by Elaine Neil Orr Translated from the 2015 Danish edition. read by Cassandra Campbell 2019. North Carolina, 1959. Tacker Hart left home as a high school football hero but

8 Adult Fiction—Historical Fiction, Holidays has returned in disgrace after being fired Milady from a prestigious architectural assign- DB95921 14 hours 27 minutes ment in Nigeria. He reconnects with by Laura L. Sullivan Kate Monroe, and their mutual acquain- read by Elizabeth Knowelden tance with Gaines Townson, an African 1615. Clarice grows up in Yorkshire as American, changes all their lives. Unrated. the gently bred daughter of Lord Paget. Commercial audiobook. 2018. While at court, she is recruited by France’s Daughters of Rome Cardinal Richelieu. Eventually, she works DB95615 13 hours 17 minutes to get out from under his thumb and finds by Kate Quinn the Three Musketeers to be the perfect foil. read by Elizabeth Wiley Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Rome, AD 68. Cornelia, wife of Piso, City of Crows embodies the essence of the perfect DB93069 11 hours 5 minutes Roman wife and works hard to ensure by Chris Womersley that her husband will be named the heir read by Stephen Van Doren of Emperor Galba. Her sister Marcella is France, 1673. Charlotte Picot travels to more aloof and prefers it that way, but a Paris in search of her kidnapped son. bloody coup upends their world. Unrated. When she meets charlatan Adam Lesage, Commercial audiobook. 2011. she believes him to be a spirit she sum- Lady of the Eternal City moned from the underworld to assist her. DB96195 20 hours 31 minutes In reality, Lesage seeks a fresh start after by Kate Quinn imprisonment. Violence and strong lan- read by Elizabeth Wiley guage. 2018. Rome, AD 118. Sabina, of Empress of the Seven Hills (DB95948), is now wife to Holidays Hadrian and Empress of Rome. She finds Together for Christmas: Thomas herself torn between Hadrian and her first Kinkade’s Cape Light love, Vix. Vix’s son Antinous has caught DB94962 10 hours 3 minutes Hadrian’s eye, and Sabina and Vix work by Katherine Spencer to save the empire. Unrated. Commercial read by MacKenzie Beyer audiobook. 2015. Molly’s catering business is on shaky Prized Possessions ground, but with her best friend and DB95215 15 hours 53 minutes partner, Betty, she feels she can tackle the by Jessica Stirling annual Christmas rush. When Betty’s hus- read by Terry Donnelly band suffers a serious injury and needs her Widow Lizzie Conway strives to get her care, Molly fears that she’s not only losing girls—Polly, Babs, and Rosie—out of the her business, but her best friend. 2015. Glasgow slums and begins a flirtation with Because It’s Christmas: Thomas rent collector Bernard Peabody. However, Kinkade’s Cape Light the girls fall in love with wayward men. DB95327 10 hours 2 minutes Polly’s romance with Dominic Manone by Katherine Spencer leads to questionable choices. Some vio- read by Lindsey Pierce lence and some strong language. 1998. With December 25 drawing near, Sophie Potter, Emily Warwick, and Zoey Bates 9 Adult Fiction Holidays, Human Relationships are doubtful their Christmas wishes will Honor Thy Thug be fulfilled. Sophie wants one last holiday DB96063 9 hours 57 minutes at home, and her grandson James helps. by Wahida Clark He meets Zoey and questions his choices. read by Cary Hite Meanwhile, Emily battles the new mayor. Tasha and Trae are trying to rebuild their 2016. marriage, but life continues to throw every obstacle in their way. As they deal with Human Relationships the death of a child and the loss of friends, Lie with Me the danger of a Chinese crime organiza- DB96101 3 hours 37 minutes tion looms in the background. Unrated. by Philippe Besson Commercial audiobook. 2013. read by Jacques Roy Justify My Thug Philippe is being interviewed in a hotel bar DB95712 7 hours 58 minutes when he sees a man he thinks he knows by Wahida Clark and runs after him. The incident sparks read by various narrators his memories of a secret, torrid affair with After the events of Thug Lovin’ his first love. Translated from the 2017 (DB80677), Tasha and Trae are trying French edition by actress Molly Ringwald. to overcome their issues and get their Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. marriage back on track. But Jaz is facing The Meaning of Birds drama of her own, and everything seem- DB94948 7 hours 13 minutes ingly spirals out of control as the drama by Jaye Robin Brown takes over. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by Mare Trevathan book. 2011. Jess develops a relationship with Vivi that The Revolution of Birdie Randolph helps her deal with the anger she has felt DB96378 6 hours 32 minutes since her father’s death. But soon Jess is by Brandy Colbert overwhelmed again when Vivi dies sud- read by Andrea Laing denly during their senior year. Strong lan- Sixteen-year-old Dove “Birdie” guage and some violence. For senior high Randolph’s close bond with her parents and older readers. 2019. is threatened by a family secret and by A Heart in a Body in the World her hidden relationship with Booker, who DB94307 8 hours 41 minutes has been in juvenile detention. Unrated. by Deb Caletti Commercial audiobook. For senior high read by Julia Whelan and older readers. 2019. Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV Dominicana and backed by her brother and friends, DB96435 10 hours 15 minutes eighteen-year-old Annabelle impulsively by Angie Cruz decides to run from Seattle to Washington, read by various narrators DC. She becomes a reluctant activist as 1965. Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion has people connect her journey to a traumatic never dreamed of moving to America from event. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. the Dominican Republic but marries Juan For senior high and older readers. 2018. Ruiz to give her family the opportunity to do so. Stifled in New York City, she runs

10 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships away. Juan’s brother, Cesar, persuades her Secrets and deception tear apart Ellory’s to return and provides opportunities for her. once inseparable group of friends. When a Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. shocking incident changes their lives for- Here Comes the Sun ever, Ellory finds that even in the present, DB96040 11 hours 45 minutes the past is everywhere. Some strong lan- by Nicole Dennis-Benn guage. For senior high and older readers. read by Bahni Turpin 2018. Margot was raised to trade her sexuality Awake in the World for survival and hustles at an opulent DB95079 9 hours 0 minutes resort to send her younger sister, Thandi, by Jason Gurley to school so she can avoid the same fate. read by Andy Pyle Margot finds hope in the opening of a new After his father dies on an oil rig, Zach hotel and an opportunity to admit her love thinks he is headed toward a similar fate— for another woman. Unrated. Commercial until he meets Vanessa, an optimistic and audiobook. 2016. wealthy girl who wants to study astronomy Patsy at Cornell. Strong language. For senior DB96109 17 hours 12 minutes high and older readers. 2019. by Nicole Dennis-Benn Beirut Hellfire Society read by Sharon Gordon DB96030 7 hours 25 minutes Patsy’s long-held dream of moving to by Rawi Hage America from Jamaica finally comes true read by Neil Shah just shy of her thirtieth birthday. She longs After his undertaker father dies, Pavlov to be reunited with her best friend, Cicely, is recruited to fill his role in the myste- whose letters paint a rosy picture. But rious Hellfire Society, an anti-religious Patsy’s plans don’t involve her evangelical sect that organizes burials for outcasts mother or her five-year-old daughter, Tru. who have been denied last rights because Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. of their religion or sexuality. He becomes North of Dawn the chronicler of the lives around him. DB93755 10 hours 26 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. by Nuruddin Farah Road Tripped read by Sam Dastor DB96108 6 hours 56 minutes Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo for by Pete Hautman decades when their son Dhaqaneh is drawn read by Christopher Carley into jihadism in Somalia. After Dhaqaneh Seventeen-year-old Steven “Stiggy” Gabel dies in a suicide attack, his widow Waliya tries to cope—with his father’s suicide, his and stepchildren join Gacalo and Mugdi mother’s depression, and his girlfriend’s in Oslo. Waliya and the children have departure—by taking off down the Great differing reactions. Unrated. Commercial River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana. audiobook. 2018. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For See All the Stars senior high and older readers. 2019. DB92926 8 hours 20 minutes Binstead’s Safari by Kit Frick DB95391 8 hours 14 minutes read by Teresa Willis by Rachel Ingalls read by Barbara Rappaport 11 Adult Fiction Human Relationships When her chronically unfaithful husband Buried beneath the Baobab Tree Stan decides to go on a safari to East DB93566 6 hours 2 minutes Africa, Millie gives herself a makeover by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and joins him. Stan hardly recognizes read by various narrators Millie, who uses the trip to open herself After being kidnapped in the middle of the up to love with an affair of her own. Some night by Boko Haram terrorists, a Nigerian strong language. 1983. student is made to practice the radical Rabbits for Food beliefs of her captors. But she secretly DB95862 7 hours 57 minutes plans to escape and return to her family by Binnie Kirshenbaum and her previous way of life. Unrated. read by Hillary Huber Commercial audiobook. For senior high On New Year’s Eve, a woman has a break- and older readers. 2018. down that lands her in the psych ward of a The Governesses prestigious New York hospital. She refuses DB93517 2 hours 36 minutes all recommended treatment, passing the by Anne Serre time chronicling the lives of her fellow read by Joe Peck “lunatics” and writing a novel about what Three governesses—Eléonore, Inès, and brought her there. Unrated. Commercial Laura—prepare a party to welcome home audiobook. 2019. their employers, the Austeurs. In their A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian seemingly idyllic world, their encounters DB95090 9 hours 28 minutes entrance the elderly gentleman across the by Marina Lewycka way, who watches through a spyglass. read by Erin Jones Translated from the original 1992 French Sisters Vera and Nadezhda haven’t spoken edition. Descriptions of sex. 2018. since their mother’s funeral, but they put Watch Us Rise aside their animosity when they learn that DB94954 7 hours 42 minutes their eighty-four-year-old father plans to by Renée Watson marry Valentina, a gold-digging, much read by Mare Trevathan and Ellen Hagan younger woman from his home country of Frustrated by the way women are Ukraine. Some strong language and some treated—even at their progressive New descriptions of sex. 2005. York City high school—two best friends Destroy All Monsters start a women’s rights club, post their DB95758 8 hours 49 minutes essays and poems online, and watch it go by Sam J. Miller viral, attracting positive support as well as read by various narrators trolls. Some strong language. For senior Ash doesn’t remember the day she fell out high and older readers. 2019. of her friend Solomon’s tree house. But As Many Nows as I Can Get ever since that day, Solomon has retreated DB96428 10 hours 45 minutes into a dark fantasy world. Ash believes the by Shana Youngdahl key to saving him is recovering her lost read by Annie Q memory. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Moving between the present and the For senior high and older readers. 2019. past, Scarlett, an overachiever who plans to study physics, gets pulled into a

