February 2021

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Family & Relationships / Love & Romance (FAM029000) Unabridged • Book #dznh 9 hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797119724 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797119731 , $39.99

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The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love By Logan Ury

In this funny and practical guide, a behavioral scientist turned dating coach helps you understand—and overcome—the hidden forces keeping you from nding lasting love.

—Alain de Botton, New York Times bestselling author Have you ever looked around and wondered, “Why has everyone found love except me?”

You’re not the only one. We’ve gone from the rst iPod (“1,000 songs in your pocket”) to Tinder—1,000 potential dates in your pocket. Choosing a partner is harder now than ever before.

A lasting relationship doesn’t just appear in your life—it’s the culmination of a series of decisions, including when to get out there, whom to date, how to end it with the wrong person, when to settle down with the right one, and everything in between. Often we don’t understand why we make certain choices, and that leads to mistakes. And those mistakes thwart us on our quest to nd love.

Drawing from years studying psychology and relationships, behavioral scientist turned dating coach Logan Ury reveals the hidden forces that fuel faulty decision-making and prevent us from nding love. But awareness on its own doesn’t lead to results. Knowing you shouldn’t date “bad boys” or “manic pixie dream girls,” for example, doesn’t make them any less appealing—you have to actually change your behavior. Ury shows you how.

You’ll discover what’s really holding you back in dating (it’s not what you think), why your current dating app habits aren’t helping you nd a great match (and how to x them), and why there’s no such thing as “The One” (but you’ll nd love anyway), and much, much more.

This book focuses on a different decision in each chapter—from setting up your dating app prole onward—and incorporates insights from behavioral science, original research, hands-on exercises, and stories about people just like you. It’s designed to transform your love life. How to Not Die Alone will help you nd, build, and keep the relationship of your dreams. LOGAN URY is a behavioral scientist turned dating coach and an internationally recognized expert on modern love. MARKETING

Print run: 75,000 A funny and practical guide to understanding and overcoming the hidden forces keeping you from nding lasting love Author website: LoganUry.com Virtual author appearances National media campaign

A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP By Alex Tresniowski

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP. “Fascinating, important, and colorfully reported.”

—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

—Ben Jealous, former NAACP president

In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to nd the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective’s rst murder case, and now, the specics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the rst time.

Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces—religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America’s Jim Crow racial violence.

History and true crime collide in this sensational murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillers—the unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann; the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious “sting artist,” Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America.

Gripping and powerful, The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nation’s fabric today. ALEX TRESNIOWSKI, a former writer for Time and People magazines, is the author of more than twenty books, including An Invisible Thread, which spent more than twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

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Print run: 75,000 New York Times bestselling author Tresniowski's true-crime thriller The Vendetta, was a basis for the 2009 Johnny Depp movie Public Enemies

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Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Christian / Family (JUV033100) Unabridged • Book #dzoq 5 hours • 4 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797116617 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797116624 , $29.99

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The Baxter Family Children Series, Book 3 By Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell

In the third book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, Ashley and Kari Baxter struggle with what it means to grow up. “Kingsbury does a ne job communicating the emotional struggles of individuals.”

—Publishers Weekly on This Side of Heaven When Kari Baxter is assigned an essay about what she wants to be when she grows up, her mind goes blank. She doesn’t want to grow up; she wants everything to stay just like it is. But Kari comes to realize that while making time stand still isn’t possible, she can enjoy every moment with her best family ever.

Meanwhile, Ashley Baxter feels the same way. She is worried her siblings are growing up too fast. When she wins the role of Wendy in her school performance of Peter Pan, Ashley gets an idea. Maybe she and her siblings can pledge to never grow up at all!

