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Powerful, eye-opening, and deeply researched, this chronicle of the seeds and spread of prejudice is a necessary read.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/339349416","tagline":null},"359921653":{"author":"Jessica Bruder","id":359921653,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/359921653/original/216x216/d03c060534/1621401968?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/359921653/Nomadland-Surviving-America-in-the-Twenty-First-Century","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":89,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/359921653/original/432x432/7d5c5c9ca6/1621401968?v=1","title":"Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/162322/162322_sample.mp3","description":"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or \"workampers.\"\n\nBuilding on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, \"The End of Retirement,\" which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or \"vanily.\" Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans―many of them single women―who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/359921653","tagline":null},"366326734":{"author":"Julia Quinn","id":366326734,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/366326734/original/216x216/6ca58d0d8d/1621989137?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/366326734/The-Duke-and-I-Bridgerton-Series-Book-1","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":682,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/366326734/original/432x432/953b1b0210/1621989137?v=1","title":"The Duke and I: Bridgerton Series Book 1","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/203847/203847_sample.mp3","description":"Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's heart beating a bit faster. \n\nAnd as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!","editorialBlurb":"Shonda Rhimes’ first series for Netflix is “Bridgerton,” based off of Julia Quinn’s beloved romance following the titular family. The first book starts off as Daphne Bridgerton enters a courtship with Duke Simon Basset. But it’s a sham — Simon just needs a fair lady to pretend to be his devoted lover so it looks like he’s playing by society’s rules.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/366326734","tagline":null},"386254582":{"author":"Heather Morris","id":386254582,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/386254582/original/216x287/c8221600fc/1622464594?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/386254582/The-Tattooist-of-Auschwitz-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":988,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/386254582/original/432x574/395245ecaa/1622464594?v=1","title":"The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"The #1 International Bestseller & New York Times Bestseller \n\nThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. \n\n“The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of human behavior existing side by side: calculated brutality alongside impulsive and selfless acts of love. I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.”—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n\nIn April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. \n\nImprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. \n\nOne day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. 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A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. \n\nAlicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. \n\nTheo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations — a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....","editorialBlurb":"The latest craze in psychological thrillers is right here. In Alex Michaelides’ debut, a painter is convicted of murdering her husband, and refuses to talk after his death. One psychotherapist is particularly determined to hear her side of the story.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/390633790","tagline":null},"422976342":{"author":"Lucy Foley","id":422976342,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/422976342/original/216x216/e0fbe0cd09/1622453603?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/422976342/The-Guest-List-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":1643,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/422976342/original/432x432/c575ded950/1622453603?v=1","title":"The Guest List: A Novel","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/302868/302868_sample.mp3","description":"A Reese's Book Club Pick \n\n“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” (Alex Michaelides, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Patient) \n\n\"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics.... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” (New York Times Book Review) \n\nA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times best-selling author of The Hunting Party. \n\nThe bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body \n\nOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. 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It reminds me of some of my favorite mysteries from Agatha Christie,” Witherspoon wrote in her Instagram announcement post.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/422976342","tagline":null},"440822579":{"author":"Michelle Alexander","id":440822579,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/216x287/73532afc86/1619529503?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":62,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/432x574/887bb6debf/1619529503?v=1","title":"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nAfter the election of Barak Obama, many Americans felt that they could relax, that the election was proof of an end to racial inequality. Meanwhile, young black men in major cities all over the country have been labeled as felons for life. They are denied equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits because of the War on Drugs and other destructive policies. \n\nIn The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, former litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that racial caste still exists in America. Jim Crow laws no longer exist, but the American justice system is still rife with systemic racism. Black men in communities of color are disproportionately targeted and sent to jail, labeled forever in an under caste that is so heavily based on race. \n\nThis New York Times bestseller spent over 250 weeks on the bestseller list. This eye-opening read reminds Americans that racism is not in the past and we cannot stop fighting for equality yet. 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A provocative work that shifted how we think about civil rights and prison reform.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","tagline":null},"441155090":{"author":"Aminatou Sow","id":441155090,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/216x216/b3d60937db/1621000581?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/441155090/Big-Friendship-How-We-Keep-Each-Other-Close","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":180,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/432x432/aa86a95911/1621000581?v=1","title":"Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/325556/325556_sample.mp3","description":"A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.\n\nNow two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another's lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they've become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship-its joys and its pitfalls.\n\n \n\nAminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique. And that the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again.\n\n \n\nAn inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. 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A Story You Will Never Forget.\n\nFrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.\n\nThus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.\n\nBut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLER\n\nNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\n\nTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books\n\n\"This epic story, spanning three centuries and two continents, is expertly narrated by Julia Whelan...This is a transporting listen, and these characters will stick with you for a long time.\" -- Bookpage, starred review \n\n\"Julia Whelan's steady rhythm perfectly conveys the ups and downs of Addie LaRue's life, which take place over 300 years...Her voice fits each moment, making Addie's journey both sobering at times and unforgettable.\" -- AudioFile Magazine","editorialBlurb":"Thanks to a deal with a demon, Addie LaRue’s life will never end. The devil’s in the details, however, resulting in a curse that she will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years of living without making her mark on the world, Addie finally meets a young man who remembers her name. 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A deeply sympathetic story about poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow, and a cutting look at the impact of Thatcherism in Scotland. 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His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.\n\n \n\nShetty reconnected with old school friends—many working for some of the world’s largest corporations—who were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure, and unhappiness, and they invited Shetty to coach them on well-being, purpose, and mindfulness. Since then, Shetty has become one of the world’s most popular influencers. In 2017, he was named in the Forbes magazine 30-under-30 for being a game-changer in the world of media. In 2018, he had the #1 video on Facebook with over 360 million views. His social media following totals over 38 million, he has produced over 400 viral videos which have amassed more than 8 billion views, and his podcast, On Purpose, is consistently ranked the world’s #1 Health and Wellness podcast.\n\n \n\nIn this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world. Shetty proves that everyone can—and should—think like a monk.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","tagline":null},"454544136":{"author":"Stephen King","id":454544136,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/216x287/09aa584954/1622212323?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":191,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/432x574/cdbd8e22a4/1622212323?v=1","title":"If It Bleeds","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nThe more recent work of #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King includes If It Bleeds. 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You’ve probably heard of “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (adapted into the movie “Shawshank Redemption”) and “The Body” (aka “Stand By Me”), so you don’t want to miss his newest shorts in “If It Bleeds.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","tagline":null},"462423830":{"author":"Anthony Bourdain","id":462423830,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/216x216/f515f04b23/1622141327?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/462423830/World-Travel-An-Irreverent-Guide","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":12,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/432x432/8aedc66e45/1622141327?v=1","title":"World Travel: An Irreverent Guide","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/348264/348264_sample.mp3","description":"A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain \n\nAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond.\n\n \n\nIn World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. \n\nSupplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. \n\nFor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. \n\nThe audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. \n\nCopyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain \n\nSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.","editorialBlurb":"The late, and impossibly great, Anthony Bourdain continues to bring us his infectious enthusiasm for the wondrous world he left all too soon. There’s no better way to escape quarantine than with the beloved travel companion as he bestows his best stories and recommendations culled from a lifetime of exploration.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/462423830","tagline":null},"470776899":{"author":"Angie Thomas","id":470776899,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/216x216/2eda3d4adf/1622021475?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/470776899/Concrete-Rose","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":325,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/432x432/8b42258fa2/1622021475?v=1","title":"Concrete Rose","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/361762/361762_sample.mp3","description":"International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. \n\nIf there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. \n\nLife’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. \n\nUntil, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. \n\nSuddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. \n\nWhen King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.","editorialBlurb":"Angie Thomas’ prequel to “The Hate U Give” follows our favorite character from the original novel: Maverick Carter, Starr’s father. At 17, Maverick hasn’t yet grown into the Big Mav we know and love from “THUG”; on the cusp of adulthood, he’s still navigating his way through the expectations of manhood, of his father’s legacy as a gangster, of young parenthood. This is the origin story we’ve all been waiting for, and in Thomas’ masterful hands, it remains fresh and spellbinding.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/470776899","tagline":null},"477565468":{"author":"Charles Yu","id":477565468,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/216x287/fac4075632/1619969925?