Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future ... when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth - from the author of the "absorbing page-turner" (People) The Girls at 17 Swann Street. Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy.
Publisher: n/a
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9781797137742
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Audiobook
The Jane Austen Project
By Flynn, Kathleen A
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers -- Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane -- arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters -- a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren't the first team from the future to ''go back,'' their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
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9781538417782
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Audiobook
Camp Famous
By Blecher, Jennifer
"When eleven-year-old Abby learns she will be attending summer camp, she is excited at the idea of a fresh start, but when she discovers she is going to Camp Famous, a place exclusively for famous kids like pop stars, princesses, and geniuses, her enthusiasm turns to apprehension."--Publisher's description.
HarperAudio
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9798200970476
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Audiobook
Identity Leadership
By Graham, Stedman
Identity Leadership helps readers become passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leaders through identifying who they are, their desires, and their abilities.Identity Leadership by Stedman Graham is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on the philosophy that you can't lead others until you can first lead yourself-the more you work on yourself, the more you can give to those around you. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel the best of who we are to achieve success for ourselves and those we lead.In Identity Leadership, Graham takes the reader through a nine-step process designed to show them how to create and reshape their futures as Identity Leaders. The nine steps include: check your ID,create your vision,develop your travel plan,master the rules of the road,step into the outer limits,pilot the seasons of change,build your dream team,win by a decision, andcommit to your vision.
Blackstone Pub
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9781549198977
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Audiobook
The bright hour
By Riggs, Nina
An exquisite memoir about how to live, and love, every day with 'death in the room', from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Simon & Schuster Audio
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9781508241447
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Audiobook
The Club
By Lloyd, Ellery
The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home--a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast--and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade. But behind the scenes, tensions are at the breaking point. As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home's members will begin to wish they'd never made the guest list.
HarperCollins
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9798200858491
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Audiobook
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
By Lee, Bandy X.
The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.This is not normal.Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump's case, their moral and civic "duty to warn" America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump's symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump's impulsivity in terms of "unbridled and extreme present hedonism." Craig Malkin speaks about pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the "malignant normality" that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.It's not all in our heads. It's in his.
Macmillan Audio
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9781427295231
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Audiobook
Dr. Death and the Country Dentist
By Balko, Radley
This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies a year, five times more than is recommended, performed at night in the basement of a local funeral home. Autopsy reports claimed organs had been observed and weighed when, in reality, they had been surgically removed from the body years before. Hayne, the only game in town, also often brought in local dentist and self-styled ''bite-mark specialist'' Dr. Michael West, who would discover marks on victim's bodies, at times invisible to the naked eye, and then match those marks -- ''indeed and without doubt'' -- to law enforcement's lead suspect.
Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
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9781478990437
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Audiobook
Murder Most Fowl
By Andrews, Donna
Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp.And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly surprised to find that someone has murdered him.But who? Some people's motives were obvious from the footage: the couple whose affair was revealed .
Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
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9781250851192
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Audiobook
Sadie
By Summers, Courtney
"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerAn innovative audiobook production featuring more than thirty voices, Sadie explores the depth of a sister's love -- poised to be the next story listeners won't be able to pause.A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial -- like podcast following the clues she's left behind. Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
No Land to Light on
By Zgheib, Yara
Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future ... when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth - from the author of the "absorbing page-turner" (People) The Girls at 17 Swann Street. Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he'd landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy.
The Jane Austen Project
By Flynn, Kathleen A
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers -- Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane -- arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters -- a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren't the first team from the future to ''go back,'' their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Camp Famous
By Blecher, Jennifer
"When eleven-year-old Abby learns she will be attending summer camp, she is excited at the idea of a fresh start, but when she discovers she is going to Camp Famous, a place exclusively for famous kids like pop stars, princesses, and geniuses, her enthusiasm turns to apprehension."--Publisher's description.
Identity Leadership
By Graham, Stedman
Identity Leadership helps readers become passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leaders through identifying who they are, their desires, and their abilities.Identity Leadership by Stedman Graham is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on the philosophy that you can't lead others until you can first lead yourself-the more you work on yourself, the more you can give to those around you. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel the best of who we are to achieve success for ourselves and those we lead.In Identity Leadership, Graham takes the reader through a nine-step process designed to show them how to create and reshape their futures as Identity Leaders. The nine steps include: check your ID,create your vision,develop your travel plan,master the rules of the road,step into the outer limits,pilot the seasons of change,build your dream team,win by a decision, andcommit to your vision.
The bright hour
By Riggs, Nina
An exquisite memoir about how to live, and love, every day with 'death in the room', from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Club
By Lloyd, Ellery
The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home--a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast--and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade. But behind the scenes, tensions are at the breaking point. As tempers fray and behavior worsens, as things get more sinister by the hour and the body count piles up, some of Island Home's members will begin to wish they'd never made the guest list.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
By Lee, Bandy X.
The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.This is not normal.Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump's case, their moral and civic "duty to warn" America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump's symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump's impulsivity in terms of "unbridled and extreme present hedonism." Craig Malkin speaks about pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the "malignant normality" that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.It's not all in our heads. It's in his.
Dr. Death and the Country Dentist
By Balko, Radley
This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies a year, five times more than is recommended, performed at night in the basement of a local funeral home. Autopsy reports claimed organs had been observed and weighed when, in reality, they had been surgically removed from the body years before. Hayne, the only game in town, also often brought in local dentist and self-styled ''bite-mark specialist'' Dr. Michael West, who would discover marks on victim's bodies, at times invisible to the naked eye, and then match those marks -- ''indeed and without doubt'' -- to law enforcement's lead suspect.
Murder Most Fowl
By Andrews, Donna
Meg Langslow's in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp.And then there's Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing of some of the footage he's taken, he manages to embarrass or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn't exactly surprised to find that someone has murdered him.But who? Some people's motives were obvious from the footage: the couple whose affair was revealed .
Sadie
By Summers, Courtney
"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award WinnerAn innovative audiobook production featuring more than thirty voices, Sadie explores the depth of a sister's love -- poised to be the next story listeners won't be able to pause.A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial -- like podcast following the clues she's left behind. Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.