This third story in the Baxter Family Children series shares the reassuring message that even though growing up can be tough, family and friends are always there with support and love. KAREN KINGSBURY is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty works of ction and nonction with nearly 25 million copies in print. Widely considered America’s favorite inspirational novelist, she is best known for drawing unforgettable characters and stories that evoke a range of emotions. Kingsbury reaches over 100,000 women annually through national speaking appearances. TYLER RUSSELL has been telling stories his whole life. In elementary school, he won a national award for a children’s book he wrote, and he has been writing ever since. In 2015 he graduated college with a BFA from Lipscomb University. Soon after, he sold his rst screenplay, Karen Kingsbury’s Maggie’s Christmas Miracle, which premiered in December of 2017 on Hallmark. Along with screenplays and novels, Tyler is a songwriter, singer, actor, and creative who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he enjoys serving his church, adventuring around the city, and spending time with his family. MARKETING

Print run: 125,000 #1 New York Times bestselling author Kingsbury is popular on social media, with more than 100,000 followers combined across multiple platforms Author website: KarenKingsbury.com Many other titles by Kingsbury are also available, including the Baxter Family series

By V. C. Andrews

A young girl who has lost her father nds herself at the mercy of a mysterious woman who is not quite what she seems, in this atmospheric and unputdownable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic series turned into popular Lifetime movies. “Andrews knew how to spin a heck of an escapist yarn with all the right elements.”

—Booklist, praise for the author Left on a train platform in an unfamiliar village, little Saffron Faith Anders is certain her father will return shortly, just like he promised. She holds out hope even as the hours pass and the station grows dark. When a strange old woman with a large umbrella approaches and inquiries about her situation, Saffron doesn’t immediately trust the imposing dogooder, but with the chances of her father returning growing ever slimmer, she agrees to rest at the old woman’s house.

Her stay was supposed to be for a few minutes, hours at most, but soon, Saffron soon realizes she has been conned to a house of dark secrets and is now at the mercy of the enigmatic Umbrella Lady. One minute grandmotherly and the next wickedly cruel, she shears Saffron’s hair, burns all the clothes she had in her suitcase, and pretends that the photo of a young girl hanging on her bedroom wall is no one in particular. When strange letters arrive from Saffron’s father, claiming that he will send for her shortly, hope returns to her young heart. But Saffron soon discovers that those who claim to love you will often hurt you the most….

V. C. ANDREWS (1923–1986) has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of Flowers in the Attic, which was followed by four more Dollanganger family novels: Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Since then, readers have been captivated by more than seventy novels in her bestselling series, which have sold more than 106 million copies and have been translated into more than twenty-ve foreign languages. MARKETING

Combined print run: 85,000 #1 New York Times bestselling author Andrews was one of the most popular authors of all time Many other titles by Andrews are also available

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Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs (BIO026000) Unabridged • Book #dznl 8½ hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797119397 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797119403 , $39.99

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A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America

—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author "Surviving the White Gaze is an absolute gift to the reader: unputdownable, edifying, deeply moving.”

—Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up

Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older.

Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem. Carroll’s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother’s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen black family, she was able to heal.

Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience. REBECCA CARROLL is the author of several interview-based books about race and blackness in America. She is also host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll and a cultural critic at station WNYC. MARKETING

Print run: 50,000 Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today Author website: RebeccaSimoneCarroll.com Also available: Saving the Race and Sugar in the Raw

How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering By Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

—Kirkus Reviews

An illuminating, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the fascinating science behind pain and the complexities of its treatment—from one of the internationally leading doctors in pain management.

Pain is a universal human experience, but we understand very little about the mechanics behind it. We hurt ourselves, we feel pain, we seek help from a professional or learn to avoid certain behaviors that cause pain. But the story of what goes on in our body is far from simple. Even medical practitioners themselves often fail to grasp the complexities between our minds and bodies and how they interact when dealing with pain stimulus. Throughout history we’ve tried to prevent and mediate the effects of pain—which has only resulted in a highly medicated population and a booming opiates industry.

Written by a medical expert trained as an anesthesiologist, An Anatomy of Pain is the rst book to clearly explain the current issues and complexities surrounding the treatment of pain and how society deals with those in pain, as well as how our bodies relate to pain. Common conception still equates pain with tissue damage but that is only a very small part of the story—the organ which produces pain is the brain. Case studies show that a woman who has undergone a c-section reports dramatically less pain than a patient who has had kidney stones removed in a similarly invasive operation. The soldier who drags himself or herself to safety after being shot deals with pain in a remarkably different way from someone suffering a similar injury on a street. The truth is that pain is a complex mix of nerve endings, psychological state, social preconceptions, and situational awareness.