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":70,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/432x574/10fd9a19ff/1619969925?v=1","title":"The Only Living Girl on Earth","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. \n\nJane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. \n\nShe’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. \n\nTold, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.","editorialBlurb":"National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu welcomes you to Earth: The Gift Shop, where the history of Earth: A Bunch of Civilizations has been commodified into knick knacks sold by the last living soul on this planet, Jane. A witty and absurd Scribd Original about the destruction of Earth, the survival of capitalism, and the strength of the human spirit from Yu, the author of “Interior Chinatown” and a writer for “Westworld.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","tagline":null},"477567593":{"author":"Stephen King","id":477567593,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/216x216/d354af8296/1622022813?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/477567593/Later","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":804,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/432x432/1fd9954425/1622022813?v=1","title":"Later","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/372467/372467_sample.mp3","description":"A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING!\n\n \n\nSOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS\n\nThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.\n\n \n\nLater is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.","editorialBlurb":"Like many of Stephen King’s other beloved classics, “Later” blends true-to-life coming-of-age elements with unforgettable thrills and chills. Jamie Conklin might seem like an ordinary boy, except for the fact that, for better or worse, he can communicate with the recently deceased. 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So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? \n\n \n\nElizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a \"super coral\" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. \n\n \n\nOne way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.","editorialBlurb":"In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert opened our eyes to human-caused environmental devastation. In her new book, “Under a White Sky,” Kolbert tackles the urgent issue of finding ways to reverse the damage done. She investigates possible solutions born of the very human ingenuity that got us into trouble in the first place. Could these innovations avert disastrous climate change? 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Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past.\" -- AudioFile Magazine\n\n \n\nThis program is read by the authors.\n\nOur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.\n\n\"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.\"-Oprah Winfrey\n\nThis audiobook is going to change the way you see your life.\n\nHave you ever wondered \"Why did I do that?\" or \"Why can't I just control my behavior?\" Others may judge our reactions and think, \"What's wrong with that person?\" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.\n\nThrough deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking \"What's wrong with you?\" to \"What happened to you?\"\n\nHere, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the audiobook, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. 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Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.\n\n \n\nAs Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared.\n\n \n\nHannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they're also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated.\n\n \n\nWith its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/489340775","tagline":null},"490048177":{"author":"Roxane Gay","id":490048177,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/216x287/f07ae1f88f/1622049866?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":129,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/432x574/ca2a750c95/1622049866?v=1","title":"Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“Roxane Gay seems to have a knack for fearlessly telling the truth.” —The New York Times \n\nFrom the bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, an unforgettable, deeply personal look at how trauma has shaped her life and work—and what all of us need to do to come to grips with the collective suffering of the past year. \n\nBestselling author and cultural icon Roxane Gay is no stranger to trauma. As a young girl, she was the victim of a horrifying act of violence that changed her life and would strongly influence her career as a writer. In her 2017 memoir Hunger, she addressed that trauma head-on, writing with bracing honesty about her body and the ways that food can be used both to bury pain and make oneself disappear. The response to Hunger by some critics who seemed to take perverse pleasure in highlighting Gay’s vulnerabilities was itself a fresh wound. By exploring trauma publicly, Gay suffered more of it. \n\nIn her Scribd Original Writing into the Wound, Gay not only talks openly about trauma in her personal life—from her fraught time as an undergraduate at Yale to the stress of returning there as a visiting professor to the fallout from Hunger—but also about the collective trauma we’ve experienced this past year. COVID-19, racial and economic inequality, political strife, imminent environmental disaster, and more: Gay catalogs it all with her trademark candor and authority. To make sense of our pain, she suggests, we need to explore it fully, even as we’re still in the midst of it. Just as she writes her way through her own traumas and coaches her students to do the same, she urges us to take a long, hard look at the wounds we all share: “The world as we knew it has broken wide open. There is a before and an after, and the world will never again be what it once was. That sounds terrifying, but it is an opportunity.” \n\n“To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.” Full of wisdom and rage and grace, Writing into the Wound is a remarkable consideration of where we are, and where we need to go, by one of the finest authors and cultural critics of her generation.","editorialBlurb":"Trauma is a common thread for so many, from personal experience to the collective trauma of racism, climate change, and a global pandemic. Roxane Gay’s personal trauma has shaped her life and work, including her 2017 memoir about her own sexual assault, “Hunger.” In her new Scribd Original, “Writing into the Wound,” Gay unpacks the aftermath of “Hunger,” exploring the public reaction that reopened her wounds once more. 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His mother, the more hopeful of the two, believed hard work and education were the answer to everything that ailed the working class and immigrants alike, refusing to concede to the systemic inequities and disadvantages of ethnicity, race, class, and gender that often made the obstacles to climbing the ladder too great, as they did, in many ways, for her. \n\nA touchingly personal and peculiarly American tale, as topical as it is timeless, Marriage Story speaks directly to the raw material from which so much of today’s divisive political climate has been forged. During the most recent election, the author writes, “many of my friends talked about leaving the country.” But not Russo. “I’ve learned that leaving your home is tricky. If I left my country now, I’d just be repeating myself, having already physically left a place that refused to leave me.” His parents would not have left either, “despite not being able to agree on what America really meant.” \n\n“Maybe it comes down to this,” he writes. “In the end, what do we do with love?”","editorialBlurb":"If you were to describe America as a relationship, what would that look like? For Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo (“Empire Falls”), he sees it in terms of his parents’ breakup. 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Just what the world needs right now.” ―Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff \n\nWe are always on the go. Balancing work, family, friends, and everything in between is a routine of running and never stopping─a cycle that can be tiring. We forget the beauty of the smaller moments and sometimes we forget ourselves. \n\nStopping is a gift to yourself. Knowing when to breathe and regain a clearer vision of yourself and your surroundings helps give you a fresh perspective and an inner balance meant to help you feel in control of the bigger things. \n\nWho are you? What are your true priorities? Your responsibilities may have taken over and are preventing you from living to your fullest potential. Dr. Kundtz gives you insight into key questions you should be asking. \n\nStop whatever you’re doing and enjoy the sunrise. 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Powerful, eye-opening, and deeply researched, this chronicle of the seeds and spread of prejudice is a necessary read.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/339349416","tagline":null},"359921653":{"author":"Jessica Bruder","id":359921653,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/359921653/original/216x216/d03c060534/1621401968?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/359921653/Nomadland-Surviving-America-in-the-Twenty-First-Century","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":89,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/359921653/original/432x432/7d5c5c9ca6/1621401968?v=1","title":"Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/162322/162322_sample.mp3","description":"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or \"workampers.\"\n\nBuilding on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, \"The End of Retirement,\" which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or \"vanily.\" Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans―many of them single women―who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/359921653","tagline":null},"366326734":{"author":"Julia Quinn","id":366326734,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/366326734/original/216x216/6ca58d0d8d/1621989137?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/366326734/The-Duke-and-I-Bridgerton-Series-Book-1","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":682,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/366326734/original/432x432/953b1b0210/1621989137?v=1","title":"The Duke and I: Bridgerton Series Book 1","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/203847/203847_sample.mp3","description":"Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's heart beating a bit faster. \n\nAnd as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!","editorialBlurb":"Shonda Rhimes’ first series for Netflix is “Bridgerton,” based off of Julia Quinn’s beloved romance following the titular family. The first book starts off as Daphne Bridgerton enters a courtship with Duke Simon Basset. But it’s a sham — Simon just needs a fair lady to pretend to be his devoted lover so it looks like he’s playing by society’s rules.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/366326734","tagline":null},"386254582":{"author":"Heather Morris","id":386254582,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/386254582/original/216x287/c8221600fc/1622464594?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/386254582/The-Tattooist-of-Auschwitz-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":988,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/386254582/original/432x574/395245ecaa/1622464594?v=1","title":"The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"The #1 International Bestseller & New York Times Bestseller \n\nThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity. \n\n“The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of human behavior existing side by side: calculated brutality alongside impulsive and selfless acts of love. I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.”—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n\nIn April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. \n\nImprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. \n\nOne day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. 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A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. \n\nAlicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. \n\nTheo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations — a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....","editorialBlurb":"The latest craze in psychological thrillers is right here. In Alex Michaelides’ debut, a painter is convicted of murdering her husband, and refuses to talk after his death. One psychotherapist is particularly determined to hear her side of the story.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/390633790","tagline":null},"422976342":{"author":"Lucy Foley","id":422976342,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/422976342/original/216x216/e0fbe0cd09/1622453603?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/422976342/The-Guest-List-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":1643,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/422976342/original/432x432/c575ded950/1622453603?v=1","title":"The Guest List: A Novel","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/302868/302868_sample.mp3","description":"A Reese's Book Club Pick \n\n“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” (Alex Michaelides, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Patient) \n\n\"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics.... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” (New York Times Book Review) \n\nA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times best-selling author of The Hunting Party. \n\nThe bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body \n\nOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. 