12 Adult Fiction—Human Relationships, Humor, Mystery and Detective lightning-strike romance with a boy the Commissioner Joe Sandilands juggles summer before college—and is left with the case with an increasingly dangerous the enormity of the aftermath. Unrated. assignment protecting an American senator. Commercial audiobook. For senior high Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2013. and older readers. 2019. Tug of War DB92929 8 hours 31 minutes Humor by Barbara Cleverly Carter’s Big Break; Carter’s Unfocused, read by Barry Bernson One-Track Mind France, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe DB94578 14 hours 41 minutes Sandilands investigates the identity of an by Brent Crawford English-speaking amnesiac veteran hospi- read by Jon Pinnow talized in Reims. Four civilians, including Two humorous high school adventures, a vineyard-owning widow, claim to be written in 2010 and 2012, featuring Will related to the man, who is to receive a war Carter. In Carter’s Big Break, Carter unex- pension. Sandilands interviews the candi- pectedly gets cast in an independent film. dates and uncovers an old murder. 2006. In Carter’s Unfocused, One-Track Mind, A Death of No Importance Carter questions his future. Sequel to DB93748 8 hours 13 minutes Carter Finally Gets It (DB70493). Some by Mariah Fredericks strong language. For senior high and older read by Stephanie Willis readers. 2012. New York City, 1910. Jane Prescott is Mystery and Detective hired as a lady’s maid for the Benchleys, who are dismissed by the elite as “new Enter Pale Death money.” When the daughter’s notorious DB96035 12 hours 10 minutes playboy fiancé is found murdered at a by Barbara Cleverly party, Jane discovers she is uniquely read by Matthew Brenher positioned to solve the case. Unrated. Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul Commercial audiobook. 2018. play when Lady Truelove dies after an Cat Bearing Gifts encounter with a dangerous horse. He DB93741 8 hours 53 minutes must, however, separate his suspicions by Shirley Rousseau Murphy from personal grievances with her wid- read by Susan Boyce ower. With Lily Wentworth’s help, Joe’s A car crash, a missing treasure, a dead investigation yields surprising secrets thief, and a suspicious blond divorcée have about both the Truelove family and feline PI Joe Grey and his four-legged Joe’s own love, Dorcas Joliffe. Unrated. cohorts clawing for justice. Joe must dis- Commercial audiobook. 2014. cover if the events are connected—and A Spider in the Cup why. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB96036 12 hours 20 minutes 2012. by Barbara Cleverly Reflecting the Sky read by Steven Crossley DB93631 12 hours 8 minutes When the body of a young woman is by S.J. Rozan found buried along the banks of the read by Kathy Hsieh Thames in 1933, Scotland Yard Assistant 13 Adult Fiction Mystery and Detective, Occult and Horror, Political Themes PIs Lydia Chin and Bill Smith are hired by The Siren and the Specter a NYC Chinatown elder to travel to Hong DB95051 12 hours 2 minutes Kong to deliver an old friend’s ashes, a by Jonathan Janz letter to the dead man’s brother, and a read by Brian Hemmingsen keepsake to his grandson. They find the David Caine, celebrated skeptic of the apartment ransacked and the youngster supernatural, is invited to spend a month kidnapped. Unrated. Commercial audio- at Alexander House, the most haunted book. 2001. house in Virginia. David himself is haunted by a moment in his own past Occult and Horror when he turned away from the woman he Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach loved. Strong language, some violence, DB94701 9 hours 59 minutes and some explicit descriptions of sex. by Ramsey Campbell 2018. read by Bill Delaney The Fade Ray and Sandra have planned a vacation DB94823 6 hours 29 minutes for their extended family on the Greek by Demitria Lunetta island of Vasilema. From the moment they read by Lindsey Pierce mention their destination, they are warned Fifteen-year-old Haley moves into a house to avoid Sunset Beach. Once on the island, haunted by the ghosts of murdered girls they discover the locals are hiding many who hope Haley will be able to help them secrets. 2018. move on. Strong language. For senior high A World of Horror and older readers. 2018. DB93074 12 hours 2 minutes The Wrong Girl: Return to Fear Street edited by Eric J. Guignard DB94821 6 hours 42 minutes read by Ryan Dalusung by R.L. Stine Twenty-two short tales of horror from read by Elizabeth Rose around the world, many of which explore When a thrill-seeking group of teens the mythologies of a specific culture. attempts to rob Harlow’s Pic ‘n’ Pay, it Includes authors from almost every conti- goes horribly wrong and things get out nent, contributing stories new to this col- of hand, with accusations following. lection. Some violence and some strong Meanwhile, a fellow classmate is dead, language. 2018. and no one knows whom to trust. Some The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs violence. For senior high and older DB95629 11 hours 41 minutes readers. 2018. by Katherine Howe read by Barrie Kreinik Political Themes Connie Goodwin is a Boston professor Our War whose area of expertise is the history of DB96160 10 hours 26 minutes witchcraft, especially in colonial America. by Craig DiLouie She uncovers secrets from her own family read by Andrew Eiden history, including a curse that endangers When the president of the United States is the man she loves. Sequel to The Physick impeached but refuses to leave office, the Book of Deliverance Dane (DB69468). country erupts into civil war. A UNICEF Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. worker and a reporter discover both sides 14 Adult Fiction—Political Themes, Psychological Themes, Religious Themes, Romance using child soldiers and fight to shine a Romance light on the atrocities being committed. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB95586 10 hours 31 minutes Revolutionaries by Tanya Boteju DB95826 13 hours 13 minutes read by Soneela Nankani by Joshua Furst Perpetually awkward Nima is bored with read by Robert Sams her community and life. After a bewil- Fred Snyder, born Freedom, wants to dering encounter at a local festival, Nima distance himself from his counterculture finds herself suddenly immersed in the revolutionary father, Lenny. His childhood drag scene and closer to a self she never is chaotic, and when Lenny is arrested for knew she could be. Unrated. Commercial a plan gone wrong, it becomes even more audiobook. For senior high and older unstable. Fred struggles to understand readers. 2019. what happens around him. Strong lan- Us guage, some violence, and some descrip- DB96280 7 hours 48 minutes tions of sex. 2019. by Sarina Bowen Psychological Themes read by various narrators and Elle Kennedy Exposed Ryan “Wes” Wesley and Jamie Canning DB96304 4 hours 23 minutes were best friends before they became by Jean-Philippe Blondel lovers in Him (DB92709). Wes’s NHL read by Joe Peck career is taking off, but if the media learn Louis, a secondary school teacher on the about Jamie, it will eclipse his success on verge of retirement, goes to the opening the ice. Jamie loves Wes, but hiding takes of an art exhibition by a former student. its toll. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. While there, he is persuaded to pose 2016. for a portrait—possibly in the nude. The Beholder Artist and sitter reevaluate their lives. DB96279 11 hours 51 minutes Translated from the 2018 French edition. by Anna Bright 2019. read by Emily Rankin Religious Themes After a public humiliation, Selah sets sail The King’s Mercy across the Atlantic in order to find a life DB95817 16 hours 42 minutes partner among the European royal houses by Lori Benton who can help secure the future of her read by Terry Donnelly Potomac people, a journey that sees her North Carolina, 1747. Alex MacKinnon interacting with figures from legend and has been exiled to the American colonies mythology. Unrated. Commercial audio- to work as a blacksmith on a slaveholding book. For senior high and older readers. plantation. As he works, he connects with 2019. Joanna Carey, the stepdaughter of the The Songbird and the Spy plantation owner. Despite their bond, Alex DB95091 10 hours 12 minutes longs for freedom, but it may be in God’s by J’Nell Ciesielski hands. Some violence. 2019. read by Abigail Maupin 15 Adult Fiction Romance American music student Claire Baudin The Wind Blows Backward is trapped in France when it falls to the DB95439 7 hours 11 minutes Nazis. Her fate rests in the hands of by Mary Downing Hahn Michael Reiner, a British agent posing read by Mare Trevathan as an officer in the Third Reich. Michael Once friends, bookish Lauren and ath- wants to protect Claire, but helping her letic Spencer grew apart in high school. might threaten his mission. Some violence. They reconnect over a love of poetry and 2019. problems with their parents. But their Shadow’s Claim newfound love is tempered by Spencer’s DB95641 15 hours 19 minutes moody, self-destructive side. Descriptions by Kresley Cole of sex and some strong language. For read by Robert Petkoff senior high and older readers. 1993. As prince of Dacia’s royal vampires, We Contain Multitudes Trehan Daciano is a master assassin who DB95548 9 hours 17 minutes desires nothing more than a sword in his by Sarah Henstra hand—until he spies the beautiful sor- read by various narrators ceress Bettina. He enters a tournament to As pen pals for a high school English the death to win her hand, but her heart assignment, poetry-loving sophomore already belongs to another. Unrated. Jonathan and popular athlete senior Adam Commercial audiobook. 2012. explore their growing relationship through All Our Broken Pieces a series of letters. Unrated. Commercial DB95275 11 hours 8 minutes audiobook. For senior high and older by L.D. Crichton readers. 2019. read by Alec Volz The Secret of Flirting Musically gifted seventeen-year-old Kyler DB95867 9 hours 17 minutes and his new neighbor Lennon, who is by Sabrina Jeffries diagnosed with OCD, discover that the read by Justine Eyre strength to survive, live, and love can The moment spymaster Baron Fulkham be found in unexpected places. Some meets the stunning Princess Aurore of strong language. For senior high and older Chanay, he’s positive that she’s actually readers. 2019. Monique Servais, the mysterious actress I Wish You All the Best he met three years before in Dieppe. But DB95723 8 hours 37 minutes as he pursues his suspicions, he uncovers by Mason Deaver an assassination plot and betrayal. read by MW Cartozian Wilson Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. When Ben comes out as non-binary, Night Embrace they’re thrown out of the house and DB95598 13 hours 7 minutes move in with their older sister, Hannah. by Sherrilyn Kenyon Struggling with an anxiety disorder, Ben read by Carrington MacDuffie tries to keep a low profile. But then Ben After killing the son of the war god meets Nathan and everything changes. Camulus, Celtic warrior Talon was cursed Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For to have everyone he loves die a horrible senior high and older readers. 2019. death in front of his eyes. In present-day

16 Adult Fiction—Romance New Orleans, Talon meets Sunshine, a Katsuyamas never quit and are woman who tempts him to love again. ambitious—but CJ is perfectly happy Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2003. just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their Daisies and Devotion family’s flower shop. When her mom DB96258 7 hours 43 minutes decides to sell the shop to an unsavory by Josi S. Kilpack family, CJ suddenly finds something read by Justine Eyre worth fighting for. Unrated. Commercial Told he will inherit when he marries, audiobook. For senior high and older Timothy Mayfield draws up a list of what readers. 2019. he wants in a wife. His friend Maryann The Dangerous Art of Blending In Morrington thinks his list is ridiculous but DB96259 8 hours 12 minutes agrees to help him look. Both are surprised by Angelo Surmelis when he finds a woman who seems perfect read by Michael Crouch for him. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Teenager Evan struggles with an abusive 2019. mother and a father who avoids conflict. I Love You So Mochi And his best friend, Henry, has somehow DB95652 10 hours 9 minutes become distractingly attractive over the by Sarah Kuhn summer. As things escalate, Evan has read by Jessica Wortham to decide what he wants in his future. After a huge fight with her mother, cre- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For ative Kimi eagerly accepts her grandpar- senior high and older readers. 2018. ents’ invitation to Kyoto, where she is Pestilence surrounded by her heritage. Being in Japan DB94816 10 hours 10 minutes helps her understand her mother—and by Laura Thalassa brings her in contact with an aspiring med read by Mare Trevathan student. Some strong language. For senior The Four Horsemen have come to earth to high and older readers. 2019. put an end to humanity. Sara is chosen to There’s Something about Sweetie stay behind as her town evacuates, to try DB95688 11 hours 38 minutes to stop the approaching Pestilence. When by Sandhya Menon her attempt to slay Pestilence fails, he takes read by various narrators her prisoner. Violence, strong language, After being dumped by his ex-girlfriend, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2018. Ashish Patel learns his parents are smugly The Impossibility of Us confident they could find him a better DB95651 8 hours 8 minutes match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash by Katy Upperman challenges them to set him up. Companion read by Teresa Willis to When Dimple Met Rishi (DB94711). In this story, told in separate voices, Mati, Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For a devout Muslim from Afghanistan, and senior high and older readers. 2019. Elise, a seventeen-year-old whose brother This Time Will Be Different was killed there, try to keep their budding DB95692 9 hours 26 minutes romance secret from their families. Some by Misa Sugiura strong language. For senior high and older read by Joy Osmanski readers. 2018.

17 Adult Fiction Romance, Science Fiction Maybe This Time has been banished to the distant past as DB95938 7 hours 50 minutes punishment for a crime. Also includes by Kasie West The Children of the Company and The read by Ana Isabel Machine’s Child. Some violence and some Sophie works for a florist and party strong language. 2006. planner in her small southern town and Immunity dreams of attending design school. But DB95803 9 hours 16 minutes this year she has to contend with Andrew, by Erin Bowman son of the fancy new chef, who keeps read by Amy McFadden getting in her way. Unrated. Commercial Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued audiobook. For senior high and older from a deadly planet, only to be taken readers. 2019. prisoner on a government ship and used Waiting for Tom Hanks as weapons in a sinister political plot. DB95565 8 hours 35 minutes Sequel to Contagion (DB91881). Unrated. by Kerry Winfrey Commercial audiobook. For senior high read by Rachel L. Jacobs and older readers. 2019. Aspiring screenwriter Annie Cassidy is An Anatomy of Beasts obsessed with the romantic comedies she DB95063 10 hours 45 minutes has seen so many times. She is waiting by Olivia A. Cole for her own meet-cute, and when a movie read by Kristin Allison begins filming in her neighborhood, it After uncovering the shadowy secrets seems like a sign. Too bad the lead actor of her people in A Conspiracy of Stars is nothing like Tom Hanks. Unrated. (DB94050), Octavia knows she must stop Commercial audiobook. 2019. them from using a scientifically weap- From Lukov with Love onized creature against the Faloii. Some DB95661 16 hours 17 minutes strong language. For senior high and older by Mariana Zapata readers. 2019. read by MacKenzie Beyer A Crash of Fate: Star Wars; Galaxy’s Jasmine Santos knows she is running out Edge of time to make it to the top as a figure DB96253 7 hours 57 minutes skater. She gets an unexpected offer to by Zoraida Córdova partner with the talented Ivan Lukov, even read by Brittany Pressley though they have been at each other’s Growing up, Izzy and Jules were best throats for years. Strong language and friends—until Izzy’s family abruptly left some explicit descriptions of sex. 2018. Batuu. But then Izzy returns, hired to deliver a mysterious package. Soon the Science Fiction two are back together and on the run from Company, Books 5–7 vengeful smugglers and an angry pirate. DB94202 43 hours 56 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For by Kage Baker senior high and older readers. 2019. read by various narrators Last Ones Left Alive Three time-travel science fiction novels DB96410 5 hours 36 minutes written between 2004 and 2006. In The by Sarah Davis-Goff Life of the World to Come, Mendoza read by Anne-Marie Gaillard 18 Adult Fiction—Science Fiction Orpen’s life on a tiny island off the coast way home. Unrated. Commercial audio- of a post-apocalyptic Ireland revolves book. 2019. around surviving the ravenous skrake, The Record Keeper zombies roaming the wilds and searching DB95866 13 hours 42 minutes for prey. When her guardian, Maeve, by Agnes Gomillion is bitten, Orpen sets off on a journey to read by Adenrele Ojo attempt to save her. Unrated. Commercial After World War III, the Earth’s laws must audiobook. 2019. be obeyed to protect the fragile peace. The Lightest Object in the Universe Arika Cobane’s race provides the labor to DB96193 10 hours 31 minutes feed humanity, but she is destined to join by Kimi Eisele the Kongo elite after a decade of training. read by Gabra Zackman Then she comes to realize the laws she After a global economic collapse and a upholds cause much misery. Unrated. failure of the electrical grid send society Commercial audiobook. 2019. into chaos, teacher Carson heads west Villain on foot to find a woman he once met. DB93079 7 hours 55 minutes Meanwhile, some turn to an evangel- by Michael Grant ical preacher to save them and others read by Doug Tisdale Jr. form communities to survive. Unrated. Friends Dekka, Shade, Cruz, Malik, Armo, Commercial audiobook. 2019. and a new mutant with unmatched powers Native Tongue: Native Tongue, Book 1 must stop a failed stand-up comic who DB96194 13 hours 44 minutes can now control anyone with the power of by Suzette Haden Elgin his voice. Sequel to Monster (DB89678). read by Amy Landon Violence and strong language. For senior In the twenty-second century, women are high and older readers. 2018. once again considered property, denied The Next Together; The Last Beginning civil rights, and banned from public life. DB95451 19 hours 51 minutes Earth’s wealth depends on interplanetary by Lauren James commerce and linguists are the ruling read by Madelyn Buzzard elite. Talented linguist Nazareth discovers Duology, written in 2015 and 2016, featuring a revolution: women are building their Katherine and Matthew, two teens destined own language to gain freedom. Unrated. to fall in love and be reincarnated repeatedly. Commercial audiobook. 1984. In The Next Together, they find each other Empress of Forever and change history. In The Last Beginning, DB95736 19 hours 40 minutes a long-lost relative searches for them. For by Max Gladstone senior high and older readers. 2016. read by Natalie Naudus DEV1AT3 Innovator Vivian Liao travels to a far DB95630 12 hours 0 minutes future where she finds civilization ruled by by Jay Kristoff an ancient, powerful empress who blesses read by Erin Spencer or blasts entire planets with a single After the events in Lifel1k3 (DB91294), thought. Viv must rally a strange group of Eve sets out to find the real Ana Monrova, aliens to confront the empress and find her whose DNA is the key. Meanwhile, Eve’s