Filled with case studies and medical history, this enlightening book offers a crash course in all aspects of pain, from chronic to acute, and walks us through the current landscape of pain treatments—from medication (including opioids) to electrical nerve stimulation. Whether it’s a mild ache or severe discomfort, we all encounter pain in our lives and this important and illuminating book allows us to master the art of caring and coping with an experience that for so many can become allconsuming. DR. ABDUL-GHAALIQ LALKHEN is a member of the Faculty of Pain Medicine affiliated to the Royal College of Anesthetists and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. MARKETING

Print run: 50,000

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Science / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology (SCI036000) Unabridged • Book #e40f 8½ hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797120775 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797120782 , $39.99

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Fiction / Psychological (FIC025000) Unabridged • Book #dznp 9 hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797119335 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797119342 $39.99 ,

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—Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author Facing grim economic prospects in Columbia when their rst daughter is born, Elena and Mauro travel to Houston and send wages back to Elena’s mother, all the while weighing whether to risk overstaying their tourist visas or to return to Bogotá. As their family expands, and they move again and again, their decision to ignore their exit dates plunges the young family into the precariousness of undocumented status, the threat of discovery menacing a life already strained. When Mauro is deported, Elena, now tasked with caring for their three small children, makes a difficult choice that will ease her burdens but splinter the family even further.

PATRICIA ENGEL is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the International Latino Book Award; and was a nalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award.

Print run: 75,000 International Latino Book Award–winning author National print and online media campaign National radio interview campaign Local and online publicity

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A Novel By Sarah Langan “Langan…deftly handles the complex ways in which we nd ourselves inextricably linked to each other [and] how little it takes to push us over the edge.”

—Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author Meet the residents of Maple Street in suburban Long Island. Arlo Wilde, a gruff has-been rock star who has nothing to show for his fame but track marks. His wife, beautiful expageant queen Gertie, feels socially ostracized and adrift. Their next-door neighbor and Maple Street’s Queen Bee, Rhea Schroeder—a lonely professor repressing her own dark past—welcomes Gertie and family into the fold. Then, during one spritzer-fueled summer evening, the new best friends share too much, too soon. Meanwhile, a sinkhole opens in a nearby park, and their neighbor’s daughter Shelly falls inside. The search for Shelly brings a shocking accusation against the Wildes, and suddenly, it is one mom’s word against the other’s in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood.

SARAH LANGAN is a novelist and three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award.

Print run: 75,000 Langan's novels The Missing, Audrey's Door, and Virus won the Bram Stoker Award The Keeper was a nalist for the Bram Stoker Award

A Novel By Melissa Broder "Combines an unexpected (and very hot) love story with a sharpedged examination of body image, religion, and cultural identity.”

—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

MELISSA BRODER is the author of the essay collection So Sad Today and several poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, the Iowa Review, Tin House, and Guernica, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize.

Milk Fed is a scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and ercely imaginative story about food, sex, and religion

The Pisces was longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Last Sext was named one of the New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2016"

Broder is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry

SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By Loan Le

If Bao Nguyen had to describe himself, he’d say he was a rock. Steady and strong, but not particularly interesting. He works at his parents’ pho restaurant, and even there, he is his parents’ fth favorite employee. Not ideal. If Linh Mai had to describe herself, she’d say she was a recracker. Stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and re. The only problem? Her parents rely on her in ways they’re not willing to admit, including working practically full-time at her family’s pho restaurant. But then a chance encounter brings Linh and Bao together, despite their best efforts, and sparks y.

LOAN LE holds an MFA degree in ction from Faireld University, also her undergraduate alma mater. A Pushcart Prize–nominated writer, her short stories have appeared in CRAFT Literary, Mud Season Review, and Angel City Review.