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It reminds me of some of my favorite mysteries from Agatha Christie,” Witherspoon wrote in her Instagram announcement post.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/422976342","tagline":null},"440822579":{"author":"Michelle Alexander","id":440822579,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/216x287/73532afc86/1619529503?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":62,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/432x574/887bb6debf/1619529503?v=1","title":"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nAfter the election of Barak Obama, many Americans felt that they could relax, that the election was proof of an end to racial inequality. Meanwhile, young black men in major cities all over the country have been labeled as felons for life. They are denied equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits because of the War on Drugs and other destructive policies. \n\nIn The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, former litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that racial caste still exists in America. Jim Crow laws no longer exist, but the American justice system is still rife with systemic racism. Black men in communities of color are disproportionately targeted and sent to jail, labeled forever in an under caste that is so heavily based on race. \n\nThis New York Times bestseller spent over 250 weeks on the bestseller list. This eye-opening read reminds Americans that racism is not in the past and we cannot stop fighting for equality yet. 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A provocative work that shifted how we think about civil rights and prison reform.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","tagline":null},"441155090":{"author":"Aminatou Sow","id":441155090,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/216x216/b3d60937db/1621000581?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/441155090/Big-Friendship-How-We-Keep-Each-Other-Close","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":180,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/432x432/aa86a95911/1621000581?v=1","title":"Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/325556/325556_sample.mp3","description":"A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.\n\nNow two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another's lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they've become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship-its joys and its pitfalls.\n\n \n\nAminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique. And that the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again.\n\n \n\nAn inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. 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A Story You Will Never Forget.\n\nFrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.\n\nThus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.\n\nBut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLER\n\nNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\n\nTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books\n\n\"This epic story, spanning three centuries and two continents, is expertly narrated by Julia Whelan...This is a transporting listen, and these characters will stick with you for a long time.\" -- Bookpage, starred review \n\n\"Julia Whelan's steady rhythm perfectly conveys the ups and downs of Addie LaRue's life, which take place over 300 years...Her voice fits each moment, making Addie's journey both sobering at times and unforgettable.\" -- AudioFile Magazine","editorialBlurb":"Thanks to a deal with a demon, Addie LaRue’s life will never end. The devil’s in the details, however, resulting in a curse that she will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years of living without making her mark on the world, Addie finally meets a young man who remembers her name. 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A deeply sympathetic story about poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow, and a cutting look at the impact of Thatcherism in Scotland. 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His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.\n\n \n\nShetty reconnected with old school friends—many working for some of the world’s largest corporations—who were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure, and unhappiness, and they invited Shetty to coach them on well-being, purpose, and mindfulness. Since then, Shetty has become one of the world’s most popular influencers. In 2017, he was named in the Forbes magazine 30-under-30 for being a game-changer in the world of media. In 2018, he had the #1 video on Facebook with over 360 million views. His social media following totals over 38 million, he has produced over 400 viral videos which have amassed more than 8 billion views, and his podcast, On Purpose, is consistently ranked the world’s #1 Health and Wellness podcast.\n\n \n\nIn this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world. Shetty proves that everyone can—and should—think like a monk.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","tagline":null},"454544136":{"author":"Stephen King","id":454544136,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/216x287/09aa584954/1622212323?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":191,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/432x574/cdbd8e22a4/1622212323?v=1","title":"If It Bleeds","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nThe more recent work of #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King includes If It Bleeds. 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You’ve probably heard of “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (adapted into the movie “Shawshank Redemption”) and “The Body” (aka “Stand By Me”), so you don’t want to miss his newest shorts in “If It Bleeds.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","tagline":null},"462423830":{"author":"Anthony Bourdain","id":462423830,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/216x216/f515f04b23/1622141327?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/462423830/World-Travel-An-Irreverent-Guide","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":12,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/432x432/8aedc66e45/1622141327?v=1","title":"World Travel: An Irreverent Guide","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/348264/348264_sample.mp3","description":"A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain \n\nAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond.\n\n \n\nIn World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. \n\nSupplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. \n\nFor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. \n\nThe audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. \n\nCopyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain \n\nSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.","editorialBlurb":"The late, and impossibly great, Anthony Bourdain continues to bring us his infectious enthusiasm for the wondrous world he left all too soon. There’s no better way to escape quarantine than with the beloved travel companion as he bestows his best stories and recommendations culled from a lifetime of exploration.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/462423830","tagline":null},"470776899":{"author":"Angie Thomas","id":470776899,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/216x216/2eda3d4adf/1622021475?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/470776899/Concrete-Rose","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":325,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/432x432/8b42258fa2/1622021475?v=1","title":"Concrete Rose","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/361762/361762_sample.mp3","description":"International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. \n\nIf there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. \n\nLife’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. \n\nUntil, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. \n\nSuddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. \n\nWhen King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.","editorialBlurb":"Angie Thomas’ prequel to “The Hate U Give” follows our favorite character from the original novel: Maverick Carter, Starr’s father. At 17, Maverick hasn’t yet grown into the Big Mav we know and love from “THUG”; on the cusp of adulthood, he’s still navigating his way through the expectations of manhood, of his father’s legacy as a gangster, of young parenthood. This is the origin story we’ve all been waiting for, and in Thomas’ masterful hands, it remains fresh and spellbinding.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/470776899","tagline":null},"477565468":{"author":"Charles Yu","id":477565468,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/216x287/fac4075632/1619969925?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":70,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/432x574/10fd9a19ff/1619969925?v=1","title":"The Only Living Girl on Earth","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. \n\nJane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. \n\nShe’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. \n\nTold, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.","editorialBlurb":"National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu welcomes you to Earth: The Gift Shop, where the history of Earth: A Bunch of Civilizations has been commodified into knick knacks sold by the last living soul on this planet, Jane. A witty and absurd Scribd Original about the destruction of Earth, the survival of capitalism, and the strength of the human spirit from Yu, the author of “Interior Chinatown” and a writer for “Westworld.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","tagline":null},"477567593":{"author":"Stephen King","id":477567593,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/216x216/d354af8296/1622022813?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/477567593/Later","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":804,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/432x432/1fd9954425/1622022813?v=1","title":"Later","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/372467/372467_sample.mp3","description":"A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING!\n\n \n\nSOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS\n\nThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.\n\n \n\nLater is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.","editorialBlurb":"Like many of Stephen King’s other beloved classics, “Later” blends true-to-life coming-of-age elements with unforgettable thrills and chills. Jamie Conklin might seem like an ordinary boy, except for the fact that, for better or worse, he can communicate with the recently deceased. 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So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? \n\n \n\nElizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a \"super coral\" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. \n\n \n\nOne way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.","editorialBlurb":"In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert opened our eyes to human-caused environmental devastation. In her new book, “Under a White Sky,” Kolbert tackles the urgent issue of finding ways to reverse the damage done. She investigates possible solutions born of the very human ingenuity that got us into trouble in the first place. Could these innovations avert disastrous climate change? 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Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past.\" -- AudioFile Magazine\n\n \n\nThis program is read by the authors.\n\nOur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.\n\n\"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.\"-Oprah Winfrey\n\nThis audiobook is going to change the way you see your life.\n\nHave you ever wondered \"Why did I do that?\" or \"Why can't I just control my behavior?\" Others may judge our reactions and think, \"What's wrong with that person?\" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.\n\nThrough deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking \"What's wrong with you?\" to \"What happened to you?\"\n\nHere, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the audiobook, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. 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Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.\n\n \n\nAs Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared.\n\n \n\nHannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they're also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated.\n\n \n\nWith its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/489340775","tagline":null},"490048177":{"author":"Roxane Gay","id":490048177,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/216x287/f07ae1f88f/1622049866?