19 Adult Fiction Science Fiction former best friend, Lemon, is coming to After being lost in space for eleven years, terms with a power that others want to har- Gabe tries to find a new life for himself. ness as a weapon. Unrated. Commercial When a seemingly alien artifact goes audiobook. For senior high and older missing from his collection, he must readers. 2019. reunite with Alex and Chase to solve the The Line Between mystery of its origins. Sequel to Firebird; DB93473 10 hours 9 minutes Coming Home (DB82421). Unrated. by Tosca Lee Commercial audiobook. 2019. read by Cassandra Campbell Ignite the Stars Wynter Roth emerges from the New Earth DB93183 10 hours 33 minutes doomsday cult to find a world descending by Maura Milan into chaos as a pandemic of early-onset read by Jeff Allin dementia spreads across America. When When the notorious I.A. C?cha is cap- her sister appears with a set of medical tured by the Olympus Commonwealth and samples, Wynter must find a way to get revealed to be a seventeen-year-old girl, them to a lab. Unrated. Commercial audio- she is sentenced to correctional rehabili- book. 2019. tation at a training ground for the Royal Speculative Japan, Books 3–4 Star Force, where she forms unlikely alli- DB95535 20 hours 46 minutes ances. Violence. For senior high and older edited by Edward Lipsett readers. 2018. read by Emily Ellet Heart of Iron Volumes three and four, published in 2012 DB96299 12 hours 27 minutes and 2018, of a series collecting science by Ashley Poston fiction and fantasy short stories translated read by Adenrele Ojo into English from Japanese. Includes Ana, an orphan found drifting through stories from Asamatsu Ken, Kobayashi space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find Yasumi, Suzuki Miekichi, Kajio Shinji, a lost spaceship that may hold clues to her Makino Osamu, and others. Some violence identity. They end up discovering dark and some strong language. 2018. secrets in a forgotten part of the universe. The Undefeated Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For DB95544 2 hours 29 minutes senior high and older readers. 2018. by Una McCormack Last Day read by Nicola Daval DB96024 8 hours 2 minutes A retired journalist travels back to her by Domenica Ruta childhood planet both out of a sense read by Edoardo Ballerini of nostalgia and to avoid running from Every May 28, humanity gathers to antic- humanity’s new, self-created enemy, the ipate the planet’s demise and celebrate jenjer. Some violence and some strong lan- as if the day is truly the last. One year, guage. 2019. three sets of individuals embark on a last- Octavia Gone chance quest for redemption. Meanwhile, DB96411 11 hours 40 minutes three astronauts on the International Space by Jack McDevitt Station contemplate their lives and Earth. read by Jennifer Van Dyck Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

20 Adult Fiction—Science Fiction, Short Stories The Lesson alliance with the oppressive Dominion. DB95800 8 hours 39 minutes Sequel to Cobra Outlaw (DB81092). by Cadwell Turnbull Some violence. 2018. read by various narrators For five years, US irginV Islands residents Short Stories have lived with the Ynaa, aliens on an Friday Black undisclosed research mission. While the DB93465 7 hours 11 minutes Ynaa are usually benevolent, aggression by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah meets their disproportional wrath. After a read by various narrators young boy is killed by an Ynaa, three fam- Short stories that contend with the vio- ilies find themselves at the center of the lence, injustice, and absurdity that black conflict. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. men and women face on a daily basis. In 2019. one story, an amusement park lets players Speculative Japan, Books 1–2 hunt villains played by minority actors. DB94798 24 hours 38 minutes In another, the gunman and a victim of a edited by Gene van Troyer school shooting enter a shared purgatory. read by J.P. Linton and Grania Davis Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. A collection of science fiction and fantasy In the Electric Eden: Stories short stories translated into English from DB95394 10 hours 0 minutes Japanese. Includes stories from Shibano by Nick Arvin Takumi, Hirai Kazumasa, Mayumura read by Ryan Dalusung Taku, Fukushima Masami, Kajio Shinji, Collection of thirteen stories, some previ- and many others. Some violence and some ously published, examining the ways tech- strong language. 2011. nology shapes our interactions. In the title Salvation Day story, a man looks up the video of Edison’s DB96354 11 hours 23 minutes electrocution of Topsy the elephant while by Kali Wallace recalling the story his grandfather told him read by various narrators of witnessing it. Some violence. 2018. A crew kidnaps the sole survivor of a Orange World and Other Stories deadly virus outbreak on board a space- DB95553 8 hours 40 minutes ship in hopes of taking possession of the by Karen Russell ship. But they have no idea what waits read by various narrators for them on the ship—a terrifying secret A collection of short fiction from the buried by the government that threatens all Pulitzer Prize finalist. A young man falls of humanity. Unrated. Commercial audio- in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl book. 2019. from the bog. A new mother agrees to Cobra Traitor: Cobra Rebellion, Book 3 breastfeed the devil in exchange for his DB92921 16 hours 51 minutes protection. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Timothy Zahn book. Bestseller. 2019. read by Alec Volz Terrarium: New and Selected Stories The alien Troft hope to annihilate the DB92928 14 hours 50 minutes Cobras. In order to survive, the Cobras by Valerie Trueblood will have to do the unthinkable—seek an read by Erin Jones

21 Adult Fiction Short Stories, Sports Stories, Suspense Selected short stories from the PEN/ Suspense Faulkner Award finalist’s three earlier Immoral Code collections, plus previously unpublished DB95076 8 hours 57 minutes stories that show her moving in new cre- by Lillian Clark ative directions. Some strong language and read by Gabriella Cavallero some descriptions of sex. 2018. Five high school friends—Bellamy, Nari, Home Remedies: Stories Reese, Keagan, and Santiago—team up DB95551 6 hours 37 minutes to hack into Bellamy’s billionaire father’s by Xuan Juliana Wang business accounts to skim enough money read by various narrators for her MIT tuition. Strong language. For Short stories about love, family, and iden- senior high and older readers. 2019. tity in the emerging generation of Chinese Henning Juul, Books 1–5 youths on a quest for freedom. The charac- DB95681 52 hours 38 minutes ters in these stories all share the hope that by Thomas Enger their lives can be extraordinary. Unrated. read by Mark Ashby Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. Five novels, written between 2010 and Sports Stories 2015, feature Oslo investigative crime reporter Henning Juul, who returns to Brawler work after a horrific fire kills his young DB96175 8 hours 28 minutes son and ends his marriage. Includes by Neil Connelly Burned, Pierced, Scarred, Cursed, and read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Killed. Translated from the Norwegian When high school champion wrestler editions. Some violence, some strong lan- Eddie punches a referee, he loses his guage, and some descriptions of sex. 2017. chance at the state championships and is Front Runner expelled from school. Upset, Eddie runs DB93466 9 hours 48 minutes away and joins an illegal underground by Felix Francis fighting ring—encountering a different read by Martin Jarvis sort of trouble. Violence and some strong In his role as an undercover investigator language. For senior high and older for the British Horseracing Authority, readers. 2019. Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi- Here to Stay time champion jockey to discuss the del- DB95587 5 hours 59 minutes icate matter of losing races on purpose. by Sara Farizan Little does he know that the call will read by Jonathan Todd Ross set off a lethal chain of events. Unrated. When a cyberbully sends his entire high Commercial audiobook. 2015. school a picture of basketball hero Bijan The Unfortunates Majidi, photoshopped to look like a ter- DB95330 4 hours 33 minutes rorist, the school administration prom- by Kim Liggett ises to find and punish the culprit. But read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Bijan just wants to pretend the incident After getting away with murder, Grant never happened and move on. Unrated. Tavish plans his own form of justice. But Commercial audiobook. For senior high before he can act upon it, he is trapped in and older readers. 2018. 22 Adult Fiction—Suspense, War a collapsed cave miles beneath the surface J.B. Collins, Books 2–3 with four other teenagers—and they are DB93157 26 hours 46 minutes not alone. Some violence. For senior high by Joel C. Rosenberg and older readers. 2018. read by various narrators The Need Two titles, published in 2015 and 2017, DB96164 6 hours 22 minutes follow the events of The Third Target by Helen Phillips (DB87858). New York Times foreign cor- read by Alexandra Allwine respondent J.B. Collins must continue to Molly is a paleobotanist at a fossil quarry, protect the nation from ISIS. In The First where she sometimes unearths arti- Hostage, the US president is assumed cap- facts that defy understanding, including tured. In Without Warning, ISIS attacks a controversial Bible. By night, she within the United States. Violence. 2017. cares for her two young children while Ziba MacKenzie, Books 1–2 her musician husband tours. Frazzled DB94584 18 hours 28 minutes and sleep-deprived, she confronts a by Victoria Selman masked intruder in the house. Unrated. read by MacKenzie Beyer Commercial audiobook. 2019. Two novels featuring London offender Disappearing Earth profiler Ziba MacKenzie. InBlood for DB95554 11 hours 17 minutes Blood, when the commuter train Ziba is by Julia Phillips on crashes, a fellow commuter’s odd last read by Ilyana Kadushin words send Ziba after a killer who has Two sisters—eight and eleven—go been dormant for twenty-five years. Also missing one afternoon on the Kamchatka includes Nothing to Lose. Violence and Peninsula in northeastern Russia. The strong language. 2019. police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate War across a tightly woven community, with Price of Duty the fear and loss felt most deeply among DB93516 4 hours 37 minutes its women. Unrated. Commercial audio- by Todd Strasser book. 2019. read by Jeff Allin Patron Saints of Nothing Hailed as a hero, Jake returns to his DB96003 9 hours 4 minutes pro-military hometown and family injured by Randy Ribay physically and emotionally. He is unsure read by Ramon De Ocampo if he can return to active duty in the army When seventeen-year-old Jay learns his but is uncomfortable with the alternative. Filipino cousin and former best friend, Violence and strong language. For senior Jun, was murdered as part of President high and older readers. 2018. Duterte’s war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high and older readers. 2019.

23 Adult Nonfiction Adventure, Arts, Biography Adult Nonfiction Biography Adventure Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of DB96187 8 hours 41 minutes the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt by Martha Brockenbrough DB95448 15 hours 37 minutes read by various narrators by Randall Sullivan Profiles America’s forty-fifth president, read by Ray Foushee delving into his early years, his back- Journalist chronicles more than two ground and family, and his rise from hundred years of treasure hunting on a reality TV to the nation’s highest political small island off the coast of Nova Scotia. office. Discusses his political and personal Discusses his history with the legend, the conduct. Commercial audiobook. For television show featuring modern-day senior high and older readers. 2018. treasure hunters on the History Channel, The Impostor: A True Story and the many people the “Money Pit” has DB93075 13 hours 41 minutes lured to the island. 2018. by Javier Cercas Arts read by Doug Tisdale Jr. The Senses: Design beyond Vision An account of the investigation into the DB93943 9 hours 59 minutes life of Barcelona resident Enric Marco, by Ellen Lupton who was uncovered as a fraud in 2005 read by Michael Russotto and after a lifetime of claiming to be a Andrea Lipps Holocaust survivor. Translated from the Museum curators present a manifesto 2014 Spanish edition. 2017. for inclusive, multisensory design prac- My Parents: An Introduction; This Does tice through a series of eighteen essays. Not Belong to You Presents ideas and principles for extending DB95798 8 hours 47 minutes the sensory input of products, environ- by Aleksandar Hemon ments, and media. 2018. read by Jeremy Arthur A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Two autobiographical books. In My Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial Parents, the author recounts his parents’ DB93362 7 hours 18 minutes immigration to Canada due to the siege by James Reston of Sarajevo. This Does Not Belong to You read by John Lescault provides a series of memories, observa- Army veteran and author of The tions and miniatures about family, child- Conviction of Richard Nixon (DB68946) hood, and more. Unrated. Commercial presents the history of the Vietnam audiobook. 2019. Veterans Memorial. Covers the fights over Aim High: Chart Your Course and Find the creation of a memorial, the selection Success and implementation of the winning design, DB95950 5 hours 1 minute and his own reflections on the conflicts. by Deborah Lee James 2017. read by Coleen Marlo The twenty-third secretary of the US Air Force shares her personal and professional