Print run: 50,000 Pushcart Prize–nominated author Author website: WriterLoanLe.me National media campaign National advertising Consumer advertising Author videos

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Fiction / Women (FIC044000) Unabridged • Book #dzoa 7½ hours • 6 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797118178 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797118185 $34.99 ,

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Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy ( YAF052060) Unabridged • Book #dznk 10½ hours • 9 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797119489 $59.99 Retail CD 9781797119496 $39.99

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Social Science / Race and Ethnic Relations (SOC070000) Unabridged • Book #e5vf 10½ hours • 9 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797120980 $59.99 Retail CD 9781797120997 $39.99 ,

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Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy By Rachel Ricketts “A clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise… This is a book we all need.”

—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author Radical racial justice requires daily, intentional, and informed action. Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to achieving racial justice. Spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spiritually-aligned perspective.

RACHEL RICKETTS is a queer, multi-racial Black woman. As a global thought leader, racial justice educator, healer, speaker, and writer, she hosts intersectional racial justice workshops worldwide, including her renowned Spiritual Activism series.

Print run: 150,000 Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level Ricketts hosts intersectional racial justice workshops worldwide, including her renowned Spiritual Activism series Author website: RachelRicketts.com

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Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball (JUV032010) Unabridged • Book #cryi 6 hours • 5 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781508267041 $49.99 Retail CD 9781508267058 $29.99 ,

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Baseball Genius The Baseball Genius Series, Book 3 By Tim Green and Derek Jeter “Offers plenty of sports action as it scrambles from base to base past sudden obstacles and personal challenges.”

—Kirkus Reviews on Baseball Genius

Jalen DeLuca can analyze and predict almost exactly what a pitcher is going to do with his next pitch. He can’t quite explain how he knows; he just knows. His unique ability helped him save the career of Yankees’s star baseman, James “JY” Yager, but with JY sidelined with an injury, Jalen’s focusing on his own on-eld efforts. Will he gure out how to use his baseball genius both on and off the eld?

TIM GREEN is a Syracuse University alumnus. He is a former NFL player, a practicing lawyer, a New York Times bestselling author, a television personality, and a coach.

DEREK JETER is a fourteen-time All-Star and ve-time World Series champion who played for the storied New York Yankees for all twenty seasons of his major league career.

Print run: 40,000 Derek Jeter is a New York Times bestselling author Since 2007, Green’s books have sold more than a million copies Jeter is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs (BIO026000) Unabridged • Book #e6i0 8½ hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797121147 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797121154 $39.99 ,

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What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph By Chad Sanders

When Chad Sanders landed his rst job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he realized success at work required playing the social game, which meant emulating whiteness. Changing his wardrobe, behavior, and speech, he felt included—but he felt awful. Then he decided to give up the charade. He reverted back to methods he learned at the dinner table, the church, and the basketball court, and it paid off. Chad got promoted. His turnaround came from what he calls Black Magic: resilience, creativity, and perseverance. Here is his story, as well as that of other Black leaders who stayed true to themselves.

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Family & Relationships / Dating (FAM051000) Unabridged • Book #e9qb 6½ hours • 5 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797121543 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797121550 $29.99 ,

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An Expert's Guide to Letting Go of the Stress and Anxiety of Modern Dating By Candice Jalili

Between social media, dating apps, the hookup culture, and the patriarchy, there’s no denying that dating is hard. But there’s no reason for dating to transform you into a ball of stress. In seven easy-to-follow steps, Just Send the Text will help you let go of any dating-related stress and anxiety by accepting that, for the right person, just being yourself is more than enough. Featuring rst-person interviews with real women, visual aids, and compelling statistics, Just Send the Text will give you the courage to put yourself back out there, embrace dating once again, and nd a real, authentic kind of love in today’s world.

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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A Novel By Madeleine Henry

Sophie Jones is a physics prodigy on track to unlock the secrets of the universe. But when she meets Jake Kristopher during their rst week at Yale they instantly feel a deep connection, as if they’ve known each other before. Quickly, they become a couple. Slowly, their love lures Sophie away from school. But when a shocking development forces Sophie into a new reality, she returns to physics to make sense of her world.

