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A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

by Kendra James ...

**NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE“[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York TimesA Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com** · ... Read more

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**NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE“[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York TimesA Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com** ·
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Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis

Assessing the Challenges Ahead

Edited by James Kendra, Scott G. Knowles, Tricia Wachtendorf ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field’s background, its accomplishments, and its future directions. Participants representing many disciplines brought new methods to bear on perennial problems relevant to effective disaster management and policy formation. However, new concerns were raised, stemming from the fact that ... Read more

$134.99 USD

The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field’s background, its accomplishments, and its future directions. Participants representing many disciplines brought new methods to bear on perennial problems relevant to effective disaster management and policy formation. However, new concerns were raised, stemming from the fact that
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Admissions

A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

by Kendra James ...

Narrated by Mela Lee ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on ... Read more

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A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on
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The Secret in Cleaning Your House Fast: Speed Cleaning Techniques Only Few People Know

by Kendra James ...

Do you want to know how to clean your house a LOT faster and a LOT more effective? Or you want to clean your house half the time? Today, the world is moving even faster, nobody has the time to clean their house and most people don't have the extra money to hire professional cleaners. This book strive to solve that problem. Here in this book, I'll teach you the speed cleaing secrets and techniques, ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Do you want to know how to clean your house a LOT faster and a LOT more effective? Or you want to clean your house half the time? Today, the world is moving even faster, nobody has the time to clean their house and most people don't have the extra money to hire professional cleaners. This book strive to solve that problem. Here in this book, I'll teach you the speed cleaing secrets and techniques,
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Post-traumatic

by Chantal V. Johnson ...

Narrated by Tiffany Smith ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship.To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. ... Read more

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In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship.To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital.
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Sink

A Memoir

by Joseph Earl Thomas ...

Narrated by Joseph Earl Thomas ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, ... Read more

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"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness,
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Brown Girls

A Novel

by Daphne Palasi Andreades ...

Narrated by Tashi Thomas ...

Unabridged

4 hours 26 min

**NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven
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The Mamas

What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me

by Helena Andrews-Dyer ...

Narrated by Helena Andrews-Dyer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.”—Tia Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in JuneHelena Andrews-Dyer ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?“Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.”—Tia Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in JuneHelena Andrews-Dyer
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Bright Burning Things

A Novel

by Lisa Harding ...

Narrated by Lisa Harding ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A LIBRARYREADS PICK *AN AMAZON EDITORS PICK“On every page there are little shimmering bombs. Like Room, where parenthood is at once your jail and your salvation, it is almost claustrophobic—but in the most glorious way.”—Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal<. ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A LIBRARYREADS PICK *AN AMAZON EDITORS PICK“On every page there are little shimmering bombs. Like Room, where parenthood is at once your jail and your salvation, it is almost claustrophobic—but in the most glorious way.”—Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal<.
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My Monticello

Fiction

by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson ...

Narrated by Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, LeVar Burton, Ngozi Anyanwu, Tomiwa Edun ...

Unabridged

7 hours 36 min

An AudioFile Earphones Award winnerRead by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King“A badass debut by any measure**—**nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” **—**Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut f... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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An AudioFile Earphones Award winnerRead by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King“A badass debut by any measure**—**nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” **—**Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut f...
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This Story Will Change

After the Happily Ever After

by Elizabeth Crane ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Crane ...

Unabridged

4 hours 41 min

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I'm not happy ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I'm not happy
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Team of Five

The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

by Kate Andersen Brower ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Unabridged

9 hours 50 min

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women—also a New York Times bestseller—comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy.After serving the highest office of American government, five men—Jimmy ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women—also a New York Times bestseller—comes a poignant, news-making look at the lives of the five former presidents in the wake of their White House years, including the surprising friendships they have formed through shared perspective and empathy.After serving the highest office of American government, five men—Jimmy
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