24 Adult Nonfiction—Biography, Blindness and Disabilities, Business and Economics challenges, her strategies for success, and before achieving his dreams. Unrated. the problem-solving principles she used to Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2018. overcome the daunting pressures, threats, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke and challenges that come with rising to DB95528 48 hours 52 minutes the top of the armed forces. Unrated. by Jeffrey C. Stewart Commercial audiobook. 2019. read by Bob Moore Bastards: A Memoir Biography of the man lauded as the father of DB95780 7 hours 52 minutes the Harlem Renaissance. Describes his edu- by Mary Anna King cation, career as a Howard University pro- read by Christina Delaine fessor, extensive travels, role in culture, and The author recounts her unusual identity as a gay man. Draws on primary upbringing, which included living in sources and interviews with those who knew a low-income commune, being sent to him. Strong language and some descriptions live with her grandparents and eventu- of sex. National Book Award. 2018. ally being adopted by them, and feeling haunted by the siblings she left behind. Blindness and Physical Discusses her eventual reunion with the Disabilities rest of her family. Unrated. Commercial Climbing Back audiobook. 2015. DB95083 10 hours 7 minutes Summer by Mark Wellman DB93622 9 hours 39 minutes read by Jon Huffman and John Flinn by Karl Ove Knausgaard With his mountaineering journalist read by Edoardo Ballerini cowriter, Wellman recounts his comeback Final volume of the autobiograph- after a fall during a climb in the Sierra ical series with a seasonal theme from Nevada left him paraplegic at twenty-two. the Norwegian author of My Struggle He devised a way to continue climbing (DB79335). The author continues his mountains—including El Capitan and Half musings on being a father to his newborn Dome—and also became a Yosemite Park daughter while reflecting on his rela- ranger and member of the US Disabled Ski tionship with his own father and child- Team. 1992. hood memories of summer. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Business and Economics A Forever Family: Fostering Change One The Business of Being a Writer Child at a Time DB96154 11 hours 36 minutes DB93388 7 hours 45 minutes by Jane Friedman by Rob Scheer read by Tavia Gilbert read by Rob Scheer Publishing professional presents a guide The founder of Comfort Cases, which to the business aspects of a writing career seeks to aid children in the foster care and making a living from it. Topics system, discusses his own troubled child- include the basics of what is required of hood. Recounts growing up in an abusive a writer, understanding the publishing household before being placed in foster industry, getting published, entrepre- care and the difficulties he faced as a result neurship, and making money as a writer. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. 25 Adult Nonfiction Business and Economics, Computers, Cooking Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Computers Industries and Corporate Power in Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original America Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the DB96355 23 hours 17 minutes World by Christopher Leonard DB95626 8 hours 13 minutes read by Jacques Roy by Joseph Menn Business reporter probes the history and read by various narrators business practices of Koch Industries, one Chronicle of the development and work of the largest private corporations in the of hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow, United States. Discusses the leadership of which first formed in 1984. Discusses Charles Koch, legal challenges from both prominent members who have become the family and the government, and the information security industry leaders broad reach of Koch Industries. Unrated. in corporations, political activism, and Commercial audiobook. 2019. products the group has created. Unrated. Serious Eater: A Food Lover’s Perilous Commercial audiobook. 2019. Quest for Pizza and Redemption DB95737 11 hours 20 minutes Cooking by Ed Levine How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: read by various narrators Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food; Founder of Serious Eats recounts the cre- Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary ation, development, and monetization of the Edition food blog. Discusses his history as a free- DB92289 55 hours 43 minutes lance food writer; his passion for specific by Mark Bittman dishes; the team he created, which included read by Celeste Lawson J. Kenji López-Alt and Stella Parks; and the Tenth anniversary collection of plant- strain the business put on his relationships. based recipes. Categories include getting Includes supplemental material. Unrated. started; salads; soups; vegetables, fruits, Commercial audiobook. 2019. nuts, and seeds; pasta, noodles, and dump- Building a Business with a Beat: lings; grains; legumes; tofu, burgers, and Leadership Lessons from Jazzercise—An other high-protein foods; eggs, dairy, and Empire Built on Passion, Purpose, and cheese; breads, muffins, pizza, and wraps; Heart sauces, condiments, herbs, and spices; des- DB96221 7 hours 51 minutes serts; and beverages. 2017. by Judi Sheppard Missett From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, read by Margaret Strom and Susan Carol and Finding Home McCarthy DB95581 11 hours 4 minutes Creator of Jazzercise shares entrepre- by Tembi Locke neurial lessons she learned while growing read by various narrators up and then developing her dance fitness Widow’s memoir of bonding with her hos- franchise. Discusses finding what works tile in-laws over food after the death of her for you, understanding your audience, chef husband. Discusses their marriage, learning from mistakes, and paying atten- adoption of their daughter, her husband’s tion to what your body is telling you. 2019. illness and death, her return to his home village in Sicily to scatter his ashes, and 26 Adult Nonfiction—Cooking, Crime, Family developing a relationship with her in-laws. family and criminals. Some violence and Includes supplemental material. Unrated. some strong language. For senior high and Commercial audiobook. 2019. older readers. 2018. The Queen: The Forgotten Life behind an Crime American Myth The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg DB95860 12 hours 46 minutes King, the Women Who Pursued Him, by Josh Levin and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age read by January LaVoy America Investigative reporter explores the case DB96167 11 hours 15 minutes of Chicagoan Linda Taylor, who came to by Karen Abbott symbolize the Cadillac-driving welfare read by various narrators cheat after reporting a phony burglary in Author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy 1974. Taylor was also a kidnapper—and (DB80094) chronicles the life of German possibly a murderer—but police, the immigrant and lawyer George Remus, who press, and presidential candidate Ronald ran one of the largest bootlegging empires Reagan focused only on her welfare fraud. during Prohibition. Discusses the devel- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. opment of Remus’s illegal business, his The Acid King romantic relationships, and the murder of DB95274 12 hours 11 minutes his wife, Imogene. Unrated. Commercial by Jesse P. Pollack audiobook. 2019. read by Alec Volz My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s True story of the murder of Long Island Police Torture Ring and Death Row teen Gary Lauwers by Ricky Kasso in DB96165 8 hours 39 minutes 1984, called a “Satanic sacrifice” by the by Ronald Kitchen international media. Recounts the case read by Prentice Onayemi and others and America’s War on Drugs campaign. Chicago police detective Jon Burge and Violence and strong language. For senior his notorious Midnight Crew terrorized high and older readers. 2018. and incarcerated black men for nearly two decades. Ronald Kitchen tells of being Family picked up, brutally tortured, coerced to Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills confess to five counts of murder, and Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School imprisoned for twenty-two years before and Beyond—and How Parents Can Help being exonerated in 2013. Unrated. DB96364 9 hours 2 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2018. by Phyllis L. Fagell 59 Hours read by Lauren McCullough DB95072 6 hours 26 minutes A counselor discusses the middle school by Johnny Kovatch years, combining her professional and per- read by Joe Wilson sonal expertise with stories and advice from Chronicles the fifty-nine hours from prominent psychologists, doctors, parents, August 6, 2000, when fifteen-year-old educators, school professionals, and middle Nicholas Markowitz was kidnapped, to his schoolers. Examines key skills crucial for eventual murder after midnight on August kids to thrive both in middle school and adult- 9th. Recounts the trial and life after for the hood. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 27 Adult Nonfiction Family, Gardening, General, Government and Politics Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting read by Max Boot DB95647 3 hours 36 minutes The author discusses his ideological by Anna Quindlen journey from Republican foreign policy read by Erin Jones advisor to anti-Trump columnist who Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, columnist, doesn’t identify with any political party. and memoirist writes about the joy she has Traces the evolution of American con- experienced in becoming a grandmother. servatism and what he considers the cor- Reflects on her new role, her changing rosion of the Republican Party. Unrated. relationship with her son, and more. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Bestseller. 2019. Unmasked: Big Media’s War against Trump Gardening DB96419 8 hours 24 minutes Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where by L. Brent Bozell They Come From, Why They’re Here, read by Phil Paonessa and Tim Graham and How to Live with Them Conservative activist and founder of DB92488 16 hours 58 minutes watchdog organization Media Research by Richard Orlando Center discusses bias in national media read by Patrick Downer coverage and his views on how it damages A professional gardener presents a democracy. Specifically examines this researched guide to weeds. Covers the in context of the coverage of President history of weeds as well as the basic weed Donald Trump. Unrated. Commercial families and descriptions of common audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. weeds found across the United States. Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Goes on to provide advice for gardeners Change from Young Female Staffers of on methods for controlling weeds. 2018. the Obama White House General DB94813 8 hours 21 minutes by Jenna Brayton The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: read by Kristin Allison and others True Stories of Defying the Impossible An anthology for young women by young DB95050 11 hours 33 minutes women, featuring stories from ten staffers edited by Catherine Burns who joined the Obama administration in read by Michael Russotto their 20s with the hope of making a dif- Following The Moth Presents All These ference. For senior high and older readers. Wonders (DB87801), this collection from 2019. the storytelling group The Moth includes You Can’t Go Wrong Doing Right: How a inspirational true stories from people— Child of Poverty Rose to the White House both celebrities and regular people from and Helped Change the World around the world—who have faced life’s DB95902 8 hours 34 minutes challenges. Some strong language. 2019. by Robert J. Brown Government and Politics read by various narrators The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I A memoir from an influential counselor Left the Right who served many presidents, beginning DB93461 7 hours 51 minutes with John F. Kennedy, as well as other by Max Boot key figures of history. Describes author’s 28 Adult Nonfiction—Government and Politics involvement with integrating lunch relying on racist fear-mongering for votes. counters, channeling money to the civil Presents his views on the resulting dev- rights movement, supporting Coretta Scott astation, fear, and death and on whether King after Martin Luther’s assassination, the effort has been misdirected. Unrated. and visiting Nelson Mandela in prison. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral The Deep State: How an Army of Adventure of Liberalism Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama DB96001 7 hours 29 minutes and Is Working to Destroy the Trump by Adam Gopnik Agenda read by Adam Gopnik DB93610 7 hours 38 minutes The author of At the Strangers’ Gate: by Jason Chaffetz Arrivals in New York (DB89033) presents read by Jason Chaffetz his views in favor of liberalism—one of the A Fox News contributor and former con- great moral adventures in human history, gressman posits that early twenty-first- he argues, and something on which our century federal bureaucracy has actively lives may depend in an age of autocracy. promoted a liberal agenda and sought to Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. undermine President Trump. Discusses Our Women on the Ground: Essays by the author’s own role in challenging this Arab Women Reporting from the Arab “Deep State” and holding those involved World responsible. Unrated. Commercial audio- DB96368 10 hours 54 minutes book. Bestseller. 2018. edited by Zahra Hankir The Dean: The Best Seat in the House read by Soneela Nankani DB96052 9 hours 7 minutes Nearly twenty female Arab journalists dis- by John D. Dingell cuss their work reporting on conflicts close read by Rob Shapiro and David Bender to home and the challenges they face— Memoir from Democrat who served in the sexual harassment, an inability to travel US House of Representatives for fifty-nine without a male relative in Yemen, and more. consecutive years (1955-2015)—the lon- Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. gest tenure of anyone in congressional his- The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great tory. He reflects on his life and considers Loves and Endeavors the currents that reshaped Congress and DB93600 11 hours 7 minutes America itself across those six decades. by Charles Krauthammer Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. read by various narrators Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War A posthumously published collection of on the Mexico Border work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning col- DB96000 7 hours 4 minutes umnist. The speeches, essays, and other by John Carlos Frey pieces included touch on the personal, read by Gustavo Res political, and philosophical. Also includes Award-winning journalist argues that a war a never-before published essay on the against immigrants has been escalating for effect of the early twenty-first-century decades, fueled by defense contractors and populist movement on global democracy. lobbyists seeking profits and politicians Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