—Colleen Oakley, author of You Were There Too

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Biography & Autobiography / Women (BIO022000) Unabridged • Book #dzob 7½ hours • 6 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797117997 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797118000 $39.99 ,

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors) (FIC003000) Unabridged • Book #ebk8 7½ hours • 6 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797123141 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797123158 $34.99 ,

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The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones By Larry Loftis

When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban hamlet in 1923, no one thought she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). Wanting to do her part for her country, she joins the OSS and engages in deep-cover espionage. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, she secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments. Here is the story of the dazzling adventures of a remarkable American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

“This is a great book!…A remarkable story.”

—The Today Show on Code Name: Lise

Stories Edited by R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell

Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary ction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today’s most exciting writers.

—Publishers Weekly

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs (BIO026000) Unabridged • Book #dopv 9 hours • 7 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797110905 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797110912 $39.99 ,

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A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment By Theo Padnos

In 2012, when American journalist Theo Padnos was captured by three young Syrians, al Qaeda operatives who kept him prisoner for nearly two years, a grimy blindfold was his only possession. His memoir, Blindfold, is an astonishing portrait of courage that combines the emotional power of a captive’s memoir with a journalist’s account of a culture and a nation in conict that is as urgent and important as ever.

—Lawrence Wright, New York Times bestselling author

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History / Native American (HIS028000) Unabridged • Book #dzny 10 hours • 8 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797118949 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797118956 $39.99 ,

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A Novel By Susan Mihalic

Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena and outside of it. Both have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life in a warped power dynamic. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, will soon broaden the scope of her vision.

—Sara Gruen, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy By Kliph Nesteroff

From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (Vice), comes the important and unheralded story of Native Americans and how they inuenced the art form of comedy. Featuring dozens of original interviews and the exhaustive research that is Nesteroff ’s trademark, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem is a powerful and overdue tribute to a neglected legacy.

—Judd Apatow, lm director, producer, and comedian

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By Christina McDonald

Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined to save him, Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment he needs. But when somebody ends up dead, a lethal game of cat and mouse ensues, her own husband leading the chase.

—Sarah Pekkanen, New York Times bestselling author

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Fiction / Literary (FIC019000) Unabridged • Book #e6i5 6½ hours • 5 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797121291 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797121307 $34.99 ,

Publishing Background: Scribner Book ISBN: 9781982144838 Retail per Carton: 80 CDs Retail Ship Date: 1/26/21

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness (SEL016000) Unabridged • Book #e7zn 7 hours • 6 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797121574 $49.99 Retail CD 9781797121581 $34.99 ,

Publishing Background: Tiller Press Book ISBN: 9781982152765 Retail per Carton: 80 CDs Retail Ship Date: 2/2/21

By Carys Davies

Fleeing his demons in the UK, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in South India. Charmed by the foreignness of his new surroundings and the familiarity of everything the British left behind, he nds solace in life’s simple pleasures, and in staying in a mission house where the Padre and his adoptive daughter Priscilla have taken Hilary under their wing. But religious tensions are brewing and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems.

—Sunday Times (London)

Shortcuts to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect By Eveline Helmink

Getting through some bad days require nothing more than a hot shower or a long walk. But others require us to be curious and courageous. In The Handbook for Bad Days, Helmink offers readers more than seventy proven strategies to nd that lightness when things feel sideways. Her compassionate approach teaches readers what it truly means to care for themselves, and she explores topics including the benets of a good cry, why sometimes it’s okay to give up, and why a fuzzy pink cardigan and some Celine Dion is just as good as a Sanskrit mantra.

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SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary ( YAF019010) Unabridged • Book #ebyw 18 hours • 14 CDs ISBN-13: Library CD , 9781797122984 $69.99 Retail CD 9781797122991 $55.99 ,

Publishing Background: Margaret K. McElderry Books Book ISBN: 9781534453678 Retail per Carton: 36 CDs Retail Ship Date: 2/2/21

By Ashley Shuttleworth

For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world. Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike.