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The chalk artist : a novel

Allegra Goodman · Books on Tape
Format: Audiobook

Collin James is young, creative, and unhappy. A college dropout, he waits tables and spends his free time beautifying the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his medium of choice: chalk. Collin's art captivates passersby with its vibrant colors and intricate lines--until the moment...
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A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir

Edie Windsor · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when the Supreme Court ruled in her favor in her case seeking...
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions Are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are

Zoe Fraade-Blanar · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given all organizations?from traditional businesses to tech startups?direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it's...
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Emma in the Night: A Novel

Wendy Walker · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

"Both twisted and twisty, this smart psychological thriller sets a new standard for unreliable narrators." -Booklist, Starred ReviewOne night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without...
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"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children

Lisa Delpit · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

As MacArthur award-winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us-and as all research shows-there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking picture of the elements of contemporary public education that conspire against the prospects for poor children...
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Field Notes on Love

Jennifer E Smith
Format: Audiobook


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Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being

Shawn Achor · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

The best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage reveals why our potential is not limited by what we on our own can achieve; rather, our success is amplified by the successes of those around us. He offers five strategies for exponentially raising our achievement and performance by helping...
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Beneath the Water

Sarah Painter · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Munro House is the new start Stella needs. But it will also draw her back to a dark past ... Devastated by a broken engagement, Stella Jackson leaves her old life behind for a new start in rural Scotland. But when she arrives in the remote coastal village of Arisaig, nothing is what she expected.At...
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HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World

Katherine Halligan · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Throughout history, girls have often been discussed in terms of what they couldn't or shouldn't do. Not anymore. It's time for herstory-a celebration not only of what girls can do but also of the remarkable things women have already accomplished, even when others tried to stop...
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Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better - and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own

Andrew Weil · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook

Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives.
Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50 years, and over-the-counter drug use has risen just as dramatically. In addition to the dozens of medications we take...
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present

Pankaj Mishra · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected...
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine: Library Edition

Alan P Lightman · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the worldAs...
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

Dan Ariely · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Read by Simon Jones]Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they...
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We'll Fly Away

Bryan Bliss · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ]

Alternating between a third-person account of his senior year and his letters from death row, a young man untangles the chain of devastating circumstances that led to his conviction. Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartbreaking, this novel...
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Golden State

Ben Winters · Little, Brown & Company
Format: Audiobook

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.
In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year...
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