29 Adult Nonfiction Government and Politics, Hobbies and Crafts, Literature I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How read by Adam Savage to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in Special effects designer and cohost of the a Poisonous Partisan World television show MythBusters presents a DB95599 5 hours 47 minutes guide to developing and nurturing your by Jeanne Safer creativity and problem-solving skills read by Jeanne Safer through making things. Shares lessons Drawing on interviews with every type learned through the years, including not of politically mixed couple, including the waiting until everything is perfect to begin author’s own marriage, Safer provides a and slowing down to prevent failure. guide to maintaining respect and intimacy Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. in an increasingly divided world. Unrated. Making Things Right: The Simple Commercial audiobook. 2019. Philosophy of a Working Life Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of DB93474 5 hours 36 minutes Robert Cutler by Ole Thorstensen DB93952 16 hours 29 minutes read by Ulf Bjorklund by Peter Shinkle Master carpenter highlights a specific read by Grover Gardner project—a loft renovation—to celebrate An examination of the inner workings of good craftsmanship and manual labor. the Eisenhower White House, particu- Details the process of the job, from submit- larly the efforts of Eisenhower’s national ting an estimate to the completion of the security advisor, Robert “Bobby” Cutler, project, and the skills required. Translated to shape US Cold War strategy. Also from the 2015 Norwegian edition. Unrated. discusses the significance of Cutler’s Commercial audiobook. 2018. homosexuality during this era. Relies on personal letters, interviews, and previously Home Management classified archives. Unrated. Commercial Time to Parent: Organizing Your Life to audiobook. 2018. Bring Out the Best in Your Child and You The Making of a Justice: Reflections on DB93454 10 hours 31 minutes My First 94 Years by Julie Morgenstern DB96103 18 hours 34 minutes read by Julie Morgenstern by John Paul Stevens The author of Time Management from read by various narrators the Inside Out (DB62935) outlines Retired Supreme Court justice reflects on time-management strategies for parents his life and thirty-four-year tenure on the struggling to care for both their children Supreme Court. Discusses his childhood in and themselves. Discusses prioritization Chicago, service during World War II, and strategies, helpful mindsets, guidelines career in law. Unrated. Commercial audio- for quality time, and more. Unrated. book. 2019. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Hobbies and Crafts Literature Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What The Devil Finds Work You Make It DB93547 3 hours 43 minutes DB96393 7 hours 48 minutes by James Baldwin by Adam Savage read by Dion Graham 30 Adult Nonfiction—Literature, Medicine and Health Collection of personal reflections on Medicine and Health movies by the author of I Am Not Your Chasing Hope: A Patient’s Deep Dive into Negro (DB88630). Analyzes the ways the Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future American film industry supported racism DB93640 7 hours 54 minutes and promoted the myths of what it is to be by Richard M. Cohen American. Unrated. Commercial audio- read by various narrators book. 1976. After more than four decades of living Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches with multiple sclerosis, the author of DB95899 7 hours 34 minutes Blindsided (DB57643) finds hope in a by Audre Lorde pioneering stem cell protocol and explores read by Robin Eller that cutting-edge world. Includes inter- Collection of fifteen essays and views with doctors, scientists, and reli- speeches by the author of A Burst of gious leaders, as well as conversations Light (DB91119) and Zami, a New with others with chronic conditions. Spelling of My Name (DB91255). Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018. Topics explored include sexism, racism, The Pandemic Century: One Hundred ageism, homophobia, and class. Unrated. Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris Commercial audiobook. 2007. DB96020 13 hours 42 minutes This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by by Mark Honigsbaum Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition read by John Lee DB94814 11 hours 42 minutes Author of The Fever Trail (DB57286) edited by Cherríe Moraga examines the history of pandemics read by Mare Trevathan and since the 1918 Spanish influenza. Cases Gloria Anzaldúa include the 1924 pneumonic plague in Collection of essays and poetry by women Los Angeles, 1930 “parrot fever,” and of color exploring issues including colo- 2015 Zika outbreaks. Discusses public nialism, homophobia, roots of radicalism, health efforts, prominent personalities, theory as it plays out in the real world, and potential future epidemics. Unrated. racism in the women’s movement, and Commercial audiobook. 2019. women’s experiences in the developing Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the world. Some violence, some strong lan- Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and guage, and some descriptions of sex. 2015. of the Outbreaks to Come Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and DB96072 13 hours 6 minutes the Art of Poetry by Richard Preston DB93156 14 hours 20 minutes read by Ray Porter by Adrienne Rich Author of The Hot Zone (DB40695) read by Teresa Willis returns to the topic of Ebola. Details the Twenty-six previously published essays by 2013–14 epidemic that killed people National Book Award-winning poet that in eight countries on three continents. explore political, personal, and poetical Discusses public health protocols for epi- themes. In her 1980 essay “Compulsory demics, the impact of modern technology Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” on the spread and prevention of Ebola, Rich explores the tensions between femi- and personalities involved. Unrated. nist movements and sexual identity. 2018. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 31 Adult Nonfiction Music, Nature and the Environment Music A classical music scholar presents a biog- People Get Ready! A New History of raphy of the composer (1810–1849), Black Gospel Music focusing on his childhood and youth in DB93347 17 hours 38 minutes Poland and his romantic life with the by Robert Darden French writer George Sand, with whom he read by Bob Moore lived for nine years. Unrated. Commercial University professor presents a survey audiobook. 2018. of the musical genre of gospel. Proceeds Nature and the Environment chronologically from gospel’s roots in The Best American Science and Nature Africa through slavery, Reconstruction, Writing 2018 and into the twenty-first century. Includes DB93152 14 hours 46 minutes profiles of prominent gospel artists and a edited by Sam Kean discography. 2004. read by Gregory Maupin and Tim Folger Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Twenty-six previously published essays on Records Story topics in the areas of science and nature. DB93132 12 hours 56 minutes In “The Starship or the Canoe,” Kenneth by Bruce Iglauer Brower revisits his subjects from The read by Chuck Young and Patrick A. Roberts Starship and the Canoe (DB14719) in Memoir by the founder of independent light of a 2015 planetary discovery. 2018. blues record label. Iglauer tells of his early Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, interest in blues music, the lively club Nature, and Climate Change scene he discovered in Chicago, his experi- DB95953 9 hours 0 minutes ences founding Alligator Records, and the by Elizabeth Kolbert many blues legends he recorded. Describes read by Faith Potts efforts to keep Alligator successful, even in Author of The Sixth Extinction (DB78463) the digital download age. 2018. examines climate change. Recounts her Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie visits to northern latitudes to document Tucker effects of greenhouse gases on land and DB91786 11 hours 20 minutes people. Updated from 2006 edition to by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff include chapters on Arctic sea ice, ocean read by Barbara Rappaport acidification, Canadian tar sands, and Biography of a singer and actor who going carbon neutral. 2015. starred in vaudeville, radio, film, and tele- The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our vision. Drawing heavily on the scrapbooks American Landscape Tucker (1887–1966) kept throughout her DB95273 11 hours 45 minutes career, chronicles how this daughter of by Suzannah Lessard Russian Jewish immigrants went on to read by Theresa Conkin inspire generations of female performers. Examination of the changing meaning of Some strong language. 2018. place and ways to imagine possibilities Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times during a time of transition. Topics covered DB93645 23 hours 30 minutes include the impacts of climate change, dig- by Alan Walker ital communications, global enclosure, and read by Corrie James flight. 2019. 32 Adult Nonfiction—Nature and the Environment, Occult and Astrology, Poetry Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of Nature Wars: The Incredible Story How Humans Navigate the World of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned DB95071 14 hours 26 minutes Backyards into Battlegrounds by M.R. O’Connor DB95087 13 hours 40 minutes read by Kristin Allison by Jim Sterba Journalist examines the practice of way- read by Barry Bernson finding—spatial problem-solving or nav- Journalist examines the relationship igation. Uses personal experiences of between humans and wildlife in urban and traveling through the Arctic, Australia, and suburban settings. Discusses the effects Oceania to highlight the history of humans of colonization on ecosystems, the ways navigating the world and research into the nature is reclaiming spaces, and research evolution of this ability. 2019. into environmentally-friendly develop- Wild at Heart: America’s Turbulent ment. 2012. Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption Occult and Astrology DB95098 11 hours 35 minutes The Astrology of You and Me: How by Alice Outwater to Understand and Improve Every read by Catherine Byers Relationship in Your Life Author of Water (DB47857) examines DB95266 18 hours 25 minutes Americans’ relationship with nature, by Gary Goldschneider beginning with the continent’s native read by Mark Ashby inhabitants and continuing through With chapters organized by each sign in European settlement to the present day. the zodiac, an astrologist offers advice Topics covered include philosophical on how to manage all the people in your views of nature, its impact on health, con- life based on their signs. He addresses a servation, urban areas, and taking a global variety of star-crossed situations involving view of nature. 2019. work, love, friends, and family. 2018. The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First- Poetry Century Portrait of Our Closest Kin Monument: Poems; New and Selected DB95102 13 hours 1 minute DB94262 3 hours 42 minutes by Craig Stanford by Natasha Trethewey read by Bob Moore read by Dawn Ursula Anthropologist presents discoveries Collection of poems—some previously from research done during the first two published—by the former US poet laureate decades of the twenty-first century on and author of Native Guard (DB65666) chimpanzees—humans’ closest evolu- and Thrall (DB75891). Highlights the tionary relatives. Topics covered include voices and experiences of working-class the roles that food and fertile females play African American women, a mixed-race in chimpanzee society; chimpanzee pol- prostitute, black Civil War fighters, and itics, intelligence, and genetics; and the Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina. causes of violence between chimpanzee 2018. communities. 2018.

33 Adult Nonfiction Psychology and Self-Help, Religion Psychology and Self-Help Evil: The Science behind Humanity’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Dark Side Specialized World DB95538 7 hours 46 minutes DB95566 10 hours 19 minutes by Julia Shaw by David Epstein read by Emily Ellet read by Will Damron Lecturer in criminology and psychology Journalist asserts that developing broad discusses the attraction of stories of mon- interests is better than rushing to spe- strous acts and the aberrant people who cialize. Examines top performers in a commit them. Arguing that evil is relative wide range of fields and argues that early and rooted in cultural norms, she draws on specialization is the exception instead of social and neurological research to explore the rule. Shares research showing that gen- why people transgress those norms. Some eralists might find their path late, but they descriptions of sex. 2019. often excel. Unrated. Commercial audio- Religion book. Bestseller. 2019. Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask in a World Obsessed with Early Questions Achievement DB95323 5 hours 46 minutes DB95153 9 hours 21 minutes by Rachel Held Evans by Rich Karlgaard read by Kristin Allison read by Fred Sanders Author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood In a society where parents are obsessed (DB75701), Searching for Sunday with early achievement and prodigies are (DB84130), and Inspired (DB93398) pres- celebrated, the author believes those who ents twenty-one essays examining growing take longer to reach their full potential are up in the town famous for the 1925 Scopes undervalued. Based on years of interviews “Monkey Trial” and the evolution of her with neuroscientists, psychologists, and faith. Discusses the challenges she faced people at different stages of their careers. and questions she sought answers for. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 2010. GuRu Seven Types of Atheism DB93646 1 hour 17 minutes DB93351 6 hours 35 minutes by RuPaul by John Gray read by various narrators read by Stephen Van Doren The drag performer and host of TV’s English economist and social philosopher RuPaul’s Drag Race offers advice for describes seven types of atheism present looking beyond the identity that was given through history. Types include God- to you. He discusses the long tradition of Haters, exemplified by the Marquis de shamans, mediums, and seers who knew Sade; Secular Humanism, which draws on the importance of looking beyond the Christian traditions; and Atheism without surface of things. Unrated. Commercial Progress, epitomized by George Santayana audiobook. Bestseller. 2018. and Joseph Conrad. 2018.

34 Adult Nonfiction—Religion First Comes Love: Finding Your Family Martin Buber: A Life of Faith in the Church and the Trinity and Dissent DB93643 4 hours 25 minutes DB95328 14 hours 53 minutes by Scott Hahn by Paul Mendes-Flohr read by Robert O’Keefe read by Bill Wallace Author of Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Biography of philosopher and theologian Grace (DB89713) analyzes the connection Martin Buber (1878–1965). Describes his between the Catholic Church, the Holy mother’s abandonment and the impact Trinity, and the family. Uses passages from of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian the Gospels and real-life examples to con- empire, intellectual influences, and expe- nect Jesus’s teachings to what it means to riences as an immigrant. Examines the be part of a family. Unrated. Commercial complexity and layers of his thoughts, par- audiobook. 2002. ticularly as he frequently revised his works The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of without notification. 2019. Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey Ethiopia and Jamaica DB96232 11 hours 44 minutes DB95104 3 hours 51 minutes by Helen Prejean edited by Gerald Hausman read by Helen Prejean read by Mark Ashby Author of Dead Man Walking (DB37404) Selections from the centuries-old text chronicles her journey of faith and spiri- that forms the basis of the Rastafari reli- tuality. Discusses her calling to become a gion, which interprets the Bible from an nun and years as a novitiate, relationships African—particularly Ethiopian—point that shaped her views—including a poten- of view. Includes stories collected by the tial romance with a priest—and activism editor that explore Rastafarian faith. With against the death penalty. Unrated. an introduction by musician Ziggy Marley. Commercial audiobook. 2019. 1997. Whispering in the Daylight: The Children Sufism: A New History of Islamic of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Mysticism Their Journey to Freedom DB95265 15 hours 16 minutes DB94812 9 hours 47 minutes by Alexander Knysh by Debby Schriver read by Mark Ashby read by Kristin Allison History of the Islamic sect that was Human rights activist chronicles the defined in its early days by ascetic mysti- development of the Tony Alamo Christian cism. Topics covered include why Sufism Ministries and the abuses perpetrated diverged from the main branch of Islam, in the group, which operated as a cult. divisions over definitions, discourses Discusses the organization’s creation, between major thought leaders, influ- business development, and the crimes ences from other cultures, Sufism’s prac- committed by its founders—particularly tices, and its history in the twentieth and against children. Violence and some twenty-first centuries. 2017. descriptions of sex. 2018.

35 Adult Nonfiction Religion, Social Sciences Our Non-Christian Nation: How Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others about American Garbage Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in DB95107 16 hours 49 minutes Public Life by Jeff Dondero DB96016 7 hours 16 minutes read by Bob Moore by Jay Wexler Examines the accumulation of waste— read by Michael Butler Murray including plastics, e-waste, everyday Lawyer examines the increasing public garbage, fast fashion, space waste, and engagement of practitioners of other faiths more—in the early twenty-first-century in the civic life of America—challenging United States. Discusses the environ- the notions that America is an overwhelm- mental impact of this level of trash and ingly Christian nation and that there is a suggests ways to prevent and mitigate the separation of church and state. Discusses problem. Some strong language. 2019. examples surrounding Islam, paganism, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical the Satanic Temple, and more. Unrated. Feminism of Andrea Dworkin Commercial audiobook. 2019. DB95066 11 hours 49 minutes by Andrea Dworkin Social Sciences read by Mare Trevathan Trust First: A True Story about the Power Collection of twenty-five essays by radical of Giving People Second Chances feminist Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005). DB96353 6 hours 4 minutes Most were originally published between by Bruce Deel 1974 and 1999 and include explorations read by various narrators and Sara Grace of her concept of feminism, sexual rela- Pastor with orders to shut down the tionships and patriarchal oppression, and Atlanta church he was assigned to presents domestic violence. Violence and some his experiences working with a community explicit descriptions of sex. 2019. in crisis. Discusses creating bonds with the White community, his decision to operate from a DB95746 6 hours 49 minutes point of radical trust, and the changes he by Bret Easton Ellis helped to facilitate. Unrated. Commercial read by Bret Easton Ellis audiobook. 2019. The author of American Psycho A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: (DB32488) and Less than Zero (DB24456) One Family and Migration in the 21st examines the meanings and impacts of Century the double-edged sword of freedom of DB96352 11 hours 46 minutes speech. Criticizes the perceived good by Jason DeParle of social media, particularly the cult of read by Fred Sanders likeability. Denounces censorship, particu- The true multi-generational saga of a larly when self-inflicted in hopes of accep- Filipino immigrant family who eventu- tance. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. ally reached Texas. Describes their years Bestseller. 2019. of sacrifice and separation and discusses Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the role of migration in the twenty-first the Way Forward century, particularly in American politics. DB94310 8 hours 25 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Gemma Hartley 36 Adult Nonfiction—Social Sciences read by Thérèse Plummer Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism Journalist expands on the topics discussed from the Inside Out in her viral article about the emotional DB95718 7 hours 58 minutes labor that women often shoulder in their by Ruth King relationships, at home, at work, and in read by Janina Edwards the world at large. Explores the ways this Examines race from the standpoint of manifests, the cultural messaging that has mindfulness and meditation. Offers exer- led to it, and possible solutions. Unrated. cises to explore individual connections Commercial audiobook. 2018. and experiences with race. Topics cov- Warhead: The True Story of One Teen ered include the dynamics of oppression, Who Almost Saved the World respecting turbulent emotions, tools to DB95906 9 hours 26 minutes understand and engage with racial ten- by Jeff Henigson sion, and embracing discomfort as a core read by Jeff Henigson competency for transformation. Unrated. Jeff Henigson’s memoir about his Starlight Commercial audiobook. 2018. Children’s Foundation wish after being Redefining Realness: My Path to diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead More for nuclear disarmament and world peace. DB96017 8 hours 16 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For by Janet Mock senior high and older readers. 2019. read by Janet Mock The Buried: An Archaeology of the Journalist chronicles her life growing up Egyptian Revolution in America multiracial, poor, and trans. DB96054 16 hours 46 minutes Discusses her own experiences coming out by Peter Hessler to her family and loved ones, challenges read by Peter Hessler she faced in her industry, and the dangers The author of River Town: Two Years on faced by trans women of color. Unrated. the Yangtze (DB53238) provides a por- Commercial audiobook. 2014. trait of contemporary Egypt and its people The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, through the lives of those he encountered Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban while living there just after the country’s America Arab Spring protests began. Unrated. DB96046 12 hours 46 minutes Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Khalil Gibran Muhammad How to Be an Antiracist read by Mirron Willis DB96351 10 hours 46 minutes Historian chronicles the link between race by Ibram X. Kendi and prosecution for crime, particularly for read by Ibram X. Kendi black Americans. Identifies the creation Award-winning author theorizes what an and tracking of race-based crime statistics, antiracist society might look like and how discusses criminalization of race through individuals can play a role in building Jim Crow laws, and uses case studies to it. Discusses the roles of ethics, history, highlight crime prevention efforts in urban law, and science in racial justice. Unrated. areas. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. 2010.

