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  • Bear: A Novel Audiobook by Julia Phillips

    Bear: A Novel Audiobook by Julia Phillips
    Jun 25 2024
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    ID: 715874
    Title: Bear: A Novel
    Author: Julia Phillips
    Narrator: Sophie Amoss
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:51:33
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-25-2024
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Family Life

    Summary:
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week). NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! “Thrilling and propulsive, glorious and terrifying. Julia Phillips is a brilliant writer.”—Ann Patchett “Beautiful and haunting . . . this is brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) They were sisters and they would last past the end of time. Sam and Elena dream of another life. On the island off the coast of Washington where they were born and raised, they and their mother struggle to survive. Sam works on the ferry that delivers wealthy mainlanders to their vacation homes while Elena bartends at the local golf club, but even together they can’t earn enough to get by, stirring their frustration about the limits that shape their existence. Then one night on the boat, Sam spots a bear swimming the dark waters of the channel. Where is it going? What does it want? When the bear turns up by their home, Sam, terrified, is more convinced than ever that it’s time to leave the island. But Elena responds differently to the massive beast. Enchanted by its presence, she throws into doubt the desire to escape and puts their long-held dream in danger. A story about the bonds of sisterhood and the mysteries of the animals that live among us—and within us—Bear is a propulsive, mythical, richly imagined novel from one of the most acclaimed young writers in America.

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    7 h et 52 min
  • Releasing the Mother Load: How to Carry Less and Enjoy Motherhood More Audiobook by Erica Djossa

    Releasing the Mother Load: How to Carry Less and Enjoy Motherhood More Audiobook by Erica Djossa
    Apr 9 2024
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    ID: 698403
    Title: Releasing the Mother Load: How to Carry Less and Enjoy Motherhood More
    Author: Erica Djossa
    Narrator: Erica Djossa
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:20:53
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-09-2024
    Publisher: Appetite by Random House Canada
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Parenting

    Summary:
    WINNER OF THE CHILD PSYCHOLOGY GOLD AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE BY THE INSTITUTE OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 'If you've ever felt like you're the only one struggling with motherhood, this book is for you.'—Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play An empowering guide that helps you unburden the load of impossible expectations and reshapes your internalized ideals, expectations, and beliefs around motherhood. Every mom wants to be a good parent—but if you’ve found yourself burned out and overwhelmed trying to be “the perfect mom,” you’re not alone. “We get handed a rulebook of motherhood without realizing it,” says Canada's maternal mental health specialist and the founder and CEO of Momwell Erica Djossa. “That rulebook comes with an invisible load—a world of mental and physical tasks that keep us pushing toward perfection while barely being able to breathe.” Here she shares a guide to help you break free from the crushing burden of unrealistic expectations and reclaim the joy of motherhood while staying true to your own values. Join her to explore: - Where the Mother Load comes from, and why it doesn’t serve us or our children - The true emotional and physical cost of the many jobs, habits, and beliefs we carry - Tools to establish strong boundaries, express your needs, and build a support system - Practical guidance to help you create a healthy, balanced, and enriching approach to motherhood “You can chart your own journey in a way that is freeing, feels right to you, and reignites passions and dreams that you thought had died when you began to put everyone else’s needs first,” says Erica Djossa. Discover a new vision of motherhood that empowers you to parent more freely and with greater fulfillment—so you can finally release the Mother Load.

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    9 h et 21 min
  • Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other Audiobook by Amy Butler

    Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other Audiobook by Amy Butler
    Oct 3 2023
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    ID: 676377
    Title: Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other
    Author: Amy Butler
    Narrator: Amy Butler
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:02:39
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-03-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Women

    Summary:
    From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes an inspiring, provocative reflection on the necessity of community, the inevitability of conflict, and the transformative power of radical love. “I so love and admire the work and witness of Pastor Amy Butler.”—Anne Lamott “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid,” said theologian Frederick Buechner. Pastor Amy Butler, the first woman at the helm of New York’s historic Riverside Church, knows firsthand that to navigate such a world, one must be courageous, honest, and compassionate. In Beautiful and Terrible Things, Pastor Amy draws on the most meaningful, challenging, and soul-shaking moments of her own life to offer larger lessons on theology and relationships. Pastor Amy grew up in a conservative Evangelical family in the diverse culture of the Hawaiian Islands. As she realized she was more inclined to be a pastor than to marry one, she began an unlikely journey, breaking one stained-glass ceiling after another. Holding increasingly high-profile ministry positions in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and New York City, Amy weathered rigidly unwelcoming congregations and enormous trials, ultimately learning that only the radical love of community could generate healing. As she describes her experiences leading a church to publicly affirm its LGBTQ community members, losing a child, and undergoing an unexpected divorce, Amy offers a thoughtful lens on all the ways life can push us to see the world from another’s perspective. In her signature compassionate, witty voice, she offers fresh, nonjudgmental perspectives on faith—which, at its most beautiful expression, allows for the possibility that there is more than one way to experience God.

