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New Audiobooks to BPLD May 21, 2019
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The Night Window
by Dean R. Koontz
When people under Arcadian control begin showing signs of violent instability, Jane Hawk and her growing band of supporters prepare for an ultimate battle to determine America's future. By the best-selling author of The Forbidden Door. Read by Elisabeth Rodgers
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The Never Game
by Jeffery Deaver
Searching for a missing woman in Silicon Valley, an expert tracker is pitted against dark elements in the billion-dollar gaming industry and a serial killer who stages scenes from his favorite game. By the award-winning author of The Bone Collector. Read by Kaleo Griffith. Simultaneous
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Furious Hours : Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
"The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell's murderer was acquitted--thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante's trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own 'In Cold Blood,' the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more years working on her own version of the case. Now Casey Cepbrings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity."-- Provided by publisher.
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African Samurai : The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
by Geoffrey Girard
This is the story of history's first foreign-born samurai and his journey from Africa to the heights of Japanese society. Yasuke has been considered a mythical figure in Japan. But this never-before-told biography of Yasuke's travels between countries, cultures, and classes offers a new world perspective on race and a picture of life in medieval Japan.
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Everything Is F*cked : A Book About Hope
by Mark Manson
At this moment in history, when people have access to technology, education, and communication their ancestors couldn't even dream of, so many people come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness. What's going on? If anyone can put a name to the current malaise and help fix it, it's Mark Manson. He turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat people alive. He openly defies the definitions of faith, happiness, freedom, and even of hope itself.
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I.M. : a memoir
by Isaac Mizrahi
A memoir by the multifaceted pop culture icon includes coverage of his experiences as a gay youth in a Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, his education at LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts and the making of his documentary, Unzipped. Read by the author. Simultaneous
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