37 Adult Nonfiction Social Sciences, Sports and Recreation Hacking Life: Systematized Living and The former basketball star, who retired Its Discontents in 2016 after playing for the Los Angeles DB95103 7 hours 16 minutes Lakers for twenty years, discusses his by Joseph M. Reagle career. He shares details of his workout read by Kurt Elftmann schedules, mental preparations, and tech- Technologist chronicles the phenom- nical descriptions of how he approached enon of life hacking—finding ways to the game. Bestseller. 2018. systemize and streamline everyday tasks The Sixth Man: A Memoir and events—from the days of Benjamin DB95635 7 hours 11 minutes Franklin to the digital age. Focuses on the by Andre Iguodala topics of time, motivation, stuff, health, read by various narrators and relationships, and meaning. Some strong Carvell Wallace­ language. 2019. Memoir of a basketball player with the The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays Golden State Warriors. Discusses his DB93585 6 hours 38 minutes childhood in Illinois, his basketball career, by Wesley Yang his experiences of being an African read by David Shih American athlete, the relationship between A collection of essays written over the competition and brotherhood in sports, course of a decade dealing with race, sex, and what motivates him even when he’s and cultural trends. Subjects include the achieved his dreams. Unrated. Commercial Virginia Tech shooter, the intersection of audiobook. 2019. Asian values and the American Dream, Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier “tiger mother” parenting, and Internet DB96014 13 hours 15 minutes dating. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. by Mark Kram 2018. read by James Fouhey Biography of boxer most famous for his Sports and Recreation rivalry with Muhammad Ali. Chronicles Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and his early life as the youngest of thirteen off the Court children in the Jim Crow South, his start as DB96159 5 hours 51 minutes a fighter, his famous bouts against Ali and by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar George Foreman, and his post-retirement read by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and life. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. Raymond Obstfeld Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story NBA star reflects on his life growing up DB93189 9 hours 22 minutes in New York City, his years playing bas- by Wyomia Tyus ketball for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los read by Jean Cochran and Elizabeth Angeles Lakers, and his involvement as Terzakis­ an activist for social change. Unrated. Memoir by the African American athlete Commercial audiobook. For junior and who, in 1968, became the first person to senior high and older readers. 2017. win gold medals in the 100-meter sprint The Mamba Mentality: How I Play in two consecutive Olympic Games. DB93941 2 hours 46 minutes Chronicles her childhood, sporting tri- by Kobe Bryant umphs, and struggles to forge a path for read by Julian Thompson herself and other female athletes. 2018. 38 Adult Nonfiction—Stage and Screen, Travel Stage and Screen A biography of the actor best remembered How Did Lubitsch Do It? for his portrayal of the Scarecrow in The DB92475 25 hours 1 minute Wizard of Oz. Traces his life and career by Joseph McBride from his roots in Boston and early years read by Ken Kliban in vaudeville to Broadway stardom, a A film historian takes an in-depth look at the Hollywood contract, his own TV show, career of Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947), the and more. Some strong language. 2019. German-born director of a string of romantic Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom comedies in the 1930s and ‘40s, including of a Filth Elder Ninotchka and The Shop around the Corner. DB95725 10 hours 4 minutes Includes an analysis of what film critics by John Waters admiringly call the “Lubitsch touch.” 2018. read by John Waters Stuntman! My Car-Crashing, Plane- The cult filmmaker gives his unusual Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying brand of advice on a wide range of Hollywood Life topics, including how to fail upward in DB95281 10 hours 18 minutes Hollywood, develop musical taste, build by Hal Needham an ugly home, and more. With Hollywood read by Ray Foushee anecdotes and cameos from his cinematic Memoir of the Hollywood legend who collaborators. Unrated. Commercial audio- started doing stunt work in the 1950s, book. Bestseller. 2019. going on to be the stunt coordinator on Travel the TV show Have Gun—Will Travel. Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: More stunts in films turned into directing, A Memoir of Iceland including Smokey and the Bandit. Some DB95282 10 hours 8 minutes strong language. 2011. by Tory Bilski Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid read by Erin Jones Became America’s Favorite Carpenter Memoir of traveling to Iceland every DB95465 6 hours 15 minutes summer from 2004 to 2015 in order to ride by Ty Pennington horses. Discusses bonding with her fellow read by Ty Pennington travelers, living in a rural part of Iceland, Television star explains how his excess and working with the horses. Shares the childhood energy was focused when ways the trips changed over twelve years. building things, how he wasn’t diag- 2019. nosed with ADHD until college, and The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the how he became an advocate for ADHD Secrets of Better Vacations awareness. He describes his start as DB95594 9 hours 12 minutes a model and carpenter, which led to by Jaime Kurtz home-renovation-show fame. Unrated. read by Carla Mercer-Meyer Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2019. Psychologist presents guide to maximizing Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow your enjoyment of travel. Focuses on man- DB95094 10 hours 31 minutes aging your emotions and expectations to by Holly Van Leuven create more pleasurable, meaningful, and read by Emily Ellet engaging experiences. Discusses choosing 39 Adult Nonfiction Travel, US History your travel methods, being mindful, nego- US History tiating relationships, and returning to daily Writings life. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. DB91989 48 hours 12 minutes 2017. by W.E.B. Du Bois See You in the Piazza: New Places to read by Michael Scherer Discover in Italy Presents the essential writings of William DB94343 16 hours 21 minutes Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), by Frances Mayes who was a historian, sociologist, novelist, read by various narrators editor, and civil rights activist. Includes Author of Under the Tuscan Sun The Suppression of the African Slave- (DB44847) and Bella Tuscany (DB48030) Trade to the United States of America shares the experiences of traveling with 1638–1870 (1896), The Souls of Black her husband Ed through thirteen regions Folk (1903), and more. Edited by Nathan of Italy. Focuses on the sights, sounds, and Huggins. 1986. tastes best known by the locals. Places Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a visited include Turin, Venice, Parma, and New History of America’s Origin Genoa. Includes supplemental material. DB93494 18 hours 11 minutes Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019. by Joseph Kelly My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: read by Ken Kliban Reflections on Then and Now College professor offers a reinterpreta- DB93453 4 hours 6 minutes tion of the events that took place in the by Peter Mayle Jamestown colony in the early 1600s. read by John Lee Posits that while Jamestown is often pre- Author of Encore Provence (DB48526) sented as a cautionary tale of greed and and French Lessons (DB52170) reflects lawlessness, it actually—more so than on living as an expatriate in the Provence the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock—defined region of France for twenty-five years. America. Some strong language. 2018. Examines what has changed since he and The Lost Education of Horace Tate: his wife moved there, such as rising costs, Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who and what has remained the same. Unrated. Fought for Justice in Schools Commercial audiobook. 2018. DB92925 18 hours 34 minutes The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on by Vanessa Siddle Walker Time and a City read by Kerry Dukin DB96135 6 hours 3 minutes An account of the extensive efforts on the by Anna Sherman part of Dr. Horace Tate—a former teacher, read by Holly Palance principal, and state senator—to combat American expatriate shares the history of segregation and inequality in education her adopted city through the bells which based on race. The author discusses Tate’s have told the time since the days of the meetings with other educators, activists, shogunate. Offers a meditation on time, and politicians to this effect. Some strong history, memory, and impermanence and language. 2018. includes tales of the people she knows. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

40 Adult Nonfiction—Women’s Concerns, World History Women’s Concerns El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make of Hispanic North America History DB94407 21 hours 38 minutes DB92396 9 hours 27 minutes by Carrie Gibson by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich read by Kristin Allison read by Nora Achrati Author of Empire’s Crossroads (DB80362) Historian—and coiner of the title phrase explores the Hispanic past of North embraced by feminists—explores women America, beginning with the arrival of who made their mark on history, defying Spanish explorers in the early sixteenth societal expectations and challenging the century and continuing through the early very way that history is written. She gives twenty-first century. Discusses key events examples of such women, including war- and historical figures along with cultural riors, artists, writers, slaves, and modern issues of language, community, race, and feminists. 2007. nationality. 2019. The Black Prince and the Capture of a World History King: Poitiers, 1356 A History of Belarus: A Non-Literary DB92920 10 hours 3 minutes Essay That Explains the Ethnogenesis of by Morgen Witzel the Belarusians read by Gregory Maupin and Marilyn DB92377 17 hours 46 minutes Livingstone by Lubov Bazan Recounts the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, read by Gary Telles during the Hundred Years’ War, and A history of the European country of the capture of France’s King Jean by Belarus, beginning with prehistory the English. Provides a day-by-day and continuing on through the early description of the campaign that cli- twenty-first century. Discusses literature, maxed with that battle and briefly dis- religion, language, various military con- cusses the long-reaching effects of its flicts, and more. Particularly focuses on outcome. 2018. relations with Russia throughout history. Napoleon: A Life 2014. DB93754 27 hours 12 minutes The King and the Catholics: England, by Adam Zamoyski Ireland, and the Fight for Religious read by Leighton Pugh Freedom, 1780-1829 A comprehensive account of military DB93752 11 hours 32 minutes commander Napoleon Bonaparte’s life, by Antonia Fraser beginning with his birth into a poor family read by Steven Crossley and his swift rise to army general by the An account of the decades-long battle in age of twenty-six. Recounts his eventually the British Isles over systemic religious crowning as “Emperor of the French,” discrimination against Catholics, begin- subsequent conquering of Europe, and ning with the Gordon Riots in London. ultimate downfall. Unrated. Commercial Discusses the eventual passing of the audiobook. 2018. Roman Catholic Relief Act in 1829. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

41 Adult Nonfiction World History Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution DB94544 17 hours 31 minutes by Helen Zia read by Ken Kliban A Chinese American journalist draws on hundreds of interviews with people who fled China due to Mao’s proletarian revo- lution. Particularly focuses on the stories of four residents of Shanghai, who left for life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Some violence and some strong language. 2019.