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":129,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/432x574/ca2a750c95/1622049866?v=1","title":"Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“Roxane Gay seems to have a knack for fearlessly telling the truth.” —The New York Times \n\nFrom the bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, an unforgettable, deeply personal look at how trauma has shaped her life and work—and what all of us need to do to come to grips with the collective suffering of the past year. \n\nBestselling author and cultural icon Roxane Gay is no stranger to trauma. As a young girl, she was the victim of a horrifying act of violence that changed her life and would strongly influence her career as a writer. In her 2017 memoir Hunger, she addressed that trauma head-on, writing with bracing honesty about her body and the ways that food can be used both to bury pain and make oneself disappear. The response to Hunger by some critics who seemed to take perverse pleasure in highlighting Gay’s vulnerabilities was itself a fresh wound. By exploring trauma publicly, Gay suffered more of it. \n\nIn her Scribd Original Writing into the Wound, Gay not only talks openly about trauma in her personal life—from her fraught time as an undergraduate at Yale to the stress of returning there as a visiting professor to the fallout from Hunger—but also about the collective trauma we’ve experienced this past year. COVID-19, racial and economic inequality, political strife, imminent environmental disaster, and more: Gay catalogs it all with her trademark candor and authority. To make sense of our pain, she suggests, we need to explore it fully, even as we’re still in the midst of it. Just as she writes her way through her own traumas and coaches her students to do the same, she urges us to take a long, hard look at the wounds we all share: “The world as we knew it has broken wide open. There is a before and an after, and the world will never again be what it once was. That sounds terrifying, but it is an opportunity.” \n\n“To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.” Full of wisdom and rage and grace, Writing into the Wound is a remarkable consideration of where we are, and where we need to go, by one of the finest authors and cultural critics of her generation.","editorialBlurb":"Trauma is a common thread for so many, from personal experience to the collective trauma of racism, climate change, and a global pandemic. Roxane Gay’s personal trauma has shaped her life and work, including her 2017 memoir about her own sexual assault, “Hunger.” In her new Scribd Original, “Writing into the Wound,” Gay unpacks the aftermath of “Hunger,” exploring the public reaction that reopened her wounds once more. 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I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.”—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n\nIn April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. \n\nImprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. 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It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” (Alex Michaelides, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Silent Patient) \n\n\"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics.... Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” (New York Times Book Review) \n\nA wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times best-selling author of The Hunting Party. \n\nThe bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner – The bridesmaid – The body \n\nOn an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. 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Meanwhile, young black men in major cities all over the country have been labeled as felons for life. They are denied equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits because of the War on Drugs and other destructive policies. \n\nIn The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, former litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that racial caste still exists in America. Jim Crow laws no longer exist, but the American justice system is still rife with systemic racism. Black men in communities of color are disproportionately targeted and sent to jail, labeled forever in an under caste that is so heavily based on race. \n\nThis New York Times bestseller spent over 250 weeks on the bestseller list. This eye-opening read reminds Americans that racism is not in the past and we cannot stop fighting for equality yet. 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A provocative work that shifted how we think about civil rights and prison reform.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","tagline":null},"441155090":{"author":"Aminatou Sow","id":441155090,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/216x216/b3d60937db/1621000581?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/441155090/Big-Friendship-How-We-Keep-Each-Other-Close","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":180,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/432x432/aa86a95911/1621000581?v=1","title":"Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/325556/325556_sample.mp3","description":"A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.\n\nNow two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another's lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they've become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship-its joys and its pitfalls.\n\n \n\nAminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique. And that the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again.\n\n \n\nAn inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. 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Schwab","id":444277837,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/444277837/original/216x216/abdadad5de/1622394698?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/444277837/The-Invisible-Life-of-Addie-LaRue","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":1012,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/444277837/original/432x432/75d905f8ab/1622394698?v=1","title":"The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/329467/329467_sample.mp3","description":"\"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings.\" -- Booklist\n\nIn the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force. \n\nA Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.\n\nFrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.\n\nThus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.\n\nBut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLER\n\nNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\n\nTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books\n\n\"This epic story, spanning three centuries and two continents, is expertly narrated by Julia Whelan...This is a transporting listen, and these characters will stick with you for a long time.\" -- Bookpage, starred review \n\n\"Julia Whelan's steady rhythm perfectly conveys the ups and downs of Addie LaRue's life, which take place over 300 years...Her voice fits each moment, making Addie's journey both sobering at times and unforgettable.\" -- AudioFile Magazine","editorialBlurb":"Thanks to a deal with a demon, Addie LaRue’s life will never end. The devil’s in the details, however, resulting in a curse that she will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years of living without making her mark on the world, Addie finally meets a young man who remembers her name. Take a journey through time, recommended by Emma Roberts’ book club Belletrist.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/444277837","tagline":null},"444471227":{"author":"Douglas Stuart","id":444471227,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/444471227/original/216x287/5df22e4c8d/1621443764?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/444471227/Shuggie-Bain-A-Novel-Booker-Prize-Winner","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":63,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/444471227/original/432x574/88afe672f8/1621443764?v=1","title":"Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nShuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is the memorable story of a lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Margaret Thatcher’s economic policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drug epidemic is imminent. \n\nThe young Shuggie Bain is desperate to escape poverty and be considered normal. His mother, Agnes, wants to stay sober but keeps falling back into alcoholism. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good. But she increasingly finds her only solace in drink. \n\nStuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in design. Shuggie Bain is his debut novel. It won the Booker Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist for Fiction in 2020. \n\nA heartbreaking depiction of addiction, love and sexuality, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family.","editorialBlurb":"Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. A deeply sympathetic story about poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow, and a cutting look at the impact of Thatcherism in Scotland. The titular character, the young Shuggie Bain, is desperate to escape the trappings of being poor and attain that elusive status of “normal”; his mother, Agnes, wants to stay sober but keeps falling back into alcoholism. “Challenging, intimate and gripping … anyone who reads it will never feel the same,” said the Booker Prize judges.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/444471227/Shuggie-Bain-A-Novel-Booker-Prize-Winner","tagline":null},"451963687":{"author":"Jay Shetty","id":451963687,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/451963687/original/216x287/06b6bfec4e/1621703643?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":32,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/451963687/original/432x574/39026e2575/1621703643?v=1","title":"Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.\n\nWhen you think like a monk, you’ll understand:\n\n -How to overcome negativity\n\n -How to stop overthinking\n\n -Why comparison kills love\n\n -How to use your fear\n\n -Why you can’t find happiness by looking for it\n\n -How to learn from everyone you meet\n\n -Why you are not your thoughts\n\n -How to find your purpose\n\n -Why kindness is crucial to success\n\n -And much more...\n\n \n\nShetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.\n\n \n\nShetty reconnected with old school friends—many working for some of the world’s largest corporations—who were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure, and unhappiness, and they invited Shetty to coach them on well-being, purpose, and mindfulness. Since then, Shetty has become one of the world’s most popular influencers. In 2017, he was named in the Forbes magazine 30-under-30 for being a game-changer in the world of media. In 2018, he had the #1 video on Facebook with over 360 million views. His social media following totals over 38 million, he has produced over 400 viral videos which have amassed more than 8 billion views, and his podcast, On Purpose, is consistently ranked the world’s #1 Health and Wellness podcast.\n\n \n\nIn this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world. Shetty proves that everyone can—and should—think like a monk.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","tagline":null},"454544136":{"author":"Stephen King","id":454544136,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/216x287/09aa584954/1622212323?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":191,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/432x574/cdbd8e22a4/1622212323?v=1","title":"If It Bleeds","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nThe more recent work of #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King includes If It Bleeds. 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You’ve probably heard of “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (adapted into the movie “Shawshank Redemption”) and “The Body” (aka “Stand By Me”), so you don’t want to miss his newest shorts in “If It Bleeds.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","tagline":null},"462423830":{"author":"Anthony Bourdain","id":462423830,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/216x216/f515f04b23/1622141327?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/462423830/World-Travel-An-Irreverent-Guide","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":12,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/432x432/8aedc66e45/1622141327?v=1","title":"World Travel: An Irreverent Guide","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/348264/348264_sample.mp3","description":"A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain \n\nAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond.\n\n \n\nIn World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. \n\nSupplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. \n\nFor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. \n\nThe audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. \n\nCopyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain \n\nSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.","editorialBlurb":"The late, and impossibly great, Anthony Bourdain continues to bring us his infectious enthusiasm for the wondrous world he left all too soon. There’s no better way to escape quarantine than with the beloved travel companion as he bestows his best stories and recommendations culled from a lifetime of exploration.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/462423830","tagline":null},"470776899":{"author":"Angie Thomas","id":470776899,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/216x216/2eda3d4adf/1622021475?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/470776899/Concrete-Rose","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":325,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/432x432/8b42258fa2/1622021475?v=1","title":"Concrete Rose","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/361762/361762_sample.mp3","description":"International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. \n\nIf there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. \n\nLife’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. \n\nUntil, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. \n\nSuddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. \n\nWhen King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.","editorialBlurb":"Angie Thomas’ prequel to “The Hate U Give” follows our favorite character from the original novel: Maverick Carter, Starr’s father. At 17, Maverick hasn’t yet grown into the Big Mav we know and love from “THUG”; on the cusp of adulthood, he’s still navigating his way through the expectations of manhood, of his father’s legacy as a gangster, of young parenthood. This is the origin story we’ve all been waiting for, and in Thomas’ masterful hands, it remains fresh and spellbinding.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/470776899","tagline":null},"477565468":{"author":"Charles Yu","id":477565468,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/216x287/fac4075632/1619969925?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":70,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/432x574/10fd9a19ff/1619969925?v=1","title":"The Only Living Girl on Earth","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. \n\nJane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. \n\nShe’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. \n\nTold, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.","editorialBlurb":"National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu welcomes you to Earth: The Gift Shop, where the history of Earth: A Bunch of Civilizations has been commodified into knick knacks sold by the last living soul on this planet, Jane. A witty and absurd Scribd Original about the destruction of Earth, the survival of capitalism, and the strength of the human spirit from Yu, the author of “Interior Chinatown” and a writer for “Westworld.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","tagline":null},"477567593":{"author":"Stephen King","id":477567593,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/216x216/d354af8296/1622022813?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/477567593/Later","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":804,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/477567593/original/432x432/1fd9954425/1622022813?v=1","title":"Later","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/372467/372467_sample.mp3","description":"A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY STORYTELLER STEPHEN KING!\n\n \n\nSOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS\n\nThe son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.\n\n \n\nLater is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.","editorialBlurb":"Like many of Stephen King’s other beloved classics, “Later” blends true-to-life coming-of-age elements with unforgettable thrills and chills. Jamie Conklin might seem like an ordinary boy, except for the fact that, for better or worse, he can communicate with the recently deceased. 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So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? \n\n \n\nElizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a \"super coral\" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. \n\n \n\nOne way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.","editorialBlurb":"In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert opened our eyes to human-caused environmental devastation. In her new book, “Under a White Sky,” Kolbert tackles the urgent issue of finding ways to reverse the damage done. She investigates possible solutions born of the very human ingenuity that got us into trouble in the first place. Could these innovations avert disastrous climate change? 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Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past.\" -- AudioFile Magazine\n\n \n\nThis program is read by the authors.\n\nOur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.\n\n\"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.\"-Oprah Winfrey\n\nThis audiobook is going to change the way you see your life.\n\nHave you ever wondered \"Why did I do that?\" or \"Why can't I just control my behavior?\" Others may judge our reactions and think, \"What's wrong with that person?\" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.\n\nThrough deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking \"What's wrong with you?\" to \"What happened to you?\"\n\nHere, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the audiobook, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. It's a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it's one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future-opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books","editorialBlurb":"Oprah wants you to stop asking people the judgy question “What’s wrong with you?” and instead initiate a supportive conversation with “What happened to you?” In this powerful personal and scientific exploration of the lasting impact of trauma, Oprah joins forces with child trauma expert and neuroscientist Dr. Bruce Perry. Together they explore how a deceptively simple shift in perspective can pave the way for remarkable healing.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/488592828","tagline":null},"489340775":{"author":"Laura Dave","id":489340775,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/489340775/original/216x216/f57cf65ead/1622111522?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/489340775/The-Last-Thing-He-Told-Me-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":443,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/489340775/original/432x432/da4b41a677/1622111522?v=1","title":"The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/404809/404809_sample.mp3","description":"Instant #1 New York Times bestseller\n\n Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection!\n\n \n\nA gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life-until he disappears.\n\nBefore Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.\n\n \n\nAs Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared.\n\n \n\nHannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they're also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated.\n\n \n\nWith its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/489340775","tagline":null},"490048177":{"author":"Roxane Gay","id":490048177,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/216x287/f07ae1f88f/1622049866?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":129,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/432x574/ca2a750c95/1622049866?v=1","title":"Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“Roxane Gay seems to have a knack for fearlessly telling the truth.” —The New York Times \n\nFrom the bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, an unforgettable, deeply personal look at how trauma has shaped her life and work—and what all of us need to do to come to grips with the collective suffering of the past year. \n\nBestselling author and cultural icon Roxane Gay is no stranger to trauma. As a young girl, she was the victim of a horrifying act of violence that changed her life and would strongly influence her career as a writer. In her 2017 memoir Hunger, she addressed that trauma head-on, writing with bracing honesty about her body and the ways that food can be used both to bury pain and make oneself disappear. The response to Hunger by some critics who seemed to take perverse pleasure in highlighting Gay’s vulnerabilities was itself a fresh wound. By exploring trauma publicly, Gay suffered more of it. \n\nIn her Scribd Original Writing into the Wound, Gay not only talks openly about trauma in her personal life—from her fraught time as an undergraduate at Yale to the stress of returning there as a visiting professor to the fallout from Hunger—but also about the collective trauma we’ve experienced this past year. COVID-19, racial and economic inequality, political strife, imminent environmental disaster, and more: Gay catalogs it all with her trademark candor and authority. To make sense of our pain, she suggests, we need to explore it fully, even as we’re still in the midst of it. Just as she writes her way through her own traumas and coaches her students to do the same, she urges us to take a long, hard look at the wounds we all share: “The world as we knew it has broken wide open. There is a before and an after, and the world will never again be what it once was. That sounds terrifying, but it is an opportunity.” \n\n“To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.” Full of wisdom and rage and grace, Writing into the Wound is a remarkable consideration of where we are, and where we need to go, by one of the finest authors and cultural critics of her generation.","editorialBlurb":"Trauma is a common thread for so many, from personal experience to the collective trauma of racism, climate change, and a global pandemic. Roxane Gay’s personal trauma has shaped her life and work, including her 2017 memoir about her own sexual assault, “Hunger.” In her new Scribd Original, “Writing into the Wound,” Gay unpacks the aftermath of “Hunger,” exploring the public reaction that reopened her wounds once more. The result is a skillful guide to sharing, processing, and healing from trauma through writing. “To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","tagline":null},"495047550":{"author":"Viet Thanh Nguyen","id":495047550,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/495047550/original/216x287/0eea9a9be2/1620275375?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/495047550/The-Committed","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":18,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/495047550/original/432x574/3894031a17/1620275375?v=1","title":"The Committed","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.\n\nTraumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. \n\nBoth highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.","editorialBlurb":"The long-awaited sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Sympathizer” does not disappoint. Set off the tourist path in the immigrant neighborhoods of 1980s Paris, the nameless narrator continues his quest for revolution, but finds himself caught up in the capitalist market of drug dealing. “The Committed” is a serious triple threat: a look at the aftereffects of colonization, funny satire, AND a gripping crime thriller.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/495047550/The-Committed","tagline":null},"495990798":{"author":"Natasha Marin","id":495990798,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/495990798/original/216x216/4163c675d4/1621523213?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/495990798/Black-Imagination-Black-Voices-on-Black-Futures","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":103,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/495990798/original/432x432/c023278a64/1621523213?v=1","title":"Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.production.scribd.com/samples/audiobooks/495990798/sample.mp3","description":"Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour \n\n“Don’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I’m pretty sure, dear reader, you’re in for the same.” —from the Foreword by Steven Dunn\n\n“Witnessing is sacred work too. Seeing ourselves as whole and healthy is an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation,” reflects viral curator Natasha Marin, on Black Imagination. \n\nThis dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. \n\nBorn from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are no where near monochromatic. “Craving nuance over stereotype, we sought out black children, black youth, LGBTQ+ black folks, unsheltered black folks, incarcerated black folks, neurodivergent black folks, as well as differently-abled black folks.” Each insists on their own variance and challenges every listener to witness for themselves that Black Lives (and Imaginations) Matter.\n\n\"A first step toward freeing ourselves.\"—Gloria Steinem\n\n\"I've never felt the physical feeling of pages melting in my hands or chapters folding themselves into squadrons of black airplanes flying to freedom because I've never experienced an art object like Black Imagination.\"—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy\n\n“Black Imagination required Natasha Marin to curate as a curate in the medieval sense— a spiritual guide that cares for souls... We are challenged to move beyond the abject, beyond pure pessimism, on the wings of a different criticality... 'visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien'.” —Christian Campbell, author of Running the Dusk\n\n\"Defiantly hopeful... think Soul Train Line, think The Stroll, think the joyous striving with language for the possibilities of safety and hope.” —Kwame Dawes, author of Nebraska \n\nCover art by Vanessa German.","editorialBlurb":"A stirring celebration of Black voices in the form of short stories and poetry. Dedicated to “the beauty, strength, and enduring resilience of Black People everywhere,” this collection brings together individual creators who reflect on, and revel in, Black joy, healing, and the imagining of a world where all Black folks are loved, safe, and valued. Moving narration from Daveed Diggs and Lena Waithe brings these diverse experiences to life — listen to them sparkle and shine.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/495990798","tagline":null},"500811718":{"author":"Richard Russo","id":500811718,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/500811718/original/216x287/55fb81b1e9/1621057207?