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    7 h et 3 min
  • Fireworks Every Night: A Novel Audiobook by Beth Raymer

    Fireworks Every Night: A Novel Audiobook by Beth Raymer
    Jun 27 2023
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    ID: 639071
    Title: Fireworks Every Night: A Novel
    Author: Beth Raymer
    Narrator: Rachel Jacobs
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:35:10
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-27-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Family Life

    Summary:
    A young woman trapped in a deeply dysfunctional family in the seedy wilds of 1990s South Florida has to make a choice—save her family, or save herself—in this “riveting” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel from the acclaimed author of Lay the Favorite. “Marvelous . . . a hopelessly funny, rueful account of [a] hair-raising childhood . . . a true heroine for tough times.”—People (Book of the Week) A Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick • An Oprah Daily Best Book of the Year “Florida, we got it all. Motor sports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night.” That's how twelve-year-old C.C.’s father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burned down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters in a place he picked largely at random, because the living seemed easy. C.C.’s mother is thirty-five going on seventeen, a housewife who just wants to drive a Mustang and hang out at the mall. C.C.’s sister goes from being a sweet, cheerful pre-teen to having a full-on drug addiction and listening only to heavy metal, after enduring forms of abuse within her family. In the midst of this chaos, C.C. is trying to stay afloat and make it out—to achieve some semblance of a stable life in America while coming up against the structural and cultural challenges of growing up in poverty. This tumultuous coming-of-age novel features an unforgettable protagonist, a character who narrates her life story with dark comedy and compassion for her family, even as she is failed by them. Those failures—and her self-taught methods for succeeding anyway—are the backbone of this surprisingly poignant story about hard bargains, family loyalties, and the grit of a woman determined to create a better life for herself than the one she was born into.

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    8 h et 35 min
  • Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims Audiobook by Jennifer Vanderbes

    Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims Audiobook by Jennifer Vanderbes
    Jun 27 2023
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    ID: 625930
    Title: Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
    Author: Jennifer Vanderbes
    Narrator: Jennifer Vanderbes
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10:10:44
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-27-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science, History & Culture

    Summary:
    “A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain A “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors. Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world. Touted as a sedative without risks, thalidomide was handed out freely, under the guise of clinical trials, by doctors who believed approval by the Food and Drug Administration was imminent. But in 1960, when the application for thalidomide landed on the desk of FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, she quickly grew suspicious. When she learned that the drug was causing severe birth abnormalities abroad, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents, and journalists fought tirelessly to block its authorization in the United States and stop its sale around the world. Jennifer Vanderbes set out to write about this FDA success story only to discover a sinister truth that had been buried for decades: For more than five years, several American pharmaceutical firms had distributed unmarked thalidomide samples in shoddy clinical trials, reaching tens of thousands of unwitting patients, including hundreds of pregnant women. As Vanderbes examined government and corporate archives, probed court records, and interviewed hundreds of key players, she unearthed an even more stunning find: Scores of Americans had likely been harmed by the drug. Deceived by the pharmaceutical firms, betrayed by doctors, and ignored by the government, most of these Americans had spent their lives unaware that thalidomide had caused their birth defects. Now, for the first time, this shocking episode in American history is brought to light. Wonder Drug gives voice to the unrecognized victims of this epic scandal and exposes the deceptive practices of Big Pharma that continue to endanger lives today.

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    10 h et 11 min
  • Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Audiobook by Heidi Julavits

    Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Audiobook by Heidi Julavits
    Jun 27 2023
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    ID: 666361
    Title: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years
    Author: Heidi Julavits
    Narrator: Heidi Julavits
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:06:13
    Language: English
    Release date: 06-27-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Social Science, Parenting, Women

    Summary:
    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.” “An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability, as well as education and prevention. She begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what she must learn about herself to responsibly steer him. Looking back to her childhood in Maine, where she and her family often navigated the tricky coastline in a small boat, relying on a decades-old nautical guide, Julavits takes us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she intertwines her internal analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy minutiae of family life alongside knottier questions of politics and gender. Through it all, Julavits discovers the beauty and the peril of telling stories as a way to locate ourselves and help others find us. Intimate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself cements Julavits’s reputation as one of the most shrewdly innovative nonfiction writers at work today.

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    6 h et 6 min
  • Chinaman Audiobook by Shehun Karunatilaka

    Chinaman Audiobook by Shehun Karunatilaka
    Apr 18 2023
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    ID: 498573
    Title: Chinaman
    Author: Shehun Karunatilaka
    Narrator: Rajiv Dadia
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 15:28:33
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-18-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

    Summary:
    Retired sportswriter, W.G. Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, upsetting his wife, ignoring his son, and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, an elusive spin bowler he considers ‘the greatest cricketer to walk the earth’. On his quest to find this unsung genius, W.G. uncovers a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, an LTTE warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket, and himself. Ambitious, playful, and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka—and of Sri Lanka through its cricket. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction’, it is an astounding book.

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    15 h et 29 min
  • Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel Audiobook by Curtis Sittenfeld

    Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel Audiobook by Curtis Sittenfeld
    Apr 4 2023
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    ID: 629207
    Title: Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club): A Novel
    Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
    Narrator: Kristen Sieh
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:05:37
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-04-2023
    Publisher: Random House (Audio)
    Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Rom-Com, Contemporary Women

    Summary:
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions—a “smart, sophisticated, and fun” (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep. “Full of dazzling banter and sizzling chemistry.”—People “If you ever wanted a backstage pass to Saturday Night Live, this is the book for you.”—Zibby Owens, Good Morning America A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper’s Bazaar, Real Simple, She Reads, New York Post Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally’s friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men at the show—and in society at large—who’ve gotten romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and accomplished women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch called The Danny Horst Rule, poking fun at this phenomenon while underscoring how unlikely it is that the reverse would ever happen for a woman. Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation with a reputation for dating models, who signed on as both host and musical guest for this week’s show. Dazzled by his charms, Sally hits it off with Noah instantly, and as they collaborate on one sketch after another, she begins to wonder if there might actually be sparks flying. But this isn’t a romantic comedy—it’s real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her . . . right? With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age.

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    9 h et 6 min