42 Books for Children Books and magazines are also available for Gemma, choose her own lucha libre mask. immediate download from the NLS Braille For preschool-grade 2. 2018. and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site Scouts at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. To order books or DB95861 5 hours 13 minutes sign up for BARD, contact your local coop- by Shannon Greenland erating library. Regional library telephone read by Kathleen McInerney numbers and email addresses are listed on 1985. The summer before seventh grade, a the last pages of this magazine. group of best friends sneak out to watch a Books are listed alphabetically within the meteor shower and find themselves in the headings Children’s Fiction and Children’s middle of a grand adventure. Commercial Nonfiction by subject category, author audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2019. last name, and title. For example, the title Dust Storm! Survivor Diaries Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown DB93192 1 hour 42 minutes would be listed in Children’s Fiction under by Terry Lynn Johnson the Classics subject category and by the last read by Faith Potts name Brown. Separated from their group during a geo- caching trip, sixth-graders Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught Children’s Fiction in a dust storm in the desert near Las Adventure Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips from the New Mexico Search and Amelia Fang and the Unicorns of Rescue Council. For grades 3–6. 2018. Glitteropolis Clash of Beasts: A Going Wild Novel DB95708 2 hours 23 minutes DB93148 9 hours 7 minutes by Laura Ellen Anderson by Lisa McMann read by Zoe Thorne read by Emily Ellet Amelia Fang and her friends love their Project Chimera scientists must quickly dark and gloomy world of Nocturnia. But upgrade the power bracelets that Charlie when Tangine’s mom, Queen Fairyweather, and her friends use against evil Dr. Gray goes missing, they must brave the journey and his henchmen. His nefarious plan to the terrifying Kingdom of the Light. of turning humanity into a monstrous Sequel to Amelia Fang and the Barbaric new species is almost finished. Sequel Ball (DB95707). Commercial audiobook. to Predator vs. Prey (DB89462). For For grades 2–4. 2019. grades 5–8. 2018. Lucía the Luchadora; Lucía the Shipwreckers! The Curse of the Cursed Luchadora and the Million Masks Temple of Curses; or, We Nearly Died. DB93712 0 hours 22 minutes A Lot. by Cynthia Leonor Garza DB96124 6 hours 48 minutes read by Faith Potts by Scott Peterson In Lucía the Luchadora, a little girl gets read by Alec Volz and Joshua Pruett spicy mad when the boys on the play- When siblings Dani and Mike find ground insist that girls can’t be super- themselves aboard the ill-fated river heroes. In Lucía the Luchadora and the expedition of careless adventurer Million Masks, Lucía helps her little sister, 43 Children’s Fiction Adventure, Animals and Wildlife, Family Captain Kevin Adventureson, they must Emilia Torres is dealing with a lot in sixth work together to save themselves and the grade: her ADHD, a controlling abuela, her captain from all manner of deadly trials mother’s work commitments, her father’s and traps. For grades 3–6. 2019. distance after returning from deployment, Tito the Bonecrusher evolving friendships, and a conflict over DB96177 4 hours 39 minutes school redistricting. Commercial audio- by Melissa Thomson book. For grades 4–7. 2019. read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Girl of the Southern Sea After his dad is sent to a federal correc- DB95210 4 hours 21 minutes tional center, Oliver believes the only way by Michelle Kadarusman to save him is with the help of his favorite read by Emily Ellet lucha libre wrestler-turned-action star, Tito Born in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia, the Bonecrusher. Oliver and his friends Nia dreams of an education and the chance devise a madcap plan to spring his dad. at a better life as a writer. But she must For grades 4–7. 2019. thwart her father’s plans for her future. Wreck-It Ralph: The Junior Novelization For grades 6–9. 2019. DB93618 2 hours 15 minutes Caterpillar Summer by Irene Trimble DB95679 6 hours 42 minutes read by Andrew Eiden by Gillian McDunn When Ralph, a video game villain, finally read by Patrick Downer gets his chance to be a good guy, he dis- Since her father’s death, Cat has taken care covers that being the hero isn’t as easy as of her brother, Chicken, for their hard- it looks. Soon the entire video game world working mother. But while spending time is at stake! Adapted from the Walt Disney with grandparents they never knew, Cat Animation Studios film. Commercial now has the chance to be a child again. audiobook. For grades 2–4. 2012. For grades 3–6. 2019. The Remember Balloons Animals and Wildlife DB93528 0 hours 8 minutes Fox the Tiger; Fox Is Late by Jessie Oliveros DB93724 0 hours 8 minutes read by Joe Peck by Corey R. Tabor A young boy has a bunch of balloons, each read by Faith Potts of which holds a special memory. But as In Fox the Tiger, Fox decides to become his grandfather ages and loses his own a fast and sneaky tiger. Soon, his other balloons, the boy struggles to understand animal friends are joining in on the fun. why. For grades K–3. 2018. In Fox Is Late, Fox is late for lunch, so he Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff hops on his skateboard and zooms home. DB93191 6 hours 44 minutes Geisel Award. For grades K–3. 2018. by Andrea Portes Family read by Margaret Strom When their scientist parents die in a mys- Each Tiny Spark terious boating accident, siblings Eva DB96399 5 hours 48 minutes and Henry struggle to adjust to their new by Pablo Cartaya caretakers—Uncle Claude the Clod and read by Pablo Cartaya 44 Children’s Fiction—Family, Fantasy, Friendship his girlfriend, Terri the Terrible. Soon, Eva After the Neverseen prove how vulner- suspects that the accident may have been able she is, Sophie decides to learn how intentional. For grades 4–7. 2018. to fight. But she quickly learns that battle The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins training won’t help her friend facing a dif- DB95067 6 hours 32 minutes ferent kind of danger. Sequel to Nightfall by Gail Shepherd (DB89774). For grades 5–8. 2018. read by Mare Trevathan Changeling: The Oddmire, Book 1 1980s. When eleven-year-old Lyndie and DB95757 6 hours 7 minutes her parents move to her grandparents’ by William Ritter home in small-town Tennessee, she dis- read by Jonathan Todd Ross covers that keeping all the family prob- Twelve-year-olds Tinn and Cole, raised lems private only makes their situation as human twins in sleepy Endsborough, worse. For grades 6–9. 2019. risk their lives in the Wild Wood, Oddmire swamp, and the Deep Dark to learn which Fantasy one of them is a goblin changeling with The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge an important mission. Commercial audio- DB93563 5 hours 28 minutes book. For grades 4–7. 2019. by M.T. Anderson Cinderella Liberator read by Gildart Jackson and Eugene DB96260 0 hours 43 minutes Yelchin by Rebecca Solnit Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is read by Rebecca Solnit on a mission: survive being catapulted across Cinderella’s fairy godmother helps her the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a attend a ball—and then Cinderella liber- priceless peace offering to their mysterious ates herself, the prince, the animal helpers, dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom— and even her stepmother and stepsisters. from which no elf has returned alive in more Commercial audiobook. For grades 2–4 than a hundred years. Commercial audio- and older readers. 2019. book. For grades 5–8. 2018. The Rambling Friendship DB95089 8 hours 22 minutes The Second Story: The Magic Misfits by Jimmy Cajoleas DB96231 5 hours 37 minutes read by Andy Pyle by Neil Patrick Harris After a fire, eleven-year old Buddy read by various narrators and Alec Azam Pennington leaves home to find his Pop, Leila and the other young magicians Davey Boy, a wandering gambler. When have the opportunity to perform with a a crime lord aims to collect an old debt, famous stage psychic known as Madame Buddy must learn to play Parsnit, a mag- Esmeralda, who may hold secrets to ical card game, to win the hand of a life- Leila’s past. Sequel to The Magic Misfits time. For grades 3–6. 2019. (DB90217). Commercial audiobook. For Flashback: Keeper of the Lost Cities grades 3–6. 2018. DB92915 21 hours 6 minutes The Afterwards by Shannon Messenger DB95809 3 hours 18 minutes read by Emily Ellet by A.F. Harrold read by Gabriella Cavallero 45 Children’s Fiction Friendship , Growing Up When her best friend, Ness, dies sud- The Miraculous denly, Ember finds a way into the after- DB95919 6 hours 12 minutes world, determined to bring Ness back. by Jess Redman For grades 3–6. 2018. read by Christopher Gebauer Not If I Can Help It After losing his faith in miracles when his DB95939 5 hours 47 minutes newborn sister dies, Wunder Ellis meets by Carolyn Mackler a mysterious old woman who needs his read by Taylor Meskimen help to reconnect the living and the dead, Eleven-year-old Willa lives with sen- bringing Wunder and his town face-to-face sory processing disorder and is thrown with the inexplicable. Commercial audio- for a loop when her dad announces he’s book. For grades 3–6. 2019. dating the mother of her best friend, Ruby. Horrified at the turn of events, Willa Growing Up doesn’t want Ruby or other classmates to The Great Jeff know about her condition. Commercial DB94291 6 hours 29 minutes audiobook. For grades 3–6. 2019. by Tony Abbott Camp Shady Crook read by Josh Hurley DB95676 5 hours 48 minutes After his estranged father stopped paying by Lee Gjertsen Malone his private school tuition and then his read by Kurt Elftmann alcoholic mother loses another job, Budding con artists Archie and Vivian Jeff’s homelife is suddenly filled with spend a summer at a dilapidated, mis- uncertainty. He finds hope in the few managed Vermont camp competing to new friends he makes in public school. get whatever they want from their fellow Commercial audiobook. For grades 5–8. campers. For grades 3–6. 2019. 2019. Doll-E 1.0 Extraordinary Birds DB95456 0 hours 6 minutes DB95065 4 hours 29 minutes by Shanda McCloskey by Sandy Stark-McGinnis read by Jill Fox read by Mare Trevathan Charlotte has a talent for anything technolog- Eleven-year-old December, who believes ical, so when she receives a doll as a present, she is a bird, waits to sprout wings and she upgrades it with a few spare parts and fly away. Then a new foster mother, who some code to create a new and improved volunteers at the Wildlife Rehabilitation friend. For preschool-grade 2. 2018. Center, changes her perspective on home Earth to Charlie and family. For grades 4–7. 2019. DB95444 5 hours 59 minutes Other Words for Home by Justin Olson DB96396 3 hours 53 minutes read by Doug Tisdale Jr. by Jasmine Warga After his mother’s disappearance, Charlie read by Vaneh Assadourian became a bullied loner, obsessed with When her Syrian hometown is overshad- UFO sightings. So when new student Seth owed by violence, Jude is sent with her wants to be his friend, Charlie is suspi- mother to the saftey of a relative’s home cious. For grades 6–9. 2019. in America. She worries for the family

46 Children’s Fiction—Growing Up, Historical Fiction, Humor, Mystery and Detective members who were left behind and adjusts to Two humorous adventures, written in a new life filled with surprises. Commercial 2014–15, featuring friends Morgan and audiobook. For grades 4–7. 2019. Lewis as they encounter epic creatures. In Alien Encounter, the boys first meet over Historical Fiction a killer wedgie and then discover an alien. Stone River Crossing In Super Sasquatch Showdown, Morgan DB95894 8 hours 17 minutes and Lewis try to decipher a cryptic letter. by Tim Tingle For grades 2–4. 2015. read by Corey Allen Mississippi Territory, 1808. When Martha Mystery and Detective Tom ventures out of Choctaw Nation and Big Game crosses the Bok Chitto River to pick ber- DB96027 6 hours 50 minutes ries on the slave-owning plantation side, by Stuart Gibbs it brings a surprise friendship with Lil read by Gibson Frazier Mo. The two hatch a plan to get Lil Mo’s Someone has taken a shot at pregnant family to freedom. Commercial audio- Rhonda, FunJungle Wild Animal Park’s book. For grades 5–8. 2019. Asian rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old The Colors of the Rain Teddy Fitzroy is on the case. Sequel to DB95258 3 hours 50 minutes Poached (DB82646). Commercial audio- by R.L. Toalson book. For grades 5–8. 2015. read by Robert Sams Kazu Jones and the Denver Dognappers A novel in verse. In 1972, after his father DB95677 7 hours 31 minutes is killed, Paulie is sent to live with his by Shauna Holyoak Aunt Bee in Houston, a city fighting read by Deborah Desmone desegregation. But as Paulie gets into Eleven-year-old Kazuko, already well- fights with a black student, he is forced to known for “helping” the police, inves- understand the circumstances surrounding tigates a rash of dognappings, aided by his father’s death. For grades 4–7. 2018. her Japanese mastiff, Genki, and friends. My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich For grades 3–6. 2019. DB96373 7 hours 41 minutes The Final Step: Lock and Key by Ibi Zoboi DB92923 7 hours 13 minutes read by Ibi Zoboi by Ridley Pearson In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old read by Abigail Maupin Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits Moria Moriarty frets over her brother’s her father in Harlem, where her fascination disturbing behavior and Sherlock Holmes’s with outer space and science fiction interfere recent expulsion from Baskerville with her finding acceptance. Commercial Academy. Meanwhile, a series of deaths audiobook. For grades 5–8. 2019. has Moria searching for a connection. Sequel to Lock and Key Series, Books 1–2 Humor (DB89498). For grades 5–8. 2018. Sasquatch and Aliens, Books 1–2 Kat Wolfe Investigates DB95077 5 hours 11 minutes DB93166 6 hours 50 minutes by Charise Mericle Harper by Lauren St John read by Doug Tisdale Jr. read by Mare Trevathan 47 Children’s Fiction Mystery and Detective, Scary Stories, Science Fiction Twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe, the daughter Science Fiction of a veterinarian, opens a pet-sitting busi- Bad Hair Day: Franny K. Stein, Mad ness for pocket money after she and her Scientist, Book 8 mom move to England’s Jurassic Coast. DB95706 0 hours 37 minutes But when the owner of her first client goes by Jim Benton missing, Kat suspects foul play and inves- read by Michelle O. Medlin tigates. For grades 4–7. 2018. Franny tries to follow her mother’s sug- Scary Stories gestion to change her appearance, but by turning hairstyling into a science experi- The Bone Garden ment she creates some very greedy pigtails DB96424 5 hours 36 minutes that terrorize the town. Commercial audio- by Heather Kassner book. For grades 2–4. 2019. read by Fiona Hardingham Cogheart Made from bone dust and imagination, DB95646 8 hours 15 minutes Irréelle accidentally destroys another of by Peter Bunzl her cruel creator’s creatures and flees to read by Jill Fox the underside of the graveyard, seeking London, 1896. Schoolgirl Lily teams up the magic that brings bones to life. with a clockmaker’s son, Robert, and her Commercial audiobook. For grades 4–7. mechanimal fox, Malkin, to solve the mys- 2019. terious disappearance of her father and The Griffins of Castle Cary his world-changing invention, a perpetual DB94958 6 hours 54 minutes motion machine called the Cogheart. For by Heather Shumaker grades 5–8. 2016. read by Doug Tisdale Jr. Blastaway England. Siblings Meg and Will must DB96219 7 hours 32 minutes uncover the haunted history of their Aunt by Melissa Landers Effie’s quaint town of Castle Cary to save read by Patrick Downer their younger sister, Ariel, from a ghost Thirteen-year-olds Ky and Fig become intent on keeping her as a friend. For unlikely allies in a stolen spaceship, grades 4–7. 2019. eluding space pirates and more as they try School to save Earth from a nefarious plot. For Focused grades 4–7. 2019. DB95432 5 hours 37 minutes Bites Back: Project Terra by Alyson Gerber DB95678 5 hours 2 minutes read by Mare Trevathan by Landry Q. Walker Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do well in read by Patrick Downer class and play chess on the school team, Elara just wants to learn how to build new but somehow she cannot focus on any- worlds with her friends Knot, Beezle, Sabik, thing. When her classmates take notice, and her alien-sponge roommate, Clare. But Clea’s worried parents have her tested for when an evil time-hopping force threatens ADHD and Clea begins to take control of to take down the galactic order, Elara’s her life. For grades 5–8. 2019. school year turns weird. Sequel to Crash Course (DB94607). For grades 4–7. 2018.