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/500811718/Marriage-Story","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":16,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/500811718/original/432x574/eaaa11a278/1621057207?v=1","title":"Marriage Story","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“In this clear-eyed and deeply moving essay, Richard Russo gives a hard second look at a story he thought he knew—his parents’ divorce—and finds not only a more expansive personal history, but a more expansive American history. It’s a course of self-reflection, compassion, and connection we would all do well to follow.” —Ann Patchett \n\n“I have watched in wonder for years as Richard Russo has danced as elegantly as Fred Astaire. It is almost impossible to see any move that is not masterful in his prose. This piece is gorgeous, hard as diamonds, and ultimately profoundly moving.” —Luis Alberto Urrea \n\nWho better to take on America’s current class war and its complex, moving parts than Richard Russo? The Pulitzer Prize–winning author is a giant in American letters, beloved by critics and readers alike. Among his gifts are the comedy and compassion he brings to bear in his stories; his effortless style, as readable as it is elegant; and his near-singular ability to capture the lives of America’s working class, the men and women who hail from factory and mill towns that have been left behind as the global economy evolves. Russo was born and raised in such a town—Gloversville, New York—and it’s to this setting he returns in his Scribd Original memoir Marriage Story to chronicle his parents’ lives and why their marriage, ultimately, never had a prayer. His mother and father didn’t share the same faith in America, and their divergent beliefs—one pessimistic, one optimistic—separated them from each other, and sometimes from reality, revealing tensions that Russo’s been writing about ever since. \n\nThrough this story of his parents and grandparents and his own departure from both a town and a way of life, Russo declares himself a poster boy for the American Dream and also a well-placed critic of it and of this country’s “brutal contradictions.” His dark-skinned father was the son of Southern Italian immigrants, never quite like the other guys, and yet he was like any other G.I. home from World War II: He did backbreaking work on a road crew, and at night he left his family at home to frequent the local poker rooms. He did not believe that his son, whose name ended in a vowel, would ever be “allowed” to succeed. His mother, the more hopeful of the two, believed hard work and education were the answer to everything that ailed the working class and immigrants alike, refusing to concede to the systemic inequities and disadvantages of ethnicity, race, class, and gender that often made the obstacles to climbing the ladder too great, as they did, in many ways, for her. \n\nA touchingly personal and peculiarly American tale, as topical as it is timeless, Marriage Story speaks directly to the raw material from which so much of today’s divisive political climate has been forged. During the most recent election, the author writes, “many of my friends talked about leaving the country.” But not Russo. “I’ve learned that leaving your home is tricky. If I left my country now, I’d just be repeating myself, having already physically left a place that refused to leave me.” His parents would not have left either, “despite not being able to agree on what America really meant.” \n\n“Maybe it comes down to this,” he writes. “In the end, what do we do with love?”","editorialBlurb":"If you were to describe America as a relationship, what would that look like? For Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo (“Empire Falls”), he sees it in terms of his parents’ breakup. Writing through the lens of a working class couple in post-World War II America, Russo sheds light on the Trump era and the fickle heart of the American Dream in this thought-provoking Scribd Original.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/500811718/Marriage-Story","tagline":null},"504409077":{"author":"David Kundtz","id":504409077,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/504409077/original/216x216/9bc2155792/1622248310?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/504409077/The-Art-of-Stopping-How-to-Be-Still-When-You-Have-to-Keep-Going","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":4,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/504409077/original/432x432/587e64478a/1622248310?v=1","title":"The Art of Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.production.scribd.com/samples/audiobooks/504409077/sample.mp3","description":"Life Is A Race and With So Many Responsibilities It Can Feel Overwhelming \n\n“An elegant, powerful, and simple tool for finding serenity. Just what the world needs right now.” ―Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff \n\nWe are always on the go. Balancing work, family, friends, and everything in between is a routine of running and never stopping─a cycle that can be tiring. We forget the beauty of the smaller moments and sometimes we forget ourselves. \n\nStopping is a gift to yourself. Knowing when to breathe and regain a clearer vision of yourself and your surroundings helps give you a fresh perspective and an inner balance meant to help you feel in control of the bigger things. \n\nWho are you? What are your true priorities? Your responsibilities may have taken over and are preventing you from living to your fullest potential. Dr. Kundtz gives you insight into key questions you should be asking. \n\nStop whatever you’re doing and enjoy the sunrise. Big things can grab your attention but don’t forget to turn around and find the serenity in stillness─the peace in a deep breath, and the happiness in remembering who you are. \n\nWith this valuable guide learn to: \n\nConnect with the spiritual aspects of your life \n\nPractice mindfulness and reduce stress \n\nAcknowledge when it becomes too much and take a step back \n\nUse proper coping tactics to create healthier habits \n\nIf you enjoyed books like A New Earth, The Untethered Soul, or The Road Less Traveled, then you’ll love The Art of Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going.","editorialBlurb":"Stopping is not slowing down, according to author David Kundtz. Stopping is actually coming to a standstill, taking a break from the constant race that most of us participate in each day. “Time spent doing nothing allows us to awaken what is most meaningful and valuable to us,” writes Kundtz, in this inspiring guide to living intentionally.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/504409077","tagline":null},"507921002":{"author":"TIME","id":507921002,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/507921002/original/216x287/99ba34bcf8/1622451269?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/507921002/May-24-2021","ratingAverage":null,"ratingCount":null,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/507921002/original/432x574/294eb2f406/1622451269?v=1","title":"May 24, 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He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift.\n\n As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation. \n\n Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems. \n\n A New York Times Bestseller\n\n A Los Angeles Times Bestseller\n\n An Indie Next List Book\n\n This title has Common Core connections.\n\nRead all the books in the Grishaverse!\n\nThe Shadow and Bone Trilogy \n\n (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)\n\n Shadow and Bone\n\n Siege and Storm\n\n Ruin and Rising\n\n The Six of Crows Duology\n\n Six of Crows\n\n Crooked Kingdom\n\nThe King of Scars Duology\n\nKing of Scars\n\n The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic\n\nThe Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic\n\nPraise for the Grishaverse\n\n “A master of fantasy.” —The Huffington Post\n\n “Utterly, extremely bewitching.” —The Guardian\n\n “This is what fantasy is for.” —The New York Times Book Review\n\n “[A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp.” —NPR\n\n “The darker it gets for the good guys, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly\n\n “Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down.” —USA Today\n\n “There’s a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo’s original epic fantasy that sets it apart.” —Vanity Fair\n\n “Unlike anything I’ve ever read.” —Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent\n\n “Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!” —Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series","editorialBlurb":"“Shadow and Bone” plays plenty of tropes straight — it features a literal battle between light and dark, and two childhood best friends, Alina and Mal, who have romantic eyes for no one but each other — but that’s really part of what makes it so unputdownable. 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Let's be honest, shit is f**cked and we have to live with it.\"\n\nThis lack of sugar coating has helped him become an internet stay, driving traffic to his blog and making him a personality that people seek advice from. His book is filled with a splendid combination of academic research and well-timed poop jokes, getting down to the nitty gritty idea that it isn't lemonade we should be making; instead we should just learn how to stomach the lemons.","editorialBlurb":"Flies in the face of so much conventional self-help wisdom that it’s hard not to label the book as anti-self-help. Yet, that label undermines how pragmatic the book actually is. 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I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.”—Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project \n\nIn April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. \n\nImprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. 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It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed. \n\nBut perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. \n\nAnd then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? 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It reminds me of some of my favorite mysteries from Agatha Christie,” Witherspoon wrote in her Instagram announcement post.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/422976342","tagline":null},"440822579":{"author":"Michelle Alexander","id":440822579,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/216x287/73532afc86/1619529503?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":62,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/440822579/original/432x574/887bb6debf/1619529503?v=1","title":"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nAfter the election of Barak Obama, many Americans felt that they could relax, that the election was proof of an end to racial inequality. Meanwhile, young black men in major cities all over the country have been labeled as felons for life. They are denied equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits because of the War on Drugs and other destructive policies. \n\nIn The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, former litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that racial caste still exists in America. Jim Crow laws no longer exist, but the American justice system is still rife with systemic racism. Black men in communities of color are disproportionately targeted and sent to jail, labeled forever in an under caste that is so heavily based on race. \n\nThis New York Times bestseller spent over 250 weeks on the bestseller list. This eye-opening read reminds Americans that racism is not in the past and we cannot stop fighting for equality yet. To overcome “The New Jim Crow,” we have to rethink civil rights and prison reform.","editorialBlurb":"Alexander makes her case that the War on Drugs created a new racial caste system in this highly readable and compelling book. A provocative work that shifted how we think about civil rights and prison reform.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/440822579/The-New-Jim-Crow-Mass-Incarceration-in-the-Age-of-Colorblindness","tagline":null},"441155090":{"author":"Aminatou Sow","id":441155090,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/216x216/b3d60937db/1621000581?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/441155090/Big-Friendship-How-We-Keep-Each-Other-Close","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":180,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/441155090/original/432x432/aa86a95911/1621000581?v=1","title":"Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/325556/325556_sample.mp3","description":"A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don't talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.\n\nNow two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming Big Friendship in this honest and hilarious book that chronicles their first decade in one another's lives. As the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend, they've become known for frank and intimate conversations. In this book, they bring that energy to their own friendship-its joys and its pitfalls.\n\n \n\nAminatou and Ann define Big Friendship as a strong, significant bond that transcends life phases, geographical locations, and emotional shifts. And they should know: the two have had moments of charmed bliss and deep frustration, of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation. They have weathered life-threatening health scares, getting fired from their dream jobs, and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a car in a parking lot in Rancho Cucamonga. Through interviews with friends and experts, they have come to understand that their struggles are not unique. And that the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the decision to invest in one another again and again.\n\n \n\nAn inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, Big Friendship will invite you to think about how your own bonds are formed, challenged, and preserved. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. 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Schwab","id":444277837,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/444277837/original/216x216/abdadad5de/1622394698?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/444277837/The-Invisible-Life-of-Addie-LaRue","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":1012,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/444277837/original/432x432/75d905f8ab/1622394698?v=1","title":"The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/329467/329467_sample.mp3","description":"\"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings.\" -- Booklist\n\nIn the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force. \n\nA Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.\n\nFrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.\n\nThus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.\n\nBut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. \n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nUSA TODAY BESTSELLER\n\nNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER\n\nTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books\n\n\"This epic story, spanning three centuries and two continents, is expertly narrated by Julia Whelan...This is a transporting listen, and these characters will stick with you for a long time.