48 Children’s Fiction—Short Stories, Sports Stories Short Stories camp, his friends and family gather to The Hero Next Door support him and discuss events leading to DB95926 6 hours 16 minutes his coma. Told through dialogue, text mes- edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich sages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an read by Mike Chamberlain online forum, and Teddy’s inner thoughts. Thirteen short stories written by diverse For grades 5–8. 2018. authors. Each story explores acts of Training Camp: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peño, bravery by heroes trying to make the Lab; The Wizenard Series world a better place. Commercial audio- DB95529 15 hours 31 minutes book. For grades 3–6. 2019. by Wesley King read by Michael Scherer Sports Stories A group of persistent kids make up a Game Changer struggling basketball team from the poor DB95657 3 hours 11 minutes neighborhood of Dren. But the team is by Tommy Greenwald soon transformed by the arrival of a new, read by Jon Pinnow mysterious coach. Created by NBA star While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for Kobe Bryant. For grades 6–9 and older his life after a football injury at training readers. 2019.

49 Children’s Nonfiction Astronomy, Biography, History Children’s Nonfiction journey growing up without the bottom half of her left arm and discusses the inspi- Astronomy ration for her invention of Project Unicorn, Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover a prosthetic that shoots biodegradable DB95523 0 hours 30 minutes glitter. For grades 4–7. 2019. by Markus Motum Biddy Mason Speaks Up read by Jeff Allin DB94951 2 hours 52 minutes The search for life on Mars, told from the by Arisa White unique perspective of NASA’s Mars rover read by Jill Ferris and Laura Atkins Curiosity, focusing on the space robot’s Tells the story—in verse, with supple- engineering aspects. For grades 2–4. 2017. mental historical material—of Bridget “Biddy” Mason, who was born a slave, Biography sued for her family’s freedom after being What Do You Do with a Voice like taken to California, became a midwife and That? The Story of Extraordinary a nurse, and started many philanthropic Congresswoman Barbara Jordan projects with profits from her real estate DB93512 0 hours 26 minutes investments. For grades 4–7. 2019. by Chris Barton read by Joe Peck History Short biography of Barbara Jordan An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the (1936–1996), whose confident voice led to United States: For Young People her successful careers as a lawyer, politi- DB96226 6 hours 46 minutes cian, educator, and civil rights leader. For by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grades 3–6. 2018. read by Mark Ashby Hammering for Freedom: The William Adaptation for younger readers of An Lewis Story Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United DB93510 0 hours 25 minutes States (DB82383). Explores the history of by Rita Lorraine Hubbard the United States as a colonial settler-state read by Joe Peck from the perspective of its indigenous Tells the story of William “Bill” Lewis, peoples. Adapted by Jean Mendoza and who was born into slavery on a Tennessee Debbie Reese. For grades 6–9 and older plantation in 1810 and became a hard- readers. 2019. working blacksmith who slowly saved Mummies Exposed! Creepy and True his money to buy his family’s freedom. DB95263 4 hours 12 minutes For grades K–3. 2018. by Kerrie Logan Hollihan Born Just Right read by Jonathan Taylor DB95960 3 hours 9 minutes Uncovers the mysteries behind unearthed by Jordan Reeves human mummies from around the globe, read by Deborah Desmone and Jen Lee from mutilated bodies preserved in Irish Reeves bogs to sacrificed children entombed in Cofounder of the nonprofit Born Just an Incan burial site on a mountaintop. Right, young Jordan mentors other kids For grades 5–8 and older readers. 2019. with limb differences. She recounts her

50 Children’s Nonfiction—History, Hobbies and Crafts, Nature and the Environment, Poetry The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Nature and the Environment Streets Champion: The Comeback Tale of the DB95325 3 hours 49 minutes American Chestnut Tree by Gayle E. Pitman DB95991 2 hours 26 minutes read by Kristin Allison by Sally M. Walker Recounts the history of the Stonewall read by Elizabeth Rose riots, a series of spontaneous demonstra- Recounts how the American chestnut tions by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) tree, which was nearly extinct in the early community in reaction to a police raid 1900s due to an unknown blight, has made that took place on June 28, 1969, at a comeback thanks to human ingenuity. the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s For grades 5–8. 2018. Greenwich Village. Some violence. For grades 6–9. 2019. Poetry Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Bark in the Park! Poems for Dog Lovers Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights; DB95455 0 hours 9 minutes with 21 Activities by Avery Corman DB96225 7 hours 52 minutes read by Abigail Maupin by Jerome Pohlen Poems about different kinds of dogs and read by Faith Potts their unique traits as they romp about in a Recounts the struggle for LGBT equality park. For grades K–3. 2019. through personal stories and firsthand A Maze Me: Poems for Girls accounts. Chronicles the movement’s key DB95437 1 hour 13 minutes events, profiles civil rights mavericks, by Naomi Shihab Nye and highlights contributions from famous read by Gabriella Cavallero LGBT individuals and organizations. Collection of poetry for a young female For grades 5–8 and older readers. 2016. audience. Captures the wide array of coming-of-age emotion, drama, angst, and Hobbies and Crafts joy through poems dealing with friend- Hello, Crochet Friends! Making Art, ship, school, community, love, and family. Being Mindful, Giving Back: Do What For grades 6–9 and older readers. 2005. Makes You Happy For Every One DB96227 0 hours 36 minutes DB93844 0 hours 27 minutes by Jonah Larson by Jason Reynolds read by Kurt Elftmann and Jennifer Larson read by Jason Reynolds Young, gifted artist Jonah Larson dis- An inspirational poem originally per- cusses his adoption from Ethiopia and his formed at the Kennedy Center for challenges in a Wisconsin school. He and the unveiling of the Martin Luther his mom recount how crocheting came King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to into his life, calmed his hyper mind, and award-winning author Walter Dean Myers, became a source of joy and fame for him. provides a rallying cry to fellow dreamers For grades 2–4. 2019. of the world. Commercial audiobook. For grades 6–9. 2018.

51 Children’s Nonfiction Science and Technology Science and Technology The Wright Brothers: Nose-Diving into History; Epic Fails DB95835 2 hours 3 minutes by Erik Slader read by Gary Telles and Ben Thompson Describes the lives of the two American brothers who designed, built, and flew the first heavier-than-air aircraft to fly success- fully. Details their many mishaps and mis- adventures along the way. For grades 3–6. 2018.

52 Foreign Language Español Alimentamos una Isla: Una Historia Verdadera sobre la Reconstrucción de Los libros presentes en esta edición de Puerto Rico (We Fed an Island: The Talking Book Topics (Temas de Libros True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, Parlantes) se enviaron recientemente a las One Meal at a Time) bibliotecas de cooperación. La colección DB93151 12 hours 29 minutes completa, que contiene una amplia gama de por José Andrés libros de ficción y no ficción, incluyendo leído por Martin Untrojb y Richard Wolffe biografías, clásicos, de vaqueros, misterios, El chef hispanoamericano José Andrés y romancias, se puede encontrar en reflexiona sobre sus esfuerzos de socorro www.loc.gov/nls. en Puerto Rico después del huracán Los usuarios registrados también pueden María en 2017. Acreditado con la miti- descargar de inmediato todos los títulos y gación de una crisis humanitaria, Andrés revistas del servicio de Descarga de Lectura y su organización de caridad de caridad en Braille y Audio del NLS (BARD) en supervisaron la preparación de 100,000 https://nlsbard.loc.gov. La aplicación móvil comidas diarias para el pueblo puertorri- de BARD está disponible en la App Store, queño. Prólogo por Lin-Manuel Miranda y Google Play, y en la Appstore de Amazon Luis A. Miranda, Jr. Traducido del inglés. para leer audiolibros en su teléfono inteli- 2018. (Spanish-American Chef José gente o su tableta personal. Para conocer Andrés reflects upon his relief efforts in más sobre la colección o para registrarse Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane para utilizar BARD, comuníquese con Maria in 2017. Credited with mitigating a su biblioteca de cooperación local. Los humanitarian crisis, Andrés and his charity números de teléfono y las direcciones de oversaw the preparation of 100,000 meals correo electrónico de las bibliotecas regio- daily. Forward by Lin-Manuel Miranda y nales se encuentran en las últimas páginas Luis A. Miranda, Jr. 2018.) de esta revista. Entre las sombras del sueño americano Nota: Puede aparecer un aviso inmedia- (My Underground American Dream) tamente a continuación de la descripción DB95533 11 hours 29 minutes del libro para indicar escenas de violencia, por Julissa Arce lenguaje violento o descripciones de sexo. leído por Rocio Ramirez La palabra “algunas” antes de cualquiera Una ex ejecutiva de Wall Street relata la de estos términos indica un hecho oca- historia de su vida desde su infancia como sional o poco frecuente, como por ejemplo una inmigrante indocumentada en San “lenguaje violento poco frecuente”. Los Antonio y su ascenso en la escala del éxito audiolibros comerciales de los cuales el académico y financiero en los Estados NLS no tiene acceso al libro impreso, Unidos. 2016. (A former Wall Street exec- pueden presentar el aviso “sin calificación”, utive relates the story of her life from her lo que significa que el libro puede contener childhood as an undocumented immigrant o no violencia, lenguaje violento o descrip- in San Antonio and her steep climb up the ciones de sexo. ladder of academic and financial success in the United States. 2016.)

53 Foreign Language Llámame Francisco (Chiamatemi Los Últimos Días de Ramón Pagano Francesco) (Ramon Pagano’s Last Days) DB95536 7 hours 23 minutes DB94800 7 hours 43 minutes por Giorgio Grignaffini por Alejandro Hernández Palafox leído por Martin Untrojb leído por German Jaramillo Una versión novelizada de la vida del Un hombre condenado a muerte pasa obispo Jorge Bergoglio—el futuro sus últimos cincuenta días en la tierra en Papa Francisco—se ha contado con el actividad productiva y reflexiona sobre beneplacito del Papa. La base de la pelí- el pasado criminal que lo trajo a esta cula italo-argentina del mismo nombre. coyuntura. Violencia, lenguaje injurioso, Traducido del italiano. 2016. (A novelized y descripciones de índole sexual. 2018. version of the life of Bishop Jorge (A man condemned to death spends his Bergoglio—the future Pope Francis—that last fifty days on earth in productive has been approved by the Pope. The basis activity and reflects upon the criminal of the Italo-Argentinian film of the same past that brought him to this juncture. name. Translated from the 2015 Italian Violence, strong language, and descriptions edition. 2016.) of sex. 2018.) 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI (21 Lessons Ana la de Tejas Verdes (Anne of for the 21st Century) Green Gables) DB94025 13 hours 40 minutes DB95683 12 hours 29 minutes por Yuval Noah Harari por L.M. Montgomery leído por María Pino leído por Catherine Nunez El autor de Sapiens (DB84962) y Homo Ana, una huérfana de once años, es enviada Deus (DB84963) presenta consejos por error a vivir con un hermano y una sobre la navegación de la vida en el siglo hermana solteros de mediana edad en una veintiuno y sobre los rápidos cambios granja de la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo en que la tecnología ofrece a la civilización Canadá. Allí procede a hacer una impresión humana. Los temas incluyen la desilusión, indeleble en todos los que la rodean. el trabajo, la comunidad, el nacionalismo, Publicado originalmente en inglés en 1908. la religión, la guerra, el secularismo, la Para grados 5–8 y lectores mayores. 1908. ignorancia, la ciencia ficción, la educación, (Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent y la meditación. Traducido del inglés. by mistake to live with a brother and sister, 2018. (Author of Sapiens (DB84962) and both middle-aged and single, on a Prince Homo Deus (DB84963) presents advice on Edward Island farm in Canada. There she navigating life in the twenty-first century proceeds to make an indelible impression and dealing with the rapid changes tech- on everyone around her. For grades 5–8 nology offers human civilization. Topics and older readers. 1908.) include disillusionment, work, community, nationalism, religion, war, secularism, ignorance, science fiction, education, and meditation. 2018.)

54 Español El Vendedor de Sueños (Seller of Dreams) DB93450 8 hours 40 minutes por Ernesto Quiñonez leído por Jorge Pupo Chino es un joven del Harlem hispano en busca del amor. Pero su relación con Bodega, un bandido generoso, lo sumerge en un mundo de intrigas y violencia. Sin calificación. Audiolibro comercial. 2018. (Chino is a young man from Spanish Harlem in search of love. But his relationship with Bodega, a generous crook, immerses him in a world of intrigue and violence. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.)

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58 Adults—Order Form

Talking Book Topics For Postage-Free Mailing September–October 2020 1. Complete the order form and enclose in an envelope. Name 2. Do not seal envelope. Tuck the flap in. Address 3. Address envelope to your local cooperating library. City 4. In the place of a stamp, write “Free Matter for the Blind or Handicapped.” State ZIP

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cont. next page Please return your book and magazine cartridges. 61 Adult Nonfiction cont. Religion Sports and World History Music □ DB95323 Recreation □ DB92377 □ DB93347 □ DB93351 □ DB96159 □ DB93752 □ DB93132 □ DB93643 □ DB93941 □ DB94407 □ DB91786 □ DB95104 □ DB95635 □ DB92920 □ DB93645 □ DB95265 □ DB96014 □ DB93754 Nature and the □ DB95328 □ DB93189 □ DB94544 Environment □ DB96232 Stage and Screen □ DB93152 □ DB94812 □ DB92475 □ DB95953 □ DB96016 □ DB95281 □ DB95273 □ DB95465 □ DB95071 Social Sciences □ DB95094 □ DB95098 □ DB96353 □ DB95725 □ DB95102 □ DB96352 □ DB95087 □ DB95107 Travel □ DB95066 DB95282 Occult and □ □ DB95746 Astrology □ DB95594 □ DB94310 □ DB95266 □ DB94343 □ DB95906 □ DB93453 Poetry □ DB96054 □ DB96135 □ DB94262 □ DB96351 US History Psychology and □ DB95718 □ DB91989 Self-Help □ DB96017 □ DB93494 □ DB95566 □ DB96046 □ DB92925 □ DB95153 □ DB95103 □ DB93646 □ DB93585 Women’s Concerns □ DB95538 □ DB92396

62 Please return your book and magazine cartridges. Children—Order Form

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64 Please return your book and magazine cartridges. Foreign Language—Order Form

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