\" -- Bookpage, starred review \n\n\"Julia Whelan's steady rhythm perfectly conveys the ups and downs of Addie LaRue's life, which take place over 300 years...Her voice fits each moment, making Addie's journey both sobering at times and unforgettable.\" -- AudioFile Magazine","editorialBlurb":"Thanks to a deal with a demon, Addie LaRue’s life will never end. The devil’s in the details, however, resulting in a curse that she will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years of living without making her mark on the world, Addie finally meets a young man who remembers her name. Take a journey through time, recommended by Emma Roberts’ book club Belletrist.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/444277837","tagline":null},"444471227":{"author":"Douglas Stuart","id":444471227,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/444471227/original/216x287/5df22e4c8d/1621443764?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/444471227/Shuggie-Bain-A-Novel-Booker-Prize-Winner","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":63,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/444471227/original/432x574/88afe672f8/1621443764?v=1","title":"Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nShuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is the memorable story of a lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Margaret Thatcher’s economic policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drug epidemic is imminent. \n\nThe young Shuggie Bain is desperate to escape poverty and be considered normal. His mother, Agnes, wants to stay sober but keeps falling back into alcoholism. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good. But she increasingly finds her only solace in drink. \n\nStuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in design. Shuggie Bain is his debut novel. It won the Booker Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist for Fiction in 2020. \n\nA heartbreaking depiction of addiction, love and sexuality, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family.","editorialBlurb":"Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. A deeply sympathetic story about poverty and addiction in 1980s Glasgow, and a cutting look at the impact of Thatcherism in Scotland. The titular character, the young Shuggie Bain, is desperate to escape the trappings of being poor and attain that elusive status of “normal”; his mother, Agnes, wants to stay sober but keeps falling back into alcoholism. “Challenging, intimate and gripping … anyone who reads it will never feel the same,” said the Booker Prize judges.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/444471227/Shuggie-Bain-A-Novel-Booker-Prize-Winner","tagline":null},"451963687":{"author":"Jay Shetty","id":451963687,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/451963687/original/216x287/06b6bfec4e/1621703643?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":32,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/451963687/original/432x574/39026e2575/1621703643?v=1","title":"Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wisdom he learned as a monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.\n\nWhen you think like a monk, you’ll understand:\n\n -How to overcome negativity\n\n -How to stop overthinking\n\n -Why comparison kills love\n\n -How to use your fear\n\n -Why you can’t find happiness by looking for it\n\n -How to learn from everyone you meet\n\n -Why you are not your thoughts\n\n -How to find your purpose\n\n -Why kindness is crucial to success\n\n -And much more...\n\n \n\nShetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.\n\n \n\nShetty reconnected with old school friends—many working for some of the world’s largest corporations—who were experiencing tremendous stress, pressure, and unhappiness, and they invited Shetty to coach them on well-being, purpose, and mindfulness. Since then, Shetty has become one of the world’s most popular influencers. In 2017, he was named in the Forbes magazine 30-under-30 for being a game-changer in the world of media. In 2018, he had the #1 video on Facebook with over 360 million views. His social media following totals over 38 million, he has produced over 400 viral videos which have amassed more than 8 billion views, and his podcast, On Purpose, is consistently ranked the world’s #1 Health and Wellness podcast.\n\n \n\nIn this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world. Shetty proves that everyone can—and should—think like a monk.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/451963687/Think-Like-a-Monk-Train-Your-Mind-for-Peace-and-Purpose-Every-Day","tagline":null},"454544136":{"author":"Stephen King","id":454544136,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/216x287/09aa584954/1622212323?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":191,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/454544136/original/432x574/cdbd8e22a4/1622212323?v=1","title":"If It Bleeds","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"Written by Scribd Editors \n\nThe more recent work of #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King includes If It Bleeds. 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You’ve probably heard of “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (adapted into the movie “Shawshank Redemption”) and “The Body” (aka “Stand By Me”), so you don’t want to miss his newest shorts in “If It Bleeds.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/454544136/If-It-Bleeds","tagline":null},"462423830":{"author":"Anthony Bourdain","id":462423830,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/216x216/f515f04b23/1622141327?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/462423830/World-Travel-An-Irreverent-Guide","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":12,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/462423830/original/432x432/8aedc66e45/1622141327?v=1","title":"World Travel: An Irreverent Guide","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/348264/348264_sample.mp3","description":"A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain \n\nAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond.\n\n \n\nIn World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. \n\nSupplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. \n\nFor veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. \n\nThe audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. \n\nCopyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain \n\nSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.","editorialBlurb":"The late, and impossibly great, Anthony Bourdain continues to bring us his infectious enthusiasm for the wondrous world he left all too soon. There’s no better way to escape quarantine than with the beloved travel companion as he bestows his best stories and recommendations culled from a lifetime of exploration.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/462423830","tagline":null},"470776899":{"author":"Angie Thomas","id":470776899,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/216x216/2eda3d4adf/1622021475?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/470776899/Concrete-Rose","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":325,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/470776899/original/432x432/8b42258fa2/1622021475?v=1","title":"Concrete Rose","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/361762/361762_sample.mp3","description":"International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. \n\nIf there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. \n\nLife’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. \n\nUntil, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. \n\nSuddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. \n\nWhen King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.","editorialBlurb":"Angie Thomas’ prequel to “The Hate U Give” follows our favorite character from the original novel: Maverick Carter, Starr’s father. At 17, Maverick hasn’t yet grown into the Big Mav we know and love from “THUG”; on the cusp of adulthood, he’s still navigating his way through the expectations of manhood, of his father’s legacy as a gangster, of young parenthood. This is the origin story we’ve all been waiting for, and in Thomas’ masterful hands, it remains fresh and spellbinding.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/470776899","tagline":null},"477565468":{"author":"Charles Yu","id":477565468,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/216x287/fac4075632/1619969925?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/477565468/The-Only-Living-Girl-on-Earth","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":70,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/477565468/original/432x574/10fd9a19ff/1619969925?v=1","title":"The Only Living Girl on Earth","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future. \n\nJane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. \n\nShe’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered. But as the looping promotional ad for Earth details, in the planet’s more recent past there was an amusement park, a museum, and even a model American town to draw visitors: all shuttered now, abandoned. When a man and his son crash-land their rocket and need assistance, as well as some diversion, Jane learns that the other attractions on Earth are not so defunct after all and may have taken on a life of their own. \n\nTold, fittingly, in interconnected fragments, The Only Living Girl on Earth captures a place where only fragments of its landscape remain. At once dead serious and playful, recognizable and as otherworldly and unsettling as Yu’s other sci-fi reinventions, it is a cautionary tale about all that we could lose—are losing—by failing to live sustainably and about what we hope to leave behind for future generations. It is also a love letter to what it means to be human, how connected we are to a place and one another, and how we must fight to preserve these gifts. In this, Yu expresses his unique brand of cosmic humanism, that even in the face of dire circumstances, when we feel the most estranged from who and what we are, there is still hope.","editorialBlurb":"National Book Award-winning author Charles Yu welcomes you to Earth: The Gift Shop, where the history of Earth: A Bunch of Civilizations has been commodified into knick knacks sold by the last living soul on this planet, Jane. 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But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.\n\n \n\nLater is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel, It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.","editorialBlurb":"Like many of Stephen King’s other beloved classics, “Later” blends true-to-life coming-of-age elements with unforgettable thrills and chills. Jamie Conklin might seem like an ordinary boy, except for the fact that, for better or worse, he can communicate with the recently deceased. 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So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it? \n\n \n\nElizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a \"super coral\" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. \n\n \n\nOne way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.","editorialBlurb":"In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert opened our eyes to human-caused environmental devastation. In her new book, “Under a White Sky,” Kolbert tackles the urgent issue of finding ways to reverse the damage done. She investigates possible solutions born of the very human ingenuity that got us into trouble in the first place. Could these innovations avert disastrous climate change? 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Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past.\" -- AudioFile Magazine\n\n \n\nThis program is read by the authors.\n\nOur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.\n\n\"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.\"-Oprah Winfrey\n\nThis audiobook is going to change the way you see your life.\n\nHave you ever wondered \"Why did I do that?\" or \"Why can't I just control my behavior?\" Others may judge our reactions and think, \"What's wrong with that person?\" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.\n\nThrough deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking \"What's wrong with you?\" to \"What happened to you?\"\n\nHere, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the audiobook, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. It's a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it's one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future-opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.\n\nA Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books","editorialBlurb":"Oprah wants you to stop asking people the judgy question “What’s wrong with you?” and instead initiate a supportive conversation with “What happened to you?” In this powerful personal and scientific exploration of the lasting impact of trauma, Oprah joins forces with child trauma expert and neuroscientist Dr. Bruce Perry. Together they explore how a deceptively simple shift in perspective can pave the way for remarkable healing.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/488592828","tagline":null},"489340775":{"author":"Laura Dave","id":489340775,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/489340775/original/216x216/f57cf65ead/1622111522?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/489340775/The-Last-Thing-He-Told-Me-A-Novel","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":443,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/489340775/original/432x432/da4b41a677/1622111522?v=1","title":"The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.findawayworld.com/404809/404809_sample.mp3","description":"Instant #1 New York Times bestseller\n\n Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection!\n\n \n\nA gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life-until he disappears.\n\nBefore Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.\n\n \n\nAs Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn't who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen's true identity-and why he really disappeared.\n\n \n\nHannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realize they're also building a new future-one neither of them could have anticipated.\n\n \n\nWith its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.","editorialBlurb":null,"readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/489340775","tagline":null},"490048177":{"author":"Roxane Gay","id":490048177,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/216x287/f07ae1f88f/1622049866?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":129,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/490048177/original/432x574/ca2a750c95/1622049866?v=1","title":"Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“Roxane Gay seems to have a knack for fearlessly telling the truth.” —The New York Times \n\nFrom the bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, an unforgettable, deeply personal look at how trauma has shaped her life and work—and what all of us need to do to come to grips with the collective suffering of the past year. \n\nBestselling author and cultural icon Roxane Gay is no stranger to trauma. As a young girl, she was the victim of a horrifying act of violence that changed her life and would strongly influence her career as a writer. In her 2017 memoir Hunger, she addressed that trauma head-on, writing with bracing honesty about her body and the ways that food can be used both to bury pain and make oneself disappear. The response to Hunger by some critics who seemed to take perverse pleasure in highlighting Gay’s vulnerabilities was itself a fresh wound. By exploring trauma publicly, Gay suffered more of it. \n\nIn her Scribd Original Writing into the Wound, Gay not only talks openly about trauma in her personal life—from her fraught time as an undergraduate at Yale to the stress of returning there as a visiting professor to the fallout from Hunger—but also about the collective trauma we’ve experienced this past year. COVID-19, racial and economic inequality, political strife, imminent environmental disaster, and more: Gay catalogs it all with her trademark candor and authority. To make sense of our pain, she suggests, we need to explore it fully, even as we’re still in the midst of it. Just as she writes her way through her own traumas and coaches her students to do the same, she urges us to take a long, hard look at the wounds we all share: “The world as we knew it has broken wide open. There is a before and an after, and the world will never again be what it once was. That sounds terrifying, but it is an opportunity.” \n\n“To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.” Full of wisdom and rage and grace, Writing into the Wound is a remarkable consideration of where we are, and where we need to go, by one of the finest authors and cultural critics of her generation.","editorialBlurb":"Trauma is a common thread for so many, from personal experience to the collective trauma of racism, climate change, and a global pandemic. Roxane Gay’s personal trauma has shaped her life and work, including her 2017 memoir about her own sexual assault, “Hunger.” In her new Scribd Original, “Writing into the Wound,” Gay unpacks the aftermath of “Hunger,” exploring the public reaction that reopened her wounds once more. The result is a skillful guide to sharing, processing, and healing from trauma through writing. “To change the world, we need to face what has become of it,” she writes. “To heal from a trauma, we need to understand the extent of it.”","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/490048177/Writing-into-the-Wound-Understanding-trauma-truth-and-language","tagline":null},"495047550":{"author":"Viet Thanh Nguyen","id":495047550,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/495047550/original/216x287/0eea9a9be2/1620275375?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/495047550/The-Committed","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":18,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/495047550/original/432x574/3894031a17/1620275375?v=1","title":"The Committed","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.\n\nTraumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. \n\nBoth highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.","editorialBlurb":"The long-awaited sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Sympathizer” does not disappoint. Set off the tourist path in the immigrant neighborhoods of 1980s Paris, the nameless narrator continues his quest for revolution, but finds himself caught up in the capitalist market of drug dealing. “The Committed” is a serious triple threat: a look at the aftereffects of colonization, funny satire, AND a gripping crime thriller.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/495047550/The-Committed","tagline":null},"495990798":{"author":"Natasha Marin","id":495990798,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/495990798/original/216x216/4163c675d4/1621523213?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/495990798/Black-Imagination-Black-Voices-on-Black-Futures","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":103,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/495990798/original/432x432/c023278a64/1621523213?v=1","title":"Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.production.scribd.com/samples/audiobooks/495990798/sample.mp3","description":"Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour \n\n“Don’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I’m pretty sure, dear reader, you’re in for the same.” —from the Foreword by Steven Dunn\n\n“Witnessing is sacred work too. Seeing ourselves as whole and healthy is an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation,” reflects viral curator Natasha Marin, on Black Imagination. \n\nThis dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. \n\nBorn from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are no where near monochromatic. “Craving nuance over stereotype, we sought out black children, black youth, LGBTQ+ black folks, unsheltered black folks, incarcerated black folks, neurodivergent black folks, as well as differently-abled black folks.” Each insists on their own variance and challenges every listener to witness for themselves that Black Lives (and Imaginations) Matter.\n\n\"A first step toward freeing ourselves.\"—Gloria Steinem\n\n\"I've never felt the physical feeling of pages melting in my hands or chapters folding themselves into squadrons of black airplanes flying to freedom because I've never experienced an art object like Black Imagination.\"—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy\n\n“Black Imagination required Natasha Marin to curate as a curate in the medieval sense— a spiritual guide that cares for souls... We are challenged to move beyond the abject, beyond pure pessimism, on the wings of a different criticality... 'visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien'.” —Christian Campbell, author of Running the Dusk\n\n\"Defiantly hopeful... think Soul Train Line, think The Stroll, think the joyous striving with language for the possibilities of safety and hope.” —Kwame Dawes, author of Nebraska \n\nCover art by Vanessa German.","editorialBlurb":"A stirring celebration of Black voices in the form of short stories and poetry. Dedicated to “the beauty, strength, and enduring resilience of Black People everywhere,” this collection brings together individual creators who reflect on, and revel in, Black joy, healing, and the imagining of a world where all Black folks are loved, safe, and valued. Moving narration from Daveed Diggs and Lena Waithe brings these diverse experiences to life — listen to them sparkle and shine.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/listen/495990798","tagline":null},"500811718":{"author":"Richard Russo","id":500811718,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/500811718/original/216x287/55fb81b1e9/1621057207?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/book/500811718/Marriage-Story","ratingAverage":5,"ratingCount":16,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/word_document/500811718/original/432x574/eaaa11a278/1621057207?v=1","title":"Marriage Story","type":"book","audioSampleUrl":null,"description":"“In this clear-eyed and deeply moving essay, Richard Russo gives a hard second look at a story he thought he knew—his parents’ divorce—and finds not only a more expansive personal history, but a more expansive American history. It’s a course of self-reflection, compassion, and connection we would all do well to follow.” —Ann Patchett \n\n“I have watched in wonder for years as Richard Russo has danced as elegantly as Fred Astaire. It is almost impossible to see any move that is not masterful in his prose. This piece is gorgeous, hard as diamonds, and ultimately profoundly moving.” —Luis Alberto Urrea \n\nWho better to take on America’s current class war and its complex, moving parts than Richard Russo? The Pulitzer Prize–winning author is a giant in American letters, beloved by critics and readers alike. Among his gifts are the comedy and compassion he brings to bear in his stories; his effortless style, as readable as it is elegant; and his near-singular ability to capture the lives of America’s working class, the men and women who hail from factory and mill towns that have been left behind as the global economy evolves. Russo was born and raised in such a town—Gloversville, New York—and it’s to this setting he returns in his Scribd Original memoir Marriage Story to chronicle his parents’ lives and why their marriage, ultimately, never had a prayer. His mother and father didn’t share the same faith in America, and their divergent beliefs—one pessimistic, one optimistic—separated them from each other, and sometimes from reality, revealing tensions that Russo’s been writing about ever since. \n\nThrough this story of his parents and grandparents and his own departure from both a town and a way of life, Russo declares himself a poster boy for the American Dream and also a well-placed critic of it and of this country’s “brutal contradictions.” His dark-skinned father was the son of Southern Italian immigrants, never quite like the other guys, and yet he was like any other G.I. home from World War II: He did backbreaking work on a road crew, and at night he left his family at home to frequent the local poker rooms. He did not believe that his son, whose name ended in a vowel, would ever be “allowed” to succeed. His mother, the more hopeful of the two, believed hard work and education were the answer to everything that ailed the working class and immigrants alike, refusing to concede to the systemic inequities and disadvantages of ethnicity, race, class, and gender that often made the obstacles to climbing the ladder too great, as they did, in many ways, for her. \n\nA touchingly personal and peculiarly American tale, as topical as it is timeless, Marriage Story speaks directly to the raw material from which so much of today’s divisive political climate has been forged. During the most recent election, the author writes, “many of my friends talked about leaving the country.” But not Russo. “I’ve learned that leaving your home is tricky. If I left my country now, I’d just be repeating myself, having already physically left a place that refused to leave me.” His parents would not have left either, “despite not being able to agree on what America really meant.” \n\n“Maybe it comes down to this,” he writes. “In the end, what do we do with love?”","editorialBlurb":"If you were to describe America as a relationship, what would that look like? For Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo (“Empire Falls”), he sees it in terms of his parents’ breakup. Writing through the lens of a working class couple in post-World War II America, Russo sheds light on the Trump era and the fickle heart of the American Dream in this thought-provoking Scribd Original.","readUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/read/500811718/Marriage-Story","tagline":null},"504409077":{"author":"David Kundtz","id":504409077,"imageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/504409077/original/216x216/9bc2155792/1622248310?v=1","previewUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://www.scribd.com/audiobook/504409077/The-Art-of-Stopping-How-to-Be-Still-When-You-Have-to-Keep-Going","ratingAverage":4,"ratingCount":4,"retinaImageUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/audiobook_square_badge/504409077/original/432x432/587e64478a/1622248310?v=1","title":"The Art of Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going","type":"audiobook","audioSampleUrl":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210531221353/https://samples.production.scribd.com/samples/audiobooks/504409077/sample.mp3","description":"Life Is A Race and With So Many Responsibilities It Can Feel Overwhelming \n\n“An elegant, powerful, and simple tool for finding serenity. Just what the world needs right now.” ―Richard Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff \n\nWe are always on the go. Balancing work, family, friends, and everything in between is a routine of running and never stopping─a cycle that can be tiring. We forget the beauty of the smaller moments and sometimes we forget ourselves. \n\nStopping is a gift to yourself. Knowing when to breathe and regain a clearer vision of yourself and your surroundings helps give you a fresh perspective and an inner balance meant to help you feel in control of the bigger things. \n\nWho are you? What are your true priorities? Your responsibilities may have taken over and are preventing you from living to your fullest potential. Dr. Kundtz gives you insight into key questions you should be asking. \n\nStop whatever you’re doing and enjoy the sunrise. 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